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THU 2004-SEP-30
Whoopsidahostatesman.com/ ... 19:53:39Boise Airport... A "confused senior citizen," whose name and age were not released, followed an outside "terminal access" sign as she bumped her rented minivan through a set of automatic-opening double-doors on the west end and through the terminal, past the baggage claim area to the rotunda... The woman stopped when she reached the rental-car counter.....sacbee.com/ ... 19:51:36A man sunbathing nude on the terrace of a Castro District bar has died after getting into a fight with a patron who complained.ananova.com/ ... 19:48:02Education authorities in southern India have suspended a teacher for forcing his students to eat cow dung. It's believed the teacher imposed the punishment because pupils laughed when he fell off a chair while sleeping in the classroom.
Preternatural Patternsstraitstimes.asia1.com.sg/ ... 19:50:55 Japanese scientists claim to have discovered a new element, and are considering naming it 'japonium'ap.tbo.com/ ... 13:36:21NORRISTOWN, Pa.... husband and wife were each sentenced to two to four years in prison Wednesday for letting one of their 4-year-old quadruplets die of malnutrition.
US Election 2004worldnetdaily.com/ ... 19:41:18Local Illinois school officials who invited first lady Laura Bush to read to students for 30 minutes withdrew the invitation following the pleas of gun-control activists critical of President Bush's policies. Hubbard Woods School Principal Maureen Cheever extended the invitation early last week, reports the Wilmette, Ill., Pioneer Press. But local Democratic Party and gun-control activists told her there was no place in the "sacred" halls of Hubbard Woods School for a representative of the Bush administration, which they argued has a lax stance on gun control.ap.tbo.com/ ... 13:34:45The White House on Wednesday night produced a November 1974 document bearing Bush's signature from Cambridge, Mass., where he was attending Harvard Business School, saying he had decided not to continue as a member of the military reserve. ...signed a year after Bush left the Texas Air National Guard, said he was leaving the military because of "inadequate time to fulfill possible future commitments." ...White House spokesman Scott McClellan said the resignation was found in connection with a lawsuit brought by The Associated Press. ...had been in Bush's personnel file and that it had been found by the Pentagon.....
Digital Consequencesreuters.com/ ... 13:33:30Rival technologies that baffle consumers will run more companies out of business in the nascent music download market than will head-to-head competition, one of the lead creators of MP3 playback technology warned on Wednesday. "It has slowed the download business for sure, and it's doing the same for the gadget makers...."
US Military Casualtiesdefenselink.mil/ ... 19:45:23[flag]Army Pfc. Joshua K. Titcomb, 20, of Somerset, Ky., died Sept. 29 in Ar Ramadi, Iraq, of injuries sustained on September 28 when an improvised explosive device exploded near his military vehicle. defenselink.mil/ ... 19:45:01[flag]Army Sgt. Tyler D. Prewitt, 22, of Phoenix, Ariz., died Sept. 28 in Landstuhl, Germany, from injuries sustained in Baqubah, Iraq, on September 24 when a rocket-propelled grenade struck his vehicle and exploded.
Human Rightnews.telegraph.co.uk/ ... 19:52:14Women on the tiny Pacific colony of Pitcairn, where seven men stand trial today on multiple charges of sexually abusing minors, said yesterday it was perfectly normal for girls to have sex as early as 12. Prosecutors had misunderstood the island's culture, which condoned consensual sex with under-16s, they said.abcnews.go.com/ ... 19:30:33The House emphatically rejected a constitutional amendment banning gay marriage Thursday... 227-186....
Only Naturalap.tbo.com/ ... 19:33:10Scientists hoping to study the ancient skeleton known as Kennewick Man are protesting a bill by Colorado Sen. Ben Nighthorse Campbell that they say could block their efforts. A two-word amendment would change an Indian graves-protection law to allow federally recognized tribes to claim ancient remains even if they cannot prove a link to a current tribe. "It's a real sneaky way to amend" the Indian graves law, said Alan Schneider, an attorney for the scientists.reuters.com/ ... 19:32:32A paralyzed man in Aspen, Colorado lay helplessly in bed for two hours while a black bear known as "Fat Albert" went through his kitchen breaking dishes and looking for a tasty snack.quote.bloomberg.com/ ... 13:51:00The frequency and strength of small earthquakes occurring near Washington state's Mount St. Helens accelerated for a second day, raising expectations that the volcano may erupt for the first time in almost 20 years.
Threatssignonsandiego.com/ ... 19:46:38A man was arrested for trying to sell plutonium in an undercover investigation... rising interest in radioactive materials in the black market...
Rebuildingreuters.com/ ... 13:55:29BAGHDAD - Iraqi cartoonist Muayed Naima had to wait 35 years before he could draw what was on his mind. But since Saddam Hussein was toppled, he has faced new pressure from Islamist militants who have threatened him because his work mocks their violence. He is not put off. "Oppression is our past. This is about democracy," Naima said. "I must continue."
Violenceguardian.co.uk/ ... 19:31:04A British Airways passenger plane was forced yesterday to make an emergency landing... flight from Berlin to Heathrow was diverted after a caller told a German television station there was a bomb on board....arabnews.com/ ... 19:30:00 Insurgents stooped to a new low when they killed 34 children gathered to collect candies after the opening of a new sewage plant in the Iraqi capital.... The attacks came as the Arab news network Al-Jazeera showed footage of 10 new hostages seized by militants. ...six Iraqis, two Lebanese and two Indonesian women ...Hours earlier, a suicide bomber had killed two Iraqi policemen and a US soldier by blowing up his car near a US checkpoint at a crowded intersection in Abu Ghraib, just west of Baghdad. Around 60 people, including women and children, were wounded.... Another soldier was killed when a rocket hit a US logistics base near Baghdad.... In northern Iraq, another car bomb blew up near an Iraqi police convoy in the center of Tall Afar.... four civilians ...killed and 19 wounded. Five policemen ...also hurt.apnews.myway.com/ ... 13:51:09Elsewhere, insurgents fired a rocket Thursday at a logistical support area for coalition forces on the outskirts of Baghdad, killing one soldier and wounding sevenicsouthlondon.icnetwork.co.uk/ ... 13:48:09A group of Iraqi children had just run across to US troops for sweets at a neighbourhood celebration in Baghdad when the first of three bombs exploded, killing at least 35 youngsters... killing 42 people and wounding 141 others, including 10 US soldiers... targeted a ceremony in which residents were celebrating the opening of a new sewage system.... Of the 131 Iraqis wounded in the blasts, 72 were children under the age of 14....
WED 2004-SEP-29
Netsurf Flotsamap.tbo.com/ ... 19:01:06 Wal-Mart Stores Inc. is launching a new share repurchase plan in which it will buy back $10 billion of company shares.... 4.24 billion shares outstanding... the buyback would cover 188 million shares, or 4.4 percent of the company's stock at current prices. Typically, companies buy back stock to reduce the total number of shares outstanding and increase the ownership value of each share. The risk in buying back shares is if a company pays too much for its own shares, the money may have been better spent on other things.....
Preternatural Patternsnews.myway.com/ ... 21:18:15A fiberglass statue of Christ that washed up on a sandbar in the Rio Grande three weeks ago is attracting scores of devout pilgrims to a police department lost-and-found and being hailed as a miracle.dailyrecord.co.uk/ ... 21:17:35A DESPERATE patient pulled his own teeth with pliers - because he could not get registered with an NHS dentist.... downed a pint of vodka before carrying out the DIY surgery. ...suffers from severe rheumatoid arthritis... said:"People will think I am crazy but they weren't living with the pain. In the end, I couldn't take any more. I had pliers. They were old and rusty but I knew they would do the job. I thought the vodka would dull the pain - but I was so wrong, it was agonising...."news.bbc.co.uk/ ... 18:59:34A four-year-old girl is wowing the New York art world with paintings that are drawing comparisons with Jackson Pollock and Wassily Kandinsky.reuters.com/ ... 13:54:26An Indian gold coin which is nearly 1,900 years old and shows one of the earliest depictions of Buddha is to be sold at auction where it is expected to fetch up to $27,000.reuters.com/ ... 13:54:10San Francisco renamed its most storied sports stadium "Monster Park" in a deal that trades $6 million from an electronics cable company for the name to Candlestick Park.... The stadium, located between the airport and central San Francisco, has a rich history. Baseball legend Willie Mays set National League records for the San Francisco Giants before the team moved to a stadium closer to the city center. Pope John Paul II once preached a mass to the faithful, and the Beatles played their last regular concert there.
Rather Embarrassedlittlegreenfootballs.com/ ... 13:44:15On last night’s CBS Evening News they ran a story about the military draft being reinstated—based on long-debunked Internet hoax emails and the testimony of an unlabeled Bush-hating advocacy group member.... CBS News also reported that there are two bills in Congress to reinstate the draft, but failed to mention that they were both introduced by Democrats.
Whoopsnews.bbc.co.uk/ ... 21:18:51A teenager has lost both his legs after taking part in "train surfing"thesmokinggun.com/ ... 18:59:17Kids Visit Margaritaville -- Virginia grade schoolers accidentally served alcohol at lunchap.tbo.com/ ... 00:38:39Tony Garza returned the carved and gilded altarpiece three years after it was stolen from a Mexican convent. The thieves had hoped to sell it at a Santa Fe, N.M., art gallery for $255,000.
Digital Consequencesg4techtv.com/ ... 18:56:23The Piracy Deterrence and Education Act passed by the House of Representatives would make... [bootlegging a copyright movie] a federal crime punishable by up to six years in prison... still has to win Senate approval before it can be signed by President Bush, but supporters think the Senate could vote on the bill as early as next week.... would also make it a lot easier for the Justice Department to prosecute Internet users who illegally distribute large amounts of music and other copyrighted works....news.bbc.co.uk/ ... 13:46:25...the Catalan city of Barcelona... the exclusive VIP Baja Beach Club... The night club offers its VIP clients the opportunity to have a syringe-injected microchip implanted in their upper arms that not only gives them special access to VIP lounges, but also acts as a debit account from which they can pay for drinks.

This sort of thing is handy for a beach club where bikinis and board shorts are the uniform and carrying a wallet or purse is really not practical.nytimes.com/ ... 13:44:57Schools Relax Cellphone Bans, Nodding to Trendnews.bbc.co.uk/ ... 00:35:59A US computer games firm is offering subscribers the chance to re-enact John Kerry's role in his controversial Vietnam Swift Boat mission.dhs.gov/ ... 00:35:13In those cases where a visa is issued by the Department of State, biometrics such as digital, inkless fingerscans and digital photographs allow the Department of Homeland Security to determine whether the person applying for entry to the United States is the same person who was issued the visa by the Department of State.
US Election 2004dailyrecycler.com/ ... 21:06:45MAD TV on the Presidential debates (Windows Media Player plug-in required; probably also javascript)worldnetdaily.com/ ... 19:14:32...Kerry...asked about the comment he made in March, when he said, "I actually did vote for the $87 billion before I voted against it."..."I had one of those inarticulate moments late in the evening when I was dead tired in the primaries and I didn't say something very clearly."... the comment... was actually made at a noontime appearance....ap.tbo.com/ ... 19:03:00President Bush never was disciplined while serving in the Texas Air National Guard, never failed a physical and never asked his father or family friends for help to get him into the guard during the Vietnam War, the White House said Wednesday.reuters.com/ ... 13:52:14The newspaper in President Bush's adopted hometown of Crawford threw its support behind Bush's Democratic rival, Sen. John Kerry.cnn.allpolitics.printthis.clickability.com/ ... 13:38:25Although the Bush and Kerry camps have meticulously crafted an agreement on the rules for this year's presidential debates, the television networks broadcasting them refuse to go along with the plans... object to provisions in the agreement that place limits on their cameras, including prohibitions on shots of one candidate while the other is answering questions....nationalreview.com/ ... 13:36:11Kerry Waffles listednationalreview.com/ ... 13:35:56...a close reading reveals that Kerry's attacks were less substantive than they appeared. They were a string of logical fallacies, half-truths, and smart-sounding criticisms followed by generic, vague pledges to do better....news.bbc.co.uk/ ... 00:36:17BBC News Online examines historical debates that have represented turning points - both good and bad - for the candidates.washingtonpost.com/ ... 00:34:22President Bush's campaign called on 6 million supporters nationwide Tuesday to "set partisanship aside" and contribute to hurricane relief in Florida....
US Military Casualtiesdefenselink.mil/ ... 13:59:03[flag]Army Spc. Gregory A. Cox, 21, of Carmichaels, Penn., died Sept. 27 in Balad, Iraq, when his military vehicle was unintentionally run off the road by a civilian vehicle causing it to rollover. defenselink.mil/ ... 13:58:33[flag]Marine Pfc. Kenneth L. Sickels, 20, of Apple Valley, Calif., died Sept. 27 due to a non-combat related incident in Al Anbar Privince, Iraq.
Human Rightworldnetdaily.com/ ... 21:14:49 T-shirts proclaiming the message "I cant ... I'm Mormon" are apparently too hot for Brigham Young University, as the college newspaper has yanked all advertisements.ap.tbo.com/ ... 13:48:51Saudi Arabia's highest religious authority has barred the use of mobile phones with built-in cameras, blaming them for "spreading obscenity."reuters.com/ ... 13:47:32Part of the Patriot Act... was ruled unconstitutional by a federal judge on Wednesday... U.S. District Judge Victor Marreo ruled in favor of the American Civil Liberties Union, which challenged the power the FBI has to demand confidential financial records from companies as part of terrorism investigations...
Only Naturalap.tbo.com/ ... 00:37:59At long last, Azy and Indah had arrived. They even flew through a hurricane to get here. The brother and sister orangutans are the first two residents at the Great Ape Trust of Iowa, where scientists will study the behavior and learning capabilities of four types of great apes.
Threatsnypost.com/ ... 21:15:34The Justice Department has charged that a veteran New York Times foreign correspondent warned an alleged terror-funding Islamic charity that the FBI was about to raid its office — potentially endangering the lives of federal agents.ap.tbo.com/ ... 19:02:09 A man in prison for extorting a business competitor was indicted Wednesday on federal charges of possessing ricin and nicotine sulfate, both possible biological weapons... indictment does not indicate how much ricin and nicotine sulfate were found....ap.tbo.com/ ... 19:01:32 A prisoner who allegedly taught religion at an al-Qaida camp boycotted a U.S. military hearing at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, on Wednesday meant to evaluate his legal statusguardian.co.uk/ ... 18:58:31Washington DC ...the Defense Department is testing a security blimp - fully equipped with surveillance cameras. ...equipped with infrared cameras designed to provide real time images to military commanders on the ground. The equipment on the blimp already is being used to protect troops in Afghanistan and Iraq.....defenselink.mil/ ... 13:59:29This week, the Army and Marine Corps announced an increase in the number of reservists on active duty in support of the partial mobilization, while the Air Force and Navy had a decrease. The Coast Guard number remained unchanged. The net collective result is 1,726 more reservists mobilized than last week.
9/11 - still with usreuters.com/ ... 13:51:529/11, al Qaeda, Osama Bin Laden and Patriot Act are all new entries in the second edition of the Encarta Webster's Dictionary of the English Language to be released next week. ...new definitions assigned... for Ground Zero and Gulf War, many of the additions are connected to the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks and the Bush administration's war on terror which has dominated the news ever since that day when almost 3,000 died....
Violencecapeargus.co.za/ ... 21:18:00Bus conductors in Swaziland have vowed to assault and rape female passengers who wear mini-skirts, sparking outrage among women's groups in the conservative African kingdom.worldnetdaily.com/ ... 21:15:12Remnants of deposed Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein's regime may be seeking to fund terrorism against Israel by continuing the payments to families of Palestinian suicide bombers that Hussein previously provided, a document recently seized in Iraq and obtained by WorldNetDaily indicates.swissinfo.org/ ... 19:05:18Passengers said on Wednesday the attacker stood up without warning and walked to the open cockpit to attack the pilots. Some passengers screamed in fear but two others managed to overpower him. "It was highly dramatic. The pilots fought off the attacker while struggling to gain control of the plane... It is a miracle that it did not end up in a crash."abcnews.go.com/ ... 18:57:02A U.S.-held Saudi suspected of being an associate of Osama bin Laden and a Yemeni militant were sentenced to death by firing squad Wednesday for the bombing of the USS Cole four years ago, the first convictions in the al-Qaida terror attack that killed 17 American sailors. The judge ordered four other Yemenis jailed for five to 10 years.washingtontimes.com/ ... 13:41:28A pilot flying a Delta Air Lines jet was injured by a laser that illuminated the cockpit of the aircraft as it approached Salt Lake City International Airport last week... Officials were unsure of the source of the laser and could not determine whether the exposure was deliberate or accidental.... "The Air Line Pilots Association has received reports in the past of incidents where lasers penetrated cockpits and, in at least one case, caused injury...." incidents of lasers being directed at commercial airliners during takeoff and landings have raised fears that "this in fact may be a new form of terrorism."...news.myway.com/ ... 13:38:49An Algerian-born man attacked two pilots and a passenger with an axe on a domestic Norwegian flight on Wednesday in an unexplained assault that police said could be linked to his asylum status.reuters.com/ ... 13:09:25Palestinian militants eluding an army crackdown killed two Israeli children in a rocket attack from Gaza on Wednesday and troops killed six Palestinians in raids in the coastal strip and the West Bank.
TUE 2004-SEP-28
Whoopstbsource.com/ ... 11:42:55Taping of a Thunder Bay Crimestoppers re-enactment was interrupted this afternoon, as the officers involved were forced into action to help make an arrest.
Rather Embarrassednewsday.com/ ... 11:37:37"Dan Rather is a classic example of liberal media bias," state the advertisements. "It wasn't just sloppy journalism, it was political bias." Forrester said he expects the media campaign will garner names for a petition drive to oust Rather on a new Web site called DanRatherMustGo.com.
Preternatural Patternsreuters.com/ ... 11:27:00 Pro-hunt demonstrators dumped animal carcasses and women went topless amid noisy protests on Tuesday outside Prime Minister Tony Blair's Labor Party conference.reuters.com/ ... 11:26:43"The captain of the vessel was not aware there was a whale basically impaled on the bow ... this is an extremely unusual case..." the 60-foot finback whale could have been stuck there for up to two days before "Jewel of the Seas" docked in Saint John, New Brunswick, on Sunday, after a cruise through waters where the giant mammals abound....
Digital Consequencesnews.bbc.co.uk/ ... 11:24:16In the past, people could download e-mail from Hotmail into Microsoft Outlook and Outlook Express for free. But now only people who had paid an annual subscription fee will be able to access their messages without opening a browser window.
US Election 2004foxnews.com/ ... 17:46:35Bush: 'I Fulfilled My Duties'worldnetdaily.com/ ... 11:46:43And then came John Kerry's faux pas – the one the press ignored, the one the pundits ignored, the one even the Republicans ignored.
Every week, too many American families grieve for loved ones killed in Iraq by terrorists forces that weren't even there before the invasion – many of which got their weapons from the very ammo dumps that George Bush didn't guard after we won the war ...
Yes, that's what John Kerry said is his speech – that we had already won the war, which, of course, we have....
he quickly corrected himself. "... after we won the military part of the war."...cnsnews.com/ ... 11:41:06The email says the Bush administration "is quietly trying to get these bills passed now, while the public's attention is on the elections." In fact, the bill in question - HR 163 - was introduced by liberal New York Democrat Rep. Charles Rangel on Jan. 7, 2003 - almost two years ago -- and it does not have administration backing.news.bbc.co.uk/ ... 11:21:53George W Bush has claimed he is not interested in the verdict of history, but history will certainly record at least one fact about him: his toppling of Saddam Hussein. [BBC's American views on the war & the election]volunteer.johnkerry.com/ ... 11:20:34Since my apartment is teeny, this is an invite only event. Please let me know if you're coming or not. After the debate we can bitch and moan about Bush and drink more beer and boxed wine (I'm a college student, what do you expect?) If you can, bring some beverages because I do not meet certain requirements to purchase them at local establishments, but I'm still planning on having a bit.drudgereport.com/ ... 11:19:02KERRY ON ORANGE ALERT... Is it the late September Wisconsin sun during debate prep that has turned Kerry's face to rich pumpkin-colored hues? Or has he been campaigning in the rust-belt?...
US Military Casualtiesdefenselink.mil/ ... 17:49:37[flag]Army Sgt. 1st Class Joselito O. Villanueva, 36, of Los Angeles, Calif., died Sept. 27 in Balad, Iraq, when he was at an observation post and was shot by a sniper. defenselink.mil/ ... 17:49:15[flag]Army Capt. Eric L. Allton, 34, of Houston, Texas, died Sept. 26 in Ar Ramadi, Iraq, when he was struck by a mortar round.defenselink.mil/ ... 11:50:41[flag]Army Spc. Robert Oliver Unruh, 25, of Tucson, Ariz., died Sept. 25 in Al Anbar Province, Iraq, when enemy forces using small arms fire attacked his unit. defenselink.mil/ ... 11:50:21[flag]Army Spc. Clifford L. Moxley, Jr., 51, of New Castle, Penn., died Sept. 25 in Baghdad, Iraq, of non-combat related injuries.
Human Rightap.tbo.com/ ... 17:37:44A grade school soccer team with both girl and boy players was ordered to forfeit its season because their league doesn't allow girls to play.ap.tbo.com/ ... 17:37:31A woman who moved to Virginia with her 2-year-old daughter after the breakup of her civil union in Vermont was awarded sole custody of the child Tuesday. The decision by Frederick County Circuit Judge John Prosser is the latest twist in a case that has resulted in conflicting decisions by courts in the two states.ap.tbo.com/ ... 11:27:48The Supreme Court agreed Tuesday to decide when governments may seize people's homes and businesses for economic development projects, a key question as cash-strapped cities seek ways to generate tax revenue. At issue is the scope of the Fifth Amendment
Only Naturalpaloaltoonline.com/ ... 17:41:55A 6.0 magnitude earthquake in Central California that rattled the Bay Area today could be a precursor to a larger temblor to follow, according to U.S. Geological Survey Seismologist Andrew Michael.olympics.reuters.com/ ... 17:39:11 A strong earthquake and more than a dozen aftershocks struck central California on Tuesday, rattling a large chunk of the state along the San Andreas Fault but apparently causing little damage.ap.tbo.com/ ... 17:36:31The House on Tuesday authorized spending $104 million over the next five years to stamp out the brown tree snake, a voracious viper that has wreaked ecological havoc in Guam and is threatening Hawaii and neighboring islands.news.yahoo.com/ ... 11:41:40A 108-year-old man has taken up smoking again, encouraged by gifts of cigars from as far away as London. Retired railroad worker Walter Breuning spoke at his birthday party Tuesday of how he reluctantly quit smoking cigars at the age of 99 because he couldn't afford them.wired.com/ ... 11:41:25Psychedelic drugs are inching their way slowly but surely toward prescription status in the United States, thanks to a group of persistent scientists who believe drugs like ecstasy and psilocybin can help people with terminal cancer, obsessive-compulsive disorder and post-traumatic stress disorder, to name just a few.suntimes.com/ ... 11:40:33"If life is a card game, I got the winning hand, and most people have only a small idea of how really good it is... Usually, you know, our religious values suggest you have to pay the fiddler, that if you get a lot of good breaks, there has to be something wrong with it, and usually there is. Not to suggest that my life hasn't been full of trials and tribulations. Of course, it has. It wouldn't be a life without it. But I know how lucky I am.... blessed to be a part of it, blessed to be alive to celebrate this existence, and to celebrate in a way that makes existence better for others, and that is the best of what religion is. That's the good part." [-Hugh Hefner]news.bbc.co.uk/ ... 11:23:29In pictures: Brigitte Bardot (she turns 70)... "Thank God for allowing me to make it this far. But, all the same, I would prefer turning 30."news.bbc.co.uk/ ... 11:19:24The scientists who cloned Dolly the sheep have formally applied for a licence to clone human embryos to find a cure for motor neurone disease.
Rebuildingcsmonitor.com/ ... 11:49:47Iraqis wary as school year starts -- Six million students are expected to begin school Saturday in a key test of security.
Threatsnews.scotsman.com/ ... 19:09:37A bomb-threatened Olympic Airways plane was preparing to complete its journey to New York tonight after being diverted to Ireland after a warning telephoned to an Athens newspaper. The Airbus 340 with 295 passengers and 12 crew was cleared to take off from Shannon Airport after a thorough search found nothing suspicious on board.themoscowtimes.com/ ... 11:37:58Southeast Asian terrorist network Jemaah Islamiyah plotted to hijack an Aeroflot plane from Bangkok and crash it into Singapore's airport to show support for the Chechen cause, a security expert said Monday.canada.com/ ... 11:36:52 Yusuf Islam, the British singer formerly known as Cat Stevens, was the guest of honour at a Toronto fundraising dinner hosted by an organization that has since been identified by the Canadian government as a "front" for the Palestinian terrorist group Hamas. In a videotape of the 1998 event obtained by the National Post, Mr. Islam describes Israel as a "so-called new society" created by a "so-called religion" and urges the audience to donate to the Jerusalem Fund for Human Services to "lessen the suffering of our brothers and sisters in Palestine and the Holy Land."ap.tbo.com/ ... 11:27:17Sauder Woodworking Co. is recalling 300,000 TV/VCR carts because they can tip over, posing the risk of injury if the television on the top shelf falls on a childnews.bbc.co.uk/ ... 11:24:30Authorities in Kyrgyzstan say they have arrested two men who were trying to sell a large quantity of plutonium on the black market.olympics.reuters.com/ ... 11:15:04 Prime Minister Ahmed Qurie marked the anniversary of a Palestinian uprising against Israel on Tuesday by calling on both sides to rethink tactics that have brought four years of bloodshed. Qurie urged Palestinians to reflect on past mistakes as well as successes but proposed few specific changes and did not repeat previous criticism of Palestinian suicide bombings in Israel. He accused the Jewish state of blocking peace.voanews.com/ ... 11:14:29Major oil companies operating in Nigeria's oil-rich southern region say they will not give in to threats of attacks on their facilities and employees by militias.
Violenceap.tbo.com/ ... 17:38:00Kidnappers released two Italian aid workers and five other hostages Tuesday, raising hopes for at least 18 foreigners still in captivity.nationalreview.com/ ... 11:43:53we've misunderstood what the recent beheadings are all about.... The beheading films are recruitment tools. They've been around for a long time, part and parcel of the first generation of "jihad" home movies, circulated mostly in North Africa to excite homicidal fanatics and lure them into the Islamist bands. The main difference between then and now is that their marketing and distribution have improved, thanks to their comrades at al Jazeera and al Arabiya, and the Internet....ap.tbo.com/ ... 11:29:03In a city where the threat of terrorism looms large, the small pipe-bomb explosion in a Times Square subway station was enough to spread panic and halt trains. The episode in July was mostly a false alarm. The real jolt was the arrest of the prime suspect: a police officer who had sacrificed his own safety - and some say his sanity - on Sept. 11, 2001.ap.tbo.com/ ... 11:28:29A 15-year-old student pulled out a handgun and opened fire in a classroom in southern Argentina on Tuesday, killing three students and wounding six others... The suspected student was detained and was being questioned by police...reuters.com/ ... 11:25:15Two Italian women aid workers held hostage in Iraq have been released and handed over to the Italian charge d'affaires in Baghdad, Al Jazeera television said on Tuesday.... There was no immediate independent confirmation of their release....reuters.com/ ... 11:24:41Palestinian gunmen on Tuesday released an Israeli Arab producer for CNN television kidnapped a day earlier in the Gaza Strip.thisislondon.co.uk/ ... 11:17:42a woman was captured on CCTV lying unconscious in the gutter of a busy road, suffering from a serious head wound.... the unnamed woman has yet to recover sufficiently to be interviewed.... Motorists drove around the woman as she lay across double yellow lines....voanews.com/ ... 11:14:09Pakistani security forces have detained at least 11 suspected militants in a series of raids following Sunday's killing of a top al-Qaida leader and the arrest of two of his aides.iht.com/ ... 11:13:52 U.S. forces struck by air Tuesday at what they called a hideout for associates of Abu Musab al-Zarqawi in Falluja, and troops battled insurgents on a main thoroughfare in Baghdadvoanews.com/ ... 11:13:07 Israeli troops shot dead an unarmed Palestinian described by witnesses as mentally handicapped... the man approached soldiers and ignored their order to stop....
MON 2004-SEP-27
Digital Consequencesfool.com/ ... 21:23:43 Today, longtime partner HP admitted it would be dropping the beleaguered, 64-bit Itanium chip from its workstation lineup. Instead, HP will sequester Itanium chips to its high-end servers. At the lower end, it will use a mix of AMD's 32-64 bit combo Opterons, and the similar, backwardly compatible Intel chips....
Mechanical Disasterapnews.myway.com/ ... 11:47:44 A wall collapsed at an airport construction site Monday, killing more than eight workers and injuring many more
US Election 2004news.yahoo.com/ ... 21:30:04Democratic presidential challenger John Kerry (news - web sites) appealed for an end to the TV advertising war that has marked his election battle against President George W. Bush.... Kerry said the avalanche of negative television spots and attacks being shown on US screens was scaring off voters.....news.myway.com/ ... 21:29:22President Bush on Monday mocked his Democratic rival John Kerry for shifting his positions on Iraq so many times he could "debate himself"...news.telegraph.co.uk/ ... 11:48:09Senator John Kerry was given a stark warning yesterday that President George W Bush is an unorthodox genius at live television who will spurn a debate with his opponent and instead appeal directly to viewers in Thursday's presidential showdown.reuters.com/ ... 11:17:12...Bush's statement in an interview with Fox News in which he was asked if he would still have shown up in a flight suit for that May 1, 2003 speech aboard an aircraft carrier off the coast of California. "Absolutely." Kerry... called the statement "unbelievable." ... "I will never be a president who just says mission accomplished. I will get the mission accomplished. That's the difference."news.ft.com/ ... 11:11:51French and German government officials say they will not significantly increase military assistance in Iraq even if John Kerry... is electedboston.com/ ... 11:11:16The Bush administration's failure to shut down al-Qaida and rebuild Iraq have fueled the insurgency and made the United States more vulnerable to a nuclear attack by terrorists, Sen. Edward M. Kennedy said Sunday.news.bbc.co.uk/ ... 11:09:42Voting arrangements in Florida do not meet "basic international requirements" and could undermine the US election, former US President Jimmy Carter says.... accused Florida Secretary of State Glenda Hood, a Republican, of trying to get the name of independent presidential candidate Ralph Nader included on the state ballot, knowing he might divert Democrat votes... He also said: "A fumbling attempt has been made recently to disqualify 22,000 African Americans (likely Democrats), but only 61 Hispanics (likely Republicans), as alleged felons.",,,
Preternatural Patternsreuters.com/ ... 11:14:41...a symbol of profound family-style dysfunction, a new documentary film about the fabled punk rock group the Ramones reveals. "The Ramones' dysfunction was their genius, but it limited their careers," said Jim Fields, who made the film with Michael Gramaglia. "I think they were born miserable and they just found each other," Gramaglia added....reuters.co.uk/ ... 11:02:52Living in the suburbs... can lead to nightmares such as high blood pressure, arthritis and headaches, researchers reported on Monday.... the culprit seems to be exercise, or the lack of it...
Transportcsmonitor.com/ ... 12:23:36"Don't Be Fueled! Mothers for clean and safe vehicles."voanews.com/ ... 11:01:33In Greece, a schoolbus filled with teenage students bound for the Paralympic Games has crashed on the way to Athens, leaving seven passengers dead and at least 24 injured.... a truck travelling in the opposite direction swerved into the path....wane.com/ ... 10:49:15Motorcycle buffs across the country are buzzing about the man ticketed by the State Patrol in Minnesota for allegedly speeding at 205 miles-an-hour. Many say the bike couldn't have been going that fast. ...editor-in-chief of Cycle World magazine in California ...says Tilley's bike would have needed an add-on turbo charger to go faster than 165 miles-an-hour....
US Military Casualtiesdefenselink.mil/ ... 12:24:42[flag]Army Spc. David W. Johnson, 37, of Portland, Ore., died Sept. 25 in Baghdad, Iraq, when an improvised explosive device detonated near his convoy vehicle.
Reasons for Repealreuters.com/ ... 11:15:16 They are young, male and so lean they often have just 3 percent body fat. They speed long distances by foot over deserts and rugged mountain trails on the U.S.-Mexico border with heavy drug loads strapped to their backs.
Only Naturalnews.yahoo.com/ ... 21:29:02U.S. crude oil futures hit a new record on Monday at $50.01 a barrel as worries about the stability of supplies from Iraq, Nigeria and Russia compounded concerns over low fuel stocks ahead of peak winter demand. Prices settled at $49.64 on Monday....komotv.com/ ... 11:10:14Seismologists believe there's an increased likelihood of a hazardous event at Mount St. Helens due to recent changes in the mountain's seismic activity, and a notice of volcanic unrest was issued Sunday afternoon by the U.S. Geological Survey.
Human Rightinterestalert.com/ ... 21:30:29 U.S. troops stationed in Germany are upset over plans to change the Uniform Code of Military Justice to make paying for sex a punishable offense.medicalnewstoday.com/ ... 11:00:39In order to address the UK's growing obesity problem, king sized chocolate bars are soon going to be scrapped in most shops. This is one of seven voluntary guidelines for chocolate makers set out by the Food and Drink Federation.
Aftermathreuters.com/ ... 21:21:40Pfc. Lynndie England, the pregnant 21-year-old soldier ...photographed holding a naked Iraqi prisoner on a leash will face court-martial on 19 charges that include sexually abusing and assaulting detainees at the Abu Ghraib prison, the Army said on Monday....
Threatsap.tbo.com/ ... 21:34:43Israel would not be able to destroy Iran's nuclear installations with a single air strike as it did in Iraq in 1981 because they are scattered or hidden and intelligence is weak, Israeli and foreign analysts say.reuters.com/ ... 11:12:37Osama bin Laden and other senior al Qaeda leaders are most likely hiding in Pakistan, the U.S. commander of 18,000 foreign troops hunting militants in Afghanistan said on Monday.msnbc.msn.com/ ... 11:10:36Deep in the Pentagon, admirals and generals are updating plans for possible U.S. military action in Syria and Iran.
Violencenynewsday.com/ ... 21:31:51A Bronx school employee forced four fourth-grade boys, accused of stealing a teacher's ring, to strip to their underwear and jump up and down....reuters.com/ ... 21:27:37Armed Palestinians kidnapped an Israeli Arab producer for the CNN television network from a car in Gaza City on Monday after asking for him by name.maarivintl.com/ ... 11:46:59The respected London based Arabic daily Al Hayat reports that an Arab intelligence agency has been cooperating with the Mossad, providing it with significant and sensitive information about Hamas, especially its international activities. ... probably Egypt....news.bbc.co.uk/ ... 11:12:22At least four Palestinians have been killed by Israeli forces in the Gaza Stripnews.bbc.co.uk/ ... 11:12:10An Iranian diplomat who was kidnapped in Iraq in early August has been freed.theaustralian.news.com.au/ ... 11:03:39PAKISTAN'S security forces yesterday claimed to have delivered a "crushing blow" to al-Qa'ida by killing a leading terrorism suspect wanted over a failed bid to assassinate President Pervez Musharraf. Amjad Farooqi, gunned down during a two-hour shootout....
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1960s - still with uschannelnewsasia.com/ ... 22:01:30Bob Dylan ...told the Sunday Telegraph newspaper that he wasn't sure how good his memory would prove to be when he sat down at a manual typewriter to begin his forthcoming autobiography, "Chronicles Volume One". "However, as I wrote, my memory seemed to unlock... I surprised myself with how much came back. I found I could visualise what people looked like and what they were wearing and even how particular rooms were furnished...."
Extraterrestrialecho.jpl.nasa.gov/ ... 21:58:46The Sep. 29, 2004, approach is the closest [1 million miles] in this century of any known asteroid at least as large as Toutatis
US Election 2004time.com/ ... 16:06:43Time looks at upcoming debatesmsnbc.msn.com/ ... 16:05:40Newsweek looks at the upcoming debatesreuters.com/ ... 15:55:42President Bush said he had no regrets about donning a flight suit to give his "Mission Accomplished" speech on Iraq in May 2003 and would do it all over again if he had the chance, according to excerpts from an television interview released on Sunday.
Mechanical Disasterap.tbo.com/ ... 16:04:14A commuter train broadsided a car that went through a railroad crossing arm, killing the 87-year-old driver... driver ...had glaucoma and trouble hearing... the crossing arm was down and hit the car's windshield before passing up over the roof....ap.tbo.com/ ... 16:03:03The burned wreckage of a missing tour helicopter was spotted Saturday in a remote mountainous area of Kauai, but rescuers were unable to reach the area before dark to learn if the pilot and his four passengers survived. The helicopter, reported missing on Friday, apparently crashed into a ridge and burst into flamesnews.bbc.co.uk/ ... 15:51:41An Israeli minister has warned that part of a holy site in Jerusalem sacred to both Muslims and Jews may collapse beneath the weight of worshippers.
Digital Consequenceschannels.netscape.com/ ... 22:45:12customers who called to report a fault with their service were told: "You are through to NTL customer services. We don't give a (expletive) about you. We are never here. We just (expletive) you about, basically, and we are not going to handle any of your complaints. Just (expletive) off and leave us alone."news.com.com/ ... 22:01:51May I buy your beloved pet dog, just so I can take him around back and shoot him? That's how the chief executive of PeopleSoft, Craig Conway, described Oracle's hostile bid for his company, which Oracle intends to use to move PeopleSoft customers to its own software.news.bbc.co.uk/ ... 15:59:52Search engine site Ask Jeeves has overhauled its service and mascot.ap.tbo.com/ ... 15:59:33Taran Rampersad didn't complain when he failed to find anything on his hometown in the online encyclopedia Wikipedia. Instead, he simply wrote his own entry for San Fernando, Trinidad and Tobago.reuters.com/ ... 15:57:04A new breed of TV -- featuring on-demand programs and choose-your-own music video channels -- is delivered over phones lines that are equipped with a high speed Internet connection.news.com.com/ ... 15:48:33May I buy your beloved pet dog, just so I can take him around back and shoot him? That's how the chief executive of PeopleSoft, Craig Conway, described Oracle's hostile bid for his company, which Oracle intends to use to move PeopleSoft customers to its own software.
Preternatural Patternsap.tbo.com/ ... 15:59:12In a city battered and traumatized by 17 months of violence that seems to grow worse by the day, real-life horror has become the viewing fare of choice, supplanting the explosion of pornography that filled the post-Saddam Hussein vacuum.guardian.co.uk/ ... 01:49:14Author 'stole my life', says psychiatrist ... Playwright accused of plagiarism over serial killer drama
US Military Casualtiesdefenselink.mil/ ... 22:32:22[flag]Marine Lance Cpl. Aaron Boyles, 24, of Alameda, Calif.
[flag]Marine Sgt. Timothy Folmar, 21, of Sonora, Texas
[flag]Marine Lance Cpl. Ramon Mateo, 20, of Suffolk, N.Y.
died Sept. 24 as result of enemy action in Al Anbar Province, Iraq.
[flag]Marine 2nd Lieutenant Ryan Leduc, 28, of Pana, Ill. died Sept. 24 as result of a non-combat vehicle accident in Rutbah, Iraq
Human Rightnewsday.com/ ... 22:08:57concert tapes, live recordings made and swapped by fans of groups like the Grateful Dead and Country Joe and the Fish... have narrow constitutional protection from copyright, a judge in Manhattan ruled Friday, handing the Recording Industry Association of America's anti-piracy crusade another defeat.expatica.com/ ... 21:56:24Hirsi Ali has been moved to a safe house following new death threats and the publication of her private address on an Islamic website just four days after her controversial film 'Submission' was screened on Dutch TV. ... Ayaan Hirsi Ali was always irritated at the lack of freedom under Islam... Somali-born Hirsi Ali, 34, is herself a former Muslim and an outspoken critic of Islam's treatment of women. Her film 'Submission' which depicts the text of the Koran on the naked flesh of Muslim women, is provoking a furore in the Netherlands....
Justice?guardian.co.uk/ ... 16:04:53Lennon fans threaten his killer as release looms
Only Naturallocal6.com/ ... 22:43:32A man in Orange County, Fla., was injured Sunday when winds from Hurricane Jeanne lifted him off the ground and blew him through a plate-glass window....ap.tbo.com/ ... 16:02:16Vignettes along the path of Hurricane Jeanneapnews.myway.com/ ... 15:49:58Hurricane Jeanne... latest ...to pound Florida... sliced across the state Sunday with howling wind and rain, turning streets into rivers, peeling off roofs and rocketing debris from earlier storms through the air.... At least three people died... came ashore in the same area hit by Frances three weeks ago. More than 1.5 million homes and businesses were without power.... fourth punch to the state in just six weeks... an ordeal no state has endured since 1886, when Texas was the target. And the hurricane season still has two months to go....
Future is Nowfuturliner.com/ ... 01:48:47GM Futureliner -- Only 12 were built! This Web Site is dedicated to documenting the restoration of a 1953 Futurliner and providing background information on the Parade of Progress, Paraders and vehicles.
Violencefoxnews.com/ ... 23:56:45Irrelevant Arrogance by Oliver North -- Will the U.N. go the way of its doomed predecessor?foxnews.com/ ... 22:37:12Iraq is Not Vietnam, It's Guadalcanalap.tbo.com/ ... 15:58:13Two car bombs wounded American and Iraqi troops west of the capital Sunday... The two attackers who died in the twin blasts tried to ram their cars into a National Guard base in Kharma, a town on the outskirts of the insurgent stronghold of Fallujah... a statement from the U.S. Marines said there were no serious injuries among American troops...ap.tbo.com/ ... 15:57:21Paramilitary police killed a suspected top al-Qaida operative, wanted for alleged involvement in the kidnapping of Wall Street Journal reporter Daniel Pearl, during a four-hour shootout Sunday at a southern Pakistan house, the information minister said. At least two other men were arrested.news.bbc.co.uk/ ... 15:51:09US Secretary of State Colin Powell has said the conflict between US forces and insurgents in Iraq is getting worse. He told US TV networks that militants wanted to disrupt elections in January - but the US would increase efforts to defeat them.voanews.com/ ... 15:45:20...in the Syrian capital ...car bomb... ....senior member of the Palestinian militant group Hamas.... military commander Izz el-Deen al-Sheikh Khalil ...Sunday morning while starting his car.... Hamas immediately blamed Israel... officials in the Gaza Strip threatened to carry out reprisals against Israeli targets abroad....boston.com/ ... 15:43:43 A month of U.S. airstrikes on rebel-held Fallujah has killed more than 100 suspected insurgents, taking a heavy toll on the terror network of Jordanian Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, senior U.S. military officials said on Sunday.ap.tbo.com/ ... 00:50:01A French national was shot and killed in the Saudi Arabian city of Jiddah early Sunday
Threatsnews.bbc.co.uk/ ... 16:04:39How prepared are we as a nation to deal with the growing threat of chemical, biological, radiological or nuclear terrorism? The BBC sets out to ask this question in Dirty War, a drama that tells the story of a dirty bomb attack by terrorists on the City of London.ap.tbo.com/ ... 15:58:41On Thursday, the Navy will shut off its extremely low frequency (ELF) radio transmitters in northern Wisconsin and Michigan, saying the 15-year-old system, first proposed in the 1960s, is outdated and no longer needed. The Navy now will use 12 "very low frequency" transmitters located worldwide.news.bbc.co.uk/ ... 15:53:58A senior member of the Iraqi National Guard... Gen Talib al-Lahibi, in charge of security for Diyala province north-east of Baghdad... is in custody after being arrested for suspected links with insurgents... There are now 30,000 members of the Iraqi National Guard across Iraq, in addition to 80,000 police... poorly trained, poorly equipped and some do not even have proper uniforms... subject to daily attacks....news.bbc.co.uk/ ... 15:52:36Olympic Airlines flight 411 ...on route from Athens to New York when a Greek newspaper received anonymous telephone calls saying there was a bomb on board.... RAF jets were scrambled and escorted the airliner to Stansted in Essex. ...All 301 passengers and crew have left the plane and a search of the aircraft has so far found nothing suspicious....ap.tbo.com/ ... 00:49:26Antiterrorist police arrested four men in London, acting on information from a newspaper which claimed it had foiled a terror plot
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US Election 2004suntimes.com/ ... 20:30:27First lady Laura Bush and her daughters breezed into Winnetka Friday to stir up enthusiasm among women voters and raise campaign cash during a private fund-raiser at the gated estate of Aon Corp. chief executive Patrick Ryan. The pitch: President Bush is very supportive of women. The menu: Lobster tail and tomato aspic....
Preternatural Patternschron.com/ ... 20:25:46DALLAS -- A teacher is on paid administrative leave after sending a first-grader home with feces in his backpack because the boy went to the bathroom on the classroom floor.
Transportthisislondon.com/ ... 16:19:51Speed limiters could be fitted to cars in London under radical plans backed by the Mayor.
Rather Embarrassedsuntimes.com/ ... 20:31:45WALTER CRONKITE WEIGHS IN:
''We must wait while CBS management conduct the investigation they have promised. We can then decide what our reaction should be... 'The reaction at the moment, of course, is embarrassment for everyone who is connected to CBS, and that embarrassment, I hope, will be squashed in time as we know what happened...."washingtonpost.com/ ... 20:28:16Bill Burkett... is looking for a lawyer to pursue a possible defamation case against the network... has had little luck finding a lawyer to represent him....apnews.myway.com/ ... 16:10:39CBS News has shelved a "60 Minutes" report on the rationale for war in Iraq because it would be "inappropriate" to air it so close to the presidential election, the network said on Saturdaychron.com/ ... 15:58:55Betrayal over CBS 'scoop': Been there, didn't do that -- Why feelings of professional sympathy, empathy didn't last -- By ROBERT ZELNICK
Digital Consequencesobserver.guardian.co.uk/ ... 20:36:09The race is on to create a gadget to outgun the iPod - playing not only music but movies - and usurp it as the ultimate icon for Christmas shoppers.news.bbc.co.uk/ ... 00:00:24Rumours surround Google browser... Online journals, or weblogs, have put together a series of developments which suggest that the search engine is developing new web tools. ... A US newspaper has also reported that Google has poached former Microsoft workers who created early versions of the Internet Explorer browser....
Supernaturalreuters.com/ ... 20:39:16Also being prepared are previously unheard 1969 studio recordings that reveal the Jimi Hendrix Experience developing songs for an album that was never completed because bassist Noel Redding left the group. (Redding died last year.)
Reasons for Repealsuntimes.com/ ... 20:29:35On the heels of Mayor Daley's endorsement of a plan to fine people caught with small amounts of marijuana, representatives of the Cook County state's attorney's office and the Chicago Police Department will meet next week about it.
Liberty Worksap.tbo.com/ ... 16:12:45AMARILLO, Texas, city officials have filed a lawsuit against a prostitute with the virus that causes AIDS, asking a court to send her into treatment to get her to stop spreading the infection. ...has infected at least one person and refused efforts by health officials to find treatment, according to court documents....
Extraterrestrialnewscientist.com/ ... 16:08:04One of the hottest, most energetic mergers of two colossal galaxy clusters has been imaged in exquisite detail by an X-ray observatory in space, astronomers announced on Thursday. The collision is one of the most powerful cosmic events ever witnessed by astronomers.
Only Naturalnews.bbc.co.uk/ ... 20:40:35West Africa is in the grip of its worst plague of locusts for generations, with massive swarms infesting thousands of kilometres of land from the Atlantic coast to Chad, eating everything in sight.ap.tbo.com/ ... 15:57:32Ohio communities that were damaged by last week's flooding from remnants of Hurricane Ivan are running dangerously low on food and other supplies
US Military Casualtiesdefenselink.mil/ ... 00:02:10[flag]Army Sgt. Skipper Soram, 23, of Kolonia Pohnpei, Federated States of Micronesia, died Sept. 22 in Baghdad, Iraq, when a vehicle-based improvised explosive device detonated near his security post. defenselink.mil/ ... 00:01:48[flag]Army Staff Sgt. Lance J. Koenig, 33, of Fargo, N.D., died Sept. 22 in Tikrit, Iraq, when an improvised explosive device detonated while he was conducting a dismounted patrol. defenselink.mil/ ... 00:01:27[flag]Marine Sgt. Benjamin K. Smith, 24, of Carterville, Ill., died Sept. 22 due to enemy action in Al Anbar Province, Iraq.
Human Rightfreep.com/ ... 16:22:38The mayor of Flint had a newspaper carrier for the Flint Journal arrested earlier this week after the carrier refused to reveal the names of his subscribers who got the paper in City Hall... In July, Williamson issued an executive order forbidding city employees from reading any newspapers or magazine article or other material that wasn't exclusively devoted to city business. The American Civil Liberties Union said the ban violates the First Amendment....msnbc.msn.com/ ... 00:00:51Wal-Mart has been sued in federal court by a man who claims the world's largest retailer discriminates against blacks in 12 Southern states from seeking truck-driving jobs.
Threatstime.com/ ... 20:25:07According to aviation sources with access to the list, there is no Yusuf Islam (Cat Stevens) on the no-fly registry, though there is a "Youssouf Islam."theadvertiser.com/ ... 16:21:25LAFAYETTE LA — a new fingerprinting system that Lafayette police will put into effect in about a week.... hundreds of small fingerprint pads that officers will use at the scene of a traffic stop when there is doubt about the person’s identity....ap.tbo.com/ ... 16:13:17 U.S.-led forces trying to protect landmark Afghan elections face a rising wave of violence from about 2,000 insurgents, including al-Qaida militants slipping in from Pakistan, an American general said Saturday.news.bbc.co.uk/ ... 15:58:00Sudan says it has foiled a coup plot by backers of detained Islamist opposition leader, Hassan al-Turabi.ap.tbo.com/ ... 15:57:15PADDOCK LAKE, Wis. ...man sitting in a car along the route for President Bush's motorcade faces charges for having a loaded gun and a throwing knife... was noticed by another spectator because he was dressed as a woman.... gun, in a case, and the knife were in the vehicle.... couldn't explain why he had the weapons but told an investigator he was only there to take a picture of the president... had a camera with him....
Violencedailytimes.com.pk/ ... 20:26:35 Twenty people, including five American soldiers, were killed on Saturday in Iraq as an Islamist website reported that British captive Kenneth Bigley had been killed.katu.com/ ... 16:25:21A Hillsboro, Ore., father has been sentenced to three years in prison for repeatedly siccing his dog on his two children as a form of punishment.suntimes.com/ ... 16:24:36The Crane High School girls volleyball team refused to shake hands with Juarez High's players after losing a close match.... In minutes, the unsportsmanlike snub escalated into violence when Crane players followed the Juarez girls into the locker room and pummeled them... Two of the Juarez players went to the hospital after they were punched and kicked in the Wednesday melee....reuters.com/ ... 16:11:06 Israeli forces stormed into a Palestinian refugee camp on Saturday, killing one man and flattening rows of housesrferl.org/ ... 16:10:14At least 21 people, including four U.S. soldiers, were killed today in fighting between U.S. forces and Islamic militants in Al-Fallujah, Anbar Province, and in the center of the capital Baghdad.washingtonpost.com/ ... 16:10:00U.S. forces carried out more strikes on the insurgent stronghold of Fallujah on Saturday, hitting what the military described as a "known terrorist meeting site" in the center of the city.news.bbc.co.uk/ ... 15:58:33At least seven people have been killed in US strikes on the volatile Iraqi city of Falluja... at least 11 other people were injured, as US planes, tanks and artillery units shelled the city...ap.tbo.com/ ... 15:57:48Gunmen opened fire on a vehicle carryin Iraqi National Guard applicants in Baghdad on Saturday, killing six peopleap.tbo.com/ ... 15:55:45U.S. troops and helicopter gunships killed five suspected Taliban rebels Friday, hours after militants attacked Afghan army troops in southern Afghanistan... 20 Taliban fighters were involved in the violence and that five of them were killed....
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Rather Embarrasseddailypress.com/ ... 23:55:25A news-talk radio station in southeastern Virginia has dumped CBS News because of listener outrage over Dan Rather's "60 Minutes" report questioning President Bush's National Guard service. WNIS switched Thursday to ABC News.
US Election 2004www4.thedailytimes.com/ ... 23:33:5475-year-old Ed Morrisey Jr. is a retired colonel with Texas Air National Guard. He swore Lt. George W. Bush into the service in May 1968....Individuals questioned by an evaluation board and then chosen by the commander had to be the best. ... "Bush was selected and he turned out just fine,'' he said....apnews.myway.com/ ... 23:31:30Democratic presidential candidate John Kerry faulted President Bush on Friday for pursuing Saddam Hussein instead of Sept. 11 mastermind Osama bin Laden
Crazynews.telegraph.co.uk/ ... 23:58:39 the 10-part animated series - which featured back-stabbing cardinals and an infantile Pope who bounced around the Vatican on a pogo stick - was too offensive to broadcast....reuters.com/ ... 23:40:17A Malawian man believed to be high on marijuana beheaded two women with an axe Friday... "We believe he had an overdose of the hemp that made him go berserk...."reuters.com/ ... 23:38:55The walls of the world's tallest skyscraper were used as a vertical catwalk Friday, with models rappelling down the building in Taiwan's capital Taipei in fashionable sports outfits.news.independent.co.uk/ ... 23:30:17The Singer Sinéad O'Connor has taken out a full-page advertisement in an Irish national newspaper to complain that she should not be "called crazy".
Transportworldtribune.com/ ... 23:30:37A report by the Center for Global Energy Studies asserted that the price of crude oil was no longer under OPEC control.ap.tbo.com/ ... 02:45:58An airless tire, cars that warn drivers they're drifting out of their lane and built-in air fresheners are among new technologies being unveiled at the Paris International Motor Show
Future is Nowthejournalnews.com/ ... 23:58:59Lightbulbs promise to last 10 years
History - still with usap.tbo.com/ ... 23:38:05 A British woman is planning to auction a rare edition of a Shakespeare book that she inherited from a distant relative she didn't know existed. ... bequeathed a 380-year-old First Folio - the name given to the first printed edition of Shakespeare's collected plays.... dated 1623. About 750 copies were printed but only some 230 are known to survive worldwide... a conservative estimate of the sale price was $108,000-$144,000.
Only Naturalreuters.com/ ... 23:40:34 Europe's biggest mushroom growth, spanning an area 800 by 500 meters, has been discovered in a Swiss national park....local6.com/ ... 23:34:27Seismologists in Washington state report hundreds of tiny earthquakes at the Mount St. Helens volcano, but the activity is unlikely to threaten anyone outside the crater
Human Rightwnbc.com/ ... 23:56:58...50 students at Gorton High School in Yonkers marched out of school Sept. 10 to protest budget cuts... Yonkers school officials suspended the students, but a federal judge overturned the suspension, saying the walkout is protected under Free Speech....reuters.com/ ... 02:44:40SAN FRANCISCO ...City prosecutors on Wednesday said it was not illegal to perform naked yoga in the city -- even at the crowded tourist destination of Fisherman's Wharf.
Extraterrestrialnews.bbc.co.uk/ ... 02:44:14Scientists studying the deepest picture of the Universe, taken by the Hubble Space Telescope, have been left with a big poser: where are all the stars?
9/11 - still with usjpost.com/ ... 23:55:03Arab 9/11 conspiracy theorists (guess who they blame)
Peace 3000deepikaglobal.com/ ... 23:28:54India ready to consider all options to resolve Kashmir: PM
Violencenews.scotsman.com/ ... 23:57:43Date-rape campaigners warned today that spiked cigarettes could be used to lure victims into drinking drugged alcohol... 'fry' cigarettes... A drug-soaked cigarette, thought to have been dipped in embalming fluid...arabnews.com/ ... 23:56:15The Al-Qaeda terror network attracts young Saudis and then controls them by threats of jail and torture by security forces if they desert, two captured recruits told Channel One of Saudi Television.ap.tbo.com/ ... 23:38:18A series of explosions rocked central Baghdad on Friday.sacbee.com/ ... 23:34:11At any given time, some 10,000 people in the United States are forced to work against their will under threat of violencechinadaily.com.cn/ ... 23:29:50Eight telecom workers became the latest victims of kidnappers determined to drive foreigners out of Iraq, as Prime Minister Iyad Allawi asked world leaders to back upcoming elections in Iraq, amid confusion over whether the vote would take place as scheduled in January.reuters.com/ ... 23:29:30 Israel fired a missile into a refugee camp in Gaza Saturday, killing a Palestinian... followed a mortar attack by camp-based Palestinian militants on a nearby Jewish settlement that killed a woman of 24 Friday, and the ambush killings of three soldiers guarding another settlement the day before.....usatoday.com/ ... 02:42:18Gunmen stormed a mobile phone company office in Baghdad and seized two Egyptian employees
Threatsalertnet.org/ ... 23:55:55Mexico has detained two men thought to be from the Middle East on suspicion of having links to terror... deported from Costa Rica and held in Mexico this week for traveling with false passports, are Jordanians who may have been trying to enter the United States...straitstimes.asia1.com.sg/ ... 02:41:50 He hasn't been an entertainer for decades, but when the folk-rock singer once known as Cat Stevens has resurfaced over the years, it's usually in a way that stuns or confuses the fans who still love his old songs.
THU 2004-SEP-23
Rather Embarrassedcsmonitor.com/ ... 22:12:11Bill Burkett of Baird, Texas, will have a prominent place in the annals of political trickery. He'll be remembered as the one who aimed at President Bush and felled the mighty Dan Rather and "60 Minutes."apnews.myway.com/ ... 19:09:54Station managers at several CBS affiliates said Thursday they appear to be a target of a national e-mail campaign placing pressure on the network to oust Dan Rather as anchorman of the "CBS Evening News."forbes.com/ ... 15:00:42Here's one breaking story that Dan Rather will be watching closely. Reacting to the document scandal at CBS News, Sumner M. Redstone, chairman and chief executive of Viacom, CBS' parent, vowed that the results of a recently announced probe would be "appropriate--and the consequences will be appropriate."...
...Redstone said that while Sen. John Kerry was a "nice guy," the re-election of President Bush would be best for Viacom's interests, since the Administration backed deregulation and other issues that would help the company....
Preternatural Patternswftv.com/ ... 22:35:47BRANSON, Mo....The former Andrew Wilson, a 43-year-old self-employed inventor, was granted legal permission last week by a circuit judge to change his name. It's just They, no surname....wftv.com/ ... 22:34:03A Virginia man is accused of covering virtually every surface in a motel room with petroleum jelly.wftv.com/ ... 22:32:26WHO YOU CALLIN' 'HANDICAPPED?'
MIAMI -- A man in a wheelchair said he robbed a bank because a homeless assistance center and a hospital refused to help him.wftv.com/ ... 22:29:53"Honestly, we just wanted to say we had a stripper pole," Foster said. "We never actually expected girls to dance on it."ap.tbo.com/ ... 22:19:05Two Forest Service workers who were believed killed in a fiery plane crash huddled together to stay warm in the freezing temperatures of the Montana wilderness, and one was in such excruciating pain that he had trouble bending over to get water from a stream... a spinal fracture and burns over 20 percent of his body on his hands, face and chest. But he was joking and talking with nurses and relatives.... the aircraft went from more than 100 mph to zero in less than 40 feet. "Who can survive that?... [A fire] "literally melted everything."....ap.tbo.com/ ... 15:07:18Two days after they were reported killed in a plane crash, two Forest Service employees emerged from the wilderness, astonishing their relatives and baffling rescuers still picking through the charred wreckage.news.bbc.co.uk/ ... 00:59:55Experts have dismissed a suggestion that mobile phone radio waves could help children think more clearly.
Digital Consequencesisraelnationalnews.com/ ... 19:25:33The young 18-year-old female suicide terrorist, Zeinab Ali Isa Abu-Salem, who murdered two Israelis yesterday, was none other than a children's TV show hostess on a local station in Shechem.foxnews.com/ ... 19:23:17Critics of the Diebold (search) touch-screen voting machines turned their attention Wednesday from the machines themselves to the computers that will tally the final vote, saying the outcome is so easy to manipulate that even a monkey could do it.... And they showed video of a monkey hacking the system to prove it.worldnetdaily.com/ ... 19:20:10As a matter of routine, state-sponsored Internet service providers block certain newssites from Chinese computers, but Google appears to be aiding Beijing's censorship by not even bringing up those restricted sites in its search results.... Google: "In order to create the best possible news search experience for our users, we sometimes decide not to include some sites, for a variety of reasons... These sources were not included because their sites are inaccessible."news.bbc.co.uk/ ... 00:59:38Gagging the bloggers -- Blogs are everywhere and governments are beginning to sit up and take notice, says technology analyst Bill Thompson.news.bbc.co.uk/ ... 00:58:33Hundreds of Iranian online journals have been protesting against media censorship by renaming their websites after pro-reformist newspapers and websites that have been banned or shut down by the authorities. ... Many of the websites, known as blogs or weblogs, have also posted news items from the banned publications on their websites....
US Election 2004wftv.com/ ... 22:58:10The H.J. Heinz Co.... [says] its ketchup is a nonpartisan condiment enjoyed by "Republicans, Democrats and Independents alike."washingtontimes.com/ ... 19:20:24President Bush yesterday said Sen. John Kerry's repeated flip-flops on Iraq are sending "mixed signals," demoralizing U.S. troops trying to secure the war-torn nation and discouraging Iraqis working toward free elections.phoenix.bizjournals.com/ ... 19:09:11HEINZ-KERRY INTIMATES BUSH MANIPULATING THE HUNT FOR OSAMA FOR POLITICAL GAIN
Teresa Heinz Kerry... criticized the Bush administration on tax cuts, Iraq and the war on terrorism at the event, which was held at the Arizona Biltmore Resort & Spa.... In regard to the hunt for terror leader Osama Bin Laden, Heinz Kerry said she could see the al-Qaida chief being caught before the November election....guardian.co.uk/ ... 19:07:12Democratic presidential candidate John Kerry said Thursday that Iraq's Ayad Allawi was sent before Congress to put the ``best face'' on Bush administration policy. ...contradicted reality on the ground.weekly.ahram.org.eg/ ... 14:54:05Everything seems ideal for the Bush administration. It may have failed to reduce unemployment or revive the American economy, but that hardly matters. The American political process is now dominated by a single issue: terrorism, and its defeat, is the single criterion upon which everything is judged.msnbc.msn.com/ ... 00:45:08...President Bush... Over the past four years, ...abandoned positions on issues ...changed his mind ....made a major exception... Democrats working for John F. Kerry cite these twists and turns with glee -- but even more frustration. Polls have shown overwhelmingly that Kerry... is this year's flip-flopper in the public mind....
US Military Casualtiesdefenselink.mil/ ... 19:16:49[flag]Army Pfc. Adam J. Harris, 21, of Abilene, Texas, died Sept. 22 in Mosul, Iraq, when he was shot by a sniper while on patrol. defenselink.mil/ ... 19:16:28[flag]Army Pfc. Nathan E. Stahl, 20, of Highland, Ind., died Sept. 21 in Iraq, when his vehicle was struck with an improvised explosive device. defenselink.mil/ ... 19:16:08[flag]Army Sgt. Brandon E. Adams, 22, of Hollidaysburg, Pa., died Sept.19 at Walter Reed Army Medical Center in Washington, D.C., of injuries sustained in Fallujah, Iraq, on Feb. 16 when a grenade exploded as he was clearing a house. defenselink.mil/ ... 19:15:35[flag]Marine Sgt. Foster L. Harrington, 31, of Ft. Worth, Texas, died Sept. 20 due to enemy action in Al Anbar Province, Iraq.
Reasons for Repealap.tbo.com/ ... 19:12:15Afghans significantly increased their poppy crop in the past year
Future is Nowamazon.com/ ... 23:11:47J. P. Getty, America's first billionaire. "You must be in business for yourself; you'll never get rich working for someone else."boingboing.net/ ... 23:06:31Mark Cuban, world's first Billionaire Blogger -- Aside from being an HDTV and digital cinema entrepreneur, the owner of the Dallas Mavericks basketball team, and the star of a new "Apprentice"-like TV show on ABC in which he hands out $1M to strangers, Mark Cuban is now a blogger.maccafan.net/ ... 23:06:03Paul McCartney is set to become the world's first pop star billionairechinaembassy.org.au/ ... 23:04:42Qoinpe Cering, a former poor Tibetan farmer in a small village of Xigaze City in the Tibet Autonomous Region, southwest China, has become the first billionaire in the region.forbes.com/ ... 23:03:22New Zealand's First Billionaire... John D. Todd, chairman of The Todd Corporation in Wellingtonnewsday.com/ ... 22:58:441909: John D. Rockefeller Is World’s First Billionairenews.yahoo.com/ ... 19:10:35There are now 313 billionaires in the country, the largest number ever and a huge jump over the 262 counted last year, according to Forbes magazinereuters.com/ ... 15:04:38Walt Disney Co. said it has partnered "Youth Palaces" run by China's Communist Youth League to build awareness of its stories and characters in the mainland ahead of the opening of a Hong Kong Disneyland theme park in late 2005 or early 2006.
Only Naturalwftv.com/ ... 22:33:37GULF SHORES, Ala. -- A 1,000-pound alligator that slipped away from a small coastal zoo amid flooding during Hurricane Ivan was found in a ditch and returned to his handlers.reuters.com/ ... 19:11:51Alcohol abuse kills some 75,000 Americans each year and shortens the lives of these people by an average of 30 yearsstory.news.yahoo.com/ ... 14:55:11and researchers have discovered an unexpected folded section deep beneath the ice cap, findings that may indicate the ice is less stable than had been thought.newscientist.com/ ... 14:54:50Antarctic glaciers are thinning and slipping ever faster into the seamsnbc.msn.com/ ... 14:54:37Why did sea monsters have long necks?news.bbc.co.uk/ ... 00:57:31The world's oceans are now so saturated with noise that whales and other marine mammals are dying... the search for oil and gas, and the use of low-frequency military sonars.....
Rebuildingcsmonitor.com/ ... 19:06:10President Bush, for his part, could benefit from the Iraqi leader's relentless optimism. Since his arrival in the US earlier this week, Allawi has insisted that the situation in his country is getting better by the day - and that most Iraqis are grateful that the US has freed them from Saddam Hussein.ap.tbo.com/ ... 15:06:58A Text of President Bush and Interim Iraqi Prime Minister Ayad Allawi Press Conferenceapnews.myway.com/ ... 14:57:34 Iraqi interim prime minister Ayad Allawi: "Thank you America... Elections will occur in Iraq on time in January because Iraqis want elections on time... Despite struggles and setbacks, "the values of liberty and democracy" are taking hold in his country..... Today, we are better off, you are better off, the world is better off without Saddam Hussein... Your decision to go into Iraq was not an easy one, but it was the right one."
History - still with usnews.bbc.co.uk/ ... 00:49:34...A top-secret Colonial Office file from 1943 shows that Mr Churchill favoured a plan to try to bribe King Abdul Aziz Ibn Saud, with £20m and the leadership of a new Arab confederation, in exchange for the Saudi monarch's help in handing over Palestine to the Jews. As Mr Eden pointed out to his boss, such a move would be the opposite of British official policy....
Violencenews.bbc.co.uk/ ... 22:15:04The Arab media has presented the latest hostage crisis in Iraq as just another element in the bloody and chaotic pattern of violence in the country.trivalleyherald.com/ ... 19:27:45A Pentagon study of sexual assault in the military released in May found that 9 percent of the 2,012 reported victims of sexual assault in the armed forces in 2002 and 2003 were men.foxnews.com/ ... 19:26:14On Wednesday, an Internet statement purportedly by a group which claimed to have kidnapped two Italian aid workers in Baghdad said it had killed the women.wftv.com/ ... 19:09:39LAKELAND, Fla. -- Two brothers serving in the military and a third man exploded a small bomb inside a McDonald's because they were angry over a bad milkshakenews.bbc.co.uk/ ... 15:01:13Three Israeli soldiers have been killed in a Palestinian militant attack on a Jewish settlement in the Gaza Strip.... Two of the Palestinians were killed during the gun-battle that followed, and the Israeli army said another who escaped was eventually killed....foxnews.com/ ... 01:40:08A pair of car bombs exploded in separate incidents Wednesday, with one killing six people and the other injuring six people, including four U.S. soldiers. Three U.S. soldiers were killed in separate incidents around the country.ap.tbo.com/ ... 00:50:48An attack on an observation post killed an American soldier, the third U.S. fatality this week in Afghanistan... a group of 11 prisoners, including a former Taliban commander, arrived home from the U.S. jail at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. Another 10 detainees were transferred from Afghanistan to the U.S. naval base....news.xinhuanet.com/ ... 00:45:41A group, calling itself the "Jihad Organization" and claiming to have kidnapped two female Italian aid workers in Iraq, said they had killed the hostages, according to a statement posted Thursday on an Islamist website.
Threatsworldnetdaily.com/ ... 19:17:52A school district that participated in a terrorist-attack response drill apologized for using a scenario in which children were threated by a fictitious radical group that believes everyone should be homeschooled.news.bbc.co.uk/ ... 15:02:36A flight from Russia to Egypt was delayed for more than four hours by a group of passengers convinced they were at risk of a terrorist attack... until two Egyptian women they accused of behaving in a suspicious manner were removed.... Air passenger panic is becoming a regular occurrence in Russia.... The twin suicide attacks on two planes in August have sent some here into blind panic, causing them to take caution to apparently xenophobic extremes....usatoday.com/ ... 14:58:47Undercover investigators were able to sneak explosives and weapons past security screeners at 15 airports nationwideeonline.com/ ... 14:34:04Cat Stevens: I'm Totally Shocked... "Half of me wants to smile, half of me wants to growl."... was headed to the U.S. to attend several charity meetings and to meet Dolly Parton in Nashville... "But you know, for God's sake people make mistakes... I just hope they have made a big mistake.... I wasn't handcuffed or anything like that. They treated me very well. The one positive thing I can say is that a lot of security officers are very pleased because they got my autograph." [Did he sign as Cat Stevens or as Yusuf Islam?]news.bbc.co.uk/ ... 00:46:10Australian police are investigating an incendiary device discovered on board an airliner at Sydney airport.washingtonpost.com/ ... 00:41:23Islam was admitted into the country in May but Department of Homeland Security officials said they placed him on the no-fly list in July, barring him from entry, after government agencies received fresh intelligence related to what they said were his charitable contributions to groups with terrorist ties.usatoday.com/ ... 00:40:15Homeland security and airline officials were trying to determine Wednesday how the singer formerly known as Cat Stevens was able to board a London-to-Washington flight despite being on a U.S. "no-fly" list
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Whoopsreuters.com/ ... 16:04:38A 67-year-old woman was killed when a three-meter tall metal crucifix fell on her head in a small southern Italian town on Wednesdayreuters.com/ ... 16:04:24Trains on a busy German route were delayed for four hours after a train driver hit the emergency brake fearing a man next to the tracks was trying to kill himself -- but he was only picking blackberries.reuters.com/ ... 16:04:09 A Malaysian man shot and killed his wife after he mistook her for a monkey picking fruit in a tree behind their house
Digital Consequencesreuters.com/ ... 16:04:54 A German telecommunications company said on Tuesday it is developing the first mobile phone that will alert users when their breath is bad or if they are giving off offensive smells.reuters.com/ ... 16:01:56Some Mexican churches are using state-of-the-art technology developed by Israeli electronic warfare experts to silence cell phones that ring during mass
US Election 2004worldnetdaily.com/ ... 17:41:47Homeschoolers hit campaign trail -- GOP leader: 'By far, the best grass-roots workers in the nation'news.yahoo.com/ ... 16:17:29Democratic presidential candidate John Kerry... raised the possibility Wednesday that a military draft could be reinstated if voters re-elect President Bush...nypost.com/ ... 01:05:43Bush's words will stand in stark contrast to the defeatist, intemperate, despicable language used yesterday by his opponent, Sen. John Kerry. Kerry seems to think America has already lost the war in Iraq. And maybe the War on Terror, too.
Rather Embarrassednydailynews.com/ ... 16:22:22Civil war at '60 Minutes' -- A split over Rathernewsnet5.com/ ... 16:20:15Former President George H.W. Bush on Wednesday called a recent CBS News account of his son's military service an "insidious" attempt to malign the president....drudgereport.com/ ... 16:14:45Drudge reports NY Sun reports Bill Burkett plans to sue CBSsfgate.com/ ... 01:22:14with Rather teetering on the edge of scandal and journalism itself suffering another very public black eye, it's safe to say we have seen the last of the Walter Cronkite era.sfgate.com/ ... 01:19:54Is Dan Rather theatrical enough to quit? And if not, would there be anyone at CBS News left to fire him who's not already going out the door with him?nypost.com/ ... 01:03:03Dan Rather regrets. Not that he slandered the president of the United States on the basis of fraudulent documents. Not that he did his best to undermine the moral authority of America's commander in chief in time of war. Not that he implied — publicly and darkly — that he himself was the victim of "powerful and well-financed . . . partisan ideological forces." No, none of that. Dan Rather and CBS News regret, basically, that they got caught.....
Preternatural Patternsnbc5.com/ ... 16:26:55...people who got brand new cars in a surprise giveaway on "The Oprah Winfrey Show" last week are finding out ...[they] will need to come up with thousands of dollars to cover... more than $7,000... taxes on their winnings....thesmokinggun.com/ ... 16:25:40motorcyclist... clocked Saturday afternoon going 205 mph on his Honda 1000....apnews.myway.com/ ... 16:19:02Interstate Bakeries Corp., the nation's largest wholesaler baker whose products include Twinkies and Wonder Bread, filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection early Wednesday. ...assets of $1.626 billion and liabilities of $1.321 billion....boston.com/ ... 01:00:18WINFIELD, W.Va. -- Three men burglarized the home of Jack Whittaker, winner of the biggest lottery jackpot in U.S. history, as an acquaintance of Whittaker's lay dead inside... Whittaker was not home... death... not related to the burglary ...not a homicide... may have been drug-related... ''We're pretty sure they knew he was dead. That's why they went inside and took the stuff...."'suntimes.com/ ... 00:53:58The 24-year-old man charged with murder in the shooting of an Illinois State Capitol security guard has a history of mental illness and, according to his family, has been off his medication
US Military Casualtiesdefenselink.mil/ ... 17:51:20[flag]Army Spc. Wesley R. Wells, 21, of Libertyville, Ill., died Sept.20, in Naka, Afghanistan, when his observation post was fired on by anti-coalition militia forces. defenselink.mil/ ... 17:50:58[flag]Army Staff Sgt. Robert S. Goodwin, 35, of Albany, Ga.
[flag]Army Staff Sgt. Tony B. Olaes, 30, of Walhalla, S.C.
died Sept. 20, in Shkin, Afghanistan, when their patrol vehicle was ambushed by enemy forces using small arms fire and rocket-propelled grenades.defenselink.mil/ ... 17:50:06[flag]Army Spc. Joshua J. Henry, 21, of Avonmore, Pa., died Sept. 20 in Tikrit, Iraq, of injuries sustained when his convoy was attacked by enemy forces using small arms fire in Sharqat, Iraq. defenselink.mil/ ... 17:49:38[flag]Marine Lance Cpl. Steven C. T. Cates, 22, of Mount Juliet, Tenn., died Sept. 20 due to enemy action in Al Anbar Province, Iraq.
Justice?wftv.com/ ... 17:44:05A plucky newspaper carrier and her father used a rubber raft to reach flooded subscribers -- and both wound up in trouble with the law.
Human Rightsfgate.com/ ... 16:23:00Evangelist Jimmy Swaggart apologized Wednesday for saying in a televised worship service that he would kill any gay man who looked at him romantically.reuters.com/ ... 16:03:29Regional officials near Belgorod, on Russia's border with Ukraine, introduced a ban on swearing in public... particularly in front of older people... spot fines of up to 1,500 roubles ($50)... total collected in two months up to mid-September came to more than 510,000 roubles ($17,400)....reuters.com/ ... 16:00:40Parents in Tokyo would be legally responsible for keeping school-aged children from having sex if the city's top law and order official gets his way.
Reasons for Repealreuters.com/ ... 16:09:35Australian scientists have discovered how a naturally morphine-free poppy blocks production of the narcotic, in a finding that could lead to the development of more effective drugs.suntimes.com/ ... 00:55:54Mayor Daley today embraced a Wentworth District police sergeant’s idea to ticket people caught with small amounts of marijuana, rather than file criminal charges and take up the time of police officers only to end up seeing the charges thrown out in court, as often happens.
Only Naturalnews.myway.com/ ... 22:13:47Haiti... thousands of people made homeless by Tropical Storm Jeanne.... The death toll rose to 1,008... Another 1,000 people were missing and the final death count was likely to hit 2,000...thescotsman.scotsman.com/ ... 17:45:31Astronomers have found a cloud of frozen sugar near the centre of our galaxy...apnews.myway.com/ ... 16:16:49The remnants of Hurricane Ivan swung back into the Gulf of Mexico and threatened to develop into a tropical storm on a path westward toward southwest Louisiana and Texas.forbes.com/ ... 00:47:40Walking reduces the risk of dementia and boosts mental function
Peace 3000news.bbc.co.uk/ ... 16:13:26...Mr Bush also spoke of the requirement to build a better world beyond the war on terror. And here he had a new idea, the establishment of what he called "a Democracy Fund" within the UN. This would, as he put it, lay the foundations of democracy by instituting the rule of law, independent courts, a free press and so on. Mr Bush said that America would make an initial contribution to the fund and he urged other countries to follow its example....
Violenceapnews.myway.com/ ... 17:41:01The family of hostage Jack Hensley has received confirmation that the headless body handed over to U.S. officials in Iraq is hisworldnetdaily.com/ ... 17:17:44...The original Reuters line stated: "... the al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigades, which has been involved in a 4-year-old revolt against Israeli occupation in Gaza and the West Bank." ... The National Post changed it to: "... the al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigades, a terrorist group that has been involved in a four-year-old campaign of violence against Israel."...news.bbc.co.uk/ ... 16:13:48Who are Iraq's hostage-takers?reuters.co.uk/ ... 16:11:36A Palestinian woman suicide bomber has blown herself up near a hitch-hiking post in Jerusalem, killing two Israeli border policemen and wounding 15 people...csmonitor.com/ ... 16:10:59Pundits weigh in on Bush's UN speechnews.bbc.co.uk/ ... 16:07:41Thousands of Iraqi civilians have also died as a result of conflict and its bloody aftermath - but officially, no one has any idea how many... Unofficial estimates of the civilian toll ... 10,000 to more than 37,000.ap.tbo.com/ ... 16:05:19The spiritual leader of the group believed to have beheaded two American hostages in Iraq this week has been killed in a U.S. airstrike, his family and Islamic clerics said Wednesday.
Threatswftv.com/ ... 17:46:29Channel 9 has discovered another controversial toy... a toy cell phone with a picture of Osama bin Laden on it with one word above it, "King."...worldnetdaily.com/ ... 17:42:52In a federally funded exercise to prepare emergency responders for a terrorist attack, a Michigan county concocted a scenario in which public-school children were threated by a fictitious radical group that believes everyone should be homeschooled....news.bbc.co.uk/ ... 16:09:03...in the wake of a demand by hostage takers for the release of all women in jails run by the US-led coalition... US and Iraqi officials have denied reports that two women prisoners held in Iraq could be freed....news.bbc.co.uk/ ... 16:07:59Profiles of Rihab Rashid Taha and Huda Salih Mahdi Ammash, two of the leading female scientists behind Saddam Hussein's deadly biological weapons programme.apnews.myway.com/ ... 00:46:41A London-to-Washington flight was diverted to Maine on Tuesday when it was discovered passenger Yusuf Islam - formerly known as singer Cat Stevens - was on a government watch list and barred from entering the country, federal officials said.
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Extraterrestrialnews.bbc.co.uk/ ... 16:14:46A "light relay" planned to coincide with the anniversary of Albert Einstein's death is facing opposition in the United States. A leading UK science body has already opposed the plan... American dark skies campaigner Robert Gent said many astronomers and physicists felt the event, which involves shining lights skyward, would "set a bad precedent for protection of the night sky".....
Transportnews.bbc.co.uk/ ... 13:14:29The ride was smooth, by the standards of most intercity trains, although the waiters in first class struggled to pour out cups of tea and coffee without spilling them. The tilt is undetectable to passengers. Only when you happen to look out of the window, and see an unexpected expanse of sky, a bit like a plane banking, do you realise the tilt has been engaged. The new trains have some excellent features. The seat in the toilet stays up of its own accord for instance, no matter how bumpy the ride....
Supernaturalreuters.com/ ... 13:15:48 Fear of a ghost who knocks on doors and wafts the scent of aftershave lotion along corridors has forced a prestigious college for statisticians in the Indian capital to close.news.bbc.co.uk/ ... 13:10:51A third series of sci-fi comedy The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy begins on BBC Radio 4 on Tuesday, 26 years after the original show was first broadcast. All the surviving cast members reprise their roles in the six-part adaptation of Douglas Adams' third Hitchhiker book, entitled Life, the Universe and Everything. So Long and Thanks For All the Fish, the fourth instalment, and the fifth novel Mostly Harmless will be dramatised in a second, eight-part series, to be broadcast in May 2005.
Preternatural Patternsthisissouthwales.co.uk/ ... 16:36:25A red-faced defendant has been allowed to appear before a Swansea court wearing a baseball cap after receiving a haircut from hell....thisishull.co.uk/ ... 16:33:36A tiny wooden stool has been singled out as the cause of a baby boom at a city pub....worldnetdaily.com/ ... 16:26:36Backers of the creation of an independent, Spanish-speaking state in the American Southwest accuse WorldNetDaily, Time magazine, Jews, Rep. Tom Tancredo of Colorado and others of fanning the flames of anti-Mexican hate that has turned to violence and murder.reuters.com/ ... 13:19:48...the Texas lightbulb that sold for a few cents and has burned for 96 straight years.... continuously since Sept. 21, 1908... first illuminated when a stagehand at a local opera house flicked a switch and posted a sign that the light over a stage entrance was not be turned off. ... "We have no idea why it has lasted so long."... about 40 watts and made of thick glass that houses a sturdy carbon filament. ... a some 4 watt bulb ...has been burning at a firehouse in Livermore, California, since it was turned on in 1901....reuters.com/ ... 13:05:51 Rising oil prices and pollution are fueling interest in green power in Asia but experts see no prospect of a rapid switch from the region's growing dependence on oil, coal and gas.
US Election 2004news.myway.com/ ... 18:43:23Ralph Nader accused his Democratic rival Sen. John Kerry on Tuesday of being responsible for a campaign to try and keep him off the Nov. 2 ballot.sfgate.com/ ... 18:43:05Former Vice President Al Gore's presidential campaign heard but did not pursue allegations about George W. Bush's Air National Guard service.... Tony Coelho, who ran the campaign for several months in 2000, said he did not follow up on the claims because they were not serious enough to demand further attention....news.myway.com/ ... 16:37:07Secretary of State Colin Powell said on Tuesday the United States cannot wilt in the face of the Iraqi insurgency and suggested critics of the war in Iraq were becoming rattled and defeatist.worldnetdaily.com/ ... 16:25:30Teresa Heinz Kerry did not call her detractors "scumbags" as reported by New Yorker magazine, according to the television station that conducted the interview from which the comment was taken.csmonitor.com/ ... 13:01:36HOW LIES WORK:
Inside dusty, barricaded camps around Iraq, groups of American troops in between missions are gathering around screens to view an unlikely choice from the US box office: "Fahrenheit 9-11," Michael Moore's controversial documentary attacking the commander-in-chief. ... "Everyone's watching it," says a Marine corporal at an outpost in Ramadi that is mortared by insurgents daily. "It's shaping a lot of people's image of Bush."thepittsburghchannel.com/ ... 02:48:33New Yorker Magazine Quotes Teresa Heinz Kerry Out Of Context
Sally Wiggin asked, "Do you think some of the nobility has gone out of public service?"
Heinz Kerry said, "Oh, there is a lot of scumbags everywhere. Not just in politics. In everything. There are a lot of immoral people everywhere."
Rather Embarrassedjournaltimes.com/ ... 16:19:51..."Oooops," says CBS. "Never mind." That's hardly sufficient. The CBS blunder is one that would get anyone an "F" in Journalism 101 and have them given the gate at even the tiniest newspaper in any part of the country. The errors were not little ones. ...CBS News relied on anonymous sources ... they relied on a source... with an ax to grind. ...In any newsroom, a background like Burkett's raises the bar of proof needed before a story is publicized or aired. Not apparently at CBS.... the backlash from the bogus report could be a bullet to the election chances of presidential candidate John Kerry....usatoday.printthis.clickability.com/ ... 02:31:27...[Burkett] lied about where he got them and has doubts about their authenticity.... now maintains that the source of the papers was Lucy Ramirez, who he says phoned him from Houston in March to offer the documents.... his inability to supply evidence to show that Ramirez exists also raise[s] questions about his credibility... Burkett said. "I'm tired of me being the bad guy...." Burkett voiced frustration that his effort to call attention to what he believes are legitimate questions about Bush's military service is now being obscured by a new story line: "that I am some kind of nut."
Digital Consequencesnews.bbc.co.uk/ ... 13:15:14Belle de Jour... The infamous call girl who recorded her liaisons and encounters with clients on her web diary, or blog, has signed off....news.bbc.co.uk/ ... 13:12:21The numbers of viruses, worms, Trojans and other malicious programs aimed at PC users has now surpassed 100,000.cbsnews.com/ ... 01:10:59A boy who said on the Internet that he planned to bomb his high school was turned in by the 16-year-old daughter of a university police officer who heads a cyber crimes unit,,, Celia McGinty of Moscow, Idaho... plot to bomb Chippewa Valley High School outside Detroit... search... turned up instructions for making a bomb and videotapes of him with assault weapons... arrested ... his father and a family friend also were charged. ... met... online in a music chat room three weeks ago. She said ...the boy was very specific about how he would take revenge on teachers and schoolmates, including that he planned to kill a police liaison officer. ....

"He told me where he had his weapons," she said. "He gave me his name and address. Who would do that?"
US Military Casualtiesdefenselink.mil/ ... 16:41:04[flag]Army Sgt. Thomas C. Rosenbaum, 25, of Hope, Ark.
[flag]Army Pfc. James W. Price, 22, of Cleveland, Tenn.
died Sept. 18 in Baghdad, Iraq, when an improvised explosive device hit their convoy vehicle.
Human Rightap.tbo.com/ ... 13:06:15Before a vast assembly of world leaders, U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan on Tuesday criticized the violation of basic laws around the globe - from cold-blooded massacres and prisoner abuses in Iraq to the seizing of children in Russia and widespread rape in Sudan.
Justice?ap.tbo.com/ ... 13:08:19The judge presiding over the second prosecution of convicted sniper John Allen Muhammad has removed himself from the case after prosecutors claimed he improperly conducted his own investigation into whether Muhammad had been denied a speedy trial.reuters.com/ ... 13:04:51Cigarette makers lied about the dangers of smoking for 50 years, the U.S. government said on Tuesday as its $280 billion case against the industry went to trial.
Only Naturalap.tbo.com/ ... 18:48:10The death toll across Haiti from the weekend deluges brought by Tropical Storm Jeanne was at 620, with some 500 of them in Gonaives, but officials said they expected to find more dead.reuters.com/ ... 13:16:39Dutch singles aren't having satisfying love lives despite the country's reputation as a haven for free and easy sex... Close to two-thirds of the men and women surveyed said their intimate relations compared poorly with married couples, and one third of the men and nearly half the women complained they had no sex lives at all....reuters.com/ ... 13:15:32When it comes to raw emotion, the once buttoned-up Brits are now happy to shed tears quite openly -- but Italians can still "out-sob" them.news.bbc.co.uk/ ... 13:09:13254 million people were affected by natural hazards last year - nearly three times as many as in 1990.news.bbc.co.uk/ ... 13:08:45Pollen from a genetically modified grass has been shown to travel up to 21km away from the site where it was orginally planted.abcnews.go.com/ ... 01:11:36Storm Death Toll Rises to 622 in Haiticbsnews.com/ ... 00:11:44The Food and Drug Administration on Monday recommended changes aimed at reducing by one-third the salmonella infections caused each year by tainted eggs... The agency estimates that 118,000 people each year are sickened by eating improperly cooked eggs contaminated with salmonella. Illnesses range from mild stomach upset and arthritis to death.
Aftermathnews.bbc.co.uk/ ... 18:46:33Two notebooks confiscated from former South African president Nelson Mandela during his long imprisonment... contain the drafts of letters Mr Mandela wrote from his prison cell between 1969 and 1971... have been returned to him..... handed back by former policeman Donald Card... one of the policemen who gave evidence against Mr Mandela... in 1964... At the ceremony, Mr Mandela thanked him, saying, "What you have just witnessed could be described as one old man giving another old man two old notebooks."sacbee.com/ ... 16:40:10...The rice and flour they could get was buggy. Three brothers were killed by the regime of Saddam Hussein, and her husband was imprisoned for three years. In her lifetime, she never expected to see a free Iraq.... Since Saddam's overthrow, al-Fadhal finds life moving in directions previously unimaginable. She teaches literacy classes and writes a biweekly newsletter for women; she was elected to a district council seat in Basra as an advocate for women's rights.
Threatsexpatica.com/ ... 16:27:37The Berlin senate Monday banned an Islamist conference planned in the German capital early next month. ...Around 800 participants were expected for the conference to discuss among other things "resistance against American Zionist terrorism".expatica.com/ ... 16:27:01Ten Pakistanis arrested in Spain in possession of false documents and heroin also had a video showing details of two landmark buildings known as the country's twin towersworldnetdaily.com/ ... 16:25:13French President Jacques Chirac is the latest leader to call for the imposition of an international tax ...on arms sales and some financial transactions... to help fight poverty. ... U.S. Agriculture Secretary Ann Veneman said, "global taxes are inherently undemocratic. Implementation is impossible."...reuters.com/ ... 13:16:02Taiwan people should drink less tea and use the money saved to help pay the United States for a big weapons package that will protect the island from arch-foe China, the defense ministry said on Tuesday.news.bbc.co.uk/ ... 13:12:01TRYING TO TAX THE NET TO FEED TYRANTS:
Pop piracy should be decriminalised and the music industry should realise that efforts to stop illegal downloading are doomed, a conference has been told.... record labels should look to novel ways to generate cash to support new artists. .. One way could be the addition of a small surcharge to net subscription fees which could be shared among artists whose music is being downloaded.nydailynews.com/ ... 13:00:31The Secret Service clamped down on midtown last night to protect President Bush from a possible assassin armed with a hunting rifle. Lawrence Ward, 59, left his upstate New York home Wednesday with a .30-30 lever-action hunting rifle in the trunk of his car, telling a neighbor, "I'm not coming back." Inside his house in Bainbridge was a picture of Bush with the words "Dead Man" spray-painted near it, law enforcement authorities said. ...credible threat... ex-wife... told the Secret Service she thinks her former husband "is very dangerous and capable of killing someone and/or committing suicide."washingtonpost.com/ ... 12:57:47Syria began dismantling a number of small army posts and pulling back hundreds of troops from positions near Beirut on Tuesday amid international pressure to end its long-standing military presence in Lebanon.cnn.com/ ... 12:56:26Bush to UN: "For decades the circle of liberty and security and development has been expanding in our world," Bush said. ".... Now we have the historic chance to widen the circle even further, to fight radicalism and terror with justice and dignity, to achieve a true peace, founded on human freedom.... Members of the United Nations, the Russian children did nothing to deserve such awful suffering and fright and death. The people of Madrid and Jerusalem and Istanbul and Baghdad have done nothing to deserve sudden and random murder... These acts violate the standards of justice in all cultures and the principles of all religions. All civilized nations are in this struggle together, and all must fight the murderers."ap.tbo.com/ ... 02:51:19 A man was arrested at Los Angeles International Airport for having three bullets sewn inside his jacket after he set off a metal detectorap.tbo.com/ ... 02:50:40Midwest Airlines canceled a flight ready to take off for San Francisco after a passenger found Arabic-style handwriting in the company's in-flight magazine and alerted the crew.washtimes.com/ ... 02:47:22U.S. intelligence agencies concluded recently that al Qaeda — fearing its credibility is on the line — is moving ahead with plans for a major, "spectacular" attack, despite disruptions of some operations by recent arrests in Britain and Pakistan. Officials said recent intelligence assessments of the group, which is blamed for the September 11 attacks, state that an attack is coming and that the danger will remain high until the Nov. 2 elections and last until Inauguration Day on Jan. 20.
Violenceap.tbo.com/ ... 18:46:46An explosion rocked Baghdad early Wednesday.nbc4i.com/ ... 16:39:17A local soldier back from the war in Iraq said he was beaten at an area concert because... he was wearing an Iraqi freedom T-shirt... six witnesses who didn't know Barton said the person who beat him up was screaming profanities and making crude remarks about U.S. soldiers... One witness, a friend of the alleged attacker, said Barton hit first. Police said they do not think that witness is credible since the six other witnesses said Barton was hit from behind.....wsrw.com/ ... 16:16:47A second U.S. hostage has been executed by suspected Iraqi insurgents in as many dayscbsnews.com/ ... 01:13:19A Roman Catholic priest accused of ordering the slaughter of 2,000 people who sought refuge in his church during Rwanda's genocide refused to appear for the start of his trial at a U.N. tribunal Monday.... the first Roman Catholic priest to be tried for the 1994 genocide, in which at least 500,000 minority Tutsis and political moderates from the Hutu majority were killed.
MON 2004-SEP-20
Preternatural Patternscbsnews.com/ ... 23:45:09so he could find out what a 50,000-volt jolt from a Taser feels like: "Comply."
"It's very painful," Kerlikowske said. "You can't move, you couldn't blink if you wanted to. ... There are shock waves going through your body. It's a scary feeling."foxnews.com/ ... 23:44:10As they were loading the body into the hearse to be taken to the crematorium, his daughter Trina was told there was an important phone call waiting for her. Her father was on the other end, bewildered that he was missing his own funeral. "She totally, totally lost it," Squires' brother Gilbert said. "She said, 'There's a ghost talking to me on the phone. Please somebody try to make sense out of this because I'm losing my mind.'"...reuters.com/ ... 15:02:32"What do you want in a female companion? What is the first thing that attracts you. Her ability to cook and keep house or is it the way she looks? It's not politically correct, GM hates it when I draw that analogy. But it's absolutely correct." --General Motors Vice Chairman BOB LUTZ likening women to an automobile's exterior design.reuters.com/ ... 15:01:10U.S. fast-food giant McDonald's Corp. lost a legal battle in Singapore Monday to stop a food company from distributing products named "MacNoodles," "MacTea" and "MacChocolate."reuters.com/ ... 15:00:57"Last year there were 348 firearms seized (in Los Angeles). This year there have been 411, including the 388 that were seized from Wayne Wright,"
Digital Consequencesnews.bbc.co.uk/ ... 14:58:47How quaint... an MP3 player that will store your entire record collection. The inexorable demand for more memory means we will soon be storing thousands of feature films in our pockets, and that's just for starters. I've just realised that Depeche Mode must have been singing about disk space in their 1981 classic I Just Can't Get Enough.news.bbc.co.uk/ ... 14:57:45A computer chat program called Alice has won a prestigious prize for human-like conversation for the third time.
Rather Embarrassednews.yahoo.com/ ... 22:52:38At the behest of CBS, an adviser to John Kerry said he talked to a central figure [retired Texas National Guard officer Bill Burkett]... shortly before disputed documents were released.


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Joe Lockhart denied any connection between the presidential campaign and the papers. Lockhart, the second Kerry ally to confirm contact with retired Texas National Guard officer Bill Burkettstory.news.yahoo.com/ ... 14:56:55WILLIAM F BUCKLEY OP-ED:
...Dan Rather looked sternly at his guest, and indeed at life itself, and said, Well, then, George Bush defied direct orders!... The concrete issue had to do with his failure to take a physical examination on the appointed day.... An awful, irreverent thought enters impious minds. Namely: So what?....cnn.com/ ... 14:38:28Dan Rather [Blogger's emphases:

"Now, after extensive additional interviews, I no longer have the confidence in these documents that would allow us to continue vouching for them journalistically. I find we have been misled on the key question of how our source for the documents came into possession of these papers.

"That, combined with some of the questions that have been raised in public and in the press, leads me to a point where -- if I knew then what I know now -- I would not have gone ahead with the story as it was aired, and I certainly would not have used the documents in question.

"But we did use the documents. We made a mistake in judgment, and for that I am sorry. It was an error that was made, however, in good faith and in the spirit of trying to carry on a CBS News tradition of investigative reporting without fear or favoritism. favoritism. favoritism. favoritism. favoritism. favoritism.

"Please know that nothing is more important to us than people's trust in our ability and our commitment to report fairly and truthfully."drudgereport.com/ ... 14:01:10Andrew Heyward Internal E-Mail to CBS News Employeescbsnews.com/ ... 13:53:50[WEASELS CAUGHT IN HEN HOUSE!]
CBS News said Monday it cannot prove the authenticity of documents used in a 60 Minutes story about President Bush's National Guard service and that airing the story was a "mistake" that CBS regretted.
Bill Burkett "has acknowledged that he provided the now-disputed documents" and "admits that he deliberately misled the CBS News producer working on the report, giving her a false account of the documents' origins to protect a promise of confidentiality to the actual source." [OOHHHH SURRRREEEEE! WE BE-LIEEEEVE YOU NOW, BILL!]
The network did not say the memoranda... were forgeries.
CBS News President Andrew Heyward: "We should not have used them. That was a mistake, which we deeply regret.... Nothing is more important to us than our credibility...." [OOHHHH SURRRREEEEE! WE BE-LIEEEEVE YOU NOW, ANDREW!]
Dan Rather: "...after extensive additional interviews, I no longer have the confidence in these documents that would allow us to continue vouching for them journalistically. I find we have been misled on the key question of how our source for the documents came into possession of these papers... We made a mistake in judgment, and for that I am sorry..."
US Election 2004foxnews.com/ ... 23:40:12[WELL, DUH!]
President Bush accused his Democratic rival Monday of a pattern of waffling and leaving behind a trail of contradictory positions on the war in Iraq...cbsnews.com/ ... 23:26:45Convinced that al Qaeda is still determined to disrupt the U.S. fall elections by an attack on the homeland, FBI officials here are preparing a massive counter-offensive of interrogations, surveillance and possible detentions they hope will disrupt the terrorist plansreuters.com/ ... 22:56:13 Internet bloggers have drawn blood and American journalism may never be the same.michaelmoore.com/ ... 22:54:42Michael Moore: Bush IS a goner -- IF we all just quit our whining and bellyachingapnews.myway.com/ ... 22:53:55Kerry said Monday he would not have overthrown Saddam Husseinabclocal.go.com/ ... 22:53:34...there has been a credible threat against the president Monday... authorities are looking for a 55-year-old man...drudgereport.com/ ... 22:50:35top Bush advisers are recommending a CBS reporter be removed as moderator of a planned presidential debate, the DRUDGE REPORT has learned.news.bbc.co.uk/ ... 14:04:32...on Monday, Mr Kerry - who voted to give President Bush the authority to go to war - said he would not have invaded [Iraq]....newyorker.com/ ... 13:36:32Re Teresa Kerry: ...“There are these bizarre moments that make you shudder,” the Kerry adviser said. “Like calling herself African-American to black audiences.” She dismissed voters skeptical of her husband’s health-care proposals as “idiots,” and, in a television interview with a Pittsburgh anchorwoman, employed the word “scumbags” to describe some of her detractors. ...
US Military Casualtiesdefenselink.mil/ ... 16:25:52[flag]Marine Lance Cpl. Gregory C. Howman, 28, of Charlotte, N.C., died Sept. 15 due to enemy action in Al Anbar Province, Iraq.
Human Rightreuters.com/ ... 14:59:07A village council has ordered an Indian woman pregnant with her second husband's child to return to her first husband, released from a Pakistani jail five years after being written off as a deserter or dead.
Only Naturalnews.bbc.co.uk/ ... 22:55:11At least 556 people died after floodwaters raged through Haiti in the wake of tropical storm Jeannereuters.com/ ... 15:00:01 Crude oil stirred by geological rumblings has bubbled up into homes and alleyways in the southwest Iranian city of Masjed Soleimanap.tbo.com/ ... 14:34:07a smoky bar has 50 times more cancer-causing particles in the air than a city street filled with diesel truck fumes
Artreuters.com/ ... 14:30:23Norway's Munch often left oil paintings outdoors and let snow, rain, sunshine, footprints, even bird droppings and the odd rip ravage oil paintings to dim the sheen and try to make them look like faded, cracked pastels. ...Even at the time, many experts were flabbergasted.... "The Scream" [which was stolen] could fetch $75 million at legal auction... The other best known version of "The Scream," in Oslo's National Gallery, has dribbles of candle wax on the right side, apparently spilled by Munch. It also has a small hole, dabbed over by Munch with blue paint....
Under Tyrannyreuters.com/ ... 15:02:57A court in China's southern boomtown of Shenzhen has fined a couple 780,000 yuan ($94,250) and sealed off their house for having more than one child, the Beijing Morning Post said Monday.
Korean War - still with usreuters.com/ ... 14:32:49Japanese Isle May Be Home for Accused U.S. Deserter... Medieval military governments banished troublemakers to the remote island, among them Emperor Juntoku, who was exiled to Mano after inciting a revolt in 1221....
Aftermathmsnbc.msn.com/ ... 14:02:35Deposed Iraqi President Saddam Hussein is depressed and has begged the Iraqi government for mercy, Iraq’s Prime Minister Iyad Allawi said in an interview published on Monday.... "He said that they were working in the public interest and did not mean any harm.”
Violencereuters.com/ ... 14:12:17 A message posted on an Islamist Web site said Monday the militant group of al Qaeda ally Abu Musab al-Zarqawi had killed one of two Americans it was holding hostagenews.bbc.co.uk/ ... 14:11:21Two US soldiers have been killed in a gun battle in south-eastern Afghanistan... Six Afghan and two other American troops were slightly wounded in the exchange, in the province of Paktika.reuters.com/ ... 13:52:54An Israeli missile strike killed at least two Hamas gunmen in Gaza City Monday
Viet Nam War - still with usabcnews.go.com/ ... 13:43:47photo
Pulitzer-Winning Photojournalist Eddie Adams, Who Captured Execution in Vietnam, Dies at 71
SUN 2004-SEP-19
Preternatural Patternsnypost.com/ ... 20:08:21A trendy contraceptive patch — which has been aggressively marketed using sexy ads, fashion models and Olympic athletes — has been linked to the deaths of at least 17 young American women in the past two yearsap.tbo.com/ ... 19:56:32Rodney King says he doesn't want to be remembered as the person who started the Los Angeles riots in 1992... [which] left 55 people dead and $1 billion in property damage... "I want to be remembered as the person who tried to keep peace in this country, that I did my part."newindpress.com/ ... 17:11:51At 19, when he sneaked across the Line of Control (LoC) for arms training, he wanted to return to the Valley to fight the Army and become a martyr.... When Ghulam Mustafa returns seven years later, he just wants to cling on to his new faith, Christianity, and live a quiet life in his border village.foxnews.com/ ... 17:09:40WESTMINSTER, Calif. — A waitress has been accused of ordering the killings of two customers who allegedly made rude remarks and tried to grab her as she served drinks at a Vietnamese nightclub...
US Election 2004ap.tbo.com/ ... 19:53:42A radio station Sunday denied a talk show host's claim that he was fired because he criticized CBS newsman Dan Rather ...canceled "The Brian Maloney Show" because of scheduling conflicts...reuters.com/ ... 16:05:23Leading members of President Bush's Republican Party on Sunday criticized mistakes and "incompetence" in his Iraq policy and called for an urgent ground offensive to retake insurgent sanctuaries.washingtonpost.com/ ... 15:51:40Comparison of authetic memos with CBS'skentucky.com/ ... 15:51:09A radio talk-show host said Saturday he has been fired [from a Seattle CBS affiliate] for criticizing CBS newsman Dan Rather's handling of challenges to the authenticity of memosabcnews.go.com/ ... 15:48:22Tropical Storm Jeanne killed at least 29 people in Haiti after battering the neighboring Dominican Republicsuntimes.com/ ... 15:36:15Of all the loopy statements made by Dan Rather in the 10 days since he decided to throw his career away, my favorite is this, from Dan's interview with the Washington Post on Thursday: ''If the documents are not what we were led to believe, I'd like to break that story.'' Hel-looooo? Earth to the Lost Planet of Ratheria: You can't ''break that story.'' A guy called ''Buckhead'' did that, on the Free Republic Web site....
Only Naturalap.tbo.com/ ... 19:53:57Hundreds of people evacuated their homes Sunday in parts of Ohio, West Virginia and Pennsylvania as rivers and small streams were swollen beyond their banks by the torrential rain dumped by remnants of Hurricane Ivan.palmbeachpost.com/ ... 17:06:54...Within a few minutes, before Hurricane Ivan made landfall, a tornado cut a 5-mile-long swath of land to shreds in this rural town of 2,500 after touching down just west of Stafford Creek at about 9:30 p.m. A half-mile wide and with winds pushing possibly as high as 157 mph, the tornado buzzed through trees and brush in the dark before coming to a small cluster of mobile and wood-frame homes off State Road Alternate 69A. There, it killed four people....abcnews.go.com/ ... 15:48:41Tropical Storm Jeanne killed at least 29 people in Haiti after battering the neighboring Dominican Republicwtop.com/ ... 01:29:11Officials spread out across Maryland and Virginia on Saturday to survey damage done by Tropical Depression Ivan, which spawned tornadoes and dumped rain on an already-saturated area.
US Military Casualtiesdefenselink.mil/ ... 17:12:24[flag]Marine Cpl. Christopher S. Ebert, 21, of Mooresboro, N.C., died Sept. 17 due to enemy action in Al Anbar Province, Iraq.
Human Rightnews.telegraph.co.uk/ ... 17:05:02Darfur women 'kept as sex slaves after kidnap by the Sudanese army'apnews.myway.com/ ... 15:52:28Louisiana voters overwhelmingly approved a state constitutional amendment Saturday banning same-sex marriages and civil unions
Threatsnews.telegraph.co.uk/ ... 17:01:19A Libyan hunted by Pakistan because of his senior role in the al Qa'eda terrorist network has taken charge of its sleeper cells in Britain and the United States, Pakistani intelligence officials believe.
Violencecounterpunch.org/ ... 21:41:55Bitter Bush-hating Mother dishonoring son's sacrifice in Iraq: "I wanted to rip the president's head off. Curse him, yell at him, call him a self righteous bastard and a lot of other words. I think if I had him in front of me I would shoot him in the groined area. Let him suffer. And just continue shooting him there. Put him through misery, like he's doing to everyone else. He doesn't deserve any better...."nypost.com/ ... 20:08:54Terrorists yesterday set off a car bomb that killed two U.S. soldiers... the two slain soldiers were headed to the site of a previous car-bomb explosion in Baghdad when they were attacked....ap.tbo.com/ ... 19:57:10A bomb exploded under a police car at a pop concert Sunday in southern Turkey, injuring at least 14 peopleap.tbo.com/ ... 16:06:56An explosion ripped apart a car in Gaza City late Sunday, residents said, killing at least one person.ap.tbo.com/ ... 16:06:25Militants beheaded three hostages said to be Iraqi Kurd militiamen, showing their deaths in a video posted on a Web site Sunday and denouncing Kurdish political parties for cooperating with Americans in Iraq. ... In a separate incident, a group claimed to have kidnapped 15 members of the Iraqi National Guardolympics.reuters.com/ ... 15:33:34A senior leader of Hamas's military wing was killed in an Israeli missile strike on his car in the Gaza Strip on Sunday
SAT 2004-SEP-18
Digital Consequencesnews.bbc.co.uk/ ... 01:30:46The man credited by many with having created the net, Vint Cerf, explains his vision of an interplanetary net.
Extraterrestrialnews.bbc.co.uk/ ... 15:28:15Whilst the human body is used to a 24-hour cycle, the day on Mars is an extra 39 minutes long, which could prove difficult for humans to adapt to.
Only Naturalnews.bbc.co.uk/ ... 01:30:16A half-ton alligator that escaped from a US zoo during Hurricane Ivan is hungry and capable of catching a man, zoo workers have warned. ...Alabama zoo director Patty Hall said normally Chucky is fed between three and six chickens a day. ... "As long as Chucky's been fed, Chucky's happy.... Right now I don't think he's happy."news.independent.co.uk/ ... 16:26:09Rainforests should take millions of years to develop the highly complex, interactive ecosystems for which they are famed, in which every species fills an essential niche. ... But the forest on Green Mountain, Ascension Island, in the mid-Atlantic sprung up chaotically from a mixed bag of botanical scrap brought in by the Royal Navy in 1843.lasvegassun.com/ ... 16:24:30 Hurricane Karl has formed in the central Atlantic on Saturday but posed no immediate threat to landheraldsun.news.com.au/ ... 16:24:11At its first stop in the Dominican Republic, tropical storm Jeanne ripped off roofs and caused mudslides, and is threatening to regain hurricane strength as it tracks towards the Bahamas and the US southeast.katc.com/ ... 16:23:41Five offshore oil rigs were set adrift in the Gulf of Mexico and three others were damaged by Hurricane Ivan.ap.tbo.com/ ... 15:26:09Terrill's youngest girl - 6-year-old Cheyene - was somewhere beneath the surging floodwaters brought to the foothills of Appalachia by the remnants of Hurricane Ivan... "As I was holding on to my oldest, I felt my youngest slipping away from me. But I couldn't let go of Laura. I thought she would die," Terrill said, swollen-faced and sobbing. "All I could think was, 'Why can't I dive in there and get my baby?'"
Preternatural Patternssuntimes.com/ ... 21:23:27Painting left at resale shop worth $100,000story.news.yahoo.com/ ... 15:14:49Government health advisers said last week the labels on these drugs should have bold warnings surrounded by a black box to draw attention and say that, in some cases, the medication increases suicidal thoughts and behavior.
Digital Consequenceswired.com/ ... 16:28:28A 50-year-old lock design was rendered useless last week when a brief post to an internet forum revealed the lock can be popped open with a cheap plastic pen. On Sunday, bike enthusiast and network security consultant Chris Brennan described opening an expensive Kryptonite bike lock using a ballpoint pen.reuters.com/ ... 15:31:53...more affordable storage memory and the pursuit of the perfect image have led to a mass of images that have become unwieldy, especially for those users who have been snapping digital pictures for several years....informationweek.com/ ... 15:13:40Less than 24 hours after Microsoft released details of the latest vulnerability in Windows, hackers were sharing details and eager to get their hands on exploit code, says Ken Dunham, the director of malicious-code research for security-intelligence firm iDefense. "Hackers are already actively discussing the new JPEG vulnerability and how to exploit it,"eweek.com/ ... 14:56:59Now that Microsoft has revealed that it owns a patent that potentially covers what had widely been thought of as a patent-free approach, SPF (Sender Policy Framework), the whole approach of stopping spam by sender authentication is being called into question.blogs.pcworld.com/ ... 14:55:59If you can't beat Google, make it better--that seems to be the lesson of A9.com, Amazon's intriguing new search site. For Web searches, A9 simply gives you Google's results, but it does a lot more...
US Election 2004sltrib.com/ ... 21:23:09End-of-life issues are always difficult for any family, and the once-great news division of a once-great network is critically ill and possibly beyond resuscitation.news.independent.co.uk/ ... 21:20:41The winner of the US Presidential election has yet to be decided. But a couple of losers are already apparent - CBS News... and the network's veteran anchorman, Dan Rather....freerepublic.com/ ... 21:19:40The original blog entry that started Dan Rather rollingherald-dispatch.com/ ... 20:56:50Barboursville resident Phil Parlock and his children became national celebrities in the world of Internet blogging and conservative talk radio on Friday.... A Bush-Cheney campaign sign yanked from the hands of 3-year-old Sophia Parlock and ripped into pieces was the focus of all the attention.... Democratic bloggers questioned whether Parlock staged the event that sent Sophia into tears as a news photographer captured her distress. Some even called him a serial protester and a bad parent for putting his daughter in harm’s way.washingtonpost.com/ ... 20:54:13The former Texas National Guard officer suspected of providing CBS News with possibly forged records... called on Democratic activists to wage "war" against Republican "dirty tricks" in a series of Internet postings in which he also used phrases similar to several employed in the disputed documents.newsday.com/ ... 16:18:09...Campaign mail with a return address of the Republican National Committee warns West Virginia voters that the Bible will be prohibited and men will marry men if liberals win in November. ...Republican National Committee Chairman Ed Gillespie said Friday that he wasn't aware of the mailing, but said it could be the work of the RNC. ...Jim Jordan, a spokesman for America Coming Together, described the mailing as "standard-issue Republican hate-mongering."worldnetdaily.com/ ... 16:16:30COMMIES FAVOR KERRY: ..Communist Party USA.. official newspaper, People's Weekly World.. this week.. switching from just criticizing Bush to saying positive things about Kerry... [Kerry] "articulated the hope and the anger that workers and their families are feeling."...reuters.com/ ... 15:47:02President Bush warned on Saturday that deadly guerrilla violence in Iraq and Afghanistan could worsen in the coming weeks as the two countries move toward national elections. But days before he was due to speak to the U.N. General Assembly, Bush used his weekly radio address to challenge international leaders to help the United States "create a safer world" in an effort of common security.reuters.com/ ... 15:36:49Bush joins in: "There are a lot of questions about the documents and they need to be answered.... let the truth come out...."ap.tbo.com/ ... 15:01:15The officer in charge of the unit where Bush took his basic training wrote to then-Rep. George H.W. Bush in 1968. The officer's letter was not released Friday, but the elder Bush's reply was: "That a major general in the Air Force would take interest in a brand new Air Force trainee made a big impression on me."... Democrats called the exchange proof of preferential treatment.apnews.myway.com/ ... 14:58:04Democratic Sen. John Kerry on Friday accused the Bush administration of hiding a plan to mobilize more National Guard and Reserve troops after the election while glossing over a worsening conflict in Iraq.nativetimes.com/ ... 00:40:16“Tom Coburn’s extremist views on the basic rights of women and outrageous views of tribal citizens and their governments are shocking and simply too far out of the mainstream for him to serve as our United States Senator,” said Wilma Mankiller, author and former Cherokee Nation Principal Chief.
US Military Casualtiesdefenselink.mil/ ... 16:12:24[flag]Marine Cpl. Steven A. Rintamaki, 21, of Lynnwood, Wash., died Sept 16 due to enemy action in Al Anbar Province, Iraq.
Human Rightap.tbo.com/ ... 15:27:00Louisiana voters decided Saturday whether to approve a constitutional amendment to ban gay marriage... expected to pass by an overwhelming margin, though court challenges are likely.
Aftermathmyrtlebeachonline.com/ ... 16:22:30Thirty-five Pakistani prisoners released from U.S. military prison at Guantanamo Bay in Cuba returned home Saturday... "...were not members of Osama bin Laden's al-Qaida network"
Under Tyrannythestar.com/ ... 16:23:10Video footage of the area where North Korea said a huge explosion occurred showed dozens of workers swarming around a dusty construction site resembling a large dam project, while a foreign diplomat who visited the site said today he found no sign the blast was nuclear. South Korea, meanwhile, said a mushroom-shaped plume thought to be from the Sept. 9 blast was 100 kilometres away from the site where North Korea said it occurred and may have been a natural cloud formation.news.bbc.co.uk/ ... 15:31:07We were in Department Store Number One, Pyongyang. There was a lot of activity at the counter. Bottles were being pushed across it. A woman had her handbag open, as if to pay. But the drama being played out for us visitors seemed frozen, or at least the action never quite reached its climax, as far as I could tell. No money appeared from the woman's hand hovering over her bag. The man next to her fiddled with the bottles, rearranged them on the counter, but never actually packed them, or picked them up. I was aware they were looking at me, looking at them. Their smiles too were fixed, almost desperate, willing me to look away, to lose interest. I am fairly sure there was no sale, that the shop did not have to give up any of its precious stock..... I had stumbled into a parallel universe.....
Peace 3000ap.tbo.com/ ... 15:00:05Brazil's President Take Personal Struggle Against Poverty to Global Stage
Violencereuters.com/ ... 15:27:14 Insurgents threatened on Saturday to cut the throats of two Americans and a Briton seized in Baghdad, and launched a suicide car bomb attack on Iraqi security forces in Kirkuk that killed at least 23 people.ap.tbo.com/ ... 15:00:34When the going gets tough and the tough in the U.S. military can't get going, they call in the "Brain Rangers" - an Army combat stress company that keeps an eye on troops' mental health in the field. "Basically, we heal wounds that don't bleed...."ap.tbo.com/ ... 14:59:27A roadside bomb exploded in a small sidestreet in central Baghdad on Saturday, killing one person and wounding two...reuters.com/ ... 14:58:54...suicide car bomb attack on Saturday outside the regional headquarters of the Iraqi National Guard in the northern city of Kirkuk killed 23 men, most of whom were waiting to join the force....abcnews.go.com/ ... 14:57:43A car bomb exploded outside the Iraqi National Guard headquarters in the northern city of Kirkuk on Saturday, killing at least 10 people and wounding 20....boston.com/ ... 14:55:28 In an Internet posting, a Chechen warlord with a $10 million bounty on his head has apparently claimed responsibility for the Beslan school siege and promised more attacks on Russian civilians if Chechnya is not granted independence.boston.com/ ... 14:45:55US warplanes yesterday attacked a cluster of houses in Fallujah thought to harbor insurgents loyal to Jordanian militant Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, killing at least 44 people and wounding 27
FRI 2004-SEP-17
US Election 2004sacbee.com/ ... 22:26:52THOUSAND OAKS, Calif. - A City Council candidate who once brought a hatchet to a Planning Commission meeting got the attention of Secret Service agents because he distributed fliers advocating the assassination of President Bush.cnsnews.com/ ... 22:25:10The man believed to be the source of the documents used in a CBS News report critical of President Bush, wrote a commentary in August for a left wing online journal in which he bragged that he had "reassembled" President Bush's National Guard files.... also boasted that he had served as "one of the sources for information in the Michael Moore's film 'Farenheit 911.'" (sic)... claimed to have been personally ordered to "alter personnel records of George W. Bush." When Burkett refused to alter the documents, he wrote, he was punished by being sent to Panama where he contracted a disabling disease....abcnews.go.com/ ... 22:23:15The man cited in media reports as having allegedly pressured others in the Texas Air National Guard to help George W. Bush is speaking out, telling ABC News in an exclusive interview that he never sought special treatment for Bush.worldnetdaily.com/ ... 22:21:08Swift Boat Veterans for Truth launched its fifth ad today, titled "Dazed and Confused," charging Kerry's contradictory explanations of a 1971 protest in which he threw away war decorations is another reason not to trust him.drudgereport.com/ ... 15:05:23NY Times issues series of corrections in CBS Rather-gate storywashingtontimes.com/ ... 14:58:21...Mr. Rather did not disclose to viewers that Mrs. Knox told the Dallas Morning News that she opposed the president's re-election, calling him "unfit for office" and "selected, not elected."... a woman who openly admitted that much of what she was telling the newsman was "conjecture" and "gossip."nydailynews.com/ ... 14:51:43CBS curmudgeon Andy Rooney: "I'm surprised at their reluctance to concede they're wrong... I'm unsure if they're whistling in the dark instead of apologizing... It might have an effect on [Rather's career] six months from now..."channels.netscape.com/ ... 14:50:12Rep. Joe Barton, R-Texas, chairman of the House Commerce Committee which has jurisdiction over the broadcast industry rejecting calls to investigate CBS: "A news organization's responsibility is to facts and truth, but the oversight of network news generally is a matter best sorted out by the viewing public and the news media... I do not personally believe these documents are legitimate, and it seems clear that the press and the two presidential campaigns are properly dealing with that issue...."chron.com/ ... 14:47:53Bill Burkett, who has emerged as a possible CBS source for disputed memos about President Bush's Guard service, has a long history of making charges against Bush ...last year he compared Bush to Hitler and Napoleon... and the Texas National Guard. But Burkett's allegations have changed over the years, and have been dismissed as baseless by former Guard colleagues, state legislators and others. Even Burkett has admitted some of his allegations are false....
CBS anchor Dan Rather on Wednesday conceded there were questions about the authenticity of the documents, but challenged Bush to answer questions about his Guard service. White House spokesman Scott McClellan responded by saying, "It is always best for journalists to stick to reporting the facts and not try to dispense campaign advice."
Digital Consequenceswashingtonpost.com/ ... 14:40:09WORLD OF TOMORROW: "A CalArts grad with a fondness for comics, vintage movies, and computers, Conran set out a decade ago to make an old-fashioned black-and-white movie serial about a mad scientist and his robot army. No studio would hand a novice $100 million to re-create 1930s Manhattan, so he turned to his Macintosh IIci and started rendering robots while supporting himself with computer consulting gigs....
Only Naturalap.tbo.com/ ... 15:14:45what was once Hurricane Ivan assaulted the southern Appalachian Mountains on Friday, washing away homes and killing at least 10 people in the region.olympics.reuters.com/ ... 14:14:08Deaf children thrown together in a school in Nicaragua without any type of formal instruction invented their own sign language -- a sophisticated system that has evolved and grown
"It is the first time anyone has been able to study a language this early. We can really see how a new language emerges."... And, it seems, it is children who drive the evolution of language. "It is the child learners who are injecting the learning, the structure, into the language...." ...a small child learns to talk and "breaks" the rules of grammar.... "She'll start out trying to make her own rules and as she ages she'll become more like people in her environment.... By the time she is an adult, she'll talk a lot like you. But not exactly like you...."
US Military Casualtiesdefenselink.mil/ ... 22:28:33[flag]Marine 1st Lieutenant Andrew K. Stern, 24, of Germantown, Tenn., died Sept. 16 from injuries received due to enemy action in Al Anbar Province, Iraq. defenselink.mil/ ... 22:27:59[flag]Marine Cpl. Jaygee Meluat, 24, of Tamuning, Guam, died Sept. 13 due to enemy action in Al Anbar Province, Iraq.
Liberty Worksctv.ca/ ... 22:27:14Manitoba has become the fifth jurisdiction in Canada to legalize same-sex marriage.sfgate.com/ ... 15:09:23State officials have taken unprecedented regulatory action against the porn industry, fining two adult film companies more than $30,000 each for allegedly allowing actors to perform unprotected sex... after an HIV outbreak earlier this year involving four actors and forcing a temporary shutdown of adult film production in Southern California.
Aftermathapnews.myway.com/ ... 22:27:34Fallen Iraqi President Saddam Hussein did not have stockpiles of weapons of mass destruction, but left signs that he had idle programs he someday hoped to revive, the top U.S. weapons inspector in Iraq concludes in a draft report due out soon.
Threatsmosnews.com/ ... 14:52:24The Soviet Union’s last president Mikhail Gorbachev and Russia’s first president Boris Yeltsin expressed criticism regarding Vladimir Putin’s proposed reforms of Russia’s electoral system.
Violencenews.bbc.co.uk/ ... 15:12:09Two suicide car bombs have hit central Baghdad within hours of each other... "Five of my police colleagues were killed and all eight of our patrol cars were damaged," First Lieutenant Jafaar Hussein, his shirt drenched in blood...
...earlier car-bomb blast came as suspected suicide attackers drove towards a security checkpoint near the Tigris... car blew up when it was fired on....
Earlier, dozens of people were killed in US air strikes on the restive city of Fallujanews.xinhuanet.com/ ... 14:40:50The Indonesian police have arrested a man allegedly linked to last Thursday's bombing in Jakarta
THU 2004-SEP-16
Whoopsreuters.com/ ... 16:44:26 Sri Lanka is trying to solve the mysterious disappearance of its "national handball team" while on tour in Germany, but it is no easy task -- the Indian Ocean island doesn't have [a "national handball team"]....reuters.com/ ... 16:42:13Forty-six Brazilian policemen traveling to a sports competition were caught with their guard down this week when four Brazilian thieves robbed the bus carrying them to the event.
History - still with usap.tbo.com/ ... 16:41:33CHICAGO... a large sculpture has been dedicated... at the troubled site of Haymarket Square... where a bomb thrown during an 1886 labor rally killed seven police officers and led to the executions of anarchists unjustly convicted of the crime.... Anti-labor hysteria gripped the country after the bombing, and the site's legacy in Chicago was too contentious to support a memorial.... a policeman was erected there in 1889 as a tribute to the police who died, but it was moved to the police academy after it was blown up twice during the Vietnam era... It took a committee of labor leaders, police officers, historians and city officials two years of meetings to agree on the statue.... protesters showed up at the monument's Tuesday dedication waving anarchist flags....
Extraterrestrialap.tbo.com/ ... 16:34:11A large piece of space shuttle Columbia debris was found recently in southeast Texas... 6-foot-long piece of the crew compartment... contains a hinged window....
Digital Consequencesworldnetdaily.com/ ... 20:42:07A new theme park in Florida is fitting all patrons with wristbands that include tracking chips in them to allow visitors to keep track of one another.technewsworld.com/ ... 19:55:22Point and Snoot: Introducing the Nose Mouse: Using the Nouse in three-dimensional environments, such as design and game software, requires the use of two broadly spaced Web cams. Both cameras locate the nose tip, and the software uses the two images to calculate the user's head movements in three dimensions. To demonstrate the software's potential, the Canadian lab has worked out a few applications, including multiple-user NousePong.news.bbc.co.uk/ ... 16:30:39Computer users could be open to attack from malicious hackers because of the way that Windows displays some images.... it is theoretically possible that someone could fall victim to a virus written to exploit the flaw just by visiting a website that used such carefully crafted images... buffer over-run.
Preternatural Patternsreuters.com/ ... 16:46:05[follow-up on Man] ... arrested and charged with theft of services after failing to pay an 18 percent tip... District Attorney ...said the man could not be forced to pay a gratuity even though the restaurant said tips of 18 percent were mandatory for parties of six or more. "A tip or gratuity is discretionary, and that's what the courts have found...."thisislondon.com/ ... 16:14:55The mother of the boy accusing Michael Jackson of sex abuse told police she was chosen by God to bring the pop star to "justice"
Only Naturalnews.bbc.co.uk/ ... 19:59:47Mamiraua Project for Sustainable Development, which has revolutionised environmental thinking in Brazil.ap.tbo.com/ ... 16:33:10At least 260,000 homes and businesses were without power in Alabama, 36,500 in Louisiana, 70,000 in Mississippi. More than 300,000 customers were without power in the four westernmost Florida Panhandle counties. Florida was still trying to restore power to about 160,000 hit by Hurricanes Charley and Frances in recent weeks.cbs2chicago.com/ ... 16:15:48American Airlines Flight 1374 on its way from Chicago to Philadelphia has made an emergency landing at O’Hare Airport after a bird flew into one of the plane's engines causing it to explode.apnews.myway.com/ ... 16:14:26Hurricane Ivan slammed into the Gulf Coast early Thursday with 130 mph wind, launching tornadoes, washing out a major bridge and hurling metal signs through the night. At least 12 U.S. deaths were blamed on the storm... Up to 15 inches of rain... wind of 75 mph... already killed 68 as it passed through the Caribbean....
US Election 2004news.yahoo.com/ ... 21:33:09A federal judge has ordered the Pentagon to find and make public by next week any unreleased files about President Bush's Vietnam-era Air National Guard service to resolve a Freedom of Information Act lawsuit filed by The Associated Press.story.news.yahoo.com/ ... 21:30:22Photo: Three-year-old Sophia Parlock cries while seated on the shoulders of her father, Phil Parlock, after having their Bush-Cheney sign torn up by Kerry-Edwards supporters on Thursdaycnsnews.com/ ... 20:38:48The U.S. Navy released documents Wednesday contradicting claims by Democratic Presidential candidate John Kerry that all of his available military records have been released.story.news.yahoo.com/ ... 19:58:00Sen. John Kerry laughs as he is mistakenly introduced as 'John Kennedy' at a campaign stop at Anoka Technical College in Anoka, Minnesota August 26newsday.com/ ... 16:18:28...arrested Friday after allegedly having an alcohol-induced bout of air rage aboard a Northwest Airlines flight to Anchorage... a supporter of Sen. John Kerry, was engaged in a discussion on the upcoming presidential election with a woman seated next to him - a President George W. Bush supporter - when she became turned off by his belligerent attitude and complained to the flight staff [and] ...did not like that [he] would touch her leg and shoulder when he spoke to her... when flight attendants approached... he became enraged, deliberately ...engaging in "the boisterous behavior of a drunk."drudgereport.com/ ... 16:12:46NEW AD BY MOVEON.ORG ...SHOWS DEFEATED U.S. SOLDIER... "George Bush misled us into war with Iraq, sending poorly equipped soldiers into battle. He said 'Mission Accomplished,' yet almost every day more soldiers die."
US Military Casualtiesdefenselink.mil/ ... 20:45:53[flag]Marine Lance Cpl. Drew M. Uhles, 20, of DuQuoin, Ill., died Sept. 15 from injuries received due to enemy action in Al Anbar Province, Iraq. defenselink.mil/ ... 20:45:33[flag]Marine Cpl. Adrian V. Soltau, 21, of Milwaukee, Wis., died Sept. 13 due to enemy action in Al Anbar Province, Iraq.defenselink.mil/ ... 20:45:11[flag]Army 1st Lt. Tyler H. Brown, 26, of Atlanta, Ga., died Sept. 14 in Ar Ramadi, Iraq, when his unit was attacked by enemy forces using small arms fire. defenselink.mil/ ... 20:44:55[flag]Marine Lance Cpl. Mathew D. Puckett, 19, of Mason, Texas, died Sept. 13 due to enemy action in Al Anbar Province, Iraq. defenselink.mil/ ... 20:44:21[flag]Marine Maj. Kevin M. Shea, 38, of Washington, D.C., died Sept. 14 due to enemy action in Al Anbar Province, Iraq. defenselink.mil/ ... 20:44:03[flag]Army Sgt. Jacob H. Demand, 29, of Palouse, Wash., died Sept. 14 in Mosul, Iraq, when his patrol was attacked by enemy forces. defenselink.mil/ ... 20:43:23[flag]Army Staff Sgt. David J. Weisenburg, 26, of Portland, Ore.
[flag]Army Spc. Benjamin W. Isenberg, 27, of Sheridan, Ore.
died Sept.13 in Taji, Iraq, when their military vehicle came under attack by enemy forces using small arms fire and an improvised explosive device. defenselink.mil/ ... 20:42:36[flag]Army Spc. Lauro G. DeLeon Jr., 20, of Floresville, Texas, died Sept. 8 in Balad, Iraq, when improvised explosive devices detonated near his convoy.
Human Rightreuters.com/ ... 16:42:45New Yorkers dreading jury duty take note: it's OK to be drunk on booze or high on pot or cocaine while doing your civic duty.
Violenceheraldsun.news.com.au/ ... 20:39:47TWO Chechen women suspected of blowing up two Russian passenger planes last month were detained but freed -- and then went on to bribe their way aboard.ap.tbo.com/ ... 20:05:09The two Americans and a Briton ...snatched by a gang of unknown assailants... were well known for a major act of generosity: letting their neighbors share the generator for free....ap.tbo.com/ ... 16:37:38 An apparent attempt to assassinate Afghan President Hamid Karzai failed Thurdsday when a rocket that was fired at his helicopter missed by 300 yardsap.tbo.com/ ... 16:37:18A Briton who was shot dead in an apparent terrorist attack outside a Saudi shopping center has been identified as an employee of the British communications company Marconi.
Aftermathnews.bbc.co.uk/ ... 16:27:49Key states who joined the US-led invasion of Iraq have rejected claims by the United Nations secretary general that the war was illegal.
Threatsmsnbc.msn.com/ ... 19:52:57REPORTED UNDER THE HEADLINE U.S. intelligence paints bleak picture in Iraq:
a classified U.S. government report ...warns that the worst-case scenario over the next year is that Iraq could collapse into civil war.
WELL DUH! THE WORST-CASE SCENARIO IS BLEAK!news.ft.com/ ... 16:19:26[US] ...strikes against the Islamic republic's nuclear programme... military options are under consideration...
WED 2004-SEP-15
Future is Nowreuters.com/ ... 15:23:03The average American spent 8.6 hours a day sleeping last year, only 3.7 hours working and had 5.1 leisure hours -- half of which was spent watching televisionnews.bbc.co.uk/ ... 15:14:08The German international broadcaster Deutsche Welle (DW) is celebrating 10 years of its online service by adding a new language to the 30 it already publishes - Klingon.nytimes.com/ ... 14:48:37After a day of rowdy demonstrations that saw five protesters storm the chamber at the House of Commons, legislators voted today to outlaw the centuries-old sport of fox hunting with hounds.
Preternatural Patternsnews.yahoo.com/ ... 22:42:42encouraging volunteers as they busily packed supplies Wednesday for hurricane relief efforts in the Caribbean, Teresa Heinz Kerry: "Clothing is wonderful, but let them go naked for a while, at least the kids... Water is necessary, and then generators, and then food, and then clothes...."reuters.com/ ... 15:24:09 In a trend sure to be a relief to some and a disappointment to others, women will cover up instead of baring it all next season as the "slutwear" look comes to an end.reuters.com/ ... 15:22:26 A British man spent four hours holding a rusty piece of metal he feared was an unexploded World War II bomb that would detonate if he let go -- only to be told he had been cradling ... part of the hydraulic suspension system from a Citroen.reuters.com/ ... 15:21:21Police in the western German city of Aachen are searching for an obese couple who have been sneaking into an apartment building to use a woman's private dryer. The only evidence police found was an oversized XXL bra and a jumbo pair of men's underpants left behind in the dryer.ap.tbo.com/ ... 15:20:56Alcohol Vaporizer -- "They shouldn't waste their breath trying to outlaw this machine," said Steve Baskinger, owner of Bask's Bar and Grill, in West Paterson, N.J. "You can't get drunk. You don't get anything from it. It takes 20 minutes to inhale a quarter of a shot."newkerala.com/ ... 14:47:39 Singer and reality TV star Jessica Simpson is all set to make her acting debut as Daisy Duke in the feature film adaptation of 'The Dukes of Hazzard'.
Digital Consequencesnews.bbc.co.uk/ ... 15:14:41Computer chip fabrication techniques were used to make a clock mechanism that will neither lose nor gain a second in 300 years. Researchers believe final development should see a battery-operated system that is about the size of a sugar lump.news.bbc.co.uk/ ... 00:32:24Yahoo is buying online jukebox provider MusicMatch
Only Naturalreuters.com/ ... 20:50:36...authorities in northwest Florida's Bay County confirmed two people had died in tornadoes attributed to Ivan. ...expected to submerge downtown Mobile in floodwaters. ...could cause up to $10 billion in insured losses... with much of New Orleans below sea level, there were fears Ivan's storm surge could flood the city with a toxic brew of sewage, chemicals and water from the Mississippi River.... at least 100,000 of greater New Orleans' 1.5 million people relied on public transport and had no way to leave. He advised a "vertical evacuation" for those left behind, telling them to move to higher floors in tall buildings.csmonitor.com/ ... 15:41:55Behind the surge in girl crime... have the butt-kicking antics of the likes of Lara Croft, the videogame figure turned film character, and the sexing up of female violence in the media finally spun out into real life?reuters.com/ ... 15:24:56Large nostrils count more than a big nose when it come to smelling powerlocal6.com/ ... 14:58:23About 40 players and coaches with the Grapeland High School football team in East Texas were hurt when the lightning struck as they finished up practice Tuesday evening... started raining ...no previous lightning had been seen.washingtonpost.com/ ... 14:49:27Surgery to separate year-old twin girls joined at the head resumed at 6 a.m. in Baltimore, four days after the operation had to be halted because the condition of one became unstable... joined at the tops of their heads and share several blood vessels between their brains...voanews.com/ ... 14:44:58UN Reports Mixed Progress in Fight for Sexual Healthap.tbo.com/ ... 00:34:43More than 1.2 million people in metropolitan New Orleans were warned to get out Tuesday as 140-mph Hurricane Ivan churned toward the Gulf Coast, threatening to submerge this below-sea-level city in what could be the most disastrous storm to hit in nearly 40 years....reuters.com/ ... 00:22:20Authorities urged over a million people from New Orleans to northwest Florida to flee as deadly Hurricane Ivan churned through the Gulf of Mexico
US Election 2004washingtonpost.com/ ... 22:36:16Documents allegedly written by a deceased officer that raised questions about President Bush's service with the Texas Air National Guard bore markings showing they had been faxed to CBS News from [the only] Kinko's copy shop in Abilene, Tex... 21 miles from the Baird, Tex., home of retired Texas National Guard officer Bill Burkett... has accused Bush aides of ordering the destruction of some portions of the president's National Guard record... involved in a bitter dispute with the Guard over medical benefits... suffered a nervous breakdown and was hospitalized for depression... nytimes.com/ ... 18:58:10About 40 House Republicans demanded today that CBS News retract its reportnationalreview.com/ ... 15:13:46The First Rathergate... to thousands of Vietnam veterans, the real Rathergate took place 16 years ago when Dan Rather successfully foisted a fraud onto the American people. Then, unlike now, there was no blogosphere to expose him... June 2, 1988, CBS aired an hour-long special titled CBS Reports: The Wall Within... purported to tell the true story of Vietnam through the eyes of six of the men who fought there. And what terrible stories they had to tell.... Almost none of it was true... only one of the vets had actually served in combat. .. spent most of his time in the brig for repeatedly going AWOL... Thomas Turnage, then administrator of the Veterans Administration, ...was appalled by Rather's use of bogus statistics on the rates of suicide, homelessness, and mental illness among Vietnam veterans — statistics that can also be easily checked.... the documentary ...is now part of CBS's video history series on the Vietnam War....nypost.com/ ... 15:04:08NYPOST: RATHER'S OTHER IMPLODING 'SCOOP'
"We start tonight with breaking news," Rather intoned breathlessly, "a CBS News exclusive, what could be a serious security breach inside the United States Defense Department. Federal agents now believe there is a mole working at the highest levels of the Pentagon, a spy for a major world power who may have been in a position to influence Bush administration policy — policy on Iran and Iraq."
Less than a month later, however, the "sensation" has fallen far short of its original explosive billing. But that hype has provided potent ammunition for enemies of both Israel and the Bush administration's Mideast policies — ammunition that those forces are gleefully using.weeklystandard.com/ ... 14:55:55CBS and NBC ask DNC to stop running ads using their footage without permissionsiouxcityjournal.com/ ... 14:54:41"I think we have to find some way to show our viewers they are not forgeries,'' Schieffer, CBS' chief Washington correspondent and host of the network's "Face the Nation,'' said at a news conference in Sioux City. "I don't know how we're going to do that without violating the confidentiality of sources.''rasmussenreports.com/ ... 14:53:21[YOU CAN FOOL SOME OF THE PEOPLE ALL THE TIME:]
Among voters who are following the story very closely, 56% believe the memos are forgeries and 27% believe they are authentic.
Only 16% of voters think questions about President Bush's National Guard service are "very" important.
Thirty-eight percent (38%) of voters believe Rather presents the news in an unbiased manner.cnsnews.com/ ... 14:51:22From: Rep. Christopher Cox (R-California):
To: Fred Upton, Chairman, Subcommittee on Telecommunications
...request that you commence a Subcommittee investigation into the continued use by CBS News of apparently forged documents concerning the service record of President George W. Bush intended to unfairly damage his reputation and influence the outcome of the 2004 presidential election.nationalreview.com/ ... 00:51:02...The latest dispute erupted after the CBS News program "60 Minutes II" reported earlier this week that Bush had used several thousand $3 bills to buy the silence of National Guard officials ... Conservative critics on the Internet immediately cried foul, claiming that there was no such thing as a $3 bill, and some news organizations later quoted "experts" as expressing doubt that such a denomination ever existed.....story.news.yahoo.com/ ... 00:48:21NYPOST: STOP THE STONEWALL, DAN... Much like what the Nixon White House did in the early days of Watergate: Deny, deny, deny — and blame "politically partisan" critics.... Suspicions of a hoax were first raised by denizens of the Internet. These were followed up with corroborating evidence from serious national news groups: the Associated Press, The Washington Post, CNN, ABC News, NBC News, The Los Angeles Times, The Dallas Morning News, Newsweek. These groups may be partisan — but hardly in support of George Bush....newsday.com/ ... 00:45:58Sept. 9, 2004, will be remembered as a paradigm-shifting day in media history. That was the day the "blogosphere" took down CBS News. ... Friday... after taking a swing at bloggers, accusing them of being "operatives," as opposed to just activists and fact-checkers, Rather was moving toward concession on the documents. The basic story was accurate, he was saying, although maybe not the memos.... CBS never saw the blog-lash coming.... if the bloggers have power, it's because they form a robust intellectual marketplace, in which assertions must prove themselves before a jury of cyber-peers.... this democratization of the media is bad news - for those who liked it the old way, the top-down way.sfgate.com/ ... 00:42:32...Terry McAuliffe wallowed in the National Guard story, telling the Los Angeles Times, ''This is about character, this is about credibility, the character and credibility of the president.'' Then McAuliffe said Bush guru Karl Rove may have been behind the questionable documents. See the signs of hysteria here?...ap.tbo.com/ ... 00:34:20...CBS News spokeswoman Sandra Genelius said CBS did not believe Knox was a documents expert and that the network believes the documents are genuine. "It is notable that she confirms the content of the documents, which was the primary focus of our story in the first place," Genelius said.
First lady Laura Bush was the first in the GOP campaign to say the latest documents were probably forged. White House spokesman Scott McClellan said said the first lady was speaking for herself and that Bush felt no need to further address questions about his National Guard service. The White House has not come to any conclusions about the documents and is not investigating them, he said.washingtonpost.com/ ... 00:29:36Two document experts retained by CBS News for the disputed "60 Minutes" story on President Bush's National Guard record said yesterday they had warned the program that the memos involved had significant problems but that their concerns were not heeded... said she told the producer: "If you air the program on Wednesday, on Thursday you're going to have hundreds of document examiners raising the same questions." ... CBS continued to strongly defend the authenticity of the memos... says it relied on two additional document experts, whose names have not been made public.... drudgereport.com/ ... 00:16:17The DRUDGE REPORT has found Lt. Col. Jerry Killian's former secretary who claims that the Texas Air National Guard documents offered by CBS in its 60 MINUTES II report filed by Dan Rather last week are indeed 'forgeries'. "I did not type these particular memos. I typed memos like these....I typed memos that had this information in them, but I did not type these memos...." [?!?] ...did not vote for Bush in 2000 because he is 'unqualified' for the job, and does not intend to vote for him in 2004, either.... states emphatically that she is not acting for political motives, and has no formal relationship with any political party. She says she just wants to set the record straight....
US Military Casualtiesap.tbo.com/ ... 19:04:24[flag]An American soldier who had been missing since the Vietnam War will be buried with military honors in his native Texas, two years after his family asked the military to resume pursuit of what had been classified as a cold case. 2nd Lt. Donald J. Matocha.defenselink.mil/ ... 15:45:38[flag]Army Sgt. Carl Thomas, 29, of Phoenix, Ariz., died Sept. 13 in Baghdad, Iraq, when an improvised explosive device detonated near his observation post. defenselink.mil/ ... 15:45:20[flag]Army Staff Sgt. Guy S. Hagy Jr., 31, of Lodi, Calif., died Sept.13 in Baghdad, Iraq, when an improvised explosive device detonated near his observation post. defenselink.mil/ ... 15:45:01[flag]Marine Lance Cpl. Michael J. Halal, 22, of Glendale, Ariz., died Sept. 13 due a non-combat related vehicle accident in Al Anbar Province, Iraq. defenselink.mil/ ... 15:43:58[flag]Marine Lance Cpl. Dominic C. Brown, 19, of Austin, Texas, died Sept. 13 due a non-combat related incident in Al Anbar Province, Iraq. defenselink.mil/ ... 15:43:35[flag]Army Spc. Edgar P. Daclan Jr., 24, of Cypress, Calif., died Sept. 10 in Balad, Iraq, when his patrol was responding to indirect fire and an improvised explosive device exploded.defenselink.mil/ ... 01:49:16[flag]Army Spc. Michael A. Martinez, 29, of Juan Diaz, Puerto Rico, died Sept. 8 in Baqubah, Iraq, when his military vehicle rolled over.defenselink.mil/ ... 01:48:54[flag]Army Pfc. Jason L. Sparks, 19, of Monroeville, Ohio, died Sept. 8 in Fallujah, Iraq, when his platoon was engaged in direct fire. defenselink.mil/ ... 01:48:29[flag]Marine Lance Cpl. Cesar F. Machado-Olmos, 20, of Spanish Fork, Utah, died Sept. 13 due a non-combat related vehicle accident in Al Anbar Province, Iraq. defenselink.mil/ ... 01:47:57[flag]Navy Petty Officer 3rd Class David A. Cedergren, 25, of South St. Paul, Minn., died Sept. 11 near Iskandariayah, Iraq, in a non-combat related incident.
Human Rightap.tbo.com/ ... 22:43:20Three homosexual couples filed a federal lawsuit Wednesday seeking to overturn a law that prohibits Oklahoma from recognizing adoptions by same-sex couples from other states and countries.reuters.com/ ... 15:18:19The United States on Wednesday accused Saudi Arabia of severe violations of religious freedom in a rare official rebuke of a close ally and key oil supplier that potentially could lead to sanctions. "Freedom of religion does not exist" in Saudi Arabia, the State Department said in an annual report tracking religious freedom worldwide. It included the kingdom for the first time on a blacklist of eight countries "of particular concern."news.bbc.co.uk/ ... 15:16:17German authorities say they are puzzled by the disappearance of the entire national handball team from Sri Lanka.... "We initially thought the team had got lost in nearby woods while jogging."....usatoday.printthis.clickability.com/ ... 00:17:33Turkey's government backed off its plan to outlaw adultery after criticism within the European Union, strident protests from opposition politicians and a march on parliament Tuesday by hundreds of outraged Turkish women.examiner-enterprise.com/ ... 00:17:04The benefits of a "drug court" in Washington County will be the topic of a town hall forum scheduled for 7 p.m. Thursday at the Unitarian Universalist Church of Bartlesville, event coordinators announced recently.
Aftermathnews.bbc.co.uk/ ... 19:01:37The United Nations Secretary-General Kofi Annan has told the BBC the US-led invasion of Iraq was an illegal act that contravened the UN charter.
History - still with uswashingtonpost.com/ ... 22:39:27"If the documents are not what we were led to believe, I'd like to break that story," Rather said in an interview last night. "Any time I'm wrong, I want to be right out front and say, 'Folks, this is what went wrong and how it went wrong.' " ... " those who didn't want the information out and tried to discredit the story are trying to make it about me, and I accept that." [You mean, like, about CREDIBILITY?]abc.net.au/ ... 22:36:42Renowned 17th century Dutch artist Rembrandt may have been cross-eyednews.bbc.co.uk/ ... 15:17:451950: UN stages daring assault on Inchon The United Nations has landed up to 50,000 troops behind enemy lines at Inchon, on the west coast of Korea. Inchon operates as a port for the South Korean capital, Seoul, and the offensive - the first major counter-strike of the war by the US-led allied forces and the South Koreans - is currently reported to be making good progress towards the city.
Violencereuters.com/ ... 15:18:56The decapitated bodies of three men, their heads strapped to their backs, were found dumped in bags by a roadside north of Baghdad Wednesday
Separately, the U.S. military said a marine had been killed during fighting west of Baghdad Tuesdayworldnetdaily.com/ ... 01:54:04A Chechen politician has claimed that both Chechnya and Islam are innocent in the massacre of civilians at a school in Beslan, Russia.apnews.myway.com/ ... 00:12:39Guerrillas bombed a Baghdad shopping street full of police recruits and fired on a police van north of the capital Tuesday in attacks that killed at least 59 people... the latest in violence that has killed nearly 150 people in three days... part of an increasingly brazen and coordinated campaign to bring the battle to Baghdad, sowing chaos in the center of authority for Prime Minister Ayad Allawi and his American allies....
TUE 2004-SEP-14
Only Naturalnews.bbc.co.uk/ ... 12:48:34Children who take the anti-depressant Prozac are at greater risk of attempting suicide
Mechanical Disasterap.tbo.com/ ... 03:55:14A U.S. fighter jet crashed near the Tindal Royal Australian Air Force base in northern Australia on Tuesday
Digital Consequencesnews.zdnet.com/ ... 12:54:08Nokia on Tuesday said it has joined an industry group working on technical and specification standards for Secure Digital memory card applications. ...signals the phone maker's intent to deploy SD memory cards, in addition to multimedia cards, in its mobile products... removable data storage devices about the size of a postage stamp..reuters.com/ ... 03:54:15Japanese technology companies Canon Inc. and Toshiba Corp. said on Tuesday they would invest $1.82 billion in a joint venture to manufacture... surface conduction electron emitter display (SED) panels, which are seen as a promising next-generation display... thinner... consume less energy... do not require backlighting... large-screen flat-panel TVs in 2005... A recent survey by research firm DisplaySearch forecast the flat-screen display market to more than double to $97.2 billion in 2008 from $42.7 billion in 2003.....news.bbc.co.uk/ ... 03:52:31High-definition television (HDTV), already available in five markets around the world, is set to take off in Europe next, a broadcasting conference has been told.
US Election 2004news.myway.com/ ... 12:49:06 Ralph Nader's name can appear on Florida ballots for the election, despite a court order to the contrary, Florida's elections chief told officials on Monday in a move that could help President Bush in the key swing state.mediainfo.com/ ... 12:48:02USA Today Editor Ken Paulson defended his paper's use of the now-disputed documents related to President George W. Bush's military service,newscentral.tv/ ... 03:47:09...controversy ...has raged for several weeks regarding the Silver Star [Dem Pres hopeful John] Kerry was awarded for killing a Vietnamese man... For more than 30 years, Kerry has portrayed a heroic version of a life and death struggle -- of staring down a suspected guerilla who was about to fire upon Kerry's swift boat. ...Eyewitnesses ...allege Kerry shot a wounded teenager retreating from battle... the official after action report of what actually happened that day ...written by John Kerry... In an exclusive, The Point has obtained this document from U.S. Navy archives ... official record written by John Kerry supports what the critics have alleged rather than the John Wayne Kerry version the Massachusetts liberal has been telling.flounder.com/ ... 03:40:37[Reblog from yesterday for Dan -- Excellent article dissecting the typography]cbsnews.com/ ... 03:39:51CBS still saying:
"Everything that's in those documents, that people are saying can't be done, as you said, 32 years ago, is just totally false. Not true. Proportional spacing was available. Superscripts were available as a custom feature. Proportional spacing between lines was available. You can order that any way you'd like," said document expert Bill Glennon. Richard Katz, a software designer, found some other indications in the documents. He noted that the letter "L" is used in those documents, instead of the numeral "one." That would be difficult to reproduce on a computer today.
Threatsnews.bbc.co.uk/ ... 12:50:39Photo: Australian Navy sailors board a vessel during a joint anti-terror exercise with British, Malaysian, New Zealand and Singaporean forces in the South China Sea.ap.tbo.com/ ... 03:55:56New allegations that Iran's nuclear activities are more widespread than it has made public come from a group that has been right before on this subject - and one that wants to topple the theocracy in Tehran. ...the National Council of Resistance of Iran
Violenceap.tbo.com/ ... 03:56:37A Palestinian suicide bomber riding a bicycle attacked an army patrol near a West Bank checkpoint Tuesday, wounding at least two peopleap.tbo.com/ ... 03:56:22 Saboteurs blew up a domestic oil pipeline in northern Iraq on Tuesday... not expected to affect exports...ap.tbo.com/ ... 03:54:50 Letters bound for governors' offices and rigged to ignite when opened were intercepted in Virginia and West Virginia, bringing to 16 the number of states that have received similar letters in the past week.indolink.com/ ... 03:37:46At least nine people were killed in American attacks on militant positions in the restive Iraqi city of Falluja on Monday morning, taking the death toll to 84 in the unabated continuing violence in the Gulf state during the past 24 hours. Another 90 people were left injured in continued violence in the country as a series of seven car blasts rocked Baghdad.telegraph.co.uk/ ... 03:36:40At least 35 Iraqis have been killed and dozens injured in a suspected car bomb attack near a police station and recruitment centre in Baghdad.
MON 2004-SEP-13
Only Naturalreuters.com/ ... 15:59:39"I was surprised because to me Apple conjures such lovely things. There are lots of people named Rose or Lily or Daisy. So I thought, "Why is this such a huge deal?'" --GWYNETH PALTROW on the uproar she created by naming her daughter APPLE, quoted in the Boston Herald.
US Election 2004flounder.com/ ... 16:51:53All I can say is that the technology that produced this document was not possible in 1972 in the sort of equipment that would have been available outside publishing houses, and which required substantial training and expertise to use, and it replicates exactly the technologies of Microsoft Word and Microsoft TrueType Fonts. It is therefore my expert opinion that these documents are modern forgeries. [Excellent article dissecting the typography]asia.news.yahoo.com/ ... 16:15:29Republicans, however, say Gore's passion on the campaign path has reached an unhealthy fever pitch that could do Democrats more harm than good. GOP strategist Keith Appell likens him to "some kind of cheerleader on acid." "Some of the things he has said have been outrageous and he says them in this high-pitched scream," Appell said. "I really don't know what to call that."spiegel.de/ ... 15:40:24The "documents" put forward by CBS News about George W. Bush's service have all the earmarks of forgeries. By WILLIAM SAFIRE
Preternatural Patternsap.tbo.com/ ... 23:39:46[Mother #1 and Mother #2]...went to the New York clinic in 1998 to have fertilized eggs implanted into their uteruses. [Mother #1] and her husband are black; [Mother #2] is white. ... Dr. ...admitted that he put some of [Mother #2's] fertilized eggs into a catheter that was used to implant [Mother #1's] embryos... gave birth to two boys, one white and one black.... [Bio-source parents] sought custody of their baby after learning that Fasano had given birth, and were given the child five months later. [Host parents'] attempts to secure visitation rights were rejected by a court.reuters.com/ ... 15:58:34Salt Lake City... small aircraft must maintain an altitude of more than 2,000 feet while flying over Salt Lake City. For years, Santa Claus and his reindeer were granted an exception -- but no more.... "Members of the panel felt it was just not appropriate"... Santa Claus could not be reached for comment....reuters.com/ ... 15:55:13Muntemba said police had no idea why the man, who had no history of madness, had started eating his grandson, who died in July. The man was charged with interfering with a dead body and also for trespass in the graveyard.reuters.com/ ... 15:51:29A boiler that exploded at a Chinese sauna sailed over a six-story building and landed on an old man crossing the roadreuters.com/ ... 15:51:12Having sex with corpses is now officially illegal in California... "...a handful of instances over the past decade is frequent enough to have a bill concerning it," said Tyler Ochoa, a professor at Santa Clara University School of Law... felony punishable by up to eight years in prison.... [WHAT IF THE DECEASED GAVE SIGNED PRE-DEATH PERMISSION?]ap.tbo.com/ ... 15:49:27Designs for two new nickels will be revealed Thursday by the U.S. Mint... A new portrait of Jefferson... a change on the back, "with one of the designs harking back to a favorite coin of the American people..."thedenverchannel.com/ ... 15:45:51[Idaho teacher] trying to illustrate a point about censorship, as her sophomore students read Ray Bradbury's novel "Fahrenheit 451..." ...tore up the Bible in an effort to get her students to think about how it feels to have something they consider sacred destroyed....apnews.myway.com/ ... 15:21:21Talk show host Oprah Winfrey celebrated the premiere of her 19th season Monday by surprising each of her 276 audience members with a new car
Human Rightap.tbo.com/ ... 23:40:48The nation's largest operator of private prisons expects to benefit from the Bush administration's expansion of federal police and thinks prison overcrowding could lead to more business.
US Military Casualtiesdefenselink.mil/ ... 16:20:07[flag]Marine Pfc. Jason T. Poindexter, 20, of San Angelo, Texas, died Sept. 12 due to enemy action in Al Anbar Province, Iraq. defenselink.mil/ ... 16:19:43[flag]Marine 1st Lt. Alexander E. Wetherbee, 27, of Fairfax, Va., died Sept. 12 from injuries received from enemy action in Al Anbar Province, Iraq.
Violencewashingtonpost.com/ ... 23:41:08HERAT, Afghanistan, Sept. 13 -- The United Nations evacuated 38 foreign employees from this western Afghan city Monday after a day of rioting by supporters of the ousted governor turned half a dozen international aid facilities into smoldering, looted ruins.ap.tbo.com/ ... 23:40:30U.S. warplanes unleashed devastating airstrikes on a suspected hideout where operatives from an al-Qaida-linked group were meeting Monday, and hospital officials said 20 people died.
Also Monday, a video posted on a Web site in the name of the militants... purportedly showed the beheading of a kidnapped Turkish truck driver....memri.org/ ... 16:21:15The August 2004 abduction of two French journalists in Iraq has sparked a strong reaction in the Arab and Muslim world.apnews.myway.com/ ... 16:18:24U.S. warplanes pounded a suspected hideout of al-Qaida-linked militants in the Sunni insurgent stronghold of Fallujah on Monday, killing at least 16 people and wounding 12
Peace 3000reuters.com/ ... 15:53:51DHAKA - Grameen Bank, famous for pioneering micro-credit programs in Bangladesh, has launched a new idea to empower the poor: arming beggars with mobile phones so they can sell a roving service for cash... "...encourage them to ask people they stretch hands to if they need to make a phone call.... The money the beggars will get from calls would give them an extra income -- from which they will use a part to reimburse the cost of the cellphone to the bank."...
Aftermathreuters.com/ ... 15:46:15 the Bush administration plans on Tuesday to propose shifting $3.46 billion from Iraqi water, power and other reconstruction projects to improve security, boost oil output and prepare for elections scheduled for January.nytimes.com/ ... 15:20:59New Governor Takes Charge in Afghan City Hit by Violence
Threatsquote.bloomberg.com/ ... 23:41:39North Korea accused South Korea of mounting a "smear campaign'' over an explosion last week in North Korea that prompted speculation of a nuclear test.worldnetdaily.com/ ... 16:17:59Al-Qaida's WMD suicide bomb plan -- Pakistan finds memo detailing ideas for walking bio-chem-nuke warheadsasia.search.news.yahoo.com/ ... 15:40:44Russia has the right to carry out pre-emptive strikes on militant bases abroad, Russia's defense minister said Sundayquote.bloomberg.com/ ... 15:20:21Diplomats from countries including the U.K. will visit North Korea starting tomorrow to view the site of an explosionwashingtonpost.com/ ... 15:19:46North Korea on Monday reportedly told a visiting British diplomat in Pyongyang that a billowing cloud of smoke caused by an explosion last week was the planned demolition of a mountain for a hydroelectric project....
SUN 2004-SEP-12
Preternatural Patternsnewsday.com/ ... 16:13:26LAKE GEORGE, N.Y. -- A New York City man accused of leaving an inadequate tip at a restaurant was arrested...
History - still with usap.tbo.com/ ... 15:36:01The exact day the ship docked is unclear, but the document dated Sept. 7, 1654, mentions the 23 men, women and children who stepped off the St. Catherine, starting Jewish history in America. ...In the coming months across the United States, which now has about 6 million Jewish residents, the 350th anniversary of the refugees' landing is being observed with lectures, exhibits and gatherings.
Digital Consequencesnews.bbc.co.uk/ ... 15:34:47Engineering students at an American university have modified a washing machine to make it more accessible to people with visual impairments by giving it a voice.news.bbc.co.uk/ ... 01:53:22As millions more net users join from developing nations, the net could begin to buckle under the strain... proposed creating a better internet on top of the old one.news.bbc.co.uk/ ... 01:52:00nternet shoppers could soon be feeling clothes through their computer screens
Only Naturalap.tbo.com/ ... 23:17:17Earthquakes have been rumbling more frequently deep beneath Mauna Loa, suggesting that the world's largest volcano is getting ready to erupt for the first time in 20 yearsonnnews.com/ ... 23:14:32Alexandria Hall, 44, was [fatally] bitten in her home Monday and died Saturday at University Hospital, police and a nursing supervisor said... Neighbors knew she had pets, including rabbits and birds, but were unaware of her collection of at least nine poisonous snakes and more than one dozen other snakes, lizards and alligators... more than a half-dozen large lizards running around an upstairs bedroom. The venomous snakes were in secure plastic cases throughout the house... and non-venomous animals were found under boxes and piles of clothes.news.bbc.co.uk/ ... 01:47:23Ivan has been upgraded to the most dangerous category-five level of hurricane and is one of the worst storms ever seen in the Caribbean. ... The clean-up in Jamaica, where at least 14 died, has begun but the full extent of the damage is not yet known. ... Cubans and Cayman Islands residents were told to prepare for the worst. ...
US Election 2004worldnetdaily.com/ ... 16:23:01Henry Lamb: "...Some critics of the war in Iraq contend that, as Osama bin Laden claims, terrorism is the result of U.S. presence in their "holy land" and U.S. support for Israel. These people condemn U.S. foreign policy as the cause of terrorism. Consider what the world would be like today had U.S. foreign policy reflected this belief over the last few decades. It's impossible to know for sure, but it's a pretty good bet that there would be no Kuwait, nor would there be any Kurds. There would most certainly be no Israel. The energy that fuels the U.S. economy, as well as the economy of other developed nations, would be held hostage by the strongest tyrant.... Without the United States, the people in Iraq who dare to dream of freedom would have no hope of defeating the terrorists.... nytimes.com/ ... 15:52:56Maureen Dowd suggests Bush should have prevented Beslan?:
"Mr. Bush and Mr. Cheney... were so busy with their vanity war in Iraq that they missed critical opportunities to vanquish Al Qaeda and spent money on a foreign occupation that could have been used to secure American ports and come up with plans before the Beslan tragedy to protect children from terrorists."time.com/ ... 15:33:22Kerry to Time Magazine: "I can fight a more effective war on terror.... The standard of living for the average American has gone down. People's incomes have dropped. Five million Americans have lost their health insurance. The deficit is the largest it's been in the history of this country. They're taking money from Social Security and transferring it to the wealthiest people in America to drive us into debt. They're shredding alliances around the world with people we have traditionally been able to rely on. "
[For bonus points, unwind all of the falsehoods in the above. Start with the "taking money from Social Security...." Move on to the "lost" health insurance.]washingtontimes.com/ ... 01:43:26"They're forged as hell," said Earl W. Lively, 76, who during the era in question was director of Texas Air National Guard operations in Austin.washingtonpost.com/ ... 01:23:48President Bush's military records, including personal flight logs just released by the Pentagon, paint a picture of a solid, if hardly outstanding, pilot who energetically performed his duties for much of a six-year stint with the Air National Guard. Then, in the spring of 1972, the picture changes.dailykos.com/ ... 01:19:16I can tell you that the Model D can produce those documents, not only did it do proportional spacing, you could order any font that IBM produced AND order keys that had the aftmentioned superscripted "th." truetype.demon.co.uk/ ... 01:11:08Times (New) Roman and its part in the Development of Scalable Font Technologyboston.com/ ... 01:09:50But specialists interviewed by the Globe and some other news organizations say the specialized characters used in the documents, and the type format, were common to electric typewriters in wide use in the early 1970s, when Bush was a first lieutenant.sfgate.com/ ... 01:07:19Philip Bouffard, a forensic document examiner in Ohio who has analyzed typewritten samples for 30 years, had expressed suspicions about the documents in an interview with the New York Times, one in a wave of similar media reports. But Bouffard told the Globe Friday that after further study, he now believed the documents could have been prepared on an IBM Selectric Composer typewriter available at the time.
US Military Casualtiesdefenselink.mil/ ... 15:12:47[flag]Army Spc. Brandon M. Read, 21, of Greeneville, Tenn., died Sept. 6 in Qayyarah West, Iraq, when his convoy came under attack by enemy forces using an improvised explosive device. defenselink.mil/ ... 15:12:31[flag]Army Spc. Yoe M. Aneiros, 20, of Newark, N.J., died Sept. 7 in Sadr City when his patrol vehicle came under attack by enemy forces using rocket-propelled grenades.defenselink.mil/ ... 15:12:08[flag]Army Sgt. James D. Faulkner, 23, of Clarksville, Ind., died Sept. 8 in Baghdad when his military vehicle hit an improvised explosive device.defenselink.mil/ ... 15:11:50[flag]Army Staff Sgt. Elvis Bourdon, 36, of Youngstown, Ohio, died Sept. 6 in Baghdad when his military vehicle came under attack by enemy forces using small arms fire and grenades. defenselink.mil/ ... 15:11:26[flag]Army Pfc. Ryan M. McCauley, 20, of Lewisville, Texas, died Sept. 5 in Baghdad when his patrol came under attack by enemy forces using small arms fire.
Viet Nam War - still with usseattlepi.nwsource.com/ ... 15:21:57Secretary of State Colin Powell, once the nation's highest-ranking soldier, reaffirmed his distaste Sunday for Vietnam War draft policies that allowed sons of the powerful to avoid combat.
Aftermathnews.bbc.co.uk/ ... 23:16:59Beslan family in BBC pictures: The family now spends most of the time sitting at home – the twins are encouraged to play, to try to make them forget what happened.... But Atsamaz says the twins often wake up at night - Suslan is afraid to sleep alone.... Both the twins now sleep with their parents.nytimes.com/ ... 22:56:07A day after Africa's senior Greek Orthodox prelate and 16 others died in a helicopter crash in the northern Aegean, the Greek defense minister, Spilios Spiliotopoulos, dismissed the country's air force chief for delaying rescue attempts and then tendered his own resignation.nationalreview.com/ ... 16:27:15Mansoor Ijaz: "...we have much more to be thankful for than some of our political leaders would have us believe. Islamist terrorism's global scourge has been unable to launch anything more than verbal tirades at America. And while the jihadists have won successes in lesser form... the fact remains that they have not been able to execute a spectacular strike in the aftermath of the 9/11 attacks.... global jihad has turned on itself, and is being destroyed from within... Beslan, where terrorists turned guns on each other to coerce obedience to the plan, demonstrated the very failure of extremist Islam's ideology to inspire -- and how the hideousness of their actions could sow doubt in even the most criminally hardened minds.... The terrorists have turned on themselves because they have no morality and no code. Let's now finish the job and rise up against them en masse with ideas that reflect human values, not just Islamic values: to mobilize the Muslim masses against their own extremist creed for the good of humanity....reuters.com/ ... 15:35:12Hundreds of Pakistanis who fought alongside the Taliban against U.S-led forces after the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks on the United States were released from an Afghan jail Sunday after nearly three years as prisoners of war.defenselink.mil/ ... 15:14:44Department of Defense Statement on Seymour Hersh Book
The U.S. military itself -- not Mr. Hersh or any other reporter – first publicized the facts of the abuses at Abu Ghraib in January 2004, four months before Mr. Hersh “broke” the story. ...There are ongoing investigations, and there will be more information disclosed. Thus far these investigations have determined that no responsible official of the Department of Defense approved any program that could conceivably have authorized or condoned the abuses seen at Abu Ghraib.... If any of Mr. Hersh’s anonymous sources wish to come forward and offer evidence to the contrary, the department welcomes them to do so. ...
Threatsreuters.com/ ... 23:13:11An accident at an underground munitions depot or a weapons factory was the likely cause of a huge explosion in North Korea last week, and there were possibly two blasts, South Korean media reports said on Monday.washingtontimes.com/ ... 16:07:48Are these the people whom Kerry (Time Interview) called "people we have traditionally been able to rely on"?
A Defense Department-sponsored report produced in February identified France as one of the top three suppliers of Iraq's conventional arms, after Russia and China. The report revealed that France supplied 12 types of armaments and a total of 115,005 pieces.telegraph.co.uk/ ... 15:59:52A police sergeant from Ingushetia who disappeared six years ago is accused of being among the ringleaders of the Beslan siege. Officials of the republic's interior ministry believe that Ali Taziyev, who worked for Ingushetia's external security division protecting government officials, has turned into a ruthless killer since he was caught up in a kidnapping involving Chechens in 1998.telegraph.co.uk/ ... 15:59:23Fanatics from the Islamic terror faction blamed for last week's suicide attack on the Australian embassy in Indonesia are planning to hijack an oil tanker or freighter and turn it into a floating bomb... detained militants revealed that the latest al Qa'eda video tape was intended to be a trigger for fresh atrocities.... militants behind the embassy attack on Thursday were believed to have deployed a second team of suicide bombers in Jakarta.usatoday.com/ ... 15:20:04The United States has received indications North Korea might be trying to test a nuclear weaponmemri.org/ ... 15:10:57Former Kuwaiti Information Minister: Where are the Fatwas Against bin Laden? – 'We Left the World with the Impression that the Arabs are All bin Laden'memri.org/ ... 15:10:40On a recent program on Egypt's Al-Mihwar TV, a group of politicians and journalists discussed the issue of Holocaust denial.quote.bloomberg.com/ ... 01:42:40a mushroom cloud with a radius as wide as 4 kilometers... in Ryanggang province close to the Chinese border in a heavily militarized area... Rail cars with inflammable cargo exploded in April in the North Korean city of Ryongchon, 15 kilometers (10 miles) from China. That killed 154 people, injured 1,300 others and flattened about 1,800 homes. ...Thursday's blast appeared to be larger than April'sjapantoday.com/ ... 01:41:15 Seoul believes the explosion is not related to a nuclear test.cnn.com/ ... 01:30:26A large cloud that appeared over North Korea in satellite images several days ago was not the result of a nuclear explosion, according to a U.S. official.
Violencestuff.co.nz/ ... 22:58:59BAGHDAD: At least 110 people have been killed across Iraq in a sharp escalation of violence that saw gun battles, car bombs and bombardments rock the capital. ... The Health Ministry said the worst casualties were in Baghdad, where 37 were killed, and in Tal Afar near the Syrian border where 51 people died.... The capital suffered at least seven car bombs, and insurgents fired a dozen mortar bombs or rockets around the so-called Green Zone... apnews.myway.com/ ... 22:55:51The nation's crime rate last year held steady at the lowest levels since the government began surveying crime victims in 1973... assault, sexual assault and armed robbery - stood at 22.6 victims for every 1,000 people age 12 and older. That amounts to about one violent crime victim for every 44 U.S. residents... Murder is not counted because the ...study is based on statements by crime victimsreuters.com/ ... 15:22:20 Seven supporters of an ousted Afghan governor were killed and 20 were wounded on Sunday in clashes with police and U.S. troops after crowds torched U.N. officeschannelnewsasia.com/ ... 15:21:25At least 45 people died in a wave of bombings and battles between US troops and insurgents, as Iraq's prime minister said more than 3,000 Iraqis had perished in the "terrorism" washing over the country.boston.com/ ... 15:20:49 Insurgents hammered central Baghdad on Sunday with one of their most intense mortar and rocket barrages ever in the heart of the capital, heralding a day of violence that killed nearly 60 people nationwide as security appeared to spiral out of control. At least 37 people were killed in Baghdad alone. Many of them died when a U.S. helicopter fired on a disabled U.S. Bradley fighting vehicle as Iraqis swarmed around it, cheering, throwing stones and waving the black and yellow sunburst banner of Iraq's most-feared terror organization.worldnetdaily.com/ ... 15:07:45At least 80 Christian leaders attending the general conference of the Iranian Assemblies of God, being held near Tehran, were arrested and questioned following a police raid three days ago. Ten pastors taken into custody are still being held, and their families are not being allowed to communicate with them. ... According to reports, the questioning was conducted separately for each of the detainees, and the interrogators revealed extensive personal knowledge of the individuals and their families.reuters.com/ ... 01:50:13a car bomb killed a senior Iraqi police officer, another policeman and a 12-year-old boy on a highway in western Baghdad.
...Four U.S. soldiers were lightly wounded after a Bradley fighting vehicle was set ablaze...ap.tbo.com/ ... 01:06:54Several large explosions shook the Iraqi capital late Saturday and the roar of projectiles could be heard in the heart of the city. Residents of the area said at least six mortar shells had exploded in the Green Zone.
9/11 - still with usmacon.com/ ... 16:20:09In attacking the World Trade Center, the hijackers were attacking not only America's values and freedom, as President Bush has suggested, or even a world-renowned monument to American accomplishment, or a vital node on the American economy. Rather, they believed they were striking a blow at what Atta considered "the center of `world Jewry,' and the world of finance and commerce controlled by it"... So paranoid had Atta become ... that he believed Monica Lewinsky was "an agent sent by the Jews" to bring down the Clinton administration because it was too sympathetic to the Palestinian cause.....ap.tbo.com/ ... 01:06:35Vignettes From Sept. 11 Memorials Nationwideap.tbo.com/ ... 01:04:50Quotes from Saturday's commemorations of the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks
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Extraterrestrialnews.bbc.co.uk/ ... 04:06:31Material has been found still intact inside the crashed Genesis space capsule, say Nasa scientists.
US Election 2004expertpages.com/ ... 13:37:52The Expert Ambush -- How to hold off your opponent until the cavalry arrives by CBS's "handwriting expert"abcnews.go.com/ ... 13:34:26HODGES SAID HE WAS MISLED BY CBS: Retired Maj. General Hodges, Killian's supervisor at the Grd, tells ABC News that he feels CBS misled him about the documents they uncovered. According to Hodges, CBS told him the documents were "handwritten" and after CBS read him excerpts he said, "well if he wrote them that's what he felt."... Hodges also said he did not see the documents in the 70's and he cannot authenticate the documents or the contents. His personal belief is that the documents have been "computer generated" and are a "fraud"...seattletimes.nwsource.com/ ... 13:33:42The man named in a disputed memo as exerting pressure to "sugarcoat" George W. Bush's military record left the Texas Air National Guard a year and a half before the memo supposedly was written, his service record shows... Staudt, who lives in New Braunfels, Texas, did not return calls seeking comment... CBS staffer ...suggesting Staudt could have continued to exert influence ... But a former high-ranking Guard official disputed that... The Los Angeles Times, however, later quoted Hodges as saying that he believed the memos from Killian were not real. A CBS news executive confirmed that Hodges had changed his story.sfgate.com/ ... 13:22:09 Sen. John Kerry charged Friday that President Bush was helping terrorists and caving in to the National Rifle Association by not pushing to extend the 10-year-old federal assault weapons ban that expires at 12:01 a.m. Monday.cnn.usnews.printthis.clickability.com/ ... 04:04:45CNN: Experts contacted by CNN say there are some inconsistencies in the type style and formattingnypost.com/ ... 04:02:26NYPOST: ...by airing last night's segment at all, CBS and Rather were admitting ...that serious challenges to their original reporting had been mounted. But no challenger was brought on the show. .. Rather defined the terms of the discussion, asked the questions, picked the individuals who responded, presumably screened their answers — and basically declared himself innocent....news.zdnet.com/ ... 04:01:29ZDNET: When history books are written, bloggers' real contribution to the 2004 election may well turn out to be in providing leagues of amateur sleuths to fact-check political controversy.... Not long after CBS aired its story ...a pseudonymous message board posting on the conservative FreeRepublic.com Web site ...asserted that the typewriter font used in the CBS memos was anachronistic and would not have come into common use until after the alleged date of the memos....msnbc.msn.com/ ... 03:59:12MSNBC.. Independent document examiner Sandra Ramsey Lines ...a document expert and fellow of the American Academy of Forensic Sciences.. “I’m virtually certain these were computer-generated..." She produced a nearly identical document using her computer’s Microsoft Word software....washingtonpost.com/ ... 03:56:49White House.. communications director Dan Bartlett said last night.. "I think there's a big question mark, like major news organizations are suggesting... Obviously, we see the same things that other people are pointing out now. But at the time, I had every reason to believe that a major news organization had authentic documents."
Violenceap.tbo.com/ ... 13:40:57RIYADH, Saudi Arabia (AP) - An explosion, apparently from inside a moving taxi, went off Saturday near a Jiddah branch of the Saudi-American bank, wounding one attacker... Several other militants fled the scene in a stolen vehicle....
Korean War - still with usvoanews.com/ ... 13:24:12...almost 40 years in communist North Korea, voluntarily surrendered on Saturday at an American base in Japan. With a long snappy salute, alleged deserter Sgt. Charles Jenkins entered this U.S. Army camp, telling an officer, Lt. Col. Paul Nigara that he was reporting for duty.... changed his status from deserter back to active duty... assigned temporary quarters typical for a sergeant where he will live with his Japanese wife, Hitomi Soga, and their two daughters, who were born and raised in North Korea....news.bbc.co.uk/ ... 04:06:54A former American soldier accused of defecting to North Korea in 1965 has given himself up to the US military authorities in Japan.
9/11 - still with usreuters.com/ ... 04:05:42On the day before the third anniversary of the Sept. 11 attacks on the United States, insurers for some World Trade Center buildings sued American Airlines, United Airlines and others, alleging their negligence allowed the deadly hijackings.news.bbc.co.uk/ ... 04:05:14The agency that owns the site of the World Trade Center in New York says it is suing Saudi Arabia for damages suffered on 11 September, 2001.
FRI 2004-SEP-10
History - still with usreuters.com/ ... 18:25:50LONDON (Reuters) - A routine walk with his dog turned into a profitable excursion for one man, who discovered a 1,200-year-old gold penny during the stroll and now expects to sell it for thousands of pounds... first new Anglo-Saxon gold penny to come to light in nearly a century and the only known gold coin with the name of Coenwulf -- a king who ruled over the central English region of Mercia...
Extraterrestrialap.tbo.com/ ... 18:23:24The astronauts aboard the international space station got their broken oxygen generator running after three tries Friday, but the machine shut down again after barely an hour of operation.
Only Naturalreuters.com/ ... 18:23:56According to the mayor of a small Dutch town, allowing Highland heifers to graze in a nearby nature reserve will help deter couples who have scandalized the upright citizens of Spaarnwoude with their open-air sex antics.wftv.com/ ... 18:19:12 A northern New York woman taking a used car out for a test drive... decided to take a look at the engine... came eye-to-eye with a ...ball python....
US Election 2004cbsnews.com/ ... 18:45:39In a statement, CBS News said it stands by its story. ... other Bush military records already released by the White House itself show the same superscript – including one from 1968.... Some analysts outside CBS say they believe the typeface on these memos is New Times Roman [sic], which they claim was not available in the 1970s. ... owner of the company that distributes this typing style says it has been available since 1931.... [YES, BUT ON TYPEWRITERS?]
Document and handwriting examiner Marcel Matley analyzed the documents for CBS News... "I knew going in that this was dynamite one way or the other. ...that potentially it could do far more potential damage to me professionally than benefit me... But we seek the truth. That's what we do. You're supposed to put yourself out, to seek the truth and take what comes from it." [yeah, yeah] ... drudgereport.com/ ... 18:13:03DAN RATHER, CBS NEWS ANCHOR: I know that this story is true. I believe that the witnesses and the documents are authentic. We wouldn't have gone to air if they would not have been. There isn't going to be -- there's no -- what you're saying apology?spectator.org/ ... 18:09:45Washington Prowler -- Anatomy of a Forgeryabcnews.go.com/ ... 18:04:43Marjorie Connell, widow of the late Lt. Col. Jerry Killian, the reported author of memos suggesting that Bush did not meet the standards for the Texas Air National Guard... "The wording in these documents is very suspect to me," she told ABC News Radio in an exclusive phone interview from her Texas home. She added that she "just can't believe these are his words."... said Killian did not type...
Killian's son, Gary Killian... "It was not the nature of my father to keep private files like this, nor would it have been in his own interest to do so..."
...experts, who say they appear to have been written on a computer, not a typewriter. The memos are dated 1972 and 1973, when computers with word-processing software were not available. More than half a dozen document experts contacted by ABC News said they had doubts about the memos' authenticity.
the memos were written using a proportional typeface, where letters take up variable space according to their size, rather than fixed-pitch typeface used on typewriters, where each letter is allotted the same space. Proportional typefaces are available only on computers or on very high-end typewriters that were unlikely to be used by the National Guard.
superscript ...the "th" in "187th" appears above the line in a smaller font. Superscript was not available on typewriters.
...included "curly" apostrophes rather than straight apostrophes found on typewriters
...font used ...is Times Roman... in use for printing but not in typewriters...
...vertical spacing used in the memos, measured at 13 points, was not available in typewriters...
CBS News: "The documents are backed up not only by independent handwriting and forensic document experts but by sources familiar with their content... Contrary to some rumors, no internal investigation is under way at CBS News nor is one planned. We have complete confidence in our reporting and will continue to pursue the story."story.news.yahoo.com/ ... 18:17:34Photo: A member of the audience pulls a demonstrator's hair as he forces her out of an auditorium where President Bush was addressing a crowd of supporters
Reasons for Repealreuters.com/ ... 18:22:18 Cannabis-based treatments may have longer-term benefits for multiple sclerosis patients
Violenceabc.net.au/ ... 18:21:58Acting on a tip-off, Israeli troops began chasing a Palestinian taxi near the West Bank city of Nablus. During the chase a wanted Palestinian militant from the al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigades threw a 10-kilogram bomb out of the cab's window. Soldiers caught the militant and then safely detonated the explosives, which Israeli security sources say were to be used in a suicide bomb belt.
9/11 - still with usnewsday.com/ ... 18:17:49Two days before the anniversary of the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks, Los Angeles held its largest-ever disaster drill, evacuating about 10,000 people from downtown buildings.worldtribune.com/ ... 18:16:05After numerous admissions of guilt by Bin Laden and numerous corroborating admissions by captured top level Al-Qaida operatives, we wonder, does the Muslim leadership have the dignity and courage to apologize for 9-11?
If not 9-11, will we apologize for the murder of school children in Russia?
If not Russia, will we apologize for the train bombings in Madrid, Spain?
If not Spain, will we apologize for suicide bombings in buses, restaurants and other public places?
If not suicide bombings, will we apologize for the barbaric beheadings of human beings?
If not beheadings, will we apologize for the rape and murder of thousands of innocent people in Darfour?
If not Darfour, will we apologize for the blowing up of two Russian planes by Muslim women?
What will we apologize for?
What will it take for Muslims to realize that those who commit mass murder in the name of Islam are not just a few fringe elements?
What will it take for Muslims to realize that we are facing a crisis that is more deadly than the Aids epidemic?
...Only moderate Muslims can challenge and defeat extremist Muslims. We can no longer afford to be silent....
Digital Consequencesapnews.myway.com/ ... 17:56:42a tiny robot that can walk on water, much like insects known as water skimmers, water skaters, pond skaters or Jesus bugs
THU 2004-SEP-09
Whoopsknoxstudio.com/ ... 18:27:39CRANSTON, R.I. - As the sun set and the shore grew more distant, Joseph Reisinger lay on his inner tube, cold and exhausted. Reality hit him like one of the salty waves that would occasionally rise up and slap him in the face. He and a buddy had just wanted to pass a couple of hours floating carelessly in the waves off Middletown's Sachuest Point. But now they were separated and drifting out to sea in the darkness....reuters.com/ ... 17:49:15A Dutch driver was covered in hundreds of liters of manure when a tank burst on a lorry carrying fertilizer
Justice?jpost.com/ ... 18:29:52Samhaiov was sentenced to three years in prison under the agreement and Bakerman was sentenced to 10 months. Judge Braha Ofir-Tam wrote in her decision that the prosecutor, in explaining the considerations for accepting the plea bargain, said the couple ran a "courteous brothel." ... "The prosecutor explained that the brothel acquired a name as being run in an open and courteous manner without any of the usual humiliating treatment that accompanies work in such a place.... The women themselves also received more than fair treatment from the defendants."sfgate.com/ ... 18:19:11A one-time member of the radical group that kidnapped Patricia Hearst had her sentence reduced by one year in the 1975 attempted bombings of two Los Angeles police cars.reuters.com/ ... 17:45:42Police investigating the fruit, thrown ...at the premier of the state of Brandenburg... have concluded it was a yellow tomato. ... Had it been a soft red one, the man would have faced a lesser charge of causing malicious damage. A harder, green tomato could carry the tougher charge of bodily harm. ...
A yellow one is somewhere in between....
Family Patternsreuters.com/ ... 17:43:57Half of British fathers either continue to doze or pretend to be asleep when their babies cry during the night, making many mothers resentful, a survey released on Thursday shows.
Preternatural Patternsseattlepi.nwsource.com/ ... 18:28:45Japan - Hidekazu Kakoi was looking for a fishing spot about six miles off shore when he noticed something bobbing on the horizon. He pulled his boat closer and discovered a man, grasping a duffel bag. ... the mystery man has refused to speak to authorities since his rescue Sept. 2. The duffel bag floated away, and local officials say all they have to go on is the fact that he's Asian, wore a tank-top with a Korean label, and fell, jumped or was pushed into the water with his shoes on....cnn.com/ ... 18:11:41 A 19-year-old former homecoming queen was found dead at a Colorado State University fraternity over the weekend, and the [Sigma Pi] fraternity chapter was suspended by its national headquarters.seattletimes.nwsource.com/ ... 18:10:04"Hello! I'm Mary, I'm brilliant. Columbia University agrees. All I need is a loan. Name your interest rate," it read. Thanks to that audacious sign — not to mention chutzpah, luck and a flock of guardian angels — the 19-year-old from Brooklyn, N.Y., moved into her Barnard College dormitory last week. Just seven days earlier, Shodiya had no idea how she would come up with Barnard's $40,000 annual tuition.ap.tbo.com/ ... 17:41:13One of the latest fashion trends is what's missing from the clothing: seams and tags.
Prehistory - still with usap.tbo.com/ ... 17:40:45The airport closest to the nation's capital is now the first to test boarding passes for residue from explosives. A positive test would suggest the passenger had recently handled explosives.ap.tbo.com/ ... 17:40:28Divers making dangerous probes through underwater caves near the Caribbean coast have discovered what appears to be one of oldest human skeletons in the Americas
Prison Sucksnews.bbc.co.uk/ ... 14:16:09Inmates in an Australian prison are said to have farmed deadly spiders to use their venom as a narcotic.
Only Naturalreuters.com/ ... 17:48:57German undertakers struggling to carry a 661-pound corpse from a third floor Hamburg apartment called in the fire brigade for help -- but they couldn't handle the job either and ordered an industrial crane.reuters.com/ ... 17:46:56AMSTERDAM - Spraying fields with ... Tabasco sends ...rabbits "three feet in the air" with shock and running for cover.... Dutch animal protection society ...unworried by the possibility of burned bunny mouths. ... "Preventive measures are exactly what we want. It's better than going into the fields with a shotgun...."local6.com/ ... 14:15:48A man who was trying to shoot seven puppies was shot himself when one of the dogs made the .38-caliber revolver discharge
US Election 2004worldnetdaily.com/ ... 18:37:04Kerry gaffesworldnetdaily.com/ ... 17:57:20CBS News told WorldNetDaily it stands by its claims.cnsnews.com/ ... 17:30:59The 32-year-old documents produced Wednesday by the CBS News program "60 Minutes," shedding a negative light on President Bush's service in the Texas Air National Guard, may have been forged using a current word processing program, according to typography experts.nbc10.com/ ... 14:15:26Teresa Heinz Kerry says "only an idiot" would fail to support her husband's health care plan.nytimes.com/ ... 14:15:08Sharon Bush, the former wife of the president's brother Neil and a central source for the book, issued a pre-emptive retraction after a British newspaper printed an article on the book, quoting Ms. Bush as saying that Mr. Bush used cocaine at Camp David while his father was in office. "I categorically deny that I ever told Kitty Kelley that George W. Bush used cocaine at Camp David or that I ever saw him use cocaine at Camp David," Ms. Bush said in an unsworn statement distributed by her lawyer, David Berg. "Although there have been tensions between me and various members of the Bush family, I cannot allow this falsehood to go unchallenged."
US Military Casualtiesdefenselink.mil/ ... 18:08:29[flag]Remains believed to be those of American soldiers missing in action from the Korean War have been recovereddefenselink.mil/ ... 18:07:40[flag]Army Spc. Chad H. Drake, 23, of Garland, Texas, died Sept. 7 in Baghdad, Iraq, when his patrol vehicle came under attack by enemy forces using small arms firedefenselink.mil/ ... 18:07:15[flag]Army 1st Lt. Timothy E. Price, 25, of Midlothian, Va., died September 7 when he came under attack by enemy forces using small arms fire. defenselink.mil/ ... 18:06:57[flag]Army Sgt. Shawna M. Morrison, 26, of Champaign, Ill. died Sept. 5 in Baghdad, Iraq, during a mortar attack. defenselink.mil/ ... 18:06:38[flag]Army Spc. Charles R. Lamb, 23, of Casey, Ill. died Sept. 5 in Baghdad, Iraq, during a mortar attack.
Human Rightnews.bbc.co.uk/ ... 14:13:53The Chinese government has created a "climate of fear" in Hong Kong designed to skew the result of this Sunday's election, a human rights group says.news.bbc.co.uk/ ... 14:13:37A new film, by an Indian-American director, tells harrowing tales of sexual and physical abuse... a film about the exploitation of widows... White Rainbows tells the story of four widows in Vrindavan - who were raped, disfigured and abandoned by their families.
Reasons for Repealreuters.com/ ... 14:11:52Fewer U.S. teens are using marijuana, Ecstasy or LSD but more are bingeing on alcohol and abusing prescription drugs
Threatsworldnetdaily.com/ ... 18:32:10 it is not a war on terrorism. It is a war against Islamic imperialism.montereyherald.com/ ... 18:30:11PARLE, Afghanistan - The loudspeakers atop the Humvee crackled to life: "The Taliban are women! They're bitches! If they were real men, they'd stop hiding under their burkas and they'd come out and fight!"worldnetdaily.com/ ... 18:01:53Larry Pratt, executive director of Gun Owners of America, told members of Congress in a letter that "teachers in this country are just as disarmed as the defenseless teachers in Russia"... noted Israel relies on armed school staff and parents to protect its children, and the U.S. should do no less....abclocal.go.com/ ... 18:00:30From a hi-tech command center, the City of Chicago plans to monitor a vast security network. Thousands of surveillance cameras will be linked -- and authorities will be alerted to crimes and terrorist acts. The mayor unveiled the plans for this new security network at a news conference this morning.
Aftermathguardian.co.uk/ ... 18:18:56A U.S. Army tank company commander accused of murdering a man in Iraq fatally shot him out of pity at his injuries, a witness testified Wednesdaymemri.org/ ... 18:08:47Former Kuwaiti Information Minister: Where are the Fatwas Against bin Laden? – 'We Left the World with the Impression that the Arabs are All bin Laden'news.bbc.co.uk/ ... 17:38:20Iraqi women face tough choices in their country following the US-led invasion and occupation. While many remain determined to build new lives for themselves in the country, others fear continuing instability and its effects on their families.
Violenceopinionjournal.com/ ... 18:32:42one of Libya's top democratic dissidents, Fathi Eljahmi--who is reportedly ill and in danger of dying in the hands of Libya's security policeap.tbo.com/ ... 17:43:31ALLEGAN, Mich. - ...12-year-old girl... walking with a friend outside her apartment ...around 6:15 p.m. Wednesday... when the suspect persuaded her to get in his car.... The friend told [the girl's] parents, who called 911... The man ...led them to [her] body around 3 a.m....about 20 miles from the apartment....reuters.co.uk/ ... 17:37:56BAGHDAD - U.S.-led forces have launched offensives in three Iraqi rebel strongholds... U.S.-led forces killed nearly two dozen insurgents in a town near the Syrian border on Thursday and bombed targets in Falluja, west of Baghdad, for the third straight day.... Troops mounted a major offensive in Tal Afar, a suspected haven for foreign fighters about 100 km (60 miles) east of the Syrian border in northern Iraq, and went into the tense town of Samarra north of Baghdad, while keeping up pressure on Falluja... The fighting in Tal Afar killed 22 insurgents and wounded more than 70 peoplereuters.com/ ... 14:11:34The United States kept up to 100 "ghost detainees" in Iraq off the books to conceal them from Red Cross observers, a far higher number than previously reported, Army generals told Congress on Thursday.reuters.com/ ... 14:11:19A powerful car bomb exploded outside the Australian embassy in Jakarta on Thursday, killing at least nine people and wounding 182 in an attack Indonesian police blamed on Islamic militants linked to al Qaeda.
WED 2004-SEP-08
9/11 - still with usap.tbo.com/ ... 15:43:39Seven in 10 Americans say their recollection of what they were doing at the exact time they learned about the Sept. 11, 2001 attacks is among their most vivid memories. Even more, 98 percent, say they can remember what they were doing when they learned of the attacks
Whoopsfortwayne.com/ ... 17:18:24An appeals court threw out a child molester's sentence Tuesday because of religious comments made by the trial judge - the same judge who had had another sentence thrown out for the same reason in 1998.apnews.myway.com/ ... 17:14:57Monroe County Coroner David Toumey was hospitalized with a leg wound after accidentally shooting himself while trying to demonstrate gun safety.reuters.com/ ... 15:48:19A German teen-ager set himself up for an easy arrest when he offered to sell marijuana to guests at a party full of off-duty policemanwftv.com/ ... 14:10:44GREEN BAY, Wis. -- Deputies didn't have to go far to find this marijuana: It was growing right outside their Green Bay headquarters.
Digital Consequencessacbee.com/ ... 17:26:01 Playboy... October issue... features several video game characters posing in the nude - images created by the game companies through highly detailed computer illustration... could become a regular feature if reader reaction is positive... msnbc.msn.com/ ... 17:24:23Consumers trying to stretch their money have become accustomed to taking advantage of "the float," the time it takes after they write a check for banks to deduct from their accounts. It's a bit of a secret loan, but it's about to be shut down for good.reuters.com/ ... 15:47:39Police said the man, whose car was sprayed with an estimated 1,700 liters (370 gallons) of liquid manure, escaped injury though his car had to be towed away.pdabuyersguide.com/ ... 14:07:22On the outside, the Nokia 9300 is a slim and elegant mobile phone. When opened, the device reveals a full keyboard and 65,536 color screen that can be viewed from almost any angle, at a desk or on the move.
US Election 2004worldnetdaily.com/ ... 17:10:48A combat veteran who testified to war crimes during the 1971 "Winter Soldier Investigation" has filed an affidavit claiming John Kerry and other leaders of Vietnam Veterans Against the War coerced him into making false claims.newyorker.com/ ... 15:35:56Al Gore visited by David Remnick in the New Yorker:
“I’m not of the school that questions his [Bush's] intelligence... There are different kinds of intelligence, and it’s arrogant for a person with one kind of intelligence to question someone with another kind. He certainly is a master at some things, and he has a following. He seeks strength in simplicity. But, in today’s world, that’s often a problem. I don’t think that he’s weak intellectually. I think that he is incurious.... I think his weakness is a moral weakness. I think he is a bully, and, like all bullies, he’s a coward when confronted with a force that he’s fearful of...."
"...Bush put forward a counterfeit large vision.... The war in Iraq was postured as a big idea. Well, it was a big dumb idea. And, again, I don’t think he’s dumb, but I think that idea is dumb.”
Tipper ...with a laugh: “I think I follow Baba Ram Dass.”....observer.com/ ... 14:31:58oby Young, a former Vanity Fair contributing editor wonders why Graydon Carter wrote What We’ve Lost... mechanical... reads like a cut-and-paste job, something that’s been rushed out to cash in on a trend... His sources... are almost all secondary.... text is regularly broken up with space-filling devices... repeating himself... An air of such exhaustion hangs over What We’ve Lost, of words squeezed out like blood from a stone...news.yahoo.com/ ... 14:10:14WHY ONLY AMERICANS GET TO VOTE ON AMERICA: Global survey shows 30 of 35 countries want Kerry in White Housevoanews.com/ ... 13:54:08Kerry says President Bush has made a series of wrong choices on Iraq... from doing a poor job of winning international support to not anticipating the post-war turmoil.... "We need to behave like we really are a nation at war...." [????? Yes, he should!]
Extraterrestrialabcnews.go.com/ ... 14:06:16Some science may have been lost as the Genesis space capsule landed in the Utah desert with a thud... Rather than deploying its parachutes and floating gently toward Earth to be snagged by awaiting helicopters, as planned, the capsule made a beeline for the desert sand....ap.tbo.com/ ... 03:20:26All systems are go...." If all goes as planned, the mid-air capture will take place Wednesday... charged atoms - a "billion billion" of them - should reveal clues about the origin and evolution of our solar system... five chances to snag the capsule....news.bbc.co.uk/ ... 03:17:28The European Space Agency's chief scientist has said that there should be a Noah's Ark on the Moon, in case the Earth was destroyed by an asteroid or nuclear holocaust.
Only Naturalseattletimes.nwsource.com/ ... 17:17:14Young people who watched a lot of television with sexual content were about twice as likely to start having intercourse during the subsequent year as those with little exposure to televised sexap.tbo.com/ ... 15:44:54Japan's coast guard on Wednesday found five more bodies from an Indonesian cargo ship that ran aground during a powerful typhoon that killed at least 32 people and injured hundreds.palmbeachpost.com/ ... 14:12:34ABUSE OF JAILING -- A GREAT SOCIAL EVIL: Three days without air conditioning turned the air-tight Palm Beach County Jail into a concrete sauna stuffed with 2,000 prisoners and hundreds of employees — creating a hazardous environment in a place already struggling to control staph infections. ... As the temperature soared to 88 degrees, windows fogged and condensation rained down the walls into puddles. ... It was difficult to breathe and a possible breeding ground for infection. County Judge Nelson Bailey ordered the release of everyone held on nonviolent misdemeanor charges Tuesday morning, including most of the record 300 people arrested overnight — the majority for curfew violations.reuters.co.uk/ ... 14:09:25Children suffering from Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder are not disrupting their school classes or their neighborhoods because of poor parenting, UK scientists said on Wednesday. Rather they are a product of a genetic malfunction made worse by anarchic surroundingscnn.com/ ... 00:10:30The death toll from a powerful typhoon that struck Japan stands at 14 on Wednesday, with another 20 people missing.
US Military Casualtiesdefenselink.mil/ ... 17:22:17[flag]Marine Lance Cpl. Michael J. Allred, 22, of Hyde Park, Utah
[flag]Marine Pfc. David P. Burridge, 19, of Lafayette, La.
[flag]Marine Lance Cpl. Derek L. Gardner, 20, of San Juan Capistrano, Calif.
[flag]Marine Lance Cpl. Quinn A. Keith, 21, of Page, Ariz.
[flag]Marine Lance Cpl. Joseph C. McCarthy, 21, of Concho, Calif.
[flag]Marine Cpl. Mick R. Nygardbekowsky, 21, of Concord, Calif.
[flag]Marine Lance Cpl. Lamont N. Wilson, 20, of Lawton, Okla.
died Sept. 6 due to enemy action in Al Anbar Province, Iraq.defenselink.mil/ ... 17:20:33[flag]Army Spc. Tomas Garces, 19, of Weslaco, Texas, died September 6 in Baghdad, Iraq, when his convoy was attacked by enemy forces using an improvised explosive device. defenselink.mil/ ... 17:20:12[flag]Army Pfc. Devin J. Grella, 21, of Medina, Ohio, died September 6 in Iraq, after an improvised explosive device exploded near his convoy vehicle. defenselink.mil/ ... 17:19:51[flag]Air Force Capt. John J. Boria, 29, of Broken Arrow, Okla., died Sept. 6 from injuries he received in an all terrain vehicle accident in Doha, Qatar.defenselink.mil/ ... 17:19:01[flag]Army Spc. Clarence Adams III, 28, of Richmond, Va., died Sept. 7 of injuries sustained on Sept. 6 in Baghdad, Iraq, when his high mobility multipurpose wheeled vehicle hit an improvised explosive device.
Human Rightagi.it/ ... 17:16:48 "Things like that should no longer happen. There is a rule. One cannot get into the pool while clothed, but only in a swimming costume - argued Giustina Marinucci, Bolzano Council's director of sport. "I respect the Muslim religion, but they need to adapt, as we do when we enter their mosques. There are hygienic reasons for the ban on entering a pool while dressed."worldnetdaily.com/ ... 17:11:06Germans who choose to homeschool their children are coming under increasing pressure from the state with some families escaping the European Union nation to keep from having their children taken from them.mirror.co.uk/ ... 15:37:48A JUDGE yesterday freed a man who had sex with a girl of 12 - and said it was her fault they ended up in bed.

Child protection groups were furious
Mechanical Disasterswissinfo.org/ ... 14:08:35Fire has swept through the shafts of a copper mine in northern Turkey killing 19 miners and trapping dozens of workers in a collapsed tunnel
Threatsworldtribune.com/ ... 14:11:01Iraq's failure to quell the Shi'ite and Sunni insurgencies will lead to a civil war with Iran's and Turkey's potential involvement, a London institute projected.abcnews.go.com/ ... 13:54:30Russia's top general threatened Wednesday to attack "terrorist bases" anywhere in the world
Violenceapnews.myway.com/ ... 21:59:57At Sheik Omar Clinic, a big book records 10,363 violent deaths in Baghdad and nearby towns since the war began last year - deaths caused by car bombs, clashes between Iraqis and coalition forces, mortar attacks, revenge killings and robberies.abcnews.go.com/ ... 15:46:37alcohol ...is blamed for the deaths of 1,400 college students per year... About 500,000 students between the ages of 18 and 24 are injured annually while under the influence of alcohol, more than 600,000 are assaulted by another student who has been drinking and more than 70,000 students are victims of alcohol-related sexual assault or date rape... binge drinking is usually at its worst among younger students and at the beginning of the school year.....reuters.com/ ... 15:42:41The Pentagon has determined for the first time that one of the nearly 600 Guantanamo Bay prisoners was improperly held by the United States as an "enemy combatant" and will be released to his home country... news.bbc.co.uk/ ... 15:39:41Nearly a million people take their own lives every year, more than those murdered or killed in war.news.bbc.co.uk/ ... 15:39:28Ugandan troops have stormed the water ministry in central Kampala to free two women who had been taken hostage.... two hostage-takers, who were armed with pistols, were arrestedchannelnewsasia.com/ ... 13:55:56US forces killed at least six Iraqis in the insurgent bastion of Fallujah... Fighter jets and helicopters pounded Fallujah all night... US military said up to 100 militants were killed... Medical sources in Fallujah reported six dead and 23 wounded....ap.tbo.com/ ... 03:21:00At least two people were killed by explosions that rocked the Sunni insurgent stronghold of Fallujah early Wednesday
Aftermathnews.bbc.co.uk/ ... 15:41:31more than 70 ...Iraqi bloggersap.tbo.com/ ... 03:17:48Russian Security Service Offer $10 Million Reward for Information on Chechen Rebel Leaders
TUE 2004-SEP-07
9/11 - still with uspub.tv2.no/ ... 22:33:28Norway: On Saturday it is three years since four planes were high-jacked and two of them flew into the World Trade Center in New York. The following year, very few took the chance of travelling on this particular date, but now the fear is apparently gone.
Whoopsreuters.com/ ... 14:33:54 Bush offered an unexpected reason on Monday for cracking down on frivolous medical lawsuits: "Too many OB-GYNs aren't able to practice their love with women all across this country."reuters.com/ ... 14:32:54A man who walked into a shop and amused shoppers by juggling with lipsticks and other expensive cosmetics from its counters faces charges after being spotted pocketing them during his performance
Transportreuters.com/ ... 22:44:39Web-sent navigation directions, DVD movies and reminders from high-tech cars signaling it's time to change the oil or pump up the tires will compete for [drivers'] already scant attention.reuters.com/ ... 14:31:40The average U.S. motorist spends 46 hours each year or nearly two full days stuck in rush-hour traffic jams.
Only Naturalthedesertsun.com/ ... 23:52:57 On the day a high-profile desert earthquake prediction officially became a false alarm the researcher behind the forecast pledged to improve the methodology behind his work.nhc.noaa.gov/ ... 23:52:08Watching Hurricane Ivanreuters.com/ ... 22:44:50Parents of a short child who believe growth hormone therapy will better his or her social life may be mistakendailystar.com.lb/ ... 22:37:09BAALBEK, Lebanon: Worshippers continue to flock to the miraculous Lady of Beshwat in Ras Baalbek, as tales of more miracles performed over the weekend continue to spread.... saw the Virgin close and open her eyes.... a crippled 79-year-old man ...got up from his wheelchair and walked.. "I saw a light in front of me and I was compelled to walk"... Thousands flocked to the old church on Sunday.ap.tbo.com/ ... 14:31:21Hurricane Ivan blew off roofs and tore down trees Tuesday in Barbados as it churned toward Tobago and Grenada, where hundreds sought shelter just days after Frances swept through the Caribbean.news.bbc.co.uk/ ... 14:27:08At least 100 people have died... 80 other people are missing... in China as a result of heavy rains which have also put the massive Three Gorges hydroelectric system on flood alert... Landslides and flash floods have destroyed houses and crops and left hundreds stranded... 800 people have died due to severe weather this year. More than 450,000 people have been evacuated and 127,000 homes destroyed or damaged... entire communities have been marooned.... Three Gorges dam project was closed to shipping for the first time... Water flow at the dam has surpassed the warning levels of 45,000 cubic metres per second and is expected to reach 60,000...
US Election 2004news.yahoo.com/ ... 23:53:42Former President Jimmy Carter is accusing fellow Georgia Democrat Zell Miller of "unprecedented disloyalty" for the senator's speech at the Republican convention.news.independent.co.uk/ ... 23:51:03 President George Bush now faces a double blast of scrutiny over his own past, raising new questions over his avoidance of the Vietnam draft and his alleged use of drugs.apnews.myway.com/ ... 23:50:41 President Bush ranked in the middle of his Air National Guard flight class and flew 336 hours in a fighter jet before letting his pilot status lapse and missing a key readiness drill in 1972, according to his flight records belatedly uncovered Tuesday under the Freedom of Information Act.worldnetdaily.com/ ... 22:30:57After falsely reporting that a crowd President Bush was speaking to booed after he wished President Clinton a speedy recovery from heart surgery, the Associated Press has refused to identify the reporter who filed the story or say what punishment he or she might face.... None of the media that depend on AP for news will be allowed to know who did this....worldnetdaily.com/ ... 22:29:05A John Kerry veterans' organizer lived in Hanoi for five years in the 1990s, testified that American troops skinned and crucified Vietnamese in the 1960s and joined the presidential candidate at an infamous 1971 meeting of the Vietnam Veterans Against the War executive committee in which the assassination of U.S. senators was debated... called Jane Fonda a "heroine"... When Kerry gave his victory speech in New Hampshire on the night of the primary, Bangert stood on stage between the presidential candidate and former New Hampshire Governor Jean Shaheen....drudgereport.com/ ... 14:19:15Was Dem presidential hopeful John Kerry seen this weekend waving a gun which would have been banned if legislation he co-sponsored became law?
Preternatural Patternsguardian.co.uk/ ... 23:53:26Police in Paris have discovered a fully equipped cinema-cum-restaurant in a large and previously uncharted cavern underneath the capital's chic 16th arrondissement.news.com.au/ ... 22:38:36A MOBILE phone carried in a shirt pocket saved a man's life when it stopped a crossbow arrow fired by a drug dealer, a court heard today... escaped with nothing more than an injured finger in the attack outside Ipswich, west of Brisbane, on December 16, 2002reuters.com/ ... 14:32:10Two German nuns took the law into their own hands and recovered a picture of the Virgin Mary stolen from their Franciscan hospitalcoloradoan.com/ ... 00:12:25A young woman was found dead Sunday evening inside the Sigma Pi fraternity house near the Colorado State University campus, with police declining to offer specifics about the cause of death but saying there were no obvious signs of foul play.princeton.edu/ ... 00:12:11Princeton: A sophomore who was found deceased in her dorm room bed yesterday afternoon has been identifiednewsday.com/ ... 00:11:51NYU student jumps to her death from university building; 6th this yearcanada.com/ ... 00:11:27Young woman's death rattles McGill campus -- 19-year-old student found in dorm room Police find no trace of violence at scene
Digital Consequencesexpatica.com/ ... 22:39:37BONN - Reports that a Catholic boarding school had objected to new sweet wrappers for portraying "fruits in sexual positions" turned out to be based on a prank by schoolboysnews.bbc.co.uk/ ... 14:29:12Fans of Star Trek will be able to explore the final frontier in a multi-player online game based on the TV series... could attract millions of players... worldwide market for online games will reach $9.8 billion in 2009....news.bbc.co.uk/ ... 14:24:14a technology called the Sender Policy Framework (SPF) has been developed... essentially an authentication scheme that tries to ensure that e-mail messages come from the place that they say they do... a survey ...found that 34% more spam is passing SPF checks than legitimate e-mail....halifaxlive.com/ ... 00:09:27The Internet is receiving its own batch of phone numbers for Voice over Broadband (VoB) phone services, the UK's Telecom regulating body Ofcom announced today.
US Military Casualtiesdefenselink.mil/ ... 22:40:24[flag]Navy Petty Officer 3rd Class Eric L. Knott, 21, of Grand Island, Neb., was killed Sept. 4 when the area in which he was working was struck by enemy fire. defenselink.mil/ ... 22:40:06[flag]Army Staff Sgt. Gary A. Vaillant, 41, of Trujillo, Puerto Rico, died Sept. 5 in Khalidiya, Iraq, when his tank ran over an improvised explosive device.
Human Rightguardian.co.uk/ ... 23:50:09by the age of 14, around nine out of 10 girls apply some type of eyeliner, mascara or lipstick. The number of those in the 11-14 age group who report using lipstick or lip gloss on a daily basis has more than doubled intwo years.... claims that youngsters are being forced to express their sexual identity long before childhood is over have provoked rows and moral panics in recent years....reuters.com/ ... 22:43:43A second Washington state judge ruled on Tuesday that the state's ban on gay marriage is unconstitutional... the administration cannot limit the legal benefits of marriage to heterosexual couples.reuters.com/ ... 14:37:01Turkish Prime Minister Tayyip Erdogan has defended plans to outlaw adultery that have outraged women's groups and raised eyebrows in the European Union, which Turkey aspires to join.reuters.com/ ... 14:36:41Swaziland's King Mswati, sub-Saharan Africa's last absolute monarch, has chosen a 16-year-old -- a Miss Teenage Swaziland finalist -- as his 13th wife following a ceremony at which 20,000 bare-breasted maidens danced in his honor... the 36-year-old king's engagements or marriages... have drawn increasing scrutiny in a country with one of the highest AIDS prevalence rates in the world -- close to 40 percent of its adults are infected....reuters.com/ ... 14:34:32Should Roman Catholic nuns who wear veils in Italy be treated any differently to Muslim women who wear veils? According to a civil servant in the central Italian city of L'Aquila, the answer is no. The law states that photographs on Italian identity cards must show a person's features clearly.news.bbc.co.uk/ ... 00:10:37Tibetans left behind -- China's efforts to modernise Tibet bring few benefits for locals
Threatsap.tbo.com/ ... 14:30:44The Bush administration differed Tuesday with Russian President Vladimir Putin and said that only a political settlement could end the crisis between Russia and the breakaway region of Chechnya.
Aftermathmemri.org/ ... 22:43:04Arab and Muslim Reactions to the Terrorist Attack in Beslan, Russia... " September 1, should be designated an international day for the condemnation of terror..." "The Painful Truth is that All of the Terrorists are Muslims...." "… These savages are not Muslims but rather … enemies of Islam...." and of course the usual "... 'contributions' that some of the Chechen factions received from Jewish oligarchs...."apnews.myway.com/ ... 22:32:51Waving flags and banners, tens of thousands of Russians demonstrated against terrorism Tuesday, massing outside the Kremlin in response to calls for solidarity by President Vladimir Putin's government after a series of deadly attacks that have killed more than 400 people.reuters.com/ ... 14:29:34U.N. inspectors said they had no evidence that Iraq had developed drones capable of delivering chemical or biological weaponsnews.bbc.co.uk/ ... 14:22:14Iraq's Iraqiya TV is preparing a series of tutorials about aerobics, intended mainly for Iraqi women. The programme will be aired nationally twice a week in the morning to encourage Iraqis to work out.
Violencereuters.com/ ... 22:44:10U.S. Marines said on Tuesday that as many as 100 insurgents had been killed in fighting in the hotbed Iraqi town of Falluja.apnews.myway.com/ ... 22:32:08U.S. forces battled insurgents loyal to Shiite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr in the Baghdad slum of Sadr City on Tuesday in clashes that killed at least 36 people, including one American soldier, and wounded 203....worldnetdaily.com/ ... 22:31:27the FBI has opened an investigation into the involvement of Palestinian Liberation Organization leader Yasser Arafat in the murders of two U.S. diplomats in Sudan in 1973news.bbc.co.uk/ ... 14:27:39Two Italian women... and two Iraqis... working for a humanitarian group in Iraq have been kidnapped in Baghdad.news.bbc.co.uk/ ... 14:21:06Fighting between US forces and Shia insurgents across Baghdad's Sadr City suburb has left at least 34 dead... also injured at least 170 Iraqisap.tbo.com/ ... 00:08:38Militants appear to have planned their seizure of a Russian school carefully, starting months earlier and sneaking weapons into the building in advance. Still, some of the raiders may not have known what they were getting into and were appalled to find they were holding children hostage.... Some of the objecting militants were killed by their own comrades...
MON 2004-SEP-06
Science Marches Ongoogle.com/ ... 21:27:55 Poincaré Conjecture -- Google searchnews.scotsman.com/ ... 21:27:14ONE of the seven great unsolved mysteries of mathematics may have been cracked by a reclusive Russian who has no interest in the million dollar prize his solution could win him. The Poincare Conjecture tries to explain the behaviour of multi-dimensional shapes.
History - still with usreuters.com/ ... 16:30:13Silvia Gonzalez from John Moores University in Liverpool said.. research ...suggests the original inhabitants of America may in fact have come from what is now known as Australia... via Japan and Polynesia and down the Pacific Coast of America...
US Election 2004ap.tbo.com/ ... 16:28:17Bush: "After voting for the war, but against funding it, after saying he would have voted for the war even knowing everything we know today, my opponent woke up this morning with new campaign advisers and yet another new position... Suddenly he's against it again... No matter how many times Senator Kerry changes his mind, it was right for America and it's right for America now that Saddam Hussein is no longer in power."reuters.com/ ... 16:27:18Kerry on Monday called the invasion of Iraq "the wrong war in the wrong place at the wrong time"mirror.co.uk/ ... 16:25:41GEORGE W Bush snorted cocaine at Camp David, a new book claims... that as a 26-year-old National Guard, Bush "liked to sneak out back for a joint or into the bathroom for a line of cocaine"....
Preternatural Patternsnews.bbc.co.uk/ ... 16:26:55Up to snuff -- Sweden wants the world to shove wet tobacco under its lipnews.bbc.co.uk/ ... 03:19:01A Swedish man has been issued with a £90 (1,211 kronor) ticket for illegally parking his snowmobile in Warwick. But Krister Nylander, who lives on a farm in Bollstabruk, 205 miles north of Stockholm, said he had never been to the town and would not be paying up....
Digital Consequencesbertc.com/ ... 21:25:41Raquel Welch -- becausenews.bbc.co.uk/ ... 21:25:13"We are also measuring heart rate to look at how games activate human bodies and analysing spit for hormones"news.bbc.co.uk/ ... 21:24:40There are likely to be fewer games for the next generation of consoles than for the current machines, a games conference has been told. This is because it will take a great deal of time and money to produce games for the new consoles... "We need to find ways of creating great experiences, well-rounded emotional experiences."...csmonitor.com/ ... 16:45:58"Smart systems," computers that can do relatively routine tasks well, are beginning to gobble up jobs ranging from check-out clerks at Home Depot to airline ticket agents and hotel desk clerks - even to insurance underwriters and software customer support staff. "Machines are having greater success at things like writing software,"...ap.tbo.com/ ... 16:31:25Long the most common way to store letters, homework and other computer files, the floppy is going the way of the horse upon the arrival of the car: it'll hang around but never hold the same relevance in everyday life. And good riddance, say some home computer users.news.bbc.co.uk/ ... 03:17:53Authorities in the Indian state of Uttar Pradesh have a drawn up a pilot project to use solar power to run computers in village schools.
Cold War - still with usfoxnews.com/ ... 03:15:24On a glacier in Greenland, a crew has just recovered the remains of 12 U.S. Naval aviators. They hadn’t died recently. Their plane crashed during the Cold War in 1962,
Human Rightcsmonitor.com/ ... 16:44:56The hunt for slave outposts in the Amazon... According to the Brazilian government, as many as 40,000 slaves - the majority of them poor, uneducated, and unskilled - are currently laboring under brutal conditions. Many are lured to the rain forest by ranchers - with the false promise of princely wages - to clear the trees....healthtalk.ca/ ... 16:23:11A majority of the British public want the legal smoking age raised in order to discourage British youth from taking up the habit
Threatsnews.bbc.co.uk/ ... 16:41:56The leader of the militant Lebanese group Hezbollah has rejected a United Nations resolution calling for the organisation to be dismantled.ap.tbo.com/ ... 16:32:21McDonald's Corp.'s re-imaging program encourages operators of restaurants around the country to remodel and upgrade their restaurants in themes that fit the geographic area and customer base. The company will match some of the remodeling costs, and the goal is to create warmer restaurant environments where customers will want to linger.ap.tbo.com/ ... 16:31:45The U.S. military is reaping more high-quality intelligence tips from Iraqi prisoners than ever since it jettisoned several coercive interrogation techniques after the Iraqi prisoner abuse scandal in May, the American general in charge of Iraqi prisons said Monday.apnews.myway.com/ ... 16:26:02medical tests on a man being held in custody showed he is not former president Saddam Hussein's deputy, Izzat Ibrahim al-Douriseattlepi.nwsource.com/ ... 16:23:51 An Israeli spy satellite plunged into the Mediterranean Sea shortly after launch Monday, dealing a severe blow to Israel's attempts to closely monitor potential enemies, particularly Iran. ... boosters for the Ofek-6 satellite failed
Violencecnn.com/ ... 21:26:18 Israeli helicopters fired four rockets at a camp in Gaza City where they believed Palestinian militants were training, killing at least 15 people, Palestinian medical sources told CNNreuters.com/ ... 21:26:01 Israeli tanks, helicopters and warplanes pounded a Hamas training camp on Tuesday, killing 13 militants in the deadliest strike in Gaza for nearly four months, as Israel struck back after a double suicide bombing.news.bbc.co.uk/ ... 21:23:58At least 13 people have been killed and 20 wounded in a series of explosions in Gaza City, Palestinian sources say.reuters.com/ ... 16:30:28A series of explosions were heard in Gaza City early on Tuesday as Israeli helicopter gunships roared overheadboston.com/ ... 16:22:45A suicide attacker sped up to a U.S. military convoy outside Fallujah and detonated an explosives-packed vehicle on Monday, killing seven Marines and three Iraqi soldiers, U.S. military officials said. It was the deadliest day for American forces in four months.news.bbc.co.uk/ ... 03:19:12Confusion reigns over the identity of the group who seized the school in North Ossetia, taking hostage more than 1,000 children and their parents and teachers.washingtonpost.com/ ... 03:17:35Russia Admits It Lied On Crisiskansas.com/ ... 03:17:16Iraq officials mistaken on capture of fugitivefoxnews.com/ ... 03:16:21A mortar attack Sunday killed two U.S. soldiers and left 16 wounded — one critically — at a base west of the Iraqi capital. ...mortar barrage slammed into Logistical Base Seitz, on Baghdad's western outskirts, around 6 p.m. local time. Eight of the injured were evacuated by air to the Army's 31st Combat Support Hospital in Baghdad, where the two later died of their wounds...news.bbc.co.uk/ ... 03:14:26A man said to have been a hostage-taker in the bloody school siege in the southern Russian town of Beslan has been shown on state television.
SUN 2004-SEP-05
US Election 2004worldnetdaily.com/ ... 23:24:33John Kerry's biographer today called on the presidential candidate to release his military records and warned a Navy investigation into his medals could prove to be the "death knell" of his campaign.
Energyap.tbo.com/ ... 20:00:19Efficient Home Produces as Much Energy as It Uses
Extraterrestrialap.tbo.com/ ... 19:59:17In a harrowing feat high over the Utah desert Wednesday, two helicopter stunt pilots will try to snatch a floating space capsule that holds "a piece of the sun" and bring it safely down.
Only Naturalnews.com.au/ ... 23:48:14BANGKOK transport officials have posted notices on some of the city's buses urging young passengers not to fornicate while riding in the vehicles... Cloth curtains on bus windows along that route have been removed because some lovers were using them to cover themselves,apnews.myway.com/ ... 23:30:43submerging entire roadways and tearing off rooftops before weakening to a tropical storm and crawling inland with heavy rain. More than 5 million people lost power, and three people were killed.news.xinhuanet.com/ ... 20:04:07New research suggests people who are prone to kidney stones should limit their caffeine intake.ap.tbo.com/ ... 19:58:31Cuban transvestites say police have come to their homes lately to warn them to dress "in a corresponding manner."... Mariela Castro Espin, an internationally renowned sexologist who happens to be the niece of President Fidel Castro, wants Cuba's National Revolutionary Police to undergo gender-sensitivity training....news.bbc.co.uk/ ... 19:57:47A powerful typhoon is raging through Japan's southern extremities... At least 12 people were injured... Meanwhile, two earthquakes off the west coast were felt in Tokyo and sent tremors through other major cities... Coastal areas ...were ordered evacuated amid reports of tidal waves approaching... authorities appeared more concerned about Typhoon Songda, which has left 8,000 households on the island of Okinawa without electricity, and led to the cancellation of more than 200 flights....news.bbc.co.uk/ ... 19:56:10Landslides and flash floods triggered by torrential rains in south-western China have killed 19 people and left at least 21 missing... 40 people had been injured... farms and reservoirs have been destroyed, and transport paralysed. More heavy rain is forecast over the next few days... In Quxian county, more than 250mm (10in) of rain fell in 24 hours to Saturday, killing six people, injuring 37 and causing 156 million Yuan ($19m) in damage...news.bbc.co.uk/ ... 19:55:08Hurricane tears through Florida... sustained winds of 90mph (144km/h) and up to 12in (30cm) of rain is expected throughout the day. A wind gust of 124mph (200km/h) was measured at Port Canaveral, near Cape Canaveral.ap.tbo.com/ ... 19:54:02Vignettes Along the Path of Hurricane Francesnews.xinhuanet.com/ ... 19:53:44Chinese cheesecake, just for fun: "New Silk Road" beauties' swimsuit shownews.bbc.co.uk/ ... 00:59:28New research suggests that buying organic food can make people feel better, even before they eat any of it.
Preternatural Patternscbsnews.com/ ... 00:58:31nearly 4,000 teenagers, ages 18 and younger, underwent breast augmentation last year, more than a 24 percent increase from the year before
Human Rightmemri.org/ ... 23:42:57"WOMEN'S MAGAZINE??" -- new online magazine Al-Khansaa is published by Al Qa'ida's Arabian Peninsula Women's Information Bureau. The first issue features articles calling on women to participate in Jihad, along with an article criticizing women in Saudi television
US Military Casualtiesdefenselink.mil/ ... 23:23:00[flag]Marine Lance Cpl. Nicholas Wilt, 23, of Tampa, Fla, died Sept 3 due to enemy action in Al Anbar Province, Iraqdefenselink.mil/ ... 23:22:37[flag]Marine 1st Lieutenant Ronald Winchester, 25, of Rockville Center, N.Y., died Sept 3 due to enemy action in Al Anbar Province, Iraq. defenselink.mil/ ... 23:21:00[flag]Marine Lance Cpl. Nicholas Perez, 19, of Austin, Texas
[flag]Marine Capt. Alan Rowe, 35, of Hagerman, Idaho
died Sept 3 due to enemy action in Al Anbar Province, Iraq
Threatstelegraph.co.uk/ ... 20:07:47An extremist Islamic cleric based in Britain said yesterday that he would support hostage-taking at British schools if carried out by terrorists with a just cause.
Violencedailystar.com.lb/ ... 20:06:56Iraqi and U.S. forces arrested a man believed to be the most wanted Saddam Hussein aide still on the run ...Izzat Ibrahim al-Douri... directly involved in organizing and funding attacks on U.S. forces since Saddam's ouster last year... held a senior post on a government committee in charge of northern Iraq when chemical weapons were used against the town of Halabja in 1988, killing thousands of Kurds ...[captured] in a bloody raid in which 70 of his supporters were killed and 80 were captured... Arabs from outside Iraq had been among the people protecting the man...
U.S. troops battled rebels in the northern town of Tall Afar for a second day Sunday as Iraqi and U.S. forces arrested 500 suspected militants in the heartland of the Sunni insurgency...news.bbc.co.uk/ ... 20:02:39US troops fought rebels in northern Iraq for a second day on Sunday...
Iraqi forces said they had captured 500 suspected militants further south...
Reports that Saddam Hussein's top aide Izzat Ibrahim al-Douri is in custody in Iraq are unproved...
militant group ...calls for a religious ruling on whether hostage-taking is permitted...
roadside bomb explodes in central Baghdad... no reports of injuries...
roadside bomb hits a US convoy north of Baghdad. ..US soldier and two Iraqi civilians ..wounded...
body of an Egyptian hostage ..found north of Tikrit...news.bbc.co.uk/ ... 20:00:46Three Saudi security personnel have been killed while chasing suspected militantsap.tbo.com/ ... 19:59:47BAGHDAD, Iraq (AP) - An explosion boomed across the Iraqi capital Sunday.AP-ES-09-05-04 1313EDT
SAT 2004-SEP-04
World Peacenews.bbc.co.uk/ ... 21:53:34The world's youngest country
Digital Consequencessacbee.com/ ... 21:51:32A 32-year-old man has been charged with stalking for allegedly attaching a cell phone and global positioning system to his ex-girlfriend's car to track her whereabouts
US Election 2004globegazette.com/ ... 21:50:23MASON CITY — Teresa Heinz Kerry was taken to a hospital here late Saturday after complaining of an upset stomach
Extraterrestrialindystar.com/ ... 21:48:42Hey, kids -- be the first on your block to decode a secret message to Mars and win a toy Lego model!
Human Rightapnews.myway.com/ ... 21:51:04Pope John Paul II kept up his campaign against gay marriage Saturday, telling the ambassador from Canada - where some provinces allow same-sex couples to wed - that such unions create a "false understanding" of marriage.
Aftermathnews.bbc.co.uk/ ... 21:54:02The children involved in the Russian school siege have gone through a life-changing experience which could have long-term effects on their mental health, say psychologists.chinapost.com.tw/ ... 16:47:21Arab leaders, Muslim clerics and ordinary parents across the Middle East denounced the school siege that left more than 340 people dead, many of them children, as unjustifiable. Some warned such actions damage Islam's image more than all its enemies could hope. Even some supporters of Islamic militancy condemned it, though at least one insisted Muslims were not behind it.
Violencewashingtonpost.com/ ... 21:50:40About 1,100 U.S. soldiers and Marines were wounded in Iraq during August, by far the highest combat injury toll for any month since the war began and an indication of the intensity of battles flaring in urban areas.reuters.com/ ... 16:13:47"What they say on television is a lie. There could be 600 dead."reuters.com/ ... 16:13:19A suicide bomber detonated his vehicle near a police academy in the city of Kirkuk on Saturday, killing at least 17 people and wounding 36reuters.com/ ... 16:13:06A total of 26 militants, 10 of them Arabs.... All had been killed.reuters.com/ ... 16:11:55The Kremlin leader, speaking after a week of calamities linked to Chechen separatists, pledged to restore control over the North Caucasus, the part of southern Russia which includes the turbulent region of Chechnya. But Putin, who rejects any notion of talks with separatists, made no direct reference to Chechnya in his 10-minute address.news.bbc.co.uk/ ... 15:21:37Work to clear the school... has been slowed by the presence of mines ... 322 [bodies] had been recovered so far, of which 155 were children... "I've been to the morgue to look for him... There were so many bodies - so many small children. I saw one woman sitting there stroking the heads of two children, she didn't even have the strength left to cry."timesdaily.com/ ... 02:28:34A 14-year-old girl who was held hostage for more than 20 hours by a fugitive ex-convict was released Friday night, but her abductor's standoff with police continued.
Threatsapnews.myway.com/ ... 21:49:29"If [Osama bin Laden] has a watch, he should be looking at it because the clock is ticking. He will be caught," Joseph Cofer Black, the U.S. State Department coordinator for counterterrorism, told private Geo television network.memri.org/ ... 21:45:07The London daily Al-Sharq Al-Awsat reported that the extremist Islamic movement Al-Muhajiroun had announced a convention in London, titled "The Choice is in Your Hands: Either You're with the Muslims or with the Infidels," to mark the third anniversary of the September 11 attacks.reuters.com/ ... 14:42:37Los Angeles International Airport was shut down for more than four hours on Saturday after a reported security breach but federal officials said no terrorism was suspected.... A separate incident at the airport's international terminal involved a flashlight in a bag that blew up a screener's hand....news.bbc.co.uk/ ... 01:51:18A South African businessman "...was arrested on charges that he was building a nuclear weapon...."
FRI 2004-SEP-03
US Election 2004homepage.mac.com/ ... 23:11:28MP3 audio clip of Bush wishing Clinton a speedy recovery and the crowd's reactionboston.com/ ... 18:01:54President Bush on Friday wished Bill Clinton ''best wishes for a swift and speedy recovery.'' ''He's is in our thoughts and prayers,'' Bush said at a campaign rally. Bush's audience of thousands in West Allis, Wis., booed. Bush did nothing to stop them.
Transportexaminer-enterprise.com/ ... 14:21:29Oklahoma will join the "You Drink and Drive You Lose" national crackdown on impaired driving from until Sept. 12, event coordinators said this week. ... "The effects of alcohol can slip up on any driver all too quickly," said Georgia S. Chakiris, regional administrator of the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration. "During this national crackdown, impaired drivers are likely to take a detour to an unpopular travel destination -- jail. If you are going to drink, plan ahead. Pass the keys, jail is not a good place to be." ... in 2002, 34 percent of the state's crash fatalities were alcohol related. ... alcohol-involved crashes resulted in an estimated $50.9 billion in economic costs for the nation in 2000....
Only Naturalguardian.co.uk/ ... 20:46:121,000 miles wide... winds of more than 120mph... up to 15 million people could be in its path.reuters.com/ ... 12:45:18Some 30 brown bears have been terrorizing a Transylvanian mountain village and could delay the start of the school year
US Military Casualtiesdefenselink.mil/ ... 23:20:58[flag]Army Spc. Joseph C. Thibodeaux, 24, of Lafayette, La., died Sept. 1 in Hawijah, Iraq, when his patrol came under enemy attack.
Violencecsmonitor.com/ ... 23:20:12Russian school siege: A survivor's tale -- what happened during the 53-hour ordealap.tbo.com/ ... 20:49:33Chechen Rebels Seek Independent Muslim State Ruled by Sharia Law -- brief history of Chechen rebellionnytimes.com/ ... 20:46:38 An unusual quiet continued Friday for the second straight day in Iraq, with American forces and insurgents apparently taking a pause after months of heavy combat. ... In northern Iraq, guerrillas blew up an oil pipelineap.tbo.com/ ... 18:13:14Chechen Warlord Accused in School Takeover Has Long History of Dramatic, Bloody Hostage-Takingsap.tbo.com/ ... 18:11:48World Leaders Voice Horror, Condemnation at Bloodshed at Russian Schoolap.tbo.com/ ... 18:10:09Early Saturday, 531 people remained hospitalized, including 283 children - 92 of the youngsters in "very grave" conditionreuters.com/ ... 18:09:01more than 137,000 U.S. troops and 23,000 allied foreign soldiers remain in Iraqreuters.com/ ... 18:08:27more than 200 people -- dozens of them children -- were killed and hundreds were wounded... a 53-hour ordeal... news.bbc.co.uk/ ... 18:06:33Fighting around the school has now subsided and most hostage-takers have been captured or killed, though reports say four are still at large.... Some blasts are still being heard around the school, believed to be controlled explosions by sappers clearing mines and trip-wires planted by hostage-takers in the school.apnews.myway.com/ ... 18:04:24A sobbing young girl who escaped the school told NTV that a suicide bomber blew herself up in the gym where children were kept captive.... 10 hours of gunfight... Ninety-five victims were identified - many of them children whose shattered, bloodied bodies were placed on lines of stretchers ...more than 200 people were killed by fire from the militants or died from their wounds.... More than 700 others were injured...itar-tass.com/ ... 14:41:23“The operative staff [in charge of liquidating the hostage crisis – Itar-Tass] cannot rule out yet that there are no hostages in that part of the building... Fighters from the FSB’s center of special task forces have engaged the remaining terrorists in a combat action and are doing everything in their power to free the children, who have survived the crisis...” "...There is information that “Abu Omar As-Seif, a Wahhabi ideologist, sponsored the hostage crisis in Beslan.” He is a representative of Al Qaeda in Chechnya in charge of distribution of foreign donations to terrorists. presstrust.com/ ... 14:38:44Naked and screaming children ran for safety amid machine-gun fire and explosions while attack helicopters clattered overhead. Rebels fled with soldiers in pursuit.breaking.examiner.ie/ ... 14:37:46Ninety-five bodies have been identified, but one official said the death toll could far exceed 150. Hundreds escaped the school, but the bodies of some 100 dead hostages lay on the gymnasium floor... commandos stormed the building after bombs – hung in basketball hoops by the hostage-takers – exploded. A hostage who escaped the school told NTV that a suicide bomber blew herself up in the gym where children were kept captive.... crisis headquarters said 95 victims had been identified, and Andreyev said 556 people were hospitalised, including 332 children, while Emergency Situations Ministry officials put the number of hospitalised at 646, 227 of them children.civil.ge/ ... 14:35:31“We were shocked to learn the latest developments in North Ossetia. We have even ceased the cabinet session. Georgia is ready to assist Russia with everything we can. We have already sent there [North Ossetia] ambulance cars,” Prime Minister Zurab Zhvania told reporters in Batumi, where the Georgian cabinet was holding session.voanews.com/ ... 14:34:38about 13 militants escaped, pursued by soldiers. Gunfire is also reported near a railway station and a house where the gunmen are believed to have taken shelter. Helicopters are hovering overhead.canada.com/ ... 14:31:57Aslakhanov also told the Interfax news agency that the death toll might be "much more" than 150 and that militants may initially have seized 1,200 hostages, most of the children - far more than earlier estimates of 350.voanews.com/ ... 12:47:31Saudi security forces have killed a wanted militant near the scene of a deadly shootout Thursday. Officials say the militant was killed in a gunbattle Friday in the northern town of Buraida, hours after one security officer died and three others were wounded in a clash there.ap.tbo.com/ ... 12:46:38OXFORD, Ala. (AP) - A fugitive killed a couple working at a convenience store, then kidnapped the woman's 14-year-old daughter and was holding her hostage Friday at a motel,news.bbc.co.uk/ ... 12:39:24In pictures: Russian school battleap.tbo.com/ ... 12:39:11Hours after the midday assault, three of the separatist rebels were reportedly still blockaded in a school basement, trading fire with security forces... still holding hostages - children among them... large explosion erupted from inside toward nightfall... A member of an elite security unit died saving two young girls... chaotic climax to the hostage standoff began when explosions collapsed part of the school roof and gunfire erupted from inside the building... dozens of bodies in the school, including about 100 in the gym, and that some were killed when the building's roof collapsed....albawaba.com/ ... 12:33:11An estimated 520 people were wounded... at least 218 children... Ten genmen were killed in the violence, including nine Arabsreuters.co.uk/ ... 12:31:52 A hundred or more people were killed after Russian troops stormed a school in a chaotic battle to free children, parents and teachers... hostage-takers who opened fire on fleeing children... Machinegun fire and explosions boomed out and helicopters clattered overhead as naked children ran for safety, screaming... Rebels fled with soldiers in pursuit... "I smashed the window to get out," one boy with a bandaged hand told Russian television. "People were running in all directions ... They (the rebels) were shooting from the roof."
THU 2004-SEP-02
US Election 2004dailyherald.com/ ... 17:01:53KEYES CONTINUES TO HELP OPPONENT BY OPENING HIS MOUTH: "... it’s just objectively the case, that in a homosexual relationship, there is nothing implied except the self-fulfillment, contentment and satisfaction of the parties involved in the relationship. That means that it is a self-centered, self-fulfilling, selfish relationship that seeks to use the organs intended for procreation for purposes of pleasure..."memri.org/ ... 16:50:19Ahmad Al-Jarallah, editor of the Kuwaiti Daily Al-Siyassa and the Arab Times wrote an article in support of President Bush.
Extraterrestrialnews.scotsman.com/ ... 17:00:12a group of scientists believe they have received a message from extra-terrestrials... possible alien communication has a frequency of about 1420 megahertz - one of the main frequencies at which hydrogen... appears to be emanating from a point between the constellations of Pisces and Aries, where there is no obvious star or planetary system within 1,000 light years, and the transmission is also very faint.,,,reuters.com/ ... 14:20:45 Writing, rather than phoning, is probably the best way to contact extraterrestrials
Preternatural Patternsnews.ninemsn.com.au/ ... 17:02:27 It was supposed to be Ireland's first floating church, a vessel for spreading the unique appeal of Ireland's faith-healing Tridentine Catholic bishop, Michael Cox. But Cox's 26-metre ship, a Swedish-built trawler called The Patriarch, burst into flames Wednesday, then exploded and sank minutes after a rescue helicopter winched its three crew members to safety.reuters.com/ ... 14:19:44A Bali bomber serving a life term for his role in the nightclub blasts that killed 202 people was treated by police to an outing at an up-market shopping mall in the Indonesian capital... spotted Wednesday sipping coffee at a Starbucksreuters.com/ ... 14:17:54...laptop ...stolen from a computer shop ...a salesman stumbled and broke his arm while chasing the bandit in the western town of Koblenz Thursday... "I'm sorry," the thief said as he handed the laptop back to the clerk
Only Naturalreuters.com/ ... 14:21:39Sri Lanka has closed its biggest wildlife reserve because a severe drought has dried up watering holes and left wild elephants thirsty, angry and ready to chargereuters.com/ ... 14:21:19A massive search is underway at Fort Polk military base in western Louisiana for a Bengal tiger running loose in the base's pine-covered hills... wearing a collar. How it got on the base is a mysterywoai.com/ ... 14:13:08Austin police believe a six-month-old girl survived as long as five days alone near the body of her dead father.nytimes.com/ ... 14:11:41More than a million people were ordered to evacuate today... east coast of Florida as Frances, a hurricane more than twice the size of one that battered the state less than a month ago
Transportap.tbo.com/ ... 14:04:25DRY RIDGE, Ky - A couple were killed and their two young children injured when a train struck their carap.tbo.com/ ... 14:02:50The $650 million Las Vegas Monorail was shut down Wednesday after a mechanical problem caused a wheel to come off one of the cars
US Military Casualtiesdefenselink.mil/ ... 16:20:12[flag]Marine Pfc. Nicholas M. Skinner, 20, of Davenport, Iowa, died Aug. 26 from injuries received due to enemy action in An Najaf, Iraq
[flag]Marine Lance Cpl. Nickalous N. Aldrich, 21, of Austin, Texas, died Aug. 27 from a non-hostile vehicle accident in Al Anbar Province, Iraq
[flag]Marine Sgt. Edgar E. Lopez, 27, of Los Angeles, Calif., died Aug. 28 due to enemy action in Babil Province, Iraqdefenselink.mil/ ... 16:13:12[flag]Army Staff Sgt. Aaron N. Holleyman, 26, of Glasgow, Mont., died Aug 30 in Khutayiah, Iraq, when his military vehicle hit an improvised explosive device.
Human Rightchron.com/ ... 17:06:16Texas officials rescinded the ban on birthday baked goods last week after concluding such treats are a time-honored tradition.timesofindia.indiatimes.com/ ... 17:05:01PATNA: A 16-year-old girl who became pregnant after being repeatedly sexually abused by her elder brother was killed by her parents in Bihar to protect their "honour", police said.reuters.com/ ... 14:22:54A radio station that tested the bounds of Singapore's censorship laws, and lost, has been fined S$30,000 ($17,500) after its disc jockeys made sexually suggestive on-air comments about pornography and women's panties.news.bbc.co.uk/ ... 14:16:28The high court in the Indian capital Delhi has dismissed a legal petition that sought to legalise homosexuality. The petition challenged laws which deem homosexual acts to be "unnatural criminal behaviour".
Violencenews.bbc.co.uk/ ... 14:15:44Hostage-takers have freed 32 women and infants from a school in south Russia, but they are still holding more than 300 people, among them many children.... breakthrough came after mediation efforts by the former president of the neighbouring region of Ingushetia... 12 civilians had been killed since the siege began
WED 2004-SEP-01
Whoopsreuters.com/ ... 16:21:21Greensburg, Pennsylvania ...store clerk... was happy to accept the $200 bill as payment -- and even make change. ... The bill did carry a picture of President Bush....
Only Naturalreuters.com/ ... 16:24:56Hungarian authorities have destroyed 60 tons of imported paprika... Hungarians consume 6,000 tons annually of the spice, which was introduced by Turkish invaders in the 16th century. ... Hungary itself produces just 10 percent of the world's paprika.reuters.com/ ... 16:22:37"With the development of information technology and the media industry, people in China, including students, are exposed to news and information on love at an unprecedented rate," Xinhua said, without mentioning Internet pornography. "In Chinese society, however, love, both spiritual and physical, remains a traditional taboo and a topic seldom touched on in the Chinese curriculum, though it is a factor widely believed to divert students' attention from study."ap.tbo.com/ ... 12:21:37Richmond Va - Giant sections were taken out of roads where the earth had given way to rushing water beneath the concrete. An intersection disappeared into a 30-foot sinkhole, with cars, twisted pieces of fencing and part of a front yard lying at the bottom. Six people were dead, while others were left carless, homeless and jobless. ... Tropical Storm Gaston...
Future is Nowreuters.com/ ... 12:19:51A $200 upgrade can turn a personal computer into a "starter" high-definition television. ...With the possible exception of college students and people living in cramped apartments, few households have any interest in watching television on a computer monitor [People unclear on the future]
Preternatural Patternsap.tbo.com/ ... 12:17:44The statue of Copper John, a continental soldier that sits atop [NY's] Auburn Correctional Facility, was removed earlier this summer for renovation. ...The beloved figure is set to return to his perch this fall, albeit a lesser man. ...Workers sprucing up the 156-year-old statue were told to reduce the size of Copper John's crotch.
Digital Consequencesnews.com.com/ ... 12:14:31With its new iMac G5... Apple has missed the opportunity to stay way ahead of its PC manufacturing competitors by not including Wi-Fi as standard and by failing to catch the early-adopter personal video recorder wave by including a TV tuner card.
US Election 2004drudgereport.com/ ... 01:51:13Alan Keyes, the Republican candidate for a vacant U.S. Senate seat in Illinois, said Tuesday that Vice President Dick Cheney's daughter Mary is a "selfish hedonist" because she is a lesbian.
Reasons for Repealthereporter.com/ ... 16:49:38Thick plumes of smoke and the sickly sweet odor of marijuana danced over rural Vacaville Tuesday as authorities ignited several thousand pounds of pot eradicated during the past several days from the Gates Canyon area. About 4,500 mature budded plants worth an estimated $23 million [OUTRAGEOUS!! INFLATED PROHIBITIONIST B.S. B.S. B.S.!!]thedenverchannel.com/ ... 16:48:21A man who told police that he was trying to buy marijuana said that he was robbed at knifepoint during the alleged deal. jointogether.org/ ... 16:47:58The U.S. attorney in Colorado has agreed to return marijuana-growing equipment to an Aurora man who uses the drug to relieve his chronic pain, the Rocky Mountain News reported Aug. 27. [SMALL VICTORY!] However, although the federal government agreed not to prosecute Dana May, federal authorities will keep the marijuana seized by the Drug Enforcement Administration and Aurora police in May. [OUTRAGEOUS!!] metnews.com/ ... 16:47:16An Orange County man’s conviction for possessing marijuana was thrown out yesterday by an appellate panel that held his right to a “compassionate use” defense under Proposition 215 had been violated. [SMALL VICTORY!!]kvoa.com/ ... 16:45:52Lake Havasu City police have busted a marijuana-growing operation. Police found a sophisticated hydroponics system for growing marijuana in the bedroom... 25 marijuana plants, along with four large garbage bags containing harvested "pot." [QUOTE POT QUOTE!! OUTRAGEOUS!!] ...Officers said they detected an odor of marijuana in the home, plus they spotted drug paraphernalia. ...cbc.ca/ ... 16:44:30VANCOUVER - The owner of a café in Vancouver that openly sells marijuana is taking her story to the media, in the hopes that police and city officials will let her stay in business.news.bbc.co.uk/ ... 16:43:34The man behind Scotland's first cannabis cafe has pleaded guilty to a charge of permitting the drug to be smoked on his premises.projo.com/ ... 16:43:23A Middletown police officer was formally charged last week with stealing confiscated marijuana from the police stationwebindia123.com/ ... 16:43:06Kasba Area ,Tripura ... Border Security Force ...seized a huge quantity of marijuana from Kasba Area, in Tripura, today.... Rs 1.5 million worth Bangladesh-bound marijuana could fetch the double in international market. "This is ganja (marijuana) which was to be smuggled to Bangladesh from India. We nabbed this on a tip off from our sources. It weighs around 300 kilograms...." [OUTRAGEOUS!!] ... Marijuana is widely grown in areas bordering neighbouring Bangladesh.qctimes.com/ ... 16:40:41Des Moines Police found 314 pounds of marijuana in a semitrailer truck stopped on Interstate 80 in West Des Moines. ... "We believe it's an organization,'' said Police Lt. Tom Trimble. ``We hope to reach much higher.'' ... street value of more than $800,000. [OUTRAGEOUS!!]tryondailybulletin.com/ ... 16:38:26Nearly 300 “very mature” marijuana plants were found in a field recently near the Little Mountain and Golf Course Road area just outside Columbus,.. second seizure of large marijuana plants in the Little Mountain area recently. Just a few weeks ago, the sheriff’s office seized 47 marijuana plants...dallasnews.com/ ... 16:37:40LORENZO, Texas – A second-grade teacher in this small West Texas town has been arrested on charges alleging she had 21 marijuana plants growing in her back yard.... faces two years in state jail. [OUTRAGEOUS!!]sfgate.com/ ... 16:36:45Nevada... marijuana petition had 49,412 names ...needed a minimum of 51,227....
Aftermathap.tbo.com/ ... 19:54:12 A man accused in a Midwestern mailbox bombing spree is delusional and should not be freed because he's too great a risk to society, a government psychologist testified Wednesday.ap.tbo.com/ ... 12:20:48 A man charged in a series of highway shootings in Ohio, including one that killed a woman, is changing his plea to innocent by reason of insanityabcnews.go.com/ ... 12:11:26Israel holds Syria responsible for a double suicide bombing that killed 16 people
Violenceap.tbo.com/ ... 19:54:30 A U.S. airstrike on the city of Fallujah late Wednesday targeted a reputed safehouse used by followers of Jordanian militant Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, U.S. officials said. The attack killed nine civilians, including three childrennola.com/ ... 16:19:01Russia called for an emergency meeting of the U.N. Security Council Wednesday on the hostage-taking at a school in a region bordering Chechnya.ap.tbo.com/ ... 12:13:53Hundreds of shoppers drawn by a discount offer rushed into an IKEA branch in western Saudi Arabia on Wednesday, causing a stampede that killed three and injured 17,reuters.com/ ... 12:13:29Police on Wednesday arrested a man in connection with last week's pipe bomb explosion at a Boston-area laboratory specializing in stem-cell research... had already been charged last year with trying to blow up the same building.news.bbc.co.uk/ ... 12:12:33Nepal's prime minister has appealed for calm following violent protests in the capital against the killing of 12 Nepalese hostages in Iraq.voanews.com/ ... 12:12:19Seven truck drivers held hostage in Iraq have been released after six weeks in captivity. The militant group that held the men, who are from India, Kenya, and Egypt, had successfully forced their Kuwaiti employer to withdraw from Iraq in exchange for the hostages' freedom.news.bbc.co.uk/ ... 12:10:52Pupils have reportedly been lined up against the windows to prevent an assault by security services... "Every gunshot I hear is like a shot in my heart," one woman whose child was inside the school told Reuters... "They have said that for every fighter wiped out they will kill 50 children and for every fighter wounded, 20,"turkishpress.com/ ... 12:09:08"A war has been declared on us, where the foe is invisible and where there is no frontline," Russian Defence Minister Sergei Ivanov declared on national television.... At least 17 masked, armed individuals including women burst into the courtyard of the school early Wednesday on the first day of the new academic year and threatened to blow the building up if troops stormed it... threatened to kill 50 people for every abductor killed... warned they would blow the building... Nine adults have died so far... two in the morning raid and seven afterwards in hospital. A hostage-taker was also among the dead. ...www2.chinadaily.com.cn/ ... 12:05:08 Gunmen with explosives strapped around their waists took up to 240 people hostage at a school in southern Russia near war-torn Chechnya... Eleven people, mainly parents of the children, were wounded by fire from the school building... at least three civilians were killed... have demanded [aw, does it really matter what these murderous monsters demand?].... Up to 50 children managed to escape... had apparently hidden when the attackers stormed the school... started leaving in small groups when shooting died down...reuters.co.uk/ ... 01:50:23BAGHDAD - Gunmen have opened fire on Iraqi politician Ahmad Chalabi's convoy, wounding two associatesreuters.com/ ... 01:49:28The Israeli army on Wednesday destroyed the West Bank home of one of two Palestinian suicide bombers
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