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TUE 2004-AUG-31
Digital Consequencesmsnbc.msn.com/ ... 23:46:09“They do know the difference between mono and Bono,” Jenna Bush said of her parents.suntimes.com/ ... 23:36:36Every week, 200,000 to 400,000 pounds of discarded computers, docking stations, TVs, telecom equipment and other detritus of this electronic age are trucked into Intercon Solutions, a recycling company on Chicago's West Side.theregister.co.uk/ ... 22:36:24Hackers have discovered that implementation quirks in Voice over IP make it easy to spoof Caller ID, and to unmask blocked numbers. They can make their phone calls appear to be from any number they want, and even pierce the veil of Caller ID blocking to unmask an anonymous phoner's unlisted number.zdnet.com.com/ ... 22:36:01This week, a company is launching technology that will make it possible for someone to choose what appears on phones that have Caller ID
Preternatural Patternsnews.yahoo.com/ ... 22:35:30 Convicted sniper John Allen Muhammad complained to a judge Tuesday that his jailers refuse to let him wear underwear and have restricted his access to his legal files.local6.com/ ... 14:14:30A Minnesota woman has honored her late husband by turning his cremated remains into a yellow diamond so she could always keep a part of him with her.indystar.com/ ... 14:14:11An 11-year-old Indianapolis girl faces legal trouble after witnesses told Indianapolis police she intentionally mistreated a kitten Saturday night by swinging it in the air with a cord tied around its neck.... animal had to be euthanized because of injuries to its neck and its poor health.
Future is Nowmsnbc.msn.com/ ... 23:49:41Star Trek’s Scotty gets Hollywood star - Actor James Doohan makes final public appearance ... 84 years old ... recently diagnosed with Alzheimer’s disease and also suffers from Parkinson’s disease, diabetes and lung fibrosis...thescotsman.scotsman.com/ ... 02:33:54 some of the world’s leading engineers are trying to advance the technology of travel further by developing cars that can fly.
Only Naturalananova.com/ ... 02:36:16A Cambodian man claims his pet dog has given birth to a kitten.ap.tbo.com/ ... 02:18:42A humpback whale trapped for more than a week behind a hydroelectric dam refused the latest attempt Monday to lure him back to the ocean. ... recorded sounds of feeding humpbacks to try to coax the 16 1/2 ton animal through the sluice gates that separate the Annapolis River from the Atlantic Ocean....
US Election 2004reuters.com/ ... 19:34:23The Republican Party nominated President Bush for a second four-year term in the White House on Tuesday with a ringing call for his re-election and a torrent of praise for his strength and "compassionate" leadership.apnews.myway.com/ ... 19:32:55A 21-year-old Yale student, posing as a volunteer at the Republican National Convention, got within 10 feet of Vice President Dick Cheney and shouted anti-war statements before being dragged awaymfile.akamai.com/ ... 14:42:56President Bush interviewed by Rush Limbaugh (audio - Windows Media Player required)worldnetdaily.com/ ... 02:29:53Vanessa Kerry... says ... "I was scared out of my mind... I mean, I grabbed my sister, and I thought, what is happening?..."editorandpublisher.com/ ... 02:10:00The biggest commotion at the Republican National Convention Monday night occurred just before 10 p.m. with the entrance of filmmaker Michael Moore, who was repeatedly halted by security attempting to reach his reserved press seat...
Human Rightreuters.com/ ... 14:18:32JOHANNESBURG - Around 80 men were caught with their pants down at a men-only nightclub when detectives burst in on a late-night drug raid.reuters.com/ ... 14:17:49Iran: Morals police have banned shopkeepers from showing unveiled dummies and lingerie in their windows.... men were now forbidden to sell women's underwear....reuters.com/ ... 14:17:20Noisy Sex Session Awakens Entire Streetap.tbo.com/ ... 14:15:31A man who spent 17 years in prison for the 1986 rape, kidnapping and robbery of a hospital worker was freed Tuesday after DNA evidence cleared him.swissinfo.org/ ... 02:34:35Turkey's government wants to make adultery a crimelubbockonline.com/ ... 02:22:39An Espanola [NM] third-grader was handcuffed and arrested by police after hitting another student with a basketball
US Military Casualtiesdefenselink.mil/ ... 14:26:02[flag]Air Force Airman 1st Class Carl L. Anderson Jr., 21, of Georgetown, S.C., died Aug. 29 as result of enemy action near Mosul, Iraq.defenselink.mil/ ... 02:19:15[flag]Army Spc. Omead H. Razani, 19, of Los Angeles, Calif., died Aug. 27 in Habbaniyah, Iraq, of non-combat related injuries.defenselink.mil/ ... 01:03:53[flag]Army Pfc. Luis A. Perez, 19, of Theresa, N.Y., died Aug. 27 in Fallujah, Iraq, when his convoy vehicle hit an improvised explosive device.
Violenceapnews.myway.com/ ... 14:26:24A video purporting to show the methodical, grisly killings of 12 Nepalese construction workers kidnapped in Iraq was posted Tuesday on a Web site linked to a militant group operating in Iraq.sg.news.yahoo.com/ ... 14:11:39A blast outside a subway station in central Moscow that killed eight people was caused by a female suicide bomberhindustantimes.com/ ... 14:01:14Two buses blew up in a southern Israeli city on Tuesday, killing at least 12 people and wounding 44... first Palestinian suicide bombings inside Israel in six months....voanews.com/ ... 14:00:39 eight people have been killed in a car explosion near a Moscow subway station.
Threatssuntimes.com/ ... 23:36:20A National Guardsman betrayed his country and fellow soldiers when he tried to pass military information to undercover agents he believed were al-Qaida terroristssuntimes.com/ ... 23:34:54An Iraqi "sleeper" who was planted in the United States by Saddam Hussein's spy service and who once worked security at O'Hare International Airport lied about his intelligence ties, prosecutors said Monday, slapping the Des Plaines man with federal charges.suntimes.com/ ... 23:34:21An American Airlines flight from Chicago to New York City was diverted to Pittsburgh on Tuesday night because of a security concernmariettatimes.com/ ... 02:36:06 9-year-old student who had been asked to leave the Open Door Baptist Church... returned to the church Sunday afternoon with a five-gallon can of gasoline.washingtontimes.com/ ... 02:35:26Saudi Interior Minister Prince Nayef bin Abdul Aziz: "We have foiled many planned operations that we will reveal later," adding the attacks would have been "much worse" than those that were carried out.
MON 2004-AUG-30
9/11 - still with uswftv.com/ ... 15:35:40 a second toy that looks like Osama Bin Laden suspended between the two buildings.
Future is Nowreuters.com/ ... 15:58:31Belgium and the Netherlands are set to follow Finland and round bills to the nearest five cents....one and two cent pieces will remain legal tender throughout the euro zone, but those countries rounding bills want to reduce the sheer volume of coins in circulation....straitstimes.asia1.com.sg/ ... 00:30:44a jacket with built-in electric fans
Only Naturalap.tbo.com/ ... 17:17:40WOODSTOCK, N.Y. ... All of it, from the vegan cakes to vegan burgers, is served raw... "No ovens," said owner Barbara Banfield. "Just dehydration. No flames."... organic vegetarian deli and juice bar in this artsy tourist town... Healthy food is "living food," they say, organic, unprocessed and uncooked.ap.tbo.com/ ... 17:10:48Less than four weeks after they were surgically separated, 2-year-old twins Carl and Clarence Aguirre left the hospital on Monday in a double stroller pushed by their beaming mother, who exclaimed, "I have two boys!"... yearlong process ...included four major operations... fused at the top of their head. Surgeons had to cut through a portion of brain they had been sharing.reuters.com/ ... 17:09:04His bill payments and pension deposits were handled automatically. "It was a very well-kept second floor condominium, neat and clean, with everything in its place, and there was a body of a man on the bed, covered in a sheet, like he was sleeping, except that the body was mummified,"mold-help.org/ ... 15:22:51Molds can produce other secondary metabolites... such as antibiotics and mycotoxins.ap.tbo.com/ ... 13:22:40...organic supporters are hopeful that the development of several disease-resistant peanut varieties will lead to more interest in growing the chemical-free nuts in [Georgia]... 4,800 peanut farmers grow about 40 percent of the total U.S. crop, ...only one organic peanut farm in the state...news.com.au/ ... 00:31:07A giant catfish is suspected of having eaten a dog in a German lake near the Polish border.canada.com/ ... 00:29:25Emergency workers made a perilous, last-second rescue of a man "breathing mud" as he sank into a massive landslidenews.com.au/ ... 00:27:19maverick American scientist Dr Panos Zavos will announce that he has taken DNA from two corpses and used it to create embryonic clones of the dead people.
Whoopsreuters.com/ ... 17:06:08An Andean spectacled bear escaped from its enclosure in Berlin zoo and roamed around a children's playground... "I was alarmed at how some fathers were too busy filming the bear to check where their children were...." "Spectacled bears eat both vegetables and meat but children tend not to be on their menu... I'd have been a lot more worried if one of our polar bears had escaped."..reuters.com/ ... 17:04:00Man Drives Home with Headless Friend... "Alcohol is believed to be a contributing factor...."mdn.mainichi.co.jp/ ... 00:29:51 A despondent man who threw himself onto train tracks in the hope that slamming into a train would end his life ended up unharmed when the train ran over the top of him and left him miraculously untouchedsfgate.com/ ... 00:10:08A California man who once tested positive for the virus that causes AIDS has learned the diagnosis made eight years ago was mistaken and he was never infected. Jim Malone spent years battling depression and losing weight, expecting to die at any time. He attended support group meetings and accepted free meals from an AIDS charity.
US Election 2004reuters.com/ ... 15:56:34 If elected U.S. president, Sen. John Kerry would offer Iran a deal allowing it to keep its nuclear power plants if it gave up the right to retain bomb-making nuclear fuel, Kerry's vice presidential running mate said in an interview published on Monday.apnews.myway.com/ ... 15:32:13Bush: "You cannot show weakness in this world today because the enemy will exploit that weakness... It will embolden them and make the world a more dangerous place... I don't think you can win [the war on terror], but I think you can create conditions so that ...those who use terror as a tool are less acceptable in parts of the world."drudgereport.com/ ... 15:30:43A paid TV advertisement from Senate Minority Leader Tom Daschle, President Bush's top congressional foe, features the South Dakotan hugging and embracing President Bush!drudgereport.com/ ... 00:08:02...Sunday night ...John Kerry's daughters were announced to speak at the annual MTV VIDEO MUSIC AWARDS... were met with a resounding wall of boos... reaction turned worse when the daughters asked the VIACOM youth to vote for their father. So shocked by the reaction, the taller of the two daughters tried to 'shhhhhh' her peers to no avail....
Human Rightreuters.com/ ... 15:58:51Thousands of young women bared their breasts and danced in Swaziland Monday in the hope of trading a life of poverty for one of royal comfort as one of King Mswati's many wives.helenair.com/ ... 00:26:47About 20 bras recently were cut off a fence between Frank Cooper and Shirley Cleary's property and the Stickney Creek fishing access on the Missouri River, after Fish, Wildlife and Parks employees decided the "bra fence" posed an "attractive nuisance."
Aftermathapnews.myway.com/ ... 15:38:07 A soldier already convicted in the Abu Ghraib prison abuse scandal testified Monday that fellow Army reservist Pfc. Lynndie England was a willing participant in creating the "human pyramid" of naked Iraqi detainees... said a sergeant who was in charge yelled at England and another soldier for "stomping on the fingers and toes" of a detainee.
Violenceap.tbo.com/ ... 13:22:52Two explosions went off in the Iraqi capital early Monday
Peace 3000news.yahoo.com/ ... 00:14:53war itself is in decline, peace researchers report... the number killed in battle has fallen to its lowest point in the post-World War II period... "International engagement is blossoming... There's been an enormous amount of activity to try to end these conflicts."
Threatschannelnewsasia.com/ ... 15:30:16Moqtada Sadr ordered a nationwide ceasefire and announced his militant movement would join the political mainstreamvoanews.com/ ... 00:05:54India's Defense Ministry says it has conducted the third successful test of a long-range missile capable of carrying a nuclear warhead.
SUN 2004-AUG-29
Whoopsap.tbo.com/ ... 14:37:36Chechens voted Sunday .... A man was killed when he attempted to blow up a polling station.
World Zookeepingnews.bbc.co.uk/ ... 14:32:02Tiny endangered tiger cubs... all under six months old... from Siberia have been kitted out with radio collars so that scientists can track them... 50% ...dying in their first year
US Election 2004worldnetdaily.com/ ... 20:11:14HOW STUPID ARE THESE "THREATS" IN THE DIGITAL AGE?.. COULDN'T THESE FOLKS PHONE THEIR VOTES IN? A convention source, part of the security detail in charge of convention transportation, said he was briefed yesterday by the Secret Service about a specific plot concerning a group of protesters trying to block delegate transportation by storming buses and protesting along their route in hopes of delaying delegates so they can't show up in time to enter their official nomination of Bush.drudgereport.com/ ... 14:24:56Bush: "We’re dealing in a part of the world where our policy was, O.K., we’ll kind of tolerate the lack of liberty for other reasons and just hope it gets better. And sure enough, it didn’t.”
Olympicssport.scotsman.com/ ... 20:14:55Irishman Cornelius Horan was tonight named by Greek police as the man who attacked Brazilian Vanderlei de Lima during the men’s marathon race in Athens.voanews.com/ ... 14:15:38Brazil's Vanderlei Lima was leading the race six kilometers from the finish when an unidentified man ran onto the race course and pushed Lima into the roadside crowd. Lima recovered but was passed a few minutes later by Italy's Stefano Baldini... and U.S. runner Mebrahtom Keflezighi. The Brazilian held on to finish third.
Violenceap.tbo.com/ ... 14:38:40Mosul, Iraq - Insurgents fired rocket-propelled grenades from a mosque at U.S. troops in northern Iraq on Sunday, prompting fighting that left two attackers dead and 34 civilians wounded...reuters.com/ ... 14:17:36At least 17 people including children died in two explosions within 24 hours in Kabul on Sunday and overnight at a religious school in a southeastern province of Afghanistan... Taliban militia claimed the Kabul bombing which ...killed two U.S. nationals, two Afghans and three Nepalis in front of the offices of an international security company.
Threatsnewsobserver.com/ ... 23:57:44Micah Garen, the American journalist freed by Shiite militants in Iraq after nine days in captivity, said Saturday that it feels "really good to be back home"ap.tbo.com/ ... 14:37:57An online statement posted Sunday in the name of an al-Qaida-linked group pledged that the Vatican would be spared, but repeated threats to "turn Rome into hell."startribune.com/ ... 14:16:47Muslim leaders in France today condemned the kidnapping of two French journalists in Iraq and said the government should not capitulate to militant demands to revoke a law that bans the wearing of Islamic head scarves in schools.
SAT 2004-AUG-28
Digital Consequencesreuters.com/ ... 23:23:12"I was missing concerts that were being broadcasted when I was asleep or out," he said. So the 35-year-old computer programmer from Ottawa, Ontario, wrote a piece of software that let him record the show directly onto his PC hard drive while he snoozed. The software, TimeTrax, also neatly arranged the individual songs from the concert, complete with artist name and song title information, into MP3 files. Then MacLean started selling the software, putting him in the thick of a potential legal battle pitting technically savvy fans against a company protecting its alliance -- and licensing agreements -- with the music industry.
Mechanical Disasternews.bbc.co.uk/ ... 23:21:20At least 13 people have died and 20 were injured in a motorway accident between Bayonne and Bordeaux in southern France. The pile-up involved a Spanish coach and 10 cars
Only Naturalap.tbo.com/ ... 23:24:30Flood waters rushed through rural northeast Ohio on Saturday, ripping houses from their foundations and tearing a 65-foot deep crater into a roadnews.bbc.co.uk/ ... 23:21:48An American couple in their eighties have marked their 60th wedding anniversary by making their first-ever parachute jump.... The McDaniels ...were worried that "we don't do anything exciting anymore".tampabays10.com/ ... 00:44:56Gainesville, Florida - A man stabbed a six-foot alligator with a pocketknife after the reptile grabbed his dog by the head.... gator then let the dog go
US Election 2004reuters.com/ ... 23:22:07President Bush on Saturday described John Kerry's tour of duty in Vietnam as more heroic than his own service in the Air National Guard, saying his Democratic rival had been "in harm's way."suntimes.com/ ... 12:21:34Former Navy Secretary John Lehman has no idea where a Silver Star citation displayed on Democratic presidential nominee John Kerry's campaign Web site came from, he said Friday. The citation appears over Lehman's signature. "It is a total mystery to me. I never saw it. I never signed it. I never approved it. And the additional language it contains was not written by me," he said.worldnetdaily.com/ ... 00:47:31new television documentary that features devastating testimony by former POWs of the demoralizing impact of John Kerry's war-crimes accusations more than 30 years ago.worldnetdaily.com/ ... 00:29:31....recently declassified documents that indicate Sen. John Kerry accepted laundered contributions from the communist Chinese government for his 1996 re-election campaign.... might have arranged meetings between Chinese aerospace executives and U.S. government officials.
US Military Casualtiesdefenselink.mil/ ... 13:27:58[flag]Marine Cpl. Barton R. Humlhanz, 23, of Hellertown, Pa., died Aug. 26 from injuries received due to enemy action in Babil Province, Iraq. defenselink.mil/ ... 13:27:40[flag]Army Spc. Marco D. Ross, 20, of Memphis, Tenn., died Aug. 25 in Baghdad, Iraq, when enemy mortars attacked his camp.
Human Rightkwtx.com/ ... 00:46:31Fifty-eight-year-old Cuban Refugee Magali Arojo told The Associated Press in a phone interview Friday that she's feeling stronger and doing much better after spending two months adrift with five other Cubans.
Violencereuters.com/ ... 23:23:48Before the fall of Saddam Hussein, Red Crescent paramedics in Baghdad were used to responding to heart attacks and car accidents, house fires and falls. Now they drive to the aftermath of car bombs and mortar attacks, gathering up body parts and risking their own lives.washingtonpost.com/ ... 23:20:16Hundreds of Sadr's supporters recently returned from fighting in Najaf, where a calm prevailed Saturday after a three-week battle ended between the militia and U.S. and Iraqi forces. But as they arrived in Baghdad, a new round of clashes broke out in their Sadr City neighborhood between insurgents and U.S. soldiers.news.telegraph.co.uk/ ... 13:27:12Russian officials... have discovered the remains of two Chechen women thought to be "Black Widows" - suicide bombers given that name because many have lost husbands in the war with Russia.ap.tbo.com/ ... 12:20:16U.S. warplanes and tanks bombarded targets in the volatile city of Fallujah on Saturday, and U.S. forces exchanged gunfire with insurgents on the city's eastern outskirts and the main highway that runs to neighboring Jordan....ap.tbo.com/ ... 12:19:53 Iraqi police on Saturday mistakenly opened fire on U.S. troops, who returned fire, wounding two policemen....ap.tbo.com/ ... 12:16:57U.S. and Afghan soldiers conducting a sweep in southern Zabul province arrested 10 suspected Taliban after a firefight in a forbidding mountain area
Threatsap.tbo.com/ ... 12:16:38Military Installations in Colorado Are the Heart of U.S. Military's Post-Sept. 11 Anti-Terrorism Networkap.tbo.com/ ... 12:16:18Two men have been arrested in connection with an alleged plot to bomb a subway station in midtown Manhattan, sources said early Saturday.
FRI 2004-AUG-27
9/11 - still with uswftv.com/ ... 16:18:25Until Thursday afternoon, the little toys were on sale to kids around Central Florida -- two towers with a jetliner in between that appears to be crashing into one of the buildings. They come in packages along with candy... product number on every single toy: 9011.... A company called Lisy Corporation distributes the candy bags. They said they are also offended by the toy and have pulled 17,000 of the toys... bought the toys, sight unseen, from L and M Import/Export of Miami. We talked to L and M and they say they have no problem at all with the toy and don't consider it offensive at all.
Digital Consequencesiht.com/ ... 01:07:14Husqvarna Viking Designer II, a Swedish-made computerized sewing machine that could be linked to her Dell PC.
History - still with uslasvegassun.com/ ... 01:04:33PULASKI COUNTY, Ill.... relics of one of the biggest Army camps in the earliest days of the republic that went unnoticed for two centuries... housed as many as 1,500 soldiers in 1801-1802, about a third of the standing U.S. Army at the time....
Transportnews.com.au/ ... 01:01:17AN Australian inventor claims to have made the world's first commercially-viable motor vehicle powered by compressed air.telegraph.co.uk/ ... 01:00:58Cars could one day run on flower power, according to a team that has found a way to extract hydrogen from sunflower oil.
US Election 2004worldnetdaily.com/ ... 16:38:25White House will continue to run a President Bush re-election commercial which uses the Olympiad as a backdrop.... "In 1972, there were 40 democracies in the world. Today, 120. Freedom is spreading throughout the world like a sunrise. And this Olympics there will be two more free nations. And two fewer terrorist regimes. With strength, resolve and courage, democracy will triumph over terror. And hope will defeat hatred."suntimes.com/ ... 16:13:18 official records on Kerry's Web site ...includes a "Silver Star with combat V." But according to a U.S. Navy spokesman, "Kerry's record is incorrect. The Navy has never issued a 'combat V' to anyone for a Silver Star."suntimes.com/ ... 16:10:13Retired Rear Adm. William L. Schachte Jr. said Thursday in his first on-the-record interview about the swift boat veterans dispute that "I was absolutely in the skimmer" in the early morning on Dec. 2, 1968, when Lt. (j.g.) John Kerry was involved in an incident that led to his first Purple Heart. "Kerry nicked himself with a M-79 [grenade launcher],"worldnetdaily.com/ ... 01:00:09Speaking at a Martin Luther King Day celebration last year, presidential candidate John F. Kerry told a Virginia audience that he remembered hearing the tragic news of the assassination [of Dr. King] while serving in Vietnam – though he did not begin his four-month tour of duty for at least seven months after the shooting.
Why people go veganabclocal.go.com/ ... 00:35:13Katelyn Miller shoved her head into a toilet bowl full of chicken gizzards, chicken necks, water, Worcestershire sauce and corn, removing 16 pieces of meat with her mouth. "It was good," the 14-year-old said afterward. "I kept taking bites of it. It kept falling out of my mouth."
Whoops!reuters.com/ ... 16:23:42"They can't sell it anywhere in Canada without giving away the immediate fact that it's been stolen... So we have crooks stuck with 50,000 plus cans of beer that basically they can't fence."abclocal.go.com/ ... 00:34:00 Plenty of people lose their luggage on airline flights -- but Walter Neubrand lost the Stanley Cup. It's his job to protect the fabled hockey trophy.
Preternatural Patternsreuters.com/ ... 16:24:14Six scrap metal dealers have been arrested for stealing an Austro-Hungarian-era 13-meter-long iron bridgereuters.com/ ... 16:21:59A South African man who shot his pregnant fiance dead before killing himself will be posthumously married to her at the weekend.abclocal.go.com/ ... 00:33:30 ...central Ohio woman was watching TV when the phone rang Monday night. She got up to answer it, but there was no one at the other end. Moments later, a pickup truck crashed into her living room....abclocal.go.com/ ... 00:32:28 ...drunken rage when a man stepped on and killed his pet six-foot-long black snake.... picked up the dead snake and used it as a whip....
New New Newabclocal.go.com/ ... 00:30:22new aluminum beer bottle... will keep the beer cold for nearly an hour longer than a glass bottle.
Don't Give Them Ideasabclocal.go.com/ ... 00:27:38Cuban woman shipped herself from the Bahamas to Miami in a crate about the size of a small filing cabinet. ...being allowed to stay in the U.S. ... lucky to be alive.
Olympicsabclocal.go.com/ ... 00:26:23Greek taxi driver Ioannis Zavos found ,,,in the back seat of his cab ...Olympic silver medal... won by Dutch rower Simon Diederik.
Only Naturallasvegassun.com/ ... 01:03:26Researchers have found concentrations ...up to three times higher... of platinum in women who got silicone breast implants and in the children they bore and breast-fed afterward... a highly reactive platinum, used to help turn silicon oil into the honey-like gel that lends a more natural feel to a breast implant.... Women who had implants the longest recorded the highest platinum concentrations. The heavy metal was also found in bone marrow...abc.net.au/ ... 00:19:00A German man, whose jaw was removed because of cancer, has been able to eat his first solid meal in nine years thanks to a replacement jawbone which was incubated in a muscle on his back... the first in which doctors have used a patient's own body to incubate and synthesise a substitute for lost bone tissue... Seven weeks
US Military Casualtiesdefenselink.mil/ ... 16:38:55[flag]Army Spc. Charles L. Neeley, 19, of Mattoon, Ill., died Aug. 25 in Tikrit, Iraq, when his tractor-trailer rolled over as he attempted to access a pontoon bridge.
Human Rightlocal6.com/ ... 16:26:03A judicial panel has charged an Orange County judge with chastising a deputy sheriff who had a child out of wedlock, saying she was a "disgrace to society," "had no morals," and her child was "a bastard."... Todd told her "it is acceptable for a male to have sex before marriage, but if a female does so, she is not respected and considered a tramp...."reuters.com/ ... 16:24:01Wearing underwear and nothing else in public does not constitute indecency, a Massachusetts court declared on Thursdaymsnbc.msn.com/ ... 01:00:32BOSTON - A woman who agreed to have a child with her lesbian partner but split up with the mother before the baby’s birth cannot be forced to pay child support, the state’s highest court ruled Wednesday.abclocal.go.com/ ... 00:24:03Vivian Martinez... claimed her constitutional rights were violated when she was rejected for a job as an officer-dispatcher [for the] ...Tucumcari police department... attorney for the department and city argued the ex-stripper wasn't qualified for the job.... Jurors have awarded ...$80,000....
Aftermathapnews.myway.com/ ... 16:18:45President Bush said for the first time on Thursday he made a "miscalculation of what the conditions would be" after U.S. troops went to Iraq
Violencedailytimes.com.pk/ ... 19:37:53Russia said on Friday terrorists were behind one of the passenger-jet crashes as an Islamic group, which previously claimed an attack on prime minister-designate Shaukat Aziz, claimed responsibility for the twin plane crashes to avenge the killing of Muslims in Chechnya. “The Islambouli Brigades..."ap.tbo.com/ ... 16:21:15Russian officials accused terrorists Friday after the wreckage of one of two crashed jetliners revealed traces of an explosive used in earlier attacks blamed on Chechen rebelsap.tbo.com/ ... 16:20:54Armed with knives, Eritrean deportees hijacked a plane that left Libya carrying about 80 fellow Eritreans and forced it to land Friday in the Sudanese capital before surrendering to security forcesreuters.com/ ... 16:19:00An explosion that blew out a number of windows at a Boston-area laboratory specializing in stem-cell research was caused by a pipe bombcanada.com/ ... 16:16:14A captured al-Qaeda operative has told Canadian intelligence investigators that a Montreal man who trained in Afghanistan alongside the 9/11 hijackers was responsible for the crash of an American Airlines flight in New York three years ago... [that] Farouk the Tunisian, had downed the plane with explosives on Nov. 12, 2001... dailystar.com.lb/ ... 16:02:38Shiite fighters left... Najaf on Friday and began turning in their weapons... charred and bloated bodies [of]... at least 15 Iraqis... were discovered Friday in the basement of a religious court set up by rebel cleric Moqtada al-Sadr....
Threatsmsnbc.msn.com/ ... 19:38:39...With Iraq's national elections just a few months away in January, al-Sistani has positioned himself as a kingmaker, who acts independently of the new Iraqi government and the U.S. military. Al-Sistani, who commands the loyalty of millions of Shiites and supports a democratic Iraq, is considered a moderate. Nonetheless, his unchecked influence is troublesome....local10.com/ ... 16:14:30Al-Qaida may attempt to attack Veterans Affairs hospitals as an alternative to more heavily guarded U.S. military installations, the FBI and Homeland Security Department warntampabays10.com/ ... 16:14:03Joseph Chiejina Mazagwu, a 35-year-old resident of Tampa, Florida, has been indicted for making a threat against the President and making a false statement to a federal agent.worldnetdaily.com/ ... 00:58:58Iraqi sheik claims Allah sent giant spiders to the town of Fallujah to help its residents fend off attacks by U.S. military forces. "...each spider larger than this chair, or about the size of this chair. The American soldiers left, holding the legs of this spider...." ...there also are stories circulating of phantom white-robed knights on white horses sent by Allah that killed U.S. Marines in battle....
THU 2004-AUG-26
Only Naturalcnn.usnews.printthis.clickability.com/ ... 14:56:11OKLAHOMA CITY - A swarm of bees that attacked a work crew earlier this month may be of the Africanized variety, which would mark the furthest north the so-called "killer" bees have traveled in the United States
Whoops!ap.tbo.com/ ... 14:53:47NO ONE AS IGNORANT AS THOSE ASSIGNED TO TEACH IN PUBLIC SCHOOLS: a student in Gwinnett County's Grayson High School... was weeded out of a classroom by a school administrator because he wore a shirt that read: "Hempstead, NY 516," a reference to the Long Island town and its telephone area code.... the school thought the shirt referred to marijuana. ...wasn't allowed to return to class until he persuaded school officials to search the Internet for the town name.
Mysteryreuters.com/ ... 14:50:49 Investigators examined flight recorders Thursday from Russia's mystery double air crash... "The tapes... did not show anything. Practically speaking they switched themselves off immediately. And so we failed to get any information...."
US Election 2004reuters.com/ ... 14:55:29"If you are listening to a rock star in order to get your voting information on who to vote for, you are a bigger moron than they are. Why are we rock stars? Because we're morons." - Alice Cooperthepittsburghchannel.com/ ... 14:48:50Cooper said he had clearly said in the interview rock stars doing concerts for presidential candidates were guilty of "treason against rock and roll." He said he didn't mean treason against the president, the government or the U.S.seattlepi.nwsource.com/ ... 14:46:44Twice in 33 years, John O'Neill looked up from a hospital bed and saw John Kerry on television. Each time, he was stirred to action.
US Military Casualtiesdefenselink.mil/ ... 15:07:09[flag]Marine Lance Cpl. Alexander S. Arredondo, 20, of Randolph, Mass., died Aug. 25 as result of enemy action in An Najaf, Iraq. defenselink.mil/ ... 15:06:46[flag]Marine Lance Cpl. Jacob R. Lugo, 21, of Flower Mound, Texas, died Aug. 24 as result of enemy action in Al Anbar Province, Iraq. defenselink.mil/ ... 14:56:48[flag]Army Staff Sgt. Donald N. Davis, 42, of Saginaw, Mich., died August 24 in Fallujah, Iraq, when an M915A tractor and an M106A2 tanker trailer rolled over an embankment.
Violencenews4colorado.com/ ... 21:56:51 the recorders "turned off immediately" — an indication "that something happened very fast."themoscowtimes.com/ ... 21:56:34Moscow Times editorial: The Public Has a Right to Know [My, how the world has changed!]abcnews.go.com/ ... 21:55:20A top Russian official acknowledged Thursday what many citizens already suspected that terrorism was the most likely cause of two jetliners crashing minutes apartvoanews.com/ ... 21:55:02The al-Jazeera television channel reports that militants in Iraq have killed their Italian hostage.sacbee.com/ ... 14:49:30A man angry about on-air comments made by radio talk show host Tom Leykis spotted him outside a Seattle nightspot and kicked him in the headsfgate.com/ ... 14:47:40Gauhati, India - Bombs ripped through two buses and a grenade was hurled into a crowded market in attacks Thursday that killed four people and wounded 46
Threatsreuters.com/ ... 14:45:34Iraq's most revered Shi'ite leader persuaded ...Moqtada al-Sadr... Thursday to accept a deal ending a three-week uprising in Najaf
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Whoops!suntimes.com/ ... 13:57:46A civil complaint by Illinois ...says... the driver of the Dave Matthews Band bus ...flicked a switch behind his seat and unleashed up to 800 pounds of human waste as he drove one of the band's buses over the Kinzie Street bridge.... someone aboard the boat recognized the buses... detectives obtained videotape footage from businesses nearby that show the bus on the bridge at the time of the incident....
Transportap.tbo.com/ ... 13:51:19New Volkswagen Gol subcompacts ...They run on gasoline, alcohol or any combination of the two and now represent nearly 20 percent of the new cars sold in Brazil.
Don't Give Them Ideasreuters.com/ ... 13:49:33Protests from seven safety groups prompted General Motors Corp. to pull a television ad that shows a young boy driving a Corvette sports car so recklessly that it goes airborne... featuring the Rolling Stones song "Jumpin' Jack Flash," ...aired repeatedly during the Olympics. The groups... complained that it was "the most dangerous" spot they have seen in recent years.
US Election 2004news.yahoo.com/ ... 21:40:45The chief critic of John Kerry's military record told President Nixon in 1971 that he had been in Cambodia in a swift boat during the Vietnam War — a claim at odds with his recent statements that he was not.worldnetdaily.com/ ... 16:59:04the American Party, America First Party and the Independent American Party [and]... the Constitution Party... are discussing the possibility of merging...reuters.com/ ... 14:10:18"It's the most bizarre part of this entire campaign." -- White House hopeful John Kerry to "The Daily Show" host Jon Stewart on the number of people who want to introduce themselves while in the men's room.reason.com/ ... 14:04:29Columnist Ted Rall calls George W. Bush "a right-wing extremist whose agenda makes Barry Goldwater look tame by comparison." If only it were so.reason.com/ ... 13:41:44In the latest issue of Harper's, Lewis Lapham has a long, tiresome essay on the "Republican propaganda mill"--which, to judge by one of the accompanying graphs, includes the foundation that publishes Reason.,,, The main thrust of the piece is that all conservatives are stupid and closed-minded.... Perhaps the most revealing part of the article is the paragraph where Lapham pretends to have heard the speeches at the Republican National Convention that does not open until a week from today.apnews.myway.com/ ... 13:32:26Benjamin Ginsberg... An election lawyer for President Bush who also has been advising a veterans group running TV ads against Democrat John Kerry resigned Wednesday from Bush's campaign.
Digital Consequencesnews.bbc.co.uk/ ... 14:09:15The Pacific island nation of Samoa is looking to the internet as a way of developing its economy.news.bbc.co.uk/ ... 14:06:19The Motion Picture Association of America's (MPAA) has... alleged that the two DVD chip firms supplied makers of equipment ...whose DVD players did not have what it said were "appropriate security features."...courttv.com/ ... 13:22:28A man was acquitted Tuesday of charges he caused a fatal crash by taking his eyes off the road while watching a movie on a DVD player mounted on his truck dashboard. ... Petterson testified he was not watching a movie and that his truck strayed into oncoming traffic when he reached for a soda. The Weisers died at the scene....
Only Naturalnews.bbc.co.uk/ ... 21:42:45Professor Schellnhuber said twelve "hotspots" had been identified so far, areas which acted like massive regulators of the Earth's environment. If these critical regions were subjected to stress, they could trigger large-scale, rapid changes across the entire planet.local6.com/ ... 21:39:10Frog A 9-year-old Minnesota girl found a five-legged frog with 23 toes near Stewartville, Minntheherald.co.uk/ ... 21:38:24Cleaning the house could give young children asthma, doctors warned yesterday. They said exposure to indoor pollutants from domestic solvents and cleaning products in early life may trigger the condition.news.bbc.co.uk/ ... 14:08:14European scientists have discovered what they describe as the smallest Earth-like planet orbiting a star outside our Solar System. ... 14 times the size of Earth... "super-Earth-like"....guardian.co.uk/ ... 01:00:56Cans and bottles of sugar-sweetened colas, lemonade and fruit drinks... are today implicated as a major cause of obesity and linked to a rise in diabetes.....
US Militarydefenselink.mil/ ... 17:01:29This week, the Army, Navy and Marine Corps announced an increase in the number of reservists on active duty in support of the partial mobilization, while the Air Force had a decrease and the Coast Guard total remains unchanged. ...1,944 more reservists mobilized than last week.
US Military Casualtiesdefenselink.mil/ ... 17:00:38[flag]Army Staff Sgt. Robert C. Thornton Jr., 35, of Rainbow City, Ala., died Aug. 23 in Baghdad, Iraq, when his patrol came under rocket-propelled grenade attack.
Human Rightcourttv.com/ ... 13:22:57Lee Kandu never wanted to be a crusader for same-sex marriage. The Castle Rock, Wash., woman just wanted to file for bankruptcy protection so she could keep her house after her spouse — a woman she married in Canada — was diagnosed with terminal cancer.
Aftermathap.tbo.com/ ... 21:49:43An American citizen captured on an Afghanistan battlefield nearly three years ago says in court papers that he never took up arms against the United States and that he had been trying to get out of the country at the time.
Threatsap.tbo.com/ ... 21:47:15The oldest daughter of a man described as a high-ranking Hamas operative said Wednesday that police used racial profiling when officers stopped her family's sport utility vehicle while her mother made a home video of the Chesapeake Bay Bridge.abcnews.go.com/ ... 21:41:45Closing schools, restricting travel and rationing scarce medications may be the nation's first protections if a powerful new flu strain spurs a worldwide outbreak because it will take months to brew a vaccine, say government preparations for the next pandemic.memri.org/ ... 17:02:18 London Arabic daily Progressive Columnist: Iran's Nuclear Build-Up Endangers its Neighbors More than it Endangers Israelworldnetdaily.com/ ... 16:59:51Insisting again its nuclear program is peaceful, Iran repeated a warning yesterday that it would retaliate if Israel attacks any of its nuclear facilities.news.bbc.co.uk/ ... 13:42:27Grand Ayatollah Ali al-Sistani, 73, now back in Iraq after heart surgery in the UK, will soon go to Najafnews.bbc.co.uk/ ... 13:42:08Aviation experts say the circumstances of Russia's double air disaster look suspicious, as the odds on two airliners crashing almost simultaneously by accident after leaving the same airport are extremely slim.mosnews.com/ ... 13:34:15Terrorists will paralyze the Internet on August 26, a Russian expert in antivirus programs said on Tuesday.apnews.myway.com/ ... 13:33:17Flight recorders from both planes were found and taken to Moscow for investigation... Russia's main intelligence agency, however, said it had found no evidence of terrorism...
Violenceap.tbo.com/ ... 21:47:51 A distraught father who had just been told his Marine son was killed in combat in Iraq climbed into a Marine Corps van and set it ablaze Wednesday. He suffered severe burns.news.bbc.co.uk/ ... 13:43:31a security guard, was convicted for the 1990 rape and murder of a school girl who lived in the building where he worked. ,,, His execution in the eastern city of Calcutta on 14 August whipped up a media frenzy with some news outlets covering it in great detail.... At least three children have died while acting out the recent hanging....ap.tbo.com/ ... 01:02:35CINCINNATI - A man opened fire at a department store Tuesday evening, killing an employee and injuring a customer before fatally shooting himselfreuters.com/ ... 01:02:14 Rescuers have found the flight recorder from one of two Russian planesnews.xinhuanet.com/ ... 00:53:20an alarm went off aboard the Tu-154 airliner just before it went missing in southern Russia, indicating the plane underwent an attack or hijacking.
TUE 2004-AUG-24
US Election 2004nypost.com/ ... 23:16:39A number of extremists with ties to the 1970s radical Weather Underground have recently been released from prison and are in New York preparing to wreak havoc during the Republican National Convention...worldnetdaily.com/ ... 23:16:23Paul Galanti, captured in 1966 after ejecting from his fighter jet about 100 miles south of Hanoi, said on the Sean Hannity radio show yesterday he first heard Kerry's testimony in late 1971 when it was broadcast by his Vietnamese captors over the public address system in the infamous "Hanoi Hilton" prison.worldnetdaily.com/ ... 23:15:51 John Kerry's ...presidential campaign has backed off on claims that he was wounded from enemy fire.worldnetdaily.com/ ... 23:15:24a war veteran is about to release a television documentary with devastating testimony by former POWs of the demoralizing impact of [Kerry's] war-crimes accusations more than 30 years ago.worldnetdaily.com/ ... 23:14:53Shock-rock legend Alice Cooper calls rock stars campaigning for Democrat John Kerry treasonous morons.
WW2 - still with usap.tbo.com/ ... 22:06:42Frank Sanache, the last of the "code talkers" from the Meskwaki Indian tribe, died Saturday. He was 86.
Digital Consequencesnytimes.com/ ... 21:50:31Federal and state law enforcement agencies have quietly arrested or charged dozens of people with crimes related to junk e-mail, identity theft and other online scams in recent weeks
Whoops!cbs2chicago.com/ ... 21:54:59The Illinois Attorney General's office says.... Rock star Dave Matthews and his tour bus driver are... responsible for dumping up to 100 gallons of raw human waste from a tour bus onto the Kinzie Street Bridge earlier this month.... The nasty mess rained down on passengers aboard a sightseeing boat two weeks ago....reuters.com/ ... 21:42:02Three grave robbers were killed when a 1,000-year-old Chinese tomb collapsed on them.reuters.com/ ... 21:38:47A Tanzanian who went to a witch doctor in search of the power to resist bullets and knife attacks died when ritual cuts made on his body proved fatal.
Mechanical Disasterreuters.com/ ... 21:38:11A plane carrying 62 people crashed in Russia's Tula region south of Moscow on Tuesday... 54 passengers and 8 crew....
Only Naturalgulf-daily-news.com/ ... 23:20:48Bahrain - A man who was shot by police after kidnapping two children and then shipped off to be cremated was found to be alive by funeral workers who heard him groan.reuters.com/ ... 21:39:50An Indian man charged over the train torching that triggered Gujarat's Hindu-Muslim bloodshed two years ago... says he and his wife are suffering mental trauma because their physical needs have not been met for such a long time.... He wants to be allowed out of jail for 30 days....news.yahoo.com/ ... 21:36:53An earthquake rattled Olympic venues Tuesday in and around Athens.
Preternatural Patternsapnews.myway.com/ ... 23:19:59 Comedian Ellen DeGeneres is getting a promotion - to supreme being. DeGeneres will star as God in a remake of the 1977 comedy "Oh, God!"boston.com/ ... 23:19:11"If you see a whole paper of red, it looks pretty frightening," said Sharon Carlson, a health and physical education teacher at John F. Kennedy Middle School in Northampton. "Purple stands out, but it doesn't look as scary as red."worldnetdaily.com/ ... 23:18:22A previously unknown Islamic militant group, Jamaat Ansar Al-Jihad al-Islamiya, said yesterday it set fire to a Paris-based Jewish-run soup kitchen.wowt.com/ ... 23:18:04The FBI has concluded there's no evidence the Manhattan, Kansas man who ingested a chemical following a minor traffic accident in Omaha Monday planned to use it against the public or that he has any terrorist ties.... remains hospitalized in stable condition. For reasons still unknown, he swallowed the chemical cyanuric chloride after the accident at 40th and Leavenworth. It caused a lot of concern as a police officer, firefighter, and the other driver involved all had to be decontaminated....reuters.com/ ... 21:59:03check out "The Hippie Dictionary" by John McClearynews.bbc.co.uk/ ... 21:58:21MARTHA STEWART IN A BURQUA: Radical Islamists have launched a new magazine publication on the internet especially for women. The aim of the magazine is to show women how to reconcile the apparent contradiction of fighting jihad while maintaining family life.reuters.com/ ... 21:41:47Dozens of stray cats and their fleas put Cyprus state radio off the air Tuesday as fumigation experts were called in.... Cats have been roaming the CyBC grounds for decades and now number more than 100.reuters.com/ ... 21:40:09South African authorities will bury a 77-year-old man who has been dead seven weeks despite his family saying a "prophet" had promised them he would be resurrectedreuters.com/ ... 21:38:28The family of a 17-year-old Vietnamese boy who died 36 years ago kept his body in their home after a fortune teller told relatives they had buried the teenager alive by mistake.elitestv.com/ ... 21:36:02AL DVORIN HAS LEFT THE MORTAL SPHERE: Al Dvorin, who coined the phrase 'Elvis has left the building' was killed in a car crash Sunday morning on the way home from an Elvis convention in California.
US Military Casualtiesdefenselink.mil/ ... 23:26:37[flag]Marine Sgt. Richard M. Lord, 24, of Jacksonville, Fla., died Aug. 18 from injuries received due to enemy action in Al Anbar Province, Iraq. defenselink.mil/ ... 23:26:10[flag]Marine Gunnery Sgt. Edward T. Reeder, 32, of Camp Verde, Ariz., died Aug. 21 in a non-combat related vehicle incident in Al Anbar Province, Iraq. defenselink.mil/ ... 23:25:51[flag]Army 2nd Lt. Matthew R. Stovall, 25, of Horn Lake, Miss., died Aug. 22 in Mosul, Iraq, when an improvised explosive device exploded near his vehicle.defenselink.mil/ ... 23:25:16[flag]Marine Cpl. Christopher Belchik, 30, of Brighton, Ill., died Aug. 22, due to enemy action in Babil Province, Iraq. defenselink.mil/ ... 23:23:36[flag]Marine Cpl. Nicanor Alvarez, 22, of San Bernardino, Calif., died Aug. 21 from injuries received from to enemy action in Al Anbar Province, Iraq.
[flag]Marine Sgt. Jason Cook, 25, of Okanogan, Wash., died Aug. 21 from injuries received due to enemy action in Al Anbar Province, Iraq.
[flag]Marine Lance Cpl. Seth Huston, 19, Perryton, Texas, died Aug. 21 due to enemy action in Al Anbar Province, Iraq.
[flag]Marine Pfc. Nachez Washalanta, 21, of Bryan, Okla., died Aug. 21 from injuries received due to enemy action in Al Anbar Province, Iraq. defenselink.mil/ ... 23:22:04[flag]Army Pfc. Kevin A. Cuming, 22, of North White Plains, N.Y., died August 21 in Baghdad, Iraq, when his patrol came under rocket-propelled grenade attack. defenselink.mil/ ... 23:21:47[flag]Marine Cpl. Brad P. McCormick, 23, of Overton, Tenn., died Aug. 19 from enemy action in Al Anbar Province, Iraq.
Human Rightworldnetdaily.com/ ... 23:16:55An employee of the California Department of Social Services filed suit yesterday after state officials removed items from his cubicle they consider "political, religious or social" in nature.abcnews.go.com/ ... 21:37:17The practice of "hot saucing" a child's tongue as a method of discipline may seem cruel to some parents, but those who regularly use the punishment say it teaches their charges valuable and long-lasting lessons.drudgereport.com/ ... 21:36:24 my general view is freedom means freedom for everyone... People ought to be free to enter into any kind of relationship they want to.cnn.com/ ... 21:35:19 Vice President Dick Cheney said Tuesday he believes the question of same-sex marriage is best handled by the states -- a position that puts him at odds with President Bush who proposed amending the Constitution to ban such unions.
Reasons for Repealnews.bbc.co.uk/ ... 00:28:31A man claimed to be responsible for smuggling half the cocaine that reaches the US from Mexico has been arrested.
Violencereuters.com/ ... 21:49:29 Iraqi security forces tightened their grip around a key shrine in Najaf on Tuesday after the government warned Shi'ite rebels inside they must surrender or die.
Threatsnews.com.au/ ... 23:20:16FRENCH anti-terrorist prosecutor Jean-Louis Bruguiere claims a mystery man in Australia was connected to the "millennium bombing plot" to blow up Los Angeles airport in 2000.ap.tbo.com/ ... 22:01:29 A man described as a high-ranking Hamas operative was arrested after he drove across the Chesapeake Bay Bridge while his wife videotaped close-up shots of the structurenews.bbc.co.uk/ ... 21:57:30First plane: Witnesses say the aircraft exploded in the air before it crashed... 2nd plane: Rescue workers have reportedly spotted flames and smoke in the area....quote.bloomberg.com/ ... 21:49:12A Russian passenger airplane crashed and another is missing on flights from Moscow... 44 people on board... the aircraft left Moscow's Demodedovo airport within three minutes of each other.thesun.co.uk/ ... 21:37:31AN undercover Sun reporter has exposed chilling security blunders — by smuggling a fake bomb on to a jet carrying more than 220 British holidaymakers.news.yahoo.com/ ... 00:29:24British transport officials launched an urgent investigation after an undercover reporter smuggled fake bomb-making equipment on board a holiday jet at a central England airport.news.bbc.co.uk/ ... 00:27:19Afghan President Hamid Karzai and Pakistani counterpart Pervez Musharraf have met in Islamabad to discuss terrorism and economic issues. A statement said that the leaders "reiterated their common commitment to fight terrorism".
MON 2004-AUG-23
Whoops!reuters.com/ ... 14:36:21A South African skydiver survived a 11,500-foot plunge after her parachute failed to open and lines broke on her reserve chute... hurtling toward the ground at more than 120 miles per hour... parachute failed to deploy... reserve parachute... not fully open... Powerlines broke her fall... hairline fracture to her pelvis....reuters.com/ ... 14:34:14British rescuers had an uncomfortable sense of deja vu when they saved a man and his eight-year-old son after they drifted out to sea in an inflatable dinghy. Just 24 hours earlier the same hapless duo were plucked to safety off a beach in Somerset, southwest England, after getting stuck in treacherous mud flats while struggling with a punctured dinghy.
Only Naturalguardian.co.uk/ ... 21:09:48Eating blueberries might help protect people against clogged arteries....sacbee.com/ ... 21:07:06BARSTOW, Calif. - A swarm of honey bees living inside a playhouse attacked 11 people, leaving six hospitalized over the weekend.nynewsday.com/ ... 21:06:30Increasing the activity of a single gene turns a mere rodent into Mighty Mouse, according to a new study.reuters.com/ ... 14:37:28...a rare, 10-year-old Komodo Dragon ...plunged to her death at London Zoo after she scaled a dividing wall to reach her mate....news.bbc.co.uk/ ... 14:30:43Scientists think they may at last know why the world's largest leatherback turtle was washed up on a Welsh beach.... a new study that suggests leatherbacks should be viewed as a UK/Irish species which simply visits the Caribbean to breed....
Digital Consequencesnews.bbc.co.uk/ ... 14:29:46For men without a partner, help may be at hand - in the form of a virtual girlfriend.
US Election 2004iht.com/ ... 21:09:14North Korea called President George W. Bush an imbecile and a tyrant who puts Hitler in the shade... "The North Koreans made it very clear, politely, that they want Mr. Kerry to win the election...."apnews.myway.com/ ... 14:39:20Former Republican Sen. Bob Dole suggested Sunday that John Kerry apologize for past testimony before Congress about alleged atrocities during the Vietnam War and joined critics of the Democratic presidential candidate who say he received an early exit from combat for "superficial wounds."apnews.myway.com/ ... 14:27:42 President Bush on Monday denounced campaign commercials aired by outside groups, including an ad that accuses John Kerry of lying about his combat record in Vietnam.
Preternatural Patternsreuters.com/ ... 14:36:41Surfing could come to Switzerland after a sports group said Monday it plans to build a wave machine on a river in Zurichreuters.com/ ... 14:31:43Scorpions will be the bedfellows of a 24-year-old Malaysian woman for more than a month, as she tries to set a new world record for living with the venomous animals.foxnews.com/ ... 01:05:58 Police in eastern Latvia were trying to determine Wednesday what charges to bring against a drunken horse-and-buggy driver who caused a drunken motorist to crash into a ditch, flipping his car.
Human Rightseattlepi.nwsource.com/ ... 21:10:08LANSING, Mich. -- A state board voted along party lines Monday to keep a proposed constitutional ban on gay marriage off the ballot - even though supporters apparently collected many more signatures than required.zdnet.com.com/ ... 21:06:10Advocates of technologies like radio frequency identification tags say their potentially life-saving benefits far outweigh any Orwellian concerns about privacy.... Critics, however, say such technologies would make it easier for government agencies to track a person's every movement and allow widespread invasion of privacy.
WW1 - still with usreuters.com/ ... 14:33:56The bodies of three Austrian soldiers killed in World War One have been found frozen and almost perfectly preserved in an Italian Alpine glacier.... Historians ...believe the men died during a battle on Sept. 3, 1918 ...in what has been called "the great battle."
Aftermathnews.bbc.co.uk/ ... 14:29:32Events are being held worldwide to mark the abolition of the slave trade and to highlight the fact that millions still live as slaves in all but name.wral.com/ ... 14:29:04Fourteen search and rescue dogs who dug through the rubble of the World Trade Center have since died... Eight ...from cancer.... Researchers ...said they don't believe there is a connection... some dog owners blame the mix of chemicals their dogs were exposed to....reuters.com/ ... 01:18:47Film Review: 'Uncovered: the War on Iraq'
SUN 2004-AUG-22
Only Naturalap.tbo.com/ ... 20:07:08...a Texas hydrologist says low concentrations of explosives and perchlorate suspected to be from the lab have reached the Rio Grande....ap.tbo.com/ ... 20:05:46Two toddlers fell out the window of a third-story apartment but suffered only cuts and bruises,ap.tbo.com/ ... 20:05:35"It's normal for the patriarch or matriarch who has created the business to look at it as another child, and they don't want that child to leave the nest.... It's the only child left that they have control over."
Preternatural Patternsnews.bbc.co.uk/ ... 18:09:24McDonald's has taken out newspaper ads in the UK to say a documentary [Super Size Me] about its food is "slick" and "well-made" - but unrealistic.Screamnews.bbc.co.uk/ ... 15:03:18Armed robbers have stolen the iconic Edvard Munch painting, The Scream, from the Munch Museum in Norway. Two masked thieves pulled the work and another painting, Madonna, off the wall as stunned visitors watched on Sunday.
Human Rightnews.scotsman.com/ ... 18:08:46Rape victim marries jailed attacker to avoid Muslim shun... "I took advantage of her weakness and assaulted her while she was alone. What I did was wrong," the apparently repentant Shaikh said at the end of the ceremony... "Now I am happy to get a chance to make amends for the crime I have committed." [Rape victim] Khatoon, who looked very happy after the marriage, said: "For that act [of rape] I hated him. Sometimes I felt like I wanted to tear him to pieces. But I have a different feeling for him now. I have forgiven him because he has chosen me as his wife. I have to love him now."
Aftermathap.tbo.com/ ... 20:04:06A Washington state soldier... Robert Hall, 23, says he knew within a month that he would marry Vivian Mansour, 21, of Baghdad, even though at first neither spoke a word of each other's language.... The two were married here Saturday... Mansour is a Kurdish Christian....
Threatsap.tbo.com/ ... 20:07:25U.S. journalist Micah Garen, who was kidnapped in Iraq more than a week ago, was released Sunday in the southern city of Nasiriyah.jpost.com/ ... 18:05:17A psychology professor accused of pulling a hate crime hoax by vandalizing her own car with racist and anti-Semitic graffiti has been convicted.abc.net.au/ ... 18:04:54[ONCE A UN MEMBER, BUT BETRAYED TO THE GODLESS COMMIES BY TWO-FACED LYING CROOK AND QUITTER RICHARD NIXON...] Taiwan will kick off an advertising campaign in the United States and Europe next week as the island launches its 12th annual bid to [RE-]join the United Nations....
Violencesuntimes.com/ ... 03:37:14Chicago's 46th annual Air and Water Show takes off today and Sunday on the city's lakefront.... Mixed in this year will be about 100 peace activists, energized by the war in Iraq, who plan to press their view that the show glorifies war.news.bbc.co.uk/ ... 03:29:56A US warplane has attacked suspected rebel positions in the Iraqi city of Najaf where talks with religious officials have been delayed again.reuters.co.uk/ ... 03:29:09Extra armed police are patrolling the streets of the Bangladeshi capital as shocked Bangladeshis wake up to the aftermath of grenade blasts that killed at least 17 people.
SAT 2004-AUG-21
US Election 2004ap.tbo.com/ ... 16:34:41 A man who heckled President Bush at a political rally was fired from his job at an advertising and design company for offending a client who provided tickets to the event.... ushered out of Hedgesville High School on Tuesday after shouting his disagreement with Bush's comments about the war in Iraq war and the search for weapons of mass destruction. The crowd had easily drowned out Hiller with its chant: "Four more years."... "It's just bizarre that you disagree with them and it all turns evil"...reuters.com/ ... 13:37:07An American journalist who commanded a boat alongside John Kerry in Vietnam broke a 35-year silence on Saturday and defended the Democratic presidential candidate against Republican critics of his military service.
Digital Consequencesinfoworld.com/ ... 13:32:25Advanced Micro Devices (AMD) will implement the strained silicon manufacturing technique on its upcoming 90-nanometer processors as well as 130-nanometer processors released this quarter... a layer of silicon germanium is applied to a silicon wafer, and the reaction between the two substances stretches the gap between the atoms of the substances, allowing electrons to move more quickly through the chip....zdnet.com.com/ ... 13:28:55An independent researcher warned that an Internet Explorer vulnerability could turn drag-and-drop into drag-and-infect, even on computers updated with Microsoft's latest security patch... Security information company Secunia believes the program that takes advantage of the issue could be simplified to only require a single click from the user.... Microsoft said the issue did not pose a serious risk to users because it requires an attacker to trick people into visiting a Web site and taking some action at the site.news.com.com/ ... 00:46:20A Web page misconfiguration left dozens of [moveon.org]'s subscriber pages easily searchable through simple Google queries. Each page included a subscriber's name, e-mail address and the mailing lists to which he or she is subscribed.
Preternatural Patternsap.tbo.com/ ... 16:36:47HILLSBORO, Ore. - A couple face at least three years in prison for disciplining their... 8-year-old daughter and 7-year-old son by allowing their dog... a mix of pit bull terrier, Doberman pinscher, German shepherd and Labrador retriever - to attack them.... "There was a kid crying and a dog ripping her to pieces... It was bloodcurdling."...ap.tbo.com/ ... 13:39:31Two people believed to be a mother and her child died Friday in a collision with a car carrying five robbery suspects who were being chased by police.reuters.com/ ... 13:38:04A newly opened Cincinnati museum portraying the horrors of American slavery has generated criticism and stoked friction that persists three years after race riots tore through the Ohio city.... While the Rev. Damon Lynch Jr. will be deeply involved as co-chairman of Monday's dedication, featuring such luminaries as first lady Laura Bush and television personality Oprah Winfrey, his son, the Rev. Damon Lynch III, will be leading a demonstration outside seeking to upstage the event....ap.tbo.com/ ... 00:45:04A judge on Friday sentenced a father whose 12-year-old daughter was burned in his home methamphetamine lab to more than 10 years in prison....received acid-like burns on her foot when she knocked over jars containing a liquid... parents would not take her to the doctor but instead had her "stand in the Ocoee River to cool off," and her burns became badly infected... wife also forced the girl to shoplift pills used to make methamphetamine...
Only Naturalhome-weather-stations.com/ ... 16:41:46You always hear the T.V. weather forecaster talking about barometric pressure. But what is it, and what does it do? If you are just getting started with your own weather station, you'll want to know how barometric pressure affects you and your forecasting.ap.tbo.com/ ... 00:42:52KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) - An inmate passed through three county jails and a state prison before officials diagnosed him with tuberculosis, possibly infecting nearly 50 other people
US Military Casualtiesdefenselink.mil/ ... 16:53:29[flag]Marine Cpl. Brad P. McCormick, 23, of Overton, Tenn., died Aug. 19 from enemy action in Al Anbar Province, Iraq.
Human Rightap.tbo.com/ ... 00:45:39NEW YORK (AP) - A machine that lets drinkers inhale shots of alcohol went on display Friday night, even as one local lawmaker warned the device was "a disaster waiting to happen." The Alcohol Without Liquid vaporizer mixes the alcohol with pressurized oxygen. Makers say it takes about 20 minutes to breathe in one shot, giving drinkers the effect of alcohol without the drunkenness, or hangover.
Reasons for Repealap.tbo.com/ ... 16:37:51PHILADELPHIA - A house blaze that killed two firefighters started in a tangle of wires and lamps that were installed to grow marijuana in a basement closet... The man who police say was responsible for the drug operation was charged with third-degree murder....reuters.com/ ... 16:33:25The U.S. government is stepping up efforts to patrol its porous northern border with Canada by using helicopters, airplanes and boats to monitor illegal immigration and drug traffic...ap.tbo.com/ ... 00:43:48 Police arrested 52 people Friday in a drug bust in which cocaine was transported aboard Carnival cruise ships from Jamaica to New Orleans and then driven to Tampa... An investigation that began with a $10 crack cocaine deal turned into this city's largest drug bust
Aftermathap.tbo.com/ ... 16:39:13Iraq's new air force took to the skies this week for the first time since the U.S. invaded last year and disbanded the country's armed forces
Threatsap.tbo.com/ ... 20:32:28[For] farmers fed up with methamphetamine cooks filching their fertilizer... a new product... added to tanks of anhydrous ammonia... will not only besmirch the hands of those who touch the fertilizer, but leaves its mark on anyone who snorts or shoots the end product.... visible stain, even if washed off, was still detectable by ultraviolet light 24 to 72 hours later.newscientist.com/ ... 16:52:54For 60 years the people of Sheerness in Kent have been living next door to a 1400-tonne time bomb. A lethal mixture of unstable second world war bombs is in the rusting wreck of the Richard Montgomery, a US cargo ship that lies half-submerged on a sandbank in the Thames, only two kilometres from the Kentish town. If the wreck explodes it will be one of the biggest non-nuclear explosions ever.ap.tbo.com/ ... 16:40:51Kidnappers have lifted their threat to kill a U.S. journalist abducted in the southern city of Nasiriyah along with his Iraqi translator, an aide to radical Shiite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr said Saturday.ap.tbo.com/ ... 16:37:06Pakistan has arrested at least five al-Qaida-linked terrorists who were plotting suicide attacks on government leaders and the U.S. Embassyapnews.myway.com/ ... 13:33:52Governments throughout Mexico and Central America are on alert as evidence grows that al-Qaida members are traveling in the region and looking for recruits to carry out attacks in Latin America - the potential last frontier for international terrorism.
Violencenews.independent.co.uk/ ... 20:33:51Animal rights extremists have developed a sinister new tactic, targeting an entire village that is home to a family of farmers who breed guinea pigs for medical research.ap.tbo.com/ ... 20:33:21Gunmen attacked a police station and polling sites in the Chechen capital Saturday night, killing several people eight days before a special election to replace the region's assassinated presidentchannels.netscape.com/ ... 20:30:38Police are investigating whether a serial hammer killer is targeting women in London after a French woman was bludgeoned to death in circumstances similar to other attacks.reuters.com/ ... 20:30:18A young couple shot in their heads as they slept on a remote California beach may have been killed because of their evangelical Christian religious beliefsnytimes.com/ ... 20:29:09Small explosions rattled two towns in northwestern Spain on Saturday, wounding four people, after a telephone warning from a caller claiming to be from the Basque separatist group ETAap.tbo.com/ ... 16:40:13Suspected communist rebels fatally shot a police officer Saturday as they tightened their grip on Katmandu, blockading the capital for a fourth day to press demands for the release of government-held insurgents.apnews.myway.com/ ... 16:32:13An American on trial for allegedly torturing Afghan terror suspects in a private jail claimed Saturday in his first interview from custody that he was hot on the heels of Osama bin Laden and other militant leaders when he was arrested on July 5.news.bbc.co.uk/ ... 13:34:52The United Nations should withdraw all its personnel from Afghanistan as the country has become too dangerous to work in, the UN staff union has said.news.bbc.co.uk/ ... 13:34:35Supporters of the Iraqi Shia cleric, Moqtada Sadr, remain in control of the shrine in the holy city of Najafreuters.com/ ... 13:26:53At least 12 people were killed and 100 wounded in a bomb attack on Saturday on an opposition rally in Bangladesh's capital
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Digital Consequenceszdnet.com.com/ ... 19:31:39When coloring in 800,000 pixels on a map of India, Microsoft colored eight of them a different shade of green to represent the disputed Kashmiri territory. The difference in greens meant Kashmir was shown as non-Indian, and the product was promptly banned in India. Microsoft was left to recall all 200,000 copies of the offending Windows 95 operating system software to try and heal the diplomatic wounds. "It cost millions,"
US Election 2004worldnetdaily.com/ ... 19:29:08Responding to a Washington Post article questioning his veracity, an eyewitness critic of John Kerry's war record insists military records cited in the story are based on a fraudulent after-action report by Kerry himself.michellemalkin.com/ ... 15:09:16I am used to playing hardball. I expect it. I am used to ad hominem attacks. I get more in a day than most of these wussies have received in their lifetimes. But what happened last night was pure slimeball ...unfair, unbalanced, and unhinged ... MSNBC, should be ashamed.... the Democrat Party waterboys in the media are in full desperation mode. I have now witnessed firsthand and up close (Matthews' spittle nearly hit me in the face) how the pressure from alternative media sources--the blogosphere, conservative Internet forums, talk radio, Regnery Publishing, FOX News, etc. --is driving these people absolutely batty.msnbc.msn.com/ ... 14:58:55 “Kerry gets a bye on this anyway—he was there and Bush wasn’t,” says John Zogby, an independent pollster who is not aligned with either campaign. He sees the battle over who’s telling whose truth in Vietnam as another symptom of the great divide in the country. “We are two warring nations and neither nation is listening to the other,” he says. “This is essentially a net zero politically. It’s great kindling wood for the Republicans. It’s the kind of stuff they need to hear just as Dems need to hear from Michael Moore.”
Mechanical Disasterreuters.com/ ... 14:42:30A new explosion rocked an underground natural gas storage site early Friday, sending a fireball into the sky and prompting the evacuation of homes near the blaze, which has raged since early Thursday... rural Liberty County, about 40 miles northeast of Houston...
Only Naturalreuters.com/ ... 14:35:26..."The vet gave the dog an injection and after 20 minutes six of the 50 euro notes reappeared... The dog spat out the rest of the money in shreds along with the bank statements... It should be noted that the damaged bank notes can be changed at the state central bank, so that there was no material loss in this case...."
Preternatural Patternsworldnetdaily.com/ ... 19:29:55Astoria, Ore. - Al Gore nailed for speeding... Ex-presidential candidate snagged going 75 in 55 zonenews.bbc.co.uk/ ... 14:47:05Kenya - Archbishop Deya... says he can create "miracle babies" for childless couples by exorcising demons to make them fertile.... But some charities say his actions are a front for trafficking babies from Kenya to the UK. ... 10 children, aged between five weeks and 11 years, were found locked in the house of Archbishop Deya on Friday morning in the capital Nairobi.... 21 children are now being held by Kenyan police....ap.tbo.com/ ... 14:40:03...seven children who were found ill in a Nigerian orphanage ...were abandoned by the [adoptive mother's] brother-in-law while she was in Iraq. "She trusted the wrong person... She feels badly for her kids."...reuters.com/ ... 14:33:55"We respect the right to freedom of artistic expression. But where the law may have been broken we have to investigate," Hamburg police spokesman Ralf Kunz said. "We will decide whether the play should be banned." The piece by Catalan group "La Fura dels Baus" is billed as a modern theatrical response to the porn industry, and based on a 1795 text by infamous French playwright the Marquis de Sade.reuters.com/ ... 14:32:57 Italy's Senate library is getting tough on forgetful lawmakers demanding they return books on Adolf Hitler and other subjects that are up to 25 years overdue.
US Military Casualtiesdefenselink.mil/ ... 19:44:40[flag]Marine Lance Cpl. Caleb J. Powers, 21, of Manfield, Wash., died Aug 17 due to enemy action in Al Anbar Province, Iraq
[flag]Marine Lance Cpl. Dustin R. Fitzgerald, 22, of Huber Heights, Ohio, died Aug 18, in a non-combat related vehicle incident in Al Anbar Province, Iraq
[flag]Marine Sgt. Harvey E. Parkerson III, 27, Yuba City, Calif., died Aug 18 due to enemy action in Al Anbar Province, Iraq.defenselink.mil/ ... 19:42:37[flag]Army Spc. Jacob D. Martir, 21, of Norwich, Conn., died Aug 18 in Sadr City, Iraq, when his patrol came under enemy small arms fire.defenselink.mil/ ... 19:42:14[flag]Army Pfc. Henry C. Risner, 26, of Golden, Colo., died Aug 18 in Baghdad, Iraq, when his checkpoint came under enemy small arms fire.defenselink.mil/ ... 19:41:48[flag]Army Spc. Brandon T. Titus, 20, of Boise, Idaho, died Aug. 17 in Baghdad, Iraq, when an improvised explosive device detonated near his checkpoint.
Human Rightnews.bbc.co.uk/ ... 14:45:13Thousands of bar girls in the Indian city of Bombay (Mumbai) have protested against alleged police harassment.... Most of the city's beer bars hire girls to dance for their clients. The bars are not illegal, but police say some act as a front for prostitution. Correspondents say most of the city's 60,000 bar girls joined the protest.
Rebuildingnews.bbc.co.uk/ ... 14:44:03In pictures (BBC): Bricks to rebuild Afghanistan
Threatsreuters.com/ ... 14:41:29U.S. officials have arrested two men... in Chicago and ...in northern Virginia ...whom they accuse of funneling money to the Palestinian militant group Hamas for the past 15 years...
Violencevoanews.com/ ... 14:47:23The Nepalese capital, Kathmandu, has been hit by bomb blasts on the third day of a blockade called by Maoist rebels.ap.tbo.com/ ... 14:40:28Militiamen loyal to rebel Shiite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr on Friday removed weapons from the revered Imam Ali Shrine in Najaf in a step aimed at ending the 2-week-old uprising centered on the holy site.
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Digital Consequencesnews.yahoo.com/ ... 23:05:33 another case of missing data involving nuclear weapons, this time at the Energy Department's regional office in Albuquerque, N.Mreuters.com/ ... 23:03:19 ...the world's first disposable digital camera with a bright color viewing screen that allows consumers to instantly preview pictures. ....priced at $19.99....news.bbc.co.uk/ ... 14:53:20Apple is recalling 28,000 faulty batteries used to power its 15-inch Powerbook G4 laptops. ...could pose a fire hazard....
US Election 2004reuters.com/ ... 14:53:52Retiring Democratic Sen. Zell Miller of Georgia, who has backed President Bush for re-election, will deliver the keynote address at the Republican National Conventionreuters.com/ ... 02:58:49Military records contradict a critic's charge that U.S. Democratic presidential hopeful John Kerry did not come under fire during the battle that resulted in military honors for Kerry
Only Naturalguardian.co.uk/ ... 23:08:24The Piraha of the Amazon have almost legendary status in language research. They have no words at all for number. They use only only three words to count: one, two, many. To make things confusing, the words for one and two, in Piraha, are the same syllable, pronounced with a falling or rising inflection. And to make things really difficult, the word for one can sometimes mean "roughly one", and the word for two can sometimes mean "not many". Peter Gordon, a behavioural scientist at Columbia University in New York, reports in Science today that the Piraha may may not be very good at counting because because they do not have the words for it.people.virginia.edu/ ... 15:07:36THE BLUE PEOPLE OF TROUBLESOME CREEKThe story of an Appalachian malady, an inquisitive doctor, and a paradoxical cure.foxnews.com/ ... 15:06:51A liquid used to make perfume spilled from an unclaimed bag Wednesday inside the Fort Wayne International Airport, causing at least one worker to report feeling ill and prompting authorities to halt passenger service for hours.reuters.com/ ... 15:02:45Hair covers 96 percent of Yu's body. He may be surpassed only by a pair of Mexican brothers -- Victor "Larry" and Gabriel "Danny" Ramos Gomez -- listed in the Guinness Book of World Records as having 98 percent hair cover. www.maohai.comreuters.com/ ... 15:00:19Spain's women ministers -- chosen to make up half the cabinet by a prime minister who describes himself as a feminist -- have sparked criticism from women's groups by posing like models for fashion magazine Vogue.reuters.com/ ... 14:59:59A black bear was found passed out at a campground in Washington state recently after guzzling down three dozen cans of a local beer... tried a mass-market Busch beer, but switched to Rainier Beer, a local ale, and stuck with it for his drinking bingenews.bbc.co.uk/ ... 14:52:45Physicists have carried out successful teleportation with particles of light over a distance of 600m across the River Danube in Austria.journalstar.com/ ... 14:50:25"When I first walked in the room, it looked like the floor was just fur.... Then we realized they were cats. Real cats." A total of 146 of them, in one basement, in one little house....news.bbc.co.uk/ ... 02:57:39US scientists have discovered more genetic mutations that appear to be linked with cot death. Like those previously discovered, the errors lie in genes involved with involuntary body functions like heart beat and breathing.
Whoops!si.printthis.clickability.com/ ... 15:05:12GRATEFUL NON-UDAY-TORTURED IRAQI ATHLETES SPEAK OUT: "Iraq as a team does not want Mr. Bush to use us for the presidential campaign... He can find another way to advertise himself...." "How will he meet his god having slaughtered so many men and women?... He has committed so many crimes."reuters.com/ ... 14:58:35An Oklahoma judge facing removal over charges that he masturbated and used a device for enhancing erections under his robes during trials said on Wednesday he would retire from the bench.news.myway.com/ ... 02:53:13A U.S. Army general violated Pentagon rules by failing to properly clear speeches in which he described the war on terror as a Christian battle against Satan
Mechanical Disasternews.bbc.co.uk/ ... 23:05:02The Russian State Transport Inspectorate wants to introduce a law which would ban all cars without airbags and ABS systems from the country's roads.ap.tbo.com/ ... 23:02:32One person died and 15 others were hurt, three critically, in a fiery chain reaction of crashes Thursday on a foggy, wet, busy interstate, officials said. Thirty-three vehicles were involved.cbsnewyork.com/ ... 02:52:10Twenty passengers on a Six Flags Great Adventure roller coaster were stranded about 75 feet in the air for nearly an hour... Eight riders were stuck in cars upside down, and another 12 were stuck in a sideways position...
Human Rightreuters.com/ ... 15:03:25A Saudi woman threw a 15,000 riyal ($4,000) party in a public park to celebrate her divorce from her abusive husbandreuters.com/ ... 14:59:00A group supporting natural breasts staged a small street protest in Hollywood on Wednesday against a U.S. military policy offering free breast implants to female soldiers.
Aftermathreuters.com/ ... 23:08:55U.S. military doctors working in Iraq collaborated with interrogators in the abuse of prisoners at Abu Ghraib prison outside Baghdad
Threatsnews.yahoo.com/ ... 23:06:52Long Range Acoustic Device, developed for the military and capable of blasting warnings, orders or anything else at an ear-splitting 150 decibels....reuters.com/ ... 23:03:56IT WAS LIKE BEING IN PRISON! "Shoe bomber" Richard Reid has sued U.S. prison authorities for imposing harsh conditions including isolation and a lack of access to Arabic language religious books.channelnewsasia.com/ ... 15:05:29 Iranian Defense Minister Ali Shamkhani warned that Iran might launch a preemptive strike against US forces in the region to prevent an attack on its nuclear facilities.
Violencereuters.com/ ... 23:04:15U.S. warplanes pounded areas near a shrine where radical Shi'ite militiamen were holed up early Fridayboston.com/ ... 14:58:18A mortar attack on a building housing offices of the U.S. Embassy in Baghdad Thursday wounded one Americanreuters.com/ ... 14:53:34Saboteurs set the headquarters of Iraq's South Oil Company in the city of Basra on fire Thursdaynews.bbc.co.uk/ ... 14:52:13Israeli soldiers have shot and killed a Palestinian youth in the town of Rafah in the southern Gaza Strip. Palestinian medical sources said Ahmed Hams died as he tended a friend who had been shot and injured. An Israeli military spokesman said troops had opened fire because the two were in a restricted area.reuters.com/ ... 02:58:02Two Polish soldiers were killed and five injured in a road accident in Hilla after their patrol was fired on near their Babylon base in southern Iraq,
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Digital Consequencesnews.independent.co.uk/ ... 18:04:26In the last few minutes of her life, an 18-year-old woman who had been savagely bludgeoned with a baseball bat managed to type a text message naming her stepmother as her killer, according to Belgian policeap.tbo.com/ ... 17:37:14Seiko Epson Corp. is developing a flying robot that looks like a miniature helicopter and is about the size of a giant bug. The company hopes it'll prove handy for security, disaster rescue and space exploration.ap.tbo.com/ ... 17:37:06The number of Americans who get on the Internet via high-speed lines has now equaled the number using dial-up connections.
US Election 2004worldnetdaily.com/ ... 18:15:32Kerry war journal contradicts key claim? At least 9 days after Purple Heart, wrote he had not 'been shot at yet'nydailynews.com/ ... 10:22:24When Washington-area beautician Erwin Gomez and his longtime partner James Packard celebrate their marital vows with 400 of their closest friends next month, two of Gomez's best customers will probably be in attendance: President Bush's twin daughters, Jenna and Barbara.
Preternatural Patternsexpatica.com/ ... 18:03:48A 16-year-old Dutch teenager set his girlfriend on fire twice last week because he thought she had kissed another boy while on holidaypalmbeachpost.com/ ... 17:38:17At 478 pounds, Gayle Grinds had become the invisible woman.... Her neighbors never knew Grinds was among them, even though she lived in her small, fading, green row house in the Golden Gate community south of Stuart for 10 years. Social services agencies hadn't heard of her....suntimes.com/ ... 10:23:49 Like just about everyone who receives the dreaded summons, Oprah was a bit crabby about the whole thing... Winfrey: "You know what, I listened to the whole tape about why this is such a great process ... and how every citizen who is registered to vote which I believe is important has a responsibility ... so I'm all for that ... I'm just hoping it doesn't take longer than a week cause I've got shows to do." Oh well. It's only a MURDER TRIAL. Sorry for the big inconvenience. It shouldn't last more than a few days -- and I'm sure everyone will try to speed things up even more so she can go back to making shows and the country won't have to go into fresh-Oprah-episode withdrawal.reuters.com/ ... 10:18:38Farms lie untended and workshops stand silent in an Iranian village after the theft of its 1,300-year-old copy of the Koran, Islam's holy bookap.tbo.com/ ... 00:37:22...Louisiana judge who appeared at a Halloween party in shackles, an afro wig and blackface makeup last year should be suspended for a year without pay...reuters.com/ ... 00:36:19Seven Texas children were recovering on Tuesday after surviving for 10 months in a Nigerian shack when their adoptive mother abandoned them.... mother had taken the children, aged between 8 and 16, from Houston to Ibadan, Nigeria last year and told them they were going to a boarding school... In early August... [a] youth pastor [from]... San Antonio, Texas heard the children speaking with American accents.....
Only Naturalnews.telegraph.co.uk/ ... 17:58:39A woman who has been blind since her teens has seen her children and grandchildren for the first time after having a tiny shard of her tooth implanted in her eye.news.bbc.co.uk/ ... 10:21:55A woman believes she was struck by a meteorite while hanging out washing. "..she was extremely lucky..."reuters.com/ ... 10:19:39AMSTERDAM - A fisherman caught a South American Piranha in a Dutch canal -- and then threw it backreuters.com/ ... 10:19:08Houston -- An anti-fishing billboard in the coastal city of Galveston featuring a dog with a hook piercing its lip will be taken down after complaints from local driversreuters.com/ ... 10:17:14Vets at a Berlin zoo have been forced to separate a baby rhino from his mother for fear she may accidentally trample him to deathnews.bbc.co.uk/ ... 00:25:42An Australian man has been fined A$750 ($537) for chewing the tail off a live mouse in a pub competition.
Reasons for Repealfoxnews.com/ ... 18:11:13Human trafficking is turning into a real problem in Israel, where law enforcement officials say women are bought and sold into the indentured servitude of the sex industry.
Human Rightworldnetdaily.com/ ... 18:16:37Just one month after the U.N. and EU launched a furious campaign against Israel's security fence... the EU announced it's planning to build a separation fence of its own, and invited Israel to participate in the construction. ... being built to separate ...Poland and Hungary from ...Russia, Belarus and Ukraine. ...to "prevent the free movement of migrants seeking to enter" EU territory....online.wsj.com/ ... 18:11:46BAGHDAD, Iraq -- When Acrassicauda ripped into a furious version of Metallica's "For Whom the Bell Tolls" at a recent concert, dozens of fans rushed the stage, jerked their heads to the music and slam-danced. Midway through the set, a portly club official took the stage and ordered the crowd to sit down. The band ignored him and kept playing, and around 50 of the roughly 200 fans remained standing. The official ended the concert and angrily escorted the band off the stage. Faisal Talal, the band's singer and rhythm guitarist, shouted a string of profanities, drawing cheers from the crowd.reuters.com/ ... 10:20:04 Strippers and pole dancers should be banned from performing in stretch limousines, according to a British report.
US Military Casualtiesdefenselink.mil/ ... 17:56:12[flag]Army Sgt. David M. Heath, 30, of LaPorte, Ind., died August 16 in Sadr City, Iraq, when his patrol came under small arms and rocket-propelled grenade attack.defenselink.mil/ ... 00:33:31[flag]Marine Pfc. Fernando B. Hannon, 19, of Wildomar, Calif. Marine Pfc. Geoffrey Perez, 24, of Los Angeles, Calif died Aug. 15 from injuries received from enemy action in Al Anbar Province, Iraq.defenselink.mil/ ... 00:32:43[flag]Army Spc. Mark Anthony Zapata, 27, of Edinburg, Texas, died August 15 in Najaf, Iraq as a result of hostile fire.defenselink.mil/ ... 00:32:23[flag]Army Spc. Mark Anthony Zapata, 27, of Edinburg, Texas, died August 15 in Najaf, Iraq as a result of hostile fire.defenselink.mil/ ... 00:31:46[flag]Marine Staff Sgt. John R. Howard, 26, of Covington, Va. Marine Lance Cpl. Tavon L. Hubbard, 24, of Reston, Va. died August 11 in a helicopter crash in Al Anbar Province, Iraq. defenselink.mil/ ... 00:30:59[flag]Army Sgt. Daniel Michael Shepherd, 23, of Elyria, Ohio, died August 15 in Ar Ramabi, Iraq, when his M2 Bradley Fighting Vehicle hit an improvised explosive device.defenselink.mil/ ... 00:30:26[flag]Army Pfc. Brandon R. Sapp, 21, of Lake Worth, Fla., died August 15 in Najaf, Iraq, when his M2 Bradley Fighting Vehicle hit an improvised explosive device.defenselink.mil/ ... 00:29:53[flag]Army 1st Lt. Neil Anthony Santoriello, 24, of Verona, Penn., died August 13 in Khalidiyah, Iraq, when an improvised explosive device detonated near his mounted reconnaissance patrol vehicle.defenselink.mil/ ... 00:28:41[flag]Marine Lance Cpl. Nicholas B. Morrison, 23, of Carlisle, Penn., died August 13 due to hostile action in Al Anbar Province, Iraq.defenselink.mil/ ... 00:27:10[flag]Marine Lance Cpl. Kane M. Funke, 20, of Vancouver, Wash., died August 13 as result of enemy action in Al Anbar Province, Iraq.
Threatsmyrtlebeachonline.com/ ... 18:03:14 a highly secure complex of buildings inside Raven Rock Mountain near Blue Ridge Summit, Pa.... the Alternate Joint Communications Center - is a 53-year-old facility conceived at the start of the Cold War as an alternate command center in the event of nuclear war or an attack on Washington....reuters.com/ ... 17:37:31 Iraqi militants who said they captured a U.S. journalist last week have threatened to kill him within 48 hours, if U.S. forces do not pull out from the holy city of Najafap.tbo.com/ ... 17:33:40Georgia - A police chase that reached speeds of 110 mph turned deadly when state troopers trying to stop the fleeing vehicle rammed it off the highway, killing the driver and her 17-year-old passenger.examiner-enterprise.com/ ... 10:24:25Bartlesville - A high speed chase that went through Tulsa, Rogers, and Washington County ended with one man in custody late Monday night.edition.cnn.com/ ... 10:23:00Police say they have defused an explosive device near a Sardinian villa where Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi had been entertaining his British counterpart Tony Blair
Violencesfgate.com/ ... 18:09:46Milwaukee - A church elder was sentenced ...Tuesday for abusing an 8-year-old autistic boy who died in what prosecutors called an exorcism at a storefront church.... lay on [the boy's] chest for at least an hour while trying to release "demons" from him.... 2½ years in prison... 7½ years of extended supervision... about $1,200 in restitution....news.yahoo.com/ ... 17:39:50An alleged peeping Tom remains in the intensive care unit after reportedly being assaulted with a tree branch... spotted outside a bedroom window wearing his pants around his ankles and watching a 5-year-old girl who was sleeping.... six people, include the girl's mother, aunt and their boyfriends attacked him and brutally beat him for more than an hour.... aunt admitted to sexually assaulting Russo with a tree branch... incident was caught on tape....reuters.com/ ... 10:21:03 Iraq's defense minister gave Shi'ite militiamen in the holy city of Najaf hours to surrender Wednesday, warning that troops were preparing for a major assault to "teach them a lesson they will never forget."ap.tbo.com/ ... 10:20:48Yasser Arafat acknowledged Wednesday that the Palestinian Authority has made "mistakes," but the rare admission appeared to be aimed more at deflecting criticism about his corrupt government than making real changes.reuters.com/ ... 10:18:19Brazil's culture minister and singing superstar Gilberto Gil is not calling for the death of President Bush, whatever concert-goers might have thought.... visual display behind the band flashed up an image of the U.S. leader with a noose around his neck and the slogan "Morra, Bush, Morra" (Die, Bush, Die)... the video jockey who handled the visuals, chose the image without consulting the singer....
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Only Naturalreuters.com/ ... 20:37:12Nearly 100 squealing pigs ran riot on a Malaysian highway on Tuesday after a truck overturned and released them into four lanes of traffic.reuters.com/ ... 20:36:30Two British policemen have been suspended from duty... filmed enjoying the attentions of porn stars while they were supposed to be on patrol.... "It was unbelievable. They just decided to have their very own private porn movie while on the job."reuters.com/ ... 19:21:28Kids throwing rocks... dislodged a swarm of bees from an enormous hive built in the wall of a Southern California apartment building... estimated 120,000 bees held residents of the apartment building and nearby homes hostage... 500 pound hive....
Human Rightreuters.com/ ... 20:38:36The head of a relics protection department at a former Chinese imperial palace has been sentenced to death for stealing the artifacts he was meant to protectworldnetdaily.com/ ... 19:19:33Professor jailed on word of felonworldnetdaily.com/ ... 19:15:40Christian churches in Canada are now facing the loss of their tax-exempt status should they become involved in partisan politics
Violencereuters.com/ ... 20:40:37 A senior Hamas leader survived an Israeli assassination attemptap.tbo.com/ ... 20:39:52 Anger over a homeless man's fatal beating of a brass-knuckle-wielding bar owner is boiling over in Tulsa, where street people are facing a loosely organized campaign against their presence - and in some cases are being run out of the area.quote.bloomberg.com/ ... 20:38:19 Israeli soldiers were behind an explosion at a house used by Hamas gunmen in Gaza City that killed five Palestiniansabcnews.go.com/ ... 20:38:01An Afghan warlord abandoned his gains in the country's latest burst of factional fighting Tuesday, after the United States brokered a cease-fire and sent warplanes circling overhead.news.bbc.co.uk/ ... 20:37:40A delegation of leading Iraqis that went to Najaf has failed to end a stand-off between Shia militiamen and US-led forcesnews.xinhuanet.com/ ... 20:36:52An eight-member team of Iraqi political and religious leaders flew to Najaf on Tuesday by a US military helicopter in a bid to end a bloody Shiite uprising there
Threatsworldnetdaily.com/ ... 19:16:53Whose loose nuke are you?
SAT 2004-AUG-14
Only Naturalnews.bbc.co.uk/ ... 15:19:25...37% of 1,445 children aged four to six years had recurrent aches and ailments described as typical growing pains. The University of South Australia team is testing whether the pain might be caused by different foot postures....
Digital Consequenceswired.com/ ... 02:20:11When Sequoia Voting Systems demonstrated its new paper-trail electronic voting system for state Senate staffers in California last week, the company representative got a surprise when the paper trail failed to record votes that testers cast on the machine.japantimes.co.jp/ ... 02:19:54a robot suit. The lower-body suit, called Hybrid Assistive Limb-3, is designed to help disabled or elderly people smoothly perform everyday activities such as walking and climbing up and down stairs. It will go on sale later this year as the world's first commercial product of its kind.
US Election 2004washingtonpost.com/ ... 01:06:38"Freedom is spreading throughout the world like a sunrise," the narrator says. The flags of Afghanistan and Iraq are shown as she says that at "this Olympics, there will be two more free nations, and two fewer terrorist regimes. With strength, resolve and courage, democracy will triumph over terror. And hope will defeat hatred." The use of the summer games is an unusual way of claiming credit for toppling the Taliban and Saddam Hussein -- by focusing on Afghan and Iraqi athletes -- without addressing the continuing violence in Iraq.
US Military Casualtiesdefenselink.mil/ ... 02:19:27[flag]Army Capt. Michael Yury Tarlavsky, 30, of Passaic, N.J., died August 12 in Najaf, Iraq, when his unit came under small arms fire and grenade attack.defenselink.mil/ ... 02:19:04[flag]Army Sgt. Daniel Lee Galvan, 30, of Moore, Okla., died Aug. 12 in Salerno, Afghanistan, when the helicopter he was in developed mechanical difficulties and crashed.
Human Rightbgdailynews.com/ ... 01:08:26[Editorial with the right ideas on constitutionality and law but the wrong attitude toward right & wrong:] Of course, gay marriage proponents are already challenging the legality of state law in a lower state court. It will ultimately be a decision that the California Supreme Court will have to decide. We certainly are hopeful that they rule against the proponents.
Violencepaktribune.com/ ... 02:22:26"Al-Qa'ida had expected the fall of the Iraqi regime, and many elements entered Iraq and are now fighting with the Iraqi resistance."
Threatsforbes.com/ ... 01:08:48The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has approved two new drugs designed to counter the radioactive effects of a so-called "dirty bomb."
FRI 2004-AUG-13
Olympicsnews.bbc.co.uk/ ... 21:00:57BBC - Photos - Olympic Games opening ceremonyreuters.com/ ... 20:56:07"It doesn't matter if you yourself are among the medal winners, what matters is that you represent yourself and your sport and our great country with class and dignity, come what may." -- Former U.S. President George Bush to American athletes getting ready for the Olympics in Athens.
Mechanical Disasterreuters.com/ ... 20:13:35...NASA concluded after extensive testing that the process of applying some sections of foam by hand with spray guns was at fault. Gaps, or voids, were often left, and tests done since the Columbia accident have shown liquid hydrogen could seep into those voids. After launch, the gas inside the voids starts to heat up and expand, causing large pieces of insulation to pop off. NASA said this happens on about 60 percent of its shuttle launches. For the bipod foam, the entire ramp was apparently torn away. It weighed only 1.67 pounds (0.75 kg), but at the speed involved, it hit the orbiter with enough force to shatter the reinforced carbon-carbon panels of the wing's leading edge....
History - still with usweekly.ahram.org.eg/ ... 01:29:41The remains of a colossal seated statue of Ramses II, thought to be about 13 metres tall and weighing 700 tons, have been discovered in a shanty area of the Upper Egyptian city of Akhmim, adjacent to the open-air museum.
Only Naturalreuters.com/ ... 20:57:18A rabbit set alight by a bonfire at a British cricket club got its revenge when it ran burning into a hut and set it ablaze destroying costly equipmenthealthtalk.ca/ ... 12:41:58rats who were given cocaine for a long period of time were willing to risk electric shocks in order to obtain their cocaine fix...telegraph.co.uk/ ... 01:30:52Abandoned or escaped domestic dogs such as rottweilers, bull mastiffs and Rhodesian ridgebacks have interbred with Australia's native dog to produce a new strain of "super-dingoes".stuff.co.nz/ ... 01:30:05Gene engineers are looking to starfish for what could be the answer to the dreams of amputees - a gene that could regenerate lost limbs.news.newkerala.com/ ... 01:28:43Indians living close to the border with China remained Thursday in constant fear of devastating floods due to a swollen artificial lake in neighbouring Tibet on the brink of overflowing due to incessant rains... Heavy landslides had blocked the course of the Pareechu since July, creating the lake that has swelled to the point of bursting now... could discharge 140 million cubic metres of waternewsday.com/ ... 01:23:45An 8-year-old girl who suffers from a rare digestive disorder and cannot consume wheat has had her first Holy Communion declared invalid because the wafer contained none, violating Catholic doctrine.telegraph.co.uk/ ... 00:20:00Scientists have managed to turn procrastinating primates into workaholic monkeys by switching off a gene in the brain circuit.reuters.com/ ... 00:17:20Scientists say the right name can make you sexier.reuters.com/ ... 00:17:07 a giant colony of Argentine ants stretching 60 miles has been discovered in the Australian city of Melbourne, threatening the local insect population.
Preternatural Patternsmsnbc.msn.com/ ... 01:22:37 flurry of reports from Russia about the discovery of fragments of an alien spaceship at the site of the 1908 Tunguska explosionreuters.com/ ... 00:15:52Turkmenistan's authoritarian president, whose recent decrees have included banning gold teeth, has told television presenters to stop wearing make-up because he had difficulty telling the men from the women.
US Military Casualtiesdefenselink.mil/ ... 01:46:42[flag]Rick A. Ulbright, 49, of Waldorf, Md., an Air Force civilian who was supporting Operation Iraqi Freedom, died Aug. 8 at Kirkuk Air Base, Iraq, from wounds received during a mortar attack.defenselink.mil/ ... 01:45:27[flag]Army Capt. Andrew R. Houghton, 25, of Houston, Texas, died on Aug. 9 at Walter Reed Army Medical Center in Washington, D.C., of injuries sustained on July 10 in Ad Dhuha, Iraq, when a rocket propelled grenade detonated near his vehicle.defenselink.mil/ ... 01:45:02[flag]Marine Lance Cpl. Jonathan W. Collins, 19, of Crystal Lake, Ill., died Aug. 8 due to enemy action in Al Anbar Province, Iraq.defenselink.mil/ ... 01:43:41[flag]Army Staff Sgt. Craig W. Cherry, 39, of Winchester, Va.
[flag]Army Sgt. Bobby E. Beasley, 36, of Inwood, W.Va. died on Aug. 7, in Ghazikel, Afghanistan, when their vehicle struck an improvised explosive device.defenselink.mil/ ... 01:42:08[flag]Marine Sgt. Yadir G. Reynoso, 27, of Wapato, Wash., died Aug. 5 due to enemy action in An Najaf Province, Iraq.
[flag]Marine Cpl. Roberto Abad, 22, of Los Angeles, Calif., died Aug. 6 due to enemy action in An Najaf Province, Iraq.defenselink.mil/ ... 01:41:06[flag]Army Pfc. David L. Potter, 22, of Johnson City, Tenn., died Aug. 7 in Baghdad, Iraq, of non-combat related injuries.defenselink.mil/ ... 01:40:44[flag]Army Pfc. Raymond J. Faulstich Jr., 24, of Leonardtown, Md., died Aug. 5 in Najaf, Iraq, when individuals using small arms fire and rocket-propelled grenades attacked his convoy.defenselink.mil/ ... 01:40:12[flag]Army Spc. Joshua I. Bunch, 23, of Hattiesburg, Miss., died Aug. 6 in Baghdad, Iraq, when individuals using small arms fire and rocket-propelled grenades attacked his vehicle.defenselink.mil/ ... 01:39:49[flag]Marine Lance Cpl. Larry L. Wells, 22, of Mount Hermon, La., died August 6 due to enemy action in An Najal Province, Iraq. defenselink.mil/ ... 01:39:16[flag]Marine Sgt. Moses D. Rocha, 33, of Roswell, N.M., died August 5 due to injuries received from enemy action in An Najaf, Iraq.defenselink.mil/ ... 01:37:41[flag]Army Spc. Donald R. McCune, 20, of Yplsilanti, Mich., died August 5, in Landstuhl, Germany, of injuries sustained when an improvised explosive device detonated near his patrol on August 4 in Balad, Iraq.defenselink.mil/ ... 01:37:18[flag]Chief Master Sergeant Luther L. Rose of Howe, Texas...missing in action from the Vietnam War has been identified and returned to his family for burial with full military honors.defenselink.mil/ ... 01:35:45[flag]Marine Cpl. Dean P. Pratt, 22, of Stevensville, Mont., died Aug. 2 due to enemy action in Al Anbar Province, Iraq.
[flag]Marine Gunnery Sgt. Elia P. Fontecchio, 30, of Milford, Mass., died Aug. 4 from injuries received from enemy action in Al Anbar Province, Iraq.
[flag]Marine Lance Cpl. Joseph L. Nice, 19, of Nicoma Park, Okla., died Aug. 4 due to enemy action in Al Anbar Province, Iraq.
Human Rightseattlepi.nwsource.com/ ... 21:01:20A woman sued Air France in federal court Friday, saying an employee told her she could not board a flight because she has no limbs... told her that "one head, one bottom and one torso cannot and will not be allowed to fly on Air France" without help....reuters.com/ ... 20:59:31"I grew up being naked at the beach and it's the only way to spend the summer here," said Koch, 31. "Being nude on the beach feels completely normal. Sticky, sweaty bathing suits are revolting. It's unfortunate we're being squeezed off." ...western Germans ...complain about too much nudity....ap.tbo.com/ ... 20:58:34Two convicted murderers on Kentucky's Death Row claim the state's methods of execution, chemical injection or electrocution, amount to torture and should be declared unconstitutional... The anesthetic dosage of 2 grams is likely too little to keep the inmate sedated for the duration of the execution, the suit says.reuters.com/ ... 20:56:38 Californian prison officials can cut the hair of an inmate despite his objection that to do so would violate his Native American religious beliefs, a U.S. appeals court ruled on Thursday. Philip Henderson had maintained that cutting his hair, except under extraordinary circumstances, would defile the creator....wftv.com/ ... 12:43:22BOWLING GREEN, Va. -- A woman was sentenced Thursday to 10 days in jail for defying a court order not to smoke around her children.washingtondispatch.com/ ... 12:36:40Maybe Governor McGreevey didn’t realize he was gay until he began cheating on his wife with men, but the fact is he has spent a significant amount of time lying to himself, to not just one wife, but two, his children, his family and his constituents. When caught in a bind and a pending lawsuit he calls a news conference, talks about his personal journey into figuring out who he is and then attributes not only his personal failings, but his resignation to the fact that he is a homosexual. Give me a break.apnews.myway.com/ ... 00:19:32"Del is 83 years old and I am 79," Lyon said. "After being together for more than 50 years, it is a terrible blow to have the rights and protections of marriage taken away from us. At our age, we do not have the luxury of time."news.bbc.co.uk/ ... 00:18:29California's Supreme Court has annulled about 4,000 gay marriages that took place in San Francisco.
Aftermaththeglobeandmail.com/ ... 12:39:36The Washington Post yesterday joined the conga line of respected U.S. news organizations apologizing for flawed reporting in the runup to war in Iraq last year, publishing a front-page story by media reporter Howard Kurtz that called the paper's coverage "strikingly one-sided at times."
Violenceap.tbo.com/ ... 12:48:03A southern Philippines court sentenced 17 members of the al-Qaida-linked Abu Sayyaf militant group to death Friday for kidnapping nurses from a hospital there three years ago.
Also Friday, military helicopters using machine guns and rockets pounded the suspected hideout of a heavily armed kidnap gang elsewhere in the southern Philippines, killing at least 15 gunmenvoanews.com/ ... 12:42:10A Palestinian gunman has killed a Jewish settler in the West Bank before being shot dead by security guards.reuters.com/ ... 12:39:10 Iraq's interim government said Shi'ite cleric Moqtada al-Sadr was negotiating to leave a shrine in Najaf on Friday as thousands of protesters across southern Iraq condemned a U.S. offensive in the holy city.foxnews.com/ ... 01:25:14Thousands of U.S. troops sealed off Najaf's vast cemetery, its old city and a revered Shiite shrine Thursday and unleashed a tank, infantry and helicopter assault against militants loyal to Muqtada al-Sadr. Aides said the radical cleric was inside the shrine and had been wounded.
THU 2004-AUG-12
Preternatural Patternsreuters.com/ ... 22:42:46"I couldn't get a job with CIA today. I am not qualified." -- PORTER GOSS, President Bush's nominee for CIA director, to documentary-maker Michael Moore's production company during the filming of the movie "Fahrenheit 9/11."
The blog heaper was on hiatus Aug-06 to Aug-11 due to a bout of reality.
THU 2004-AUG-05
Preternatural Patternsexaminer-enterprise.com/ ... 11:45:40Prader-Willi Syndrome, a condition that causes insatiable hunger. People with the disorder will often go to any lengths to obtain food.... cannot be managed with medication... persons with the disorder require 24-hour care.... Left unchecked... the disorder can lead to morbid obesityreuters.com/ ... 11:41:52WANTED - A court jester to fill a post vacant for 350 years since England executed its king.
Digital Consequencesnews.bbc.co.uk/ ... 11:36:54Vietnam is tightening its control over the growing numbers of people online. A special police unit to combat cyber crime and prevent the spread of banned materials via the net is due to start work in September
US Election 2004drudgereport.com/ ... 11:25:08"Kerry earned his Silver Star by killing a lone, fleeing, teenage Viet Cong in a loincloth.... And if Kerry's superiors had known the truth at the time, they would never have recommended him for the medal."... Kerry supporters are comparing the effort by the veterans to the Arkansas State troopers tell-all against Bill Clinton. [uh-huh!]
US Military Casualtiesdefenselink.mil/ ... 12:16:38[flag]Army Spc. Justin B. Onwordi, 28, of Chandler, Ariz.
[flag]Army Pfc.Harry N. Shondee, Jr., 19, of Ganado, Ariz.
died in Baghdad, Iraq, when an improvised explosive device detonated near the vehicle they were traveling in while on patrol.defenselink.mil/ ... 12:15:18[flag]Marine Capt. Gregory A Ratzlaff, 36, of Olympia, Wash., died Aug. 3 due to a non-combat related incident at Forward Operating Base Duke, Iraq. defenselink.mil/ ... 12:14:39[flag]Army Sgt. Tommy L. Gray, 34, of Roswell, N.M., died Aug. 3 in Taji, Iraq, when he became caught between two motor pool vehicles.defenselink.mil/ ... 12:14:10[flag]Marine Sgt. Juan Calderon Jr., 26, of Weslaco, Texas, died Aug. 2 due to enemy action in Al Anbar Province, Iraq.
Threatsreuters.com/ ... 11:37:48Pakistan provided information leading to the arrest of 12 terrorism suspects in Britain and may have thwarted a plot to attack London's Heathrow airportsltrib.com/ ... 11:22:23A detainee at Guantanamo Bay whose case has been heard by a U.S. military review tribunal has threatened to kill Americans if releasedcnn.com/ ... 11:21:36The imam and the founder of a mosque in Albany, New York, are being held after an FBI sting operation in which the suspects tried to help an undercover agent posing as a terrorist... allegedly agreed to launder ...money so the presumed terrorist could buy a shoulder-fired missile...
Violenceap.tbo.com/ ... 11:40:53A mob armed with machetes, stones and knives killed seven people accused of practicing witchcraft in southern Tanzaniaap.tbo.com/ ... 11:40:28A bomb exploded Thursday outside the car of a militant leader in the town of Rafah on the Gaza-Egypt border, witnesses said, but no one was hurt.reuters.com/ ... 11:38:10At least 40 people were killed and scores more wounded in fierce overnight fighting between Yemeni forces and supporters of an anti-U.S. rebel clericnews.bbc.co.uk/ ... 11:36:07Nine Indian policemen have been killed in an attack by suspected militants in Indian-administered Kashmir.abcnews.go.com/ ... 11:18:53Fighters loyal to Moqtada al-Sadr shot down a U.S. helicopter Thursday in the holy city of Najaf... crew ...were wounded and evacuated... at least two people were killed in the Najaf fighting and eight wounded
WED 2004-AUG-04
Uniting Nationsnews.bbc.co.uk/ ... 13:57:36The sovereignty of Gibraltar is not up for negotiation, Defence Secretary Geoff Hoon has said during a visit marking 300 years of UK rule there. But Mr Hoon warned that as the European Union evolves and develops "there may be implications for Gibraltar".
Only Naturalnews.bbc.co.uk/ ... 19:37:51 the human brain can detect differences in the arrival time of a sound at the two ears of about 10 millionths of a second.news.bbc.co.uk/ ... 19:36:32A huge "dead zone" of water that has spread across the Gulf of Mexico may be contributing to an unusual spate of shark bites along the Texas coast. In the last 30 years, the dead zone has been an annual event, fed by the rising use of nitrate based fertilizers.news.nationalgeographic.com/ ... 13:55:30a study into the shape of Archaeopteryx's brain says that the animal already possessed many of the prerequisites for flight, such as great vision and a good sense of balanceboston.com/ ... 13:48:06A 13-year-old boy attending a camp for underprivileged children collapsed and died after he was scared by a bear on a hike
Digital Consequencesnews.bbc.co.uk/ ... 19:37:12A US software firm which developed a program to copy PC games and DVDs has collapsed after repeated legal action from film and software bodies.news.telegraph.co.uk/ ... 14:44:36A self-confessed computer vandal arrested in May was responsible for 70 per cent of all viruses received worldwide in the first half of this year.news.yahoo.com/ ... 13:40:25 Internet phone carriers such as Vonage should set up their systems so U.S. law enforcers can monitor suspicious calls, the Federal Communications Commission tentatively ruled on Wednesday.
Olympicsnews.yahoo.com/ ... 13:39:52A homemade bomb exploded Wednesday near an electrical substation outside the Greek capital, causing damage but no injuries
US Election 2004worldnetdaily.com/ ... 14:35:46Actress Sharon Stone, 46, wanted to enjoy a lesbian moment with her co-star Halle Berry in the newly released film "Catwoman." "Halle's so beautiful and I wanted to kiss her. I said, 'How can you have us in the movie and not have us kiss? That's such a waste,'" said Stone. "That's what you get for having George Bush as president."apnews.myway.com/ ... 13:46:46When asked if Heinz Kerry's "shove it" comment was appropriate, Bush said: "It's hard when your husband's running for president. It's hard to be scrutinized and to hear the criticisms, and I think that's really what the fact of the matter is in what she said."nypost.com/ ... 13:41:19THE W hotel chain is aggressively laying claim to the letter W, no matter what President Bush's nickname is.theiowachannel.com/ ... 13:39:28three bank robberies happened about the same time President George W. Bush and Democratic presidential candidate John Kerry were speaking at separate venues in Davenport
Whoops!aftenposten.no/ ... 14:42:18An Oslo pastor from an evangelical Christian movement claims he had a vision in May that the upcoming Summer Olympics in Athens would result in a "bloodbath." [BUT!] ...is already is involved in an international prayer action aimed at halting the Summer Olympics in Athens because of their foundation in Greek mythology. [HONK HONK]reuters.com/ ... 14:00:52 Spanish thieves who made off with three tons of green peppers hoping to make a healthy profit, might instead get a bad case of indigestion: the vegetables are toxic.reuters.com/ ... 14:00:19A British man was being treated for shock on Wednesday after he fell from a ladder while pruning trees, accidentally killing his wife with his chainsaw
US Military Casualtiesreuters.com/ ... 13:57:58[flag] Remains believed to be those of two U.S. soldiers missing in action from the Korean War have been recovered in North Korea and will taken to Hawaii for identification
Reasons for Repealsmh.com.au/ ... 13:42:00Israeli soldiers suffering from combat stress after tours of duty in the Palestinian territories could soon be treated with cannabis to relieve their symptoms
Human Rightnews.bbc.co.uk/ ... 19:38:54[STARTLING NEWS: MAN BLAMES OTHERS FOR LACK OF SELF-CONTROL:] A ground-breaking French lawsuit is set to decide who is responsible for a gambler's addiction: the gambler, the casino or the state.daily.nysun.com/ ... 14:43:43The Secret Service is drawing criticism for asking journalists who cover presidential campaign events to disclose their raceabcnews.go.com/ ... 13:54:17Gay couples can be married under Washington state law, because denying their right to do so is a violation of their constitutional rights, a judge ruled Wednesday.local6.com/ ... 13:51:12A Central Florida woman was fired from her job after eating "unclean" meat and violating a reported [unwritten] company policy that pork and pork products are not permissible on company premises... a Central Florida telecommunications company with strong Muslim ties.... was warned about eating pizza with meat the Muslim faith considered "unclean...." fired for eating a bacon, lettuce and tomato sandwich....apnews.myway.com/ ... 13:41:42Missouri voters solidly endorsed a state constitutional amendment banning gay marriage
Peace 3000bartleby.com/ ... 01:57:52poliomyelitisnews.bbc.co.uk/ ... 01:57:12The World Health Organisation says it is optimistic that polio can be eradicated globally by the end of 2004.
Threatssacbee.com/ ... 14:40:51...Ali Reza Khatami, 65, was arrested June 24 when the .38-caliber pistol... packed into an oven mitt, ...described as "essentially a low-tech silencer" ...and 3.5-inch knife were found during a security screening... says he didn't mean to board plane [with them]....sfgate.com/ ... 14:38:42Virgin Atlantic Airways flight bound for London from San Francisco International Airport was... barred from departing "based on suspicious activity by some passengers..." Passengers... described... an unruly passenger who was drunk... [later] flight crew called five passengers holding Romanian passports to the front of the jet... "They were acting weird.''
Violencenews.com.au/ ... 14:43:10A MEXICAN television journalist has claimed two of his colleagues covering the Olympic Games were assaulted by Greek coastguards while filming in the Athens port of Piraeus.reuters.com/ ... 14:00:06An Oklahoma ice cream man opened fire on a customer after a summer ice cream sale turned sourap.tbo.com/ ... 13:58:57KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) - Gunmen fired on a car carrying two Afghans from a German relief agency in a former Taliban stronghold, officials said Wednesday, killing them bothreuters.com/ ... 13:54:58 Iraqi gunmen freed four Jordanian hostages in a raid on their captors' hide-out, one of the released captives said on Wednesday, while a video from kidnappers said two Turkish hostages had also been released.
Aftermathworldnetdaily.com/ ... 14:33:24Secret documents found in Iraq reveal a systematic campaign of ethnic cleansing by former President Saddam Hussein against indigenous Assyrian Christians living in northern Iraq.usatoday.com/ ... 13:53:53 Pfc. Lynndie England was often sloppy at her paperwork job at Abu Ghraib prison because of illicit, late-night visits to the part of the facility where detainees were abused, her supervisor testified Wednesday.
TUE 2004-AUG-03
Digital Consequencesap.tbo.com/ ... 22:15:31 A television glass manufacturer announced Tuesday it was closing its three plants in Ohio and Pennsylvania, eliminating about 1,100 jobs. Techneglas Inc. was unable to overcome competition from overseas companies and losses due to consumer demand for new technologies such as plasma, LCD and projection sets, said Joseph Schaeufele, vice president of manufacturing and engineering operations.story.news.yahoo.com/ ... 22:15:11A number of Finnish conscripts have been excused their full term of military service because they are addicted to the Internet
Mechanical Disastersfgate.com/ ... 20:00:04Authorities filed manslaughter charges Tuesday against an owner of a Paraguayan supermarket that caught fire, killing at least 464 people
Preternatural Patternsreuters.com/ ... 14:37:20 German police have arrested a man suspected of holding three teenagers at gun point in the street and demanding money before forcing ...the two men to strip naked and asked the girl to remove her shoes... forced the men toset fire to the clothes and shoes on the pavement then made them climb onto parked cars and jump up and down until they shattered the windshields.
Currentreuters.com/ ... 14:35:22South Africa has denied a media report that it plans to cancel Christmas.ap.tbo.com/ ... 14:33:45Schlotzsky's... more than 500 outlets in 36 states and six countries, filed on Tuesday for ...bankruptcy....
Only Naturalap.tbo.com/ ... 22:17:56Mary Kay Letourneau, 42, is scheduled to be released Wednesday... seven-year sentence for child rape... "Nothing could have kept the two of them apart..." ...has not said if she will reunite with Vili Fualaau, now 21... [Fualaau:] " I know that I do love her."ap.tbo.com/ ... 20:24:47Two separate lightning bolts killed a 14-year-old boy in central England and injured four girls in London's Hyde Park as heavy rains caused flooding and transportation headaches in parts of Britain on Tuesday.wftv.com/ ... 13:56:18NEW YORK -- A monkey trained to help a disabled man with chores bit a 2-year-old boy in a supermarket... [had] pulled its fur...hindustantimes.com/ ... 13:50:19exposure to influenza during pregnancy may increase the risk of schizophrenia in babies during their later years.
US Election 2004drudgereport.com/ ... 22:14:45A veterans group seeking to deeply discredit Democrat John Kerry's military service will charge in the new bombshell book UNFIT FOR COMMANDworldnetdaily.com/ ... 19:52:35WND founder Farah questions Barack Obama's speech to the Democratic National Convention: "If there's an Arab-American family being rounded up without benefit of an attorney or due process that threatens my civil liberties."... Please share with the American people the specifics of this outrage. As an Arab-American myself, I would be most interested in such a case.washingtontimes.com/ ... 13:38:51the two words also brought death threats, insults and accusations upon Colin McNickle, the Pittsburgh "SHOVE IT!" Tribune-Review editorial-page editor who vexed Mrs. Kerry by asking her to explain her claim that "un-American traits" were emerging in politics. "I have learned about the power of a simple question," Mr. McNickle said from his office in Pittsburgh yesterday, adding, "But no reporter should ever be afraid to ask a question."
Human Rightreuters.com/ ... 14:31:07Malawi... a Catholic priest and a nun... convicted... disorderly conduct ...caught engaged in a sexual act in a parked car with tinted windows... suspended jail sentences of six months with hard labor after the pair pleaded guilty to charges of idleness and disorderly conduct.worldnetdaily.com/ ... 13:35:42A major international petition calling on Islamic leaders to allow Muslims to convert to another faith was presented to the United Nations.
Aftermathabcnews.go.com/ ... 20:02:43...released from Guantanamo in March and flown home to England, where police freed them without charge — describe an experience of isolation and brutality at the U.S. base.... "kept in cages infested with rats." ...put in a "cell smeared with excrement." All say they were subjected to beatings. Ahmed claims a guard "kicked me about 20 times to my left thigh and punched me as well. I had a large bruise on my leg and couldn't walk for nearly one month." ... guards "would kick the Koran, throw it into the toilet, and generally disrespect it."defenselink.mil/ ... 16:00:03The Department of Defense announced today that it transferred five detainees from Guantanamo Bay, Cuba to the control of the government of Morocco. These detainees are Moroccan nationals. news.yahoo.com/ ... 13:58:33Bush: "...knowing what I know today, we still would have gone on into Iraq"voanews.com/ ... 13:48:54 told the court she and other members of her unit had said the photos of naked Iraqi detainees being humiliated at Baghdad's Abu Ghraib prison had been taken for fun... could face a dishonorable discharge and 38 years in prison....
Violencereuters.com/ ... 20:04:00...two American soldiers were killed in a roadside bomb blast overnight on Baghdad's western outskirts. And two U.S. marines were killed in action in the violent Anbar province in the country's west....edition.cnn.com/ ... 19:59:37RIYADH, Saudi Arabia (AP) -- An Irishman was shot and killed Tuesday when armed men stormed into his office and began firing machine gunsworldnetdaily.com/ ... 16:05:37Since January, U.S. forces in Baghdad have experienced the following, according to information obtained by WND:
51 car bombs
1291 IEDs (attacks with improvised explosive devices)
759 small arms attacks
198 rocket attacks
102 indirect fire attacks (different than rocket or mortar)
529 mortar rounds fired on U.S. facilities
2,382 attacks on coalition
512 attacks on convoys
132 accidentsap.tbo.com/ ... 14:34:51Afghan troops backed by U.S. warplanes killed as many as 70 militants in a daylong battle near the Pakistani borderreuters.com/ ... 14:27:32BAGHDAD... roadside bomb Tuesday also killed a local police chief... suicide car bomb blast at a checkpoint outside the town of Baquba wounded six other Iraqi guardsmen...voanews.com/ ... 13:49:58U.S-led coalition forces in Afghanistan say they have killed up to 50 suspected insurgents linked to the ousted Taleban government... attacked a military post in the region....reuters.com/ ... 13:37:46Three Palestinians were killed in an explosion in the southern Gaza Strip city of Rafah on Tuesday... Witnesses said they believed the blast was caused by a missile fired by Israeli helicopter gunships. The Israeli army said it was checking the report.
Threatsap.tbo.com/ ... 20:24:13 Police conducted anti-terrorism raids in London and several towns Tuesday, arresting 13 people believed involved in preparing terrorist acts.news.myway.com/ ... 19:49:55North Korea is deploying new land- and sea-based ballistic missiles that can carry nuclear warheads and may have sufficient range to hit the United Statesap.tbo.com/ ... 14:32:00 Pakistan has arrested two "high-level" al-Qaida terrorists, one with a multimillion dollar U.S. bounty on his headapnews.myway.com/ ... 13:52:56 federal government investigators are operating under the assumption that the plot was ongoing.... Scott McClellan: "I think you have to keep in mind al-Qaida's history of planning attacks well in advance and then updating those plans just before attacking...." officials were still trying to determine if that was the case or whether the plot had already expired... Tom Ridge: "We don't do politics in the Department of Homeland Security. Our job is to identify the threat."worldnetdaily.com/ ... 13:37:17House Democratic Leader Nancy Pelosi of California has called for an end to racial and religious profiling of Muslims in a meeting with a group tied to Hamas and Saudi Arabian purse strings.
MON 2004-AUG-02
Digital Consequencescsmonitor.com/ ... 23:19:37Ms. Eastman's computer classes at this Washington, D.C., elementary school used to focus on using technology to enhance academic skills. But three years ago, after watching some kids spend as long as 10 minutes searching for the letters to enter a single Google query, she decided to start formally teaching touch-typing.
Preternatural Patternsreuters.com/ ... 13:48:35BERLIN (Reuters) - A Berlin driving instructor who taught more than 1,000 motorists how to drive says he never got a driver's license because he was too nervous to retake the test after he failed the first time -- 43 years ago.
Only Naturalthisislondon.com/ ... 13:37:24[ONE OF THE WORLD'S MOST NATURALLY-GORGEOUS WOMEN] Hollywood beauty Halle Berry has slammed women who have plastic surgery. ...said going under the knife in an effort to look younger was "insane".thewbalchannel.com/ ... 13:35:27The mystery may be over as one of the creatures roaming through central Maryland was finally captured on Saturday. According to the veterinarians at Falls Road Animal Hospital, the animal was a male red fox. However, Dr. Michael Herko -- a vet at the animal hospital -- and the man who caught the fox say it is not the mysterious creature videotaped in July, but a relative.news.bbc.co.uk/ ... 13:25:51An 11-year-old boy has told how he fought off a shark... bitten so badly that a surgeon ...spent four hours re-attaching his arm.... boy described how he punched his attacker in the gills ..."I was watching TV the day before and I saw that on the Discovery Channel"....
Mechanical Disasterstory.news.yahoo.com/ ... 13:38:24 A small cruise ship catering to eco-tourists was seriously damaged after running aground in the Aleutian Islands... about 5,000 gallons of diesel fuel spilled from the ruptured tankthisislondon.com/ ... 13:30:50Hundreds of people were left to die inside a blazing supermarket after security staff locked doors to prevent customers from running out without paying... 340 people were killed... store's owner Juan Pio Paiva and his son Daniel ...allegedly ordered security personnel to lock down every exit. Firefighters had to batter down the locked main entrance to the complex before they could reach hundreds of trapped shoppers... The death toll is expected to reach as high as 600ap.tbo.com/ ... 01:54:34A bus plunged off a cliff in the Andes Mountains on Sunday, killing at least 34 passengers and injuring 21
US Military Casualtiesdefenselink.mil/ ... 23:20:43[flag]Army Spc. Anthony J. Dixon, 20, of Lindenwold, N.J. Army Spc. Armando Hernandez, 22, of Hesperia, Calif. died Aug. 1, in Samarra, Iraq, when an improvised explosive device exploded near their guard post.
Reasons for Repealsky.com/ ... 13:39:15A sniffer dog died from an overdose after searching a suspect car... suspected amphetamines....
Human Rightnytimes.com/ ... 01:53:58Iran: After decades of repression, the Islamic government is recognizing that some people want to change their sex, and allowing them to have operations and obtain new birth certificates.
Aftermathwashingtonpost.com/ ... 23:29:25"From the time of my birth, there has never been a question of whether you are Christian or Muslim," Shammari said, sweeping up shards of glass from a shattered fish tank. "We rent our upstairs to a Christian family, we share food with each other. The bonds between all of us are very strong. What cowards are these terrorists to hurt the innocent, to try and break those bonds? If that is their aim, I swear they will never, never succeed."wnbc.com/ ... 23:18:55The statue of liberty will be open for tours starting Tuesday, August 3rd at 1:45 p.m.csmonitor.com/ ... 14:11:54The US military currently has 140,000 troops in Iraq, most of whom spent the bulk of their time in reconstruction efforts, working side-by-side with Iraqis to rebuild their countrymemri.org/ ... 14:06:13Sheikh Abd Al-Hamid Al-Ansari, the former Dean of the Faculty of Sharia at the University of Qatar: "The question must be asked: Are those who blame the Mossad, the American Right, and the Serbs still holding strong to their convictions? What do they say about the American report? Do our religious leaders, especially those who appear so many times on the satellite channels and who have a monopoly on programs on Al-Jazeera, still hold to the conviction that Al-Qa'ida and bin Laden [are] innocent of the September 11 attacks?
Violencenews.bbc.co.uk/ ... 13:39:41Footage of what appears to be a Turkish hostage in Iraq being shot dead has appeared on the internet.news.bbc.co.uk/ ... 13:27:17A woman was killed in clashes in Najaf after US forces surrounded the home of rebel Shia cleric Moqtada Sadr. US armoured vehicles cordoned off the Zahra neighbourhood, reports said. The sounds of heavy gunfire, mortar shelling and grenade blasts followed. Witnesses told AP news agency Mr Sadr was in the house at the time. US forces are now said to have withdrawn.reuters.com/ ... 13:23:46Palestinian militants shot dead two people accused of collaborating with Israel in their hospital beds Monday hours after they were wounded by grenades tossed into their jail cell... A third alleged spy was killed inside the cell and four others wounded in the grenade attack by a Gaza City prison guardgranma.cu/ ... 13:23:00At least 10 people died and 50 were injured this Sunday when two car bombs exploded in the center of the Iraqi capital and another went off in the city of Mosul
Threatswashingtonpost.com/ ... 23:22:47Police officers carrying automatic weapons began to close a major thoroughfare on Capitol Hill last night and set up 14 checkpoints for cars and trucks, creating a huge security perimeter around some of the nation's most powerful symbols of democracy.... some government officials acknowledged that most, if not all, of the al Qaeda surveillance that led to Sunday's new terror alert occurred about three years ago or possibly longer.news.scotsman.com/ ... 23:21:08BRITAIN’S security forces were yesterday put on "heightened readiness" for a potential terrorist attack, after detailed al-Qaeda plans to attack UK targets were uncovered.kwwl.com/ ... 13:49:01The Port Authority of New York and New Jersey says the inbound Holland Tunnel has been closed to commercial traffic.local6.com/ ... 13:34:36CHICAGO -- A Japanese man flying to Ohio was arrested after he was seen writing down the words "suicide bomb," but he was released without charge after explaining that it was an impromptu English exercise.apnews.myway.com/ ... 13:27:30 President Bush on Monday endorsed creation of a national intelligence czar and counterterrorism centerquote.bloomberg.com/ ... 13:22:39New York "Hercules'' police teams wearing body armor and toting submachine guns surrounded the New York Stock Exchange todaynytimes.com/ ... 01:52:03The unannounced capture of a figure from Al Qaeda in Pakistan several weeks ago led the Central Intelligence Agency to the rich lode of information that prompted the terror alert on Sunday... Muhammad Naeem Noor Khan... 25-year-old computer engineer... had used and helped to operate a secret Qaeda communications system where information was transferred via coded messages.
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1960s - still with usnews.bbc.co.uk/ ... 15:28:36Simon and Garfunkel have performed to a crowd of 600,000 at a free concert in the Italian capital Rome.
Preternatural Patternspalmbeachpost.com/ ... 15:23:37 A couple returning home from a Costa Rican vacation was ejected from an American Airlines flight because the man was wearing a T-shirt depicting a bare breast. ...he refused to change the shirt or turn it inside out at Miami International Airport. The flight left 90 minutes late without them....
Mechanical Disasterreuters.com/ ... 15:22:42At least 40 people have died after a fire swept through a supermarket on the outskirts of Paraguay's capital Asuncion... more that 100 people may have died... may have been sparked by the explosion of gas canisters....
Only Naturalap.tbo.com/ ... 15:34:33Torrential rain delayed flights at Philadelphia International Airport on Sunday and caused flash flooding that forced some residents to flee their apartments and blocked commuter trains and roads.reuters.com/ ... 15:33:50an Italian couple tied the knot in a shark tank Saturdayap.tbo.com/ ... 02:38:21ESTES PARK, Colo. (AP) - A 4,000- to 5,000-pound rock fell on a hiker who was trying to climb it Saturday, but she suffered no broken bones in the mishap... hiking with a church group in Hell's Canyon... rescuers who used three air bags to lift the rock off her legs... "the only thing that saved her leg was a decomposed tree underneath her," which apparently kept the rock from crushing her leg... A sheriff's deputy said there was a depression under the spot where the rock landed. "That was the saving feature of the whole accident..." "We were praying the whole time," Greg Curtis said. "To God be the glory."apnews.myway.com/ ... 02:23:33NEW YORK (AP) - After escaping from the circus, a white tiger alarmed picnickers and motorists Saturday on what for him apparently was a calm, half-mile stroll through an unfamiliar urban jungle.
US Election 2004andpop.com/ ... 21:53:32 According to several reports, Fahrenheit 9/11 has been banned from Kuwait, because officials say the movie insults the Saudi Arabian royal family, and is critical of the invasion of Iraq by the U.S.drudgereport.com/ ... 21:50:45A domestic centerpiece of the Bush/GOP agenda for a second Bush term is getting rid of the Internal Revenue Service, the DRUDGE REPORT has learnedlp.org/ ... 15:02:16A state Superior Court judge on June 25 refused to issue an injunction putting the LP on the ballot for this fall, so the party plans to appeal to the Oklahoma Supreme Court, seeking ballot access for this year's elections. Oklahoma is the only state that still requires a party to get a petition signed by 5 percent of the state's voters before that party can be on the ballot for statewide office elections. The LP had submitted a petition containing 2 percent, and argued that the state's constitution prohibits the state from requiring anything more than that. "The judge didn't seem to grasp the concept that even though the U.S. Constitution allows a showing of 5 percent, perhaps the Oklahoma Constitution provides more protection for voting rights," said Richard Winger, editor of Ballot Access News. "The Oklahoma Constitution says elections must be 'free and equal.'"news.telegraph.co.uk/ ... 02:29:10BIG FAT LIAR (CONTINING SAGA) Saudi royal family lambasts Michael Moore for twisting the truth in his 9/11 film... Prince Turki said that the Saudis were also keen to help stabilise the situation in Iraq. 'Much of the equipment we have seized during raids on al-Qa'eda cells has come from Iraq,' he said.nypost.com/ ... 02:22:15Kerry was treating running mate Sen. John Edwards and his wife, Elizabeth, to a Wendy's lunch in Newburgh, N.Y., for their 27th wedding anniversary — an Edwards family tradition — when the candidate approached four Marines and asked them questions. The Marines — two in uniform and two off-duty — were polite but curt while chatting with Kerry, answering most of his questions with a "yes, sir" or "no, sir." But they turned downright nasty after the Massachusetts senator thanked them "for their service" and left. "He imposed on us and I disagree with him coming over here shaking our hands," one Marine said, adding, "I'm 100 percent against [him]." A sergeant with 10 years of service under his belt said, "I speak for all of us. We think that we are doing the right thing in Iraq," before saying he is to be deployed there in a few weeks and is "eager" to go and serve. But the rest of Day One went smoothlyworldnetdaily.com/ ... 00:00:59BIG FAT LIAR (CONTINING SAGA) An Illinois newspaper has accused filmmaker Michael Moore of "falsely representing" its front page in his blockbuster "Fahrenheit 9/11."... falsified, borrowing from the Dec. 5, 2001, issue a headline that appeared above a letter to the editor, reflecting only the opinion of the writer.
US Military Casualtiesap.tbo.com/ ... 15:34:06[flag]More than 40 years after a Navy plane hunting Russian submarines during the Cold War crashed on a glacier in Greenland, a Navy team is setting out to recover the last of the victims' remains.
Human Rightreuters.com/ ... 15:32:20Women have reacted with anger and amusement to a Vatican document on feminism, with some saying the Catholic Church is run by men who live in a time warp and want to keep women in their place.... Frances Kissling, president of the U.S.-based Catholics for a Free Choice [isn't that an oxymoron?], said she thought she had "passed through a time warp" when she read the document. "I thought for sure it was the 1960s and Archie Bunker had been appointed theologian to the Pope"...
Reasons for Repealibopboxing.com/ ... 02:18:49Mike Tyson wasn't high on Kentucky bluegrass Friday night. He hadn't smoked any Panama Red either. At least that's what trainer Freddie Roach believes. Most others familiar with Tyson's act probably are a little more skeptical. Cheech and Chong are withholding comment. Tyson frequently broached the subject of his prolific marijuana usage during interviews in the days leading up to his crushing knockout defeat to Danny Williams in Louisville.
Threatsdrudgereport.com/ ... 21:53:51A new film set for release from PARAMOUNT has raised the pop culture threat levels at the White House -- a film which mocks the war on terror and media urgency using puppetsap.tbo.com/ ... 21:52:17The government's very public warning to financial institutions may actually deter a bombing but also raises questions about what the next step will be for both terrorists and defenders.... "And all the enemy has to do is dial down its list of prominent targets," Pike added. "If they can't reach the World Bank, maybe they'll go for the Federal Reserve or the FBI," both of which are only handful of blocks away in either direction.boston.com/ ... 21:50:19A Boston College student leader who wears a turban and full beard in accord with his Sikh religion says he was detained and interrogated for seven hours Saturday night by Secret Service agents for doing nothing more than taking photographs of the campus.... At one point during the searches, he said, an agent told him: "I don't want you pulling an Uzi from your turban."... "During the course of the DNC, law enforcement is in a heightened state of awareness [GUESS IT DEPENDS ON YOUR DEFINITION OF AWARENESS] in response to suspicious activity," Secret Service spokesman Charles Bopp said.ap.tbo.com/ ... 15:36:29 the idea of using directed energy against humans is creating debate fueled by deaths allegedly caused by Taser stun guns and the alleged abuse of Iraqi prisoners - which put the military's respect for human rights under a microscope. Some experts believe the use of directed energy will be limited by international law and treaties.... "You can rest assured that with this system, when it finally is deployed, we will be very, very clear about what the intended uses are and what is clearly outside of bounds.,"... [uh-huh...]reuters.com/ ... 15:30:11A militant group claiming links to al Qaeda has given Italy a 15-day deadline to withdraw its troops from Iraq or face attacks, in a statement sent to the London-based al-Quds al-Arabi newspaper Sunday.sfgate.com/ ... 15:18:36A senior intelligence official described the details only on condition of anonymity. He said it was the most extraordinary detail he had seen in 24 years of intelligence work.reuters.com/ ... 15:13:09The United States raised the security alert level to high for the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund in Washington, the New York Stock Exchange and companies in the New York area on Sunday after intelligence signaled a possible al Qaeda attack.abcnews.go.com/ ... 02:20:00credible intelligence that al Qaeda has been plotting to carry out suicide attacks on corporations based in the city.usatoday.com/ ... 02:16:23New intelligence that the al-Qaeda terrorist network plans to attack commercial or financial institutions in New York City has prompted police to urge security directors at various city buildings to take extra precautions.
Violenceseattlepi.nwsource.com/ ... 21:52:52The church attacks came amid a flurry of other bombings in and around the two cities that killed at least 10 Iraqis and an American soldier. The U.S. military confirmed two other explosions in Baghdad in the evening, but their target was not immediately clear.news.bbc.co.uk/ ... 15:26:43"There are so many injured and we don't know how many. We were coming out of the church," when the bomb exploded... Many Christians run Iraq's alcohol shops, which have been subjected to recent attacks.sfgate.com/ ... 15:21:28A series of coordinated explosions rocked five churches across Baghdad and the northern city of Mosul on Sunday, killing at least two people and injuring about 60 others in the first attacks targeting the country's Christian minority in a violent 15-month insurgency.english.epochtimes.com/ ... 15:19:44An Iraqi mediator says the kidnappers of seven foreign truck drivers in Iraq have asked him to withdraw.... Kenya's foreign minister told a news conference earlier Sunday in Nairobi that all seven of the hostages have already been freed and are safe in the Egyptian embassy in Baghdad. ... not been confirmed by the company, the mediator, India or Egypt....reuters.com/ ... 15:17:12A grenade thrown from a passing car exploded near a casino in a crowded shopping district at the heart of Prague's historic center Sunday but officials said the attack was criminal and not terror-related. [the difference being...?] ...18 people were injured, including one child, five Britons and three Irish citizens...ap.tbo.com/ ... 02:35:58WICHITA FALLS, Texas (AP) - Three people were shot dead in a house Saturday in what police said was an apparent murder-suicide. A 6-year-old boy was in critical condition. The man believed to be the shooter was among the dead... The boy's mother and another man also were killed.reuters.co.uk/ ... 02:19:27A suicide car bomb has exploded outside a police station in the northern Iraqi city of Mosul, killing at least four people and wounding 34, the Iraqi police say.worldnetdaily.com/ ... 00:02:05Abu Musab al-Zarqawi – al-Qaida's No. 1 leader in Iraq – has been captured near the Syrian border, according to an unconfirmed report today... The Pentagon, however, told WorldNetDaily late this afternoon it had no confirmation.
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