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THU 2005-JUN-30
Preternatural Patternssuntimes.com/ ... 21:39:24Gearing up for a possible run for Senate against Hillary Rodham Clinton, former President Richard Nixon's son-in-law Edward Cox announced the formation Wednesday of an exploratory committee that includes Henry Kissinger and other GOP elders...
Transportcbc.ca/ ... 19:55:11Divers found no victims as they searched the water around a grounded B.C. ferry that missed the West Vancouver terminal and plowed through a crowded marina on Thursday...
Supernaturalcjnews.com/ ... 10:25:02The court-ordered removal of Terri Schiavo’s feeding tube was “an act of murder,” in the opinion of Rabbi Shlomo Yaffe, a member of the Lubavitch movement... was breathing on her own... Jewish tradition makes clear that nourishment must be provided under such a circumstance...
Why People Go Veganreuters.com/ ... 07:00:11An animal rights group has called on one of the largest aquariums in the United States to stop serving fish to its visitors, likening the practice to grilling up "poodle burgers at a dog show..."
Culturenytimes.com/ ... 21:38:46Mr. Spielberg quietly began filming the most politically charged project he has yet attempted: the tale of a secret Mossad hit squad ordered to assassinate Palestinian terrorists after the massacre of Israeli athletes at the 1972 Olympics in Munich... suntimes.com/ ... 06:48:01When you're taking away Steven Spielberg's cell phone at a premiere of a movie DIRECTED BY STEVEN SPIELBERG, you're not just doing your job, you're following the orders of monumentally silly people...
US Military Casualtiesdefenselink.mil/ ... 20:02:16[flag]Army Pfc. Lowell W. Bellar of Gary, Ind.
In November - December 1950, Bellar’s unit, Company M, 31st Infantry Regiment, was surrounded and overrun by Chinese Communist forces near the Chosin Reservoir in northeast North Korea. Elements of his unit joined other U.S. forces in the breakout and fighting retreat to relative safety further south to an area near the village of Hagaru. Regimental records compiled after the battle indicate that Bellar was killed in action Dec. 1, 1950. More than 1,000 men, primarily Marines and Army soldiers, are still missing in North Korea from the Chosin campaign...
defenselink.mil/ ... 20:00:47[flag]Army Spc. Robert E. Hall Jr., 30, of Pittsburgh, Pa., died June 28 in Ad Dujayl, Iraq, when a vehicle-borne improvised explosive device detonated near his dismounted position at the gate of his forward operating base. defenselink.mil/ ... 20:00:28[flag]Army Chief Warrant Officer Keith R. Mariotti, 39, of Texas.
[flag]Army Chief Warrant Officer Steven E. Shepard, 30, of Purcell, Okla.
died on June 27 near Taji, Iraq, where their AH-64D Apache helicopter crashed...
Only Naturalnews.bbc.co.uk/ ... 19:50:17Fauja Singh... At 94, he's run seven marathons (five in London), countless half-marathons and was recently part of the world's oldest marathon team in Edinburgh... dsc.discovery.com/ ... 10:28:23Lettuce was the Viagra of ancient Egyptians... reuters.com/ ... 07:00:40A Cambodian hunter was attacked by two of the few remaining tigers in the country's jungles and lost an eye and chunks of both legs before the big cats were driven off by his dogs...
US Militaryreuters.com/ ... 19:48:06U.S. forces have recovered the bodies of 16 American troops from a helicopter shot down in Afghanistan but some ground troops were unaccounted for... foxnews.com/ ... 17:35:42The U.S. military confirmed Thursday that all 16 service members aboard a special forces helicopter died when it crashed into a mountain ravine earlier this week, apparently after being shot down... news.bbc.co.uk/ ... 06:51:22US military officials in Afghanistan say 13 bodies have been recovered from the site where one of their Chinook helicopters crashed on Tuesday. Another seven soldiers are unaccounted for, some of them soldiers who were fighting on the ground... Officials say there is still hope that some of those unaccounted for are alive. But the BBC's Andrew North who is at the main US base in eastern Afghanistan says they may also have been captured... foxnews.com/ ... 06:50:38enior military commanders told FOX News Wednesday that 17 soldiers were believed dead after their Chinook (search) helicopter crashed in eastern Afghanistan. While the statement was not definitive, the military said they did not expect to find survivors at the crash site. The crash would be the deadliest blow yet to American forces in Afghanistan...
[Not to be callous about this tragedy, but if the biggest score the Enemy can get is like this, they've already lost.]
Human Rightnews.bbc.co.uk/ ... 10:29:33A reggae festival in Paris has been cancelled after complaints about the anti-gay lyrics of singer Sizzla... Six of the singer's eight planned concerts in France have so far been cancelled... "They've got to apologise to God because they break God's law..." freep.com/ ... 10:27:41With a few shovels of dirt and a short prayer, Tracy thought a parent's worst nightmare was almost over... They'll need some counseling, she recalls thinking as she helped her 16-year-old son bury the fetus his girlfriend miscarried that October night. Losing a baby is hard, she thought, even if they had been adults... Neither she, nor the boy's father, nor her husband said what the teens did was a crime. "They're good kids, but all kids make poor choices sometimes," Tracy said, sitting in the kitchen of the century-old farmhouse in Richmond Township the family calls home. "I think they were misinformed, but they're not criminals." Almost six months after their son was charged with an assault that prosecutors say ended her pregnancy, the boy's parents are opening up about their relationship with him and his girlfriend, who is now 17, and their frustration with the charge against him... the teens didn't want to tell her parents she was pregnant, but they didn't know she could legally get an abortion without their permission if a judge approved... bloomberg.com/ ... 06:44:16Spain's parliament today approved legislation allowing gays and lesbians to marry, becoming the fourth country in which same-sex unions are legal...
Threatsnytimes.com/ ... 21:39:59The principle at stake here is the idea of "reportorial privilege," embraced in shield laws in 49 states and the District of Columbia, but not in federal courts. That privilege not to testify - held by lawyers, members of the clergy, spouses and others - gives assurance to whistleblowers that information confided to a reporter revealing corruption or malfeasance in government will not result in loss of job or more severe retaliation from on high... asia.news.yahoo.com/ ... 11:44:17officials in the wealthy New York City suburb of Summit are using the.. Patriot Act.. to justify forcing homeless people to leave a train station _ an action that sparked a $5 million federal lawsuit by a homeless man... "Unless they've been smoking those funny cigarettes, I can't see how my civil lawsuit has anything to do with the Patriot Act..."
World Without Bordersnytimes.com/ ... 11:43:08Brazilians recently have been migrating in record numbers to the United States...
Sex can be Dangerousnews.telegraph.co.uk/ ... 10:29:54Women who strip off their clothes are the latest weapon deployed by the "timber mafia" in the jungles of eastern India to help them illegally cut down trees. The women surround male guards and disrobe as the men try to protect the forests, embarrassing them into fleeing...
Big Brothertimesonline.co.uk/ ... 10:28:12Police in Rome have a new weapon in their quest to tame reckless drivers: a device to identify and fine people who ignore the double white lines that prohibit overtaking...
OKC Bombing -- still with usworldnetdaily.com/ ... 10:23:16After a meeting with convicted Oklahoma City bomber Terry Nichols, a U.S. congressman reaffirmed evidence of a Middle East connection to the 1995 attack... Nichols acknowledged the existence of John Doe #2 – the alleged third terrorist – but stopped short of identifying him, claiming he "did not want to speculate..."
Under Tyrannyworldnetdaily.com/ ... 10:23:58Ray Bradbury joined a growing list of international writers and human rights activists in condemning the persecution of Cuba's Independent Library Project... "I stand against any library or any librarian anywhere in the world being imprisoned or punished in any way for the books they circulate," Bradbury said. "I plead with Castro and his government to immediately take their hands off the independent librarians and release all those librarians in prison, and to send them back into Cuban culture to inform the people..." kare11.com/ ... 10:19:55The U.S. Supreme Court's decision on eminent domain is just days old and already it's being called upon to backup action already underway in the Twin Cities. The city of Brooklyn Center is bulldozing the 'Hmong American Shopping Center' to make room for something more profitable. The center's owners say it reminds them of the communism they left behind. But supporters say they have a better use for the land...
Supernatural Threatsworldnetdaily.com/ ... 10:21:45Sources in Pakistan report a radical Muslim mob has attacked Christian homes in three areas near Peshawar, Pakistan... after a Christian man was accused earlier that day of burning pages with Quranic verses written on them... has worked for almost two decades as a sweeper for the Pakistani military... came across a bag of papers, and the major told Masih to take the papers outside and burn them... is illiterate and would not have known what was written on the papers. Other workers saw the papers and said Masih was burning pages from the Quran... Insulting Islam, the Prophet Muhammad or the Quran can be punishable by death... worldnetdaily.com/ ... 10:18:31A college in southern California is now investigating the case of a student who says she was given an F for mentioning "God" against the expressed wishes of her atheist instructor... wrote the G-word 41 times in a paper titled "In God We Trust," examining the role of religion in government... despite being told not to by adjunct English instructor... "He said it would offend others in class..." "He told me you might as well write about the Easter Bunny..."
Disturbing Family Patternskirotv.com/ ... 11:42:50PORT ORCHARD, Wash. -- A man.. 28.. who is believed to have gotten a 10-year-old girl pregnant has been charged with first-degree child rape... is the girl's stepfather... She initially told detectives she was impregnated by a 10-year-old boy... "We investigated that and we determined with a high probability that that wasn't even possible..." Last month the girl gave birth... The girl, now 11, is living with the baby boy and her mother... ap.tbo.com/ ... 06:59:05For $10,000, Kari Smith has gone ahead and had her forehead tattooed with the Web address of a gambling site. Bountiful, 30, who sold her unusual advertising space on eBay, said the money will give her 11-year-old son a private education, which she believes he needs after falling behind in school...
Disinformation Propaganda & Spinnews.bbc.co.uk/ ... 19:51:37Stamps
Mexico has defended the release of a set of stamps showing a popular black cartoon character, following strong criticism from the US... Jesse Jackson called the stamps "an insult". Mexico said Mr Jackson was uninformed about Mexican culture and Memin Pinguin had in fact done a lot to fight racism... opinionjournal.com/ ... 11:54:35Obama: "In Lincoln's rise from poverty, his ultimate mastery of language and law, his capacity to overcome personal loss and remain determined in the face of repeated defeat--in all this he reminded me not just of my own struggles..."
Noonan: Lincoln's life is a lot like Mr. Obama's. Lincoln came from a lean-to in the backwoods. His mother died when he was 9. The Lincolns had no money, no standing. Lincoln educated himself, reading law on his own, working as a field hand, a store clerk and a raft hand on the Mississippi. He also split some rails. He entered politics, knew more defeat than victory, and went on to lead the nation through its greatest trauma, the Civil War, and past its greatest sin, slavery. Barack Obama, the son of two University of Hawaii students, went to Columbia and Harvard Law after attending a private academy that taught the children of the Hawaiian royal family. He made his name in politics as an aggressive Chicago vote hustler in Bill Clinton's first campaign for the presidency. You see the similarities... ap.tbo.com/ ... 06:57:27Ruslan Abdulgani, a former Indonesian foreign minister who organized the first summit of the Non-Aligned Movement in 1955, died Tuesday from the effects of a stroke, media reports said. He was 91...
Cecil Baugh, Jamaica's best-known ceramist who helped found the country's school of art and is credited with inspiring a new generation of artists in the 1960s and 1970s, died Tuesday. He was 96...
Robert Clark, a college president best known for his support of sprinters Tommie Smith and John Carlos following their civil rights protest on the medal podium at the 1968 Olympics, died Tuesday. He was 95...
Former All-Star catcher Dick Dietz, involved with Don Drysdale in one of baseball's most disputed plays in the 1960s, died of a heart attack Tuesday, a funeral home said. He was 63...
Domino Harvey, a model-turned-bounty hunter whose life is being depicted in the upcoming action movie "Domino," died Monday. She was 35...
Veteran classical music announcer Frederic S. Heft, who parlayed his record-collecting hobby into on-air work at a former radio station in Chicago, died of a heart attack June 21. He was 64...
Edna Kimbro, one of the nation's leading experts on the construction and restoration of historic adobe buildings, died Sunday after battling cancer, friends and colleagues said. She was 57...
Dale Norris, an alto saxophonist who played in the Stan Kenton Orchestra in the early 1960s and toured with the big bands of Tommy Dorsey and Henry Mancini, died of lung cancer Tuesday. He was 68...
Leon "Fafa" Toofa, a master canoe builder from Tahiti, died Saturday after being swept by a large wave into the ocean off Maui. He was 67...
[I just thought it was an interesting collection of ex-humanity. The AP obits items usually aren't that numerous.]reuters.com/ ... 06:52:21Two leading figures in the 1979 seizure of the U.S. embassy in Iran denied on Thursday reports president-elect Mahmoud Ahmadinejad took part in the 444-day hostage drama which led Washington to break ties with Tehran. "Ahmadinejad was not among those who occupied the American embassy after the revolution," said Abbas Abdi, who helped to orchestrate the raid on the embassy and the seizure of its staff after the Islamic revolution...
Violencesuntimes.com/ ... 23:58:44Police used tracking dogs today to search the Buffalo Grove neighborhood where a minister and his adult daughter were found slain inside the family’s burned-out home... news.bbc.co.uk/ ... 19:48:21Three soldiers have been killed in eastern Sri Lanka in an attack by suspected Tamil Tiger rebels... reuters.com/ ... 06:51:52Israeli police commandos stormed a hotel in a Gaza settlement on Thursday to eject radical Jews from a bastion of resistance to Israel's planned pullout from the occupied territory... mercurynews.com/ ... 06:43:41The Lebanese radical group Hezbollah fired at least 15 mortar shells across Israel's northern border Wednesday, killing one Israeli soldier and wounding five others. The attack ended six months of relative calm along that frontier...
WED 2005-JUN-29
Dinosaurs -- still with usap.tbo.com/ ... 21:57:39Three black men who strayed into a historically white neighborhood early Wednesday were chased by a man with a baseball bat... One man was beaten and suffered a fractured skull... same section of the borough of Queens as an infamous 1986 beating of three black men whose car had broken down... ap.tbo.com/ ... 21:57:09The Mexican government has issued postage stamps depicting an exaggerated black cartoon character known as Memin Pinguin, just weeks after remarks by President Vicente Fox angered U.S. blacks... variety.com/ ... 21:54:22Despite Monday's Supreme Court decision allowing copyright holders to sue peer-to-peer services wholesale, the recording industry launched yet another round of litigation against individual downloaders Wednesday...
Supernaturalfloridatoday.com/ ... 08:43:21a new documentary focusing on the little-known childhood of Christianity's savior. Titled "Jesus in Egypt..." The film, providing information little known outside Egypt, takes viewers on a long trek through Egyptian ruins and dusty desert towns, looking at the predominately Muslim country's Christian past... For centuries, Christians in Egypts have kept records and documents about the Holy Family's journey there... A field near Tel Basta, where a young Jesus is purported to have pushed down idols. Archaeologists never explained why the idols fell... [Um.. wasn't Jesus s'posed'a be a infant at this time?] The "Sacred Tree of Matariya" in Cairo, where Mary is said to have used a well. Muslims as well as Christians have fought to protect the site...
Preternatural Patternswashingtonpost.com/ ... 21:53:40"Welcome to the Neighborhood," an ABC reality series that pushes hot buttons of racism and anti-homosexuality, was pulled by the network before its debut... legendgames.net/ ... 21:36:17Last night's Democratic Party response to President George W. Bush's speech on Iraq was at times uneven and incoherent... Satire/Humor by Nickie Goomba... news.yahoo.com/ ... 15:27:25Thousands of people have been flocking to a beach in India's financial hub in a manic diamond rush, but police said Wednesday the stones were fakes and warned them to stay away after one treasure hunter was drowned... news.bbc.co.uk/ ... 08:38:53A man who set up a stall on a busy high street to advertise for a girlfriend says his faith in human nature has been restored by the experience... did not get a negative comment during his 18 hours on Crouch End High Street... says he was congratulated on his courage by members of both sexes... got a whopping 93 phone numbers, and has already gone out on a date with one woman... ap.tbo.com/ ... 08:27:33called South Bend Animal Care and Control on Monday to let them know he thought he just saw a kangaroo, not far from the South Bend Regional Airport. "I didn't believe him," animal control officer Sumyr Springfield said. Then Springfield, who was first on the scene, saw the top of the kangaroo's head. It was time to call for backup... The Potawatomi Zoo said it was not missing any animals and airport officials said they did not know of any runaway kangaroos...
Culturewired.com/ ... 08:22:14War of the Worlds is a failure of imagination. It's surprisingly one-dimensional... Nothing remotely cerebral makes it into Spielberg's movie. And that's a surprise. In Spielberg's previous films, you could feel the director stretching for meaning: Jaws explored our collision with wildness; Poltergeist our dislocation from the past; Jurassic Park, the perils of exploitative science. It's unclear what War of the Worlds invites us to think about. That alien attacks are a super way to bond with your kids?..
Whoops!ap.tbo.com/ ... 08:27:44When Rachel Dunham took out a restraining order against her boyfriend, she didn't expect to be marrying him a short time later. So instead of honeymooning in Mexico, her beau, Rodney Tomsha, sits in the Spokane County Jail, accused of violating the order by getting within two blocks of Dunham... news.xinhuanet.com/ ... 08:19:34Celebratory gunshots fired by supporters of re-elected Lebanese parliament speaker Nabih Berri have killed three people and wounded seven others overnight...
Digital Consequenceswebpronews.com/ ... 08:17:33Called Google Earth, the 3D mapping service brings a combination of aerial and satellite photos to the desktop... Most computers with 3D graphics cards should be able to run the necessary software...
Yuck!wnbc.com/ ... 01:32:38A shark washed up on Rockaway Beach in Queens on Tuesday afternoon...
Freedomlegendgames.net/ ... 21:35:53The logical incompatibility of liberty and privilege doesn't keep most people from wanting both...
Repeal! Repeal! Repeal!pbn.com/ ... 21:33:18The Rhode Island Senate Tuesday approved legislation that protects patients and their primary caregivers who use and prescribe marijuana for medical reasons from arrest. The bill passed by a 33 to 1 margin. It passed the House earlier this month and will be sent on to the governor for approval...
US Military Casualtiesdefenselink.mil/ ... 15:35:52[flag]Army 2nd Lt. Matthew S. Coutu, 23, of North Kingstown, R.I., died June 27 in Baghdad, Iraq, where enemy forces engaged his convoy with small arms fire.defenselink.mil/ ... 15:35:17[flag]Air Force Lt. Col. Darel D. Leetun of Hettinger, N.D. Leetun will be buried with full military honors July 8 at Arlington National Cemetery. On Sept. 17, 1966, Leetun led a bombing mission over Lang Son province, North Vietnam when his F-105D ‘Thunderchief’ aircraft was hit by enemy fire. Other pilots in the flight observed the aircraft crash, but did not receive emergency beeper signals nor observe a parachute...
Only Naturalap.tbo.com/ ... 21:56:29Even very low doses of radiation pose a risk of cancer over a person's lifetime... news.yahoo.com/ ... 15:29:17Henny van Andel-Schipper is seen on her 115th birthday in Hoogeveen, the Netherlands, June 29, 2005. Van Andel-Schipper has been the oldest person alive in the world since May 29, 2004... woai.com/ ... 15:28:40Showers in Indiana and Iowa fizzled over Illinois Tuesday as residents of Chicago and northwest Indiana suffered through another day in the mid-90s... miami.com/ ... 08:16:26he considers the bull shark ''the most aggressive.'' His view, shared by many Florida shark experts and divers, comes from running into more than a few bulls and from one that ran into him, teeth-first... the once-obscure bull is becoming the real boogeyshark of the beach. They don't rank with whites or tigers in size or reputation, but since 2000, bulls have been blamed for most of the worst unprovoked attacks on humans...
US Militarydefenselink.mil/ ... 15:35:32This week, the Army and Navy announced an increase in the number of reservists on active duty in support of the partial mobilization, while the Air Force, Marine Corps and Coast Guard numbers decreased. The net collective result is 329 fewer reservists mobilized than last week... estripes.com/ ... 15:30:10For U.S. troops, the question is ‘Who can you trust?’ GIs find it hard to predict which Iraqi soldiers will turn against them... The specific number of attacks on friendly forces involving infiltrators is unknown, but it easily exceeds what American forces experienced in places such as Somalia, Bosnia or Afghanistan... reuters.com/ ... 08:15:12U.S. military helicopter crash... fate of 17 U.S. troops aboard.. not known... crashed in remote and mountainous Kunar provinceapnews.myway.com/ ... 08:13:15Some Army reservists say they were disrespected by a sheriff's deputy who made racially derogatory remarks during a confrontation in a national forest. The incident in the Apalachicola National Forest about 20 miles southwest of Tallahassee last week ended with three of the 12 soldiers getting $50 tickets...
Human Rightcbc.ca/ ... 08:14:08Canada... same-sex marriage legislation has passed final reading in the House of Commons, sailing through in a 158-133 vote... newsday.com/ ... 01:31:48Canada is set to become the third country to legalize gay marriage...
Transport Tragedyap.tbo.com/ ... 21:56:51ASTOR, Fla. - A church day care van carrying about a dozen passengers overturned in the Ocala National Forest on Wednesday, killing one child and seriously injuring two other people...
9/11 - still with usiht.com/ ... 21:39:16The new obelisk-shaped tower, standing on an enormous 20-story concrete pedestal, evokes a gigantic glass paperweight with a toothpick stuck on top... abclocal.go.com/ ... 15:28:21Rahman claims he was handcuffed and kicked during one incident, even though he had three forms of identification proving that he is a citizen. He wants changes made in the way U.S. border workers screen people returning to the United States... washingtonpost.com/ ... 15:26:20The newest plan for the Freedom Tower at the former World Trade Center site features a more bomb-resistant design pushed well away from the street and incorporating heavily protected elevators and utilities...
People Dienews.bbc.co.uk/ ... 21:53:21A public schoolboy... An only child described as an "exemplary student", he had studied A-Levels at the £7,000-a-year Liverpool College and was weeks away from starting a degree in medicine at Nottingham University... who admitted killing his parents before using their credit cards to fund a £30,000 spending spree has been jailed for life... admitted manslaughter with diminished responsibility. He suffers "narcissistic personality disorder"... He told the court that sufferers of narcissistic personality disorder typically flew into a rage if their fantasy world was challenged or threatened... gainesville.com/ ... 08:35:36When Richard Howerton brought his terminally ill father John home from a nursing home earlier this month, he knew his 86-year-old dad would die soon. But not the next day. And not because Lakeland Electric would cut the power at Howerton's home in Kathleen. Utility records show that Richard and Joyce Howerton were cut off because they were behind on their bills...
Mechanical Disasterap.tbo.com/ ... 08:28:13Two workers were killed and up to 12 others were believed trapped Wednesday after a tunnel they were building to bring water to a village collapsed in a landslide triggered by heavy rain...
WW2 - less with usap.tbo.com/ ... 08:25:24Ray Holmes, a World War II fighter pilot who rammed a German plane to prevent a direct hit on Buckingham Palace, died Monday. He was 90... Sgt. Holmes spotted a German Dornier bomber lining up to attack the palace on Sept. 15, 1940, and, finding he had run out of ammunition, the pilot from 504 Squadron slammed into the bomber, slicing off its tail. Holmes parachuted to safety, while his Hurricane plane crashed behind Victoria Station, well away from the palace. The German bomber plunged into the station's courtyard. The German pilot also survived the incident, which was captured on film...
Violencereuters.com/ ... 08:22:39Thousands of Chinese rioted in a dispute sparked by a lopsided roadside brawl, set fire to cars and wounded six police officers in an outburst likely to worry communist leaders in Beijing desperate to cling on to power...
Sex can be Dangerousnydailynews.com/ ... 08:19:12A former Newsday publisher and education bigwig was busted yesterday on charges he collected kiddie porn on his company computer - and tried to destroy the files when the feds started investigating... The allegations stem from a 2003 probe into a Belarus company that ran credit-card billing services for 50 child-smut Web sites. More than 1,200 people who downloaded porn from those sites, including a Ringling Bros. circus clown named Spanky, have since been arrested...
Disturbing Family Patternsexaminer-enterprise.com/ ... 15:33:44Assistant District Attorney Shelley Clemens said this is the first time she has ever filed a child-abuse charge involving drug injuries to an unborn child in Washington County. "We're getting tired of people doing drugs while they are pregnant," Clemens said. "It's time to step up and do something..." chicagotribune.com/ ... 08:16:54MILWAUKEE -- Doctors are not quite sure why, but Robin Buzzell keeps having big babies. Now she's delivered the biggest one yet, a daughter dubbed the "Big Enchilada," and weighing in at 13 pounds, 12 ounces...
Threatsap.tbo.com/ ... 21:57:58A quarter-century after they were taken captive in Iran, five former American hostages say they got an unexpected reminder of their 444-day ordeal in the bearded face of Iran's new president-elect... worldtribune.com/ ... 21:35:11Iran... The election of Ahmadinejad consolidates, in a undisguised manner, the power of “Supreme Leader” Ali Khamenei... washingtonpost.com/ ... 21:33:36President Bush was hurried from his residence to a safer location Wednesday evening and people were evacuated from the White House and U.S. Capitol when a private plane ventured into restricted airspace... usatoday.com/ ... 08:14:25We will stay in the fight until the fight is won..." apnews.myway.com/ ... 08:13:40President Bush on Tuesday appealed for the nation's patience for difficult and dangerous work ahead in Iraq, rejecting calls either for a timetable for withdrawal or sending more troops to battle the enemy... news.independent.co.uk/ ... 01:31:23President George Bush has insisted the war in Iraq was worthwhile and the insurgents were failing, and that success was vital to America's future security...
Don't Give Them Ideaslocal6.com/ ... 01:32:05Two Sarasota teens accused of burning six American flags have been charged with arson and manufacturing a firebomb... washingtonpost.com/ ... 01:30:45About a third of an ounce of botulism toxin poured by bioterrorists into a milk truck en route from a dairy farm to a processing plant could cause hundreds of thousands of deaths and billions of dollars in economic losses, according to a scientific analysis that was published yesterday despite efforts by federal officials to keep the details secret. The analysis by researchers at Stanford University, posted yesterday on the Web site of the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences...
TUE 2005-JUN-28
Theory of Educationnewsday.com/ ... 09:48:17NEW YORK -- An assistant principal at a Long Island high school was arraigned Monday on a misdemeanor charge of official misconduct after allegedly giving his son the answers to a global history Regents exam last week...
Whoops!reuters.com/ ... 15:43:51A Taiwan stock trader mistakenly bought T$7.9 billion ($251 million) worth of shares with a mis-stroke of her computer, meaning her company is looking at a paper loss of more than $12 million and she is looking for a new job... worldnetdaily.com/ ... 09:47:13A longtime columnist of the Sacramento Bee who resigned amid controversy last month may have invented the existence of 43 people she wrote about over several years...
Modern Family Lifefoxnews.com/ ... 09:24:56An East Texas college student finally learned why she'd gained weight and was having abdominal pain — she was about to give birth... already the mother of a 3-year-old, figured out she was in labor and grabbed the pole of her own swing set. "It was one big push for the baby and a little one for the placenta..."
US Military Casualtiesdefenselink.mil/ ... 15:27:01[flag]Navy Petty Officer 1st Class Regina R. Clark, 43, of Centralia, Wash., died June 23 in a convoy that was attacked by a vehicle-borne improvised explosive device in Fallujah. She was a culinary specialist deployed with Naval Construction Regiment Detachment 30, Port Hueneme, Calif., and was temporarily assigned to II Marine Expeditionary Force (Forward). defenselink.mil/ ... 15:26:32[flag]Marine Cpl. Ramona M. Valdez, 20, of Bronx, N.Y., died June 23 while traveling in a convoy that was attacked by a suicide, vehicle-borne, improvised explosive device in Fallujah, Iraq.defenselink.mil/ ... 15:26:17[flag]Army Cpl. John O. Strom of Fergus Falls, Minn, missing in action from the Korean War, has been identified
On the night of Nov. 1, 1950, Strom’s unit, 1st Battalion, 8th Cavalry Regiment, came under attack by Chinese communist forces near the village of Unsan in North Korea. His battalion sought to escape the larger Chinese unit, and evacuated along a route well documented in U.S. records. The fighting raged on for several days, and by Nov. 4, those men able to escape withdrew to friendly lines south of the Kuryong River, though more than 380 soldiers of the 8th Cavalry Regiment were unaccounted for.defenselink.mil/ ... 15:24:21[flag]Army Spc. Charles A. Kaufman, 20, of Fairchild, Wis., died June 26 in Baghdad, Iraq, where a vehicle-borne improvised explosive device detonated near his HMMWV. defenselink.mil/ ... 15:24:03[flag]Marine Pfc. Veashna Muy, 20, of Los Angeles, Calif.
[flag]Marine Cpl. Chad W. Powell, 22, of West Monroe, La.
died June 23 while traveling in a convoy that was attacked by a suicide, vehicle-borne, improvised explosive device in Fallujah, Iraq.
Only Naturalnews.bbc.co.uk/ ... 09:49:35Doctors in Bangladesh say they have removed a long-dead foetus from the abdomen of a teenage boy who was complaining of stomach pains... an extremely rare condition where two foetuses are conceived as conjoined twins but one absorbs the other... "Apart from the head, all other limbs of the baby were developed..." reuters.com/ ... 09:40:52Children who are breastfed are about fifty percent less likely to be short sighted...
Justice?news.bbc.co.uk/ ... 09:40:37The Supreme Court sought to leave in place the principles of the Betamax ruling but said that this case was "significantly different" because of evidence that file-sharing sites were seeking "to cause and profit from" copyright infringement... news.bbc.co.uk/ ... 09:39:37When Mukhtar Mai was gang raped in Pakistan in February 2002, she lost her so-called "honour" and, along with it, her chance to lead a normal life in her village... Many expected Ms Mai, 33, to commit suicide, as is all too common after rape in Pakistan. But she refused and started what has become a three-year legal battle against her alleged rapists... news.bbc.co.uk/ ... 09:39:13Pakistan's Supreme Court has suspended the acquittals of five men in a notorious gang rape case that has sparked worldwide outrage...
People Dienbc4i.com/ ... 15:34:32A woman sunbathing for several hours in 95 degree heat at her nursing home was found unconscious and died at a hospital with a temperature of 109 degrees... "Quality care is of paramount concern at Heartland," the company's statement said...
Under Tyrannycnn.com/ ... 15:33:46An undersea cable carrying data between Pakistan and the outside world has developed a serious fault, virtually crippling data feeds, including the Internet... Many offices across the country ground to a halt as people realized it was not one of Pakistan's regular, but usually brief, technical hitches... freestarmedia.com/ ... 15:31:19Could a hotel be built on the land owned by Supreme Court Justice David H. Souter? A new ruling by the Supreme Court which was supported by Justice Souter himself itself might allow it. A private developer is seeking to use this very law to build a hotel on Souter's land...
Supernatural Threatsabcnews.go.com/ ... 15:30:43Tennessee officials closed an investigation into a so-called ex-gay ministry because of a lack of evidence to support child abuse allegations... Love In Action, which advertises homosexual conversion therapy for adolescents... "Zach" wrote in his blog that he was admitted into the facility by his parents after he told them he was gay... rules of the Refuge Program... Men: Men must remove all facial hair seven days weekly, and sideburns must not fall below the top of the ear (the top of the ear is defined as where the ear meets the face below the temple). Clean business-like haircuts must be worn at all times. Hair must be long enough to be pinched between two fingers. Women: Women must shave legs and underarms at least twice weekly. All: Only natural hair color is allowed. Hair that is colored, highlighted or streaked, must be dyed back to its original color, or the color must be cut out before entrance into the Refuge program..."
Threatsworldnetdaily.com/ ... 09:46:50China's decision to open up massive bomb shelters to the public, ostensibly to provide a respite from summer heat, has U.S. intelligence analysts concerned about a possible strategic deception by Beijing... It would familiarize the Chinese people to the shelters, making it easier to evacuate the public in times of potential nuclear attack; It would confuse Western intelligence analysts who monitor movements of the Chinese public by satellite as evidence of the government's intentions;...
Violencereuters.com/ ... 15:41:30A big U.S. military Chinook helicopter that crashed in Afghanistan on Tuesday was carrying between 15 and 20 American troops... foxnews.com/ ... 15:35:47U.S. CH-47 Chinook military transport helicopter crashed in eastern Afghanistan Tuesday... Taliban has claimed responsibility... guardian.co.uk/ ... 09:37:24A suicide car bomber killed an influential Shiite member of parliament and his son as they drove from their farm to the capital Tuesday...
MON 2005-JUN-27
Why People Go Veganboston.com/ ... 21:15:29SHELDON, Iowa --At least 200 gallons of animal fat were spilled into a storm sewer Thursday morning...
Preternatural Patternsboston.com/ ... 21:09:52Trouble arose soon after Baggage Handler was installed in the downtown turnaround in this lakeside resort early this year. After distracted drivers narrowly avoided accidents, a plate was installed over the genitalia. Then it was removed because it drew attention to the groin area and looked silly. Baggage Handler was removed in April after a series of attacks by vandals, including one in which the figure's penis was chopped off, the ankles were broken and the 24 suitcases knocked over... tv.com/ ... 14:06:37Sterling Holloway... voice of Winnie the Poohcbc.ca/ ... 14:00:50John Fiedler, the voice of Piglet, passed away on Saturday... news.bbc.co.uk/ ... 10:18:28Managers at the Chepstow Community Hospital were forced to remove an interpretation of Leonardo da Vinci's famous painting after complaints. Diners said they were put off their food by her eyes which appeared to 'follow you around the room'... sfgate.com/ ... 10:18:10One year ago, Deuel weighed 1,072 pounds. He was so enormous that his bedroom wall had to be cut out to extract him from his home. Then, he was rushed to a South Dakota hospital in an ambulance with extra-wide doors and a ramp-and-winch system that had to be dispatched from Denver... Now 12 months after being hospitalized for gastric bypass surgery... he is less than half the man he used to be and that, his doctor says, is amazing progress... thrill No. 1 is the magic number on the scale: 499 pounds. He pumps a fleshy arm in triumph. He hasn't been south of 500 in two decades...
Sick, Sick, Sicknews.com.au/ ... 15:40:03SCIENTISTS have created eerie zombie dogs, reanimating the canines after several hours of clinical death in attempts to develop suspended animation for humans... worldnetdaily.com/ ... 10:06:54University of Colorado professor Ward Churchill suggested to a forum on conscientious objection they might be more effective in opposing war if they supported the "fragging" or killing of line officers...
Digital Consequencesap.tbo.com/ ... 15:45:23Google Inc. unveiled a video-viewing channel on its Internet-leading search engine Monday... requires free software available at http://video.google.com. The software, consisting of about 1 megabyte, won't do anything except stream Google's videos through the Internet Explorer or Firefox Web browsers... reuters.com/ ... 09:59:52Meet the robot lobster and the android that not only smiles, frowns and blinks but also recognizes people and talks back. They're two of the spookier entries at Wired Magazine's annual "NextFest," the high-tech carnival at a Chicago convention hall this weekend showcasing futuristic, sometimes uncannily lifelike technology...
History - still with usreuters.com/ ... 10:02:47A love poem written 2,600 years ago by Sappho, the greatest female poet of ancient Greece, was published Friday for the first time since it was rediscovered last year... Her works once filled nine volumes and the ancients called her the "tenth muse," but little has survived to modern times. The 12-line poem, only the fourth to have been recovered, was found on papyrus wrapped around an Egyptian mummy... In the newly published verses, originally sung to music, Sappho laments the passing of time as she compares the youthful bodies of dancing girls to her own weak knees and white hair... reuters.com/ ... 09:59:27Jack the Ripper... a new book proposing that Britain's most famous serial killer was a merchant sailor who murdered when his ship was docked... reports of six prostitutes carved up, Ripper-style, in Nicaragua over 10 days in January 1889, just two months after the murder spree supposedly ended. These were followed by a similar killing in London in February, one in the German port of Flensburg in October and another in London in July 1891... A second new book, "Uncle Jack" by Tony Williams, proposes the killer was the author's ancestor, Sir John Williams -- a gynecologist to Queen Victoria's children and the founder of the National Library of Wales... he had performed an abortion on the Ripper's first victim, Mary Ann Nichols, in 1885...
Supernaturalreuters.com/ ... 02:25:40An artist's impression of one of the world's tallest hotels, which Dubai-owned airline Emirates said on May 4, 2005 it would build...
Currentap.tbo.com/ ... 02:23:11The search for a 13-year-old Boy Scout who fell into the fast-moving Yellowstone River expanded Sunday as nearly 250 park officials and volunteers scoured the river by kayak and on foot... Two white tennis shoes, fitting the description of one worn by Luke, were found about five miles downstream from where he entered the river. No other clothing was found...
Repeal! Repeal! Repeal!dailysouthtown.com/ ... 15:48:55The future of medicinal marijuana is floating in a plastic, 2-foot-long turkey roasting bag, being sucked into the lungs of grandmas and AIDS patients at cannabis dispensaries and homes across the country. The allure to the sick — and the health-conscious looking for a cleaner high — is that the toke is nearly smokeless. The device that generates the smokeless drag is called a marijuana vaporizer...
Human Rightnews.bbc.co.uk/ ... 10:08:39The Co-operative Bank has asked an evangelical Christian group to close its account because of its anti-homosexual views...
US Militarynewsday.com/ ... 10:08:00A U.S. Apache attack helicopter crashed Monday north of Baghdad, killing both pilots...
Only Naturalboston.com/ ... 21:08:45EUGENE, Ore. --Found: One caiman, rather large, lizzard-like, lots of sharp teeth. Contact the Lane County Animal Regulation Authority. Please. No questions asked. When a resident looked out his window on Friday he could have worn he saw an alligator. He was mostly right. A 4-foot-long caiman, a relative of the alligator, was curled up under a parked pickup truck. Caimans are native to Central and South America... ap.tbo.com/ ... 02:23:38Two people camping along the Hulahula River in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge were killed by a grizzly bear... Officials discovered the bodies and an unused firearm in a tent Saturday at a campsite near the river. They also shot and killed the animal... ap.tbo.com/ ... 02:22:28More than a week of sweltering heat has left more than 100 people dead in Pakistan...
People Diesfgate.com/ ... 21:16:43John Walton, the son of Wal-Mart founder Sam Walton and a member of the company's board, died Monday in a plane crash in Wyoming. Walton, 58, was piloting the ultralight that crashed shortly after takeoff from the Jackson Hole Airport in Grand Teton National Park... In March, Forbes Magazine listed Walton as No. 11 on its list of the world's richest people, with a net worth of $18.2 billion, tied with his brother Jim Walton...
Natural Threatwftv.com/ ... 15:39:35PENSACOLA, Fla. -- A shark attacked and critically injured a teenage boy who was fishing in waist-deep water off Florida's Panhandle on Monday, two days after a 14-year-old girl died when a shark mutilated her leg at another Panhandle beach, 80 miles away...
Under Tyrannyfreedomforum.org/ ... 11:37:04The debate over a proposed constitutional amendment to ban the burning of the American flag took a dramatic turn today as the Senate agreed to allow lawmakers to consider imposing statutory penalties for flag-burning rather than taking the more extreme step of changing the Constitution... washingtonpost.com/ ... 09:53:30The Supreme Court ruled on Monday that cable companies may keep rival Internet providers from using their lines... washingtonpost.com/ ... 09:52:53A divided U.S. Supreme Court ruled on Monday that Kentucky cannot display framed copies of the Ten Commandments in county courthouses...
Threatsap.tbo.com/ ... 15:44:08NUEVO LAREDO, Mexico - Many of the 43 kidnap victims freed en masse by soldiers and federal agents in this sprawling border city may themselves be criminals who were seized and held by rivals, investigators said Monday... washingtonpost.com/ ... 15:39:10MIAMI -- Fire caused a small leak of coolant at a nuclear plant early Monday but left its two reactors undamaged... worldnetdaily.com/ ... 10:08:21In light of a Jerusalem court's decision yesterday to allow a homosexual-pride parade to take place Thursday despite the mayor's objections, a group that has been previously banned from holding Jewish protests at the Temple Mount told WND it will hold a pride parade of its own Thursday – on the Temple Mount... nytimes.com/ ... 02:24:54The Bush administration is planning the government's first production of plutonium 238 since the cold war, stirring debate over the risks and benefits of the deadly material. The substance, valued as a power source, is so radioactive that a speck can cause cancer...
Violenceboston.com/ ... 21:15:12GERMANTOWN, Wis. --A 22-year-old man was wrestled to the ground in the Germantown Police Department Friday afternoon after threatening a dispatcher with a glass bong and a shotgun... [Oh.. you mean a real shotgun...!] walked into the department and handed a threatening note to the dispatcher... As she read the note, he threw a glass bong at the bulletproof glass, police said. The bong shattered, but the window did not. He then pulled out a shotgun, but three officers using a taser and pepper spray were able to subdue him... had been arrested several times in the past on burglary, disorderly conduct and drug charges, but the motive for Friday's attack was unclear... [Perhaps alcohol was involved.]legendgames.net/ ... 15:55:26Together, these two articles tell a tragic story of our involvement in Iraq. While we have indeed done so very much good in Iraq, it's hard, sometimes, to remember some very important things: - Bad things WILL happen in a war, in any war or conflict, sometimes intentionally but mostly through accidents. - Everyone in Iraq is scared! Good, peaceful Iraqis are scared of being victimized by American soldiers who are scared of being killed or dismembered by terrorists who look just like the good, peaceful Iraqis. - Every day some piece of human scum, be it a politician, news commentator or wannabe will attempt to use these inevitabilities of war for his or her own personal or political gain; these people and cockroaches are the lowest forms of life on earth . . . but the cockroach can't be blamed for what he is... news.bbc.co.uk/ ... 15:41:14A man in northern Italy has gone on a shooting rampage, killing three and wounding eight, after receiving an eviction order... One of the victims and six of the injured are Carabinieri police. The other two victims were passers-by... news.bbc.co.uk/ ... 09:55:10A former Israeli soldier has been found guilty of the manslaughter of British student Tom Hurndall in the Gaza Strip... for the shooting of Mr Hurndall in April 2003. He died nine months later. Mr Hurndall, 22, was involved in protests against the Israeli military in the Palestinian town of Rafah... reuters.com/ ... 09:53:11A 60-year-old man pleaded guilty on Monday to 10 slayings carried out by a Kansas serial murderer who called himself "bind, torture and kill..." foxnews.com/ ... 02:25:10Police were searching for a man seen running from a home where six people, including four children, were killed in western Arizona... ap.tbo.com/ ... 02:24:23Shots were fired near the crowded Taste of Chicago outdoor food festival, killing one man and wounding two others... thousands of people were leaving the festival, which had just closed for the evening...
Rebuildingap.tbo.com/ ... 02:20:06a Look at Iraq by the Numbers... number of telephone and Internet subscribers has increased nearly threefold... 10 - Average hours of electricity per day nationwide in June 2004...
SUN 2005-JUN-26
Digital Consequencesabclocal.go.com/ ... 22:10:09Chicago... City officials are using new technology that recognizes the sound of a gunshot within a two-block radius, pinpoints the source, turns a surveillance camera toward the shooter and places a 911 call... guardian.co.uk/ ... 21:27:13We won't give up nuclear effort, says Iranian leader... variety.com/ ... 21:26:51as with all booms, the DVD explosion seems to be coming to an end. The format is and will remain the most important source of revenue for studios, but the growth of consumer spending on DVDs is slowing... Much of the new money, though, is coming from the release of TV properties, not films. Absent the tube titles hitting shelves, total DVD growth would likely be in the single digits...
Lasting Contributionspaulwinchell.com/ ... 19:50:35Paul Winchell, the voice of Tigger in "Winnie the Pooh" features for more than three decades and a versatile ventriloquist who became a fixture in early children's television along with his dummies Jerry Mahoney and Knucklehead Smiff, has died. He was 82.
Nixon - still with usreuters.com/ ... 14:41:27Patrick Gray, who was acting FBI director during the Watergate scandal, said... Felt had repeatedly told him he was not the source... "This was a tremendous surprise to me. I could not have been more shocked, and more disappointed in a man whom I had trusted," Gray said of Felt, who was his deputy at the FBI... He also expressed anger at Nixon and said he wished he had never joined that administration. "I made the gravest mistake of my 88 years in making that decision..." "I was so hurt and so angry at this man who had not only junked his own presidency but junked the careers of so many other people, many of whom had to go to jail..."
US Military Casualtiesdefenselink.mil/ ... 14:53:52[flag]Army Sgt. 1st Class Christopher W. Phelps, 39, of Louisville, Ky., died June 23 in Baghdad, Iraq, when an improvised explosive device detonated near his HMMWV
Extraterrestrialapnews.myway.com/ ... 22:09:45Independence Day... If all goes as planned, the Deep Impact spacecraft will release a wine barrel-sized probe on a suicide journey, hurtling toward the comet Tempel 1 - about 80 million miles away from Earth at the time of impact... Scientists hope the July 4 collision will gouge a crater in the comet's surface large enough to reveal its pristine core and perhaps yield cosmic clues to the origin of the solar system... ufos-aliens.co.uk/ ... 14:50:54In a novel published in 1865, Jules Verne speculated that light might someday be used "as a mechanical agent" to propel a spacecraft between the planets...
Only Naturalflmnh.ufl.edu/ ... 14:41:47The American Elasmobranch Society is a non-profit organization that seeks to advance the scientific study of living and fossil sharks, skates, rays, and chimaeras...
Supernatural Threatsworldnetdaily.com/ ... 19:53:46A traffic stop in Greer, S.C., this month is turning into a holy war of sorts, as a practicing Druid couple claim they were targeted by a Christian police officer who tried to convert them away from their pagan belief... they had a bumper sticker reading "It's A Druid Thing..." ap.tbo.com/ ... 19:49:14An Israeli court ruled Sunday that Jerusalem's gay pride parade could proceed as planned... In rare cooperation, the ultra Orthodox Jewish and Muslim communities in the holy city had tried to prevent the parade... [Nothing like a common enemy to unite folks, eh? Those wacky gays!]
Prohibition Killsap.tbo.com/ ... 19:48:20A black market alcoholic brew laced with poisonous methanol has caused the deaths of 49 people in Kenya... police searched for a woman suspected of distributing the drink to local bars... methanol, a toxic wood alcohol added to the drink - called chang'aa - to give it more kick... "Two people have gone completely blind, and another eight have reduced vision of varying degree..." several illegal bars.several illegal bars... several illegal bars...
Digital Threatprogressiveu.org/ ... 14:49:49Yahoo! gave no specific reason, other than to acknowlege the use of its software in child-porn chat allegations, for closing all user-created chat rooms on its internet portal site... Efforts to monitor chat for any effect appear to be futile...
Police Riotdailyherald.com/ ... 14:45:20An Illinois State Police trooper was charged Thursday and accused for a second time of forcing people to remove their clothes to avoid prosecution...
Under Tyrannylegendgames.net/ ... 14:50:40Assassinations In Lebanon Showing Pattern -- Analysis by Sammy Larbi... The revolution in Lebanon began well before former Prime Minister Rafik Hariri was killed. Clearly, there was much opposition to Syrian control before his death. However, his assassination was certainly the straw that broke the camel's back... news.yahoo.com/ ... 14:44:35All Chinese-run websites that fail to register with telecommunications authorities before June 30 will be temporarily closed down, state media said...
Threatsguardian.co.uk/ ... 21:27:44We won't give up nuclear effort, says Iranian leader... washtimes.com/ ... 19:53:22China is building its military forces faster than U.S. intelligence and military analysts expected, prompting fears that Beijing will attack Taiwan in the next two years... news.telegraph.co.uk/ ... 14:44:15All her movements were taped by the military surveillance camera at the checkpoint: calmly, deliberately, she took off her clothing, item by item, until she looked like any normal young woman in T-shirt and jeans. It was then that she tried to set off the belt containing 20lb of explosives hidden beneath her trousers. To her horror, she did not succeed. Desperate, she clawed at her face, screaming. She was still alive, she realised. She had failed her martyrdom mission... Wafa has become one of a very special group of females: the women who have tried - and failed - to die while killing for the Palestinian cause. I recently visited the Israeli jail that holds these "suicide women..."
Rebuildingen.chinabroadcast.cn/ ... 14:48:09US president George W. Bush says he has a military and political strategy for success in the war in Iraq. He was speaking in his weekly radio address delivered on Saturday... reuters.com/ ... 14:39:26U.S. and Iraqi officials said on Sunday they were talking to tribal leaders, clerics and some groups linked to the Sunni Arab insurgency as part of attempts to draw more parties into Iraq's political process...
Violenceap.tbo.com/ ... 19:46:51Aruban police freed the father of a Dutch suspect arrested in the disappearance of an Alabama teenager... No immediate comment was available from officials about the release of Paul van der Sloot, 52, a high-ranking justice official who is studying to be a judge on the Dutch Caribbean island... ap.tbo.com/ ... 19:46:02A prison uprising left two inmates dead and five injured in northeastern Brazil on Sunday. The inmates were shot in a confrontation with riot police... news.telegraph.co.uk/ ... 14:45:43A Spanish mother has taken revenge on the man who raped her 13-year-old daughter at knifepoint by dousing him in petrol and setting him alight. He died of his injuries in hospital on Friday... guardian.co.uk/ ... 14:40:08A suicide bomber who hid explosives beneath watermelons in a pickup truck slammed into a police headquarters in northern Iraq on Sunday, killing six people and wounding eight others... partially destroyed Bab al-Toob police station in central Mosul... reuters.com/ ... 14:38:58Three suicide bomb attacks around the northern city of Mosul killed more than two dozen people on Sunday, many of them from the Iraqi security forces...
SAT 2005-JUN-25
A Penny Saved...news.telegraph.co.uk/ ... 11:17:45Nigeria's past rulers stole or misused £220 billion. That is as much as all the western aid given to Africa in almost four decades... news.bbc.co.uk/ ... 11:15:58After 38 years of collecting pennies, Mr Knowles has cashed in his collection which totalled a whopping $13,084.59... stored in his garage in Alabama, weighed 4,082kg (4 tons... )stored in seven large oil barrels... "I don't ever want to see another penny," he said. "Perhaps I'll collect a few dimes..."
Culturetimesonline.co.uk/ ... 11:02:33STEVE McQUEEN is to make his debut as a screenwriter, 25 years after his death... Lance Sloane, McQueen’s godson... found 16 notebooks in a vault of the actor’s possessions in Los Angeles. They contained storyboards and notes for a film that would reprise one of McQueen’s most iconic moments — the epic motorcycle chase in The Great Escape... McQueen’s estate is discussing final terms with Warner Bros for Yucatan, an action film set in Mexico... Yucatan will be McQueen’s second return to the screen from beyond the grave. In 1997 he starred in an advertisement for the Ford Puma after images of him in Bullitt were digitally combined with modern footage of a car chase in San Francisco...
Modern Family Lifeboston.com/ ... 10:59:22State Attorney General Thomas Reilly, defending a 1913 state law prohibiting out-of-state couples from marrying in Massachusetts if their weddings are prohibited in their home states, argues in court documents that the nearly century-old law is not being used to discriminate against same-sex couples... worldnetdaily.com/ ... 10:54:07The president of the American Civil Liberties Union says polygamy is among the "fundamental rights" that her organization will continue to defend...
Supernaturalworldnetdaily.com/ ... 10:53:52"a section of plaster wall bearing the apparent face of the Son of God..." was able to sell the divine water stain this week for $1,999, purchased by Internet casino GoldenPalace.com... [and other face-of-Jesus stories on e-Bay]
Sex -- always attractivereuters.com/ ... 08:46:29half the men in most parts of the world don't know what is expected of them in society and three-quarters of them think images of men in advertising are out of touch with reality...
Yeah, Sure!ap.tbo.com/ ... 08:45:36The winner of Iran's presidential election, whose landslide victory dealt a setback to reformers, said Saturday he seeks to make his country a "modern, advanced, powerful, and Islamic" model for the world...
Digital Consequenceslegendgames.net/ ... 20:13:45WISP's or Wireless ISP's... There is no way that the current model of business and residential telephony will survive the convergence of cheap wireless internet and cheap VOIP service... news.bbc.co.uk/ ... 08:42:25Representatives from the games industry taking part in a conference in London this week heard that more than 20 million Chinese were playing games and the number was rising fast...
Repeal! Repeal! Repeal!alternet.org/ ... 20:14:59Former police chief Norm Stamper opens up about the dark side of American policing, from institutionalized racism to misogyny and homophobia... It began as taxation, and then we started moralizing the behavior -- attaching moral judgments to the use of drugs, and demonizing the drug users. If we were an honest nation, consistent and with any integrity, we would do the same thing with caffeine, nicotine and alcohol, but we don't. While there are restrictions, certainly, on the use of nicotine and alcohol, both of those substances and the behaviors around them are perfectly legal for adults, yet we know that cigarette addiction is the most egregious form of addiction. But we're fundamentally dishonest, and in demonizing illicit drug users, we deny medical attention for those who choose to get off drugs. We under-invest in smart education and prevention programs; we deny IV drug users clean syringes in many, many cities. We deny them methadone when it has been clearly established that that's a healthier alternative to heroin...
US Military Casualtiesdefenselink.mil/ ... 14:22:59[flag]Marine Cpl. Carlos Pineda, 23, Los Angeles, Calif., died June 24 as a result of wounds sustained from enemy small-arms fire while conducting combat operations in Falluhah, Iraq.defenselink.mil/ ... 14:22:27[flag]Marine Lance Cpl. Holly A. Charette, 21, from Cranston, R.I., died June 23 from wounds sustained when a suicide, vehicle-borne, improvised explosive device struck her vehicle in Fallujah, Iraq... defenselink.mil/ ... 14:22:08[flag]Army Sgt. Joseph M. Tackett, 22, of Whitehouse, Ky., died June 23 in Baghdad, Iraq, of a non-combat related injury.
US Militarykansas.com/ ... 14:19:20A military judge on Friday halted the rape trial of an officer accused of assaulting his Air Force Academy classmate after the accuser's civilian rape counselor refused to hand over records of their conversations...
Justice?washingtonpost.com/ ... 08:48:24An Italian judge has ordered the arrest of 13 people linked to the CIA for "kidnapping" an Egyptian terrorism suspect in Milan and flying him to Egypt where he said he was tortured... washingtonpost.com/ ... 08:48:02With barely a word about it, workers at the Justice Department Friday removed the blue drapes that have famously covered two scantily clad statues for the past 3 1/2 years. Spirit of Justice, with her one breast exposed and her arms raised, and the bare-chested male Majesty of Law basked in the late afternoon light of Justice's ceremonial Great Hall...
Only Naturalsun-sentinel.com/ ... 08:36:42Saltwater sharks in freshwater Lake Okeechobee?
Extraterrestrialazcentral.com/ ... 10:59:46MEXICO CITY - Gubernatorial candidate Yeidckol Polevnsky may be trailing in the polls, but campaign aides suggested Thursday that she's gaining energy from an unlikely source: objects some describe as UFOs... sci-tech-today.com/ ... 08:36:25Starting Friday night, Mercury, Venus and Saturn will appear to be so close together that the trio will look like a new constellation... best time to view the phenomenon is 30 to 45 minutes after sunset... in the northwestern sky...
Disinformation Propaganda & Spinnews.bbc.co.uk/ ... 19:19:16In his first public statement following the election result, the moderate cleric alleged that an illegal dirty tricks campaign had been mounted. The US meanwhile said Iran was out of step with current trends in the region...
Hiroshima -- still with usrferl.org/ ... 11:13:15When George Weller dodged U.S. military surveillance to sneak into Nagasaki on 6 September 1945, he became the first foreign reporter to see the Japanese city after its devastation four weeks previously by an American nuclear bomb... U.S. military censors suppressed them in what some say was a bid to cover up the real consequences of nuclear warfare. Weller later believed he had lost the copies of what he regarded as his greatest scoop... Weller's story remains a cautionary tale for all journalists who face censorship...
Big Brothernews.yahoo.com/ ... 11:14:01If Unocal Corp. accepts an $18.5 billion takeover by China's CNOOC Ltd. the deal's fate may hinge on how a secretive U.S. review panel defines "national security..." wjz.com/ ... 11:00:30Baltimore, MD -- Surveillance cameras strategically placed throught the city by the police department in order to catch people committing crimes have been doing just that, leading to 30 arrests since they were installed about a month ago...
Supernatural Threatscourttv.com/ ... 10:56:08Flesh-eating aliens were chasing me when I caused fatal car crash... stated he was fleeing subterranean beings he called "hemadrones" when he carjacked a commercial vehicle near a Nevada City, Calif., gas station and then crashed into Reynolds' service vehicle... "According to the defendant, he was afraid they were going to put him in cargo and ship him to China to be eaten..." worldnetdaily.com/ ... 10:54:57A nurse is suing a hospital that fired her after she refused to administer the "morning after" abortion pill...
Disturbing Family Patternsreuters.com/ ... 08:46:04A woman shoplifter in Germany abandoned her three-month-old baby after being caught stealing from a supermarket...
Violencenews.bbc.co.uk/ ... 19:19:43A bomb has exploded outside a sports stadium in the Spanish capital, Madrid, after a warning was given in the name of the Basque separatist group Eta. No injuries were reported as a result of the car bomb which went off at 1700 GMT outside the Peineta sports stadium... under construction as part of the Spanish capital's bid to host the 2012 Olympic Games... foxnews.com/ ... 10:56:53For the first time, Aruban authorities on Friday detailed their suspicions in the disappearance of Natalee Holloway, saying they believe the Alabama teen was murdered... reuters.com/ ... 08:46:48Students in the Shi'ite Muslim religious Iraqi city of Najaf said that police recently arrested and beat several of them for wearing jeans and having long hair... ap.tbo.com/ ... 08:45:10A sheriff's deputy who had gone to work early to get a jump on a street gang investigation was shot to death as he interviewed people... news.bbc.co.uk/ ... 08:39:14Gunmen have ambushed a police patrol near the Iraqi city of Ramadi, killing eight officers...
Sex can be Dangerousnydailynews.com/ ... 10:58:55A Long Island high school teacher was charged yesterday with having sex with two students - one boy and one girl... younger than 17... had taught social studies at his alma mater, Division Avenue High School in Levittown, for three years and was student council adviser... [lives at his parents' home]...ajc.com/ ... 08:38:53Atlanta police say the 78-year-old's motive was quite common — a woman scorned... Winslow was sitting on a couch in the lobby... in Hightower Manor, a public-assisted complex for seniors and the disabled in southwest Atlanta... when Driskell pressed the gun to his temple and fired at least twice...
Mechanical Disastersuntimes.com/ ... 20:15:24At least 51,000 people were without power on the South Side on Friday night, after at least one explosion in a ComEd underground power vault... washingtonpost.com/ ... 08:33:22ST. LOUIS -- Residents were allowed to return to their homes after a series of explosions at an industrial plant that sent huge fireballs shooting into the sky forced their evacuation...
People Diefoxnews.com/ ... 20:17:42SANDESTIN, Fla. — A shark killed a 14-year-old girl who was swimming in the Gulf of Mexico (search) Saturday morning near a campground... cnn.com/ ... 08:32:53Three young boys missing for two days were found dead Friday night in the trunk of a car by one child's father, who jumped away screaming and sobbing after his grim discovery...
Under Tyrannyworldnetdaily.com/ ... 10:52:14Comments by liberal Justice Stephen Breyer during oral arguments in the landmark Supreme Court property-rights case appear to support Justice Clarence Thomas' assertion that the ruling essentially has erased a key clause from the Constitution's Fifth Amendment... BREYER: Of course, there can't, purely. But there is no taking for private use that you could imagine in reality that wouldn't also have a public benefit of some kind, whether it's increasing jobs or increasing taxes, et cetera. That's a fact of the world... bloomberg.com/ ... 08:31:27Tehran Mayor Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, a founder of the group that stormed the U.S. Embassy in Iran in 1979, won Iran's presidential election, giving the backers of the Islamic revolution full power over state institutions...
FRI 2005-JUN-24
Culturecnn.com/ ... 09:43:34the main reason it works is the way that director Nora Ephron and her co-writer sister Delia approached the story. Instead of simply doing an updated version of the original TV series, they've set the movie in the present day, where a studio has decided to do a remake -- yes, damn it, a remake -- of "Bewitched..."
US Militarydefenselink.mil/ ... 16:38:46Army Sgt. Arnold Duplantier II, 26, of Sacramento, Calif., died June 22 in Baghdad, Iraq, where he was providing cordon security, and was attacked by enemy forces using small arms fire.
Human Rightnewz.in/ ... 16:36:38A Pakistani policeman charged with raping a teenaged girl in a police station has been charged under... [an] Ordinance, which puts the onus on the victim to prove she was raped...
Only Naturalnews.bbc.co.uk/ ... 10:01:34Postnatal depression in fathers can have long-term consequences for the behavioural and emotional development of their child... apnews.myway.com/ ... 09:54:19Flooding and mudslides have killed at least 536 people across China in the past two weeks, with more heavy rain forecast in the southern province...
Repeal! Repeal! Repeal!sfgate.com/ ... 09:44:20The U.S. government unsealed an indictment Thursday accusing 19 Bay Area people of drug trafficking and of using three San Francisco medical marijuana dispensaries as fronts for organized crime... themoderatevoice.com/ ... 09:43:49Federal officials say the pot clubs raided Wednesday were actually fronts using medical use of marijuana for good, old-fashioned drug dealing and money laundering...
People Diestuff.co.nz/ ... 16:38:13A shark cruised past children swimming off a Vanuatu beach, choosing its victim, a seven-year-old New Zealand girl playing in the water a few metres from shore... on a yachting holiday with her parents... local children were swimming in deeper water and felt the shark go past before it attacked the girl... "Having to watch their daughter die from a shark attack was quite horrendous. "I spoke to the father earlier . . . He is understandably quite distraught. They are keen to get back to their family in New Zealand as quickly as they can..."
Rebuildingnews.bbc.co.uk/ ... 10:01:21Speak to any Iraqi and they will tell you their standard of living has not improved since the toppling of Saddam Hussein two years ago. Many will tell you it has got worse. The power supply is still off more than it is on. Water is intermittent. The queues for petrol stretch round the block. Jobs are hard to find...
Under Digital Tyrannynews.bbc.co.uk/ ... 10:00:31The web in Iran has emerged as a source of information for voters, who are choosing a new president in a run-off election. But what Iranians can or cannot see online depends largely on their government And the authorities are increasingly tightening controls over the net, says a study out this week... Blogs, especially those in Farsi, are being targeted...
Police Riotwftv.com/ ... 09:58:24BONITA SPRINGS, Fla. -- A deputy Tasered an intoxicated 13-year-old girl who was kicking and scratching two hospital nurses...
Disinformation Propaganda & Spinnytimes.com/ ... 09:57:35A fast-selling, unflattering biography of Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton is drawing fire from some prominent conservative commentators, including Peggy Noonan and Bill O'Reilly, surprising both the author and the head of the conservative book imprint that published it... [and from what I've seen of it so far, is rightly criticized]
"I think a lot of conservatives are worried that a strong frontal criticism of Mrs. Clinton will elicit sympathy for her and turn her into a victim, as the Lewinsky matter turned her into a victim, and that will strengthen her hand..." weaseled Mr. Klein...
The New York Post this week, John Podhoretz said the book "is one of the most sordid volumes I've ever waded through."
Mr. O'Reilly, the Fox News television host, said he would not invite Mr. Klein on his show because of the book's "personal attacks..." drudgereport.com/ ... 09:53:22Cheney Says Downing Street Memo... "is just wrong. In fact, the president of the United States took advantage of every possibility to try to resolve this without having to use military force...
Threatscnn.netscape.cnn.com/ ... 09:52:22President Bush will deliver a major address to U.S. troops and the nation about Iraq on Tuesday night from the U.S. military base at Fort Bragg, North Carolina... McClellan said the speech would be delivered at 8 p.m., and that the White House has asked U.S. television networks to air the address live...
Under Tyrannywashingtonpost.com/ ... 09:47:28Jerusalem officials said Thursday they will ban the annual gay pride parade set for next week...
Digital Threatclick2houston.com/ ... 09:53:57A crackdown on chat rooms aimed at children is being felt around the world, affecting those that have nothing to do with sex... Hundreds of innocent chat rooms were taken offline by Yahoo in addition to those targeted for sex with children. Now, those innocent computer users are wondering how they will fill the massive void on the Internet... nationalledger.com/ ... 09:35:59Yahoo!, the internet search giant and place for personal clubs as well as chat rooms, has closed down personal chat rooms in response to a report that some of the chat rooms were being used to promote sex with minors. The report by KPRC-TV in Houston outraged companies such as PepsiCo Inc., State Farm Insurance, and Georgia-Pacific Corp., and they quickly removed their advertising from Yahoo in protest...
Violencenews.bbc.co.uk/ ... 16:36:56US and Afghan forces have surrounded at least two senior Taleban commanders in southern Afghanistan after three days of intense fighting... apnews.myway.com/ ... 16:34:18BAGHDAD, Iraq - A suicide car bomber slammed into a U.S. convoy in Fallujah, killing two Marines... Four other troops were listed as missing after the attack... also wounded 13... At least one of the dead Marines was a woman as were 11 of the 13 who were wounded... convoy was returning to the Marine base... edition.cnn.com/ ... 09:34:00NEW DELHI, India -- An improvised explosive device planted in a car exploded as a private bus carrying Indian soldiers drove past, killing six soldiers and wounding 26 others in Kashmir...
THU 2005-JUN-23
Currentwashingtonpost.com/ ... 20:25:25CAMDEN, N.J. -- Police searched block by block Thursday for three boys who disappeared while playing outside one of their homes the night before. Authorities said they had no leads as to their whereabouts... washingtonpost.com/ ... 19:52:30Aruban police arrested the father of a young Dutch teen already in custody in connection with the disappearance of a young Alabama woman, and said Thursday that he was considered a suspect in the 3-week-old case...
Whoops!reuters.com/ ... 20:29:01NEW DELHI - An Indian crime reporter has been arrested over a spate of dozens of car thefts and burglaries, accused of using his contacts to move stolen goods... thesmokinggun.com/ ... 19:52:00A Kentucky woman who thought she won $100,000 in a radio station giveaway is suing for breach of contract after learning that her prize was actually a Nestle's 100 Grand candy bar...
Why People Go Veganwkyc.com/ ... 12:21:55Oh said that the whale for the burger is cooked in such a way that “it tastes like beef and tuna, and since it is deep fried it has no odor.”... [eeeeewwwww!]
Digital Consequencesreuters.com/ ... 20:28:30Robots could soon begin patrolling Japanese offices, shopping malls and banks to keep them safe from intruders... news.bbc.co.uk/ ... 11:15:30One in 10 UK websites fail to work properly on the open source Firefox web browser... 3% were found to be turning away non Internet Explorer7% of the sites included non-standard code recognised only by Microsoft's browser... This is largely because web developers are used to testing their sites just using IE rather than so-called standards-compliant browsers, which only use code ratified by the World Wide Web consortium... ["ONLY"??? Oh, I guess they mean "exclusively," not "merely"...]news.bbc.co.uk/ ... 11:13:01Campaigns to persuade people to stop downloading pirated games or software from the internet are not working... researchers found that people did not see downloading copyrighted material as theft...news.bbc.co.uk/ ... 11:12:35Sales of pirate DVDs have reached "epidemic proportions..." news.bbc.co.uk/ ... 11:09:24"Being early is the same as being wrong..." --Joe Kraus, who with four of his friends invented a search engine at a time when most of us - including Bill Gates - had hardly woken up to the power of the internet... Excite ballooned, like so many of the dot com companies. In 1999 it merged with At Home, and the combined corporation had for a brief moment a stock market value of more than $7bn...
Culturenytimes.com/ ... 10:59:03A Joke Too Blue to Repeat, and the Movie That Dares to Tell It, Repeatedly...
Transportthisislondon.com/ ... 19:51:36Train passengers trapped in carriages for two hours on a broken down train were forced to break windows to escape as dozens fainted in the heat this evening. The 15.55 GNER train from Newcastle to Kings Cross ground to a halt just outside Peterborough at 5.25pm due an overhead power failure... wnbc.com/ ... 10:36:46An intoxicated 20-year-old man stole a small plane in Connecticut and took two friends on a three-hour joyride early Wednesday that somehow ended with a safe landing at a darkened Westchester County Airport... When an airport security car met the four-seat Cessna at 4:15 a.m. and the plane doors opened, "a significant number of beer cans" spilled to the ground... pilot.. arrested with a blood alcohol level of 0.15 -- nearly double the legal limit for driving in New York state... no pilot's license and just seven hours of student flight time...
Science Marches Onnnnnnlocal6.com/ ... 19:52:13Bionic Man Moves Artificial Arm With Brain...
Human Rightlegendgames.net/ ... 19:48:24In a landmark victory for women's rights, Chenigall Suseela, a 14-year-old girl in the southern Indian state of Andhra Pradesh has won a battle to have her two-year marriage to a teenage boy annulled...
US Military Casualtiesdefenselink.mil/ ... 19:51:17[flag]Army Spc. Nicholas R. Idalski, 23, of Crown Point, Ind., died June 21 in Ramadi, Iraq, where his unit was conducting combat operations and were attacked by enemy forces using small arms fire.defenselink.mil/ ... 19:51:00[flag]Army Spc. Christopher L. Hoskins, 21, of Danielson, Conn.
[flag]Army Spc. Brian A. Vaughn, 23, of Pell City, Ala.
died on June 21 in Ramadi, Iraq, where their unit was conducting combat operations, and were attacked by enemy forces using small arms fire.defenselink.mil/ ... 19:50:22[flag]Army Sgt. James D. Stewart, 29, of Chattanooga, Tenn., died June 21 in Ar Rutbah, Iraq, where an improvised explosive device detonated near his military cargo truck.defenselink.mil/ ... 19:49:14[flag]Air Force Maj. Duane W. Dively, 43, of Rancho California, Calif., died June 22 in Southwest Asia, in the crash of a U-2 aircraft. Dively had completed flying a mission and was returning to his base when the crash occurred. defenselink.mil/ ... 11:20:59[flag]Air Force Capt. David J. Phillips Jr. of Miami Beach, Fla... missing in action from the Vietnam War, remains have been identified and returned to his family for burial on July 3 at Savannah Ga... On July 3, 1966, Phillips was attacking enemy targets over Kien Giang Province, South Vietnam, when his F-5 “Freedom Fighter” was hit by enemy ground fire and crashed...
US Militaryap.tbo.com/ ... 20:32:53HOMEWOOD, Ala. - Retired Gen. Louis H. Wilson, a Medal of Honor winner and former commandant of the Marine Corps, died Tuesday. He was 85... awarded the Medal of Honor for his service in the South Pacific during World War II.. organized night defenses throughout continuous enemy fire and, though wounded three times, coordinated hand-to-hand fighting for 10 hours to hold his unit's position. He later became the Marine Corps' 26th commandant, holding the position from 1975 to 1979... legendgames.net/ ... 19:47:11An arrest warrant for Jennifer Bier, a civilian rape counselor at the Air Force Academy, was issued after she refused to turn over documents relating to sessions with a former cadet whose rape is now being investigated... defenselink.mil/ ... 11:18:21This week, the Army, Air Force and Navy announced a decrease in the number of reservists on active duty in support of the partial mobilization, while the Marine Corps number increased. The Coast Guard number remained unchanged. The net collective result is 5,196 fewer reservists mobilized than last week...
Repeal! Repeal! Repeal!ap.tbo.com/ ... 20:31:05SALT LAKE CITY - A self-proclaimed medicine man was arrested Thursday on federal charges he lied about being an American Indian to consume and distribute peyote during religious ceremonies... ap.tbo.com/ ... 20:30:50Authorities described this week's raids on San Francisco pot clubs as one of the largest drug crackdowns in the area in recent memory, and said the arrests were the first step in uncovering a major international drug operation... news.bbc.co.uk/ ... 11:09:38A cannabis-like chemical produced naturally in the brain aids pain relief... wftv.com/ ... 10:59:20Someone has lost a ton of pot. ..Investigators uncovered a marijuana farm with more than 23,000 plants in Solano County...
Natural Threatap.tbo.com/ ... 20:35:08LITTLE FALLS, Minn... 10-year-old boy.. attacked and critically injured by a tiger and a lion that were among a dozen large animals kept by a body shop owner...
People Diereuters.com/ ... 20:28:1462-year-old man died in hospital Wednesday evening, several hours after... lightning struck a metal cross he was holding during a funeral.. in the village of Brezovicanear.. near Ljubljana...
Disinformation Propaganda & Spinap.tbo.com/ ... 20:34:28The United States' popularity in many countries - including longtime allies in Europe - is lagging behind even communist China... Okay, we could do better, but hehn-- it's a good thing Defending Liberty isn't a popularity contest... even with "longtime allies in Europe..." and (here's a shock) "lowest among three Muslim nations...."foxnews.com/ ... 10:55:53Howard Dean headed to Capitol Hill Wednesday to fire up his party base.. [about] the alleged suppression of African-American votes in Ohio during last fall's presidential election...
Dean.. in Washington Tuesday night.. offer[ed] a spirited defense of Sen. Dick Durbin, D-Ill., over remarks he made comparing prisoner treatment at Guantanamo Bay to some of the world's most heinous regimes...latimes.com/ ... 10:54:14Reporter Michael Smith talks about his alleged unsubstantiated memos which would "change completely my opinion of the decision to go to war and the honesty of Prime Minister Tony Blair and President Bush...."washtimes.com/ ... 10:52:51Seven Republican members of Congress said yesterday House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi was "demoralizing" U.S. troops by saying twice Tuesday that the war in Afghanistan is over...
Threatslegendgames.net/ ... 19:48:05Scott Ritter Says "The US war with Iran has already begun..." cbc.ca/ ... 10:50:39Afghan and U.S. troops surrounded a Taliban stronghold Thursday, where two leaders of the rebellion in southern Afghanistan are thought to be hiding... washingtonpost.com/ ... 10:50:23Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld said on Thursday it would be a mistake for U.S. lawmakers to set a timetable for pulling U.S. troops from Iraq because it would "throw a lifeline to terrorists..."
Under Tyrannylegendgames.net/ ... 19:47:41In the worst Supreme Court decision in recent memory, the Court ruled 5-4 that the city of New London, Connecticut may take people's homes in order to give the land to a private corporation to increase the city's tax base... newsday.com/ ... 10:50:00Timeline of flag desecration-related legislation... reuters.com/ ... 10:49:50A divided U.S. Supreme Court ruled on Thursday that a city can take a person's home for a development project aimed at revitalizing a depressed local economy...
Digital Threatnews.bbc.co.uk/ ... 11:02:23A 13-year-old girl has become the youngest author to be published in South Africa's main medical journal for her research on "PlayStation thumb"... Symptoms of "PlayStation Thumb" include blisters numbness and tingling... She said she herself did not own a PlayStation because they were a "waste of time"... worldnetdaily.com/ ... 10:43:53A 12-year-old schoolboy reportedly addicted to computer games has died as a result of his 12-hour-per-day obsession... diagnosed as having suffered an epileptic seizure, not even able to recognize his parents. Sergei had trouble breathing and was put on a ventilator, but eight days after his collapse, he died in the hospital from a stroke...
Violencenews.bbc.co.uk/ ... 11:01:22Zimbabwean police and city-dwellers have been urged to be careful when demolishing illegal structures after two children were crushed to death... in a four-week crackdown, called Operation Murambatsvina [Drive out rubbish]. One of those killed was the 18-month-old son of a police officer... The UN says at least 200,000 have been left homeless in the operation, which has been widely condemned... miami.com/ ... 10:51:08One of Saudi Arabia's most-wanted militants was killed by a U.S. airstrike in northwestern Iraq, the leader of al-Qaida in Iraq said...
two car bombs outside Shiite mosques in Baghdad killed 15 and wounded 28 Thursday, police said... washingtonpost.com/ ... 10:42:56NEW YORK -- A woman was convicted Wednesday of using her Chinatown storefront to orchestrate human-smuggling schemes, including a treacherous voyage in 1993 that ended in the deaths of 10 Chinese immigrants... accused of amassing a multimillion-dollar fortune by smuggling thousands of immigrants who endured perilous journeys aboard dilapidated cargo ships... also hired a vicious street gang to hold illegal immigrants hostage in safe houses while collecting smuggling fees up to $40,000 a person... Cheng was indicted in 1994 and remained a fugitive until 2000, when the FBI arrested her at a Hong Kong airport. She lost an extradition fight in 2003...
Theftclickondetroit.com/ ... 10:39:18Chalker, 35, broke into a fire truck parked at the Canada Customs compound in Point Edward, Ontario, on Sunday morning... drove the truck belonging to the London, Ontario, Fire Department out of the compound, paid the toll and crossed the bridge. U.S. customs officers in Port Huron stopped Chalker and told him to park the truck at an inspection area, but he kept going... Deputies found Chalker and the truck in a ditch in Riley Township, 20 miles west of Port Huron, later Sunday morning...
WED 2005-JUN-22
Whoops!ap.tbo.com/ ... 16:22:02An attempt to erect the world's largest Popsicle in a city square ended with a scene straight out of a disaster film - but much stickier... 25-foot-tall, 17 1/2-ton treat of frozen Snapple juice melted faster than expected Tuesday, flooding Union Square in downtown Manhattan with kiwi-strawberry-flavored fluid that sent pedestrians scurrying for higher ground...
Preternatural Patternswftv.com/ ... 13:42:28charged with grand theft and filing a false police report. He has admitted to police that he stabbed himself to go along with a story that he was attacked by a robber... news.bbc.co.uk/ ... 13:40:21South Korea's baseball authorities have banned a star pitcher from wearing frozen cabbage leaves in his cap to keep cool during games... after cabbage leaves twice fell from Park Myung-Hwan's cap live on television....Players may now only wear cabbage by presenting a doctor's note in advance...
Transportthisislondon.com/ ... 13:33:22The Tube is hotter and more humid than Hong Kong and Miami... Heatwave conditions - and trains that are already packed - mean the " apparent temperature" has soared above 40C on many routes...
Supernaturalap.tbo.com/ ... 16:21:24A survey examining religion in medicine found that most U.S. doctors believe in God and an afterlife... reuters.com/ ... 15:05:23A 73-year-old Kenyan grandfather... was tending to his potato and bean crops in a rural area near Mount Kenya when the leopard charged out of the long grass and leapt on him. "A voice, which must have come from God, whispered to me to drop the panga (machete) and thrust my hand in its wide open mouth. I obeyed..." [He] reached into the mouth of [the] attacking leopard and tore out its tongue to kill it... "It let out a blood-curdling snarl that made the birds stop chirping..." "This guy is very lucky to be alive," Kenya Wildlife Service official Connie Maina told Reuters... foxnews.com/ ... 13:08:03the boy kept warm by getting into "Midget mode" where he squatted down and pulled his sweatshirt over his knees... "slept a lot and he thought about other things that would keep his mind off being lost until somebody came and got him..." told them he wasn't really hungry during the four days he spent wandering... apparently eluded thousands of searchers by defying conventional wisdom: He went up instead of down... had hiked some 600 feet higher and more than five miles into the mountains... had seen some searchers on horseback but avoided them because he was scared... "This is a miracle. This is how it should happen," neighbor Kristie Swain said...
Digital Consequencestheinquirer.net/ ... 02:55:41THE MAKER of jolly nice looking entertainment gear Apple seems to have triggered a religious revolt amongst its faithful customers by switching to Intel. According to a survey conducted by MacWorld, the thought of having their beloved Apple machines pumping with the power of the Wintel alliance is causing users to consider abandoning the brand...
Repeal! Repeal! Repeal!ap.tbo.com/ ... 16:20:37Police broke up an international cocaine ring led by a Lebanese restaurant owner suspected of raising money for the Islamic militant group Hezbollah...
Only Naturallocal6.com/ ... 16:23:35A baby born with a third leg in Detroit... baby girl, named Destiny... actually an undeveloped twin... livescience.com/ ... 16:17:55referred to as the "grandmother cell" theory because – taken to its extreme – it says that all the concepts and perceptions regarding your dear old grandma can be embodied in one neuron. Turns out the idea may not be all that silly... reuters.com/ ... 15:06:45primitive tribesmen came out of the jungle armed with bows, arrows and spears, raided a village in India's Middle Andaman island and looted tools, food, clothes, cash and jewelry. It was the first such attack in seven years. An indication that the Jarawa hunter-gatherers remain untamed primitives -- or a cry for help from man's earliest ancestors, their forests and their lifestyle, their existence under threat as never before?.. reuters.com/ ... 15:06:11the treasure trove of the world's frogs and toads is disappearing at a catastrophic rate... reuters.com/ ... 15:02:34Married men earn more than bachelors so long as their wives stay at home doing the housework... livescience.com/ ... 13:22:10A colossal earthquake that caused damage from South Carolina to Washington D.C. and temporarily reversed the course of the Mississippi River nearly two centuries ago could be repeated within the next 50 years, scientists said today... Strain is building... Ehhh... I heard this 25 years ago... odds of another 8.0 event within 50 years are between 7 and 10 percent...
Extraterrestrialtoday.reuters.co.uk/ ... 03:00:14Cosmos 1, the first solar sail-powered spacecraft, appears to be "alive" and sending signals to tracking stations but could be in a lower orbit than planned...
US Militaryreuters.com/ ... 15:29:40The U.S. Air Force Academy failed to accommodate minority beliefs but there is no overt religious discrimination at the college, an Air Force report on the religious climate at the institution said on Wednesday... ap.tbo.com/ ... 13:35:17Federal investigators raided a defense contractor that supplied parts for the Army's Apache helicopters, but officials won't say what was being sought... ap.tbo.com/ ... 13:35:01A chaplain who spoke out against religious intolerance at the Air Force Academy has resigned her commission just as a report was to be released addressing the issue... after 13 years serving the Air Force... "I didn't resign to escape disciplinary action. I resigned because the position in I was in was nonproductive," Morton said Wednesday in a telephone interview. "I am a chaplain here. It is extremely difficult to engage in service to the cadets when you are in an environment absent of collegiality..." nytimes.com/ ... 13:04:11An Air Force U-2 spy plane has crashed in Southwest Asia, killing the pilot... The term Southwest Asia can be used by the military to include the Middle East... The location of the crash could not be disclosed "due to host-nation sensitivities..." cause of the crash is not known... no indications of hostile fire... edition.cnn.com/ ... 02:58:54A U.S. U-2 spy plane has crashed in southwest Asia, but the military has not disclosed the location of the crash or any of the circumstances...
Under Tyrannyap.tbo.com/ ... 16:20:56The House on Wednesday approved a constitutional amendment that would give Congress the power to ban desecration of the American flag, a measure that for the first time stands a chance of passing the Senate as well...
Violenceap.tbo.com/ ... 16:21:10Three U.S. soldiers were killed by small-arms fire during combat operations west of Baghdad... news.bbc.co.uk/ ... 13:41:05US and Afghan forces have killed about 60 suspected militants in clashes in southern Afghanistan... 11-hour battle came after suspected Taleban rebels attacked a security patrol near Daychopan district in Zabul province...
Natural Threatreuters.com/ ... 13:39:05Kansas has reported this year's first human case of West Nile virus in the United States...
Threatsreuters.com/ ... 15:01:37Fears of mass sabotage on Japanese roads were quelled this week after thousands of blade-like metal shards found attached to roadside guardrails around the country were attributed to nothing more sinister than careless driving... pieces torn from vehicles that had brushed against the guardrails... reuters.com/ ... 13:38:30U.S. Marines claimed success on Tuesday in another battle against insurgents in the Iraqi desert but acknowledged that the war was far from over and that guerrillas would soon recover lost ground... reuters.com/ ... 13:38:16British police said on Tuesday they had arrested a 40-year-old man in connection with suicide bombings against U.S.-led forces in Iraq... ap.tbo.com/ ... 13:36:13Mexico said it has detained a man believed linked to the groups that carried out the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks in the United States... a British citizen born in Beirut...
Disinformation Propaganda & Spinnymetro.com/ ... 13:15:53The photographer who took the picture in Edward Klein’s new book, The Truth About Hillary, catching Bill Clinton in a moment of P.D.A. with someone other than his wife, says that the book’s use of the photo is a “huge misrepresentation of the event.”... “She kissed him on the cheek. Nothing more. Two seconds out of each other’s lives.”... caption puts it, “putting the move on a blonde in 2002...” [Actually, I recognized this picture, and remembered it was just a public shot, although it seems pretty obvious it was just a public moment and could not really be interpreted, as Klein has, as “Bill mouth-kissing a supporter... "]
Digital Threatnews.yahoo.com/ ... 15:30:05The brains of players of violent video games react as if the violence were real... news.yahoo.com/ ... 13:41:40Using a cellphone -- even with a hands-free device -- may distract drivers because the brain cannot handle both tasks, U.S. researchers said on Tuesday... [Especially the small-brained people]informationweek.com/ ... 03:01:32Internet Explorer and Firefox can be spoofed by hackers intent on stealing passwords or other confidential information... and virtually every other popular browser could be used by malicious Web site to display bogus Java dialog boxes atop legitimate sites... "The problem is that JavaScript dialog boxes do not display or include their origin, which allows a new window to open -- a prompt dialog box -- which appears to be from a trusted site..."
People Dietimesdispatch.com/ ... 02:59:57CHILHOWIE -- Police are investigating the death of a 5-year-old girl who became trapped inside a front-loading washing machine in a coin-operated laundry while her mother stood outside...
TUE 2005-JUN-21
Preternatural Patternsap.tbo.com/ ... 22:33:41FBI.. reports portrayed the 32-year-old nurse as a naive woman whose mother did her banking for her... A week before she disappeared, she purchased a ticket... "Wilbanks realized during her travel on Greyhound that the Greyhound bus traveled to really rough areas for their bus stations..."
Lasting Contributionsbusinessweek.com/ ... 22:30:38Nobel laureate Jack Kilby, whose invention of the integrated circuit ushered in the electronics age and made possible the microprocessor, has died after a battle with cancer. He was 81... ap.tbo.com/ ... 22:30:18Albert R. Kahn, an inventor who co-founded Electro-Voice Inc., a pioneering company in audio technology, died June 15. He was 98...
Sex -- always attractiveworldnetdaily.com/ ... 22:29:52"Oh my God, his daughters!" she said. "I'd love to party with his daughters. I'd love to meet them. I totally want to have sex with them... " --hard-core porn star Mary Carey about one of her secret desires – having sex with the twin daughters of the president.
Supernaturalseattlepi.nwsource.com/ ... 22:28:56A 12-year-old girl who was abducted and beaten by men trying to force her into a marriage was found being guarded by three lions who apparently had chased off her captors... "They stood guard until we found her and then they just left her like a gift and went back into the forest..."
Currentspokesmanreview.com/ ... 18:33:18KAMAS, Utah — An 11-year-old boy who vanished from a Boy Scout camp was found alive and in good condition Tuesday after spending four days lost in the rugged Utah wilderness. Sheriff Dave Edmunds said Brennan Hawkins was "a little dehydrated, a little weak, but other than that, he was in very good health..."
Broadcast is Deadnews.bbc.co.uk/ ... 13:52:57The nude antics of contestants on Australia's Big Brother have prompted politicians to demand a review of how much nudity can be shown on TV...
Whoops!winonadailynews.com/ ... 13:35:19a man walked into Fortress Bank, 225 Lafayette St., at 9:52 a.m. and handed a teller a note that said, "Hi, I am Thomas Mason..."
Digital Consequencesnews.com.com/ ... 13:34:59Financial Times... dozens of pages on FT.com had links to Moneysupermarket.com, a price comparison site. Such links would help Moneysupermarket.com's rankings in Web search results... Jolie Hunt, a spokeswoman for the Financial Times in New York, said the site had a business partnership with Moneysupermarket.com, and that the invisibility had been a matter of aesthetics. "They just didn't want to clog up the real estate with an overt link," she said. "As soon as we figured out it was something we weren't supposed to do, we took it right down immediately..." news.bbc.co.uk/ ... 01:47:19Telecoms giant BT has been forced to build its own hardware for trials of a pioneering TV-on-mobiles service... no phone maker produces handsets that can decode the digital radio signals used to carry TV pictures...
Netsurf Flotsamsci-toys.com/ ... 01:25:18Ingredients -- Shampoo...
Culturesuejennifer.com/ ... 12:03:07exploring the possibility of filing a class action suit against... run-away bride Jennifer Wilbanks and her fiancé, John Mason... to prevent them from earning anything related to her actions... suntimes.com/ ... 01:24:17Today marks the 25th anniversary of the release of “The Blues Brothers,’’ a watershed film for Chicago and one that spread the city’s soul around the world. In five parts, the Sun-Times takes you back to the streets of Jake and Elwood Blues and checks out what’s happened since the Bluesmobile rolled...
US Militaryap.tbo.com/ ... 22:31:20The Pentagon said Tuesday it had finished its investigation into allegations of religious intolerance at the Air Force Academy... "I am guardedly optimistic that this report will present an actual plan to deal with the problem..."
US Military Casualtiesdefenselink.mil/ ... 22:34:11[flag]Army Pfc. Christopher R. Kilpatrick, 18, of Columbus, Texas, died June 20 in Tal Afar, Iraq, during convoy operations when enemy forces attacked his HMMWV with an improvised explosive device and small arms fire. defenselink.mil/ ... 13:48:12[flag]Army Master Sgt. Robert M. Horrigan, 40, of Austin, Texas.
[flag]Army Master Sgt. Michael L. McNulty, 36, of Knoxville, Tenn.
died on June 17 in Al Qaim, Iraq, while conducting combat operations.defenselink.mil/ ... 13:47:20[flag]Army 1st Lt. Noah Harris, 23, of Ellijay, Ga.
[flag]Army Cpl. William A. Long, 26, of Lilburn, Ga.
died on June 18 in Baqubah, Iraq, from injuries sustained on June 17 in Buritz, Iraq, when they were conducting a mounted patrol and their HMMWV was attacked by enemy forces using rocket-propelled grenades.defenselink.mil/ ... 13:46:46[flag]Marine Lance Cpl. Adam J. Crumpler, 19, from Charleston, W.Va., died June 18 as a result of small-arms fire while conducting combat operations against enemy forces during Operation Spear in Karabilah, Iraq.
Human Rightnews.bbc.co.uk/ ... 01:47:44They have been ostracised for generations but now they are campaigning for equal treatment from society and the law. They are the hizras of Bangladesh. Hizra literally means "impotent ones". Many hizras in Bangladesh say they are born hermaphrodite, of indeterminate gender. Others are men who want a sex change, though few can afford to have the operation...
Disinformation Propaganda & Spinnews.yahoo.com/ ... 18:34:47Sen. Dick Durbin apologized Tuesday for comparing American interrogators at the Guantanamo Bay prison camp to Nazis and other historically infamous figures. "Some may believe that my remarks crossed the line," the Illinois Democrat said. "To them I extend my heartfelt apologies." His voice quaking and tears welling in his eyes...
Transport Tragedyazcentral.com/ ... 18:33:42Israeli train collides with truck, killing seven, injuring 191...
Under Digital Tyrannynews.yahoo.com/ ... 13:55:43The use of text messaging by Iranians to send often highly acerbic comments on their presidential election choice has worried the authorities, who are threatening to prosecute mobile-addicts who insult the candidates...
Sick, Sick, Sickwftv.com/ ... 13:54:52Michael Schiavo angered his late wife's family Monday by not notifying them about the burial beforehand and by inscribing on her bronze grave marker the words "I kept my promise..."
Supernatural Threatsnews.yahoo.com/ ... 13:52:36Pressure from ultraconservative religious groups has prompted some theaters equipped with the high quality panoramic IMAX screens to cancel showings of several movies which refer to Charles Darwin's theory of evolution...
Threatsstamfordadvocate.com/ ... 13:33:47The FBI has alerted police about vague, unverified reports of a possible plan to attack power plants and electric grids around New York City this month, according to a confidential FBI memo...
WW2 - still with usaustinchronicle.com/ ... 13:33:30The hero of Yossel: April 19, 1943 is a 15-year-old who loves to draw, particularly the muscled adventurers of the comic strips: Tarzan, Flash Gordon, the Phantom. The young man has the makings of a great artist, but he lives in occupied Poland, where his fate is sealed by the Nazis... thejewishweek.com/ ... 13:32:56The Comic Book As Resistance Joe Kubert’s new Warsaw Ghetto graphic novel part of Jewish-themed comics trend... timesonline.co.uk/ ... 13:32:32JEWISH leaders in Germany are deeply upset by attempts to use comic strips to depict the horrors of Auschwitz...
Disturbing Family Patternsnewsbanner.com/ ... 22:27:37A jury found Burt Stockstill.. and his former roommate, Michelle C. Littlefield.. guilty after Littlefield allowed her children, who were both under the age of 6 at the time, to be molested and raped by Stockstill, who authorities say called himself a witch... nynewsday.com/ ... 13:31:34A fight between two children Saturday night at Chuck E. Cheese in the Atlantic Terminal Mall in Brooklyn turned into a bloody brawl between parents... One of the suspects pulled out a knife and stabbed the father who was being beaten up and one of the Good Samaritans...
Violenceap.tbo.com/ ... 22:31:46Saudi security forces on Tuesday killed two suspected terrorists accused of fatally shooting a senior security official outside his home... nbc4.tv/ ... 13:55:24BURBANK, Calif. -- At least 19 arrests were made overnight in a raid targeting a violent San Fernando Valley gang suspected of killing two police officers... nbc10.com/ ... 13:54:19Violence between biotech protesters and police in Center City Philadelphia has turned tragic. A Philadelphia police officer has died after a scuffle in Center City on Tuesday... iol.co.za/ ... 13:53:57A 10-year-old Kenyan schoolboy on Tuesday pleaded guilty to raping a three-year-old girl last month in a case that has shocked the country's central Rift Valley province... cnn.com/ ... 13:36:28Homolka videotaped the murders with her psychopathic husband and will leave a prison in Joliette, Quebec, in early July after serving a 12-year sentence for manslaughter for her part in the death of three girls and the rape of another... worldnetdaily.com/ ... 13:30:35...a Florida man.. shot two men he says were trying to enter his apartment through a sliding glass door... after the would-be burglars pointed something at him... detectives have not determined if Nelson was justified in pulling the trigger... worldnetdaily.com/ ... 13:28:58One day after Lebanon's opposition swept to victory in parliamentary elections, a senior anti-Syrian politician was assassinated in a Beirut car bombing... apnews.myway.com/ ... 12:32:19Israel arrested 52 Islamic Jihad activists overnight in its first big crackdown against militants since a February cease-fire, a sharp policy change that clouded a Tuesday meeting between the Israeli and Palestinian leaders...
MON 2005-JUN-20
Yuck!news.bbc.co.uk/ ... 23:54:08An art work purportedly made from excess fat from Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi has been sold for $18,000 (£9,862)...
Transportwnbc.com/ ... 23:52:28NEW YORK... busted service pipe caused the street to cave in between 5th and 6th avenues, leaving a 25-by-15-foot gaping hole...
Look Who's Talking!news.ft.com/ ... 01:17:49Bill Clinton has become the most prominent figure so far to add his voice to criticisms of the US prison camp at Guantánamo Bay in Cuba...
History - still with usreuters.com/ ... 01:15:07The world's oldest monastery plans to use hi-tech cameras to shed new light on ancient Christian texts preserved for centuries within its fortress walls in the Sinai Desert...
Lasting Contributionsap.tbo.com/ ... 01:14:22Actress Lorna Thayer, the waitress who memorably refused to let Jack Nicholson order toast in the 1970 movie "Five Easy Pieces," died June 4 at the Motion Picture and Television Fund retirement home after a long battle with Alzheimer's disease. She was 85...
Legendary radio broadcaster Georgie Woods, who introduced Philadelphia to the sounds of Stevie Wonder and the Temptations and took part in the 1960s civil-rights movement, died Saturday in Boynton Beach, Fla., likely of a heart attack, according to his longtime companion, Doris Harris. He was 78...
Victor Wouk, an electrical engineer and entrepreneur who developed the first full-size version of the modern hybrid car, died May 19 of cancer at his home, his son Jordan said. He was 86...
Currenttv.ksl.com/ ... 01:11:29Volunteers are still searching for the boy who disappeared in the Uintah mountains Friday... So many volunteers... an estimated three thousand... showed up to look for Brennan today... Summit County authorities had to turn some of them away...
US Military Casualtiesdefenselink.mil/ ... 10:45:46[flag]Marine Lance Cpl. Erik R. Heldt, 26, of Hermann, Mo.
[flag]Marine Capt. John W. Maloney, 36, of Chicopee, Mass.
died June 16 when their vehicle hit an improvised explosive device while conducting combat operations near Ar Ramadi, Iraq. defenselink.mil/ ... 10:45:17[flag]Army Staff Sgt. Christopher N. Piper, 43, of Marblehead, Mass., died on June 16 at the Brooke Army Medical Center, Fort Sam Houston, Texas, from injuries sustained on June 3 when an improvised explosive device detonated near his military vehicle in Orgun-E, Afghanistan.
Only Naturallocal6.com/ ... 23:54:29African honeybees -- also known as killer bees -- have entered Florida, and a University of Florida researcher says the aggressive insects may eventually spread throughout the state and move into other areas of the southeastern United States... news.yahoo.com/ ... 10:38:36different areas of the brain are stimulated during an orgasm but are not activated when a woman fakes it...
Science Marches Onnnnnnlatimes.com/ ... 10:38:09Scientists have cloned human embryos for the first time using unripe eggs matured in a dish -- a technique that may help cloning become a viable option for growing patients' own replacement tissue to treat diseases...
Extraterrestrialgeekinformed.com/ ... 10:37:47The Planetary Society and Cosmos Studios are scheduled to launch Cosmos-1 - a "solar sail" spacecraft - from a leftover Soviet ballistic missile tomorrow. A solar sail craft is a spaceship that doesn't have an engine or need to carry fuel. Named for the large mirror-like sails that power the craft, a solar sail theoretically uses the photons from the sun to push it along...
Universal Conundranewscientist.com/ ... 01:25:19THE laws of physics seem to permit time travel, and with it, paradoxical situations such as the possibility that people could go back in time to prevent their own birth. But it turns out that such paradoxes may be ruled out by the weirdness inherent in laws of quantum physics...
Repeal! Repeal! Repeal!chron.com/ ... 01:23:49Authorities fear escalating border violence has made its way north along Interstate 35 to Dallas, where major roadways and airports make it among the nation's most important drug distribution points...
Suicide by Policeap.tbo.com/ ... 23:54:59SEATTLE - A man carrying a hand grenade and shouting threats was shot dead by police Monday in the lobby of the federal courthouse...
Sex can be Dangerousfox21.com/ ... 23:51:53A Campobello teen is accused of raping one neighbor's dog and another neighbor's two little girls. Now the dog has died and charges against the teen have been upgraded...
Theftwashingtonpost.com/ ... 23:51:28D.C. police officials said [Police Chief] Ramsey's black unmarked car was stolen between Friday night and Sunday morning from a street in Southwest Washington. It had been left there Friday by a member of the force's motor pool so Ramsey would have it when he returned from a one-week trip to a counter-terrorism conference in Scotland...
Prison Sucksdrudgereport.com/ ... 10:42:56Saddam Hussein's life behind bars, as told by five US soldiers who guarded him...
Violencesuntimes.com/ ... 12:16:14KABUL, Afghanistan-- Afghan intelligence officials have thwarted a plot to assassinate U.S. Ambassador Zalmay Khalilzad and arrested three Pakistanis... armed with rocket propelled grenades and assault rifles... arrested in the Qarghayi district of Laghman province on Sunday, just 150 feet from where Khalilzad had planned to inaugurate a road with Afghanistan's interior ministe... reuters.com/ ... 10:39:45At least six car bombs exploded across Iraq on Monday killing at least 17 people as insurgents... guardian.co.uk/ ... 10:37:11A suicide car bomber killed at least 15 traffic police and wounded about 100 more Monday outside the unit's headquarters in the northern Kurdish city of Irbil... wore a police uniform and slammed his car into a gathering of some 200 traffic police during roll call in a courtyard behind the headquarters Monday morning...
A roadside bomb also killed a U.S. soldier on patrol near Tal Afar, 90 miles east of the Syrian border... fox21.com/ ... 01:26:29A Campobello teen is accused of raping one neighbor's dog and another neighbor's two little girls. Now the dog has died and charges against the teen have been upgraded...
Disturbing Family Patternsalertnet.org/ ... 01:26:05A South African man choked to death minutes after killing his wife and eating part of her face following a domestic argument, police said on Saturday...
Freedomap.tbo.com/ ... 10:39:58Kuwait's first female Cabinet member took the oath of office in parliament Monday over the shouts of Muslim fundamentalist and tribal lawmakers opposed to women in politics... cnn.com/ ... 01:24:46The Australian hostage held captive for nearly seven weeks in Iraq before being freed last week has said his rescue by Iraqi troops is a sign that U.S. and Australian policies are working...
Under Tyrannysptimes.com/ ... 01:24:23The Hernando School Board will consider banning clothing that displays any flag other than the American flag. Some are worried about First Amendment rights...
Police Riotkold.com/ ... 01:24:05A 62-year-old man has died after police officers in Waco, Texas, fired a Taser gun at him four times, then forcibly subduing him with handcuffs...
Supernatural Threatsnews.bbc.co.uk/ ... 01:17:26Police say the 23-year-old nun, who was denied food and drink throughout her ordeal, had been tied and chained to the cross and a towel pushed into her mouth to smother any sounds. A post-mortem is to be carried out, although initial reports say that Cornici died from asphyxiation...
Threatsap.tbo.com/ ... 23:57:30Violence by environmental and animal rights extremists against U.S. drug makers has increased so much in recent years that it's currently the FBI's top domestic terrorism issuereuters.myway.com/ ... 01:15:59Israel publicly apologized to the United States on Sunday over arms exports to China...
Rebuildingnews.bbc.co.uk/ ... 01:15:43The people of Lebanon have voted for change, says the leader of the main opposition anti-Syrian alliance that appears to have won the elections...
SUN 2005-JUN-19
Hiroshima -- still with usap.tbo.com/ ... 14:28:40By hiring a Japanese rowboat, catching trains and later posing as a U.S. Army colonel, Weller, an award-winning reporter for the now-defunct Chicago Daily News, slipped into Nagasaki in early September 1945, Mainichi said - about a month after the Aug. 9 bombing that killed 70,000 people... Weller, who died in 2002, was the first foreign journalist to set foot in the devastated city, which Gen. Douglas MacArthur, head of the U.S. occupation in Japan, had designated off-limits to reporters, the newspaper said. Carbon copies of his stories, running to about 25,000 words on 75 typed pages, along with more than two dozen photos, were discovered by his son, Anthony, last summer at Weller's apartment in Rome, Italy...
Alcohol Was Involvedap.tbo.com/ ... 14:26:49Chicago Taverns Fading in Was Once a Shot-and-a-Beer Town... The city that once boasted as many 7,600 taverns in the early 1900s has just over 1,300 today... Now Mayor Richard Daley is pushing an ordinance that would make it easier to close taverns...
Sex -- always attractiveap.tbo.com/ ... 14:23:58Academics, social scientists and policy makers from around the world are gathering this week at San Francisco State University for a conference on human sexuality and the "moral panics" caused by such charged topics as homosexuality, abortion and sex education...
Cultureap.tbo.com/ ... 14:25:53In one week, New Yorkers throw out enough garbage to equal the weight of the Empire State Building... ap.tbo.com/ ... 14:23:36His company, Russ Berrie and Co., makes plush toys based on characters from films such as "Madagascar" and "Fantastic Four" under license by the movie studios... Gatto's faith in movie-inspired toys is not shared by all toy makers. Amid falling sales of such licensed products, they are concentrating more on their own brands, as retailers tighten their selections and movie studios pull films from theaters too quickly for the toys to build up sales...
Why People Go Vegannews.bbc.co.uk/ ... 14:20:19Japan will be applying strong diplomatic pressure to ease the ban on commercial whaling... Schoolchildren in the western coastal district of Wakayama are now being offered an unusual addition to their lunch menus. Whale... To make the dish more appetising, the whale is being fried in breadcrumbs, or minced into burgers...
Only Naturallivescience.com/ ... 14:54:17Mystery of Deadly 1946 Tsunami Deepens... livescience.com/ ... 14:34:23Top 10 Ways to Destroy Earth... space.com/ ... 14:32:38The Face on Mars: Unmasked by New Images... livescience.com/ ... 14:31:04Face on Mars: Why People See What's Not There... livescience.com/ ... 14:29:19The Megatsunami: Possible Modern Threat... livescience.com/ ... 14:28:55Potential Southern California Tsunami Could Cost up to $42 Billion... ap.tbo.com/ ... 14:24:22A moderate earthquake hit Japan's eastern coast early Monday, causing buildings in Tokyo to sway for several seconds, but no damage or injuries were reported... magnitude 4.1 quake... alertnet.org/ ... 14:22:17A magnitude 5 earthquake struck off Northern California's coast on Sunday, the fifth moderate or strong tremor to hit the state in a week... geotimes.org/ ... 14:22:03Several significant earthquakes have struck California this week, ranging from 4.9 to 7.2 in magnitude, with two off the coast of Northern California and two in the Los Angeles basin... scientists say that as a whole, the major temblors are mostly unrelated. But the events on these very separate faults probably interacted with each other on a regional scale...
Disinformation Propaganda & Spincaptainsquartersblog.com/ ... 22:55:48The media and the Leftists have had a field day with the Downing Street memos that they claim imply that the Bush administration lied about the intelligence on WMD in order to justify the attack on Iraq. Despite the fact that none of the memos actually say that, none of them quote any officials or any documents, and that the text of the memos show that the British government worried about the deployment of WMD by Saddam against Coalition troops, Kuwait and/or Israel, the meme continues to survive. Until tonight, however, no one questioned the authenticity of the documents provided by the Times of London. That has now changed, as Times reporter Michael Smith admitted that the memos he used are not originals, but retyped copies... obtained the documents from by typing copies of them on plain paper and destroying the originals...
Sex can be Dangerousobserver.guardian.co.uk/ ... 15:02:28'Africa's fatal sexual culture spreads Aids'... 'Myself, when I finish drinking I just go for any girl and have sex with her. I do flesh to flesh. There is no reason of using a condom once I am HIV. I'm dying.'... Samura made the programme to try and find out why Aids was destroying his continent and after speaking to a number of such men as Joshua came to realise that sexual attitudes played a huge role...
Police Riottelegraph.co.uk/ ... 15:00:41Mistaking two 3ft compost bins for thieves on the run, officers forced their way into the garden and caused almost £700 worth of damage. Thermal-imaging equipment on board a police helicopter had told them that two heat sources in the undergrowth of a garden in south London were their suspected car thieves...
Disturbing Family Patternskomotv.com/ ... 15:00:07Shauna Perry, 24, was sentenced to 21 months in jail for killing her newborn son three years ago... ap.tbo.com/ ... 14:22:38A man who had recently left a mental health facility killed his wife after an argument and was shot to death by one of the couple's two sons...
Threats5newsonline.com/ ... 14:58:47FAYETTEVILLE - A graduate student at the University of Arkansas has been arrested on charges that he was planning to join a terrorist organization and launch attacks on Israel... time.com/ ... 14:19:01Head of CIA on Osama bin Laden: "I have an excellent idea of where he is."
Violencenews.bbc.co.uk/ ... 14:19:25Taleban rebels in Afghanistan say they have killed a district police chief and seven other policemen captured last week in Kandahar province... news.bbc.co.uk/ ... 14:19:12US warplanes have killed up to 20 suspected rebels in an air strike in Afghanistan... forbes.com/ ... 14:16:19At least 23 people were killed when a suicide bomber blew himself up in a busy kebab restaurant near Baghdad's Green Zone on Sunday...
SAT 2005-JUN-18
History - still with usweb.herald-zeitung.com/ ... 23:31:33June 19, 2005 Not everyone in New Braunfels notices, but today is an official state holiday. For years, the Nathan Millett family used to offer a holiday meal at Landa Park in commemoration of the day that word — finally — got to Texas that it was no longer legal to keep African Americans as slaves in the United States. But this year, no official notification has taken place here regarding any Juneteenth events...
Whoops!zwire.com/ ... 20:05:13Once found, the two told police the incident mimicked a prank they saw on the movie “Jackass.”...
Digital Consequencesgeekinformed.com/ ... 19:54:11America Online has released an upgrade to its Netscape browser that fixes a bug that broke the XML rendering ability of Microsoft's Internet Explorer... AOL spokesman.. claimed that the problem occurred because Microsoft provided "faulty documentation" for Internet Explorer... wired.com/ ... 11:12:28An automatic license-plate reader that can scan 500 license plates an hour looking for stolen vehicles underwent its first field tests by the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department last week...
Transportnews.bbc.co.uk/ ... 10:28:50A helicopter has plunged into New York's East River in the second such crash in four days...
Culturenews.bbc.co.uk/ ... 04:43:12A famed bronze sculpture by Auguste Rodin stolen from a Chile museum has been found in a park... "The boy found the statue at a bush in a park and when he saw the news on television and realised how important it was, he took it police..."
Repeal! Repeal! Repeal!boston.com/ ... 19:49:29NAMPA, Idaho --Police in this southwestern Idaho town raided the wrong duplex, throwing a powerful noisemaking device through the unit's window and standing outside with guns drawn... A Nampa police officer had confused Simpson's window for that of residents who share a duplex with the 62-year-old Vietnam veteran... Police subsequently arrested Simpson's 20-year-old neighbor. They allege he had 4 ounces of marijuana with the intent to deliver... "I guess we're going to have to seek psychological help, I hate to say that," Simpson said Thursday. "I'm not nuts or anything, but I'm still shaking. Put a shotgun next to your ear and pull the trigger to get an idea of the noise..."
Human Rightap.tbo.com/ ... 23:32:51EDINBURGH, Scotland - A couple was wed Saturday in the Britain's first legally recognized humanist ceremony... ap.tbo.com/ ... 23:32:15Anger Over Sexual Assaults Energizes Women in Egypt's Reform Movement... ap.tbo.com/ ... 23:31:50Hundreds of thousands of protesters led by 20 Roman Catholic bishops and conservative opposition leaders marched through Madrid on Saturday to demonstrate against a government bill to legalize gay marriage and gay adoption... foxnews.com/ ... 11:38:48Fred Dick bought 66 acres of land with Betty Dick decades ago, before their divorce. Upon their split, Fred Dick's ex-wife sold the land to the Park Service, but this act violated the divorce agreement. After a long legal battle, the Park Service agreed to allow Fred and Betty Dick to keep a third of the land on which to live, but only for 15 years. Twenty-five years later Betty Dick has outlived the bargain. But she says she's not going to leave. "I'm 83 years old and I'm not going to be around too much longer. And I don't want to have to move all my possessions out of my home, and it is my home," she said... gainesville.com/ ... 11:10:20Sheriff David Gee has a message for the 1,200 registered sex offenders and predators living in Hillsborough County. If a hurricane blows through, don't plan on going to one of the county-operated shelters for refuge. Make other arrangements...
Science Marches Onnnnnnworldnetdaily.com/ ... 11:06:42In a clinical trial, a promising new American-made drug demonstrated an ability to attack cancer cells, with the potential of halting the disease in patients...
Only Naturalboston.com/ ... 19:50:15MEDFORD, Ore. --It's not often that the Medford police get a call about an alligator on the loose. But that call came Thursday after owner Paul Sabin was distracted caring for another sick pet, a 12-foot Burmese python... foxnews.com/ ... 11:39:11Planned home births are considered unsafe by the nation's largest organization of obstetricians, but a new study shows them to be as safe as hospital births for low-risk women and their babies... ap.tbo.com/ ... 04:39:26Wildlife officials estimate 18,850 breeding adults have returned to this 4,385-acre refuge in central North Dakota, which had been known for a century as the home of the largest nesting colony of white pelicans in North America. But this time last year, the nesting grounds were empty, leaving an ornithological mystery that biologists say may never be solved. Nearly 28,000 birds took off last summer. The rookery was littered with eggs and chicks that did not survive...
Natural Threatpsc.edu/ ... 19:55:21Animation of a simulated earthquake in the San Fernando valley. Color depicts the peak magnitude of ground displacement. The simulation covered a 54 x 33 kilometer area, superimposed here on a satellite view of topography, to a depth of 15 km. Los Angeles can be seen in the southeast corner... [MPEG video clip]
Police Riotsuntimes.com/ ... 19:52:36Dozier, driving an unmarked squad car, came upon the couple while their car was parked along Interstate 94 near Northbrook about 1:30 a.m. Thursday... ordered the couple to strip down to their underwear, which they did... "They couldn't believe it was a real cop..." The man called 911, and the dispatcher sent Dozier to take the couple's report... Dozier had never called in the original traffic stop and so the dispatcher was apparently unaware Dozier might be involved...
Supernatural Threatsiol.co.za/ ... 20:04:21A Romanian Orthodox priest who ordered the crucifixion of a young nun because she was "possessed by the devil" and now faces murder charges was unrepentant on Saturday as he celebrated a funeral mass for his alleged victim. "God has performed a miracle for her, finally Irina is delivered from evil..." indianexpress.com/ ... 19:54:32In a video tape broadcast by Arabic television Al-Jazeera on Friday, Al-Qaeda deputy leader Ayman al-Zawahri rejected the possibility of peaceful reform in Muslim countries and said change should be based on Islam... worldnetdaily.com/ ... 11:09:13An Army Reserve recruit from upstate New York is taking some flak for his online contest to create a papier maché pig out of a Quran... reuters.com/ ... 04:48:19NUEVO LAREDO, Mexico - A death cult that venerates a scythe-wielding skeletal figure is booming in Mexican border cities south of Texas where hundreds have died this year in all-out drug war. The centuries-old pagan cult of Santa Muerte, or Saint Death, has sprung back up in Mexico in recent years and claims some 2 million faithful, ranging from elite politicians to kidnappers and gangsters... reuters.com/ ... 04:46:09Mahatma Gandhi's family is pleading with the Indian government to force an Australian takeaway firm called Handi Ghandi -- "Great Curries...No Worries" -- to stop using the vegetarian pacifist to sell its food... news.bbc.co.uk/ ... 04:44:28America's elite Air Force Academy... For months now, unsavoury stories have circulated - first in the local media and now nationally - of cadets at the academy, situated at the foot of the Rocky Mountains, being bullied and discriminated against by evangelical Christians...
Freedomreuters.com/ ... 04:41:48A North Korean civilian couple crossed into South Korea and expressed wish to defect... spotted sailing in a boat near the border between the two Koreas in the Yellow Sea early on Friday... had been determined to leave the communist state since his mother and younger brother were executed in 2004 for experiments on human bodies...
Threatsfoxnews.com/ ... 11:45:29The administration apparently expects China to exert whatever diplomatic and economic pressure is needed to get North Korea to abandon its nuclear ambitions. U.S. leaders are likely to be disappointed yet again... reuters.com/ ... 04:40:31The outgoing U.S. ambassador to Afghanistan has suggested that Taliban leader Mullah Mohammad Omar has been hiding in Pakistan and sharply criticized Islamabad's failure to act against Taliban leaders...
Violenceap.tbo.com/ ... 23:33:24A South Korean soldier threw a grenade and went on a shooting spree Sunday near the border with communist North Korea, killing eight fellow soldiers... suntimes.com/ ... 19:50:46American troops bombarded a dusty border town with air strikes and tank fire Friday, capturing 100 militants...
Four suicide attacks around Iraq, including one in the capital, killed 11 people... foxnews.com/ ... 11:37:36U.S. Marines and Iraqi forces battled insurgents on two fronts Saturday in a restive western province, killing about 50 militants in a dusty frontier town... bloomberg.com/ ... 09:43:30Two U.S. soldiers, an Iraqi civilian and a detainee were killed late yesterday amid fighting in Iraq's northeastern province of Diyala... Five Iraqi policemen and one U.S. soldier were also wounded in the fighting... ap.tbo.com/ ... 04:40:13Taliban rebels have ambushed a police convoy in southern Afghanistan, taking at least 10 officers and a district police chief captive... ap.tbo.com/ ... 04:39:58BAGHDAD, Iraq - A 10-year-old Iraqi girl was killed Saturday and two people were injured when a roadside bomb missed a passing American military convoy and detonated near the child instead...
FRI 2005-JUN-17
Transportnews.yahoo.com/ ... 13:34:16a Goodyear blimp is shown partially deflated after it crash landed in a industrial park in Coral Springs, Fla. The two people on board were not injured...
Yawnvancouver.cbc.ca/ ... 13:26:20Two women who got married in Parksville two years ago have been granted a divorce by a B.C. Supreme Court judge in Nanaimo...
Theory of Educationworldnetdaily.com/ ... 13:18:17The parents of two students at a private Christian school in Milwaukee, Wis., have sued government officials after a social worker allegedly body searched and interrogated the children without permission...
Culturerigorousintuition.blogspot.com/ ... 23:10:21"They're made out of meat." "Meat?" "Meat. They're made out of meat..." forbes.com/ ... 14:11:31A looming nuclear threat to the rest of the world, Iran is robbing its own people of prosperity. But the men at the top are getting extremely rich... Paul Klebnikov [Forbes 07.21.03]badhairblog.blogspot.com/ ... 14:10:11Via Betsy's Page ... "I'm crazy about the South African accent," she said. "I wish I had been born here." Oprah should have her very rich head examined... Does Oprah really wish that she had spent the first 40 years of her life under apartheid talking with a cool South African accent...? Take a look at The Economist's obituary of Hamilton Naki, an unrecognised surgical pioneer. He's the guy that did the heart removal for Christian Barnard's first heart transplant:... foxnews.com/ ... 13:10:45Every month, tens of millions of Americans deposit money in IRAs and 401(k) accounts. They own those accounts and control how their money is invested. To be sure, investing can be tedious, and not everyone comes out ahead every month. But no one who owns an IRA or 401(k) has to worry that an employer or the government won’t be able to meet its promises. When you own and control your own account, you don’t need to rely on promises...
Sex -- always attractivereuters.com/ ... 09:55:53A German court has upheld the right of Wal-Mart staff in Germany to flirt at work... The court rejected parts of Wal-Mart's code of conduct relating to employees' love lives, alcohol and drug use and a requirement for staff to report code violations via a so-called ethics hotline...
Digital Consequencessg.news.yahoo.com/ ... 23:05:15Queen Elizabeth II... bought a six-gigabyte silver model for 169 pounds... news.bbc.co.uk/ ... 09:54:24Professors Todd Mowry and Seth Goldstein of Carnegie Mellon University in Pennsylvania think that, within a human generation, we might be able to replicate three-dimensional objects out of a mass of material made up of small synthetic "atoms". Cameras would capture the movement of an object or person and then this data would be fed to the atoms, which would then assemble themselves to make up an exact likeness of the object...
History - still with usnews.bbc.co.uk/ ... 09:52:38An ice pick used to assassinate Russian revolutionary Leon Trotsky may have surfaced in Mexico, still bloodstained 65 years after his murder... grand-daughter of a secret policeman who probed Trotsky's death in Mexico City, says she has it... "If she wants to make business with this object then I really don't collaborate with her," Mr Volkov, who saw his grandfather dying of his wounds, told the BBC. "If she wants to give it to the museum freely I will give a blood test..."
Oh! The Irony!wavy.com/ ... 09:49:16Two Hampton Roads employees of Norfolk-based People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals have been charged in Ahoskie, N.C., with animal cruelty after dumping dead dogs and cats in a shopping center garbage bin... The animals were from animal shelters... The two were picking up animals to be brought back to PETA headquarters for euthanization... Local officials and veterinarians said they were told that PETA would find homes for the animals, not euthanize them. PETA has scheduled a news conference for Friday afternoon to discuss the charges...
US Military Casualtiesdefenselink.mil/ ... 22:00:53[flag]Armyh Spc. Anthony S. Cometa, 21, of Las Vegas, Nev., died June 16 in Safwan, Kuwait, when his HMMWV rolled over. defenselink.mil/ ... 22:00:33[flag]Marine Lance Cpl. Chad B. Maynard, 19, of Montrose, Colo., died June 15 when his vehicle hit an improvised explosive device while conducting combat operations near Ar Ramadi, Iraq. defenselink.mil/ ... 21:59:57[flag]Army Sgt. John T. Puckett, Wichita, Kan.
[flag]Army Pvt. Earnest E. Brown, Bristol, Va.
missing in action from World War II have been identified and returned to their families for burial. They were ambushed on Jan. 15, 1945, during the Battle of the Bulge. Of the 88,000 Americans missing in action from all conflicts, 78,000 are from World War II.defenselink.mil/ ... 21:54:49[flag]Marine Pfc. Nathan B. Clemons, 20, of Winchester, Tenn., died June 14 from wounds sustained when an improvised explosive device detonated near his vehicle while conducting combat operations against enemy forces near Ar Rutbah, Iraq.
Human Rightwashingtonpost.com/ ... 23:06:03Gov. Jeb Bush said Friday that a prosecutor has agreed to investigate why Terri Schiavo collapsed 15 years ago... nybooks.com/ ... 21:07:49The Case of Theresa Schiavo By Joan Didion... The removal of this feeding tube was repeatedly described as "honoring her directive." This, again, was inaccurate: there was no directive. Any expressed wish in this matter existed only in the belated telling of her husband and two of his relatives...
Extraterrestrialspace.com/ ... 13:27:28With the recent announcement of a planet seven to eight times the Earth’s mass circling an M dwarf star, the chances for habitable worlds seem greater than ever...
Repeal! Repeal! Repeal!foxnews.com/ ... 13:11:59The state of Oklahoma – where meth use is soaring – acted first. Last year, the state passed a law requiring pharmacies to move cold and allergy medications behind the counter. Stores without pharmacies can no longer sell the drugs... But even the government's own data suggests that these laws won’t work, and won't significantly curb the supply of meth or its use...
Only Naturalvcu.edu/ ... 23:02:34People with bigger brains are smarter than their smaller-brained counterparts... washingtonpost.com/ ... 23:00:32Arkansas.. State Plant Board officials say the presence of Africanized honey bees has been confirmed in Brightstar, in southern Miller County... worldnetdaily.com/ ... 13:15:16"The frontal temporal and temporal poles and insular-cortex demonstrated relative preservation." "What this tells us is that her cortex retained function and that her brain was more normal in the area that controls higher-level thinking..." the brain's frontal lobe plays a part in impulse control, judgment, language, memory, motor function, problem solving, sexual behavior, socialization and spontaneity. "It is very possible that she remained cognizant of sounds and other things without being able to communicate," Ward said. "It's possible Terri was aware of everything being done to her -- yet could do little to make people aware that she was there..." foxnews.com/ ... 13:09:38Students who participate in one year of "abstinence-only" sex education classes are significantly more likely than those who don't to take a negative view of teen sex... sfgate.com/ ... 09:57:54kitty kitty
Roseburg, Ore. -- A newborn kitten.. with two faces.. born Sunday with two mouths, two tongues, two noses and four eyes... veterinarian.. said when he first saw the kitten, he wouldn't have given her more than a 10 percent chance of survival...
US Militarynews.bbc.co.uk/ ... 09:50:20A US soldier serving in Iraq has been charged with murdering two of his own officers whose deaths in an explosion were initially blamed on rebels...
Sex can be Dangerousapnews.myway.com/ ... 23:08:56The Wisconsin Assembly approved a ban on the so-called morning-after pill on state college campuses...
World Without Bordersnews.yahoo.com/ ... 23:01:40WASHINGTON - Culminating years of frustration with the performance and behavior of the United Nations, the House voted Friday to slash U.S. contributions to the world body if it does not substantially change the way it operates...
Digital Threatnews.yahoo.com/ ... 23:02:21LAWRENCE, Kan. - Due to an e-mail mistake by the University of Kansas, 119 students who failed all their classes during the last semester found out who shared their misfortune... The e-mail address list included the names of all 119 students, with the result that everyone on it could see the names of all the others... apnews.myway.com/ ... 23:00:52A security breach of customer information at a credit card transaction company could expose to fraud up to 40 million cardholders of multiple brands, MasterCard International Inc. said Friday...
Freedomlegendgames.net/ ... 13:58:21One very important thing has changed in Iran. There has been a death, the death of fear. The people are no longer afraid to stand up for themselves, they're not afraid to protest, they're not afraid to vote. And, now, they're not afraid to not vote. With a presidential elections coming up in a few days, the Iranian people are at a crossroads. The reform-minded citizens seem to have had enough. To many, the last eight years have been a sham. Sure, they had a president who seemed to be on their side, but he had all the governing power of a pre-Dick Cheney American Vice-President. The Mullahs make almost every decision and those they don't make, they overrule. It's all been a game, and the people aren't going to play anymore. Is this the right move? It's hard to say, but my very American irrational exuberance says, "right on!.."
Under Digital Tyrannylegendgames.net/ ... 13:57:18the Chinese government... employs an estimated 30,000 internet police...
Theftnews.telegraph.co.uk/ ... 13:35:12A benefits cheat who claimed that he was "virtually unable to walk'' was photographed wrestling an alligator in a Florida theme park... managed to walk along a gangplank and climb on to a camel while holidaying in Tunisia with his family... gain[ed] a black belt in ju jitsu while claiming more than £17,000 in social security and disability payments...
Prison Sucksamericandigest.org/ ... 14:11:55Guantanamo Shut Down. Prisoners Moved to Neverland... thedenverchannel.com/ ... 13:33:49The mother of convicted Oklahoma City bombing conspirator Terry Nichols said Thursday he has been threatened with death by other inmates at the "Supermax" federal prison in Colorado after he went before a grand jury. "The inmates have got him tagged as a snitch and he's up to be murdered..." Supermax... in Florence, about 90 miles southeast of Denver... houses some of the nation's most notorious criminals, including Ramzi Yousef, who was involved in the 1993 World Trade Center bombing. A Supermax inmate was beaten to death by other prisoners two months ago, federal officials said. It was the first violent death of an inmate at Supermax since it was built in 1995...
Threatsnews.telegraph.co.uk/ ... 13:30:42Pirates clutching knives and AK47s boarded a supertanker moored off Basra in the latest of a series of seaborne robberies in the Persian Gulf... foxnews.com/ ... 13:07:45Afghanistan's defense minister said Friday... he received intelligence that Usama bin Laden's terror group is regrouping and intends to bring Iraq-style bloodshed to Afghanistan... news10.net/ ... 09:47:32Public health attorneys in California have potato chip makers in their sights for not listing a cancer-causing chemical present in many brands. That chemical is acrylamide... industrial chemical used in plastics, pesticides and sewage treatment that also can occur when starchy foods, such as chips, are processed at high temperatures...
Violencevoanews.com/ ... 09:43:06Cambodian authorities say the leader of a gang of hostage-takers targeted an international school in Siem Reap out of revenge... personal dispute with the father of two of the school's students... intended to kill the two children of his former South Korean employer... hostage-takers failed to find their targets... After four decades of conflict, Cambodia is trying to redefine itself as a tourist haven. Normally tranquil Siem Reap, with its 800-year-old temples, is at the forefront of this campaign, and many of the school's parents work in the tourist industry...
THU 2005-JUN-16
Supernaturalreuters.com/ ... 22:10:44Two Brazilian doctors and amateur art lovers believe they have uncovered a secret lesson on human anatomy hidden by Renaissance artist Michelangelo in the Sistine Chapel's ceiling... believe Michelangelo also scattered his detailed knowledge of internal anatomy across 34 of the ceiling's 38 panels. The way they see it, a tree trunk is not just a tree trunk, but also a bronchial tube. And a green bag in one scene is really a human heart... Fifteen years ago, U.S. doctor Frank Meshberger pointed out the figure of God and his surrounding angels in the "Creation of Adam" panel resembled a cross-section of the human brain... boston.com/ ... 16:55:38auctioning off a piece of water-stained plaster from his bathroom that he says looks like an image of Jesus Christ...
Transportboston.com/ ... 16:54:32CHITTENANGO, N.Y. --A sanitation worker whose truck brakes failed somehow managed to steer his speeding vehicle down a steep, curvy road and through a construction zone, missing workers and oncoming cars before smashing into a building...
Alcohol Was Involveddrudgereport.com/ ... 15:12:58Two Californian students arrested Wednesday night for posing nude for photos near the Arc de Triomphe in downtown Paris...
Sex -- always attractivereuters.com/ ... 10:14:18A decade after New York began cracking down on seedy strip clubs, the business has flourished and turned upscale...
Digital Consequencestimesonline.co.uk/ ... 10:10:28THE Archbishop of Canterbury, Dr Rowan Williams, has criticised the new web-based media for “paranoid fantasy, self-indulgent nonsense and dangerous bigotry”. He described the atmosphere on the world wide web as a free-for-all that was “close to that of unpoliced conversation”...
Yuck!chron.com/ ... 10:07:10Four Keller High School cheerleaders were sent home early from camp after allegedly putting human feces on a pizza and trying to frame rival cheerleaders for the deed...
Whoops!wftv.com/ ... 10:06:15NAVARRE BEACH, Fla. -- A Louisiana man who decided to ride out a severe thunderstorm while on this Panhandle beach died when hit by lightning...
Culturehasbro.com/ ... 22:11:34The MONOPOLY game was brought to Parker Brothers in 1934 by Charles B. Darrow of Germantown, PA, but at the end of the initial play-test by company executives, the game was unanimously turned down. It took too long to play, the rules were too complicated, and players kept going around and around the board instead of ending up at a final goal... reuters.com/ ... 22:11:07Norwegian Princess Leah's name was inspired by a character in a "Star Wars" movie... news.telegraph.co.uk/ ... 10:29:29A boy of five has been forced to take a job in the Indian police station where his late father worked... spends his days running small errands, such as delivering reports to desks and carrying cups of tea for adult officers... The practice, in which jobs are passed on within a family when a public servant dies to compensate for the loss of income, was instituted by the British. Although illegal, it remains common in rural areas... news.bbc.co.uk/ ... 10:12:43US grandmother Donna Goeppert, 55, has won $1m in a lottery just five months after winning the same amount in the same Pennsylvania game... the odds of hitting the jackpot twice, 419m to one...timesonline.co.uk/ ... 10:08:36THE defence lawyer who won Michael Jackson his freedom is believed to be considering suing the Santa Barbara District Attorney for “malicious prosecution”... kwqc.com/ ... 09:57:46CHICAGO Illinois Senator Dick Durbin says he won't apologize for comments comparing American interrogators at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, to Nazis and Soviet gulags... suntimes.com/ ... 09:54:20Morgan Spurlock took on McDonald's in.. "Supersize Me." Now, he's back.. on the small screen.. new reality show, "30 Days..." tackles racism, poverty and homosexuality.. in his documentary style.. starring in one and then hosting the others. The show features a diverse group of participants who are given the chance to experience life as a radically different person for one month...
Only Naturalboston.com/ ... 16:54:49Seven people have been threatened or attacked by deer on Southern Illinois University's main campus over the past two weeks... ap.tbo.com/ ... 16:48:02A rain-sodden hillside gave way and buried houses in seven neighborhoods of a rural Guatemalan town, killing at least 31 people and injuring about 40 more... "Sadly, we believe that there are more dead and injured, because various houses were buried..."
Justice?reuters.com/ ... 22:08:53The children of a Chinese butcher executed for murdering a waitress have appealed against his conviction after the "victim" turned up alive, the second such judicial blunder to be made public in recent weeks... reuters.com/ ... 10:13:53From his year chronicling events in Cook County Circuit Judge Daniel Locallo's courtroom, veteran Chicago crime reporter Bogira selected from the parade of defendants to dig for details that are either ignored or go unnoticed so as not to clog the fast-moving gears of assembly-line justice...
US Militarytheglobeandmail.com/ ... 10:05:56U.S. Marine Corps jet carrying four 500-pound bombs crashed into the backyard of a home during a training exercise, but the pilot ejected safely and only one person on the ground was slightly injured... 1,300 homes were evacuated Wednesday while a military explosives team dismantled the bombs at the crash site in Yuma... Two homes had some structural damage... One unidentified person suffered a minor arm laceration...
US Military Casualtiesdefenselink.mil/ ... 20:15:50[flag]Navy Petty Officer 2nd Class Cesar O. Baez, 37, of Pomona, Calif., died June 15, as a result of enemy small arms fire while conducting combat operations in al-Anbar province, Iraq. defenselink.mil/ ... 20:15:27[flag]Army Sgt. Anthony G. Jones, 25, of Greenville, S.C., died June 14 in Baghdad, Iraq, where an improvised explosive device detonated near his military vehicle.defenselink.mil/ ... 15:19:27[flag]Army Pfc. Michael R. Hayes, 29, of Morgantown, Ky., died June 14 in Baghdad, Iraq, where a rocket-propelled grenade hit his HMMWV while he was providing security cordon for an improvised explosive device found earlier.defenselink.mil/ ... 15:17:00[flag]Marine Lance Cpl. Jonathan R. Flores, 18, of San Antonio, Texas
[flag]Marine Cpl. Jesse Jaime, 22, of Henderson, Nev.
[flag]Marine Cpl. Tyler S. Trovillion, 23, of Richardson, Texas
[flag]Marine Lance Cpl. Dion M. Whitley, 21, of Los Angeles, Calif.
died June 15 when their vehicle hit an improvised explosive device while conducting combat operations near Ar Ramadi, Iraq.defenselink.mil/ ... 09:55:41[flag]Marine Pfc. Joshua P. Klinger, 21, from Easton, Pa., died June 14 as a result of an explosion from an improvised explosive device while conducting combat operations against enemy forces near Fallujah, Iraq.
Science Marches Onnnnnnlivescience.com/ ... 10:28:33Scientists are working on a type of skin that will allow robots to be more touchy feely... fingernail sized sensors embedded all over its surface. The sensors allow a robot to “feel” changes in its surroundings and move accordingly... usatoday.com/ ... 10:08:12A 26-year-old pregnant woman with cancer whose brain function ceased last month is being kept alive with a respirator in hopes she can have a very premature baby who has a chance to survive... lost consciousness May 7 when an undiagnosed brain tumor caused a stroke while she dined at home... If she can stay alive another month, and the cancer stays away from her uterus, the baby could be delivered and have a chance of surviving... guardian.co.uk/ ... 09:58:21New-born babies are having electronic tags applied to their ankles in the first hour of life to prevent them being snatched from maternity ward. Last week Medway NHS trust became one of the first to install the new system... suntimes.com/ ... 09:55:15developing miniature, light-sensitive pumps that can squirt chemicals to stimulate the surviving cells of a diseased retina.
Under Tyrannysky.com/ ... 15:14:15Shocking footage of crowd control 'Chinese-style' has been obtained by Sky News. The film shows dozens of hired thugs running amok in a village just 60 miles from the capital Beijing. Villagers are shown being beaten with long canes while gunfire can be heard in the background. Six villagers are reported to have died while 50 were injured...
Sex can be Dangerousap.tbo.com/ ... 16:47:30SAN JOSE, Calif. - A convicted child molester jailed in California may have committed sex crimes against thousands of victims, police said Thursday after finding computers, notebooks and meticulous, handwritten lists of boy' names and apparent codes for various sex acts... record-eagle.com/ ... 10:27:27A local woman is suing a Traverse City psychologist for negligence after he allegedly had sex with her as a part of a "love therapy," and billed her for it...
9/11 - still with usap.tbo.com/ ... 10:15:54CHICAGO - A performance artist wearing a business suit and safety harnesses jumped repeatedly from a museum roof to create photographs that recall scenes from the World Trade Center attack, but his spectacle was scorned by some onlookers and victims' relatives...
Threatsfoxnews.com/ ... 15:15:24U.S. forces captured a man known as Abu Musab Al-Zarqawi's "most trusted operations agent in all of Iraq," a U.S. general in Iraq said Thursday... Mohammed Khalif Shaiker... also known as Abu Talha or the emir of Mosul, was nabbed on Tuesday... lasvegassun.com/ ... 10:26:58WAUKESHA, Wis. (AP) - The driver of an ice cream truck was charged with drunken driving after a woman called police saying she saw a man throw a can of malt liquor onto her lawn... is also a registered sex offender... news.bbc.co.uk/ ... 10:11:36The US ambassador to Afghanistan says he does not believe that Osama Bin Laden or Taleban chief Mullah Omar are in the country...
Supernatural Threatskentucky.com/ ... 10:28:51TOPEKA, Kan. - A discussion about how evolution should be taught in public schools degenerated Wednesday into personal attacks among State Board of Education members... news10.net/ ... 10:24:53A mother who authorities say was a member of a bizarre cult stands accused of drowning her six-year-old daughter, then decapitating the child and dumping her body off a bridge in Washington state... cult that worships the late rap star Tupac Shukar... thisislondon.com/ ... 10:11:19Boys from Africa are being murdered as human sacrif ices in London churches... offered up in rituals by fundamentalist Christian sects, according to a shocking report by Scotland Yard...
Violenceap.tbo.com/ ... 16:48:41A 64-year-old police officer just two weeks away from retirement will be promoted to detective after throwing himself in front of a woman and her two young children when a gunman opened fire inside a precinct house... foxnews.com/ ... 15:14:37Bombing and shooting attacks west of Baghdad killed six U.S. troops, and a car bomber slammed into a truck carrying Iraqi policemen near the airport Thursday, killing at least eight and wounding 25... reuters.com/ ... 10:13:11A car bomb exploded next to an Iraqi police commando convoy in western Baghdad on Thursday, killing six police and wounding 25 others... news.bbc.co.uk/ ... 10:12:56Russian prosecutors have named a Chechen rebel as the mastermind behind the murder in Moscow last July of Forbes journalist Paul Klebnikov... news.bbc.co.uk/ ... 10:11:49A bomb has killed five US marines near the western Iraqi town of Ramadi... voanews.com/ ... 09:58:41The State Department said Wednesday Pakistani authorities have cleared the victim in a notorious gang-rape case to travel abroad after high-level U.S. intervention...
WED 2005-JUN-15
Preternatural Patternsap.tbo.com/ ... 20:10:25Federal scientists are planning to shoot a small number of barred owls they say are crowding out the threatened spotted owl in northern California - an experiment that could lead to killing thousands of the larger owls on the West Coast... reuters.com/ ... 20:06:33David Cowan, who helped write an account of the blaze at Chicago's Our Lady of the Angels School that killed 95 pupils and nuns, was arrested on Thursday and charged with arson after a fire broke out in a storage building at St. Benedict's where he worked as a janitor... Cowan, 41, had been a firefighter at the suburban Bellwood, Illinois, department, but lost the job in 2003... news.bbc.co.uk/ ... 19:32:38DNA experts have questioned Oprah Winfrey's belief that she is a member of South Africa's Zulu nation...
Culturenews.bbc.co.uk/ ... 09:33:46the long and chequered big-screen history of Batman....
Digital Consequencesnews.bbc.co.uk/ ... 09:28:39An easy-to-use touch screen multimedia system has helped people with dementia be more interactive with carers...
Transportap.tbo.com/ ... 02:19:22The two front wheels on a Japan Airlines Boeing 767 came off during landing at a Tokyo airport Wednesday but there were no indication of any injuries...
Winnersreuters.com/ ... 02:14:15A German lottery winner who blew all his winnings decided he was better off supplementing his income as a thief than claiming welfare benefits...
Nixon - still with usreuters.com/ ... 02:11:16Mark Felt, the former FBI official who unmasked himself as the legendary "Deep Throat" source who leaked Watergate secrets, twice led FBI probes into finding Deep Throat, The Nation magazine said on Tuesday...
Why People Go Vegannews.bbc.co.uk/ ... 00:17:59A major study has found fresh evidence of a link between red and processed meat and bowel cancer
Yuck!reuters.com/ ... 02:15:53British animal welfare inspectors said on Tuesday they had cautioned two people after finding more than 350 animals in one residential house in eastern England... 131 dogs, 48 cats, 80 rabbits and 86 guinea pigs... premises were described as cramped and unhygienic... news.bbc.co.uk/ ... 00:16:05Michael Jackson's lawyer said the singer will no longer share his bed with young boys, after the star was cleared of 10 child abuse charges... washingtontimes.com/ ... 00:10:30A former Bush team member during his first administration is now voicing serious doubts about the collapse of the World Trade Center on 9-11... comments that the official story about the collapse of the WTC is "bogus" and that it is more likely that a controlled demolition destroyed the Twin Towers and adjacent Building No. 7... local6.com/ ... 00:08:55OLATHE, Kan. -- A Kansas high school student who vomited on his Spanish teacher has been charged with battery against a school official... father said his son told him he did not mean to throw up on the teacher, but had been made uncontrollably ill by the stress of final exams... wnd.com/ ... 00:08:08A Kansas City abortionist is out of business after investigators discovered a grisly house of horrors at his clinic...
US Militaryreuters.com/ ... 19:36:34A U.S. Marine Corps attack jet crashed into flames in a residential area of Yuma, Arizona, on Wednesday, but no one on the ground was hurt, and the pilot walked away from the accident... City spokesman.. said the plane hit two houses. But.. Marine Corps.. said the single-seat aircraft crashed in the backyard of a home... defenselink.mil/ ... 13:41:52This week, the Army, Navy, Marine Corps and Coast Guard announced a decrease in the number of reservists on active duty in support of the partial mobilization, while the Air Force number increased. The net collective result is 44 more reservists mobilized than last week...
US Military Casualtiesdefenselink.mil/ ... 13:42:44[flag]Army Sgt. Larry R. Kuhns Jr., 24, of Austintown, Ohio.
[flag]Army Spc. Anthony D. Kinslow, 21, of Westerville, Ohio
died on June 13 in Ramadi, Iraq, where their military vehicle came under a grenade attack while conducting combat operations.

defenselink.mil/ ... 13:41:35[flag]Army Sgt. David J. Murray, 23, of Clinton, La., died June 9 in Baghdad, Iraq, when an improvised explosive device detonated near his military vehicle. defenselink.mil/ ... 13:41:18[flag]Army Cpl. Stanley J. Lapinski, 35, of Las Vegas, Nev., died June 11 in Baghdad, Iraq, when an improvised explosive device detonated near his military vehicle. defenselink.mil/ ... 13:40:52[flag]Marine Lance Cpl. John J. Mattek Jr., 24, of Stevens Point, Wis., died June 13 from wounds received as a result of an explosion while conducting combat operations against enemy forces in Al Anbar Province, Iraq, on June 8.defenselink.mil/ ... 13:40:10[flag]Army Spc. Casey Byers, 22, of Schleswig, Iowa
[flag]Army Sgt. 1st Class Neil A. Prince, 35, of Baltimore, Md...
died June 11 in Al Taqaddum, Iraq, when an improvised explosive device detonated near their military vehicle.
Extraterrestrialnews.bbc.co.uk/ ... 09:28:09The second of three radar booms has been deployed on Europe's Mars Express spacecraft - but it is unclear whether the operation has been successful...
Only Naturalworldnetdaily.com/ ... 09:56:31Barbara Walters... [on sitting next to a breastfeeding mother on an airplane] "It made me very nervous..." "She didn't cover the baby with a blanket. It made us uncomfortable..." reportedly pronounced it "gross and disgusting..." washingtonpost.com/ ... 09:46:23fat accelerates aging, possibly speeding the unraveling of crucial genetic structures inside cells that wither with age... obesity adding the equivalent of nearly nine years of age to a person's body... "This may not be apparent because these people may not have as many wrinkles. But underneath it looks like they are aging at a faster rate..."timesonline.co.uk/ ... 09:45:11scientists believe that they have evidence of the largest wave yet recorded. It happened on September 16 last year when Hurricane Ivan stormed across the Gulf of Mexico and tore into the coast of Alabama, accompanied by 130mph winds and storm surges 8ft high... While still out at sea, oceanographers report, the hurricane also produced a series of giant waves, one of which stood 91ft (27m) from crest to trough, the height of a ten-storey building... The seabed instruments that measured the surge were turned off at the moment the winds reached their peak, and scientists.. have had to employ a computer model to predict that, while they were not looking, at the height of the storm the wave reached 131ft... the tsunami wave that swept across the Indian Ocean last December stood about 30ft high as it hit shorelines, although in some parts of Indonesia it was reported to have reached 65ft... Scientists predict that if a future volcanic eruption sends a large part of the island of La Palma in the Canaries into the sea, it could cause a wall of water 2,950ft high.... adn.com/ ... 02:22:20Anchorage -- It's the Incredible Return of the Bugs, sequel to last spring's fierce hatch, and many people say they've never been pricked and pestered with such vengeance. We're talking jillions here: mosquitoes, aphids, dragonflies, midges, gnats, hornets, beetles and assorted creepy-crawlies with all those weird Latin names. But then, don't we always say that?.. voanews.com/ ... 00:14:21Government researchers say more than one million were living with H.I.V. at the end of two thousand three... Almost half of those infected are believed to be men who have sex with other men. And, researchers say, almost half are black... About half of all people living with H.I.V. are women. And about half of new infections are in young adults... foxnews.com/ ... 00:10:59A major earthquake (search) struck about 80 miles off the coast of northern California on Tuesday night, briefly prompting a tsunami warning (search) along the Pacific coast... 7.0-magnitude quake struck at about 7:50 p.m. southwest of the coastal community of Crescent City and 300 miles northwest of San Francisco...
Freedomreuters.com/ ... 20:07:57A 46-year-old former Royal Marine who braved 14 arrests and five months in jail to walk the length of Britain wearing nothing but his boots sets out on Thursday to repeat the naked journey -- and this time with his girlfriend... reuters.com/ ... 19:49:58The U.S. House of Representatives on Wednesday defied President Bush by approving a measure making it harder for federal agents to secretly gather information on people's library reading habits and bookstore purchases...
Under Tyrannyreuters.com/ ... 20:06:53An Indian rape victim is being forced by village elders to "marry" her rapist -- her father-in-law... hawaiireporter.com/ ... 09:48:36Aztlan -- have you ever heard of it? You know, the nation that encompasses what used to be all of California, Arizona, New Mexico, Texas and southern Colorado as well as most of Northern Mexico. There is no such nation you say? Well, a University of New Mexico Chicano Studies professor named Charles Truxillo says that it is “an inevitability.”... worldnetdaily.com/ ... 09:48:12The NHTSA's "Click It or Ticket" program is another step toward making Americans serfs of the state...
9/11 - still with ustamu.edu/ ... 19:34:54statement from Texas A&M University regarding recent news reports about the collapse of the World Trade Center on 9-11.. and Professor Emeritus.. Dr. Morgan Reynolds... "The American people know what they saw with their own eyes on September 11, 2001. To suggest any kind of government conspiracy in the events of that day goes beyond the pale...."abcnews.go.com/ ... 09:47:25When her husband died in the attacks on the World Trade Center on Sept. 11, 2001, relatives, friends and strangers opened their hearts and their wallets to Kathy Trant, donating millions of dollars to Trant and her three children. The money was meant to compensate for the income Dan Trant would have used to support his family for years to come. But to Trant it represented blood money, money that couldn't make up for what she had lost. Fewer than four years after the attacks, she has blown through most of the money, and is coming out with her story now to warn others against the trappings of chronic spending...
Sex can be Dangerousthepittsburghchannel.com/ ... 19:33:27A door-to-door meat salesman from Maine is accused of assaulting a potential customer after she turned down his offer of chicken in exchange for sex... news.bbc.co.uk/ ... 09:26:49A man who tried to conduct a job interview naked has been sentenced to three years' probation and placed on the sex offenders' register...
Theftpost-gazette.com/ ... 19:33:04Four men were ordered to stand trial in the theft and butchering of a pet pygmy goat, allegedly so its meat could be traded for crack cocaine or money... ap.tbo.com/ ... 02:20:15MIAMI - Three men were arrested as part of a gasoline theft ring that used specially designed trucks to siphon fuel from gasoline stations' underground tanks undetected... would position the trucks above the storage tanks, open their lids and use hoses to pump fuel into a truck modified with a 1,000-gallon tank...
Threatsap.tbo.com/ ... 20:10:50Spanish police arrested 11 men Wednesday on charges of belonging to a Syrian-based network that recruited suicide bombers to attack U.S. troops in Iraq... news.yahoo.com/ ... 09:27:04Osama bin Laden is alive and in good health, as is fugitive Taliban chief Mullah Mohammed Omar, a purported senior commander of the ousted militia said Wednesday in a television interview... reuters.com/ ... 02:13:27An 18-year-old Michigan man accused of plotting to kill fellow students at his suburban Detroit high school was found guilty on Tuesday of threatening to commit an act of terrorism... wrote messages on the Internet about the possibility of killing students at his Chippewa Valley High School...
People Diereuters.com/ ... 19:37:16Terri Schiavo.. was massively and irreversibly brain-damaged, pathologists announcing the results of an autopsy said on Wednesday... ap.tbo.com/ ... 02:21:33HUNTSVILLE, Ala. - A 10-month-old girl died Tuesday and her twin brother was hospitalized after the babies were left in a parked car as temperatures soared into the 90s... inside the car at the family's home... ap.tbo.com/ ... 02:18:55[Close, but not quite me] WICHITA, Kan. - Ron Tyler, co-founder of the Residence Inn chain of hotels, died Friday. He was 61.reuters.com/ ... 02:12:40A 4-year-old boy died after going on a Walt Disney World thrill ride that uses centrifugal force to simulate the weightlessness, and often the queasiness, of a rocket launch... mother said he had no history of medical problems... He initially seemed fine during the Monday afternoon ride.... "She said she did notice he was a little rigid, maybe because of the excitement of the ride. She thought he might have been afraid so she grabbed his hand," he said. But when the ride ended, he was limp and unresponsive...
Rebuildingnews.bbc.co.uk/ ... 00:16:43Despite odds the Afghan army is a fighting force...
Mechanical Disasternews.bbc.co.uk/ ... 00:14:56Two people have been killed by an explosion at an oil storage facility on near the Russian capital, Moscow. Another person is reported to be seriously injured, after safety regulations were reportedly violated as a railway tanker was being emptied...
Violencenews.bbc.co.uk/ ... 19:35:22A riot at a jail in Brazil's Sao Paulo state has ended after inmates freed a group of guards they had taken hostage. In 30 hours of violence, the inmates beheaded at least five members of a rival gang, started fires and destroyed much of the jail... The victims' heads were at one point displayed on stakes on the prison roof... nytimes.com/ ... 09:24:28A man wearing a belt packed with explosives blew himself up inside a restaurant at an Iraqi national guard base north of Baghdad today, killing at least 23 Iraqi soldiers and wounding 28 others... bloomberg.com/ ... 09:24:11Spanish police arrested 16 people they suspect of connections to Islamic terrorism, 11 of whom support Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, the leader of al-Qaeda in Iraq... ctv.ca/ ... 09:23:53Australian hostage Douglas Wood was freed in a military operation by Iraqi troops backed by U.S. forces... ap.tbo.com/ ... 02:20:41KIRKUK, Iraq - A suicide bomber struck outside a bank as elderly men and women waited to cash their pension checks Tuesday, killing 23 people and wounding nearly 100... cnn.com/ ... 00:13:08JOHN: No, sir. He said -- what he told me [was that] on his way back up they stopped ... close to the Marriott and they dropped off the missing girl and the Dutch guy ... and he and his brother went home...
Under Digital Tyrannynews.bbc.co.uk/ ... 00:15:51Also being restricted on the free parts of the site are journal entries that mention "human rights" and "Taiwan independence"... Those using these banned words or writing entries that are pornographic or contain sensitive information get a pop-up warning that reads: "This message contains a banned expression, please delete this expression..." reuters.myway.com/ ... 00:09:29Microsoft Corp.'s new MSN China Internet venture is censoring words such as "freedom," "democracy" and "human rights" on its free online journals, Microsoft said on Tuesday, putting itself in the middle of a major Web controversy...
MON 2005-JUN-13
Extraterrestrialnews.bbc.co.uk/ ... 17:27:55Astronomers have detected the smallest extrasolar planet yet: a world about seven and a half times as massive as Earth orbiting a star much like ours...
Preternatural Patternsnews.bbc.co.uk/ ... 17:27:37A 31-year-old serial impostor who passed himself off for a whole month as a schoolboy - aged 15 - is being questioned by police in France...
Lasting Contributionsap.tbo.com/ ... 08:42:21Richard Eberhart, a Pulitzer Prize-winning poet admired for mentoring generations of aspiring writers, died Thursday at his home after a short illness, Dartmouth College said. He was 101...
US Military Casualtiesdefenselink.mil/ ... 17:31:47[flag]Marine Lance Cpl. Mario A. Castillo, 20, of Brownwood, Texas
[flag]Marine Lance Cpl. Andrew J. Kilpela, 22, of Fowerville, Mich.
died June 10 as a result of an explosion while conducting combat operations in Saqlawiyah, Iraq. defenselink.mil/ ... 17:31:13[flag]Army Sgt. Larry R. Arnold Sr., 46, of Carriere, Miss.
[flag]Army Spc. Terrance D. Lee Sr., 25, of Moss Point, Miss.
died on June 11 in Owesat Village, Iraq, when their armored personnel carrier was hit by an improvised explosive device.defenselink.mil/ ... 17:30:32[flag]Army Sgt. First Class Victor H. Cervantes, 27, of Stockton, Calif., died June 10 in Orgun-e, Afghanistan, when he came under small arms fire while on patrol.
Justice?mtv.com/ ... 17:26:56Michael Jackson Not Guilty On All Charges...
Repeal! Repeal! Repeal!reuters.com/ ... 08:39:27Tiny Swaziland losing war to weed out marijuana...
Disturbing Family Patternsreuters.com/ ... 17:33:24A man charged with endangering his four young children by allowing two 50-pound leopard cubs to roam freely around his suburban New York home pleaded not guilty on Friday...
Threatsnewsday.com/ ... 17:24:12NEWPORT, Ind. -- About 30 gallons of a liquid containing a deadly Cold War-era nerve agent spilled at an Indiana chemical weapons depot, but it was safely contained in a sealed area and no one was injured... VX is a liquid with the consistency of mineral oil that can kill a healthy adult with a single pinpoint droplet...
Digital Threatap.tbo.com/ ... 08:44:14man was arrested Monday for allegedly setting up a phony Internet portal site to lure victims into giving personal data... Japan's first arrest linked to a form of identity theft called phishing... phony Yafoo! Japan site...
Under Tyrannyap.tbo.com/ ... 08:42:37KATMANDU, Nepal - Nearly 100 journalists were arrested Monday while protesting media restrictions...
Violencenews.yahoo.com/ ... 17:22:29AURORA, Colo. - A Saudi Arabian couple was in custody Friday, accused of turning a young Indonesian woman into a virtual slave, forcing her to clean, cook and care for their children while she was threatened and sexually assaulted... worldnetdaily.com/ ... 17:22:00Palestinian Islamic Jihad terrorists left two bags filled with explosives in a suburb outside Jerusalem, and attempted several times to infiltrate the city to collect the explosives and carry out a large-scale suicide bombing, security sources told WND... reuters.com/ ... 08:39:14Twelve people were killed and more than 70 wounded on Monday when a powerful car bomb exploded near a school in a busy town in Indian Kashmir... reuters.com/ ... 08:38:12Angry Hindu youths beat three American missionaries and tried to kidnap one as they held a bible studies class in Bombay... reuters.com/ ... 08:37:55A senior U.S. diplomat was unscathed on Monday when a suicide car bomber struck a U.S. military convoy in Baghdad... two civilians nearby.. killed and five wounded... news.bbc.co.uk/ ... 08:36:33At least five people have been killed in two suicide car bomb attacks in northern Iraq... in Tikrit.. a bomber reportedly blew up his car after being surrounded. Two policemen died and at least six people were injured... in nearby Samarra, at least three Iraqi policemen were killed and five wounded when a bomber struck a joint US-Iraqi patrol... rferl.org/ ... 08:35:46t is still unclear who was behind yesterday's bombings in Iran that killed at least eight people and injured 50 more. Iranian officials say the bombings are aimed at stopping voters from participating in the 17 June election... four blasts went off in quick succession yesterday morning in Ahvaz, the provincial capital of Khuzestan Province, killing . Mohammad Hussein Motahar, Iran's Interior Ministry intelligence chief... reuters.com/ ... 08:34:58Four U.S. soldiers were wounded when an explosion struck a military convoy near the southern Afghan city of Kandahar on Monday... Four U.S. soldiers were wounded when an explosion struck a military convoy near the southern Afghan city of Kandahar on Monday...
SUN 2005-JUN-12
US Executive Branchfoxnews.com/ ... 17:06:24BUSH: Well, you know, we're exploring all alternatives as to how best to do the main objective, which is to protect America. What we don't want to do is let somebody out that comes back and harms us. And so we're looking at all alternatives and have been. And when there have been questions of abuse and allegations like the Koran, the Pentagon went through a full investigation and then released the data for everybody to see. And I will tell you that we treat these prisoners in accordance with international standards. And that's what the American people expect. When somebody put out that Amnesty International report, they asked me about it. I said it's just absurd to equate Gitmo and Guantanamo with a Soviet gulag. It's just not even close...
Culturelatimes.com/ ... 16:42:41Watching as Batman takes wing by Max Allan Collins, reviews two reprint volumes.. "The Batman Chronicles: Volume One," which collects tens of thousands of dollars' worth of rare late-1930s and early-'40s comic books into one modestly priced package; and "Batman: Year One," Batman's beginnings as seen by the character's most influential contemporary interpreter, Frank Miller....
Digital Consequencesnews.bbc.co.uk/ ... 10:04:42The people who make films, TV and music are trying to work out how to survive in a digital era where the consumer is in control...
History - still with uswashtimes.com/ ... 02:47:54Apparent bullet fragments reportedly have been discovered in the exhumed body of Emmett Till...
Yuck!nytimes.com/ ... 02:46:30methamphetamine seems to be taking a unique, and horrific, toll inside its users' mouths. In short stretches of time, sometimes just months, a perfectly healthy set of teeth can turn a grayish-brown, twist and begin to fall out, and take on a peculiar texture less like that of hard enamel and more like that of a piece of ripened fruit...
Whoops!scotlandonsunday.scotsman.com/ ... 02:45:51When the fisherman first spotted the 850kg vessel bobbing on the surface two miles south-west of the Mull of Oa on Islay, he thought it was a discarded oil drum. However, on closer inspection, Baker, from Port Ellen on Islay, realised it was actually a remotely operated mini Royal Navy submarine, primarily used to hunt for mines in hostile waters. It was nine feet long, almost a ton in weight and crammed with hi-tech equipment used to probe the ocean floor - often where it is considered to be too risky to send a human being...
Transportap.tbo.com/ ... 02:35:31A passenger train traveling from Chechnya to Moscow derailed on Sunday morning, injuring 10 people...
Woman's Rightap.tbo.com/ ... 10:05:14The Kuwaiti government has appointed its first female Cabinet minister, a month after lawmakers in this oil-rich nation granted women the right to vote and run for office...
Justice?detnews.com/ ... 10:04:11The massive civil racketeering case against big tobacco companies that wrapped up this week in federal court has been so battered by adverse rulings and government fumbling that a verdict might mean little even if the industry loses, observers say...
Only Naturalap.tbo.com/ ... 02:33:56The death toll from a Friday flash flood that smashed into a primary school in mountainous northeast China... 91 people... Eighty-seven of the victims were students from the school...nytimes.com/ ... 02:31:40Israeli doctors and scientists have succeeded in germinating a date seed nearly 2,000 years old. The seed, nicknamed Methuselah, was taken from an excavation at Masada, the cliff fortress where, in A.D. 73, 960 Jewish zealots died by their own hand, rather than surrender to a Roman assault. The point is to find out what was so exceptional about the original date palm of Judea, much praised in the Bible and the Koran for its shade, food, beauty and medicinal qualities, but long ago destroyed by the crusaders...
9/11 - still with ustime.com/ ... 17:07:00TIME OBTAINS SECRET INTERROGATION LOG FROM GUANTANAMO; INCLUDES MOMENT-BY-MOMENT ACCOUNT OF INTERROGATION OF DETAINEE WHO U.S. BELIEVES WAS THE ‘20TH HIJACKER’... nydailynews.com/ ... 10:03:55Four years have passed since the 9/11 attacks, but time has not eased the pain for the loved ones of Firefighter Keithroy Maynard - especially his young son and namesake. The 10-year-old wept yesterday as he walked into a Manhattan church to bid a final farewell to his dad, whose remains were identified just a few weeks ago...
World Without Bordersthewmurchannel.com/ ... 02:45:00MANCHESTER, N.H. -- A Keene Libertarian who tried to board a flight carrying nothing but a Bible and a copy of the Declaration of Independence was arrested Saturday at Manchester Airport... refused to have his bail posted and will remain in jail until his arraignment Monday... hoped his actions would highlight what he considers overly burdensome state intrusion...
Disturbing Family Patternschennaionline.com/ ... 02:41:27Seventyfive-year-old Abdul Rauf, a resident of Malugram in Bolpur area of Birbhum district, has urged the Chief Minister in a brief letter, a copy of which was provided to the media, to permit the mercy killing of his two grown-up disabled daughters, Fatima Khatun (39) and Rejina Khatun (29)...
Violencenews.xinhuanet.com/ ... 10:04:27At least five people were killed and dozens of others injured in bombs blasts simultaneously near public facilities in the southwestern Iranian city of Ahvaz Sunday morning... hindu.com/ ... 10:03:28Fifteen people were injured as a passenger train from Chechen capital Grozny derailed near here today after a bomb blast on the track....ap.tbo.com/ ... 02:35:16An 18-year-old student accused of throwing a homemade bomb into a classroom in southern Japan said he planned the attack because "his pride had been hurt" by other students. One male student was seriously injured with cuts to his legs and abdomen, and another student broke his finger in the attack Friday at Hikari public high school in Yamaguchi prefecture. Of the 58 students treated after the incident, 17 were hospitalized... told police he used instructions from a Web site... possibility of raising that charge to attempted murder... news.bbc.co.uk/ ... 02:32:20an estimated one million children who work in small-scale mining and quarrying across the globe...
SAT 2005-JUN-11
Transportap.tbo.com/ ... 14:32:56Future of the Highway? High-Speed, Free-Market Tolls Catching on Nationwide to Tame Congestion... ap.tbo.com/ ... 14:32:44The Woes of Modern America: Traffic Jams Spreading From Big City to Small, and No Way Out...
Digital Consequencesinformationweek.com/ ... 14:05:19The Internet Corporation For Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN), the group responsible for managing and coordinating the Net's Domain Name System (DNS), this week gave the nod to VeriSign as the manager of the .net top level domain. VeriSign beat out four other bidders for the six-year contract; VeriSign has been administering the .net top level domain, the Internet's third-largest top level domain, as well as the top dog,.com, since 2001...
Chaos as Usualuk.news.yahoo.com/ ... 14:04:39A group of naked cyclists took part in a bike ride to protest against oil dependency and to "celebrate the human body..." washingtonpost.com/ ... 14:04:26The Republican chairman walked off with the gavel, leaving Democrats shouting into turned-off microphones at a raucous hearing Friday on the Patriot Act. The House Judiciary Committee hearing, with the two sides accusing each other of being irresponsible and undemocratic, came as President Bush was urging Congress to renew those sections of the post-Sept. 11 counterterrorism law set to expire in September...
US Militarydefenselink.mil/ ... 17:26:11The Navy, Marine Corps and Air Force met or exceeded their recruiting goals in May. The Navy’s recruiting goal was 1,939, and it enlisted 1,947 (100 percent). The Marine Corps’ goal was 1,843, and it recruited 1,904 (103 percent). The Air Force goal was 1,037, and it recruited 1,049 (101 percent). The Army missed its May recruiting goal of 6,700 by 1,661 recruits (75 percent).
US Military Casualtiesdefenselink.mil/ ... 17:31:09[flag]Army Pfc. Douglas E. Kashmer, 27, of Sharon, Pa., died June 8 in Nippur, Iraq, when the wrecker in which he was a passenger was involved in a non-combat related rollover.defenselink.mil/ ... 17:30:50[flag]Army Pfc. Emmanuel Hernandez, 22, of Yauco, Puerto Rico, died June 8 in Shkin, Afghanistan, when his helicopter-landing zone came under enemy fire. defenselink.mil/ ... 17:30:34[flag]Army Staff Sgt. Mark O. Edwards, 40, of Unicoi, Tenn., died June 9 at his forward operating base near Tuz, Iraq, from a non-combat related cause.defenselink.mil/ ... 17:30:21[flag]Marine Lance Cpl. Dustin V. Birch, 22, of Saint Anthony, Idaho
[flag]Marine Lance Cpl. Daniel Chavez, 20, of Seattle, Wash.
[flag]Marine Lance Cpl. Thomas O. Keeling, 23, of Strongsville, Ohio
[flag]Marine Lance Cpl. Devon P. Seymour, 21, of St. Louisville, Ohio
[flag]Marine Cpl. Brad D. Squires, 26, of Middleburg Heights, Ohio
died June 9 as a result of an explosion while conducting combat operations with 2nd Marine Division, II Marine Expeditionary Force (Forward), in Haqlaniyah, Iraq.defenselink.mil/ ... 17:29:19[flag]Army Lt. Col. Terrence K. Crowe, 44, of New York, N.Y., died June 7 in Tal Afar, Iraq, when his unit was attacked by enemy forces using rocket-propelled grenades and small arms fire. defenselink.mil/ ... 17:28:55[flag]Army Capt. Phillip T. Esposito, 30, of Suffern, N.Y.
[flag]Army 1st Lt. Louis E. Allen, 34, of Milford, Pa.
died on June 8 in Tikrit, Iraq, of injuries sustained on June 7 in Tikrit, Iraq, when an explosion of unknown origin occurred near their location. defenselink.mil/ ... 17:28:22[flag]Army Sgt. Roberto Arizola, Jr., 31, of Laredo, Texas, died June 8 in Baghdad, Iraq, when an improvised explosive device detonated near his HMMWV.defenselink.mil/ ... 17:28:05[flag]Army Sgt. Michael J. Kelley, 26, of Scituate, Mass., died June 8 in Shkin, Afghanistan, when his helicopter landing zone came under enemy fire. defenselink.mil/ ... 17:27:49Remains of
[flag]Air Force Col. James L. Carter of Johnson City, Tenn., missing in action from the Vietnam War, have been identified and are being returned to his family for burial at Arlington National Cemetery today. On Feb. 3, 1966, Carter was the aircraft commander of a C-123 “Provider” aircraft which had taken off from Khe Sanh in South Vietnam on a supply mission to Dong Ha, South Vietnam. The plane was not seen again....defenselink.mil/ ... 17:26:27[flag]Marine Lance Cpl. Marc L. Tucker, 24, of Pontotoc, Miss., died June 8 as a result of a non-hostile vehicle accident in Asr Uranium, Iraq. defenselink.mil/ ... 17:25:21[flag]Army Civilian Ms. Linda J. Villar, 41, of Franklinton, La., died June 3 in Baghdad, Iraq, from injuries sustained when a mortar struck her forward operating base.defenselink.mil/ ... 17:24:57[flag]Army 1st Lt. Michael J. Fasnacht, 25, of Columbus, Ga., died June 8 in Tikrit, Iraq, when an improvised explosive device detonated near his Bradley Fighting Vehicle.defenselink.mil/ ... 17:24:40[flag]Army Spc. Eric T. Burri, 21, of Wyoming, Mich., died June 7 in Baghdad, Iraq, when an improvised explosive device detonated near his HMMWV...
Justice?news.bbc.co.uk/ ... 14:36:46The victim of a notorious Pakistan gang rape says she is being prevented from moving freely or leaving the country. Mukhtar Mai, gang raped allegedly on the orders of a tribal council in 2002, demanded the restrictions be lifted. On Friday a court ordered that 12 men imprisoned in connection with the case must be released by Monday...
Only Naturalreuters.com/ ... 14:32:08The death toll from a Friday flash flood that smashed into a primary school in mountainous northeast China has jumped to 64, including 62 children...
Under Tyrannyap.tbo.com/ ... 14:34:40On Post-Castro Cuba: the Word From Miami's Streets... themoscowtimes.com/ ... 00:32:34Moscow.. Evangelical Christians Fight for a Church... Dozens of evangelical believers stood stunned on Tverskaya Ploshchad across from City Hall, their protest banners lying in police vans, their pastor being carted off to a holding cell. "This time it was pretty," Yelena Purshaga said last Thursday. Her husband, Alexander Purshaga, is the pastor of the Emmanuel church. "You should have seen the way it was yesterday..."
Violenceap.tbo.com/ ... 14:34:58Two agents of Mexico's Federal Agency of Investigation were shot to death on Saturday morning in a middle-class neighborhood in Mexico City... reuters.com/ ... 14:32:28Afghanistan has freed four people, including the mother of the man who kidnapped an Italian aid worker, but their release was not part of a deal to free the Italian from 24 days in captivity, a government spokesman said... reuters.com/ ... 14:31:37A former Iraqi police commando blew himself up on Saturday in a failed bid to assassinate the leader of the anti-insurgent Wolf Brigade, killing three other policemen in the attempt... reuters.com/ ... 14:31:05U.S. air strikes killed an estimated 40 insurgents in western Iraq on Saturday... ap.tbo.com/ ... 14:17:44A search party discovered a bloody mattress on a desolate Aruban beach not far from where police detained two men hours earlier in connection with the disappearance of an Alabama teenager who went missing last week during a high school senior trip... found in thick brush at Grapefield beach in eastern Aruba, prompting authorities to focus their search for the blonde teen in the area... reuters.com/ ... 00:35:07A car bomb exploded in a street in a Shi'ite area of Baghdad overnight, killing 10 people and wounding 27... news.yahoo.com/ ... 00:31:17One of three young men who took an Alabama high school student to the beach during her class trip to Aruba confessed he killed her... was leading police late Friday to the scene of the crime...
Digital Threatgeekinformed.com/ ... 00:29:45Microsoft Corp. plans to ship 10 security patches that will protect consumers from vulnerabilities in the company's various products the company stated yesterday in a security bulletin...
FRI 2005-JUN-10
Preternatural Patternsreuters.com/ ... 11:47:51Japanese necktie makers are hot under the collar over a "Cool Biz" campaign to get men to dress down to save energy... pittsburghlive.com/ ... 11:42:27Republican National Chairman Ken Mehlman... At a reception for him by the Republican Jewish Coalition, held at the Duquesne Club, Mehlman quipped: "Good afternoon, my fellow white Christians..." chron.com/ ... 11:16:00When relatives of Vivian Shulman Lieberman went to visit her final resting place in a Houston mausoleum one year ago today, they discovered that the cedar chest containing her ashes was missing. In its place, behind the locked, glass door of Lieberman's niche in Congregation Beth Israel's mausoleum, was a can of sour-cream-and-onion potato chips...
Easy for Him to Saynews.yahoo.com/ ... 11:06:40Pope Promotes Abstinence to Fight AIDS...
Nixon - still with uswashingtonpost.com/ ... 00:27:29Felt told him the suspect had some cuts and bruises. "I hope they worked him over a little bit more than that," Nixon said. "I think they did pretty well," Felt responded with a chuckle...
Only Naturalreuters.com/ ... 11:48:28A baby face may win hearts but it doesn't win votes, U.S. researchers said on Thursday...
US Militaryreuters.com/ ... 11:45:21The U.S. army has opened a criminal investigation into a blast that killed two soldiers at a base in Iraq after discovering it was not caused by an insurgent mortar attack...
Digital Consequencesnews.com.com/ ... 11:05:12Seagate Technologies has unveiled 10 new hard drives, including its first hard drive to use next-generation perpendicular-recording technology... internal drives include the company's first-ever design for the automotive industry, an 8GB 1-inch drive for portable media players and a 500GB capacity disc drive for home entertainment systems that can store as much as 85 hours of high-definition TV... first 2.5-inch drive built on perpendicular recording technology. The 160GB storage drive was initially designed for notebooks, but Seagate expects to modify it for other consumer devices, as well... Perpendicular recording is the next phase of drive storage... Instead of lying flat, the disc is magnetized so that the bits stand on end. The result is a drive that can hold almost double the amount of data of current designs...
Natural Threatreuters.com/ ... 11:46:04Nigerian police have arrested a cow that killed a bus driver who was urinating on a highway... reuters.com/ ... 11:45:50Two kittens... urinated on a fax machine, sparking a fire that extensively damaged their Japanese owner's house... thisislondon.com/ ... 11:07:15Joggers are today being warned about violent crows in London parks after an attack left a man bloodied and needing hospital treatment... "mobbing" - where two or more birds gang up on an assumed predator to keep them away from their young...
Sex can be Dangerouswashingtonpost.com/ ... 11:03:23After two weeks of being unable to identify a toddler in pornographic photographs, police released nonsexual photos of her nationwide. Within a day, her grandfather was in custody on child pornography charges... a clerk at a CVS drugstore discovered electronic copies of photos showing the naked 2-year-old and turned them over to police... Some of the photos in the batch were typical family fare. But police said other pictures showed the girl "positioned and posed in sexually explicit ways..." admitted taking the photos with a digital camera after becoming "fascinated" by his granddaughter's genitals when giving her a bath...
Transport Tragedywboc.com/ ... 10:59:49BOCA RATON, Fla. Five children are critically injured, after a bus they were traveling in collided this morning with a tractor trailer on Florida's Turnpike... Other children on the bus are crying and complaining of minor injuries... the front of the tractor trailer had hit the right side of the bus. The trailer was carrying lumber...
World Without Bordersnewsday.com/ ... 00:39:00Authorities raided 17 Chinese restaurants around Michigan that they suspect of ducking millions of dollars in taxes and importing undocumented workers as a "modern version of indentured servants..."
Digital Threatmsnbc.msn.com/ ... 00:42:55But civil libertarians have raised privacy concerns, citing some recent problems. In February, ChoicePoint Inc., a background-screening company that collects personal information -- including biometric data -- said it accidentally sold more than 100,000 individual profiles to identity thieves... money.cnn.com/ ... 00:38:40Using a cell phone behind the wheel is a key cause of traffic accidents and hands-free devices provide little safety benefit... devices like head sets or voice-activated dialing led to longer dialing times than for hand-held phones. The delays offset the potential benefit of keeping both hands on the wheel...
Socialismwashingtonpost.com/ ... 00:37:24Key Senate Republicans privately reviewed suggestions Thursday for raising the Social Security retirement age while limiting future benefits for upper-wage earners...
9/11 - still with uswashtimes.com/ ... 00:42:02A fictional crime drama based on the premise that the Bush administration ordered the September 11 attacks on the World Trade Center and Washington aired this week on German state television, prompting the Green Party chairman to call for an investigation... seemed to use haunting Arabic music to portray Arabs and Muslims as innocent victims of American aggression... in Germany.. fantastic conspiracy theories often are taken as fact... kpho.com/ ... 00:29:21A year old report made public just this Thursday is raising new questions about whether the attacks of September 11th could have been prevented... FBI missed at least five opportunities to uncover vital information about the attacks... failing to follow up on agents’ theories that Osama Bin Laden was sending students to U.S. flight training schools...
Violencereuters.com/ ... 11:44:42Insurgents in Afghanistan ambushed a patrol on Friday and one U.S. soldier and seven of the attackers were killed... cbsnews.com/ ... 11:13:42An attack on a Los Alamos nuclear lab auditor outside a bar was unrelated to his status as a whistleblower, authorities said Thursday, calling into question the man's allegation that he was beaten to ensure his silence... saying the attack occurred after Hook's car struck a pedestrian while leaving the club... news.xinhuanet.com/ ... 11:00:53Twenty-nine people, including 27 pupils, were confirmed dead and four others were missing after a mountain torrent hit a primary school around 2 p.m. Friday in Shalan town in Ning'an city of northeastern Heilongjiang Province. The other two dead were local villagers and rescuers were searching for the four missing, including two students, according to local rescue headquarters. Another 13 pupils were under an emergency treatment... swissinfo.org/ ... 11:00:20A rocket grenade exploded at the Zaragoza airport in Spain on Friday, forcing a Ryanair plane to divert to a nearby military base but causing no injuries after a warning by armed Basque separatist group ETA... washingtonpost.com/ ... 00:24:51KABUL, Afghanistan, June 9 -- An Italian aid worker who was kidnapped in the capital more than three weeks ago was freed Thursday evening... reported to be in good health... kidnapper, whom Afghan officials have portrayed as a criminal gang member rather than an ideological militant, was persuaded to hand over Cantoni unharmed...
THU 2005-JUN-09
Supernaturalthestar.com.my/ ... 11:27:51Dr Hawass explained that a likely danger to archaeologists was the exposure to air long trapped in the sealed tomb and probably carrying harmful elements. Hence, Howard Carter took the precaution of inserting a candle through a small hole in the doorway to Tutankhamun’s tomb to test for noxious gases, before he entered... news.scotsman.com/ ... 11:08:05Jesus may have died from a blood clot that reached his lungs, an Israeli professor said today, challenging the popular conception that he died of blood loss during his crucifixion. Professor Benjamin Brenner put forward his theory in the Journal of Thrombosis and Haemostasis, hoping to raise awareness of the pulmonary embolism, a potentially fatal disorder often associated with long-distance flights...
[Let's see, he was rejected, falsely tried, tortured, whipped, humiliated, nailed to a cross in the hot sun... maybe he just decided it was finished...?]
Modern Family Lifetheadvertiser.news.com.au/ ... 10:23:40A QUEENSLAND woman is pregnant with quads for the second time in what is believed to be a world first... After the birth of her first set of quads.. Mrs Chalk said they wanted as many as 12 children and... "If we had quads again that would be the bees' knees..." Australian Multiple Birth Association national chairwoman Cathy Vellacott said the thought of having eight children under two was "mind boggling". "I have never heard of another family being in that situation," she said. "It's unique..." All of the Chalk children were conceived using artificial insemination by a sperm donor who shared Mr Chalk's physical characteristics... ap.tbo.com/ ... 02:10:12Any parent can be challenged by the pace of modern family life - the blur of dropping the kids off at tae kwon do, picking up dinner and doing catch-up work on the laptop. But it can present particular possibilities and challenges for adults with attention disorders...
History - still with usreuters.com/ ... 12:08:06CHICAGO - The face of racial hatred in America is on display in a new exhibit on lynching... The photographs on display at the Chicago Historical Society record grisly killings that occurred mostly in the Southern Cotton Belt, but stretched as far east as Maryland and as far north as Duluth, Minnesota... That the wounds of a country divided by color are far from healed was evident when the exhibit opened last week. Out of sensitivity, organizers temporarily removed a photograph of the mangled face of Emmett Till -- a black teenager tortured and killed in Mississippi in 1955 -- when they brought Tills' family to a private showing before the exhibit's opening....newsobserver.com/ ... 10:21:38Jesse Helms... 303-page memoir, "Here's Where I Stand," scheduled to be published by Random House in September... "it had been my feeling that AIDS was a disease largely spread by reckless and voluntary sexual and drug-abusing behavior, and that it would probably be confined to those in high risk populations. I was wrong..." I thought it was wrong for people who did not know, and who did not care, about the relationships between neighbors and friends to force their ideas about how communities should work on the people who had built those communities in the first place. I believed right would prevail as people followed their own consciences... We will never know how integration might have been achieved in neighborhoods across our land, because the opportunity was snatched away by outside agitators who had their own agendas to advance. We certainly do know the price paid by the stirring of hatred, the encouragement of violence, the suspicion and distrust. We do know that too many lives were lost, businesses were destroyed, millions of dollars were diverted from books and teachers to support the cost of buses and gasoline. We do know that turning our public schools into social laboratories almost destroyed them..." reuters.com/ ... 01:57:02A previously unknown aria by German composer Johann Sebastian Bach has been discovered in the eastern town of Weimar...
Sex -- always attractivenewscientist.com/ ... 11:22:47Men who view pornographic images of two men and a woman produce better-quality sperm than men viewing pornographic images of just women... The finding suggests that humans may be capable of subconsciously increasing semen quality when faced with the possibility that their sperm will have to outrun those of other men in a woman’s reproductive tract... reuters.com/ ... 01:55:46A German city is rushing to install a series of drive-in wooden "sex garages" in time for next year's Soccer World Cup and an expected boom in the local sex trade...
Digital Consequencesnews.yahoo.com/ ... 10:17:58NAGAKUTE, Japan - Robots of all shapes and sizes were batting fastballs, drawing portraits, teaching the waltz and doing standup comedy at the World Expo — but several years of testing are still needed before most of them can be used in public, developers say... reuters.com/ ... 01:49:11Microsoft will release a version of its Windows operating system without the Media Player application on June 15 to comply with European Union anti-monopoly rules, the company said on Wednesday...
Transportmsnbc.msn.com/ ... 11:28:39a gallon of gasoline may be one of the best bargains around... cheaper by volume than many other household products, and the cost has not risen as quickly over the years... "..10 percent cheaper than bottled water, a third the cost of milk, a fifth the cost of beer, and less than 2 percent the cost of a bottle of Jack Daniels..."reuters.com/ ... 01:55:26An 18-year-old Thai gave birth in the passenger seat of a Mercedes Benz which was doing 140 km per hour (85 mph) to try to get her to hospital in time... reuters.com/ ... 01:47:17major consumers worldwide are looking to dramatically increase their use of biofuels, environmentally friendly fuel made from sugar cane, vegetable or corn oils...
Yuck!canada.com/ ... 11:29:19VANCOUVER (CP) -- The ripe stench of human excrement is getting stronger in downtown lanes, curling the stomachs of workers who no longer want to relax by the back door for smoke breaks... The 10-block city slum is swollen with up to 5,000 injection drug users who have less control of their bowels. Many are homeless and have nowhere to go to the toilet... newscientist.com/ ... 11:09:53lack of proper hygiene leads to severe cases of diarrhoea in almost a third of climbers - a dangerous affliction for high-altitude adventurers... reuters.com/ ... 01:56:45A German woman living with 43 goats was evicted from her rented house after the animals left "knee-high" piles of droppings around the garden and laid waste to the building's interior... washingtonpost.com/ ... 01:11:41The leg, with hip and spine attached, dented the shingled roof of her garage before bouncing into the lawn...
Only Naturalreuters.com/ ... 12:11:13Parents with major depression or panic disorder are more likely to have children with asthma and other allergy-based conditions... These findings should be viewed in the context of previous studies that found an increased risk of depression in children of parents with allergic disorders... "In this context, data from the present study further support the possibility of common genes for depression and panic disorder on the one hand, and allergic disorders on the other hand..."
[Seems t'me the histamine "allergic" over-reaction, which acts on the mind like speed or anxiety, might be involved in this connection.]news.bbc.co.uk/ ... 11:24:12Wildlife experts in India's north-eastern state of Assam are trying out tripwires and "red chilli bombs" to keep wild elephants away from villages...chicagotribune.com/ ... 10:17:27Saturn's moon Titan does not possess the exotic methane oceans that many experts thought it might, but the Cassini space probe may have spotted something just as strange--volcanoes that spout a brew of icy, tar-like goo...
Culturenydailynews.com/ ... 10:47:55In the case of the '60s, irrefutably important social changes were contrasted by the adolescent blob of rock culture that eventually swallowed up much of the taste and obscured much of the talent of the society. We saw the loud and the obvious take up more of our cultural space. Adolescent obsessions with sensation and the sensational pushed most subtle forms of expression into the margins as teenage angst became more and more dominant...
[Whoa! I know 60s- and baby-boomer-bashing is really "hot" for writers these days, but The Grouch really earns his nickname on this one. I would say the description he gives fits the 1970s much better. The "adolescent blob" had many gems of fine artistry that stand up fine thirty years later compared to the pap produced in the subsequent decades. Not to say there wasn't plenty of noise and stupidity in the '60s to gripe on, but it's unfair to dismiss it all so summarily. ]reuters.com/ ... 01:55:10comic books are breaking down the stereotype of lightweight entertainment for teenage boys more interested in superheroes than Shakespeare's men in tights. Graphic novels are one of the fastest growing sectors in U.S. publishing, and are becoming increasingly respectable both as an art form and as a way to promote literacy...
US Militarydefenselink.mil/ ... 01:20:21This week, the Army, Navy, Marine Corps and Coast Guard announced a decrease in the number of reservists on active duty in support of the partial mobilization, while the Air Force number increased. The net collective result is 15,333 fewer reservists mobilized than last week...
US Military Casualtiesdefenselink.mil/ ... 01:40:55[flag]Marine Lance Cpl. Robert T. Mininger, 21, of Sellersville, Pa., died June 6 from wounds received as a result of an explosion while conducting combat operations against enemy forces in Fallujah, Iraq.defenselink.mil/ ... 01:21:12[flag]Marine Lance Cpl. Jonathan L. Smith, 22, of Eva, Ala., died June 6 from wounds received as a result of an explosion while conducting combat operations against enemy forces in Fallujah, Iraq.defenselink.mil/ ... 01:20:50[flag]Army Spc. Brian M. Romines, 20, of Simpson, Ill., died June 6 in Baghdad, Iraq, where an improvised explosive device detonated near his HMMWV. defenselink.mil/ ... 01:20:04[flag]Army Col. Theodore S. Westhusing, 44, of Dallas, Texas, died June 5 in Baghdad, Iraq, from non-combat related injuries... defenselink.mil/ ... 01:19:37[flag]Army Staff Sgt. Justin L. Vasquez, 26, of Manzanola, Colo.
[flag]Army Spc. Eric J. Poelman, 21, of Racine, Wis.
[flag]Army Pfc. Brian S. Ulbrich, 23, of Chapmanville, W. Va.
died on June 5 in Baghdad, Iraq, when an improvised explosive device detonated near their military vehicle.
People Diemsnbc.msn.com/ ... 11:23:42FORT MYERS, Fla. - A 6-year-old girl darted into traffic to save a turtle and was killed when she was hit by a car... pulled over so they could help, and Emily jumped out as her mother screamed at her to wait...
Sex can be Dangerousmsnbc.msn.com/ ... 11:22:14disturbing TV and print campaign has been launched in Germany by doctors at the Institute for Sexology and Sexual Medicine at Berlin's renowned Charité Hospital. Their pitch: to offer medical treatment to potential pedophiles before they become perpetrators...
Aftermathtimesonline.co.uk/ ... 11:09:21POLICE are carrying out tests on a cache of weapons found in a safe at the old Iraqi Embassy in London to uncover any possible links with assassination plots by the former Saddam Hussein regime... Also found were all the trappings of espionage... and electric cattle-prods, suitable for crowd control or torture...
Rebuildingworldnetdaily.com/ ... 11:06:09The wives of Utah National Guardsmen who have adopted two elementary schools in poor areas of Iraq are collecting funds to provide basic supplies for the students...
Violencesignonsandiego.com/ ... 11:05:52Seven gunmen wearing ski masks entered a hospital in a northern Mexican state capital Wednesday and killed a federal agent who was recovering there from gun shot wounds, as well as two men accompanying him... ap.tbo.com/ ... 02:09:31NUEVO LAREDO, Mexico - Gunmen shot Nuevo Laredo's new police chief dozens of times and killed him Wednesday, hours after he took the post...
Under Tyrannyreuters.com/ ... 12:08:57Iran... The 62-year-old Khatami, who came to power in a 1997 landslide election on a wave of optimism among millions of Iranians and across the world, is bowing out of politics quietly with little fanfare and few thanks for his efforts...today.reuters.com/ ... 01:53:27Cuban refugees in a vintage blue floating taxicab being intercepted off the Florida Keys by the U.S. Coast Guard...
Disinformation Propaganda & Spinyahoo.com/ ... 01:15:02The militant Islamic Jihad on Wednesday presented pictures of torn copies of the Islamic holy book, the Quran, claimed they were taken inside an Israeli prison and said soldiers were responsible for the desecration. Israel denied the charge and said the pictures were a fabrication...
Threatsreuters.com/ ... 12:12:23Cyprus... Control tower workers raised the alarm after seeing a car speeding under parked aircraft... A Cyprus Airways jet which had just landed had to change course to avoid collision. "The car was heading straight for us," the pilot said... police..suspect he was fleeing after being caught taking cookies from a nearby bakery... www2.ljworld.com/ ... 11:20:52was fishing Monday afternoon at Mary’s Lake, a popular fishing hole for Lawrence children, when he reeled in a 20-pound pipe packed with gunpowder... commander of the bomb squad, said it appeared someone may have ignited the fuse, then tossed it in the water. But the fuse stopped just short of igniting the powder... “Had it gotten any kind of spark or flame inside that pipe ... it could have gone off.. Potentially, friction can cause gunpowder to go off, too.”... news.telegraph.co.uk/ ... 11:08:31A restaurant selling squirrel terrine has been forced to withdraw it after death threats from animal rights activists... ap.tbo.com/ ... 10:57:55A suspected Taliban commander responsible for roadside bomb attacks on Afghan and U.S.-led coalition troops has been arrested in southern Afghanistan... guardian.co.uk/ ... 01:14:37Electronic drawings that give comprehensive details of how to build and test equipment essential for making nuclear bombs have vanished and could be put up for sale on the international black market, according to UN investigators... "This is what keeps people awake at night. It's very sensitive. The fact that there are [nuclear] proliferation manuals kicking around is deeply disturbing..." scotsman.com/ ... 01:12:38Four foreign embassies in Canberra, Australia’s capital, were temporarily closed today after they received envelopes containing a suspicious white powder... US, British, Japanese and South Korean... package was also sent to Australia’s Parliament House...
WED 2005-JUN-08
Ummm....cbsnews.com/ ... 18:40:56Thomas Stefanelli is one dedicated pizza deliveryman. He got shot by a would-be robber in Tampa, but didn't let that stop him. He continued on his rounds until all the pies were delivered, before returning to the shop and seeking medical help...
Whoops!lansingcitypulse.com/ ... 18:23:04A protest organized June 1 by MoveOn, a liberal political action committee, drew about 20 people to the Michigan Avenue office of U.S. Rep. Mike Rogers, R-Brighton. Demonstrators protested Rogers’ ties to embattled House Majority Leader Tom Delay. There was only one problem: They had the wrong Mike Rogers. Whoops...
Digital Consequencesap.tbo.com/ ... 15:12:50Geeks, tinkerers and innovators are crashing the Google party, having discovered how to tinker with the search engine's mapping service to graphically illustrate vital information that might otherwise be ignored, overlooked or not perceived as clearly. "It's such a beautiful way to look at what could be a dense amount of information," said Tara Calishain, editor of Research Buzz and co-author of "Google Hacks," a book that offers tips on how to get the most out of the Web's most popular search engine...
Lasting Contributionsfborfw.com/ ... 14:59:28Meet Stephanie, the real-life inspiration for the "Shannon" character in For Better or For Worsenews.bbc.co.uk/ ... 13:17:13Life in pictures: Anne Bancroft
Preternatural Patternsnews.bbc.co.uk/ ... 13:13:42Ronald McDonald, the iconic mascot clown of fast food giant McDonald's, is to be given a sporty new makeover... juggling fruit and snowboarding... leaner, more health-conscious Ronald will encourage children to get up and join him playing sports. Images of hamburgers and fries, the food McDonald's is best known for, will be noticeably absent from the campaign... washingtonpost.com/ ... 13:12:26Dean noted that he, too, is a white Christian... news.yahoo.com/ ... 13:11:29Macho man is an endangered species, with today's male more likely to opt for a pink flowered shirt and swingers' clubs than the traditional role as family super-hero, fashion industry insiders say. A study along these lines led by French marketing and style consultants Nelly Rodi... news.yahoo.com/ ... 13:04:34Macho man is an endangered species, with today's male more likely to opt for a pink flowered shirt and swingers' clubs than the traditional role as family super-hero, fashion industry insiders say. A study along these lines led by French marketing and style consultants Nelly Rodi... sfgate.com/ ... 13:03:26Dean: Republicans "all behave the same, and they all look the same. ... It's pretty much a white Christian party. "
Dean: last week.. Republicans "never made an honest living in their lives..." later clarified to.. Republican "leaders..."
Alicia Wang, a DNC member and vice chair of the California Democratic Party, said: "If there are any criticisms, it comes out of love. It's like family.''...
US Militarynews.bbc.co.uk/ ... 13:14:43A former US soldier who deserted to North Korea in 1965 is to visit the US for the first time in four decades... will travel next week to North Carolina, [to visit] his 91-year-old mother...
Only Naturalap.tbo.com/ ... 15:11:45SAN MARCOS, Mexico - The Volcano of Fire has rumbled back to life with its strongest eruptions in 20 years, spewing lava and ash clouds that had some residents who remained in their homes Wednesday casting nervous glances at the peak... ap.tbo.com/ ... 15:10:07RIO DE JANEIRO, Brazil - Scientists on Wednesday unveiled 11 skeletons of prehistoric crocodiles and said their discovery suggests that an ancient land bridge once linked South America to Indo-Pakistan... news.bbc.co.uk/ ... 13:15:18Migrating birds are unlikely to be seriously affected by offshore wind farms, according to a study... news.yahoo.com/ ... 12:53:09A teenage surfer was bitten in an apparent shark attack off the New Jersey coast, and experts believe a small great white may be responsible. It would be the first recorded shark attack in the state's waters in 30 years... washingtontimes.com/ ... 12:52:13A healthy daughter was born to a 25-year-old Alabama woman who received an ovarian tissue transplant from her identical twin sister 15 months earlier...
Repeal! Repeal! Repeal!newsday.com/ ... 12:47:39Editorials from upstate New York... [about] The U.S. Supreme Court ruling giving federal authorities the right to prosecute people whose states allow their use of marijuana for medical purposes...
Times Herald-Record, Middletown: disappointing on several fronts... One has to wonder about any Justice Department, faced with the life-and-death responsibility of defending the country against terrorism (not to mention all manner of serious crimes), that would devote any kind of manpower to raiding private homes for a handful of pot plants...
Aftermathcnn.com/ ... 18:26:04President George W. Bush said Tuesday that there was "nothing farther from the truth" than allegations in a British government memorandum that his administration had decided to go to war in Iraq months before he took his case to the American people...
Mechanical Disasterap.tbo.com/ ... 15:14:36BAKU, Azerbaijan (AP) - Subway commuters using an escalator that was closed for repairs were hurled down its stairs Wednesday when it suddenly started moving, killing one person and injuring five others who were caught in the machinery...
People Dieap.tbo.com/ ... 15:11:24Police checking on unpaid bills made a gruesome discovery in a Moscow apartment: the skeletal remains of four family members who apparently died at different times over a period of up to five years... "Honestly, we couldn't understand whether the smell was coming from the apartment or from our basement," a neighbor told Rossiya television...
Violenceworldnetdaily.com/ ... 18:40:30A Baptist lay pastor in Bangladesh was beheaded by a group of assailants reportedly tied to a Muslim political party bent on creating a radical Islamic state... worldnetdaily.com/ ... 18:26:22NEVE DEKALIM, Gaza – For a second consecutive day, Palestinians fired a barrage of mortar shells here and in other Jewish Gaza communities this afternoon, prompting the Israeli Defense Forces to respond by striking a group of terrorists transporting mortars and rocket launchers... ap.tbo.com/ ... 15:10:25KABUL, Afghanistan - Rebel rockets struck U.S. troops unloading supplies from a helicopter in eastern Afghanistan on Wednesday, killing two and wounding eight... news.bbc.co.uk/ ... 13:13:03German anti-racism campaigners have condemned plans to stage an African cultural festival in a zoo... news.bbc.co.uk/ ... 13:12:41At least 22 Ethiopians have been shot dead after police fired on protesters who accuse the ruling party of fraud in last month's elections...
Threatsapnews.myway.com/ ... 18:25:43A father and son in California were charged with lying to federal agents about the son's training at an al-Qaida camp in Pakistan for potential attacks on U.S. hospitals and supermarkets... ap.tbo.com/ ... 15:13:36RICHMOND, Calif. - FBI agents and police seized an Amtrak passenger for questioning and X-rayed his packages after he made threats aboard a train, authorities said. A bomb squad determined the packages were merely personal items and a laptop computer... ap.tbo.com/ ... 15:12:09The White House on Wednesday left open the possibility that the U.S. prison camp at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, could be shut down following mounting criticism from former President Carter and others... news.bbc.co.uk/ ... 13:17:29Researchers have found more evidence that hair dyes may cause cancer... drudgereport.com/ ... 13:12:06Police officers specializing in mental and physical profiling of criminal suspects will patrol airports and train stations in Russia under measures against terrorist and other crimes during the summer tourist season...
Digital Threatnews.bbc.co.uk/ ... 13:15:07Internet search phenomenon Google has overtaken a swathe of venerable rivals to become the world's biggest media company by stock market value... thisislondon.com/ ... 12:52:49A London man described as the "world's biggest computer hacker" has been arrested... accused of causing the US government $1billion of damage by breaking into its most secure computers at the Pentagon and Nasa. He is likely to be extradited to America to face eight counts of computer crime in 14 states and could be jailed for 70 years...
TUE 2005-JUN-07
Headline of the Daynews.xinhuanet.com/ ... 18:39:49US leads in mental illness...
Yuck!local6.com/ ... 18:39:25Competition for jobs and marriage partners has sparked a national height craze in China that has people lining up to be surgically stretched or to purchase torture rack-like stretching machines... A senior executive at one of China's largest job-search Internet sites admits that it's a commonly-held belief that "taller people will have more opportunity for promotion..."
Whoops!sfgate.com/ ... 21:57:47n S.F., Dean calls GOP 'a white Christian party'... eitb24.com/ ... 18:41:40Whoops and Yuck
A body part fell from the wheel well of a plane coming in for a landing on Tuesday at John F. Kennedy Airport and landed in a suburban backyard.. More remains were found on a South African Airways flight after it landed.. Police suspect the remains were of a male stowaway...ap.tbo.com/ ... 18:38:35On April 25, Gregory Despres arrived at the U.S.-Canadian border crossing at Calais, Maine, carrying a homemade sword, a hatchet, a knife, brass knuckles and a chain saw stained with what appeared to be blood. U.S. customs agents confiscated the weapons and fingerprinted Despres. Then they let him into the United States. The following day, a gruesome scene was discovered... reuters.com/ ... 18:35:45...stopped to relieve himself and forgot 30,000 euros ($36,800) he was taking to the bank for his bosses... 29-year-old took five minutes to realize he had left the envelope containing the cash inside a plastic bag on the floor of the public toilet. But when he returned, the bag was gone...
Preternatural Patternssouthbendtribune.com/ ... 22:59:25MISHAWAKA, Ind... house smelled strongly of cat urine, and the floor was soaked with cat urine... "Everything was covered in a lacquer of yellow urine... You were better off standing outside. The smell was nauseating. The walls were covered in fecal matter..." Throughout the house were cats running from room to room and using floor vents as tunnels to navigate... between 50 and 75 cats were found inside... in terrible shape, covered in parasites and suffering from diseases... howstuffworks.com/ ... 12:04:16n this edition of HowStuffWorks, you will have a chance to look inside a lightsaber and discover the source of its incredible characteristics. Let's get started!.. latimes.com/ ... 11:59:31A welfare state designed in the era of bacon, eggs and Lucky Strikes cannot expect to survive in an age of "active seniors" who wash down their Viagra with soy milk and think a six-pack is something you get at the gym...
WW2 - still with usnzherald.co.nz/ ... 11:54:45A few weeks ago, Mr Hurley was rotary hoeing the garden when he struck metal. "He started uncovering it, thinking he could pull whatever it was out, but he had no luck," said Mrs Hurley... turned out to be a four-tonne army tank. ..World War 2 bren-gun carrier... "The things you find in your garden..."
Limits of Libertyukiahdailyjournal.com/ ... 11:52:14A Redwood Valley man was awarded a $1,610 verdict last week after a four-day jury trial against his former neighbors for damages caused by their marijuana growing operation... claimed the "skunk-like" stench caused by approximately 100 marijuana plants .. interfered with the use and enjoyment of his property...
Nixon - still with uswashingtontimes.com/ ... 12:03:20Remarkably, Mr. Woodward sleepwalked through eight years of Bill and Hillary Clinton. There he was, sitting on the second biggest story of his career -- the emerging impeachment of Bill Clinton -- and he didn't act. Travelgate, FBI Filegate, missing Rose law firm documents found in Hillary's residence, the conviction of Webb Hubble, Vince Foster's mysterious death, the endless parade of White House bimbos ... all seemed to add up to nothing in the eyes of Mr. Woodward and his colleagues at The Post... ldnews.com/ ... 11:16:47Unless you were getting married or passing a similar milestone on the journey through life, you probably have no idea what you were doing on June 17, 1972. Neither do I. It was a Saturday, if that helps. I still draw a blank, but a couple of young reporters, Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein of the Washington Post, will remember that day for the rest of their lives...
Look Who's Talking!washingtonpost.com/ ... 10:55:59"I stay awake at night thinking about all the mistakes and the wrong direction and all the bad decisions being made in Washington," Clinton said at the fund-raiser. "It's very hard to stop people who have no shame about what they're doing. It's very hard to stop people who have never been acquainted with the truth..."
Human Rightreuters.com/ ... 18:37:18A Sicilian court condemned road authorities Monday for suspending the driving license of a man after finding out he was gay. The court on the Mediterranean island said being gay was merely "a personality disturbance" which had no bearing on a person's ability to drive... Lawyer: "Danilo ... is deeply perturbed by what has happened. He has lost his hair and is suffering shock..." the Sicilian court said: "It is clear that sexual preferences do not in any way influence a person's ability to drive motor cars safely." The judges added that homosexuality "cannot be considered a true and proper psychiatric illness, being a mere personality disturbance." Homosexuality is legal in Italy, but openly anti-gay comments from politicians and officials rarely cause a stir...
Repeal! Repeal! Repeal!reason.com/ ... 11:58:15This hurricane of violence has led a growing number of Colombians, including leading members of the venerable Conservative Party, to question the drug policies that have helped make their country one of the world's most dangerous. "We Colombians have had enough..."
US Militarycnsnews.com/ ... 11:43:52Oral arguments are expected to take place July 6 in a case challenging the constitutionality of the federal government's ban on homosexuals serving openly in the U.S. military. A homosexual advocacy group, Servicemembers Legal Defense Network, filed a legal challenge last December, in an attempt to overturn the Clinton-era law...
Justice?news.telegraph.co.uk/ ... 11:41:34"I don't think this situation is as bad as it looks, except for the fact that she did give them something to drink," Patricia Sato said. "If (the crimes) were because of the alcohol, let's get to the source of who gave it to her..." "Rape is an extremely serious offence and quite rightly any allegation of rape is dealt with very seriously by police, as indeed is your allegation," said Recorder Andrew McCooey. I have heard from the prosecution the impact this had on this innocent man, not to mention the many thousands of pounds that have been wasted, all brought about by your pack of lies. "And you didn't have the decency to admit to it and put this man out of his misery. You have shown no remorse in any meaningful way..." newsday.com/ ... 11:26:24A 19-year-old accused of causing his teenage girlfriend to miscarry two fetuses by stepping on her stomach was convicted Monday of two counts of murder... Erica Basoria, 17, acknowledged asking Flores to help end her pregnancy; she could not be prosecuted because of her legal right to abortion... [ABSOLUTELY SENSELESS INJUSTICE... Guy like that needs to go to Rehab, not get life imprisonment...!]
US Military Casualtiesdefenselink.mil/ ... 03:01:47[flag]Army Spc. Carrie L. French, 19, of Caldwell, Idaho, died June 5 in Kirkuk, Iraq, when an improvised explosive device hit the front of her convoy vehicle and detonated. defenselink.mil/ ... 03:01:27[flag]Marine Cpl. Antonio Mendoza, 21, of Santa Ana, Calif., died June 3 at Brook Army Medical Center, San Antonio, from wounds received as a result of an explosion while conducting combat operations against enemy forces in Ar Ramadi, Iraq, on Feb. 22. defenselink.mil/ ... 03:00:55[flag]Army Staff Sgt. Leroy E. Alexander, 27, of Dale City, Va.
[flag]Army Cpt. Charles D. Robinson, 29, of Haddon Heights, N. J.
were killed on June 3 at Forward Operating Base Orgun-E in Afghanistan when their convoy vehicle was struck by an improvised expolsive device.
Only Naturalabcnews.go.com/ ... 22:50:59A woman's ability to have an orgasm is at least partly determined by her genes and can't be blamed entirely on cultural influences, new research suggests. Experts say that's likely to be interpreted as both good and bad news... worldnetdaily.com/ ... 11:50:51A young medical student is dead following a Great White shark attack reminiscent of "Jaws," the blockbuster Steven Spielberg film which premiered 30 years ago this month... A young medical student is dead following a Great White shark attack reminiscent of "Jaws," the blockbuster Steven Spielberg film which premiered 30 years ago this month... calgary.cbc.ca/ ... 11:50:05A grizzly bear attacked and killed competitive mountain biker Isabelle Dube Sunday afternoon, when she and two friends ran across the animal while out for a training run along a popular hiking trail... male bear.. had been removed from the same area a week earlier, when it followed a woman out taking wildflower photos... climbed a tree, while the other two women slowly backed away, then ran for help. But the bear pulled Dube down, and by the time wildlife officials arrived, it was too late. Officers shot and killed the bear...news.bbc.co.uk/ ... 02:28:56Female bottlenose dolphins are taught by their mothers to use marine sponges to look for food...
9/11 - still with usabcnews.go.com/ ... 22:51:55A congressional inquiry has found New York failed to follow instructions from Congress on the spending of $44 million in Sept. 11 aid and should give the money back or get lawmakers to pass a law allowing the expenditure...
Disturbing Family Patternssptimes.com/ ... 11:39:04A 20-year-old babysitter had an 11-year-old boy use a sex toy on her, fondled him and spiked the sodas of children in her care with Southern Comfort... plied children with Jose Cuervo tequila and beer on different occasions... accused her of battery involving one of the children... [Sitter's mother says:] "I don't think this situation is as bad as it looks, except for the fact that she did give them something to drink... If (the crimes) were because of the alcohol, let's get to the source of who gave it to her."
Natural Threatcanada.com/ ... 11:31:09PRINCE GEORGE, B.C. (CP) -- Health officials have confirmed a fatal case of flesh-eating disease in this central B.C. city... said Sunday a Prince George youth died last week from necrotizing fasciitis but there is no need for public concern...
Threatsseattlepi.nwsource.com/ ... 18:42:27A passenger flight from Portugal to Britain carrying 108 people was diverted under an air force jet escort Tuesday after a suspicious object was found on board... eastvalleytribune.com/ ... 11:30:31Mesa AZ... arrested Saturday after a substance found in his possession tested positive as being ricin... charged.. with violating federal law by possessing a biotoxin for use as a weapon, a charge that carries a maximum penalty of life in prison... was.. planning to use the poison.. to carry out a personal vendetta...
Violenceabcnews.go.com/ ... 22:51:17A Sunni Arab politician said Tuesday two insurgent groups were willing to negotiate with the government, possibly opening a new political front in embattled Iraq... washingtonpost.com/ ... 18:40:11Israeli soldiers killed a senior leader in the Islamic Jihad movement whom they had come to arrest in the West Bank town of Kabatiya, as well as a Palestinian gunman who fired on them during the arrest mission, according to army officials. Later in the day a Palestinian mortar attack on a Jewish settlement in the Gaza Strip killed two workers -- a Palestinian and a Chinese national -- and wounded five others... pittsburghlive.com/ ... 11:47:41Two undercover policemen and a shooting suspect fired at least 103 rounds during an early morning shootout... running gun battle... Saturday that jolted residents of a Homewood housing complex, but resulted in no injuries... defensetech.org/ ... 11:34:32Los Alamos whistleblower "Tommy Hook is still hospitalized today after being brutally assaulted over the weekend," the Project on Government Oversight is saying. "A group of three to four assailants threatened Hook to keep silent, in apparent reference to his upcoming Congressional testimony on fraud at Los Alamos..." a disturbing pattern of financial irregularities in the Los Alamos Lab's procurement division... comcast.net/ ... 11:31:26The Iraqi government announced Monday it detained nearly 900 suspected militants and set up more than 800 checkpoints in a two-week sweep that appears to have somewhat blunted attacks in the capital... apnews.myway.com/ ... 11:24:19A coordinated string of four bomb attacks within seven minutes... coordinated and aimed at checkpoints manned by members of Iraq's fledgling army... killed at least 18 people and wounded 39 in northern Iraq Tuesday, while a Baghdad car bomb injured 28... Two U.S. Marines died Monday after separate roadside bombings near Fallujah... sfgate.com/ ... 11:16:04Communist rebels apologized Tuesday for making a "grave mistake" by bombing a civilian bus in an attack that killed 38 people and injured 71, saying they were targeting government security forces. The leader of the rebels said the fighters involved in Monday's attack and the local leadership had been suspended from the group... Oh, did they get spanked? fined? Maybe you rebels could all just go shoot yourselves to death as penance, that would work....
World Without Borderstimesonline.co.uk/ ... 11:48:03Russia is now ripe for freedom revolution, warns Solzhenitsyn... worldnetdaily.com/ ... 02:29:33A judge in Texas is shocking illegal aliens in the Brownsville area by actually jailing them and making sure they're deported rather than simply letting them go with a "notice to appear" – most of which are not honored...
Under Tyrannyjointogether.org/ ... 18:42:05a U.S. House member said he would reintroduce legislation to prevent federal law-enforcement action against medical users of the drug... abcnews.go.com/ ... 11:07:59A steady stream of customers filed into the Love Shack, where anybody with a city-issued cannabis card could buy $5 pot brownies or spend up to 20 minutes inhaling premium marijuana that sells for $320 an ounce. It was business as usual at the medical marijuana club one of dozens in San Francisco... Crime fighters in California and other states with medical marijuana laws insisted they were not about to start looking for reasons to shut down the dispensaries... "People shouldn't panic. There aren't going to be many changes," California Attorney General Bill Lockyer said. "Nothing is different today than it was two days ago, in terms of real world impact." It remains to be seen whether the Drug Enforcement Administration will crack down on medical marijuana users. The Justice Department didn't comment Monday... bloomberg.com/ ... 11:06:57Marijuana Clubs in San Francisco Unfazed by High Court's Ruling -- Mike Barnes put his mouth on the end of a plastic bag full of marijuana vapors and inhaled deeply. It's a ritual he practices every day to combat chronic back pain from an Army injury. "I'm always in pain...." SEND THE FEDS AFTER THAT CRIMINAL!... Angel Raich, a 39-year-old mother of two from Oakland, one of the plaintiffs in the case, said she doesn't intend to stop using marijuana. Quitting would be a death sentence because pot is the only thing that works against a life-threatening wasting syndrome that robs her of her appetite, said Raich, who has an inoperable brain tumor. SEND THE FEDS AFTER THAT CRIMINAL!washingtonpost.com/ ... 00:06:00User of Medical Marijuana Says She'll Continue to Fight... salon.com/ ... 00:05:46Despite the Supreme Court's ruling against medical marijuana and a scary proposed snitch law, America may finally be awakening from its decades-long stupor about recreational drugs... nytimes.com/ ... 00:05:31Drug's Users Say Ruling Won't End Their Efforts... usatoday.com/ ... 00:05:01Patients who use marijuana fear worst if forced to stop...
MON 2005-JUN-06
Whoops!news.bbc.co.uk/ ... 13:12:57Customs officers found 51 live tropical fish hidden under her skirt...
Supernaturalnews.bbc.co.uk/ ... 13:12:40The parents of a baby who urinated on his mother inside an Indian temple have won an appeal to overturn a stiff fine imposed by temple officials...
Digital Consequencessci-tech-today.com/ ... 13:08:56Using the digital model scientists in the Blue Brain Project will run computer-based simulations of the brain at the molecular level, examining such internal processes as thought, perception and memory...
Science Marches Onnnnnnlivescience.com/ ... 13:11:27a way for divers to breathe underwater without cumbersome oxygen tanks. His apparatus makes use of the air that is dissolved in water, just like fish do...
Only Naturalusatoday.com/ ... 13:09:51A strong earthquake Monday shook southeastern Turkey, injuring at least 54 people and demolishing homes... magnitude of 5.7, struck near the town of Karliova in rural Bingol province, 560 miles southeast of Ankara...
Violencewashingtonpost.com/ ... 13:10:20Israeli police stormed a disputed holy site Monday, hurling stun grenades to disperse hundreds of Palestinian worshippers who stoned police and Jewish visitors. The confrontation erupted as Israel marked "Jerusalem Day," the anniversary, according to the Jewish calendar, of its capture of traditionally Arab east Jerusalem in the 1967 Mideast war. The disputed site, the Al Aqsa Mosque compound, is in east Jerusalem, claimed by the Palestinians as a future capital... abcnews.go.com/ ... 13:09:26Rebels detonated a bomb beneath a crowded passenger bus crossing a wooden bridge in Nepal's rural south Monday, blasting it into the air and killing at least 38 people and injuring dozens...
Under Tyrannyrediff.com/ ... 13:11:01A Chinese diplomat's attempt to defect to Australia and explosive claims about Beijing's espionage activities has cast a shadow over Canberra's attempts to negotiate a free trade deal with China... drudgereport.com/ ... 13:10:36An Iranian web writer arrested in a crackdown against online dissent has been sentenced to two years behind bars for "insulting the supreme leader..." latimes.com/ ... 13:08:09The Supreme Court ruled today that federal agents may raid the homes of Californians who use medical marijuana, holding that the strict federal drug laws prevail over the state's liberalized marijuana laws...
SUN 2005-JUN-05
Prehistory - still with uslatimes.com/ ... 22:52:15Researchers have sequenced the DNA of two extinct cave bears and say their method is accurate enough to try on extinct humans such as Neanderthals...
Sex can be Dangerousap.tbo.com/ ... 22:59:09A judge sentenced a former Palm Beach County deputy to life in prison for having sex with young boys he met at the sheriff's office youth training program... nytimes.com/ ... 22:51:58The stooped old woman with the oxygen tank and the walker in Lindenwold, N.J., rarely left the apartment she shared with her grandson and his girlfriend. She was 80 years old and, according to the younger woman, had only one friend. But the police said the woman, Vera Tursi, helped lonely men make new friends, by running an escort service called August Playmates. She took telephone calls from clients at her apartment and, depending on what they were in the mood for and who was available, sent escorts to meet them, the police said...
Nixon - still with ustheledger.com/ ... 17:25:52[Thief scolds snitch]
E. Howard Hunt, a former CIA operative who recruited five men to break into the Watergate hotel... [now] 86, was imprisoned for 33 months after the Watergate scandal forced President Richard Nixon from office... "Nothing that Mr. Felt did was acceptable. It was traitorous of him to accept a paycheck from the federal government and do what he did... Only a person without quality, as I call Mr. Felt, would contact a major newspaper ... That's detestable..." Woodward has said that Felt helped him link Hunt to the break-in...
Preternatural Patternssuntimes.com/ ... 12:56:34Taylor has put together a colorful little tome in Weird Illinois. Consider some of the entries: Devil Baby of Hull House, The Demon Butcher of Palos Park, Perplexing Petroglyphs in Fountain Bluff, The Norway Nosedive, The Legend of the Devil's Bake Oven, The Freaky Farmer City Monster, The Mad Gasser of Mattoon...
WW2 - still with usnews.telegraph.co.uk/ ... 12:48:35Nancy Wake, the most decorated Allied servicewoman of the Second World War, was given her "wings" yesterday for an heroic parachute jump that she made more than 60 years ago into occupied France. Mrs Wake, 93.. born in New Zealand but brought up in Australia... During the war, the Gestapo nicknamed Mrs Wake "The White Mouse" because she continually evaded escape. She was one of 39 women and 430 men in the French section of the Special Operations Executive... parachuted into central France in 1944... If she had been captured, she would have been tortured and executed - like her husband, Henri, who had been caught by the Germans in 1943...
Cold War - still with ustimesonline.co.uk/ ... 12:41:38one of Britain’s most famous unsolved murders... Georgi Markov, prize-winning Bulgarian author and BBC broadcaster, felt a stinging pain in his thigh as he mingled with rush-hour commuters... A heavily built man in the queue momentarily dropped an umbrella, mumbled “sorry” and quickly crossed the road to hail a taxi... dead in three days... murder weapon was an umbrella, partly developed by the Soviet KGB, which fired a pellet the size of a pinhead, containing the poison ricin... Last week.. the identity of Markov’s killer was finally revealed... a Dane of Italian origin who travelled Europe in a caravan pretending to be an antiques salesman: in fact, he was a Bulgarian secret agent...
Supernaturalsuntimes.com/ ... 13:03:23The best Chicago dog story ever... The cops had to fire so many shots to stop the lunging pit bull, the gunpowder set off an overhead smoke detector. Still, the dog didn't die... But she wasn't the toughest dog on the block. That title belongs to Maya, a 74-pound black Lab who took on India, the 120-pound pit bull who was mauling a sixth-grader on the Northwest Side... Now 5-year-old Maya is being hailed as a hero -- a selfless pooch who rushed out of her home to save a stranger and has a scarred body to prove it... tallahassee.com/ ... 12:51:08BISHOP, Ga. - The bulletin board outside Oconee Baptist Church... "To the person who broke in - God loves you." That was posted soon after the $3,000 burglary, with no leads from police...
US Militarysundayherald.com/ ... 12:46:08America’s National Guard, who currently form 40% of the US’s strength of 139,000 men in Iraq... When the compulsory medicals got under way for the Iraq-bound soldiers, it was reported that as many as 20% of them had teeth so bad they couldn’t be sent to join the fray without treatment... Now Congress is on the verge of approving a $3.8 billion plan to bridge the embarrassing gap by giving part-time soldiers free dental and medical care, just like the regulars...
Only Naturalreuters.com/ ... 22:58:02Eastern Australia is into the third month of the worst drought farmers can remember -- more severe than the 2002 drought which the weather bureau classes the worst in a century... guardian.co.uk/ ... 22:57:29Water is being rationed in half of Spain to save it for domestic use, as parts of the country suffer the worst drought for 60 years... chron.com/ ... 22:57:15By century's end, much of southern Louisiana may sink into the Gulf of Mexico. The Texas coastline, including Galveston, could soon follow... abcnews.go.com/ ... 17:33:43Flooding has devastated villages and crops in southern China, killing at least 204 people and leaving another 79 missing at the start of the summer flood season... livescience.com/ ... 12:50:19A new study finds 125 large lakes in the Arctic have vanished as temperatures rose over the past two decades. Many other lakes have shrunk... permafrost is melting around the world, causing low-lying ground to slump and rock to fall from mountains... nothing to prevent lake water from percolating through the soil to aquifers below...news.telegraph.co.uk/ ... 12:44:26Just six minutes of intense exercise a week does as much to improve a person's fitness as a regime of six hours...
Extraterrestrialnewscientist.com/ ... 12:38:48One study reveals that a region rich in the mineral olivine - which suggests it is has been "dry" for about 3 billion years - is actually four times larger than previously thought. That adds to a growing body of evidence suggesting Mars was mostly cold and dry - and not warm and wet - in the past... msnbc.msn.com/ ... 12:38:04NASA frees rover from Martian sand trap... space.com/ ... 12:37:50How to Watch July 4 Comet Impact... NASA’s Deep Impact spacecraft will deploy a tiny impactor to smash into the nucleus of a small comet... it should also produce a large cloud of ejected material that should cause the comet to significantly brighten enough to become visible with binoculars and perhaps even with the unaided eye...
Dinosaurs -- still with usruralnorthwest.com/ ... 12:36:43Natives in the jungles of Africa and modern day scientists on expedition have reported the existence of reptiles as tall as 18-feet, they are known as the Mokele MBembe, and closely resemble a sauropod dinosaur...
World Without Bordersap.tbo.com/ ... 12:27:16A narrow majority of Swiss voters approved joining a European Union passport-free zone, abolishing checks on the country's border by 2007...
Reasons for Repealnews.bbc.co.uk/ ... 12:13:59There are strong reasons to support the practice of prescribing heroin to drug misusers, researchers claim. A University of Amsterdam team says the treatment is cost-effective, even though it is expensive...
Aftermathmsnbc.msn.com/ ... 17:19:21Saddam's Aides: Singing 'Like a Canary'... "In interview after interview, the officials were generally forthcoming and quite proud—even boastful—of their creativity in undermining U.N. sanctions..."
Natural Threatusatoday.com/ ... 22:52:50scientists and health officials are beginning to believe they have a chance to stop a bird flu pandemic before it kills millions of people worldwide... reuters.myway.com/ ... 17:18:28Canadian and U.S. scientists have developed vaccines that protect monkeys from the deadly Marburg and Ebola viruses and show promise for humans...
Supernatural Threatsnews.telegraph.co.uk/ ... 12:44:10Detectives believe that dozens of children of African origin have been beaten and abused in Britain after being accused of witchcraft by family and friends in a "hidden crime" that is hard to detect and investigate...
Digital Threatcnn.com/ ... 12:43:27Google tracks how its search engine and other services are used, and who uses them... holds onto that information for years... At a time when libraries delete lending records as soon as a book is returned, Google should purge its records after a certain point to protect users, [privacy experts] say...
People Dienews.telegraph.co.uk/ ... 12:41:59Bereavement counselling - long considered by psychologists to be vital in recovering from the death of a loved one - may be a waste of time...
Because It's Thereap.tbo.com/ ... 12:31:49A climber from Scotland collapsed and died Sunday as he was within a quarter-mile of reaching the summit of Mount Everest... about 1,200 feet from the 29,035-foot summit... third person this year to die trying to scale Everest... About 94 climbers have scaled the peak since Monday from the Nepalese side of the mountain on the south. Several climbers also climbed from the Chinese side on the north. Since New Zealander Edmund Hillary and Sherpa Tenzing Norgay first scaled Mount Everest on May 29, 1953, more than 1,400 climbers have reached the peak. About 180 people have died trying...
Violencecnn.com/ ... 22:50:54The chief of Amnesty International USA alleged Sunday that the Guantanamo Bay detention camp is part of a worldwide network of U.S. jails, some of them secret, where prisoners are mistreated and even killed... news.telegraph.co.uk/ ... 12:35:37The attack, six months ago, was the eighth carried out by women obsessed with having a newborn child of their own. Solangela, however, was much luckier than the other victims: she survived... cnn.com/ ... 12:34:41ORANJESTAD, Aruba -- Police have detained two men in connection with the disappearance of missing Alabama high school graduate, the Oranjestad police chief said Sunday morning... ap.tbo.com/ ... 12:29:34KABUL, Afghanistan - Suspected Taliban militants gunned down an Afghan working on a U.S.-funded electoral project, officials said Sunday in the first killing of a worker linked to landmark legislative polls scheduled for September... ap.tbo.com/ ... 12:29:01Pope Calls for Release of Italian Hostage in Afghanistan; Women Rally in Afghan Capital... calling for her release...
Threatsamericanthinker.com/ ... 17:33:23I'm confused. The left, in the personage of Amnesty International, is claiming that the Guantanamo Bay detention camp is as bad as the old Soviet Gulag camps... Speaking of inhumane prison camps.. remember John Kerry speaking.. in the 1970s about the mistreatment of American military prisoners.. at the "Hanoi Hilton?" Neither do I... go to Amnesty International's own website's library and look up Afghanistan in the 1990s, before US involvement... a large collection of articles in Amnesty International's online Library section on human rights abuses in Iraq dating from before the US liberated (that's right: liberated) the country in 2002... time.com/ ... 17:27:43hat's going on at Gitmo?.. reuters.com/ ... 12:25:19Afghan forces have arrested a senior Taliban commander accused of leading attacks against Afghan and U.S.-led troops based in the west of the country... news.bbc.co.uk/ ... 10:11:26Hezbollah and its allies have won all the parliament seats for South Lebanon... a message of defiance to the US and Israel, which view it as a terrorist group...nytimes.com/ ... 10:10:31Significant gaps in security at the nation's airports could be curtailed... by quickly making a wide range of relatively modest changes in screening people and bags...
Under Tyrannynews.independent.co.uk/ ... 10:09:31British motorists face paying a new charge for every mile they drive in a revolutionary scheme to be introduced within two years... Each of Britain's 24 million vehicles would be tracked by satellite...
Transport Tragedynews24.com/ ... 10:08:22The Frejus tunnel linking France and Italy through the Alps will remain closed for months after a massive blaze that killed two Slovenian truck drivers... On Saturday, a truck transporting tires from France caught fire about halfway through the 13 km Frejus tunnel linking Modane on the French side with the Italian town of Bardonecchia... blaze spread rapidly, engulfing several vehicles and killing the two Slovenian drivers...
SAT 2005-JUN-04
Digital Consequencesap.tbo.com/ ... 12:09:4423 percent of children in nursery school - kids age 3, 4 or 5 - have gone online...
World of Culturesap.tbo.com/ ... 12:02:55Scowling Star of the Ramps Charged With Killing Son... [article gives glimpse into the skateboarders culture]
Whoops!sun-sentinel.com/ ... 01:40:27CHICAGO -- All 529 runners who finished Chicago's Lakeshore Marathon set a personal record for the distance. The problem was the race--27.2 miles--was a full mile longer than a traditional marathon. But participants didn't know about the mistake until the event was over Monday... foxnews.com/ ... 01:13:58The American head of Amnesty International admits his group did not pick the best analogy when it compared detainee conditions at Guantanamo Bay to the Soviet-era "gulag" forced-labor system...
Nixon - still with usdrudgereport.com/ ... 01:10:52If we move on him, he'll go out and unload everything," Haldeman said. "He knows everything that's to be known in the FBI. He has access to absolutely everything." Nixon, told Felt could not be prosecuted, replies, "You know what I'd do with him, the bastard?.."
Supernaturalap.tbo.com/ ... 12:10:43A Look at Muslim Chaplains in U.S. Prisons... ap.tbo.com/ ... 12:10:28American Prisons Become Political, Religious Battleground Over Islam... news.bbc.co.uk/ ... 01:39:46Two men are being held after shots were fired during what was thought to have been a newspaper deal to buy a stolen copy of the new Harry Potter novel... ananova.com/ ... 01:39:04A Chinese man is able to pull a train 40 metres with his right ear... worldnetdaily.com/ ... 01:38:21A publisher is touting a new edition of the Gospels that identifies Christ as a woman named Judith Christ of Nazareth... news.yahoo.com/ ... 01:08:47Police have arrested two men suspected of trying to sell stolen copies of the upcoming Harry Potter novel...
Reasons for Repealap.tbo.com/ ... 12:09:21The days of buying some cold remedies off the shelf in drug stores soon may be gone, a casualty of the methamphetamine epidemic. Already more than a dozen states have laws that require retailers to sell Sudafed, Nyquil and other medicines only from behind the pharmacy counter...
Science Marches Onnnnnnguardian.co.uk/ ... 11:48:25Japanese scientists are to explore the centre of the Earth. Using a giant drill ship launched next month, the researchers aim to be the first to punch a hole through the rocky crust that covers our planet and to reach the mantle below...
Only Naturalnews.bbc.co.uk/ ... 11:51:34Staff at the Environment Agency's headquarters are encouraged to wear thermal underwear in the office during winter... zeenews.com/ ... 11:35:05Tissue found inside a nearly 70 million year old tyrannosaurus rex femur strengthens the theory that today's birds are direct descendants from the dinosaurs... high likelihood that the remains belong to a female T-Rex ready to lay eggs... very similar to medullar tissue found inside the bones of female ratite birds, such as ostriches and emus, that are about to lay eggs... "It indicates that dinosaurs produced and shelled their eggs much more like modern birds than like modern crocodiles..."
Human Rightnews.telegraph.co.uk/ ... 21:22:26Nearly 500 guns including AK47 assault rifles and high-powered sniper rifles, 800 lbs of gunpowder and 100,000 rounds of ammunition have been removed from the suburban [New Jersey] home of Sherwin and Elizabeth Raymond, both aged 82... after finding Mrs Raymond, who suffers from Alzheimer's disease, wandering disoriented... So many weapons were discovered that the National Guard was called in to remove the haul... 477 rifles and handguns... also found a bumper sticker. It read: "The right to bear arms makes someone a citizen. If you're not allowed to bear arms, it makes you a subject..." thedenverchannel.com/ ... 01:39:26Drunkard Convention Under Way In Denver -- Self-Proclaimed Drunks Promote Drinking Lifestyle...
Natural Threatguardian.co.uk/ ... 21:25:47The Aids pandemic is outpacing many countries' efforts at prevention, UN officials say, acknowledging that the goal of containing the disease by 2015 may now be unrealistic...
Violenceap.tbo.com/ ... 12:08:51WHITE MARSH, Md. (AP) - Three people were stabbed during a fight on a Greyhound bus on Interstate 95 early Saturday... injuries were non life-threatening and the bus continued on its scheduled trip from Richmond, Va., to New York... reuters.com/ ... 12:05:16Two U.S. soldiers were killed in a roadside bomb blast in southeast Afghanistan...
Threatsalertnet.org/ ... 21:25:00Iraqi forces have seized a senior militant leader linked to Jordanian mastermind Abu Musab al-Zarqawi and accused of overseeing an array of deadly attacks in Iraq... nytimes.com/ ... 21:23:08American marines have discovered an elaborate series of underground bunkers used recently by insurgents in western Iraq, with heavy weapons, a kitchen and fresh food, furnished living quarters, showers and even a working air conditioner... ap.tbo.com/ ... 12:07:51Secretary of Defense Donald H. Rumsfeld said Saturday the Al-Jazeera television network promoted terrorism by airing beheadings and other attacks... ap.tbo.com/ ... 12:07:41Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld on Saturday said China is not a threat to the United States but is building up its military without being threatened by any other country... signonsandiego.com/ ... 01:38:08A novel proposal to etch identifying serial numbers on handgun ammunition sold in California narrowly passed the Senate yesterday, although supporters conceded the legislation remains a work in progress...
Digital Threatabcnews.go.com/ ... 01:11:47Password-stealing software planted by hackers was active on Microsoft's popular MSN Web site in South Korea for days before the world's largest software company learned about the break-in and removed the computer code... targeted subscribers of an online game called "Lineage" that is popular in Asia...
Disinformation Propaganda & Spincnn.com/ ... 01:38:37A U.S. military investigation into the mishandling of the Muslim holy book at the Guantanamo Bay prison for suspected terrorists has determined that detainees -- not U.S. soldiers -- attempted to flush the Quran down the toilet there... news.bbc.co.uk/ ... 01:08:13An atlas of environmental change compiled by the United Nations reveals some of the dramatic transformations that are occurring to our planet...
FRI 2005-JUN-03
Sex can be Dangerousreuters.com/ ... 07:53:08German police, alerted to a potential kidnapping, "freed" a man from a car trunk only to discover the would-be victim was actually a willing sex slave...
Nixon - still with uschicagotribune.com/ ... 07:19:31Completing the Watergate picture --Patrick J. Buchanan... [Pat's on a royal rampage against Felt, but it's fun writing, sorta....]
Whoops!reuters.com/ ... 07:17:43A Virgin Atlantic airplane flying from London to New York is being diverted to Canada under fighter escort after the plane emitted a hijacking signal in what appeared to be a false alarm... foxnews.com/ ... 07:13:27U.S. Has Long History of Waging Wrong Wars... by Jim Powell, a Senior Fellow at the Cato Institute...
Justice?reuters.com/ ... 07:55:23New Jersey is using an anti-terrorism law for the first time to try six animal rights activists charged with harassing and vandalizing a company that made use of animals to test its drugs.
Only Naturalreuters.com/ ... 07:53:59Different odors affect the way motorists drive, with fast food scents likely to increase road rage potential and other smells -- like peppermint -- deemed to improve concentration...
Human Rightreuters.com/ ... 07:52:40LOS ANGELES - A California man who injured three Hmong men in a fight must pay their medical bills including more than $6,000 for animals and herbal medicines used in traditional healing ceremonies...
Blood Sportsreuters.com/ ... 07:54:49British prosecutors Friday considered whether professional sportsmen, especially soccer players, should face an increased risk of criminal prosecution for violent conduct committed during matches...
Under Tyrannyreuters.com/ ... 07:53:27People who solicit prostitutes in Oakland, California, could find their faces plastered on billboards under a new shaming program that one civil rights group calls bad public policy...
Disturbing Family Patternsnews.bbc.co.uk/ ... 07:23:38Four new-born babies have been found dead - two of them in a basement freezer - at an apartment complex in the southern Austrian city of Graz. Police are questioning a woman aged 32 - believed to be the mother - and her 38-year-old partner...
Digital Threatnews.bbc.co.uk/ ... 07:25:17The creation of the .xxx net domain... called "obscene" by Karl Auerbach, former board member of Icann... said Icann should be giving priority to socially positive domain name proposals... called "dangerous" by net privacy campaigner Lauren Weinstein, who said it could provoke censorship problems for years... geekcoffee.net/ ... 07:22:51In an effort to combat the massive spam problem, Yahoo and Cisco have come together to create an authentication technology designed to prevent e-mail forgery by verifying the origin address of the messages. Dubbed DKIM, which stands for DomainKeys Identified Mail, the technology uses public key cryptography to allow users to verify message integrity and to provide protection from spam and phishing...
Violencereuters.com/ ... 07:18:01A suicide bomber blew himself up at a gathering of Sufi Muslims north of Baghdad, killing 10 people...
THU 2005-JUN-02
Preternatural Patternsreuters.com/ ... 13:02:28aficionados of unsolved mysteries have to look elsewhere... what information was contained -- and erased -- in the 18 1/2 minute gap in a White House tape recording... summer of 2001.. disappearance of 24-year-old Chandra Levy... what motivated Jack Ruby to kill Oswald... Jimmy Hoffa... final fate of pioneer aviator Amelia Earhart... D.B. Cooper, who hijacked a commercial airliner in 1971, extorted $200,000 from its owner and then leaped from the plane with 21 pounds (9.5 kg) of $20 bills strapped to his body. He has never been seen again... news.bbc.co.uk/ ... 12:54:07But there are plenty of other secrets out there... Jimmy Hoffa... Coca-Cola's secret formula... Oswald probably did not act alone... [boring]
Nixon - still with uswashingtonpost.com/ ... 12:48:28How Mark Felt Became 'Deep Throat'... By Bob Woodward...
Digital Consequencestechnewsworld.com/ ... 12:46:44ICM contends the "xxx" Web addresses, which it plans to sell for US$60 a year, will protect children from online smut if adult sites voluntarily adopt the suffix so filtering software used by families can more effectively block... [Won't work... everyone will still have all the naughtyexpression.com's...]
US Military Casualtiesdefenselink.mil/ ... 23:42:05[flag]Army Pfc. Louis E. Niedermeier, 20, of Largo, Fla., died June 1 in Ar Ramadi, Iraq, when his unit was conducting combat operations and he came under enemy small arms fire... defenselink.mil/ ... 23:41:40[flag]Army Spc. Phillip C. Edmundson, 22, of Wilson, N.C., died June 1 in Ar Ramadi, Iraq, when an improvised explosive device detonated near his Bradley Fighting Vehicle during combat operations... defenselink.mil/ ... 23:41:22[flag]Army Sgt. Miguel A. Ramos, 39, of Mayaguez, Puerto Rico, died May 31 in Baghdad, Iraq, when an enemy rocket impacted near his position... defenselink.mil/ ... 23:40:50[flag]Army Sgt. 1st Class Steven M. Langmack, 33, of Seattle, Wash., died May 31 in Al Qaim, Iraq, from injuries sustained from small arms fire during combat operations. defenselink.mil/ ... 23:40:30[flag]Army SFC Virgil R. Case, 37, of Mountain Home, Idaho, died June 1 in Kirkuk, Iraq, from non-combat related injuries...
Only Naturalnews.xinhuanet.com/ ... 23:08:17A new study has found that children who live within 200 metres of the overhead electricity cables have a 70 percent increased risk of developing leukaemia...
World Without Bordersnews.bbc.co.uk/ ... 13:05:37What the EU constitution says... news.bbc.co.uk/ ... 12:49:52Varied reasons behind Dutch 'No'...
Digital Threatap.tbo.com/ ... 23:15:08The Subway restaurant chain said Thursday it is ending its decades-old free sandwich promotion amid concerns that counterfeiters using fancy printers and online auction sites have been peddling phony proof-of-purchase stamps and cards...
Transport Tragedyap.tbo.com/ ... 23:14:07A government bus carrying Indians from a health clinic in northeastern Brazil went out of control on a wet road and careened into a creek on Thursday, killing at least 19 people... ap.tbo.com/ ... 23:09:03KIEV, Ukraine - A freight train crashed into a passenger bus at a railroad crossing in southern Ukraine on Thursday, killing 14 people, emergency officials said. In a separate accident, a train crashed into a car at another crossing point, killing three people...
WW2 - less with usreuters.com/ ... 13:02:45Fresh reports that an elderly man in the southern Philippines was a Japanese soldier left over from World War II were dismissed on Thursday by local police and Japan's embassy in Manila as a hoax...
Under Tyrannyap.tbo.com/ ... 23:14:35A bill to legalize gay marriage in California died Thursday after it failed to gain the simple majority needed to pass the state Assembly... reuters.com/ ... 12:59:13The name of the Lord may no longer be taken in vain in the Dutch village of Staphorst...
Don't Give Them Ideasnewsday.com/ ... 23:07:59British police on Thursday were questioning two 11-year-old children arrested on suspicion of attempting to murder a 5-year-old boy... reuters.com/ ... 12:55:56At the base of brown rolling hills on the edge of California's lush Central Valley and behind a barbed wire fence sits a potential target on America's largest single power transmission system...
Disturbing Family Patternssouthcoasttoday.com/ ... 12:49:22TAMPA, Fla. -- A 7-year-old boy beat his baby half-sister to death with his fists, feet and a two-by-four because he was jealous of the attention the girl was receiving and because she would not stop crying...
Violenceap.tbo.com/ ... 23:13:47RICHMOND, Va. - A man was arrested Thursday night in connection with a shooting spree that left three dead - including two shopkeepers who were gunned down in front of horrified customers by a gunman who yelled racist comments... ap.tbo.com/ ... 23:08:41Insurgents killed 38 people in a series of rapid-fire attacks Thursday, including three suicide car bombings within an hour and a drive-by shooting at a busy Baghdad market... ap.tbo.com/ ... 12:57:08SHELBYVILLE, Ind. - Police stormed a convenience store Thursday, freeing a customer held hostage for 20 hours, and the suspect was killed in an exchange of gunfire... news.xinhuanet.com/ ... 12:47:17Death toll increased to 12 in a suicide car bomb blast that targeted Iraq's Kurdish deputy prime minister's convoy in northern Iraq on Thursday...
WED 2005-JUN-01
Why People Go Veganreuters.com/ ... 14:54:03Workers shown on TV singing with their mouths full have prompted a flood of complaints from Britons... commercial for Kentucky Fried Chicken became Britain's most complained about ad...
Preternatural Patternsnydailynews.com/ ... 13:19:45Last week - after Matrix Media announced a deal for Sharpton to host a "Limbaugh of the Left"-type talk radio show - the conservative radio star said he'll think about mentoring the minister in the finer points of the medium. Yesterday, Sharpton contacted me to say he's eager to accept the sort-of offer to (as Limbaugh put it on his own show Friday) "let [Sharpton] guest-host the program for, like, 30 minutes at a time while I am sitting here critiquing him..."
Nixon - still with usnytimes.com/ ... 17:49:33For 30 years, The Washington Post kept secret the identity of Deep Throat, waiting for the right moment to disclose the name of the person who helped the paper develop the biggest story in its history. Yesterday, the paper was scooped on Deep Throat's identity by a monthly magazine... washingtonpost.com/ ... 13:17:06"It's hard for me to judge" whether former deputy FBI Director Mark Felt provided a valuable public service or acted improperly, Bush told reporters. "I'm learning more about the situation," he said...
Digital Consequenceswired.com/ ... 11:41:32Hossein Derakhshan is on tour. In the past few years, he has become the public face of Iran's beleaguered bloggers, more than a dozen of whom have been arrested for their politics. The crackdown has stifled Iran's exploding Web culture, and Derakhshan is making a swing along the Eastern Seaboard to drum up support for the bloggers back home...
US Militarydefenselink.mil/ ... 23:49:51This week, the Army, Air Force, Navy and Marine Corps announced a decrease in the number of reservists on active duty in support of the partial mobilization, while the Coast Guard number increased. The net collective result is 550 fewer reservists mobilized than last week.
US Military Casualtiesdefenselink.mil/ ... 23:51:10[flag]Army Sgt. Charles A. Drier, 28, of Tuscola, Mich.
[flag]Army Spec. Dustin C. Fisher, 22, of Fort Smith, Ark.
[flag]Army Pfc. Jeffrey R. Wallace, 20, of Hoopeston, Ill.
[flag]Army Sgt. Charles A. Drier, 28, of Tuscola, Mich.
[flag]Army Spec. Dustin C. Fisher, 22, of Fort Smith, Ark.
[flag]Army Pfc. Jeffrey R. Wallace, 20, of Hoopeston, Ill.
died May 24 in Baghdad, Iraq, when an improvised explosive device detonated near their HMMWV. defenselink.mil/ ... 23:49:30[flag]Air Force Maj. William Downs, 40, of Winchester, Va.,
[flag]Air Force Capt. Jeremy Fresques, 26, of Clarkdale, Ariz.
[flag]Air Force Capt. Derek Argel, 28, of Lompoc, Calif.
[flag]Air Force Staff Sgt. Casey Crate, 26, of Spanaway, Wash.
died May 30 in the crash of an Iraqi air force aircraft during a training mission in eastern Diyala province.defenselink.mil/ ... 23:48:00[flag]Army Staff Sgt. Victor M. Cortes III, 29, of Erie, Pa., died May 29 in Baghdad, Iraq of non-combat-related injuries. defenselink.mil/ ... 23:47:41[flag]Marine Cpl. Jeffrey B. Starr, 22, of Snohomish, Wash., died May 30 from small-arms fire while conducting combat operations against enemy forces near Ar Ramadi, Iraq... defenselink.mil/ ... 23:47:20[flag]Marine First Sgt. Michael S. Barnhill, 39, of Folsom, Calif., died May 28 after his vehicle struck an improvised explosive device near Haqlaniyah, Iraq.defenselink.mil/ ... 23:46:53U.S. serviceman, missing in action from the Vietnam War, have been identified and are being returned to his family for burial.
[flag]Air Force 1st Lt. Lee A. “Larry” Adams of Willits, Calif... April 19, 1966.. rolled his F-105 “Thunderchief” in on the target. As other pilots in the flight watched, his plane failed to pull out of the dive, crashed and exploded.defenselink.mil/ ... 23:45:33[flag]Army Lt. Col. Albert E. Smart, 41, of San Antonio, Texas, died May 28 in Doha, Qatar, of a non-combat related illness.defenselink.mil/ ... 23:45:06[flag]Army Spc. Phillip N. Sayles, 26, of Jacksonville, Ark., died May 28 in Mosul, Iraq, when an improvised explosive device detonated near his security position.defenselink.mil/ ... 23:44:50[flag]Army CW4 Matthew Scott Lourey, 40, of East Bethel, Minn.
[flag]Army CW2 Joshua Michael Scott, 28, of Sun Prairie, Wis
died on May 27 from injuries sustained on May 26 in Buhriz, Iraq, when their OH-58 (Kiowa Warrior) came under small arms attack and crashed.defenselink.mil/ ... 23:44:13[flag]Army Sgt. Mark A. Maida, 22, of Madison, Wis., died May 27 in Baghdad, Iraq, of injuries sustained in Diyarah, Iraq, May 26 when an improvised explosive device detonated near his HMMWV.defenselink.mil/ ... 23:43:47[flag]Army Sgt. Alfred B. Siler, 33, of Duff, Tenn., died May 25 in Tuz, Iraq, when his HMMWV hit another vehicle.defenselink.mil/ ... 23:43:27[flag]Marine Maj. Ricardo A. Crocker, 39, of Mission Viejo, Calif., died May 26 from a rocket propelled grenade explosion while conducting combat operations in Hadithah, Iraq.defenselink.mil/ ... 23:43:07[flag]Army Spec. Bryan Edward Barron, 26, of Biloxi, Miss.
[flag]Army Spec. Audrey Daron Lunsford, 29, of Sardis, Miss.
[flag]Army Staff Sgt. Saburant Parker, 43, of Foxworth, Miss.
[flag]Army Sgt. Daniel Ryan Varnado, 23, of Saucier, Miss.
died on May 23 in Haswa, Iraq, when their military vehicle was struck by an improvised explosive device.
World Without Bordersnews.bbc.co.uk/ ... 17:53:18Voters in the Netherlands have overwhelmingly rejected the proposed European Union constitution...
Only Naturalap.tbo.com/ ... 14:53:21Doctors fully separated the fused legs of a baby girl known as Peru's "little mermaid" early Wednesday, calling the delicate procedure a "true success..."
Digital Threatbrocktonmass.com/ ... 17:53:03The Federal Election Commission is considering new rules establishing television-like regulations for paid political messages on the Internet. The FEC, the government's watchdog on election law, has drafted rules that would demand the purchasers of political advertisements on Web sites be displayed... The proposals also would have bloggers disclose whether they receive funds from a campaign committee or candidate...
Big Nannyreuters.com/ ... 14:55:37Los Angeles is installing a network of surveillance cameras intended to catch street hawkers selling counterfeit goods, especially pirated copies of Hollywood movies on DVD...
WW2 - still with usnews.bbc.co.uk/ ... 13:35:53Historians working in Germany and the US claim to have found a 60-year-old diagram showing a Nazi nuclear bomb. It is the only known drawing of a "nuke" made by Nazi experts and appears in a report held by a private archive... a detail in the report hints some Nazi scientists may have been closer to that goal than was previously believed...
Threatsnewsfactor.com/ ... 13:13:59Indonesia's embassy in Australia was sealed off and the staff quarantined Wednesday after a package containing what authorities described as a "biological agent" was delivered there...
Violenceap.tbo.com/ ... 23:38:22A gunman being chased by police pulled into a convenience store parking lot in central Indiana on Wednesday, firing at officers as he dashed into the store and took at least one person hostage... Seven hours later, the standoff continued... nytimes.com/ ... 13:18:25KABUL, Afghanistan, June 1 - A suicide bomber set off a powerful explosion today at a funeral ceremony in a mosque in the southern city of Kandahar, killing at least 19 people, among them the Kabul police chief... apnews.myway.com/ ... 11:42:43The kidnapped governor of volatile Anbar province was found dead after a fierce battle between U.S. forces and foreign fighters...
Disturbing Family Patternsnewsday.com/ ... 11:42:11It started with a typical order from a mother to a daughter: Clean up your room. It ended with anything but a typical outcome, according to Nassau County police: The 12-year-old Freeport girl strangled her 45-year-old mother... timesofindia.indiatimes.com/ ... 11:02:16LAHORE: Three men gang-raped a newly married woman with the consent of her in-laws in what police described as an act of revenge... [marriage ordered by local jury because bride's brother had sex with groom's sister.. groom's grampa and ma come in and say, hey, this is just a way to get back at your brother, then three friends of the groom gang-rape her. Well, it would almost make sense under most group-guilt type thinking....]
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