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THU 2005-MAR-31
Viet Nam War - still with usdrudgereport.com/ ... 21:58:37Jane Fonda has no regrets about her trip to North Vietnam in 1972 - with one big exception: her visit to a North Vietnamese anti-aircraft gun site used to shoot down U.S. pilots. She says her appearance there, which earned her the epithet "Hanoi Jane," was a "betrayal" of the U.S. military, its soldiers and "the country that gave me privilege...."
Lasting Contributionssfgate.com/ ... 21:53:50Fred Korematsu, who became a symbol of civil rights for challenging the World War II internment orders that sent 120,000 Japanese Americans to government camps, has died. He was 86.... After finally getting his conviction overturned in the early 1980s for opposing internment orders during the war, Korematsu helped win a national apology and reparations for internment camp survivors and their families in 1988....
Sex -- always attractivereuters.com/ ... 10:04:53A Swedish bikini-style top for toddlers will be withdrawn from sale amid criticism from a Norwegian cabinet minister that bra-like clothing was inappropriate for small girls...
Whoops!chron.com/ ... 13:51:12A Houston police officer got a lesson in electrical conductivity Tuesday night when he was shocked by a Taser dart fired into a suspect he was trying to handcuff.reuters.com/ ... 10:02:33U.S. intelligence on Iraq was "dead wrong" in almost all cases before the Iraq war and flaws are still all too common throughout an American spy community that requires a major overhaul, a presidential commission reported on Thursday.apnews.myway.com/ ... 10:00:13A woman rushing to a hospital to give birth... 3- and 4-year-old daughters were asleep in the back seat... hit a few stops along the way - first at a gas station where she delivered the baby herself, then when confused police ordered her out of the car at gunpoint.....
Digital Consequencesnews.bbc.co.uk/ ... 09:56:59...The brain chip reads his mind and sends the thoughts to a computer to decipher... He can think his TV on and off, change channels and alter the volume thanks to the technology and software linked to devices in his home....guardian.co.uk/ ... 09:56:20...the first person to have controlled an artificial limb using a device chronically implanted into his brain... The experiment took place a few months ago... aficionados of the technology see a world where brain implants return ability to those with disability, allowing them to control all manner of devices by thought alone...
Currentcnn.worldnews.printthis.clickability.com/ ... 21:57:39Pope John Paul II's condition remained "serious" early Friday, but he appeared to be responding well to antibiotic treatment for a urinary tract infection that caused him to develop a feverworldnetdaily.com/ ... 13:44:15The Schindlers had pleaded with son-in-law Michael Schiavo to allow them to be with their daughter in her final hours, but according to family spokesmen, they were not present when she died.bloomberg.com/ ... 09:51:24Terri Schiavo... died this morning....
US Militarydefenselink.mil/ ... 13:51:52This week, the Marine Corps announced an increase, while the Army, Air Force, Navy, and Coast Guard had a decrease in the number of reservists on active duty in support of the partial mobilization. The net collective result is 5,195 fewer reservists mobilized than last week.
Only Naturalnews.xinhuanet.com/ ... 21:55:35...dandruff, skin flakes, fur and pollen account for 20 percent to 25 percent on average of air pollutants known as aerosols, justifyingthem to be a serious factor in climate modeling...alertnet.org/ ... 21:55:11A great white shark in captivity for a record six months was released into the Pacific Ocean on Thursday after it attacked and killed two smaller sharks in its tank at the Monterey Bay Aquarium.
Ummm.... we're STOCKING the oceans with sharks now?telegraph.co.uk/ ... 13:48:29British schoolteacher recalls how he escaped the jaws of a Great White shark by punching and kicking at the four metre-long beast.ap.tbo.com/ ... 10:08:18...Colorado... No one was injured when an avalanche came cascading down on Red Mountain Pass... foot of snow fell on Rabbit Ears Pass... Steamboat Springs... reporting 9 inches of snow in the past 24 hours... Up to a foot of snow fell in Utah's mountains and 10 inches in the Salt Lake City area...
hail and tornadoes in the Midwest... No major damage... dairy farmer in Wisconsin.. said the storm leveled two of his buildings and damaged six others - including the barn he and others were in when the roof was torn away... "You just look around and go, 'Wow....'"reuters.com/ ... 10:05:18...five jockeys were hurt when a flock of seagulls flew into the path of their horses...
US Military Casualtiesdefenselink.mil/ ... 13:54:47Remains of Robert C. Snoddy of Roseburg, Ore., co-pilot of an aircraft shot down in China during the Cold War have been identified and will soon be returned to his family.defenselink.mil/ ... 13:52:17[flag]Army Pfc. Samuel S. Lee, 19, of Anaheim, Calif., died March 28 in Ar Ramadi, Iraq, from non-combat related injuries.apnews.myway.com/ ... 09:53:47A military court on Thursday found a U.S. Army tank company commander guilty of charges related to the shooting death of a wounded Iraqi last year... [He] maintained that the man was gravely wounded and that he shot him to end his suffering...
Peace 3000english.aljazeera.net/ ... 21:59:07Israel suddenly has two Arab heroes. In a country where Jewish-Arab alienation runs deep, a pair of critical goals in World Cup soccer have created an instant connection across the divide.
Threatssignonsandiego.com/ ... 13:50:11Four Iraqis were detained at an airport in the border city of Mexicali for allegedly carrying false passports, and two more were caught at a highway checkpoint... none of the men appear on terrorist watch lists.... not clear whether the Iraqis were linked to the Chaldean Christians, who have a sizable community in Southern California and frequently try to enter the United States through Mexico, claiming they face persecution in Iraq.worldnetdaily.com/ ... 13:46:10Abu Musab al-Zarqawi... is said to be planning a chemical-weapons attack on the European continent....ap.tbo.com/ ... 10:09:17"Al-Qaida's biological program was further along, particularly with regard to Agent X, than pre-war intelligence indicated..."reuters.com/ ... 10:03:27Iran allocated $2.5 billion to obtain three nuclear warheads last year, an exiled opposition group said Thursday
Violencedailyherald.com/ ... 13:47:02A second woman has filed a lawsuit against Delnor-Community Hospital claiming a former psychologist there subjected her to witchcraft under the guise of therapy.ap.tbo.com/ ... 10:08:38A suicide bomber blew up his car Thursday south of Kirkuk, killing two Iraqi army soldiers and three bystanders, and a second car bomber attacked a joint U.S.-Iraqi patrol in the center of Samarra, killing three people and injuring more than a dozen others....reuters.com/ ... 10:03:04A video showing three Romanian journalists and their American translator held at gunpoint in Iraq shed little light on the identity and demands of their kidnappers
WED 2005-MAR-30
Preternatural Patternsnbc10.com/ ... 20:14:49Police are looking for two women who stole a "plastinated" 13-week old fetus from the Body Worlds 2 exhibit in Los Angeles.
Supernaturalreuters.com/ ... 16:12:59...Rabbi Menachem Youlus runs a worldwide effort to rescue sacred Torah scrolls from oblivion. Over the past 13 years, Youlus has found and rescued 435 of the holy Jewish scrolls....
US Executive Branchwashingtonpost.com/ ... 16:10:24Three Denver residents yesterday charged that they were forcibly removed from one of President Bush's town meetings on Social Security because... they had a "No More Blood for Oil" bumper sticker on their car....
Sex can be Dangerousnews.teamamberalert.net/ ... 16:05:37A now-former Boy Scouts of America program director pled guilty Wednesday morning to child pornography charges... felony possession and distribution of child pornography....
Currentnypost.com/ ... 16:09:23NY Post: Enough. It's over. Let her die in peace. Terri Schiavo's parents have fought the good fight, and they have lost.azcentral.com/ ... 01:55:31Congress bumbled Schiavo intervention -- analysis of court decisionssuntimes.com/ ... 01:52:19A federal appeals court early Wednesday agreed to consider a petition for a new hearing on whether to reconnect Terri Schiavo's feeding tube.
Lasting Contributionsapnews.myway.com/ ... 01:37:03Johnnie L. Cochran Jr., who became a legal superstar after helping clear O.J. Simpson during a sensational murder trial in which he uttered the famous quote "If it doesn't fit, you must acquit," died Tuesday. He was 67. Cochran died of a brain tumor at his home in Los Angeles, his family said.....
Digital Consequencesreuters.com/ ... 16:13:43Sperm and eggs from couples trying for a test-tube baby could in future be barcodedcnn.netscape.cnn.com/ ... 01:35:34Los Alamos National Laboratory scientists are using... mini-X-ray fluorescence to detect chemical elements in fingerprints without altering them... to see fingerprints on surfaces that typically make them invisible... equipment costs about $175,000... What's new is the method the lab has created to see them - which includes computer software and ways of manipulating the machinery,...
Theory of Educationwashingtonpost.com/ ... 01:34:09College faculties, long assumed to be a liberal bastion, lean further to the left than even the most conspiratorial conservatives might have imagined, a new study says.
US Military Casualtiesabclocal.go.com/ ... 20:14:21Wednesday's scheduled hearing for an Army sergeant accused in a fatal grenade attack in Kuwait was postponed because he apparently tried to overpower an MP.
Only Naturalreuters.com/ ... 16:14:24Many Americans are so sleepy that they are having problems in their marriages, making mistakes at work and even going without sex....guardian.co.uk/ ... 16:09:41 almost two-thirds of the natural machinery that supports life on Earth is being degraded by human pressure.ctv.ca/ ... 16:08:42Earth has suffered irreversible damage: study... new diseases, sudden changes in water quality, creation of "dead zones" along the coasts, the collapse of fisheries, and shifts in regional climate...
Too late to fix anything now, huh? Might'z well party on, dudes....?!?sciam.com/ ... 01:51:45...stem cells taken from hair follicles... can develop into neurons....kansascity.com/ ... 01:51:01A serious bacterial ailment spread to four more victims in Central Florida on Tuesday, bringing to at least 17 the number of people suffering from the condition that can lead to kidney failure and, in rare cases, death. All 17 patients - mostly children - attended Orange County's Central Florida Fair or Plant City's Florida Strawberry Festival this month, and many had contact with petting zoos at both events.news.xinhuanet.com/ ... 01:50:38Angola was faced with the worst outbreak ever recorded of a fulminating haemorrhagic fever caused by the Marburg virus as the death toll from the Ebola-like disease climbed to 126timesonline.co.uk/ ... 01:37:54A panel headed by Professor Sir David King is recommending that Britain push for a global alarm network to reduce the potential devastation of events such as the Boxing Day tsunami, The Times has learnt. The £100 million initiative, which comes as scientists predict a third major earthquake in Indonesia, is the strongest recognition yet given by a government to the risks of natural catastrophes — including space collisions and “supervolcanic” eruptions, which occur only at intervals of tens of thousands of years....local10.com/ ... 01:36:06Hugh Graf of the Broward Sheriff's Office confirmed that the Coast Guard spotted more than 100 sharks off the beach Monday night. The sharks are swimming between the closest reef and the water's edge. Lifeguards put warning flags up at about 9 a.m. Tuesday and called all bathers out of the water.cnn.netscape.cnn.com/ ... 01:33:19Tsunami experts could not understand why Monday's forceful.. 8.7.. earthquake off Indonesia failed to produce massive waves similar to those generated by the Dec. 26 quake that killed at least 175,000 people in the same region... a small wave was detected by a tide gauge on Cocos Island near Australia, about 1,500 miles south of the epicenter...
People Diewnbc.com/ ... 16:11:49A 94-year-old grandmother... apparently was trying to un-stick a window in her apartment... standing on a stepstool... fell out of her window 10 stories to her death in the Bronx....
Violenceworldnetdaily.com/ ... 20:13:58Four armed, Muslim assailants opened fire on Christian worshippers during an Easter service in a Pakistani village, killing one and injuring six others, according to a monitor of persecution against Christians.news.com.au/ ... 20:13:06The New South Wales teenagers who robbed $171,000 from a US bank photographed themselves in a toilet cubicle with the stolen cash.reuters.com/ ... 16:13:55A Shanghai online game player stabbed to death a competitor who sold his cyber-sword, the China Daily said Wednesday, creating a dilemma in China where no law exists for the ownership of virtual weapons.theglobeandmail.com/ ... 16:07:34The former top U.S. military chief in Iraq... Lieutenant-General Ricardo Sanchez... In a memorandum... authorized the use of illegal techniques during interrogations... 29 methods of interrogation, including 12 that "far exceeded" U.S. military regulations as well as the Geneva Conventions covering prisoners of war, the ACLU said....washingtontimes.com/ ... 01:50:21...."I have been so looking forward to going to Afghanistan," Mrs. Bush told reporters before she boarded a plane yesterday morning at Andrews Air Force Base. "When I really realized the plight of the women under the Taliban, I also found that American women really stand in solidarity with the women in Afghanistan....."news.bbc.co.uk/ ... 01:49:26At least one person has been killed in a car bomb explosion in the eastern Afghan city of Jalalabad... in front of the office of the provincial governor, reports say.... ahead of a visit by the US First Lady, Laura Bush, to the Afghan capital Kabul....usatoday.com/ ... 01:48:01The 16-year-old gunman in the Red Lake High School killing rampage was shot twice by police moments before the teenager killed himself, according to a sheriff's deputy who saw the bloody crime scene.
TUE 2005-MAR-29
Digital Consequencesnews.com.com/ ... 12:53:50.... the candy market's best-known handheld device, the iconic Pez dispenser, is about to go digital. Under a recently granted licensing agreement with Pez Candy, gadget design company Lincoln West Studios will soon begin selling MP3 players modeled after the big-headed plastic treat sleeves....
Yuck!sfgate.com/ ... 12:35:12"Suddenly, I chew something that's kind of hard, crunchy," she said. "I spit it out. At first I wasn't sure what it was. We started investigating and poking it, (with) other people, too. That's when we find there's something that looks like a nail. There's no words to describe what I felt, what was going through me. I mean, it is something that's — my God, it is sick."
Wendy's maintains that the finger did not enter the food chain in its ingredients. All the employees at the San Jose store were found to have all their fingers, and no suppliers of Wendy's ingredients have reported "any hand or finger-related injuries...."
Whoops!boston.com/ ... 12:33:18ORONO, Maine -- A Hermon woman... lost $4,500 in cash on Wednesday... By chance, a neighbor found the rubber band-wrapped wad of cash on Route 2 and turned it into police. The cash then made its way back to Cindy Stevens, who thought the money was gone forever....newsday.com/ ... 12:32:13n airport worker loading baggage in Milwaukee got locked inside the cargo hold of an airplane that flew to Philadelphia. The worker was "a little stressed" but uninjured after the unscheduled flight.... The cargo hold was heated and pressurized.....
Preternatural Patternsnews.telegraph.co.uk/ ... 12:31:34Plans to build a second "leaning tower" in Pisa have been met with a chorus of furious protest.
Currenttimesonline.co.uk/ ... 12:30:52A 70-YEAR-OLD woman known for her delicious cookies faces execution by lethal injection for allegedly bludgeoning her 84-year-old neighbour to death with a hammer... awyers are investigating a mental health defence — she was found lying in the foetal position outside the dead woman’s home, allegedly with blood on her face, hair and trousers....
Family Patternsnynewsday.com/ ... 12:29:47A baby sitter who vanished with the infant she was caring for this weekend was charged with kidnapping after she pretended the child was her own to conceal a miscarriage from her boyfriend
Supernaturalabcnews.go.com/ ... 09:23:29...the Diocese of Trenton, said, "Bread, to be valid matter for the eucharist, must be made solely of wheat." The local diocese ruled that Haley's first communion didn't count, and reprimanded the priest who gave her that rice wafer....
Apparently, the God of Catholicism, the God who made gluten-intolerant people, and the God whose Son, at a whim, could change six barrels of water into wine, is powerless to "substantiate" himself in a non-wheat cracker
US Military Casualtiesdefenselink.mil/ ... 12:56:36[flag]Army Capt. Michael T. Fiscus, 36, of Milford, Ind.
[flag]Army Master Sgt. Michael T. Hiester, 33, of Bluffton, Ind.
[flag]Army Spc. Brett M. Hershey, 23, of State College, Penn.
[flag]Army Pfc. Norman K. Snyder, 21, of Carlisle, Ind.
died March 26 in Kabul, Afghanistan, when a mine detonated near their military vehicle.defenselink.mil/ ... 12:55:43[flag]Army Sgt. Lee M. Godbolt, 23, of New Orleans, La. Godbolt was assigned to the Army National Guard's 1st Battalion, 141st Field Artillery Regiment, New Orleans, La.
[flag]Army Sgt. Isiah J. Sinclair, 31, of Natchitoches, La. Sinclair was assigned to the Army National Guard's 1st Battalion, 156th Armored Regiment, Shreveport, La.
died March 26 in Baghdad, Iraq, when a vehicle-borne improvised explosive device detonated near their HMMWV while they were on patrol.defenselink.mil/ ... 12:54:51[flag]Marine Cpl. Bryan J. Richardson, 23, of Summersville, W.Va., died March 25 as a result of hostile action in Al Anbar Province, Iraq.
Only Naturalnynewsday.com/ ... 12:28:13The odds that a specialist in Lou Gehrig’s disease would contract the illness caught up with Dr. Richard Olney
Human Rightap.tbo.com/ ... 09:19:24NEW YORK - A group of anti-war demonstrators has sued the city for the right to march along Manhattan's Fifth Avenue, arguing that a ban on new parades violates its First Amendment rights.
Rebuildingcsmonitor.com/ ... 12:54:22Critics say Pentagon keeps revising number of trained forces, proving the US has no exit strategy, but military sees gains.
Violencewoai.com/ ... 12:31:16Two college students were caught off guard when they were approached by a group of teenage girls, wielding knives and a gun. The victims were attacked late Friday night on King's Court, near Trinity University. "It's not funny," said one of the victims...abcnews.go.com/ ... 09:21:08The investigation of a shooting spree that left nine people and the gunman dead on a Minnesota Indian reservation took a new turn when a source familiar with the probe said the tribal chairman's teenage son was arrested.thedailystar.com/ ... 09:20:11A man and a teen from Chenango County are to appear today in Norwich City Court to answer charges they held another teen down and tattooed an obscenity on his forehead.
Digital Threatthescotsman.scotsman.com/ ... 12:53:18INTERNET fraudsters are targeting thousands of shoppers on the internet auction site eBay with two highly effective con- tricks, police warned yesterday. Officers are particularly concerned about a new technique in which bidders who have failed to secure an item for sale on the eBay website are offered a bogus "second chance offer" in which they are invited to make a private deal outside the eBay site, which ultimately turns sour. Police also highlighted the better known "phishing" scam, in which people are tricked into sending their credit card details to a fake website.....seacoastonline.com/ ... 12:29:24...in the future that someone just walking through a house with an infected cell phone could pass viruses to home computers or any other device with a wireless connection....abcnews.go.com/ ... 09:23:41A thief recently walked into a University of California, Berkeley office and swiped a computer laptop containing personal information about nearly 100,000 alumni, graduate students and past applicantsnews.bbc.co.uk/ ... 09:19:52Eighty large net service firms have switched on software to spot and stop net attacks automatically. The system creates digital fingerprints of ongoing incidents that are sent to every network affected.
MON 2005-MAR-28
Whoops!reuters.com/ ... 14:05:31...an explosion in the southern Italian city of Naples Friday... the man driving the scooter appeared to have crashed into a parked car. He died and a 13-year-old boy who was also on the scooter was injured. Several others were hurt by the exploding fireworks [carried by the motorcyclists]... probably intended to be used during Easter celebrations....reuters.com/ ... 14:01:58London - The owners of a cat trapped for a week in the home of a vacationing neighbor have been pushing ice cubes and cat food through the letter box to keep their pet.... alive.... "I just hope our neighbor has gone away for a week and not for months...."
Sex can be Dangerousreuters.com/ ... 14:00:49An Italian woman whose angry husband refused for seven years to have sex with her was awarded divorce damages by Italy's high court.
Yuck!reuters.com/ ... 14:00:31A Czech tractor driver died under eight tons of manure in a bizarre accident that has baffled his employers.... "The truck is operated from the tractor cabin, using hydraulics. There was nothing for him to do under the truck, but it's tough to blame him now that he is dead...."
Digital Consequencesap.tbo.com/ ... 13:57:49Microsoft Corp. said Monday it would use an "N" to designate Windows XP versions stripped of the company's media player to comply with an antitrust judgment from the European Union.reuters.com/ ... 13:56:56Sony Corp. said on Monday it was ordered by a U.S. court to halt sales of its blockbuster PlayStation consoles in the United States and pay $90 million in damages to a California tech company, Immersion Corp.... Immersion, a small, California-based developer of digital touch technologies, claimed Sony Computer Entertainment infringed on its technology that makes a game controller vibrate in sync with actions in games....news.bbc.co.uk/ ... 13:54:38...Benjamin Cohen, 22, registered itunes.co.uk in 2000, but earlier this month the UK domain name registry, Nominet, handed the name over to Apple. Mr Cohen, of Hackney, east London, has applied to the High Court for a judicial review, saying Nominet is biased against small businesses....
Only Naturalreuters.com/ ... 14:02:22Shanghai - The bright lights and fast living of China's richest city have taken a heavy toll on the local sperm countap.tbo.com/ ... 13:59:03Major Earthquakes Around the World Over the Past 80 Yearsreuters.com/ ... 13:55:32A massive earthquake killed dozens of people and destroyed hundreds of homes in the main town on Indonesia's Nias island Monday eveningnews.bbc.co.uk/ ... 13:53:22A major earthquake in the Indian Ocean has hit the coast of the Indonesian island of Sumatra... estimated magnitude of 8.2... three hours after the tremor.. fears of another major tsunami were receding....technewsworld.com/ ... 13:52:32Scientists have made a breakthrough in efforts to prevent allergies caused by cats... have developed a protein that could block the allergic response -- and the technique could be adapted to other situations such as food allergies....
Threatsreuters.myway.com/ ... 13:59:44Police briefly cordoned off Times Square.. after a report of a suspicious package... the package was checked and found to be no threat....
Violencetheaustralian.news.com.au/ ... 13:50:47...crucial closed-circuit TV footage showing the moment when former Lebanese prime minister Rafik Hariri died has at last been made public, casting increasing doubt on the official version of the assassination. ... images indicate that the first account of the assassination, which traced it to a suicide car bomb, was almost certainly false, and that the explosives that killed Hariri and 19 others in his party were buried in advance under the road. This lends new weight to the conclusions of a UN report on the bombing, which blamed the local security services for negligence and only just stopped short of implicating Syria....
Under Tyrannyabcnews.go.com/ ... 12:32:03Shuimu.com is just one of China's thousands of Internet chat rooms. But when non-students were barred this month from using the site at Tsinghua University in Beijing, it triggered a rare burst of outrage. A brief protest erupted at the school. Users posted appeals on other sites for Web surfers to speak up, with some comparing the crackdown to persecution in Nazi Germany....
SUN 2005-MAR-27
Yuck!abcnews.go.com/ ... 21:40:46Sales have dropped sharply at Wendy's fast food restaurants in the area of northern California where a woman claimed she found part of a finger in a bowl of chili, but analysts say the company's long-term prognosis should not be affected... Authorities.. planned to search a fingerprint database... "Nobody's claimed it yet...." Wendy's said the finger did not come from the restaurant's employees. It is also confident company suppliers are not to blame because of product coding that allows the company to trace where a product comes from, the day it was produced, when it was shipped and when it arrived at the restaurant...
US Executive Branchchron.com/ ... 12:45:40When President Bush tours the nation for happy-talk sales pitches on his plan to semiprivatize Social Security, the audience is carefully controlled.
Only Naturaltimesonline.co.uk/ ... 21:43:43....chromosomes can archive the genes of ancestors and revive them in later generations. This means an organism may display characteristics of earlier generations that neither of its parents possess....livescience.com/ ... 21:43:10...But the interaction with cool seawater created a fresh pyroclastic explosion and ash surge that spread back onto the island, geologists said this week. The expanding turbulent cloud of rock, steam and ash flowed back onto land at temperatures of 600 degrees and speeds of about 130 miles per hour. The reverse surge reached 1,050 feet above sea level and flowed nearly two miles inland, devastating an area of nearly three square miles that had not been affected by the main eruption... "This interaction between pyroclastic flows and seawater is rarely observed, but presents a very real hazard where populations reside between certain volcanoes and the sea...."solcomhouse.com/ ... 21:39:20Super Volcano In Yellowstone National Park... The explosion would send ash, dust, and sulfur dioxide into the atmosphere, reflecting the sun's rays and creating a cold wave lasting several years. Crops in many areas would fail and many species of animals and plants would face extinction....en.wikipedia.org/ ... 21:38:31Supervolcano (Wikipedia)
US Militarywral.com/ ... 18:28:45FAYETTEVILLE, N.C. -- The family of a Fort Bragg officer recently back from Iraq said Capt. Terrance Wright seemed to hiccup almost constantly for weeks before he died earlier this month.
World Without Bordersnews.bbc.co.uk/ ... 21:44:08France's Maud Fontenoy has become the first woman to row solo across the Pacific Ocean from Peru to Polynesia.
Violencenews.bbc.co.uk/ ... 12:46:04Suspected Islamic rebels have ambushed a train in southern Thailand, injuring at least 19 peoplefoxnews.com/ ... 12:42:57A bomb blast set off huge fires in a mainly Christian Beirut suburb Saturday, injuring five people in the third such attack in eight days. Opposition leaders blamed Syria, saying Damascus hoped to sow fear as it withdraws troops from Lebanon.desmoinesregister.com/ ... 12:42:21Cedar Rapids, Ia. - Ten-year-old Jetseta Gage's goal each day was to give 20 compliments: to her teacher, a cabdriver who took her to school, her grandmother, anyone she met. "She was very friendly. She'd say hi to anyone," said her mother, Trena Gage. "She'd come up to you and say, 'You look nice today.' She'd tell everyone that, even strangers." Late Saturday, officials confirmed that a body found Friday was Jetseta's and said an autopsy determined the girl had been asphyxiated....
Peace 3000alertnet.org/ ... 12:41:32"There can't be another sectarian or non-sectarian war in Lebanon. No matter how stupid the Lebanese are, they have learnt from the war that we had in the past," said Hanna, a Maronite Christian whose flat was rocked by the blast on Easter eve.
Threatssuntimes.com/ ... 18:32:09On Thursday, [Chicago Police] Fleet Management Commissioner Michael Picardi disclosed plans to install cameras on 125 new squad cars scheduled for delivery over the next two months: front-wheel-drive Chevrolet Impalas that will replace the old rear-wheel-drive Ford Crown Victorias.... Picardi said he's even experimenting with a Big Brother bonus for unmarked police cars: a tiny microphone positioned near the windshield so powerful it can pick up conversations on the street.... Ed Yohnka, spokesman for the American Civil Liberties Union of Illinois, said he would be concerned if the police recorded those conversations without a warrant....theaustralian.news.com.au/ ... 12:40:29The Chinese Government issued a sharp warning yesterday that a march by hundreds of thousands of people in Taipei to protest at China's new anti-secession law on Taiwan had created "new tension across the Taiwan Strait".
OPPRESSIVE TYRANNICAL DICTATORIAL WARMONGERING IMPERIALIST COMMUNIST CHINA says it creates "new tension" when masses of people protest their threat to take over the FREE INDEPENDENT GOVERNMENT OF REAL CHINA! Where is our evil-fighting President these days?
SAT 2005-MAR-26
Currentmiva.jacksonsun.com/ ... 14:01:23Eight years after a gunshot left him brain damaged and paralyzed, policeman Gary Dockery suddenly spoke and recognized his family. "'There is nothing in the world I would give for that,'' said Dockery's oldest son, Shane. ''I prayed for eight years that he would just speak to me somehow.''

The spectacle of brain-damaged Terri Schiavo, with President Bush and Congress intervening and parents at odds with her husband, has stirred memories of similar but less public duress for Dockery's oldest son. He's seen similarities between his father's condition and the widely aired videotapes of Schiavo....
US Election 2008nbc13.com/ ... 00:20:15....Barbara Bush said former first lady, and current senator, Hillary Rodham Clinton will be the Democratic candidate for president in 2008. But Sen. Clinton won't be the nation's first female president, at least not according to Mrs. Bush....
AmerIndians Todayexaminer-enterprise.com/ ... 13:53:25Delaware Sovereignty Saga:
• The Delaware was the first tribe to enter into a treaty with the United States in 1778.
• The Tribe moved repeatedly at the request of the United States to accommodate the westward movement of the settlers in the 18th and 19th centuries. Today the Tribe is located in Northeast Oklahoma and has its headquarters in Bartlesville, Oklahoma. It is comprised of about 10,500 members.examiner-enterprise.com/ ... 13:52:13A Brief History of the Delaware Peopleexaminer-enterprise.com/ ... 13:51:51A Nov. 17, 2004 decision by the 10th Circuit Court and a further mandate of Feb. 24 called for the Bureau of Indian Affairs to terminate funding to the Delaware Tribe by today. The recent court rulings are the continuation of a 139-year saga involving the tribe's sovereignty dispute with federal government and the Cherokee Nation based in Tahlequah.
Reasons for Repealap.tbo.com/ ... 00:19:23BOGOTA, Colombia - Authorities discovered a submarine-like vessel Friday still under construction by drug traffickers who planned to use it to smuggle cocaine
Mass Madnessnews.bbc.co.uk/ ... 12:59:24Five people have been trampled to death in Tehran following a football World Cup qualifying match between Iran and Japan... About 40 others were hurt as more than 100,000 spectators at the Azadi stadium moved to the exits after the game...
Violencenytimes.com/ ... 12:54:49Two American soldiers were killed in Baghdad on Saturday morning when a suicide car bomber rammed into their patrolbreakingnews.iol.ie/ ... 12:54:32A land mine exploded under a US vehicle south of the Afghan capital of Kabul today, killing four [US] soldiers...ap.tbo.com/ ... 00:18:33IOWA CITY, Iowa -- Police were investigating whether a body found Friday is that of a 10-year-old girl who authorities said vanished with a registered sex offender.
Threatsnews.yahoo.com/ ... 12:56:59TAIPEI -- Hundreds of thousands of people chanting "Oppose war, Love Taiwan" joined President Chen Shui-bian Saturday to protest against China's anti-secession law that sanctions the use of force against the island.ap.tbo.com/ ... 00:16:50U.S. military guards discovered a 600-foot tunnel - dug with makeshift tools - leading out of the main prison facility for detainees in Iraq before anyone had the opportunity to escape....
FRI 2005-MAR-25
Family Patternsboston.com/ ... 22:28:31CANTON Mass -- The tragic journey of Patrick Holland, the first child in state history to divorce a parent, passed a hopeful milestone yesterday when the 15-year-old emerged from a courthouse grinning alongside his new adoptive parents.ap.tbo.com/ ... 10:44:45A judge has awarded the former wife of a multimillionaire businessman a divorce settlement worth more than $40 million even though she admitted having affairs with her rock-climbing guide and a man she met on a flight to China. In addition to a $24 million payment, Susan Sosin will keep the couple's $3.6 million Manhattan apartment, $2 million Utah ski house and $800,000 home in Wallkill, N.Y. But she has to vacate the couple's two mansions in Connecticut and three desert properties in Arizona... she also gets to keep $6 million in her brokerage accounts, eight cars and $2.9 million in jewelry, including a ruby piece her husband had bought for her but hadn't given to her prior to their divorce....
Digital Consequencespcworld.com/ ... 22:29:55Recording industry lawsuits against file swappers and.. peer-to-peer.. software companies may be forcing Internet users onto informal networks to exchange songs and videos, according to a new study by the Pew Internet American Life Project....news.bbc.co.uk/ ... 22:21:58BBC to cut 2,000 programme jobs -- 15% cuts proposed over three years apply to most areas of the BBC, including BBC News Interactive - which includes news websitepcworld.com/ ... 10:36:56On Tuesday, only a day after Apple announced a change to the ITunes Music Store that prevented users from using a third-party program called PyMusique to buy songs, one of the program's authors has made changes that restores the software's ability to work.
Currentworldnetdaily.com/ ... 22:22:43Michael Schiavo lawyer gave to judge's campaign -- George Felos made contribution to Greer day after key ruling by court in Terri's case -- raising questions of a conflict of interest.journalnow.com/ ... 01:17:23Kmart Holding Corp. completed its $12.3 billion acquisition of Sears, Roebuck and Co. yesterday, creating the nation's third biggest retailer with a projected $55 billion in annual sales... trails only Wal-Mart Stores Inc. and Home Depot Inc...
Mechanical Disasterwsws.org/ ... 01:16:32The accident on Wednesday was not an isolated event at the BP plant.
Netsurf Flotsamthetimesonline.com/ ... 01:11:36MOROCCO | Helicopters making emergency landings can now have a safe place to set down with Robert Tarkington's invention of the "Laser Pad."csmonitor.com/ ... 01:10:54Concrete goes upscale -- Innovative forms and finishes give new life to an old material
US Military Casualtiesdefenselink.mil/ ... 22:25:18The Department of Defense POW/Missing Personnel Office (DPMO) announced today that the remains of a U.S. Navy pilot, missing in action from the Vietnam War, have been identified and will be returned to his family for burial with full military honors.
[flag]Navy Lieutenant Commander J. Forrest G. Trembley of Spokane, Wash., will be buried in Arlington National Cemetery on April 1.defenselink.mil/ ... 22:23:47[flag]Army Spc. Travis R. Bruce, 22, of Byron, Minn., died March 23 in Baghdad, Iraq, when an enemy mortar round detonated near his guard position.
Human Rightworldnetdaily.com/ ... 01:13:35The whole Terri Schiavo story -- 15-year saga of brain-injured woman no clear-cut, right-to-die case
Only Naturalenglish.people.com.cn/ ... 10:36:22Two kinds of Indian Ocean octopus are found to "walk" on two of their arms while using the other six to disguise themselves from predatorsmlb.mlb.com/ ... 01:12:27Swarming bees sting D-Backs, Rockies -- Game called due to incessant pestering by swarm of bees
Digital Threatinformationweek.com/ ... 22:30:45Yahoo Messenger is the target of a phishing attack in which victims receive messages that appear to come from people on their buddy lists. When they click on a link in a message, they're transported to what they believe is a Yahoo Web site, where their login information is taken down by perpetrators.
Threatsreuters.com/ ... 22:24:28President Bush agreed on Friday to sell F-16 fighter jets to Pakistan in a major policy shift rewarding a key ally in the war on terrorism and angering neighboring India.ap.tbo.com/ ... 10:43:50AMSTERDAM, Netherlands (AP) - Police detained a 20-year-old man suspected of terrorist activity and confiscated a computer from his home....
Under Tyrannyap.tbo.com/ ... 10:43:21BENTONVILLE, Ark. (AP) - The U.S. House has approved a federal highway bill that includes $37 million for widening and extending the Bentonville street that provides the main access to the headquarters of Wal-Mart Stores Inc.news.bbc.co.uk/ ... 10:38:13In a Damascus cafe, Ali Farzat spreads out a selection of his cartoons in front of me. Although his work is not officially banned in Syria, Ali explains that newspaper editors are unwilling to publish the images. "They are afraid that if they do, they will get into trouble and could lose their jobs."
Violencekcrg.com/ ... 22:27:59Cedar Rapids -- The man in custody for the disappearance of Jetseta Gage was no stranger to the family. In fact, the girl's mother called Roger Bentley a family friend.ktvotv3.com/ ... 22:27:00A friend of the teen-ager responsible for Monday's school shootings in Minnesota says they watched a movie about a school shooting earlier this month.apnews.myway.com/ ... 22:23:15Militants carried out a string of deadly attacks after a week of reported losses, including four car bombings that killed 17 Iraqi security forces and two civilians and the assassination of a senior Iraqi military officialreuters.com/ ... 10:37:15Two suicide car bomb attacks in Iraq killed at least 15 people and wounded 23 including two U.S. soldiersktvotv3.com/ ... 10:36:09Two women who attended Columbine High School in Colorado during the 1999 shooting rampage have traveled to the Chippewa reservation to meet with tribal elders, school officials and students.... urging the adults to be good listeners for the teens who are struggling to get back to normal after Monday's shootings.The 21-year-old survivor says her first instinct after Columbine was to be home-schooled. But, then, she says, she decided she "wasn't going to be another victim...."
[A good choice for one psychological aspect doesn't necessarily obviate the choice on other grounds]
World Without Bordersnews24.com/ ... 01:11:58Six illegal immigrants drowned and another six were rescued by Italian coast guards on Thursday after human traffickers apparently forced them to jump into the sea kilometres from the coast of Sicily.
THU 2005-MAR-24
Digital Consequencesworldnetdaily.com/ ... 13:47:08..Maxim.. In its April edition, which debuted Tuesday, Jenna and Barbara Bush are shown depicted in lingerie, as if they had just had a massive pillow fight, with feathers streaming down around them... The image is really a combined illustration of actual photos of the faces of the Bush girls, but 25 models were used with some 75 photos taken to help make a realistic match for the rest of their bodies....
Yuck!reuters.com/ ... 13:01:08A diner at a Wendy's fast food restaurant in San Jose, California, found a human finger in a bowl of chili prepared by the chain... "This individual apparently did take a spoonful, did have a finger in their mouth and then, you know, spit it out and recognized it.... Then they had some kind of emotional reaction and vomited...."
Currentnews.bbc.co.uk/ ... 12:49:46Q Kyrgyzstan protests -- The opposition in Kyrgyzstan says it has taken control of the capital, Bishkek, after overrunning President Askar Akayev's palace... triggered by two things - the disbarment of a number of opposition candidates just before the recent parliamentary elections, and the apparent "promotion" of Akayev's family at that election....abcnews.go.com/ ... 12:32:58TEXAS CITY, Texas Mar 24, 2005 — The lone worker unaccounted for after an explosion at a BP oil refinery has died, bringing the death toll to 15 in a blast that also injured more than 100 people....news.ft.com/ ... 12:31:54The US Supreme Court on Thursday rejected a request from the parents of a brain-damaged Florida woman for an emergency order allowing Terri Schiavo’s feeding tube to be reinserted.
Preternatural Patternsnews.telegraph.co.uk/ ... 13:58:29A plan to erect a bronze statue of a pile of dinosaur excrement on a village green has been given the go-ahead.reuters.com/ ... 13:05:00Scientists at MIT's Media Lab in the United States have invented an alarm clock called Clocky... After the snooze button is pressed, the clock, which is equipped with a set of wheels, rolls off the table to another part of the room....reuters.com/ ... 13:01:31A Dutch driving instructor hit a knife-wielding fellow motorist with a baseball bat during a fight over his student's skillsap.tbo.com/ ... 12:57:04Chess legend Bobby Fischer walked free from a Japanese detention center Thursday and immediately headed to the airport to fly to his new home - Iceland - following a nine-month standoff with Tokyo officials trying to deport him to the United States.drudgereport.com/ ... 12:48:28HBO is set to air a behind the scenes look at the launching of liberal radio network AIR AMERICA... "LEFT OF THE DIAL," a grossly entertaining docu-drama... The doubts. The lies. The bounced checks. The heartbreak.... Al Franken at a staff meeting being told there is no money left... just moments after ranting about George Bush's ethics....thesmokinggun.com/ ... 01:54:46Michael Jackson's former bodyguard, expected to be a key witness in the singer's child molestation case, was arrested in Las Vegas last month on robbery, burglary and kidnapping charges.
US Election 2008tennessean.com/ ... 01:52:54In the first he said Jesus' directive to ''love thy neighbor'' didn't mean one could choose which ones to love. He then remarked that Republicans never brought up the scriptural verse saying it is easier for a camel to pass through the eye of a needle than for a rich man to enter heaven. ''We should never let anybody tell us we don't respect faith,'' he said.
We can say however that Dean has no conception of scriptural interpretation?
Whoops!reuters.com/ ... 13:06:46 stressing out would-be customers with leaflets that looked like parking tickets.washingtontimes.com/ ... 01:54:12Republican media adviser R. Gregory Stevens, who was found dead in the Beverly Hills, Calif., home of actress Carrie Fisher on Feb. 26, died of an overdose of cocaine and the painkiller OxyContincnn.netscape.cnn.com/ ... 01:51:24China's already severe water shortages are worsening due to heavy pollution of lakes and aquifers and urban development projects with a big thirst for water, such as lawns and fountains, state media reported. More than 100 cities have inadequate water supplies, with more than half ``seriously threatened,''
Transportlocal6.com/ ... 01:49:17A cruise ship carrying gay and nudist passengers was temporarily stopped and prevented from entering the Caribbean country of St. Kitts and Nevis on Wednesday
Human Rightnews.bbc.co.uk/ ... 12:53:34In photos: the impact that the collapse of the regime would have on the Afghan women... an apprehension that the right to schooling might again be wrested from them still dominates the atmosphere.... tens of thousands are hoping that they will be able to celebrate life as millions of women across the world do as a matter of course.
Only Naturalstory.news.yahoo.com/ ... 19:20:15A 70-million-year-old Tyrannosaurus rex fossil dug out of a hunk of sandstone has yielded soft tissue, including blood vessels and perhaps even whole cellsthescotsman.scotsman.com/ ... 13:44:47 MPs will today recommend giving the go-ahead to couples to create "designer babies" and allowing the experimental implantation of human embryos into animals, as part of a radical shake-up in fertility laws.reuters.com/ ... 13:06:10China imported a U.S.-made scream machine to scare away the birds at Beijing airport -- except they didn't recognize the noises and refused to budge. The bird-dispersing equipment had recorded the screams of American birds or the sounds of the birds' natural enemies... "Local birds did not understand the foreign language..." Chinese experts "translated" the U.S. bird noises into those of their Chinese counterparts....foxnews.com/ ... 01:55:45Research from Denmark has shown that the loss of a child increases a parent’s own risk of dying, with the risk of death for mothers increasing fourfold in the first years following the event. Now the same research team is reporting that the risk of mental illness is much greater among parents who have lost a child. And once again the risk was greater for bereaved moms than dads.local6.com/ ... 01:50:53 Five children in critical condition with kidney failure may have picked up a rare infection at petting zoos.. potentially dangerous kidney condition - hemolytic uremic syndrome, or HUS - is a rare complication arising from an initial infection most commonly associated with E. coli, a bacterium found in undercooked beef or contaminated food....
WW2 - still with usdailytimes.com.pk/ ... 13:56:25Concrete evidence that Adolf Hitler was personally involved in the details of planning the Holocaust has been published in a new German book based on Soviet interrogations of two of the Nazi leader’s closest aides... a Berlin historian... found a secret biography of the Nazi leader in Moscow commissioned by Josef Stalin...
Hitler mocked the United States when it declared war in December 1941. “He said their cars never win races, American planes look sharp but their engines are worthless ... He said they hadn’t proven anything – just mediocrity and advertising.” [heh... last laugh is very loud here]
People Dienydailynews.com/ ... 12:42:18An apparently healthy 42-year-old woman died last week following a nose job and face-lift by a Manhattan plastic surgeon with the state's worst malpractice record.
Digital Threatreuters.com/ ... 12:53:52The new CD single "Baby" from rapper Fabolous allows UK consumers to choose which part of the song they want to use as a mobile phone ringtone, a feature that Warner Music said on Thursday was a first for the industry.webpronews.com/ ... 12:36:25Mozilla has patched a Firefox vulnerability, discovered by the Internet Security Systems group, having to do with the method in which Mozilla's browser resolves .gif images.
Threatsmiddle-east-online.com/ ... 13:50:27Maverick Libyan leader Moamer Kadhafi on Wednesday upstaged the final session of the Arab summit with an unscheduled address describing Israel and the Palestinians as "idiots", leaving his audience in fits of laughter. "The Israelis are idiots and the Palestinians as well,"guardian.co.uk/ ... 12:36:02 Iranian engineers have built a secret underground storage area for use as a uranium enrichment facility in a restricted military area of interest to the U.N. nuclear watchdog agency, an Iranian exile said Thursday.
Under Tyrannywashingtonpost.com/ ... 01:53:21Universities across China are tightening controls on student-run Internet discussion forums as part of a Communist Party campaign to strengthen what it calls "ideological education" on campuses.
Violencereuters.com/ ... 19:20:25U.S.-led troops killed three Taliban militants in a firefight in which two children and a woman also died in southeast Afghanistantimesonline.co.uk/ ... 19:18:05...emerged that the boy had killed a cousin as well as his grandfather... Chase Lussier, 15, died at Red Lake High School on Monday afternoon as Weise, his second cousin, fired shots from two pistols and a shotgun at classmates and a teacher....ap.tbo.com/ ... 12:59:04Police mistook a group of Iraqi soldiers.. armed and dressed in street clothes.. for insurgents Thursday, sparking a gunbattle that killed five in northern Iraq.
In Baghdad, hundreds of electricity workers saying they were fed up with sometimes deadly insurgent attacks against Iraq's power sector marched through the streets shouting "No, no to terror!"sfgate.com/ ... 12:41:17....a deeply disturbed youth who had been treated for depression in a psychiatric ward, lost several close family members, sketched gruesome scenes of armed warriors and was removed from the school where he gunned down most of his victims Monday.... drifted among various homes on the reservation, listening to heavy metal music, proclaiming his affinity for Adolf Hitler and periodically showing up at the high school, even though ...six months ago he had ordered Weise to stay at home for tutoring... was taking the antidepressant Prozac and at least once was hospitalized for suicidal tendencies... father.. committed suicide in 1997. Two years later, a serious automobile accident killed a cousin and left Weise's mother partly paralyzed and brain damaged.... "a talented artist, but he drew terrible, terrible scenes...."suntimes.com/ ... 01:55:12Shopkeepers and residents on one of Baghdad's main streets pulled out their own guns Tuesday and killed three insurgents when hooded men began shooting at passers-by, giving a rare victory to civilians increasingly frustrated by the violence bleeding Iraq.thesmokinggun.com/ ... 01:53:43The Minnesota teenager responsible for Monday's high school shooting spree last year created a violent, blood-soaked video that included an animated character shooting four people and blowing up a police car before committing suicidenewsday.com/ ... 01:50:06A woman was charged with stealing money and other items in recent weeks by walking up to six elderly victims, giving them a big hug -- and then stealing their wallets or other loose items in the process... pretended to know the victims who are too polite to refuse her hugs...
WED 2005-MAR-23
Easter 2005freep.com/ ... 19:59:43A 13-year-old attacked an 18-year-old portraying an Easter bunny in the center of a shopping mall, where the costume-clad man was waiting to pose for photos with children... No children were waiting to see the Easter bunny at the time...
Supernaturalnews.bbc.co.uk/ ... 14:46:40The Scottish Episcopal Church has said being a practising homosexual is not a bar to a person becoming a priest.
Current Importantnews.bbc.co.uk/ ... 14:46:15An explosion has rocked an oil refinery in Texas, killing at least four people
US Military Casualtiesdefenselink.mil/ ... 19:58:22[flag]Army Spc. Francisco G. Martinez, 20, of Fort Worth, Texas, died March 20 in Tamin, Iraq, as a result of enemy small arms fire. defenselink.mil/ ... 19:58:04[flag]Marine Lance Cpl. Kevin S. Smith, 20, of Springfield, Ohio, died March 21 as a result of hostile action in Al Anbar Province, Iraq.
US Militarydefenselink.mil/ ... 19:57:41This week, the Army announced an increase, while the Air Force, Navy, Marine Corps and Coast Guard had a decrease in the number of reservists on active duty in support of the partial mobilization. The net collective result is 996 more reservists mobilized than last week.
Only Naturalnews.bbc.co.uk/ ... 14:47:48Elephants learn some of their calls through imitationspaceref.com/ ... 14:31:47...for the first time scientists have observed an extrasolar planet through the light it emits in the infrared. "I feel we've been blind and have just been given sight...."news.xinhuanet.com/ ... 14:15:10An outbreak of haemorrhagic fever in northern Angola has so far killed 96 people, many of them children,
Rebuildingcsmonitor.com/ ... 19:58:54Two years after war dramatically changed Iraq's political landscape, the former ruling minority Sunnis are developing plans to participate in a government formed by elections they boycotted.
Threatsworldnetdaily.com/ ... 20:02:56Three carrier battle groups are converging on the Persian Gulf. The aircraft carrier USS Carl Vinson has departed Singapore and is currently crossing the Indian Ocean, en route to the Middle East. The aircraft carrier USS Theodore Roosevelt is also on the move, crossing the Atlantic Ocean, reportedly headed toward the Mediterranean. Reports are also circulating that the U.S. Navy has dispatched ships containing nuclear armaments to reinforce the battle groups. This will be the first time since February 2004 that the U.S. has had three major carrier groups stationed on or around the Middle East.suntimes.com/ ... 14:26:09Pentagon: Bin Laden escaped us at Tora Borareuters.com/ ... 14:25:36The Philippine military said on Wednesday it arrested a suspected Muslim militant and found bombs believed to have been stashed for attacks in Manila during this week's Easter celebrations.
Violenceapnews.myway.com/ ... 20:02:23U.S. and Iraqi forces raided a suspected guerrilla training camp and killed 85 fighters, the single biggest one-day death toll for militants in months and the latest in a series of blows to the insurgency....worldnetdaily.com/ ... 20:01:09Jordan's king warned American Jewish officials yesterday Syria and Hezbollah are planning terrorist attacks in Israel to distract international attention from the growing crisis in Lebanon....suntimes.com/ ... 14:25:03News, Chicago Style
In Chicago, J.J. Jameson's voice resonated deeply on poetry stages. He marched for peace and even helped set up chairs at community policing meetings in his Far West Side neighborhood. But in Massachusetts, Jameson's story is a much darker tale of murder and jail break and a 20-year run from the law....dailystar.com.lb/ ... 14:17:00Two people were killed early Wednesday when a bomb ripped through a shopping center in the coastal night life and shopping district of Kaslik, 20 kms north of Beirut....
Aftermathduluthsuperior.com/ ... 14:16:24Kathy Brun, sister of slain Red Lake security guard Derrick Brun, knew her brother would stand his ground. She cried Tuesday when recounting witness reports that her brother confronted Jeff Weise as the armed teenager entered Red Lake High School Monday and began shooting. Witnesses told Kathy Brun her brother may have saved the lives of "at least 15 students" as well as another guard, who reportedly ran for safety during the confrontation. "I figured he wouldn't run, that he would try to stop this young kid, and I am proud of him, but I'm also kind of mad that he didn't run, too," Kathy Brun said. Brun was fatally shot in the chest. He was 28....
Digital Threatnews.bbc.co.uk/ ... 14:47:34The 'bad behaviour' of e-mail users is helping to sustain the spam industry... nearly a third of e-mail users have clicked on links in spam messages.... One in ten users have bought products advertised in junk mail.keralanext.com/ ... 14:14:07Current technology is totally inadequate to combat cyber crime as hackers increasingly seek financial gains by illegally accessing personal information online... more than half the major Internet threats targeted personal information...
World Without Bordersfoxnews.com/ ... 20:00:41The state of Yucatan has issued a new 87-page handbook that tells people how to get across the U.S. border illegally. ...has an accompanying DVD, contains a section on how to apply for a lawful visa... instructions about how to safely sneak into the United States, then blend in....nytimes.com/ ... 14:12:43But for President Fox, a tighter border that keeps Mexicans from desperately needed jobs is not necessarily in his interest. Last week, in a sharp divergence from Washington, he publicly decried a measure passed in the House of Representatives that would mandate completion of a long-stalled security wall between Tijuana and San Diego. Far from being completed, he said, the wall should be knocked down. "No country that is proud of itself should construct walls," he said.
TUE 2005-MAR-22
Sex -- always attractivefoxnews.com/ ... 16:52:29...Her growing line of clothing... plasters slogans like "Virginity Lane: Exit When Married" and "Notice: No Trespassing On This Property. My Father Is Watching" on underwear and T-shirts, and is meant to inspire young people to abstain from sex until they tie the knot....
Theory of Educationnews.telegraph.co.uk/ ... 16:06:01A former schoolboy who gave up A-levels to achieve his childhood ambition of becoming a pilot has launched his own airline at the age of 18.
Supernaturalworldnetdaily.com/ ... 15:22:07JERUSALEM -- Police here decided today to ban a grassroots Jewish organization from bringing 10,000 Jews to the heavily restricted Temple Mount to spark Israeli dialogue about reclaiming the holy site from its Islamic custodians, while the city police department told WorldNetDaily the Israeli government would allow a similar group of Muslims.
Population Boomingcnn.com/ ... 14:52:49 "Sex will not make something that is otherwise not entertaining sell," producer Tom Pollock says. "Movies work because they make you laugh, cry or (be) scared. Audiences won't go to a movie because of sex."
US Election 2004miami.com/ ... 14:51:59A Liberty City church's tax-exempt status is in jeopardy as the IRS has launched a probe into a visit by former candidate John Kerry last fall.
Rather Embarrassedhumaneventsonline.com/ ... 14:51:08In Fidel: Hollywood's Favorite Tyrant, author Humberto Fontova reveals for the first time how Dan Rather's "60 Minutes" interview with Juan Miguel (Elian Gonzalez's father) was stage-managed by former Clinton lawyer and friend, Gregory Craig.
Digital Threatabcnews.go.com/ ... 19:46:04The lawsuit's outcome will likely hinge on whether Google can persuade the courts that Google News constitutes permissible "fair use" of copyright material. Legal scholars say Google could argue that it adds value by significantly improving the news-consuming experience without greatly harming AFP's ability to sell its service. But in seeking at least $17.5 million in damages, AFP says Google adds little because its news site looks much like those of AFP subscribers, albeit one where software and not human editors determine the placement of stories on a page.thescotsman.scotsman.com/ ... 15:57:41Terror plot to cripple UK in cyber attack
• Counter-terrorism chief says al-Qaeda to try electronic terror attack on UK
• Openness aims to get private sector to better protect electronic systems
• Local government, markets, transport and energy deemed at riskboersenreport.de/ ... 14:39:50Computer giant Apple has worked through the night to close the DRM FairPlay copyright security hole in its iTunes music store software following the news that DVD Jon had cracked the software application.... Because of a security hole in the software the crack meant that users could download music from the site and then freely swap them with other users or transfer them to other MP3 players other than Apple’s iPod series.....
Whoops!ananova.com/ ... 16:00:11A burnt rubber doll was mistaken for a badly injured alien and taken to a hospital in Brazil.story.news.yahoo.com/ ... 15:59:57A woman committed suicide so her two blind sons could receive her eyes and see... doctors say the chances of success are bleak...canada.com/ ... 15:56:11The 87-year-old woman was a resident of Surrey's Shirley Dean Pavilion extended-care facility where she shared a room with another woman. She was sleeping deeply when the other woman died. When a driver of a private funeral home arrived to take the body to Surrey Memorial Hospital on Saturday... instead of picking up the dead woman, he took the still-very-much-alive woman....reuters.com/ ... 14:38:34The "Scratch n' Match" contest page in the newspaper's Saturday edition included the number 13 in error in a series of 10 numbers, instead of the number 12 as intended. The "wrong" number triggered a rash of winning scratch card tickets in a contest that is set up to pay out $222,500 a week in prizes, ranging from $25 to $100,000. People who thought they had won, but hadn't, lined up outside the newspaper's Manhattan offices on Monday demanding their money.....
Preternatural Patternsfoxnews.com/ ... 16:55:05If Terri Schiavo were in good enough shape to say whether she wanted to live or die, she might first say she wants a divorce, considering the fact her husband has another wife and two kids.reuters.com/ ... 14:38:17Peru's poor Zavaleta family... says it is the lawful owner of a large part of the Machu Picchu sanctuary, Peru's most famous national treasure, and will start proceedings next week to sue the state for recognition of its ownership rights... The Zavaletas plan to sell the land if their title is recognized. "There is a lot of foreign interest"...
Alcohol Was Involvedfoxnews.com/ ... 15:59:31Prosecutors are investigating the death of a man who was subdued by several fellow airline passengers after he became disruptive on a New York-bound flight....reuters.com/ ... 14:34:41A Japanese youth who wanted to go to Tokyo's Haneda airport boarded a bus heading there before threatening to hijack it unless it took him to ... the airport.
Digital Consequencesinternetnews.com/ ... 01:46:51Microsoft gave enterprise developers and purchasing managers a heads up on pricing for its new line of development tools. Microsoft laid out the new line of Visual Studio 2005 Monday, which is the successor to Visual Studio .NET. The new openness about pricing and delivery is an attempt to improve sales by giving enterprise customers more time to plan the purchase, according to Prashant Sridharan, group product manager for Visual Studio 2005.
Family Patternstelegraph.co.uk/ ... 01:44:15...A study from the gastroenterolgy department at the Institute of Child Health and Great Ormond Street Hospital, London, says parents of children with... "Functional abdominal pain" (FAP)... "show, not uncommonly, symptoms of anger and hostility towards the medical profession and may be reluctant to accept medical reassurance"....
US Militaryfoxnews.com/ ... 16:52:58The maximum age for new recruits joining the Army Reserve and National Guard has been raised by five years to 39.
US Military Casualtiesdefenselink.mil/ ... 16:05:27[flag]Army Sgt. Paul W. Thomason, III, 37, of Talbot, Tenn., died Mar. 20 in Kirkuk, Iraq, when an improvised explosive device detonated near his vehicle. defenselink.mil/ ... 16:05:02[flag]Army Pfc. Lee A. Lewis, Jr., 28, of Norfolk, Va., died Mar. 18 in Sadr City, Iraq, when his patrol was attacked by enemy small arms fire.
Justice?worldnetdaily.com/ ... 16:01:06If our nation's highest court can so quickly and completely reverse itself on what is the meaning of, and the effect of, cruel and unusual punishment, why is it impossible to believe that someday the United States Supreme Court will rule that all capital punishment is cruel and unusual. – as it surely is.itv.com/ ... 14:49:24A woman who smoked up to two packets of cigarettes a day for 28 years has been awarded the highest payout ever given to an ex-smoker... Ms Henley, 58, began smoking Philip Morris' Marlboro cigarettes aged 15. For the next 28 years she smoked up to two packs a day. She was diagnosed with cancer in 1998... The jury found the company had lied about the risks and addictive nature of smoking and was responsible for her cancer....
Repeal! Repeal! Repeal!alertnet.org/ ... 14:48:17U.S.-led efforts to eradicate opium cultivation in Afghanistan have nearly doubled raw opium prices and threatened to push Afghan farmers back to growing poppies
Only Naturalfoxnews.com/ ... 16:53:39A simple word-memory test may accurately detect the earliest stages of Alzheimer’s disease (search) and improve treatment of the disease, according to a new study.news.independent.co.uk/ ... 15:56:42Cancer specialists around the world are rethinking their advice to cover up in the sun amid growing concern that staying in the shade may be causing harm. ...fears about vitamin D deficiency, which increases the risk of a range of diseases from cancer to osteoporosis, in what doctors have described as a "revolution"....reuters.com/ ... 14:34:02A London man trying to coax his cat back into the house before he went to bed... Instead of a tame pussy, the cat-like creature that emerged from the bushes in response to his calls was nearer the size of a Labrador dog.... "One police officer believes they saw a large black cat-like animal approximately the same size as a Labrador dog"...
Under Tyrannyfoxnews.com/ ... 16:54:15In the last year, the Department of Justice, in an effort to obtain abortion records from several Planned Parenthood operations, has taken the position that there is no federal physician-patient privilege...,
World Without Borderscsmonitor.com/ ... 16:04:22President Viktor Yushchenko has signed the order to withdraw Ukraine's troops from Iraq, cementing a pledge by the new leadership to bring back its 1,650-strong force
Sex can be Dangeroushernandotoday.com/ ... 15:58:15A Parrott Middle School golf coach was arrested Friday, accused of hanging from the ceiling in the school gymnasium and watching a 20-year-old female gym teacher and two students undress.
Threatsfoxnews.com/ ... 16:51:35While the Bush administration continues to push and celebrate significant successes for democracy in the Middle East, China is on an opposing mission in Asia, where it continues to block the spread of democracy.apnews.myway.com/ ... 15:53:45Iran's supreme leader said Monday he would put on military fatigues and fight to the death if his country were attacked - unlike U.S. "warmongers" who he said cower in the rear far from the front lines.worldnetdaily.com/ ... 15:53:24A bill proposed by Sen. Hillary Clinton, D-N.Y., would enable anyone to register to vote on election day and cast a ballot without a photo ID, proof of citizenship or other personal identification.
Violenceabcnews.go.com/ ... 19:44:38...Two kidnapped children were found safe Tuesday after their mother's ex-boyfriend shot and wounded their grandfather and took off with the youngsters...cnn.com/ ... 19:43:55....A bomb ripped through a shopping mall in a predominantly Christian area north of Beirut, Lebanon, early Wednesday, killing three people and wounding at least two others....wireservice.wired.com/ ... 14:47:43ATLANTA -- An alert was issued in three states for a man who police say sexually assaulted his ex-girlfriend in her home early Tuesday, critically wounded her father and then abducted her two small children.abcnews.go.com/ ... 14:47:24NEW BRUNSWICK, N.J. Mar 22, 2005 — A teenage girl was being held hostage Tuesday in a home, and authorities had the building surrounded... police believe that one armed man, and possibly two, was holding the 14-year-old hostage.... The girl had called at 10 a.m. to say that she had been taken hostage... "Then the fellow in the next room came in and said, 'Who are you talking to?" ...the man grabbed the phone and told the dispatcher that if police were sent, "I'm going to kill her, going to kill whoever comes in the building and I'm going to kill myself."...reuters.com/ ... 14:45:40Weise identified himself in Internet site postings as "Todesengel," German for "angel of death" and "NativeNazi..." claimed to have been questioned by police in 2004 about an alleged plot to shoot up the school on the anniversary of Adolf Hitler's birthday, but said he had nothing to do with that... "I guess I've always carried a natural admiration for Hitler and his ideals, and his courage to take on larger nations...." [said in] one forum used by neo-Nazis.... reports described Weise as someone who was often teased at the school.....voanews.com/ ... 14:41:42...FBI officials say Jeff Weise first killed his grandfather and his grandfather's companion at home. ...grandfather was a police officer on the Red Lake Indian Reservation... boy took his gun and bullet-proof vest before driving his police cruiser to school.... killed an unarmed security officer at the school entrance... shot dead a teacher and several students before roaming the hallways, firing randomly. ...killed himself after exchanging gunfire with local police. Five students remain hospitalized for gunshot wounds.... deadliest school shooting since the 1999 Columbine High School massacre in Colorado left 14 students dead.
Police Riotap.tbo.com/ ... 14:32:21CHICAGO - Police departments across Illinois that joined a class-action lawsuit against Ford Motor Co. alleging the company's Crown Victoria Interceptors were unsafe are now leaving the suit after the automaker told them that was the only way it would keep selling them the cars.
Peace 3000voanews.com/ ... 01:45:26The United States has eliminated the rubella virus, or German measles, a major source of birth defects. The rest of the Western hemisphere is making good progress against the disease, but that global eradication is not in sight. The United States is the second country to eliminate rubella after Cuba reported its last case in 1995.
MON 2005-MAR-21
Digital Consequencespcworld.com/ ... 19:53:28[AFP: DESPERATELY UNCLEAR ON THE INFO AGE CONCEPT!]
Google is in the process of removing French news agency Agence France Presse (AFP) from its Google News service
"We allow publishers to opt out of Google News. Most, however, want to be included in Google News because they believe it's a benefit to them and their readers,"
Whoops!oanow.com/ ... 19:39:25A man was electrocuted and burned beyond recognition after he apparently broke into a power substation attempting to take copper wiring...
Sex -- always attractivenews.bbc.co.uk/ ... 19:38:50A chewing gum which the makers say can help enhance the size, shape and tone of the breasts has proved to be a big hit in Japan... works by slowly releasing compounds contained in an extract from a plant called Pueraria mirifica... also known as Kwao Krua... a species found in Thailand and Burma... plant's underground tubers contain a number of chemicals called phytoestrogens - natural compounds which mimic the effects of the female sex hormone oestrogen....
Population Boomingapnews.myway.com/ ... 11:12:53The nation's undocumented immigrant population surged to 10.3 million last year, spurred largely since 2000 by the arrivals of unauthorized Mexicans in the United States
Preternatural Patternsreuters.com/ ... 11:10:02U.S. rock star Lenny Kravitz gave a $5,000 electric guitar to Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva on Saturday to help him raise funds for his struggling campaign to wipe out hunger in the South American country by 2006.
Supernaturalfoxnews.com/ ... 11:05:45A group scheduled to sing old spirituals during a halftime show at the University of Illinois was uninvited when officials learned it was going to make reference to God in its songs
US Military Casualtiesdefenselink.mil/ ... 19:43:38[flag]Army Spc. Jonathan A. Hughes, 21, of Lebanon, Ky., died March 19 in Iraq when an improvised explosive device detonated near his HMMWV.
Repeal! Repeal! Repeal!whsv.com/ ... 19:42:06The general assembly has passed legislation to keep liquor out of the hands of minors at private parties, but an amendment has actually reversed that restriction. The problem caught the attention of the bill's supporters, who want Governor Mark Warner to fix it. Current law allows people who hold parties in their own homes to serve booze to anyone, regardless of age.
Sexual Equality??arabnews.com/ ... 19:39:47Dr. Abdullah Omar Naseef, former deputy chairman of the Shoura Council and former secretary-general of Muslim World League, has said that women driving is not un-Islamic and could be introduced in the Kingdom gradually, beginning with cities such as Jeddah and Riyadh.drudgereport.com/ ... 11:09:43"Hello Drudge, After your coverage of my article about coming out and voting Republican...I was released from my duties at Playgirl magazine.... I also received a phone call from a leading official from Playgirl magazine, in which he stated with a laugh, 'I wouldn't have hired you if I knew you were a Republican.'... I just wanted to let you know of the fear the liberal left has about a woman with power possessing Republican views."
Violenceabcnews.go.com/ ... 19:51:54SAN DIEGO Mar 21, 2005 — A man... 48, a house painter... bludgeoned his parents to death with a baseball bat... critically injuring his 44-year-old brother... then called 911 to tell police what he had done and waited outside the home for officers to arrive.... also beat to death the family's dog and injured his own dog at his home about 12 miles away. His dog had to be destroyed.signonsandiego.com/ ... 19:50:24RED LAKE, Minn. – A gunman opened fire Monday at a high school on an Indian reservation, killing six people... four students... a teacher and a security guard... and injuring at least 14, with the suspect believed among those dead.... Before the school shootings, a man and a woman... grandparents of the shooter... were shot in their home and died later... grandfather was a police officer whose guns may have been used in the shootings.... Red Lake High School, on the Red Lake Indian Reservation, has about 300 students... 240 miles north of the Twin Cities. It is home to the Red Lake Band of Chippewa Indians.worldnetdaily.com/ ... 19:44:38...The NSA had no experience with the recorded language and with FBI approval forwarded the tape to the Defense Language Institute where it was translated. The letter's most provocative sentence follows immediately. The language was identified as Baluchi and was transcribed as, "What had to be done has been done, TWA 800 (last two words unintelligible)."....
Police Riottallahassee.com/ ... 19:42:24 A 5-year-old girl was arrested, cuffed and put in back of a police cruiser after an outburst at school where she threw books and boxes, kicked a teacher in the shins, smashed a candy dish, hit an assistant principal in the stomach and drew on the walls.
Under Tyrannytheaustralian.news.com.au/ ... 19:41:15A SAUDI academic has been sentenced to 200 lashes and time in jail for insulting an Islamist colleague...
Rebuildingfoxnews.com/ ... 11:06:43I'm not trying to speak for the Iraqi people, and I don't know if a majority would say today that the fear of suicide bombers is better than the fear of Saddam and his thugs. I don't know if they'd say a democratic future is better than whatever Saddam had in store for them, but if I had to guess, I'd bet they'd choose what they have now — the chance to shape their own future themselves.
SUN 2005-MAR-20
Lasting Contributionsreuters.com/ ... 15:28:53John DeLorean, the flashy automotive executive whose equally flashy car of the same name proved a financial folly but burned its way into pop culture with the "Back to the Future" films, has died at the age of 80.
Mechanical Disasterchinadaily.com.cn/ ... 15:23:15A gas explosion ripped through a coal mine in Shanxi Province on Saturday afternoon, killing at least 60 miners, with 9 others still unaccounted for.abcnews.go.com/ ... 15:23:01PAONIA, Colo. Mar 20, 2005 — Three youngsters were missing and 16 others were injured in a fiery explosion that destroyed a remote mountain lodge
US Militarycsmonitor.com/ ... 15:22:04The fight against insurgents has pushed Pentagon toward new strategies, new armor, and a transformed US force.
Only Naturalap.tbo.com/ ... 15:30:03More than 200 people were missing in a former Taliban stronghold Sunday after days of torrential rain sparked floods that have killed at least 24 people in other parts of Afghanistan.abcnews.go.com/ ... 15:23:58CANBERRA, Australia Mar 20, 2005 — A 20-foot shark tore a man in half as he was snorkeling off Australia's west coastabcnews.go.com/ ... 15:21:30Earthquake Strikes Southern Japan and Triggers Landslides, Killing 1 and Injuring 400
Sick, Sick, Sickguardian.co.uk/ ... 17:23:19,,,,His demeanor seemed to infuriate jurors and many trial watchers, who came to see Peterson as a manipulative, pathological liar with a grandiose sense of self and an inability to empathize. Experts say this absence of emotion is the hallmark of a psychopath....
Aftermathreuters.com/ ... 15:28:12Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld said on Sunday he expected an investigation into the death of an Italian intelligence officer shot by American forces in Iraq to be completed soon.
Violencereuters.com/ ... 15:29:12A U.S. soldier was killed and three wounded when a roadside bomb exploded beside their patrol near the Iraqi city of Kirkuk Sundayreuters.com/ ... 15:27:43U.S. troops killed 24 insurgents and wounded seven in a battle on the outskirts of Baghdad on Sunday after the guerrillas attacked a U.S. position
Threatsreuters.com/ ... 15:27:01Jordan's state security court sentenced al Qaeda ally Abu Musab al-Zarqawi in absentia to 15 years in jail and another Jordanian militant to three years on Sunday for a plot to attack the kingdom's embassy in Baghdad.
Under Tyrannyreuters.com/ ... 15:26:13Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice attended a church service in Beijing on Sunday in a visit that highlighted U.S. concern for religious freedom in the world's most populous country. The symbolic visit to one of China's largest state-approved churches followed Rice's repeated denouncements during a tour of Asia about Beijing's human rights record, and particularly its restrictions on worship.
Digital Threatapnews.myway.com/ ... 15:24:36Parents should think twice before giving in to a middle-schooler's demands for a cell phone, some scientists say, because potential long-term health risks remain unclear.
SAT 2005-MAR-19
Sex can be Dangeroushealth.dailynewscentral.net/ ... 17:45:12"Virginity pledges" -- that is, public promises to remain virgins until marriage -- do not protect the young people who make them from the risk of engaging in unsafe sexual practices that could lead to sexually transmitted diseases (STDs), suggests a new study published in the March 18, issue of the Journal of Adolescent Health. In fact, the study participants who made the virignity pledges contracted STDs at the same rate as their peers who had not pledged. The pledgers were less likely to use condoms to prevent STDs, and they were less likely to seek medical testing and treatment, increasing possibility of transmission, the researchers found.
Supernaturaltimesofindia.indiatimes.com/ ... 17:42:48NEW YORK: A woman led a mixed-gender Islamic prayer service on Friday, with organisers of the event saying they are "ushering Islam into the 21st Century."
Digital Consequencesearthtimes.org/ ... 17:44:32AFP alleges that Google's news service, Google news, which had been given a facelift recently by adding new personalization features, includes AFP's photos, stories and news headlines, which are copywritten materials. These were used by Google without getting the permission of AFP prior to its publishingtheinquirer.net/ ... 02:06:21REUTERS SAID Agence France Presse (AFP) is taking legal action over the aggregation of news and pictures on the Google News site.
US Military Casualtiesdefenselink.mil/ ... 02:58:14[flag]Army Spc. Rocky D. Payne, 26, of Howell, Utah, died March 16 in Iraq when an improvised explosive device detonated near his HMMWV. defenselink.mil/ ... 02:57:56The Department of Defense POW/Missing Personnel Office (DPMO) announced today that the remains of a U.S. Navy pilot, missing in action from the Vietnam War, have been identified and will be returned to his family for burial with full military honors.
[flag]Navy Commander Thomas E. Dunlop of Neptune Beach, Fla., will be buried in Arlington National Cemetery on March 21.defenselink.mil/ ... 02:56:49[flag]Army Spc. Paul M. Heltzel, 39, of Baton Rouge, La., died Mar. 15 in Baghdad, Iraq, while conducting a mounted patrol when a vehicle-borne improvised explosive device detonated.defenselink.mil/ ... 02:56:26[flag]Army Staff Sgt. Ricky A. Kieffer, 36, of Ovid, Mich., died Mar. 15 in Baghdad, Iraq, when enemy forces using small arms fire attacked his unit. defenselink.mil/ ... 02:56:10[flag]Army Staff Sgt. Shane M. Koele, 25, of Wayne, Neb., died Mar. 16 at Shindand Airfield, Afghanistan, from injuries sustained Mar. 15 in Shindand, Afghanistan, when a land mine exploded near his HMMWV.
US Militarycontracostatimes.com/ ... 17:43:37Two years after the U.S. invasion of Iraq, the Pentagon has formally included in key strategic plans provisions for launching pre-emptive strikes against nations thought to pose a threat to the United States.defenselink.mil/ ... 02:55:42This week, the Navy and Marine Corps announced an increase, while the Air Force and Army had a decrease in the number of reservists on active duty in support of the partial mobilization. The Coast Guard had no change. The net collective result is 852 fewer reservists mobilized than last week.
Violencenews.bbc.co.uk/ ... 17:47:00...For many ordinary Iraqis, accustomed for three decades to the ways of the old regime, such televised confessions - a local form of reality TV - are normal, and they find them compulsive viewing. Few seem to doubt their authenticity. But the practice of parading prisoners making confessions obtained in questionable circumstances is way out of line with international standards of justice...nypost.com/ ... 17:45:55A heartless thug seething with "pure evil" and posing as a good Samaritan approached a blind 19-year-old college student on a Queens subway platform, offered to help her get home, then raped her inside a darkened elevatornewsbug.net/ ... 17:45:37A convicted felon has been charged for allegedly plotting to kidnap and hold for ransom talk show host David Letterman’s 16-month-old son and the child's nanny from his Montana ranch house.abcnews.go.com/ ... 17:44:04 bomb exploded Saturday as minority Shiite Muslims congregated at a shrine in a remote town in southwestern Pakistan, killing at least 24 people and wounding 16, police said.abcnews.go.com/ ... 17:43:52Police had found the body of 9-year-old Jessica Marie Lunsford, more than three weeks after she disappeared from her bedroom.channelnewsasia.com/ ... 17:43:08DOHA: A car bomb exploded at a theatre near a British school in the Qatari capital Doha Saturday, killing one person and wounding another 12....abcnews.go.com/ ... 17:42:20BEIRUT, Lebanon Mar 19, 2005 — Pro-Syrian President Emile Lahoud on Saturday canceled plans to attend an Arab summit, citing "exceptional circumstances" after a car bomb rocked a Christian neighborhood in Beirut, injuring nine people in a blast that raised the specter of renewed sectarian violence.kansascity.com/ ... 17:41:57Hindu nationalists set fire to a PepsiCo warehouse in western India on Saturday to protest the U.S. denial of a visa for a top state official due to his role in religious riots in 2002.news.bbc.co.uk/ ... 02:05:22A car bomb explosion has wounded at least eight people in a suburb of the Lebanese capital Beirut.heraldsun.com/ ... 02:05:13A musical prodigy who.. taught himself how to read at 18 months and began playing the piano at 3.. completed high school at age 10.. had just finished the art for the cover of a second CD of his music... apparently killed himself at 14....sun-sentinel.com/ ... 02:03:40HOMOSASSA FLA -- A registered sex offender with an extensive criminal history has confessed to kidnapping and killing 9-year-old ..who disappeared from her bedroom more than three weeks ago... body had not been found, but [killer].. gave them a general area to search....
FRI 2005-MAR-18
Sex can be Dangerousreuters.com/ ... 19:07:27A Belgian man on trial for having sex with dogs claims he did it out of compassion for man's best friend... since a lot of them can't have sex, especially those locked up in refuges.... had worked in an animal refuge before and had also posted thousands of pictures on the Internet of himself having sex with dogs...
Unclear on the Conceptreuters.com/ ... 19:06:41Germany's biggest individual lottery winner had no time to celebrate after becoming 20.4 million euros ($27 million) richer, because he was too worried about being late for work.... "After he was told he had won the jackpot, he said he didn't have time to chat because he would get into trouble with his boss...."
Extraterrestrialnews.bbc.co.uk/ ... 19:03:54What is thought to be the UK's only space impact crater has been mapped in detail in 3D for the first time. The so-called Silverpit structure lies several hundred metres under the floor of the North Sea, about 130km (80 miles) east of the Yorkshire coast. The new pictures show a spectacular set of rings sweeping out around a 3km-wide (1.8 miles) central hole.
Whoops!reuters.com/ ... 19:08:06London -- Heidi Brown was told she could park her new scooter outside the vehicle registration office while she waited to get license plates. To her horror, it was blown up by the army after someone reported that it might be a bomb....news.bbc.co.uk/ ... 19:01:54A Spaniard who accidentally put his lottery ticket in the wash six years ago can finally claim his winnings.
Repeal! Repeal! Repeal!reuters.com/ ... 19:08:34Japanese lawmakers held a rally and made a push for daylight savings time on Friday, saying that it was time the land of the rising sun had more daylight.
Only Naturalsg.news.yahoo.com/ ... 19:00:13An outbreak of an unidentified haemorrhagic fever has claimed the lives of 87 people in northern Angola over the past four months.
Police Riotap.tbo.com/ ... 19:05:43CHANDLER, Ariz. (AP) - Taser International Inc. openly credits its use of active-duty police officers as trainers as a major ingredient in the company's meteoric rise to become the No. 1 seller of stun guns.
And like a lot of other cash-strapped startups, early on Taser offered some of those officers stock options as an incentive. But with the Scottsdale-based company now under state and federal investigation over safety claims and accounting issues, questions have arisen about whether the officers' moonlighting represented a conflict of interest, particularly when their own departments were buying stun guns.
Threatscanada.com/ ... 19:01:21Three teenage boys have been arrested for allegedly conspiring to seize control of a school and methodically murder some of its students and teachers. Police found gunpowder and other material used for making pipe bombs at the boys' homes... boys, aged 15 to 17... plot was planned for April 20, the anniversary of the 1999 Columbine High School massacre....worldtribune.com/ ... 18:59:48North Korea blasted President Bush's appointment of Undersecretary of State John Bolton, one of the toughest critics of Pyongyang, as new U.S. ambassador to the United Nations, saying he would only raise tensions in the international community. [Who's calling who a threat?]
THU 2005-MAR-17
Yuck!apnews.myway.com/ ... 13:25:12...In the Rath Building in downtown Buffalo, workers report that the bathrooms aren't being cleaned or maintained. ..no soap, paper towels or toilet paper in the restrooms... The Rath Building is home to many county offices, including ..Social Services and the Health Department... It's so bad, some county employees are bringing in their own toilet paper and other supplies....
US Executive Branchnews.ft.com/ ... 13:23:27President George W. Bush's decision on Wednesday to nominate Paul Wolfowitz as the next president of the World Bank marks the second shock this month to Europeans who thought Mr Bush would present a kinder, gentler face to the world in his second term.
Sex can be Dangerousreuters.com/ ... 13:18:51Distressed to find aging homeless women still working as prostitutes in downtown Mexico City, women's' groups are preparing a roomy retirement home to take 65 of them off the streets... "I may have two or three clients a day but I can't charge what the young ones do. Sometimes I just ask for food or a hotel room..."
Human Rightguardian.co.uk/ ... 14:40:39Doctors and health officials will consider whether more guidance on abortions is needed following the decision of the Crown Prosecution Service not to prosecute two doctors who authorised a late abortion on a foetus with a cleft lip and palate.
US Militarywashingtonpost.com/ ... 14:40:13The number of reported detainee abuse cases against U.S. Army soldiers in Iraq and Afghanistan declined sharply after the abuses at the Abu Ghraib prison came to light last spring, with incident reports dropping more than 75 percent from April 2004 to the end of last year and the number of death investigations also waning.... Army and Defense Department officials said the decrease in reported cases is the result of lessons learned from Abu Ghraib and a tightening of U.S. detention practices since. Although Army investigations have concluded that there was no policy of abuse or abusive tactics at U.S.-run prisons, officials said it is clear that operations were tightened after the abuse scandal....
Justice?vancouver.cbc.ca/ ... 14:38:36Reaction from the Indo-Canadian community to the acquittals of Ripudaman Singh Malik and Ajaib Singh Bagri is sharply divided. Worshippers at some fundamentalistist Sikh temples are pleased the two accused were found not guilty. But others say they are still getting over their shock and that the verdicts could deepen existing divisions.
Only Naturalreuters.com/ ... 13:17:44Marmosets who are fathers have a muted reaction to sexually available females -- an unusual response among primates... "It is a common notion that males are always interested in sex, regardless of their social status. But this study counters what has been seen in all other primates...."reuters.com/ ... 13:17:05A military biologist has documented a new species of fairy shrimp in Idaho, one of only four species among hundreds that are longer than an inch (2.54 cm) and eat their relatives... Dana Quinney, a biologist with the Idaho National Guard, said the new species most closely resembled "a feathery preying mantis with an attitude."...
Violenceabcnews.go.com/ ... 14:39:02The architect of Russia's widely criticized post-Soviet privatization program survived an assassination attempt Thursday when assailants detonated a powerful bomb and fired at his armored limousine as the nation's top energy official headed to work.
World Without Bordersmiddle-east.news.designerz.com/ ... 14:37:21Berlusconi has taken a battering from the press and opposition parties, which said he had been forced into an ignominious climbdown by his more powerful allies in Washington and London over his stated intention to withdraw Rome's troops from Iraq. But Berlusconi hit back Thursday, saying: "I have no reason to correct myself."
Digital Threatnews.bbc.co.uk/ ... 13:23:07More than one million computers on the net have been hijacked to attack websites and pump out spam and viruses.washingtontimes.com/ ... 13:21:07London, England, Mar. 17 -- London police say they have foiled.. thieves.. on the brink of stealing $423 million through electronic transfer from the London offices of Japanese bank Sumitomo Mitsui.. into 10 accounts around the world... one of the biggest attempted bank thefts in Britain....
Under Tyrannyreuters.com/ ... 13:19:17Tighter gun ownership laws are pushing South Africans to buy crossbows, spears, swords, knives and pepper sprays to protect themselves from violent crime.
WED 2005-MAR-16
Extraterrestrialabcnews.go.com/ ... 22:59:13For the second time in just under a year, a circuit breaker failed on the international space station Wednesday, shutting down one of the gyroscopes needed to keep the orbiting outpost steady and pointed in the right position.
Preternatural Patternsapnews.myway.com/ ... 18:01:11Wedgie... has made it into... Webster's New World College Dictionary...
wedgie: noun. a prank in which the victim's undershorts are jerked upward so as to become wedged between the buttocks.
"It never really entered the mainstream until the '90s. It broke out of high school and, boy - if you don't know what it is, you're absolutely at a loss." --Editor in Chief Michael Agnes
Theory of Educationtucsoncitizen.com/ ... 17:59:03A school monitor has been fired after another employee reportedly witnessed her stuffing grass or weeds in the mouths of first-graders.
Yeah, Sure!reuters.com/ ... 10:02:24New Joisey - ... two politicians who have introduced a resolution aimed at promoting kindness and civility in the often edgy Garden State... "If we can get a discussion about being nice out into the public, I think it could effect the way people interact with one another."...
What's In a Name?reuters.com/ ... 10:01:30"Let's put it this way, I'm always particularly alert on March 15 and have always come through it fine so far," said Cajus Julius Caesar, a parliamentarian with Germany's opposition Christian Democrats (CDU). "It's not a real worry."
Viva la differencereuters.com/ ... 09:58:32Most women, accustomed to paying more than men for goods and services like clothes and hair cuts, simply shrug it off as part of life, but an Ontario legislator hopes to end all that.
Yuck!reuters.com/ ... 09:57:35Safari parks in China have agreed to stop feeding their lions and tigers large live animals such as horses -- at least in public.
Digital Consequencesnews.bbc.co.uk/ ... 17:47:32Japanese electronics firm Hitachi has unveiled its first humanoid robot, called Emiew... quickest-moving robot yet at 6km/h (3.7 miles per hour).cnn.netscape.cnn.com/ ... 09:44:48The Falun Gong spiritual movement dismissed on Wednesday accusations by a Hong Kong-based satellite operator that it had hacked into a satellite to beam transmissions into mainland China.socaltech.com/ ... 09:39:37Marina Del Rey-based CinemaNow said this morning that it will start offering music videos for download for Windows and mobile devices. In an agreement with Warner Music Group and TVT Records, the video on demand company will sell music videos on a download-to-own basis. The new service, WatchMusicHere.com, will offer music videos for viewing and permanent storage on an a-la-carte basis. CinemaNow said that pricing would range from $1.99 to $2.99.
Whoops!spurgeon.org/ ... 10:00:18The Marmite FAQ -- dark brown-colored savory spread made from the yeast that is a by-product of the brewing industry.reuters.com/ ... 09:59:32A Marmite commercial that parodied 1950's science fiction film "The Blob" has been banned from all children's' programs in Britain after leaving kids too scared to watch televisionreuters.com/ ... 09:57:51A blow-up sex doll sparked a bomb alert in a German post office after it started to vibrate inside a package awaiting deliverynewscientist.com/ ... 09:35:21An anthrax scare involving three postal centres serving the US Pentagon has been blamed on a mix-up of samples. The scare has led to about 900 people receiving antibiotics and caused the stock market to dip.
Transportabcnews.go.com/ ... 09:35:01A Russian turboprop airliner carrying at least 52 people crashed and caught fire Wednesday while trying to land near an oil port along the Arctic coast, and at least 29 people were killed, officials said. Some survivors used a satellite phone to call authorities from the wreckage.
Justice?cbsnews.com/ ... 23:07:00A young man convicted of raping and murdering 16 boys was lashed 100 times, and then hanged Wednesday in front of a large, angry crowd who pelted him with stones.... Iranian reformists say public executions hurt the country's international image and reflect badly on Islam....theglobeandmail.com/ ... 23:04:15The two men acquitted of masterminding the mass murder of 329 people aboard Air-India Flight 182 walked out of court to waiting, triumphant family members and supporters yesterday.reuters.com/ ... 23:03:28The California judge in the trial of Scott Peterson said on Wednesday he agreed that the former fertilizer salesman should be sentenced to deathcbsnews.com/ ... 22:47:18Robert Blake was acquitted of murder and solicitation Wednesday... If Blake's stunning acquittal were a movie script, the studios might have sent it back for being too obvious and too predictable....
Only Naturalmsnbc.msn.com/ ... 23:02:07A buildup of stress on faults in Sumatra is likely to trigger another large earthquake — and potentially another tsunami — in the Indian Ocean region, seismologists say.msnbc.msn.com/ ... 23:01:48Scientists have cracked the genetic code of the female X chromosome which is linked to more than 300 human diseases and may help to explain why women are so different from men.... the Y is an eroded version of the X chromosome....nature.com/ ... 18:06:37Most bats are awkward on the ground, but the common vampire bat can bound along at more than 1 metre per second... "We knew they could hop and are very fast, but we weren't expecting this. Instead of walking fast, they ran...." Research suggests that bats lost effective terrestrial locomotion early in their evolutionary history, so it seems the vampires must have evolved it anew....
Police Riotcbsnews.com/ ... 22:49:50An estimated 600 students at Hudson High School in Hudson, Ohio, staged a walkout in support of their principal, whose contract was not renewed. ... cops responded by spraying the crowd with pepper spray, triggering further demonstrations that required additional police units in order to quell the situation. The incident was caught on tape by CBS affiliate WOIO....
Violencereuters.com/ ... 10:03:32[Italian] Priest Cesare Lodeserto... was arrested last weekend over accusations he had mistreated Romanian prostitutes.... The women allege that the well-known crusader against sex slavery kidnapped them by taking away their identity papers and refusing to let them leave the immigration center in southern Lecce province....
Rebuildingnews.bbc.co.uk/ ... 09:45:38IRAQ'S FIRST FREELY-ELECTED PARLIAMENT
Iraq's new interim parliament has ended its first session without taking a vote on a new government after the parties failed to agree on its make-up.
Digital Threatabcnews.go.com/ ... 22:56:51More than one-third of Internal Revenue Service employees and managers who were contacted by Treasury Department inspectors posing as computer technicians provided their computer login and changed their password, a government report said Wednesday.news.bbc.co.uk/ ... 09:53:57Instead of trying to stop them using the internet, talk to your children about what they are doing online. Encourage children to always tell a parent, teacher or guardian when they are surfing the internet. Experts recommend that a computer used by children should be kept downstairs and in sight of parents and guardians. A tactic likely to encourage children to talk about what they are doing and to ask for help with anything they find troubling.news.bbc.co.uk/ ... 09:53:24The Childbase system uses sophisticated software to compare the faces of people in new abusive images with those in pictures already investigated. If someone puts on weight or changes their hairstyle it can still recognise them and has already been able to identify the brothers and sisters of abuse victims.news.bbc.co.uk/ ... 09:52:57"About a year ago, when I was 15, my friend and I went into a chatroom on the internet. We'd never done it before and thought it would be fun. We soon started chatting to a boy, he said he was 19. We would chat to him for an hour each day. He sounded a nice person and gradually he started to ask personal questions... asked us if we wanted to meet him.... we thought it would be Ok and we hadn't heard anything about chatroom dangers....kentucky.com/ ... 09:44:22[GREAT BIG BLUBBERY DIGITAL DUHHHHH FOR EXASPERATINGLY PREDICTABLE CONSEQUENCES]
"CHANGE STOPLIGHTS FROM RED TO GREEN IN SECONDS!" "NOW YOU CONTROL THE INTERSECTIONS!" The devices, mobile infrared transmitters, allow a person to change an upcoming traffic light from red to green from as far as 1,500 feet. They are intended for emergency personnel, but sales of the devices to civilians on the Internet are making authorities nervous.
Threatscanada.com/ ... 17:53:12Police have decided not to charge a controversial Muslim leader under Canada's hate-crime laws for suggesting on a television talk show last fall that all adult Israelis are "legitimate targets" for Palestinian terrorists. Investigators with Halton Region police said that while the comments by Dr. Mohamed Elmasry "were described by many as [a] hate crime," they did not meet the legal definition.edition.cnn.com/ ... 17:52:39Under pressure from the United States, Europe and significant portion of Lebanon's populace, Syrian intelligence units Tuesday were in the process of leaving Beirutapnews.myway.com/ ... 17:52:22Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff said Wednesday it was a mistake for Hawaii to post a confidential report on its Web site... a draft copy of a confidential Homeland Security report that catalogues ways terrorists might strike in the United States.... but the department will continue to communicate openly with state and local authorities about potential terror threats....ap.tbo.com/ ... 09:50:37The United States deficit in the broadest measure of international trade soared to an all-time high of $665.9 billion in 2004....nytimes.com/ ... 09:40:58The Department of Homeland Security, trying to focus antiterrorism spending better nationwide, has identified a dozen possible strikes it views as most plausible or devastating, including detonation of a nuclear device in a major city, release of sarin nerve agent in office buildings and a truck bombing of a sports arena. The document, known simply as the National Planning Scenarios, reads more like a doomsday plan, offering estimates of the probable deaths and economic damage caused by each type of attack. ... blowing up a chlorine tank, killing 17,500 people and injuring more than 100,000; spreading pneumonic plague in the bathrooms of an airport, sports arena and train station, killing 2,500 and sickening 8,000 worldwide; and infecting cattle with foot-and-mouth disease at several sites, costing hundreds of millions of dollars in losses. Specific locations are not namedcanada.com/ ... 09:37:35After personally working with Mr. Adams to try to re-start the stalled peace process, President George W. Bush felt sufficiently disgusted by the IRA's actions to "disinvite" him from Washington's official St. Patrick's Day celebrations tomorrow.
__Prominent Irish-American politicians such as Senator Ted Kennedy told him not to call during his current U.S. visit; Republican Congressman Peter King of New York, who once described the IRA as "freedom fighters," said the organization has outlived its usefulness.
__That's a pretty powerful list of snubs in a country where the IRA, for three decades, tapped into misguided Irish-American romanticism about the nature of the group's struggle and clandestinely raised untold millions to finance its post-1969 attacks on civilians and soldiers in Northern Ireland and the British mainland.
__The lesson surely is that placing too much trust in political wings of terrorist organizations -- as the legal Sinn Fein party is to the outlawed IRA -- will eventually backfire.
__Yet the Bush administration -- contrary to its zero tolerance instincts for terrorist causes -- is reportedly going along with France and the United Nations on the need for a softer approach toward Lebanese-based Hezbollah.
TUE 2005-MAR-15
Mechanical Disastercanada.com/ ... 22:16:36Four siblings, ages 8 to 17, died when a television set exploded in their bedroom and their parents were badly burned trying to put out the fire
Sex -- always attractivereuters.com/ ... 18:55:54Young Chinese are becoming more relaxed about infidelity, pre-marital sex and divorce, "acts that have been frowned on for thousands of years," Xinhua news agency said Monday.
Preternatural Patternsreuters.com/ ... 14:34:00Thieves with a fondness for chewing gum broke into an isolated storage hall in the western German town of Steinfurt and made off with 200 fully loaded gum machines
Digital Consequencesnews.bbc.co.uk/ ... 13:34:48The best of the web's blogs - online diaries or websites where people publish their thoughts - have been recognised in the annual Bloggies.
Supernaturalreuters.com/ ... 18:55:32A Turkish mayor Monday defended a decision to remove a bronze statue of his town's most famous son, Saint Nicholas, and replace it with a brightly colored model of his modern incarnation, Santa Claus. The move has been criticized in the Turkish press, which said it risked making Muslim Turkey -- an EU candidate -- look intolerant toward a Christian figure who, among other things, is also Russia's patron saint.Rev Will B Dunn: 'I hate these modern translations!'telegraph.co.uk/ ... 10:52:14...the New International Version [Bible], has been modernised by a team of 15 American and British scholars and is published today.... "aliens" .. is replaced with "foreigners" ... "saints" .. replaced with "God's chosen people". ..Mary is no longer "with child"; she is "pregnant"...
"When God created Man, he made him in the likeness of God".. [becomes] "When God created human beings, he made them in the likeness of God."..
"Naboth has been stoned and is dead" [changed] to "Naboth has been stoned to death"....
US Military Casualtiesdefenselink.mil/ ... 22:17:44[flag]Marine Lance Cpl. Joshua L. Torrence, 20, of Lexington, S.C., died March 14 of wounds received as a result of hostile action in Al Anbar Province, Iraq.defenselink.mil/ ... 22:17:22[flag]Army Staff Sgt. Donald D. Griffith, Jr., 29, of Mechanicsville, Iowa, died Mar.11 as a result of hostile action in, Tal Afar, Iraq.
US Militaryclickondetroit.com/ ... 18:58:10After telling Marine reservists who drive foreign vehicles or display pro-President Bush bumper stickers they no longer could use a parking lot at the United Auto Workers headquarters, union officials have changed their minds.
Only Naturalreuters.com/ ... 14:33:11"We have shown for the first time that EGCG, which is present in green tea at relatively high concentrations, inhibits the enzyme dihydrofolate reductase (DHFR), which is a recognized, established target for anti-cancer drugs...."news.yahoo.com/ ... 13:33:33A slow-moving storm dumped 2 to 3 feet of snow on parts of northern and eastern New Mexico, closing major highways, schools and some government offices Tuesday.
Under Tyrannyworldnetdaily.com/ ... 22:15:12Under a new passport policy in Canada, ''Israel" cannot be specified as the country of birth for Canadian citizens born in Jerusalem. Canadian Jews are being told by their government to surrender their passports so the word "Israel" can be removed if it appears next to the name of the Jewish state's declared capital, according to a report by Israel National News.reuters.com/ ... 18:56:56Malawi police detained two journalists and one government official Tuesday over reports saying President Bingu wa Mutharika had left his mansion in the capital because of fears it was haunted.
Violenceap.tbo.com/ ... 14:30:40Brian Nichols, his hands and ankles shackled, appeared before Cobb County Magistrate Judge Frank Cox on the same rape charge that he was on trial for Friday when he escaped from another courthouse... Cox was brought in to hear the case after all the judges in Fulton County excused themselves because of their relationships with Judge Rowland Barnes and the other victims... All people who are booked into the Fulton County Jail make their first appearance before a judge at the jail. However, there usually are only three or four officers on hand for most jail hearings. On Tuesday, in addition to 19 officers lining the walls of the room, several more blocked the hall outside....ap.tbo.com/ ... 14:27:56DALLAS - A man in a Jaguar stood up through the sunroof and opened fire with an assault rifle on another vehicle early Tuesday, killing three men and critically wounding a fourtap.tbo.com/ ... 14:27:08...."I got down on the floor and Jerry got down next to me," Hodzinski said Monday of Jerry Miller, who had been seated across the aisle from her at a church service. "I said, 'Jerry, it's time to start praying.'" Hodzinski, 78, said Miller covered half of her body with his, protecting her from the shots. She didn't realize as she crawled down the aisle that one of the bullets had struck him in the chest.... She later learned that the man who she believes saved her life had died....news.bbc.co.uk/ ... 14:23:47Piecing together a deadly puzzle by Chris Summers
On Wednesday, a Canadian judge will announce a verdict in the trial of two Sikhs accused of planting a bomb which blew up an Air India jumbo jet over the Atlantic in 1985. It claimed the lives of 329 people, 82 of them children.news.bbc.co.uk/ ... 13:34:19Russia's security service says it paid a $10m (£5.2m) bounty for information that led to the killing of Chechen rebel leader Aslan Maskhadov.
Threatsnews.bbc.co.uk/ ... 20:05:10Italy is to begin withdrawing its troops from Iraq in September 2005reuters.com/ ... 14:24:55New York prosecutors said on Tuesday 18 people have been arrested on charges of trafficking in arms from Russia, including rocket-propelled grenades and shoulder-fired surface-to-air missiles.news.yahoo.com/ ... 13:33:59Pakistani forces hunting Osama bin Laden lost track of the Al-Qaeda leader after coming close to discovering his whereabouts several months ago, President Pervez Musharraf said in an interview.apnews.myway.com/ ... 10:36:38Sensors at two military mail facilities in the Washington area detected signs of anthrax on two pieces of mail Monday... mail had already been irradiated, rendering any anthrax inert. Officials weren't sure if this was an attack.... sometimes anthrax sensors can give false-positive results....
MON 2005-MAR-14
Family Patternssuntimes.com/ ... 20:55:46A Cook County family court judge has ordered Chicago doctor Richard Phillips to double his child support payments, and he'll soon start building a relationship with a 5-year-old daughter he's never met.
Whoops!worldnetdaily.com/ ... 20:55:26Some 103 suspected members of a violent criminal street gang that has been linked to al-Qaida and other terrorist groups have been arrested in seven U.S. cities, the government announced today.... known to behead victims and attack with grenades and machetes.... specializes in cross-border drug-dealing, arms-running and people smuggling operations..... ap.tbo.com/ ... 20:50:19 A gun that a second-grader said he found on his way to school went off in his book bag in a classroom Monday, shooting him in the hand
Supernaturalobserver.guardian.co.uk/ ... 12:18:16A 15-strong panel of eminent theologians and linguists was so concerned that young people reading the Bible today are confusing the phrase 'stoned' not with Old Testament executions but with drugs, that it has suggested a radical clarification to a forthcoming edition of the sacred text.
Digital Consequencesnews.bbc.co.uk/ ... 20:48:46A special adaptor that helps people with hand tremors control a computer mouse more easily has been developed.cf.newsday.com/ ... 12:17:21Regarding the article, Communities Adjust to Medical Privacy Laws, online at http://www.nynewsday.com/news/health/sns-ap-sunshine-week-medical-privacy%2C0%2C93646.story

Like many changes, modern medical privacy laws have positive and negative effects, both touched upon in this article.

Increased privacy is really long overdue, especially in an age of instant worldwide mass information, but the loss of the community awareness, the human interest, certainly deserves to be considered as well.

Maybe I'm unclear on the difficulties, but it seems to me that the "dilemma" of communities not knowing who has been admitted to the hospital ought to be easily addressed by simply presenting patients, upon admission, with a clear, simple, plain-language form they could sign to grant such a public announcement. This might not satisfy the worst gossipy busybodies but otherwise should compenste sufficiently the neighborly communication some feel has been lost to privacy concerns.

DL Tyler, freelance common tater, Oklahomareuters.com/ ... 11:23:39Customers of a German supermarket chain will soon be able to pay for their shopping by placing their finger on a scanner at the check-out, saving the time spent scrabbling for coins or cards.
Preternatural Patternsreuters.com/ ... 11:24:09Approximately 240,000 manhole and street- drain covers were stolen in Beijing in 2004msnbc.msn.com/ ... 11:14:28Bush has always used humor as an icebreaker or all-purpose tool of endearment. But he has recently been unleashing (or inflicting) his inner-laugh-riot to a point where he is resembling a Texas auctioneer pitching private accounts on the Borscht Belt.
US Election 2008worldnetdaily.com/ ... 11:54:01[Yeah, well, the Chinese backed Bill....]
Iranian Americans accused by members of their community of collaborating with the cleric-led Islamic regime in Tehran have planned a fund-raiser for Sen. Hillary Clinton in the San Francisco Bay Area.newsday.com/ ... 01:31:57"I don't have any desire or intention of running for president," Rice said on NBC News' "Meet the Press with Tim Russert." "I've never wanted to run for anything, and I just don't have any desire to do it."
Human Rightapnews.myway.com/ ... 20:44:13A judge ruled Monday that California's ban on gay marriage is unconstitutional - a legal milestone that, if upheld on appeal, would open the way for the most populous state to follow Massachusetts in allowing same-sex couples to wed.
US Military Casualtiesdefenselink.mil/ ... 12:21:51[flag]Army Spc. Nicholas E. Wilson, 21, of Glendale, Ariz., died Mar. 11, in Ar Ramadi, Iraq, while conducting a roving patrol when his military vehicle rolled into a water-filled ditch after the shoulder of the road he was on collapsed.
Only Naturalnews.telegraph.co.uk/ ... 11:56:03A mother and her 10-year-old son died and her 13-year-old daughter was feared dead last night after they were swept out to sea by a freak wave on the North Yorkshire coast.news.bbc.co.uk/ ... 11:20:26Scientists in Iran are urging the government to move the capital out of Tehran. ....The city, which lies on at least 100 known fault lines could be hit by a major earthquake.... 90% chance of an earthquake measuring 6 on the Richter scale hitting Tehran and a 50% chance of an earthquake measuring 7.5 striking the capital....
US Militarydetnews.com/ ... 01:15:46The UAW no longer will allow Marine reservists who work out of a base in Detroit to park at the Solidarity House lot if they have foreign cars or display pro-Bush bumper stickers.
WW2 - still with usnews.bbc.co.uk/ ... 20:48:07A German historian has claimed in a new book presented on Monday that Nazi scientists successfully tested a tactical nuclear weapon in the last months of World War II.,,, the last test, carried out in Thuringia on 3 March 1945, destroyed an area of about 500 sq m - killing several hundred prisoners of war and concentration camp inmates..... measurements carried out recently at the test site.. found radioactive isotopes... "Karlsch displays a catastrophic lack of understanding of physics," wrote physicist Michael Schaaf, author of a previous book about Nazi atomic experiments....
Aftermathreuters.com/ ... 11:21:30A federal judge has barred the U.S. government from transferring 13 Yemeni detainees from Guantanamo Bay out of concern for their safety... one of the attorneys representing the Yemenis, said he was concerned his clients would be mistreated in the custody of another country... Such a transfer would also sabotage a pending U.S. court petition on the legality of the 13 Yemenis' detention, which seeks their release....
Peace 3000csmonitor.com/ ... 12:20:07Why democracy stirs in Mideast -- The factors behind the political opening from Baghdad to Beirut, and beyond
"We are witnessing the twilight of the old order. Partly that is because the Arab world is feeling the pressure from outside.... But democracy is not made by outside influence... To have democracy, you must have democrats."news.bbc.co.uk/ ... 11:18:41Nearly one million people have gathered for an opposition rally in Beirut, officials say - a month after the death of former Prime Minister Rafik Hariri.
Disinformation Propaganda & Spinenglish.peopledaily.com.cn/ ... 11:10:27"I don't think US should be the leader of the world" --Philip Bennett, Managing Editor of Washington Postnewshounds.us/ ... 01:34:59FOX News Provides PR For The Pentagon
Digital Threateweek.com/ ... 11:58:43America Online spokesman Andrew Weinstein, however, maintained that AOL does not monitor, read or review any user-to-user communication through the AIM network, except in response to a valid legal process. Weinstein told eWEEK.com the clause in question falls under the heading "Content You Post," meaning it only relates to content a user posts in a public area of the AIM service. "If a user posts content in a public area of the service, like a chat room, message board or other public forum, that information may be used by AOL for other purposes," he explained. "...user-to-user communication has been and will remain private...."
[Funny... the LANGUAGE OF THE AGREEMENT doesn't read that way. BOYCOTT AOL!]geek.com/ ... 11:17:09As part of the new terms AOL reserves the right to record all content posted through the AIM service and use it as it sees fit in the future without any communication with users.eweek.com/ ... 01:18:17America Online, Inc. has quietly updated the terms of service for its AIM instant messaging application...
....gives AOL the right to "reproduce, display, perform, distribute, adapt and promote" all content distributed across the chat network by users.

"You waive any right to privacy. You waive any right to inspect or approve uses of the content or to be compensated for any such uses," according to the AIM terms-of-service.

Although the user will retain ownership of the content passed through the AIM network, the terms give AOL ownership of "all right, title and interest in any compilation, collective work or other derivative work created by AOL using or incorporating this [user] content.

"In addition, by posting content on an AIM Product, you grant AOL, its parent, affiliates, subsidiaries, assigns, agents and licensees the irrevocable, perpetual, worldwide right to reproduce, display, perform, distribute, adapt and promote this content in any medium," it added.
Threatsreuters.com/ ... 11:22:38 the trend for the future will be to move the scanners outside the terminal building and operate them in "stand-off mode" -- checking people from a distance before they even set foot inside.time.com/ ... 01:16:51Zarqawi Planning U.S. Hit? -- Intelligence officials say operatives may infiltrate via Central America to strike at soft targets on American soil
Violenceaccessnorthga.com/ ... 17:01:34a courthouse surveillance camera recorded Brian Nichols' initial surprise attack on Fulton County Deputy Cynthia Hall but that no one in the control center noticed the assault.... "It's not just horrible, it was preventable..."thisislondon.com/ ... 11:12:39The man with the axe approached his victim and repeatedly struck him as he screamed for help. When officers arrived it is reported the attacker was standing over the body and told them: "It's private."seattlepi.nwsource.com/ ... 01:32:43An intense fire that destroyed a Baptist church here yesterday was set by someone "trying to send a message," a deputy fire chief said yesterday. But there were no suspects... Pastor.. mystified as to why his.. Church was targeted....csmonitor.com/ ... 01:30:30From bullet-proof benches to 'shockbelts' for dangerous defendants, courts take precautions.washingtonpost.com/ ... 01:29:58....her ordeal began with the man sticking a gun in her side and tying her up, but ended with the weapons on the floor as he let her go to see her young daughter. After hours of talking about the killings, their families and God, Ashley Smith said Brian Nichols "just wanted some normalness to his life....."reuters.com/ ... 01:27:16Philippine police prepared on Monday to launch an assault on Islamic radicals holed up at a police detention center who snatched weapons from their guards and killed three of them in an escape attempt. About 10 prisoners, including members of the Abu Sayyaf militant group, had occupied the second-story of a four-star police building in the Taguig suburb that was holding nearly 130 suspected Islamic militants.msnbc.msn.com/ ... 01:15:01...Italian authorities suspect the Egyptian was the target of a CIA-sponsored operation known as rendition, in which terrorism suspects are forcibly taken for interrogation to countries where torture is practiced....foxnews.com/ ... 01:14:09A 2-year-old remained in critical condition Sunday after being shot by his 4-year-old brother, who may not have known the difference between a real and a toy gun
SUN 2005-MAR-13
1960s - less with uslasvegassun.com/ ... 18:29:32Dr. Charles R. Baxter, one of the surgeons who tried to save President John F. Kennedy after he was shot, has died, a colleague said. He was 75.
1960s - still with usaolsvc.news.aol.com/ ... 18:29:02....34 years after his death, the state of Florida has found and restored what it believes to be the earliest film of [Jim] Morrison [of The Doors], shot in the early 60s when he attended Florida State University.... may have gone unnoticed if Jaime Madden hadn't noticed a familiarity in the way young Morrison was standing....
Digital Family Patternsap.tbo.com/ ... 16:29:40...Judy's son, Daniel Stephens, later became a free man and from there two branches of the Stephens family tree - one black, one white - diverged, only to be reunited nearly 150 years later through the Internet....
Digital Consequencesreuters.com/ ... 16:35:44Two industrial manufacturers, Guardian Industries Corp. and Honeywell International Inc., have sued dozens of companies in the global PC and video display businesses in a U.S. federal court to try to recoup royalties on liquid-crystal technology....nytimes.com/ ... 03:41:56How the iPod Ran Circles Around the Walkmanearthtimes.org/ ... 03:34:52By buying out Groove Networks yesterday, Bill Gates again demonstrated his superlative business acumen. .. Groove had developed the ‘virtual office’ and Microsoft plans a feature which will enable groups of people to share information, documents, spreadsheets, and even manage projects and collaborate on common tasks over the Internet. Groove’s networking software is quite similar to Napster's original music-sharing system.
Only Naturalfencepost.com/ ... 18:30:32Garlic is being used as an alternative to chemical pesticides in Bangladesh. A four-year research project funded by the United States Department of Agriculture has developed a garlic tablet that can treat seeds for control of pathogens and insects.....news.telegraph.co.uk/ ... 18:27:44Osama the crocodile, the terror of Lake Victoria and reputedly the world's most prolific man-eater, is staring blankly at the concrete wall of his new home, his expression suggestive of deep depression. Only two weeks ago he was feasting on the remains of a 12-year-old boy, the 83rd victim from Luganga village he had dragged to his lair on the papyrus banks of Africa's largest lake. Last Monday, however, a beast once thought to be charmed, if not immortal, was finally captured by 50 local men and wildlife officials after a stakeout in southern Uganda lasting seven days and seven nights.....news.telegraph.co.uk/ ... 18:26:51The Cranach altar in the Erfurt Cathedral was being destroyed by the wood-eating insects, but officials delayed taking action because they feared that chemical treatments might damage its 11 painted panels. Instead they adopted a pioneering technique which may now be emulated in historic buildings across Europe: releasing 3,000 parasitic wasps, which feed on woodworm larvae.....
US Militaryreuters.com/ ... 03:33:37Two Afghan prisoners in U.S. custody in Afghanistan in 2002 died after being chained up, kicked and beaten by American soldiers, The New York Times reported Saturday The newspaper cited Army criminal investigative reports obtained by Human Rights Watch that have not yet been made public... One soldier... was charged with manslaughter in a closed hearing last month in Texas in connection with one of the deaths in Afghanistan, another Army document showed.... abuse at Bagram went far beyond the two killings....
Digital Threatmdn.mainichi.co.jp/ ... 18:29:56Four elementary school students will be reported to a child consultation center for using a counterfeit 10,000-yen note at a local stationery shop
Violencecsmonitor.com/ ... 18:25:38Before it was over, seven people, including the church's minister and his teenage son, were killed and four others wounded. Ratzmann then took his own life.... left no suicide note... gave no explanation for the killings... Ratzmann was on the verge of losing his job and was upset over a sermon he heard two weeks ago. ...unclear what specifically upset him, but Ratzmann was a member of the Living Church of God, a denomination whose leader recently prophesied that end times are near....suntimes.com/ ... 16:33:07...On Friday, the Marshals Service issued a statement that "protecting federal jurists, prosecutors and trial witnesses is the highest priority and oldest mission of the United States Marshals.
..."With this experience, American society crossed a sad, new threshold last week. The most recent cases on record in which family members of federal judges were harmed were the wives of two circuit judges, one in New York (the wife of Judge Charles L. Bryant) and one in Alabama (the wife of Judge Robert Vance). Both incidents involved packages mailed to their residences. In neither case was the spouse killed."
...The Marshals Service pointed out that its court security officers arrested eight people across the country last year for potential security breaches. And in the 215 years since the service was founded, not one federal judge has been murdered in a courthouse....kplctv.com/ ... 16:31:42...they give much of the credit to the woman who called 9-1-1 after being taken hostage.Police say she stayed unusually "cool and levelheaded."They say she had long talks with her captor during the 13 hours she was held hostage in her own apartment. ..reuters.com/ ... 03:35:08A roadside bomb has killed two American contractors in Iraqsuntimes.com/ ... 03:31:43....Now they are trying to figure out how Ross was able to obtain the addresses of Lefkow and other judges he is suspected of stalking since the killing. Three computers and a Blackberry hand-held e-mail device seized from Ross' van and home are being analyzed to see what Internet sites he may have visited to search for the judges' personal information -- and what other personal information he had on federal officials, attorneys and other defendants he named in his exhaustive legal battles that left him embittered with the system....
SAT 2005-MAR-12
Supernaturalworldnetdaily.com/ ... 18:55:57...the Palm Beach Post discovered the Easter festivities held last weekend and scheduled for this weekend are being supervised by Baxter the Bunny, Peter Rabbit, and Garden Bunny.... Mall officials... admitted to caving in to concern over what could be perceived as religious promotion.... "I suppose the name Easter Bunny is fairly unusual," Boynton Beach mall manager... said. "I know it's probably not the popular thing to call it."
Now That's Funny!today.reuters.com/ ... 19:00:43A judge on Friday gave late-night TV comedian Jay Leno his blessing to tell virtually all the jokes he wants about pop star Michael Jackson and his child molestation trial... ha ha hee hee?news.bbc.co.uk/ ... 14:33:05[Ironic news pun of the week]
Actress Jane Fonda is to undergo hip replacement
Extraterrestrialjpost.com/ ... 19:06:56...living organisms that were aboard the Columbia space shuttle survived the spacecraft's breakup.... hundreds of tiny worms, were on board as part of an experiment... thought to be the first to report an animal surviving the atmospheric breakup of the spacecraft supporting it.... The recovered canisters were opened almost three months after Columbia's breakup. With a life cycle of between seven and 10 days, the live worms were several generations removed from those originally placed inside....breakingnews.iol.ie/ ... 14:26:21Film-maker George Lucas has warned parents the sixth and final Star Wars movie is not suitable for young children.
Preternatural Patternsrockymountainnews.com/ ... 18:58:40University of Colorado officials investigating embattled professor Ward Churchill received documents this week purporting to show that he plagiarized another professor's work.news.bbc.co.uk/ ... 14:11:55Authorities in the city of Rajahmundry in Andhra Pradesh state are sending drummers around to create a noise outside homes until [tax] evaders cough up.
Only Naturalnews.telegraph.co.uk/ ... 19:07:42At least six people in remote Afghan villages have been killed by wolves descending from the hills to escape hunger in the country's worst winter in 15 years.
Aftermathnytimes.com/ ... 21:03:27In the weeks after Baghdad fell in April 2003, looters systematically dismantled and removed tons of machinery from Saddam Hussein's most important weapons installations, including some with high-precision equipment capable of making parts for nuclear arms, a senior Iraqi official said this week in the government's first extensive comments on the looting.
Threatstimesonline.co.uk/ ... 21:02:56ISRAEL has drawn up secret plans for a combined air and ground attack on targets in Iran if diplomacy fails to halt the Iranian nuclear programme.
[Whenever "secret plans" are revealed, it is for political purposes. Everyone should know that any military would be remiss if it did not examine and prepare for every reasonable contingency.]alertnet.org/ ... 18:58:12 Israel said on Friday that Iran was very close to being able to make a nuclear bomb and urged the United States and Europe to pressure Tehran to abandon a suspected nuclear arms program. Foreign Minister Silvan Shalom told Reuters an Iranian nuclear bomb would be a "nightmare" for Israel and other countries... "The idea that this tyranny of Iran will hold a nuclear bomb is a nightmare not only for us but for the whole world..."news.telegraph.co.uk/ ... 18:57:22Saddam Hussein's regime offered a $2 million (£1.4 million) bribe to the United Nations' chief weapons inspector to doctor his reports on the search for weapons of mass destruction.... "My answer was, 'That is not the way we do business in Sweden.' "worldnetdaily.com/ ... 18:54:15Convicted Egyptian cleric Omar Abdul Rahman, mastermind of the first bombing of the World Trade Center, continues to communicate with and inspire his followers despite his imprisonment... incarcerated in the one of the most secure prisons in the United States, but letters to followers somehow still manage to reach his intended audience of terrorists through publication on various websites... there is sufficient evidence to suggest others incarcerated on terrorist-related offenses have made inroads within the U.S. prison system that permits them to maintain at least low levels of communication with their followers....
WW2 - still with usreuters.com/ ... 21:05:13U.S. and Japan Veterans Recall Iwo Jima Battle... took the lives of nearly 7,000 U.S. Marines and 21,000 Japanese defenders.... Only about 1,000 Japanese survived the fighting. Of those just a handful are still alive....ap.tbo.com/ ... 14:56:00OSLO, Norway -- Children of Hitler's Racial Master Plan... the children born of Hitler's dream of breeding a master race by pairing German soldiers with north European women deemed to meet the blond, fair-skinned "Aryan ideal..." Their parentage condemned many of them to the margins of society....
Digital Threatreuters.com/ ... 14:37:08The makers of Spyware Assassin.. tried to drum up sales by offering to clean up nonexistent computer "spyware..." temporarily shut down, U.S. regulators... tried to scare consumers into buying software through pop-up ads and e-mail that warned their computers had been infected... Free spyware scans... turned up evidence of spyware even on machines that were entirely clean, and its $29.95 Spyware Assassin program did not actually remove spyware....
Violencefoxnews.com/ ... 21:11:20Wisconsin.. victims were all in the same room at the hotel... The suspect, a man of about 45 who was armed with a handgun, was affiliated with the church, which had been meeting at the hotel every Saturday morning for four or five years... victims... Two boys ages 15 and 17, a 72-year-old man and a 55-year-old woman died at the hotel. Three men ranging in age from 44 to 58 died later at a hospital.... Brookfield is a western suburb of Milwaukee.foxnews.com/ ... 21:09:49Atlanta courtroom killings: The Victims
Superior Court Judge Rowland Barnes.. "..He could laugh at himself better than anybody..."
Court reporter Julie Brandau.. often brought homemade cookies, brownies and other sweets to the courthouse for colleagues and jurors serving in trials that Barnes presided over.
Hoyt Teasley was known as a protector... when he was young, he once took off on his bike to help find a missing neighborhood girl... was trying to protect others when he was shot during his attempt to apprehend the gunman outside the courthouse.
David Wilhelm ...18-year career with the federal government... had become assistant special agent-in-charge in Atlanta in November with the Bureau of Immigration and Customs Enforcement, formerly the U.S. Customs Service....nzherald.co.nz/ ... 21:03:55A man opened fire with a handgun at a church service in a Wisconsin hotel, killing seven people and wounding four before taking his own life....abcnews.go.com/ ... 21:00:53Long background article about the killer of Chicago judge's husband, motherap.tbo.com/ ... 14:57:15A 911 call from a woman who had been held hostage for hours in her own apartment ended a daylong manhunt for a rape suspect accused of shooting a judge and two others...11alive.com/ ... 14:24:26...the man suspected of shooting to death a state judge, a court reporter, a deputy, and injuring another deputy, was captured by authorities Saturday morning.... may also be the suspect in the murder of an U.S. Immigrantion and Customs enforcement agent...seattletimes.nwsource.com/ ... 14:10:54The judge who was slain along with two other court workers yesterday had asked for extra security after the shooting suspect had signaled his violent intentions two days earlier.... the 6-foot-1, 200-pound Nichols was in a holding area of the courthouse.. changing into the civilian attire... Before Deputy Cynthia Hall — the only officer guarding Nichols at that time — could reattach his handcuffs, Nichols grabbed her gun. He shot her in the head and took her keys so he could escape from the locked holding zone.... left the holding area... went into the [area] that housed Barnes' courtroom. A civil trial was in progress, with "over a dozen people [present]...." Barnes, 64, was shot in the head. He and stenographer Julie Ann Brandau, 43, died in the courtroom.... Hall is hospitalized in critical condition but is expected to survive....
FRI 2005-MAR-11
Supernaturalnews.bbc.co.uk/ ... 22:10:53intrusion
France's Catholic Church has won a court injunction to ban a clothing advertisement based on Leonardo da Vinci's Christ's Last Supper. The display was ruled "a gratuitous and aggressive act of intrusion on people's innermost beliefs"
Whoops!news.bbc.co.uk/ ... 22:07:01US prosecutors trying to crack a murder case realised they were barking up the wrong tree when one of their witnesses turned out to be a small dog.reuters.com/ ... 21:52:48A Canadian member of Parliament charged with improving ties with the United States apologized on Thursday for saying "let's embarrass the hell out of the Americans in front of other countries."
Theory of Educationworldnetdaily.com/ ... 22:05:03..."Remember to use a condom for oral, anal and vaginal sex," the young actress says, noting that if the condom is accidentally put on inside out, it must be discarded for a new one... "Don't unroll the whole thing and then try to put it on," she advises as she rolls a condom onto a vertical cucumber. "It won't be easy, and the condom is much more likely to tear." Says the Citizens for a Responsible Curriculum website: "We question the judgment of the MCPS Board of Education's decision to include oral and anal sex in the video...."reuters.com/ ... 21:52:23A Harvard University student's fledgling dorm-cleaning business faced the threat of a campus boycott on Thursday after the school's daily newspaper slammed it for dividing students along economic lines.
[Presumably, the criticism of this spirited and ingenious entrepreneurial student is not coming from the BUSINESS school at Harvard??]
Preternatural Patternsfoxnews.com/ ... 09:47:50One thing is for sure: the combined pressures of his financial peril and seeing his accuser on the stand have undone Jackson. My insider says: "He does not have back trouble," as Jackson claimed. "He's making it up. But he's definitely in pain. He's creating it."
US Military Casualtiesdefenselink.mil/ ... 22:12:29[flag]Navy Petty Officer First Class Alec Mazur, 35, of Vernon, N.Y., died Mar. 9, in a non-combat related incident in the U.S. Central Command Area of Responsibility. defenselink.mil/ ... 22:12:05[flag]Army Spc. Matthew A. Koch, 23, of West Henrietta, N.Y. died Mar. 9 in Taji, Iraq, from injuries sustained when an improvised explosive device detonated near his vehicle.
Only Naturalap.tbo.com/ ... 09:49:44A gene mutation has been linked to age-related macular degeneration, the leading cause of blindness in the elderly, by three sets of researchers working independently... An estimated 15 million Americans suffer from the disorder, a number expected to double as the baby boom generation ages....
Yeah, Sure!mdn.mainichi.co.jp/ ... 22:06:33...[51yo Doctor] reportedly told police that taking the photographs was part of his "treatment activities," but police concluded that there was no need to make patients take off all their clothes in ultrasound tests....
Disinformation Propaganda & Spinworldnetdaily.com/ ... 22:03:34The published claim that Saddam Hussein's capture in a "spider hole" was staged by the U.S. military continues to fall apart, as the Marine Corps has no record of the purported former Marine making the allegation.
WW2 - still with usreuters.com/ ... 21:41:41The U.S. government reached a $25.5 million settlement Friday with Hungarian Holocaust survivors over a trainload of gold, artwork and other property seized by the U.S. Army near the end of World War II after it had been stolen by Nazis... Decades after the event, and lacking an inventory, it would be hard and costly to assess personal loss and compensation, so most of the fund -- a minimum of $21 million -- would be used for social welfare programs... 24 boxcars were packed with gold, jewelry, art, clothing, Oriental rugs and other household goods and religious articles then valued at between $50 million and $200 million....
Digital Threatap.tbo.com/ ... 21:42:48Microsoft Corp. is giving early versions of its software security patches to the U.S. Air Force and other organizations, a practice some experts fear could give rogue hackers important details about how to break into unprotected computers on a massive scale.msnbc.msn.com/ ... 10:15:01Hackers have caused no serious damage to systems that feed the nation's power grid, but their untiring efforts have heightened concerns that electric companies have failed to adequately fortify defenses against a potential catastrophic strike. The fear: In a worst-case scenario, terrorists or others could engineer an attack that sets off a widespread blackout and damages power plants, prolonging an outage.
Police Riotwftv.com/ ... 10:14:11ORLANDO, Fla. -- A police officer twice used a Taser stun device on a drug suspect who was restrained to a hospital bed because the man refused to give a urine sample to medical staff.... "I feel I was basically raped..."
Under Tyrannyiht.com/ ... 10:08:35"I was proud when Tung Chee-hwa was appointed to run Hong Kong because he is Chinese like me... They said a Chinese leader would be much better than the British, but that was not true.... We had more freedom with the British... Under the Chinese government we are more constrained and that makes Hong Kong people frustrated...."
Violencecnn.com/ ... 21:50:46...inspired his daughter to seek a career in law and as a jurist who reached out to people in court....
"There was not a nicer, friendlier person..."kansascity.com/ ... 21:49:13"He was one of the friendliest judges in the courthouse...."ap.tbo.com/ ... 21:47:10The man charged with kidnapping teenager Elizabeth Smart was kicked out of his mental competency trial Friday after he began singing a hymn, the fourth time he has been removed from hearings for singing....ap.tbo.com/ ... 21:46:51Brian Nichols had generated fears among authorities the day before he allegedly killed three people in a courthouse rampage. Prosecutors and the judge requested extra security for deputies after investigators found shanks in each of Nichols' shoes Thursday, prosecutor Gayle Abramson said. Nichols, 33, had apparently sharpened part of a door knob into a dangerous weapon. ...also made jurors nervous. Juror.. said he became unnerved by the defendant's cold, hard stares at the jury box. "Every time he looked up, he was staring at you...." overpowered a court deputy, taking her gun, before killing three people: the judge presiding over his case, a court reporter and a deputy who confronted him as he escaped the courthouse. Police also said he pistol-whipped a newspaper reporter as he carjacked his vehicle and fled.... On Friday morning, Nichols allegedly overpowered a court deputy, taking her gun, before killing three people: the judge presiding over his case, a court reporter and a deputy who confronted him ...sky.com/ ... 21:40:21... stocky..12-year-old.. schoolboy.. 5ft 3in tall.. has severe learning difficulties.. has been detained for life by a judge at Teesside Crown Court for raping his teacher.. as she sat next to him during a one-to-one teaching session.. at a special needs centre....apnews.myway.com/ ... 10:12:23ATLANTA -- A judge and a court reporter were shot to death Friday at the Fulton County Courthouse, authorities said. At least two others were wounded, and a search for the suspect was under way.wpbfnews.com/ ... 10:09:15The U.S. Army has raised the death toll to "at least 50" from Thursday's suicide bombing in northern Iraq.qconline.com/ ... 10:06:14A DNA match convinced police that a Chicago electrician who claimed responsibility for the slayings of a federal judge's husband and mother was the killer...
Judge Lefkow described Ross as "a very pathetic, tragic person..." "I guess on one level I'm relieved that it didn't have anything to do with the white supremacy movement, because I feel my children are going to be safer... It's heartbreaking that my husband and mother had to die over something like this...."ap.tbo.com/ ... 09:50:16A boy no older than 11 was among the children held by the Army at Iraq's Abu Ghraib prison, the former U.S. commander of the facility told a general investigating abuses at the prison.
Threatsap.tbo.com/ ... 21:47:41Syrian Troops Leave North Lebanon; Only Intelligence Offices Remain [Er... Didn't they get that... kind-of... backwards??]iht.com/ ... 21:37:24... the Chechen tragedy of the past decade and a half has always had two crucial elements. The first has been the criminal errors of successive Russian governments and the abominable behavior of Russian troops towards the Chechen civilian population. The second, however, has been the inability of the Chechens to develop the basic structures of an effective state and a modern civil society. Unlike the Irish or Tamil nationalists, Chechens have not created a mass political-nationalist party or an effective political-military movement. That has allowed Chechnya to fall under the sway of a mixture of criminal and extremist forces.....dw-world.de/ ... 10:06:57Some 60 passengers claiming to be of Iranian origin were detained by Belgian police early Friday after staging a sit-in on a Lufthansa plane at Brussels airport for nearly 16 hours overnight... appeared to be a protest against the European Union's conciliatory policies towards Iran....nytimes.com/ ... 09:49:05....a Pentagon effort to cut a Guantánamo population that stands at about 540 detainees by releasing some outright and by transferring others for continued detention elsewhere. The proposal comes as the Bush administration reviews the future of the naval base at Guantánamo as a detention center, after court decisions and shifts in public opinion have raised legal and political questions about the use of the facility.....
THU 2005-MAR-10
History - still with usnews.independent.co.uk/ ... 20:02:22The site of a Bronze Age shipwreck, loaded with French-made weapons and jewellery, found off the coast of Devon, has been hailed as the most important prehistoric find of its kind for 30 years.newsday.com/ ... 20:01:51The only flag known to have survived the Battle of the Alamo has been found on display at a museum in Mexico, more than a decade after Mexican officials said they had lost it,
Sex can be Dangerousydr.com/ ... 20:01:31...farmer.. saw the evidence of several sexual assaults on his sheep.. installed an alarm and intercom system... [man] charged with felony burglary for entering a building with the intention of committing a crime, namely, having sexual intercourse with a sheep....
Science Marches Onnnnnntelegraph.co.uk/ ... 19:59:19In one of the most controversial scientific projects ever conceived, a group of university researchers in California's Silicon Valley is preparing to create a mouse whose brain will be composed entirely of human cells.... plan to use stem cells from aborted foetuses... the university's ethics committee approved the research, under certain conditions. Prof Henry Greely, the head of the committee, said: "If the mouse shows human-like behaviours, like improved memory or problem-solving, it's time to stop." [Um... isn't that when it's like, usually, considered, you know, "oops! too late!" As ethical as testing the effects of nutrition on children by having a control group starved....]
Whoops!reuters.com/ ... 13:33:29A stenographer for the U.S. Congress generated alarming headlines in the Sudanese press this week by giving the mistaken impression the United States conducted nuclear tests in the African country in 1962 and 1970... Sudanese government asked the United States for an explanation and began its own investigations... turned out that the word Sudan was merely a typing error for Sedan, the name of a nuclear test site in Nevada....
Extraterrestrialnews.bbc.co.uk/ ... 13:31:52Reassessing Arizona's Meteor Crater: The iron mass that smashed into Arizona some 49,000 years ago to create Meteor Crater was just the crumbled remains of a far larger rock body. What is more, this shower of debris was moving much slower than researchers had previously thought....
Yuck!news.yahoo.com/ ... 13:24:31[Stop reading here. You were warned.] A teenager has agreed to admit to three counts of disturbing the peace after anonymously sending semen-frosted brownies to a fellow student. The recipient shared the treat with two other teens.. got the idea... from the movie "National Lampoon's Van Wilder," in which characters send pastries filled with dog semen to a fraternity house.... was upset after a prank in which the other student put peanut butter in his cheese sandwich days before. He told a school resource officer that "he hated peanut butter and it made him more mad than he could explain...."thisislondon.com/ ... 13:22:26A new company from Essex is offering a post-cremation ceremony - packing the ashes into rockets and firing them into the sky.
Preternatural Patternsapnews.myway.com/ ... 13:16:26Michael Jackson arrived late to his child molestation trial Thursday to face a judge who threatened to arrest him and revoke his $3 million bail... Jackson walked in gingerly, dressed in a jacket over pajamas and looked distressed....washingtonpost.com/ ... 13:15:04Tina Brown: The weirdness of the King of Pop is so overexposed that no new revelation can shock. Either Jackson is a complete lunatic who slept with young boys and didn't fondle them or he's a complete lunatic who slept with young boys and did....
Digital Consequencescsmonitor.com/ ... 19:53:30....Hollywood has taken note. Virtually all the major studios now have an inhouse facility producing computer-generated (CG) feature films...reuters.com/ ... 12:47:37Advanced Micro Devices Inc. said on Wednesday it has begun selling a notebook computer chip called Turion 64, designed to compete with Intel Corp.'s Centrino brand and give the company a foothold in the fastest-growing segment of the PC market. The Turion brand, designed for the thin-and-light notebook market, will be used in PCs built by Acer Inc., Fujitsu Siemens, and Packard Bell, AMD said. Hewlett-Packard Co., the number-two PC maker and a key partner of AMD, was not on the initial list of PC vendors using the chip.
Digital Threatnewsday.com/ ... 13:34:17Gov. Rod Blagojevich's proposal to bar stores from selling violent and sexually explicit video games to children unanimously passed an Illinois House committee Wednesdayboston.com/ ... 12:39:17ID thieves get access to records of 32,000... LexisNexis detects database break-in during security check
US Military Casualtiesdefenselink.mil/ ... 19:52:27[flag]Army Sgt. Seth K. Garceau, 27, of Oelwein, Iowa, died March 4 at Landstuhl Regional Medical Center in Landstuhl, Germany, of injuries sustained in Ar Ramadi, Iraq, on Feb. 27 when an improvised explosive device detonated near his military vehicle.defenselink.mil/ ... 19:52:07[flag]Army Sgt. Andrew L. Bossert, 24, of Fountain City, Wis.,
[flag]Army Pfc. Michael W. Franklin, 22, of Coudersport, Pa.
died March 7, in Ramadi, Iraq, when a vehicle-borne improvised explosive device detonated near their screening area.
US Militarydefenselink.mil/ ... 19:51:20 This week, the Army and Navy announced an increase, while the Air Force, Marine Corps and Coast Guard had a decrease in the number of reservists on active duty in support of the partial mobilization. The net collective result is 737 more reservists mobilized than last week.
Justice?reuters.com/ ... 13:33:50A judge has tossed out a Wisconsin high school student's lawsuit asking for summers free of homework and may order him to pay the state's costs
Reasons for Repealnews.telegraph.co.uk/ ... 19:59:41France's National Library has airbrushed Jean-Paul Sartre's trademark cigarette out of a poster of the chain-smoking philosopher to avoid prosecution under an anti-tobacco law.csmonitor.com/ ... 19:53:57Marijuana industry booming in Canada -- Ontario police have seen a 250 percent increase in indoor pot operations.ap.tbo.com/ ... 12:50:47MEXICO CITY - A federal government helicopter searching for gunmen protecting drug plantations crashed into a mountain in southern Mexico on Wednesday, killing all nine soldiers and two pilots onboard... The cause was under investigation, but another federal helicopter flying in the region earlier was hit by gunfire from the ground...
Only Naturalstuff.co.nz/ ... 20:05:05...their small boat was towed out to sea by a four-metre shark off remote East Cape....apnews.myway.com/ ... 13:26:29Cat shoots man
A man cooking in his kitchen was shot after one of his cats knocked his 9mm handgun onto the floor, discharging the weapon... [Huh... Now that's news! Usually it's the dog. If morphogenic field theory is valid, watch for this pattern to recur how that cats have the idea....]cnn.netscape.cnn.com/ ... 12:42:17We may not be very far away from a time when dentists offer to help people with damaged or missing teeth grow new ones, according to new research presented on Wednesday... techniques that enable dentists to coax existing teeth into repairing and regenerating themselves, and techniques where dentists can "start from scratch."...
Aftermathnews.independent.co.uk/ ... 20:00:04Any Italians rash enough to go walkabout in Iraq are now on their own, prime minister Silvio Berlusconi told the Senate yesterday, in his first official pronouncement on the killing of Nicola Calipari last Friday.thecouriermail.news.com.au/ ... 19:54:30SPAIN'S Islamic Commission said today it was issuing a decree against al-Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden, in the name of whose network last year's Madrid train bombings were claimed.
WW2 - still with usnews.bbc.co.uk/ ... 12:46:51People in Tokyo have been marking the 60th anniversary of a massive US night-time bombing raid which destroyed much of the city in 1945.
Violencenews.bbc.co.uk/ ... 13:28:24At least 19 people have been killed by a suicide bomber who blew himself up at a Shia funeral service in the restive northern Iraqi city of Mosul... at least 25.. wounded... death toll is expected to rise....cbs2chicago.com/ ... 13:13:42Last September, Judge Joan Lefkow dismissed a civil rights lawsuit in which Ross claimed doctors at the University of Illinois-Chicago Hospital and its clinic had disfigured him, damaged his mouth and caused him to lose his teeth when they treated him for cancer from July 1992 through March 1995. Among other claims, he alleged doctors committed a "terrorist act" against him by giving him radiation treatment without his consent.suntimes.com/ ... 13:12:41In his note, Ross said he killed U.S. District Judge Joan Lefkow’s husband and mother at the family’s North Side home because the judge had ruled against him in a medical-malpractice case, authorities said. Ross has no known ties to white-supremacist groups.... Investigators found evidence that pointed toward the slayings...abcnews.go.com/ ... 13:09:21A man who shot himself to death during a traffic stop in Wisconsin claimed in a suicide note that he killed a federal judge's husband and mother...ap.tbo.com/ ... 12:49:53Police stormed a bank in a hail of gunfire Wednesday following a thwarted robbery that turned into a 30-hour hostage standoff in this Costa Rican tourist town. Officials said nine people were killed, including five bank customers.ap.tbo.com/ ... 12:49:36An inmate who was left brain-dead after being shot with a rubber bullet by a prison guard died from injuries from... the supposedly non-lethal projectile... taken to.. Hospital.. remained in a coma.. hooked to a ventilator for weeks before he died Friday... had previously served a drug sentence, but went back to prison in August for violating his parole by driving under the influence... was shot in the head by a guard in a tower when he refused to lie down and instead tried to prevent guards from breaking up a fight between two other inmates. The 40mm projectiles are designed to be fired at arms or legs.news.bbc.co.uk/ ... 12:46:23Gunmen have shot dead the chief of a central Baghdad police station and at least two other policemen
Disinformation Propaganda & Spinworldnetdaily.com/ ... 19:56:38The Pentagon is flatly denying a report claiming the U.S. military fabricated the details of how the deposed Iraqi dictator was captured, allegedly staging the "spider hole" scenario.... WND contacted UPI about its story, and was told "United Press International published a summary of the newspaper report without seeking Pentagon comment."... an updated version.. states.. "Pentagon officials dismissed as 'ridiculous' and untrue [the] report...."wokr13.tv/ ... 12:45:46A former U.S. Marine who participated in capturing ousted Iraqi President Saddam Hussein said the public version of his capture was fabricated... Ex-Sgt. Nadim Abou Rabeh, of Lebanese descent, was quoted in the Saudi daily al-Medina Wednesday as saying Saddam was actually captured Friday, Dec. 12, 2003, and not the day after... "...we found him in a modest home in a small village and not in a hole as announced... We captured him after fierce resistance during which a Marine of Sudanese origin was killed..."
Disturbing Family Patternslocal6.com/ ... 12:41:28The adoptive parents of a 17-year-old boy who weighed 49 pounds when found in a home where he was forced to wear a diaper and sleep in a locked, cage-like bed have been charged with child neglect.. found the teen wearing a diaper and appearing developmentally delayed... less than 4-foot-6 ... in the weight range of a 6½-year-old... teen and two adopted 10-year-olds -- all with physical or mental disabilities -- were taken from the home and placed in protective custody.
WED 2005-MAR-09
Yuck!ap.tbo.com/ ... 12:51:03A bus driver for the Dave Matthews Band pleaded guilty Wednesday to charges stemming from the dumping of 800 pounds of human waste from his vehicle's septic tank onto a sightseeing boat on the Chicago River... 18 months probation.. 150 hours of community service... [and] fined the maximum of $10,000, which will be paid to Friends of the Chicago River, a conservation group....
Sex can be Dangerousreuters.com/ ... 12:49:24A Los Angeles man who sneaked into Canada in February to see his Internet girlfriend will be deported -- minus all his fingers and some of his toes... amputated because of severe frostbite suffered during a 100-hour trek from Pembina, North Dakota, across the border to Emerson, Manitoba, where he was found wandering on a golf course on Feb. 23, suffering from hypothermia... The woman lives in Quebec... about 2,500 kilometers (1,600 miles) east of Manitoba.... He still has not met his girlfriend face-to-face...
Preternatural Patternsusatoday.com/ ... 12:39:20Whole Foods, the all-natural grocery chain beloved by soccer moms, Hollywood starlets and the organically inclined, is about to stake its future on a very different premise: shopping as showtime. You don't need a ticket to enter the pulsating, almost-as-big-as-a-Wal-Mart concept store that opened six days ago adjacent to its new headquarters here. But you do need to wipe clean all preconceptions about grocery shopping as drudgery. Call it a better-for-you food bazaar on organic steroids. Or the grocery equivalent of Disney World for food junkies.
Only Naturalcbc.ca/ ... 12:38:37At least 27 elementary school children died and another 100 were hospitalized after eating a snack of cassava - a root that's poisonous if not prepared correctly - during morning recess Wednesday in the southern Philippines.. bought it from a regular vendor outside the San Jose school... Eaten raw, the human digestive system will convert part of it into cyanide.... the nearest hospital was more than 30 kilometres away....reuters.com/ ... 12:33:03At least 42 South African miners were trapped in collapsed shafts and hundreds of others awaited evacuation Wednesday after an earthquake hit a gold mining area...
Threatsreuters.com/ ... 12:41:59The United States has sharply cut agricultural inspections at ports of entry since the Sept. 11 attacks, according to a report issued Wednesday by Congress' investigative arm into how to protect the nation from agroterrorism. The biggest threat to U.S. agriculture is seen as the intentional introduction of foot-and-mouth disease, a highly contagious livestock disease which is typically controlled by slaughtering animals.reuters.com/ ... 12:41:32Lebanon's parliament nominated pro-Syrian Omar Karami as prime minister Wednesday, a decision sure to anger the anti-Syrian opposition that pressured him to resign in the first place.
Violencereuters.com/ ... 12:42:26Bulgaria is now sure U.S. forces killed one of its soldiers last week in a "friendly fire" accident, mainly because of poor communicationreuters.com/ ... 12:40:54Police found the bodies of 41 Iraqis beheaded or shot by insurgents at two sites in the Sunni heartland...
In Baghdad, gunmen opened fire on the planning minister's convoy Wednesday... Minister Mehdi al-Hafidh was unharmed but one of his bodyguards was killed in the ambush...
...bomber detonated a garbage truck packed with explosives outside the Sadir hotel that is used by Iraqi police and foreign contractors, killing two policemen... 30 U.S. contractors were among 40 people wounded in the blast...
Disinformation Propaganda & Spingnn.tv/ ... 12:37:31The semi-incoherent rambling (perhaps something was lost in the translation) of kidnapee Giuliana Sgrena about here experiences...
TUE 2005-MAR-08
Lasting Contributionsap.tbo.com/ ... 22:07:25George Atkinson, generally considered the inventor of movie video rental... In the fall of 1977, Atkinson bought one Betamax and one VHS tape of each of the 50 movie titles that were sold to the public and rented them out at the Video Station, the first store he opened...
Whoops!ap.tbo.com/ ... 22:04:59A college student was seriously injured while acting out a hanging for a film project... "There was a suicide scene at the end, and he changed the technique...."
Yuck!kptv.com/ ... 22:01:03A state panel is expected to investigate a high school football coach who acknowledged licking one of his player's cuts....
9/11 - still with uspopularmechanics.com/ ... 12:45:10Popular Mechanics examines the evidence and consults the experts to refute the most persistent conspiracy theories of September 11.
History - still with usnews.bbc.co.uk/ ... 22:04:081967: Stalin's daughter defects to the West... On arrival at New York, she held a press conference and astonished the world by denouncing her father's regimeapnews.myway.com/ ... 12:38:20The results of a CT scan done on King Tut's mummy indicate the boy king was not murdered, but may have suffered a badly broken leg shortly before his death at age 19 - a wound that could have become infected
US Election 2004drudgereport.com/ ... 12:13:06Teresa Heinz Kerry suggests election fraud
"Two brothers own 80 percent of the machines used in the United States," Heinz Kerry said. She identified both as "hard-right" Republicans. She argued that it is "very easy to hack into the mother machines."...
Digital Threatreuters.com/ ... 12:19:53Harvard Business School said on Tuesday it is rejecting applications from 119 would-be students who it says hacked into a Web site to learn if they were accepted at the Ivy League university ahead of the official notification.news.bbc.co.uk/ ... 12:17:26Moscow prosecutors will not take legal action [against] a Russian website offering MP3 tracks for sale... because Russian copyright laws do not cover digital media....thecarolinachannel.com/ ... 12:14:43GAFFNEY, S.C. -- A Spartanburg man has been arrested after police said he took photographs of men inside an outlet mall restroom in Gaffney... A 16-year-old boy told his father and a mall security guard Saturday that he noticed a man sticking a camera under a bathroom stall....betanews.com/ ... 11:54:03...a new virus affecting Nokia Series 60 based smartphones... spreads through MMS (Multimedia Message Service) when it is opened.... searches the phone user's address book for numbers to replicate itself....
Transportap.tbo.com/ ... 22:10:31A freight train derailed Tuesday in a commercial district in eastern Los Angeles County, forcing about 200 people from the area in two separate evacuations. No injuries were reported. The cause of the wreck was not known....ap.tbo.com/ ... 00:38:21A railroad tank car that leaked toxic fumes, forcing thousands of people from their homes, was not designed to hold the mixture of highly corrosive acids with which it had been filled, the car's owner said Monday... a mixture of acetic, hydrofluoric, phosphoric and sulfuric acids, which easily corroded the car's lining... 6,000 gallons of liquid was pumped out of the car and it was believed about 6,500 gallons more had leaked and soaked into the ground. Contaminated soil will have to be neutralized with lime and removed.
Preternatural Patternsap.tbo.com/ ... 22:05:55CHICAGO - A Frank Lloyd Wright house that sat on the market for months was auctioned Tuesday for an undisclosed amount, a real estate company said... winning bid was "well in excess" of the $750,000 price at which the bidding began....ap.tbo.com/ ... 00:36:48A dime struck in 1894 at the San Francisco mint was auctioned Monday for $1,322,500, the most ever paid for a United States dime... in nearly pristine condition, was one of only 24 dimes made that year at the San Francisco mint, whose director had requested them as gifts for visiting bankers. Just 10 of the dimes are believed to remain.... Bradley Hirst of Richmond, Ind... bought it for $825,000 six years ago...
Digital Consequencesap.tbo.com/ ... 22:10:01Hollywood has its Walk of Fame. Now the video game industry is honoring its icons with Walk of Game.ap.tbo.com/ ... 00:35:19...the new Sony players use flash memory.. The new Sony players also support the generic MP3 audio format, which is what most people use when converting their music CD collections to digital files. That's a major concession for Sony, which had tried until recently to persuade consumers to only use its proprietary audio format, called Atrac....
Supernaturalnews.bbc.co.uk/ ... 00:21:49Aya, Zein, Jalila and Rakan are the heroes of Egypt-based AK Comics' Middle East Heroes. The comic, published in both Arabic and English, sees them entrusted with keeping the region out of the hands of evil following 55 years of war between two unnamed superpowers. "I believe that having superheroes, or superhuman beings, is an essential need - just like God," the AK Comics' managing editor Marwan Nashar told BBC World Service's Outlook programme. "We need to believe in a higher being that will be there for help, and can affect change on his own. There is a global and human need for that."...
US Military Casualtiesdefenselink.mil/ ... 12:44:12[flag]Army Capt. Sean Grimes, 31, of Southfield, Mich.
[flag]Army Sgt. 1st Class Donald W. Eacho, 38, of Black Creek, Wis.
[flag]Army Cpl. Stephen M. McGowan, 26, of Newark, Del.
[flag]Army Spc. Wade Michael Twyman, 27, of Vista, Calif.
died on Mar. 4 in Ar Ramadi, Iraq when an improvised explosive device detonated near their patrol. defenselink.mil/ ... 12:41:55[flag]Army Spc. Adriana N. Salem, 21, of Elk Grove Village, Ill., died Mar. 4 in Remagen, Iraq when her military vehicle rolled over.
Justice?reuters.com/ ... 12:19:10A man given six months to live by his doctors... anxious to pick up some $596,300 in already-agreed damages from his insurers to help ease his final months of life... has been told by an Italian court to come back in 14 months to hear the outcome of his demand for insurance damages....reuters.myway.com/ ... 12:16:20"It is our duty to demand truth and justice," Foreign Minister Gianfranco Fini told parliament.
[Yes, but if what's just would be to BOMB ITALY for giving millions and millions to encourage terrorists and kidnappers and sending agents in to corrupt the efforts of Iraq's liberators, then are Italians really sure they want justice?]
Reasons for Repealnews.bbc.co.uk/ ... 12:18:06A British man working in Afghanistan as an adviser to the Afghan government has been shot dead in the capital... He was working on a rural credit scheme, one of its aims being to reduce the dependence of farmers on growing opium....
Only Naturalreuters.com/ ... 22:00:11The U.N. General Assembly on Tuesday urged governments to ban all human cloning, including the cloning of human embryos for stem-cell research, in a divided vote that handed a symbolic victory to the administration of President Bush.reuters.com/ ... 12:22:09 A 5-meter-long (16 ft) crocodile said to have eaten more than 80 people has been caught alive in Uganda and transferred to a sanctuary... weighing about a ton...
[and in a shining example of "unclear on the concept"]...
"Much as the residents of Luganga wanted to kill the reptile after our rangers had captured it, it is our responsibility to protect it by removing it from that area and keeping it in a safe place...." foxnews.com/ ... 02:05:18An 8 oz glass of dairy contains about 300 mg of calcium. But if dairy isn’t your thing, you can get your calcium from vegetables. These vegetables have the same amount of calcium as a glass of milk:
—1 1/2 cups of cooked kale
—2 1/4 cups of cooked broccoli
—8 cups of cooked spinachfoxnews.com/ ... 02:04:40Babies conceived through assisted reproduction, such as in vitro fertilization, are just as likely as babies conceived naturally to grow up healthy, says a new European study.
Now That's Funny!images.google.com/ ... 00:45:45GOOGLE IMAGE SEARCH "LAUGH"medicalnewstoday.com/ ... 00:41:48...laughter is linked to healthy function of blood vessels. Laughter appears to cause the tissue that forms the inner lining of blood vessels, the endothelium, to dilate or expand in order to increase blood flow....
Human Rightap.tbo.com/ ... 00:40:22A gay Lebanese man suffering from AIDS has enough reason to fear persecution in his homeland that he shouldn't be deported while seeking asylum in the United States, a federal appeals court ruled Monday.
Rebuildingfoxnews.com/ ... 22:24:19First lady Laura Bush said Tuesday that human rights in Iraq stand a better chance because women hold nearly one-third of the seats in the interim assembly that will oversee drafting a constitution. "We're hopeful that the document they design will firmly establish the principles of representative and transparent government, democracy and universal human rights...."
Police Riotwnbc.com/ ... 22:01:50A Long Island man was ticketed in Brooklyn for selling Girl Scout cookies with his 13-year-old daughter.
People Die9news.com/ ... 12:41:28One person died Sunday when an avalanche swept through a group of people taking an avalanche awareness class.
World Without Bordersreuters.com/ ... 12:11:48Hu (104), who received a letter of congratulations from Prime Minister John Howard on her last birthday on Feb. 18, has lived in Australia since 1995 when she arrived on a 12-month visitor visa. When she tried to leave, no airline would take her because she was deemed too old and frail....
Immigration Minister: "(But) at no time has Mrs. Hu faced deportation...."
Disinformation Propaganda & Spinpowerlineblog.com/ ... 22:41:31...But here's my point: The Washington Post acknowledges a moment of triumph in the execution of President Bush's foreign policy, and then enlists, to comment on that triumph, a succession of Democrats, including at least one, Close, who is far outside the mainstream....foxnews.com/ ... 02:03:58Students at Bowdoin College in Maine are shredding the College Republicans there for inviting a black conservative to speak on campus during Black History Month... critics say North Carolinian Vernon Robinson is not really a black guy; he is, they say, an "Uncle Tom" who has no right to speak on campus. One writer said (with a straight face, presumably) that the Republican student group "displayed its lack of openness by inviting" him.foxnews.com/ ... 02:02:42Many people find it hard to believe that 18 national surveys by academics as well as national polling organizations show that there are 2 million defensive gun uses each year. After all, if these events were really happening, wouldn't we hear about them on the news?... This misreporting actually endangers people's lives. By selectively reporting the news... the media give misleading impressions of what actions saved the lives of people confronted by violence....
Threatsap.tbo.com/ ... 12:05:46Facts about the Lebanese Shiite Muslim guerrilla group Hezbollah, or Party of Godreuters.com/ ... 12:05:29Hundreds of thousands of flag-waving Lebanese flooded central Beirut on Tuesday for a pro-Syrian rally called by Hizbollah that dwarfed previous protests demanding that Syrian troops quit Lebanon.cnn.com/ ... 11:51:27a transcript of a speech on fighting terrorism President Bush delivered Tuesday at the National Defense University.
In three-and-a-half years, the United States and our allies have waged a campaign of global scale, from the mountains of Afghanistan to the border regions of Pakistan, to the Horn of Africa, to the islands of the Philippines, to the plains of north-central Iraq. The al Qaeda terror network that attacked our country -- it still has leaders, but many of its top commanders have been removed. There are still governments that sponsor and harbor terrorists, but their number has declined. There's still regimes seeking weapons of mass destruction, but no longer without attention and without consequence.foxnews.com/ ... 02:01:39Writing for the majority, Justice Anthony Kennedy said: "The age of 18 is the point where society draws the line for many purposes between childhood and adulthood." Orthodox Jews don't believe that. Their line is 12 years and one day for girls and 13 years for boys. Kennedy also said world opinion must be taken into consideration. Justice O'Connor has said similar things, as if world opinion ought to be equal to the United States Constitution.foxnews.com/ ... 00:59:13The FCC’s powers have so far been limited to broadcasters, who operate under FCC license. Stevens and Barton now want to eliminate that distinction, seeing it as a loophole for cable and satellite programming. Never mind that this programming largely comes over privately built facilities and does not enter anyone’s home unless requested (and paid for). Worse, speech regulation is unlikely to stop with cable and satellite programming. What about video transmitted over the Internet? Isn’t that a “loophole” that the FCC needs to plug? Or Internet radio? Why not other pervasive media that might cause offense? If we’re plugging loopholes, what about the big one that lets newspapers and magazines print virtually anything they want? Shouldn’t a regulator be looking at them to make sure no one gets offended?
Violencefoxnews.com/ ... 22:20:40A large explosion hit central Baghdad on Wednesday, shaking buildings and covering the area in a large plume of black smoke. Volleys of automatic weapons fire could be heard before and after the blast, which came at dawn. turkishpress.com/ ... 21:59:55....the Iraqi army said it found 15 beheaded corpses, both men and women, on an old military base near Latifiyah, south of Baghdad.... during an army raid on the old Hatin army base, now believed to be used by insurgents....turkishpress.com/ ... 21:58:24The deputy director of the Iraqi interior ministry's naturalisation department, Ghazi Mohammed Issa, was killed in broad daylight outside his Baghdad home by masked gunmen in a carabcnews.go.com/ ... 11:49:25Chechen rebel leader Aslan Maskhadov, whom Russian officials claim was a key figure behind last year's school hostage crisis and other deadly terrorist acts, has been killed, a spokesman for Russian forces said Tuesday.... Interfax, citing Chechnya's Kremlin-backed deputy prime minister, Ramzan Kadyrov, also reported that Russian forces intended to take Maskhadov alive, but he was killed by careless weapons-handling by his bodyguards....
Earlier Tuesday, Russian officials reported detaining three rebels who were planning a large terrorist attack on the administration building in Tolstoy-Yurt....foxnews.com/ ... 02:00:06...she's now blaming the Americans for shooting up her car which tried to speed through a checkpoint. I'm blaming her for thinking she could wander around Iraq unharmed because she is a sympathizer with the insurgents, then for getting herself snatched, then for getting the prime minister to put up his own money, which led to the death of one of the Italian intelligence agents who came to save her sorry rear end. She's right — it is disgusting. I am disgusted with her....reuters.com/ ... 00:33:54A fight between rival gangs led to a fire that swept through an overcrowded Dominican Republic prison on Monday, killing 133 inmates in the deadliest prison incident in the Caribbean country's history
Under Tyrannyfoxnews.com/ ... 22:22:48...According to [Roseville, Mich. city manager] Steve TrumanTruman, Stross violated the agreement he made with Roseville by adding text — the word "love" — to the mural. "He was given it with certain criteria, certain stipulations that he wasn't willing or unable to live up to," Truman said. After Stross was found guilty of violating Roseville's sign ordinance, he was ordered by a judge to cloak the bare breast of Eve that appears in the mural. "There are no dirty bodies," Stross said. "Only dirty minds." The artist believes those dirty minds have not only misinterpreted his art, but are now seeking to censor him at a building he owns....news.bbc.co.uk/ ... 22:02:37In less than 10 years China has gone from a net newcomer to the country with world's second-largest online population... Much has been made of the so-called Great Firewall of China that censors what people see using technology built in to the country's basic net infrastructure....reuters.com/ ... 00:34:33China outlined an anti-secession bill on Tuesday that allows military force to head off any independence bid by Taiwan, legislation that has heightened tensions in the Taiwan Strait. While the bill has raised alarm bells in Taiwan, analysts said language in the draft emphasizing the use of "non-peaceful" means as a last resort appeared designed to leave Beijing alternatives to war such as blockades or sanctions....news.bbc.co.uk/ ... 00:33:20For the past 16 years, she and a few others who lost sons and daughters during the 1989 Tiananmen massacre have been calling on the government to apologise. But in response, these women, known as the Tiananmen Mothers, have faced imprisonment, house-arrest, phone-tapping and constant surveillance....
MON 2005-MAR-07
Digital Consequencescooltechzone.com/ ... 22:00:11Google... has finalized its previously announced Desktop Search feature and made the full-featured version available to the masses. ...cooltechzone.com/ ... 21:59:46Samsung Electronics recently announced the world’s largest LCD panel to date that measures at 82-inches... 8ms response time, 180-degree visual access system, Samsung’s exclusive patterned-ITO vertical alignment technology, contrast ratio of at least 1200:1 and brightness of 600 cd/m2....
Family Patternsazcentral.com/ ... 21:56:05Police were talking to a man moments before he threw his 5-year-old daughter from an overpass above Canada's busiest highway Sunday, then jumped to his own death. The girl... was treated for internal bleeding....
Transportabcnews.go.com/ ... 21:54:58Crews early Monday finished pumping toxic waste from a leaking rail tanker car that triggered the evacuation of 6,000 people, but they still don't know exactly they're dealing with.....
Rather Embarrassednewsday.com/ ... 21:54:26As his final evening newscast approaches on Wednesday, Dan Rather is seeing the indignities pile up as quickly as the roses that were tossed in the path of Tom Brokaw when the NBC anchorman stepped down late last year. The latest came in a New Yorker magazine article, where fellow CBS News legends Walter Cronkite and Mike Wallace talked about how difficult it was to watch Rather as an anchor.... Will his role in last fall's discredited story about President Bush's military service ultimately overshadow his remarkable 50-year career?...
Whoops!news.com.au/ ... 21:52:04"I thought they might give me an aspirin. Instead they pulled a 5inch knife blade out of my head," he said
Netsurf Flotsamreuters.com/ ... 13:25:38A former stripper once cleared of battering a customer with her enormous breasts sold one of her silicone implants on eBay to the same company that recently bought a grilled cheese sandwich said to bear the image of the Virgin Mary.geocities.com/ ... 11:20:23How to Become President By Gracie Allenfindarticles.com/ ... 11:19:05George Burns and Gracie Allen
St. James Encyclopedia of Pop Culture by Sue Murray
Only Naturalsci-tech-today.com/ ... 21:53:38An Australian academic who has examined the skeletal remains of a three-foot hominid discovered in an Indonesian cave and nicknamed a "hobbit" disputed Friday a report that they represent a new species of human... simply those of a normal human stunted by a viral disease, microcephaly -- a conclusion rejected in the earlier report by another team of scientists....
Disinformation Propaganda & Spinworldnetdaily.com/ ... 21:57:33A Lebanese-born woman who later lived in Israel told a Columbia University forum today the Muslim Arab world's hatred of the Jewish state is blinding it to reason. "My country and others saw nothing wrong with practicing this form of mind abuse.... Of taking a generation hostage, molding them into misguided weapons; some willing to be martyred in the name of Islam or Palestinian nationalism. It's a form of mental child abuse taking place in every Arab country."...
Police Riotnews8austin.com/ ... 21:52:43The Austin Police Department released a transcript of some controversial instant messages concerning a fire at Midtown Live last month in Northeast Austin... "Burn baby, Burn." ... "I got some extra gasoline if they need it." ...
Peace 3000csmonitor.com/ ... 21:51:19What Mideast ferment means for US -- Moves toward more openness in several countries could put a check on extremist impulses, but also may engender instability.csmonitor.com/ ... 21:50:49Timeline: A century of dominance in Lebanon
Threatsreuters.com/ ... 22:02:05...buses in... Rio de Janeiro state may get metal detectors to ward off gun-toting criminals....turkishpress.com/ ... 21:57:58Syrian President Bashar al-Assad, under pressure to withdraw troops from Lebanon, insisted he should not be compared to Saddam Hussein and that he wanted to cooperate with international demandsreuters.com/ ... 13:24:37Fugitive Taliban leader Mullah Mohammad Omar has lost control of the insurgency in Afghanistan and the number of attacks has fallen dramatically, a senior U.S. general said Monday. Taliban spokesmen have said attacks will resume once the harsh Afghan winter is over. But Major General Eric T. Olson told a news conference in Kabul that the Taliban lacked cohesion and were a fading force in the southern and southeast provinces that had been their strongholds.....
Violenceap.tbo.com/ ... 22:02:40They're told every day across Iraq - tragic stories of people dying in hails of gunfire, shattered windshields and car seats covered in blood. Friendly fire - often at U.S. military checkpoints - is taking a toll on the United States and its allies....apnews.myway.com/ ... 22:01:29The White House on Monday said it was "absurd" for a former hostage in Iraq to charge that U.S. military forces may have deliberately targeted her car as she was being rushed to freedom.
the airport road "has been a place where suicide car bombers have launched attacks. It's been a place where regime elements have fired upon coalition forces. It is a dangerous road and it is a combat zone that our coalition forces are in. Oftentimes, they have to make split second decisions to protect their own security... And we regret this incident," McClellan added. "We are going to fully investigate what exactly occurred."...washtimes.com/ ... 11:21:10Italian agents likely withheld information from U.S. counterparts about a cash-for-freedom deal with gunmen holding an Italian hostage for fear that Americans might block the trade, Italian news reports said yesterday.
SUN 2005-MAR-06
Sick, Sick, Sicknews.telegraph.co.uk/ ... 16:44:20The young girl weighed less than a stone and a half when she died in her parents' flat in Hamburg, her skeletal corpse a pathetic bundle of skin and bones. No food was found in her stomach: only traces of carpet fluff and strands of hair that she had eaten in a vain attempt to fend off hunger. ...had been left to starve to death in a shocking case of neglect that has scandalised Germany. Neighbours and social services were unaware that she even existed.
Preternatural Patternstiscali.co.uk/ ... 16:38:38Turkey has renamed some animal species, saying foreign scientists opposed to its territorial integrity had chosen their former names with ill intent, the Environment Ministry has said.
Whoops!newscientist.com/ ... 16:38:10NASA's Mars rovers Opportunity and Spirit are identical twins - so alike that they even fooled NASA. Researchers have discovered that they sent the robots to Mars with an instrument meant for Opportunity inside Spirit and vice versa.
US Military Casualtiesdefenselink.mil/ ... 16:46:37[flag]Army Staff Sgt. Juan M. Solorio, 32, of Dallas, Texas, died March 4 in Mosul, Iraq, when an improvised explosive device detonated near his military vehicle as his unit was being attacked by enemy forces using small arms fire. defenselink.mil/ ... 16:46:20[flag]Army Sgt. 1st Class Michael D. Jones, 43, of Unity, Maine, died March 3 in Syracuse, N.Y., of a non-combat related illness.defenselink.mil/ ... 16:46:06[flag]Army Spc. Azhar Ali, 27 of Flushing, N.Y.
[flag]Army Spc. Wai P. Lwin, 27, of Queens, N.Y.
died on Mar. 2 in Baghdad, Iraq, when an improvised explosive device detonated near their military vehicle.
Justice?worldnetdaily.com/ ... 16:37:28A Mansfield, Ohio, woman was arrested and jailed for failure to file a 2001 city income tax bill totaling 96 cents.
Human Rightap.tbo.com/ ... 16:29:01KUWAIT ...Prime Minister Sheik Sabah Al Ahmed Al Sabah opened the debate last month with a rare column in the Al-Watan daily newspaper, claiming it was "high time women get this right [the vote] and practice it" because they were just as educated as other women in Arab and Muslim countries.
Only Naturalnews.bbc.co.uk/ ... 16:23:38The research team, working in the north-east of Ethiopia, believe the remains of the hominid, or primitive human, date back four million years. They say initial study of the bones indicates the creature was bipedal - it walked around on two legs.
Under Tyrannynews.independent.co.uk/ ... 16:45:05Kremlin acts to stem tide of porn, beer and thong ads
Disinformation Propaganda & Spinwtopnews.com/ ... 16:41:06SUPERPHONEY BALONEY -- REPEAL! REPEAL! OUST THE TYRANTS!
Treatment rates for marijuana nearly tripled between 1992 and 2002, the government says, attributing the increase to greater use and potency. "This report is a wake-up call [blah blah blah...] Advocates of legalizing marijuana disagreed, saying the trend was largely due to an increase in marijuana arrests and had almost nothing to do with more people seeking treatment because they thought their own health was at risk. [Talk to just about anybody who's going through "marijuana treatment" and this is exactly what you'll hear!]
Violencenews.bbc.co.uk/ ... 16:27:13Ms Sgrena told BBC News she could not say "why they shot at us in this way".story.news.yahoo.com/ ... 16:26:52...."There is no safety on the roads. Everyone should expect anything to happen on these roads. Foreigners, Iraqis we are all exposed to the same risks," said al-Kadhum, his left tracksuit trouser leg tied around the stump of his leg. "Now if I see an American convoy, I stop until it has gone."...bloomberg.com/ ... 16:25:26Giuliana Sgrena, the Italian reporter wounded on March 4 by U.S.-led forces after she was freed from her captors in Iraq, said the military may have targeted her deliberately... said her kidnappers had warned her to pay attention once she was freed, because the U.S. wanted her dead. At the time, she judged their words to be "superfluous and ideological," she wrote. "They told me to beware because `there are Americans who don't want you to return','" Sgrena wrote in the article. When she was shot, her captors' advice "risked acquiring the taste of the most bitter of truths," she wrote....
Threatsseattlepi.nwsource.com/ ... 16:35:50[Here they go, right on schedule...] The militant group Hezbollah, largely on the fence since anti-Syrian protests erupted in Lebanon last month, switched gears Sunday and threw its weight behind Syria and its allies - calling for massive rallies in Beirut to show loyalty to Damascus.ap.tbo.com/ ... 16:27:47More than 15,000 protesters marched in Taiwan on Sunday, denouncing China's planned anti-secession law and pledging to fight what they claim is Beijing's attempt to force this self-ruled, democratic island to unify with the mainland.reuters.com/ ... 16:23:52Syria will start pulling back its forces in Lebanon Monday, and the United States warned it would accept no half measures and indicated Washington wants the Syrians gone before May elections.news.bbc.co.uk/ ... 16:22:53Former Metropolitan Police Commissioner Sir John Stevens says up to 200 Al-Qaeda "terrorists" are operating in UK and the threat of attacks is real.
SAT 2005-MAR-05
Sex -- always attractivestuff.co.nz/ ... 22:27:12A computer game that gives teenagers the chance to run Hugh Hefner's Playboy mansion and have sex with a bevy of bunnies has upset a morals watchdog. Playboy: The Mansion was released in game and video stores this week with an R16 certificate. However, Society for the Promotion of Community Standards spokesman David Lane said the game should be R18.
Digital Threatnews.com.com/ ... 22:24:30A University of California researcher says he has found a way to identify computer hardware remotely, a technique that could potentially unmask anonymous Web surfers by bypassing some common security techniques.... Kohno's research is likely not the last word in Net anonymity, but simply the latest escalation in the arms race between snoopware and anonymity developers....
Whoops!ap.tbo.com/ ... 15:32:05...an air traffic controller... told the pilots it was rare to see... a Canadair CRJ2.. flying at an altitude of 41,000 feet... "Yeah, we're actually ... we don't have any passengers on board, so we decided to have a little fun and come up here," one of the pilots said.... There were no passengers on the plane and no one on the ground was injured by the Oct. 14 crash in a residential neighborhood of Jefferson City, Mo...
Theory of Educationfoxnews.com/ ... 22:22:04A substitute teacher at a local high school was fired last month after students were shown.. photos.. of the woman having sex.. on the teacher's camera phone.. which was passed around a health class at Judson High School... not sure if she passed the phone around or if students somehow got ahold of the device in another way....ap.tbo.com/ ... 15:24:27What most interests many experts about Sternberg's early experiments is that they appear to predict students' freshman GPA in college more accurately than SAT scores, and with a narrower gap between ethnic and socio-economic groups....
Human Rightwashtimes.com/ ... 22:19:23...she had been trying to kill the fetuses for weeks and finally asked Mr. Flores to help by stepping on her stomach... Although Mr. Flores faces prosecution, Miss Basoria can't be charged because the new law -- like many others across the nation -- bans prosecution of mothers on the grounds that they have a legal right to end pregnancies. ...a statute that considers one person's actions a crime and another person's a constitutional right... "How can two people conspire to do something like this and only one of them be punished? How can that be fair?... they completely leave the female out of the criminal penalty...."
US Militarywashingtonpost.com/ ... 15:17:01An Army intelligence sergeant who accused fellow soldiers in Samarra, Iraq, of abusing detainees in 2003 was in turn accused by his commander of being delusional and ordered to undergo a psychiatric evaluation in Germany, despite a military psychiatrist's initial judgment that the man was stable, according to internal Army records released yesterday.
Only Naturalnews.yahoo.com/ ... 23:46:32The Navy and marine wildlife experts are investigating whether the beaching of dozens of dolphins in the Florida Keys followed the use of sonar by a submarine on a training exercise off the coast.news.nationalgeographic.com/ ... 15:15:56The recently discovered "hobbit" fossils do in fact represent a new human species, according to a new study of a hobbit braincase. What's more, the little humans seem to have been more intelligent than expected, given their extremely small brains—a finding that may completely change how scientists view human evolution.
Violenceap.tbo.com/ ... 23:45:49No clear picture had formed Saturday of what happened a day earlier when an Italian hostage was freed by secret agents only to be injured in a deadly shooting at the hands of U.S. soldiers on the road to Baghdad airport.ap.tbo.com/ ... 15:26:14Some Infamous Unsolved Serial Killings
Under Tyrannyjournalstar.com/ ... 22:29:08Sen. John Synowiecki of Omaha wants to pass a state law that would allow people in the retail liquor business, such as bartenders and convenience store clerks, to use reasonable means to detain minors trying to buy booze.news.independent.co.uk/ ... 22:28:31Amsterdam falls out of love with coffee shops as liberal stance on drugs begins to crumble... The clampdown is being blamed on a more conservative attitude by the coalition government and local mayors, and pressure from other European Union members who disapprove of the Dutch approach....news.bbc.co.uk/ ... 15:18:41The government of Niger has cancelled at the last minute a special ceremony during which at least 7,000 slaves were to be granted their freedom. A spokesman for the government's human rights commission, which had helped to organise the event, said this was because slavery did not exist....news.bbc.co.uk/ ... 15:17:43A California judge said in a preliminary ruling that bloggers should not have the same protection afforded to journalists under US law.
Threatsreuters.com/ ... 23:46:14Syria vowed a complete and swift two-phased withdrawal of its troops from Lebanon but President Bashar al-Assad said on Saturday Damascus would still play a role in the tiny neighbor it has dominated for 30 years.worldnetdaily.com/ ... 22:22:55Osama bin Laden's recent message to colleague Abu Musab al-Zarqawi asking him to launch attacks on U.S. soil represents the surrender of the terror leader, says.. Dr. Jack Wheeler...reuters.com/ ... 15:36:13The Bush administration has adopted a new counterintelligence strategy that calls for pre-emptive action against foreign intelligence services viewed as threats to U.S. national securityap.tbo.com/ ... 15:35:51...Jurors said they were practically at each others' throats by the end of three days of arguing. Nine wanted to acquit, and three wanted to convict. Prosecutors are expected to decide by April 19 if they will take Smith to trial again... Smith was found at 12:30 a.m. on June 2, 2002, in an outside stairwell of the Shelby County morgue padlocked to a window screen with his feet, wrists and head wrapped in barbed wire. A homemade bomb was hung at his neck. He told authorities he was attacked by someone who threw a chemical in his face, causing minor burns. Prosecutors contend the attack could not have happened the way Smith said. They also say he craves attention and sympathy because of a mental disorder....ap.tbo.com/ ... 15:27:24 Former CIA Director Robert Gates says he never felt overwhelmed by the jobcanada.com/ ... 15:14:05Syrian President Bashar Assad was expected to announce a troop pullback to eastern Lebanon near the Syrian border - but not a full withdrawal - in a speech Saturday to parliament
FRI 2005-MAR-04
Digital Consequencesthesmokinggun.com/ ... 16:39:56The same individuals who hacked into Paris Hilton's cell phone have hacked into the computer of Limp Bizkit front man Fred Durst and stolen a sex video he filmed with a girlfriend, which video is now circulating on the internet.
Sick, Sick, Sicknews.telegraph.co.uk/ ... 13:54:35..June 2002 ...after her 12-year-old brother was allegedly sodomised by men from the powerful Mastoi tribe... she went to the village council... refused to accept the council's ruling on how to settle the dispute, and the council ordered the men to rape her in turn as more than 100 people sat outside....
Five men were sentenced to death for [the gang rape]... a Pakistani high court acquitted them yesterday... converted the death term of a sixth accomplice to life imprisonment... "That is the last resort for us..." [will] challenge the decision before the supreme court....reuters.com/ ... 11:39:51A 92-year-old Harlem woman who fell in her bathtub became impaled on the cold water tap and screamed for help for more than six hours before she was rescuedreuters.com/ ... 11:39:19An apparently friendly motorist in Germany stopped to tow a broken-down car, stranded the owners as he sped away, crashed their car into a gas station and then drove off
US Military Casualtiesdefenselink.mil/ ... 13:55:07[flag]Army Spc. Robert S. Pugh, 25, of Meridian, Miss., died Mar. 2 in Iskandariyah, Iraq, when an improvised explosive device detonated near his military vehicle.
Only Naturalreuters.com/ ... 16:46:27How long a man's second finger is relative to his fourth finger appears to predict whether he is prone to be physically aggressive toward othersnst.com.my/ ... 13:56:52Doctors said the tiny seven-month premature baby would never be able to walk... Five years later, Mohd Zul Hanif Abdul Halim is not only walking but playing football with other children his age... Standing just 50cm tall and weighing less than 5kg.. only slightly bigger than his five-month-old sister Zurin Hazlin... "He told me he wants to be a policeman or a soldier when he grows up... I pray Allah will grant him his wish."apnews.myway.com/ ... 11:35:25Hutchison was driving along Interstate 15 one day recently when a motorist kept trying to get her attention and pointing to the roof of her car. She said she was wary of the man... She pulled over to the side, but kept her doors locked and the motor running.... man pulled up behind her... rolled down her window to hear the man frantically shouting, "Your cat! Your cat!" He reached for the roof of her car and handed the shocked Hutchinson her orange tabby.... had driven about 10 miles with the cat on top of the car, and didn't even notice the feline when she stopped for gas....signonsandiego.com/ ... 11:32:46Chimps escape, attack visitors at animal sanctuary in Calif.
Aftermathnews.bbc.co.uk/ ... 11:37:07Russian prosecutors say they have arrested four people in connection with the school siege in Beslan last year... five other suspects were killed as they resisted arrest....
Violencewww1.wsvn.com/ ... 16:45:59The students told school administrators that [their teacher] showed them a knife during Wednesday's class and then plunged it into a stack of papers on a student's desk... School district spokesman.. says they don't have all the specifics but that they've determined [the teacher] may not have used the knife appropriately.....kwtx.com/ ... 16:42:17Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi.. was celebrating news of the release with the woman's editor when he got a phone call about the shooting....reuters.com/ ... 16:41:32"About 9 p.m., a patrol in western Baghdad observed the vehicle speeding toward their checkpoint and attempted to warn the driver to stop by hand and arm signals, flashing white lights, and firing warning shots in front of the car... When the driver didn't stop, the soldiers shot into the engine block, which stopped the vehicle, killing one and wounding two others...."apnews.myway.com/ ... 16:40:50American forces fired on a car carrying a freed Italian hostage as it approached a checkpoint in Baghdad on Friday, killing an Italian intelligence officer and wounding three others, including the just-released journalist... [remember... phone ahead...!]courttv.com/ ... 16:25:17The head of Christ Lutheran Church inserted the disk into a computer, thinking it was nothing out of the ordinary. But that routine act may have cracked the BTK serial killer case.wavy.com/ ... 11:34:02...Police arrested an eight-year-old boy... head-butted his teacher and kicked an assistant principal when he was told he couldn't go outside to play with other students... four-foot pupil was led away.. in handcuffs.. charged with disorderly conduct and assault and battery...
Threatsreuters.com/ ... 11:31:04Syrian President Bashar al-Assad prepared to announce on Saturday a partial pullout of troops from Lebanon, but President Bush warned nothing short of a full withdrawal would satisfy Washington.
THU 2005-MAR-03
Digital Consequenceschron.com/ ... 19:14:56Rep. Phil King, R-Weatherford, has filed a massive telecommunications bill in Austin this session that, in part, bans Texas cities from participating in wireless information networks.
Sex can be Dangerouswowktv.com/ ... 19:12:07...Braxton County teacher admitted having sex with three middle school students.. sexual misconduct with five of her students...
Supernaturalworldnetdaily.com/ ... 14:56:12...students in Australia are now seeing the calendar term B.C. – which stands for "Before Christ" – being replaced with BCE, meaning "Before Common Era." "This is political correctness gone mad...."reuters.com/ ... 13:56:44The Roman Catholic Bishop of Calgary says that if it were up to him, he would consider excommunicating Canadian Prime Minister Paul Martin for his plan to legalize same-sex marriage.....
Whoops!reuters.com/ ... 14:00:36Astonished German police picked up an 8-year-old boy at 3 a.m. who had accidentally set off to school thinking he was late...ap.tbo.com/ ... 13:54:17FORT WORTH, Texas - Three decomposed bodies wrapped in body bags were found in the back of a repossessed van belonging to a company that transports bodies for funeral homes and the medical examiner's office....
Preternatural Patternswowktv.com/ ... 19:10:56Braxton County teacher admitted having sex with three middle school students... sexual misconduct with five of her students...lasvegassun.com/ ... 04:12:25Las Vegas Mayor Oscar Goodman told a group of fourth graders on Monday that if he was marooned on a desert island the one thing he would want to have with him is a bottle of gin. And when a student quizzed Goodman about his hobbies he replied that "drinking" was one of them...
US Militaryguerrillanews.com/ ... 19:29:40The US military is developing a new “plasma weapon” designed to inflict non-lethal but excruciating pain from long distances. The weapon is being designed with rioters/demonstrators in mind... pain researchers are furious that work aimed at controlling pain has been used to develop a weapon. And they fear that the technology will be used for torture....
Reasons for Repealnews4jax.com/ ... 14:49:47"The Marijuana-Logues" is canceling its spring tour. [Tommy] Chong's parole officer is preventing him from performing in it because audience members were frequently lighting up during the show.....
Justice?azcentral.com/ ... 13:37:12During the Supreme Court's arguments Wednesday over whether displays of the Ten Commandments on public property are constitutional, the justices repeatedly gestured to their left, toward a marble frieze that depicts Moses holding the Commandments.....
Great Quake of 2004news.bbc.co.uk/ ... 04:11:51BBC News looks at daily life for some of the 2,000 people living at Camp SMA-1 in Lamno, western Aceh, a camp for internally displaced people whose homes were destroyed by the 26 December tsunami.
Only Naturalap.tbo.com/ ... 13:54:56Scientists working with powerful imaging computers say the spectacular "Hobbit" fossil recently discovered in Indonesia had distinctive brain features that could justify its classification as a separate - and tiny - human ancestor.sun-sentinel.com/ ... 04:17:57About 49 dolphins stranded themselves Wednesday off the Florida Keys and more than 20 were in a nearby canal or boat channelap.tbo.com/ ... 04:00:11CHEYENNE, Wyo.... giant tortoise, weighing some 60 to 70 pounds... an unlikely visitor to Wyoming.... probably a desert tortoise, a species native to the Southwest.....ap.tbo.com/ ... 03:56:32...some estimated Bubba was about 100 years old. Marine biologists said 30 to 50 years was more likely... The leviathan of a lobster died Wednesday afternoon at the Pittsburgh Zoo & PPG Aquarium, about a day after he was moved from Wholey's Market....
Human Rightreuters.com/ ... 00:34:17The United States signaled it may drop a demand for anti-abortion language that raised hackles at a U.N. women's conference, but the top U.S. delegate insisted on Wednesday that many nations agree with Washington.
Yeah, Sure!news.yahoo.com/ ... 19:12:55The eldest son of Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein was plotting to overthrow his father just as US troops advanced on Baghdad in March 2003, journalist Peter Arnett claimed in Playboy Magazine.
Police Riottheledger.com/ ... 14:55:05The 65-pound girl was handcuffed in the back of a patrol car Feb. 7 when she was shocked twice with a 50,000-volt Tasermarionstar.com/ ... 14:54:37Local officers make decision to shock... It packs a wallop, but Alexander said he prefers it to Mace, a chemical spray that requires first aid afterward such as flushing eyes with water. Marion Police Major Bill Collins said Mace's affects also linger for 30 to 40 minutes... "With TASER, you can get up and walk away from it..." Injuries are more likely with a baton or a gun... one worry is that muscle function is affected by the TASER. ...officers braced the TASER subject in police training and they practiced with a mat. But with field use, there's only the ground to catch a suspect and likely no one to brace a fall... The danger connected to the device - its affect on the human heart - is a developing issue. More than 80 deaths have been reported since 1999 after victims were hit with a stun gun....thereporter.com/ ... 14:51:19The autopsy report on Washington concluded that the cause of death was determined to be from cardiac arrest associated with excitement during the police chase, and cocaine and alcohol intoxication, occurring shortly after Tasering. [lawsuit filed against Taser manufacturer]
Peace 3000reuters.com/ ... 13:53:11Saudi Arabia's Crown Prince Abdullah told Syria's President Bashar al-Assad on Thursday to meet international demands to start withdrawing troops from Lebanon immediately...
Threatsguerrillanews.com/ ... 19:31:24Rep. Sam Johnson (R-Texas) thinks the weapons of mass destruction are buried in Syria, which he said he’d like to nuke to smithereens....iht.com/ ... 19:09:53Iran is using reinforced materials and tunneling deep underground to store nuclear components - measures meant to make the facility resistant to "bunker busters" and other special weaponry in case of an attack, diplomats said Thursday.worldnetdaily.com/ ... 14:56:43If the European Union follows Israeli recommendations this week and places Hezbollah on a list of official terror organizations, the economic consequences of sanctions would "destroy" the Lebanese terror group, Hezbollah's leader told Arabic language television.apnews.myway.com/ ... 04:17:14CIA Director Porter Goss said he is overwhelmed by the many duties of his job, including devoting five hours out of every day to prepare for and deliver intelligence briefings to President Bush. "The jobs I'm being asked to do, the five hats that I wear, are too much for this mortal," Goss said. "I'm a little amazed at the workload."
Violenceworldnetdaily.com/ ... 14:58:34...Voice of Palestine, the official radio station of the Palestinian Authority, claimed in Arabic hours after the attack the area bombed "may have looked like a nightclub, but it was not innocent. Rather, it was a high-level Israeli military target," according to a translation provided to WND by Dr. Michael Wadlanski, professor of communications at Hebrew University....nypost.com/ ... 13:43:10NBC News blamed American officials for a flubbed report Tuesday night claiming the chief judge overseeing the trial of Saddam Hussein had been assassinated by Iraqi gunmen. "It's very straightforward," an NBC News spokeswoman says. "We got the information from multiple, high-level sources who confirmed the story's accuracy. "It was wrong, and we corrected it immediately."sanluisobispo.com/ ... 04:14:36...87-year-old dead... ...13-year-old and a 12-year-old friend arrested... investigators want to see lab results before they say whether... a skateboard... [may be] the murder weapon....news.bbc.co.uk/ ... 04:10:51One of the biggest criminal trials ever held in France is set to open, with 66 men and women set to face charges of rape and child sex abuse... 45 alleged child victims - the oldest aged 14 and the youngest just six months... Of the 66 defendants, 39 face charges of raping children under 15 and of pimping. A total of 39 men and 27 women are going on trial.... Nearly all the defendants were living on welfare benefits....reuters.com/ ... 04:05:02Two car bombs exploded... at a police checkpoint just outside... Iraq's Interior Ministry in Baghdad on Thursday, killing at least five policemen....reuters.com/ ... 04:04:02An American Marine was killed in action in Iraq on Wednesday... in Babel province south of Baghdad...ap.tbo.com/ ... 04:03:13A cache of explosives at the home of a coal mine manager blew up in a town in northern China, killing at least 20 children at a nearby grade school....ap.tbo.com/ ... 04:02:28An Italian tourist visiting Colombia with his family was kidnapped and murdered by paramilitary gunmen... kidnapped in early February... nine people were arrested, including right-wing paramilitary leader Ruben Oliverio Vera Roldan, two of his gunmen and three men who guarded the victim on a farm....ap.tbo.com/ ... 03:54:19BELLEVILLE, Ill. - Three people were found stabbed to death Wednesday inside a beauty salon in this St. Louis suburb.news.xinhuanet.com/ ... 03:53:27Eleven people were confirmed killed and eight others injured as the explosives hidden in a rural home in Kecheng Township, Puxian County of north China's Shanxi Province, blew up on Wednesday afternoon.iafrica.com/ ... 00:31:04A spokesperson for the ethnic Lendu community on Wednesday accused UN peacekeepers of killing women and children in a village in north-eastern Democratic Republic of Congo during an offensive against local militias blamed for a murderous ambush.... A spokesperson for the UN Mission in DR Congo (MONUC), said he could "not rule out that civilians" were among the casualties during the operation on Tuesday, noting that the militias had "used civilians as human shields" during the fighting....
WED 2005-MAR-02
Supernaturalwww1.pressdemocrat.com/ ... 20:53:28Letter from Tim Stoenwww1.pressdemocrat.com/ ... 20:53:14After a near silence of almost 30 years, a former top aide to cult leader Jim Jones has asked for forgiveness for his role in events that led to the deaths of more than 900 people in a mass murder-suicide. "You were right about the Jim Jones and Peoples Temple. I was totally wrong," he wrote.. [to] former San Francisco Examiner religion reporter Les Kinsolving.... "You were able to see beneath the surface of the glitter. You deserve an award for both insight and courage...."reuters.com/ ... 20:01:14Since the installation of the sculpted granite "Cursing Stone" inscribed with a 16th century curse in one of Carlisle's museums in 2001 misfortune has plagued the city.
Family Patternsreuters.com/ ... 19:58:02An Iranian woman has requested a divorce from her husband on the grounds that he has not washed for more than a year.... Divorce is a notoriously difficult process for women in Iran, who normally have to prove that their husband has neglected them financially or sexually, is a drug addict or physically abusive....
Lasting Contributionsap.tbo.com/ ... 19:56:45Peter Foy, who specialized in giving flight to theatrical performers for more than four decades, died Feb. 17 of a heart attack. He was 79... founded Flying by Foy, a 48-year-old theatrical flying effects company that gave Peter Pan his wings and sent performers like Mary Martin, Sandy Duncan and Cathy Rigby soaring across theater stages. ... sending aloft such stars as Dean Martin, Bob Hope, Jack Benny, Lucille Ball and Jerry Lewis. He flew Garth Brooks over Texas Stadium, Nadia Comaneci over Times Square and flew Liberace and his piano....
Digital Consequencesap.tbo.com/ ... 19:52:54The teddy bear sitting in the corner of the child's room might look normal, until his head starts following the kid around using a face recognition program....
"The vision behind this is to be two places at once...."
Sex -- always attractivereuters.com/ ... 19:59:29Topless Aboriginal dancers welcomed Britain's Prince Charles in Australia's outback on Wednesday, where locals were preparing to throw a bachelor party for the newly engaged royal.reuters.com/ ... 19:48:23A former topless dancer who was famously cleared of battering a Florida nightclub patron with her "crazy big" breasts has shed her oversized silicone implants and put one of them up for auction on eBay.
Extraterrestrialnews.bbc.co.uk/ ... 15:53:08A campaign to save Star Trek spin-off show Enterprise says it has received a $3m (£1.6m) donation from anonymous figures in the space flight industry. TrekUnited, which is trying to raise money to make another series of Enterprise, says it has a "legally binding pledge" from three donors. ..."some of the main entrepreneurs in the commercial space flight industry"... did not want to be named but said they had been inspired by Star Trek....
Preternatural Patternskutv.com/ ... 20:45:45A school bus driver was shot to death as she drove her route Wednesday morning and a male student... taken into custody was identified only as a teenager. The bus crashed into a utility pole at the driveway of the student's home and knocked out power in the rural neighborhood....reuters.com/ ... 20:01:56"...my biggest weakness is my sensitivity. I am too sensitive a person...." --Mike Tysonthecrimson.com/ ... 15:44:16“Some of the content was extremely heteronormative, and made BGLTSA members feel uncomfortable,” he said. Calling the comments heteronormative, according to Woods, means they implied that standard sexual relationships are only between males and females. “Our position is that the comments weren’t homophobic, but the content was specific to male-female relationships,” Woods said.rollingstone.com/ ... 15:40:13They signed up 500,000 supporters with an Internet petition -- but Bill Clinton still got impeached. They organized 6,000 candlelight vigils worldwide -- but the U.S. still invaded Iraq. They raised $60 million from 500,000 donors to air countless ads and get out the vote in the battle-ground states -- but George Bush still whupped John Kerry. A gambler with a string of bets this bad might call it a night. But MoveOn.org just keeps doubling down.
US Military Casualtiesdefenselink.mil/ ... 21:00:36[flag]Army Pfc. Danny L. Anderson, 29, of Corpus Christi, Texas, died Feb. 27 in Baghdad, Iraq, from injuries sustained from small arms fire.defenselink.mil/ ... 21:00:16[flag]Army Sgt. Julio E. Negron, 28, of Pompano Beach, Fla., died in Bayji on Feb. 28.
[flag]Army Spc. Lizbeth Robles, 31, of Vega Baja, Puerto Rico, died at the 228th Command Support Hospital in Tikirt, Iraq, on March 1
Both died from injuries sustained in a military vehicle accident that occurred Feb. 28 in Bayji, Iraq.
US Militarydefenselink.mil/ ... 20:59:10This week, the Navy announced an increase, while the Army, Air Force, Marine Corps and Coast Guard had a decrease in the number of reservists on active duty in support of the partial mobilization. The net collective result is 1,115 fewer reservists mobilized than last week.....
Reasons for Repealap.tbo.com/ ... 19:54:03The DVD shows Anthony laughing alongside a man who warns that people who tip police about drug deals will "get a hole in their head." The DVD has prompted law enforcement officials to seek legislation to strengthen witness intimidation laws.
Only Naturallivescience.com/ ... 20:58:18A dramatic thinning of Earth's protective ozone layer above the Arctic last year was the result of intense upper-level winds and an extra dose of space weather, scientists said Tuesday.news.bbc.co.uk/ ... 15:48:17Local food is usually more "green" than organic food, according to a report published in Food Policy journal. The authors say people can help protect the environment by buying food produced within a 20km radius.... mighty sigh of duh! how long ago were small-scale and local economic benefits understood... although not exploited...better that everyone have a windmill than that we have giant migratory-bird-splattering wind farms for example....
Peace 3000news.bbc.co.uk/ ... 15:45:33Lebanese opposition leaders have demanded the withdrawal of Syrian forces and the immediate resignation of Lebanese security chiefs.
Police Riotthedenverchannel.com/ ... 15:44:58URORA, Colo. -- Aurora police have reviewed a weekend incident in which a man accused of stealing salad from a Chuck E. Cheese salad bar was hit with a stun gun twice by officers and said that proper procedures were followed.
Threatsnewsday.com/ ... 20:57:39 Russia will develop missiles impervious to any defense, Defense Minister Sergei Ivanov said Tuesday in an apparent allusion the nascent U.S. missile defense system.ap.tbo.com/ ... 19:51:12Two federal judges called for greater security Wednesday for their colleagues and families following the murders of a judge's husband and 89-year-old mother.news.yahoo.com/ ... 19:45:26A British computer specialist tried to set up a terrorist training camp in Arizona, where he met with Islamic radicals who claimed ties to Osama bin Laden, a government attorney alleged Wednesday.abcnews.go.com/ ... 19:44:54The FBI is trying to determine whether sketches of Grand Central Terminal found at the home of a suspect in last year's Madrid train bombings were supplied by associates in New York City.reuters.myway.com/ ... 15:41:24The Madrid train bombers had detailed plans of New York's Grand Central Station, indicating they also planned to attack there...
Under Tyrannyworldtribune.com/ ... 15:39:09THREAT TO WORLD DIGITAL FREEDOM
China's ambassador to the United Nations last week called for international controls on the Internet... said China opposes the "monopolization" of the Internet by one state, a reference to the Untied States, which ultimately controls the digital medium....
Violenceap.tbo.com/ ... 15:55:22...As Central American officials fight increasingly violent gangs, many current and former members are responding by hiding their tattooed insignia, getting rid of them or discouraging recruits from getting visible body art. A cottage industry of private clinics has grown up in El Salvador around tattoo removal....ap.tbo.com/ ... 15:54:02KINSHASA, Congo - U.N. troops killed as many as 60 militiamen in a stepped-up campaign to clear northeastern Congo of rogue gunmen who have preyed on residents and are suspected in the recent slaying of nine peacekeepers...apnews.myway.com/ ... 15:40:46Gunmen killed a judge and lawyer working for the tribunal that will try Saddam Hussein and members of his former regime, a day after the secret court referred five of the ousted dictator's aides to trial for alleged crimes against humanitycapitalnews9.com/ ... 15:35:38At least 10 Iraqi soldiers were killed and dozens more were hurt in two car bombings.
TUE 2005-MAR-01
Supernaturaljamaicaobserver.com/ ... 19:08:58Jamaica - A Seventh-day Adventist pastor warned yesterday that he will stop officiating at funerals at his Hagley Park church if female mourners, especially of young murder victims, continue to turn up in skimpy dresses and the men smoke ganja and drink beer and other alcoholic beverages on the premises.
Family Patternsap.tbo.com/ ... 18:44:05ELKTON, Md. ..husband.. charged with his wife's death after police found her 81-pound body on a soiled mattress inside a bedroom where she had allegedly been confined for years... locked in a bedroom since she had an aneurysm in 1999 and began to constantly yell at her children... daughters - ages 10, 13 and 16... called police on Friday after one of his daughters tried to give [the mother] water and found her dead... "It was one of the worst scenes I have ever seen in my 27 years of law enforcement...."
Sex can be Dangerousreuters.com/ ... 18:41:17ACalifornia high school teacher was arraigned on Monday at a Sacramento court accused of having sex with a student in a car as her two-year child was strapped into the back seat.... married woman was caught having sex in the late afternoon... apparently a consensual agreement... "We received a call about a suspicious parked vehicle at a school... They got there and observed two people, windows-steamed-up type of thing."...
Preternatural Patternsljworld.com/ ... 18:18:56Howard Dean, speaking in Kansas: "This is a struggle of good and evil. And we're the good."
Derrick Sontag -- executive director of the Kansas Republican Party: "My immediate reaction to that whole dialogue is, it's full of hatred... The Democratic Party has elected a leader that's full of hatred."
Extraterrestrialnews.bbc.co.uk/ ... 15:12:17A Progress cargo ship has blasted off from the Baikonur cosmodrome in Kazakhstan on a mission to re-supply the International Space Station....
US Military Casualtiesdefenselink.mil/ ... 19:17:12[flag]Army 2nd Lt. Richard B. Gienau, 29, of Peoria, Ill., died Feb. 27 in Ar Ramadi, Iraq, from injuries sustained when an improvised explosive device hit his military vehicle.defenselink.mil/ ... 19:16:56[flag]Army Spc. Michael S. Deem, 35, of Rockledge, Fla., died Feb. 24 in Baghdad, Iraq, from non-combat related injuries. defenselink.mil/ ... 19:16:40[flag]Army Pfc. Chassan S. Henry, 20, of West Palm Beach, Fla., died Feb. 25 in Ramadi, Iraq, from injuries sustained from an explosion while he was conducting combat operations.defenselink.mil/ ... 19:16:23[flag]Army Staff Sgt. Alexander B. Crackel, 31, of Wilstead Bedford, United Kingdom, died Feb. 24 in Al Anbar Province, Iraq, from injuries sustained from enemy small arms fire. defenselink.mil/ ... 19:16:05[flag]Army Pfc. Min S. Choi, 21, of River Vale, N.J.
[flag]Army Pvt. Landon S. Giles, 19, of Indiana, Penn.
died Feb. 26 in Abertha, Iraq, when an improvised explosive device detonated while they were on patrol. defenselink.mil/ ... 19:15:19[flag]Marine Lance Cpl. Andrew W. Nowacki, 24, of South Euclid, Ohio, died Feb. 26 from wounds received as a result of hostile action in Babil Province, Iraq.
Only Naturalsun-sentinel.com/ ... 19:13:12A Fort Lauderdale firefighter... snatched a neighborhood cat and dumped it in the Everglades because it scratched his truck... 11-year-old neighbor, Maggie... celebrating her birthday.. realized her pet was gone.. started crying when she learned [the firefighter], who has had a months-long spat with her family, got rid of Mr. Kibbles... cat showed up... apparently on his own....zwire.com/ ... 19:11:08Gillespie Police Chief Rick Hearn said Thursday morning that a cat fight ended earlier this month with one cat being Tasered then shot to death by police officers... said his officers’ response was appropriate given the circumstances...
Human Rightap.tbo.com/ ... 18:41:57The New Mexico House voted Monday to abolish the state's death penalty and replace it with a sentence of life in prison without parole. The bill passed on a vote of 38-31 and advanced to the Senate....reuters.com/ ... 15:13:33"Gays deserve equal rights, not more rights or less rights. This is something that should be discussed objectively, without interference by the church's moral standard of marriage...." Assigned by the Brazilian government to a backwater factory town, 27-year-old prosecutor Joao Gilberto Goncalves has turned the obscure post into anything but, using it to mount the country's first serious effort to legalize gay marriage....
Threatsuk.news.yahoo.com/ ... 19:07:54Syrian Kurds seized Saddam Hussein's half-brother in northeast Syria and handed him to Iraqi Kurds before he was taken into custody by Iraq's security forces, government sources in Baghdad say.
Under Tyrannycnn.netscape.cnn.com/ ... 18:19:20Senate Commerce Committee Chairman Ted Stevens said on Tuesday he would push for applying broadcast decency standards to cable television and subscription satellite TV and radio.
Peace 3000newsday.com/ ... 18:16:51It was a scene the Arab world's autocratic regimes have dreaded -- and through the power of satellite TV, it could catch on as fast as the latest hit music video: Peaceful, enormous crowds carrying flags and flowers bringing down a government.
Violenceworldnetdaily.com/ ... 19:06:12...According to an IDF spokesperson, the car, in the final stages of preparation for an attack, was discovered with a long cable attached to a battery and a video camera, intended for the documentation of the terrorist attack.... funded and directed by Hezbollah forces... at the direction of Syria ...worldnetdaily.com/ ... 19:04:44The presiding judge in Iraq overseeing the trial of former dictator Saddam Hussein has been assassinated. ...Judge Raid Juhi al-Saadi, 35, ...gunned down as he left his home in Baghdad....newsday.com/ ... 18:17:08An American diplomat said Tuesday he was attacked and severely beaten by a group of skinheads in the Ukrainian capital because he was black.voanews.com/ ... 18:16:05French journalist Florence Aubenas, who was kidnapped nearly eight weeks ago in Iraq, has appeared for the first time in a videotape... appeared disheveled and upset in the short, undated tape which was broadcast on European and Arab television Tuesday. She appealed for help, saying both her physical and mental health are "very bad."...ap.tbo.com/ ... 18:14:09An Islamic Jihad militant told Israeli interrogators his group planned to detonate a large car bomb near Israeli targets... after troops discovered a vehicle packed with half a ton of explosives in the West Bank, the largest bomb assembled in four years of fighting....chicagotribune.com/ ... 18:11:19Chicago -- The federal judge whom white supremacist Matthew Hale attempted to have murdered found.. the bodies of her husband.. and her mother.. lying in blood.. dead.. in her house when she returned home Monday night... 5200 block of North Lakewood Avenue...
World Without Bordersnews.yahoo.com/ ... 15:11:30...border tunnel discovered by Mexican authorities over the weekend... connected a luxurious Mexicali residence to neighboring Calexico in Imperial County... Inside the passageway.. lighting and ventilation equipment, a closed-circuit security system, hydraulic machinery and various tools... presumably used for drug trafficking....
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