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WED 2005-NOV-30
Disturbing Family Patternstimesonline.co.uk/ ... 10:50:09Twin brothers left their 18th birthday party and robbed their frail grandmother of her life savings before killing her... ransacked the 74-year-old widow’s house while their friend... punched and strangled her... tried to spend the cash on mobile phone top-up cards, but discovered much of the money was out of date currency...
Mass Murdering Monstersnews.bbc.co.uk/ ... 10:12:12Nine Iraqis... farm workers... have been killed and two wounded by gunmen in an attack on a minibus near Baquba, north of Baghdad... 10 gunmen.. shot at the vehicle and then disappeared...
[Day before] a senior Sunni cleric was killed in Falluja... head of the Association of Muslim Scholars in the city, was shot by two gunmen as he left the al-Wahda mosque after evening prayers... "It is shocking, everyone in Falluja knows him, he was highly respected. Even all the insurgents know him and everyone liked him..."
Industrial Tragedynews.scotsman.com/ ... 10:06:36After three days of searching, rescuers at a collapsed coal mine in northeast China still couldn't agree on the number of miners missing... explosion on Sunday at the Dongfeng Coal Mine killed at least 161...
Sociopath Threatssciencedaily.com/ ... 09:41:47Scotland Yard has arrested a 28-year-old London man suspected of buying weapons to use in international terrorism... is not a suspect in the July 7 bombings...
Energyworldnetdaily.com/ ... 10:24:05Fort Worth, Texas, is built on top the Barnett Shale natural gas field, a field so vast that the U.S. Geological Service estimates it contains some 26 trillion cubic feet of yet-to-be-discovered natural gas. Estimates are that as much as 160 billion cubic feet of natural gas are in place per square mile in the Barnett Shale formation...
Digital Cultureopera.com/ ... 10:05:51OAvoid the fires and foxes that plague the other browsers. Download the latest version of the OPERA browser. (Unsolicited and unpaid plug.) news.com.com/ ... 10:03:18A new version of the Firefox Web browser debuted Tuesday, promising speedier browsing, swifter updates and better pop-up blocking...
Science Marches Onnnnnnsciencedaily.com/ ... 09:40:35A patent is expected to be given to Philadelphia's Monell Chemical Senses Center for utilizing a unique method to reduce the smell of animal waste... takes advantage of a process known as 'olfactory cross adaptation,' which refers to the loss of sensitivity to an odor when one is constantly exposed to another odor...
Healing Ourselvesmg.co.za/ ... 10:28:01A genetic experiment to unlock the secrets of the ageing process has created organisms that live six times their usual lifespan... Instead of growing quickly and showing signs of ageing, the organisms became resilient to damage and were better able to repair the genetic defects that build up with age, often leading to cancer in later life... geneticists behind the study say the increase in lifespan is so striking, they may have tapped into one of the most fundamental mechanisms that controls the rate at which living creatures age... tucsoncitizen.com/ ... 10:26:43Albert Soto, a Tucson actor and community activist who died Saturday, intended to donate his eyes and tissue after death, but both were rejected because he was gay. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has established guidelines allowing centers to reject donations from men who have had sex with men within the past five years... decision has outraged Soto’s family members... [no doubt medical experts all]
...fewer than 1 percent of deaths result in suitable organ donations. In some cases, the cause of death can affect whether donations will be accepted... guardian.co.uk/ ... 10:19:27Surgeons will attempt early next year to mend the severed nerves of young people who have suffered motorbike accidents in the first trial of a simple but potentially revolutionary technology that could one day allow the paralysed to walk again. At least ten operations will be carried out to test in humans a technique pioneered in animals by the neuroscientist Geoffrey Raisman, who heads the spinal repair unit of University College, London. He discovered 20 years ago that cells from the lining of the nose constantly regenerate themselves... team believes that if those cells were implanted at the site of the damage they would build a bridge across the break, allowing the nerve fibres to knit back together... news.bbc.co.uk/ ... 10:08:59Surgeons in France have carried out the first face transplant... woman had lost her nose, lips and chin after being savaged by a dog... has been unable to speak or eat properly since... tissues, muscles, arteries and veins were taken from a brain-dead donor and attached to the patient's lower face... will not look like her donor, but nor will she look like she did before the attack - instead she will have a "hybrid" face... "The extent of facial expression which will occur in the long term is unknown... It is not clear whether an individual could be left worse off in the event that a face transplant failed..." sciencedaily.com/ ... 09:40:04four in 10 parents report their preschoolers are not getting the 12 hours to 15 hours of nightly sleep needed for optimal growth, development and disposition, a debt that can never be repaid. Lost slumber cannot be reclaimed, sleep specialists say... sciencedaily.com/ ... 09:39:29of the seven million deaths worldwide that year from cancer, 35 percent were attributable to the nine well-known behavioral and environmental risk factors... overweight and obesity, low fruit and vegetable intake, physical inactivity, smoking, alcohol use, unsafe sex, urban air pollution, indoor smoke from household use of coal and contaminated injections in healthcare settings...
Nature is Dangeroustoday.reuters.com/ ... 10:58:34A dead Indonesian woman has tested positive for bird flu.... two brothers... died this month just days before their 16-year-old sibling was admitted to hospital... WHO... could not rule out human-to-human transmission... hampered by a lack of evidence. Many scientists fear H5N1 could kill million of people if it mutates into a form that passes easily among humans.
Supernaturalthetowntalk.com/ ... 10:57:04The 80-year-old widow was making her way down the steps in her carport Sunday on her way to play the organ for services at First United Methodist Church of Boyce when she was attacked by a goat that had escaped from her neighbor's pen. "He is a big, old billy goat. He came up the steps and bucked up on those hind legs and nearly scared me to death..." fended the goat off with her cane, but he continued to attack. "He kept trying to head-butt me until I was able to get him off balance by pushing him down the steps with my cane..." goat pursued her around the car until, by the grace of God, she was able to get inside and lock the doors...
"I have a hard time getting around... I don't know how I was able to get in the car that fast. I think God must have picked me up and put me there..."
Love is Strangesky.com/ ... 10:54:54An Iranian man is facing the prospect of paying alimony... [of] 15 million dollars worth of gold coins... [but in installments over] more than 10,000 years...
Big Nannychannels.netscape.com/ ... 10:53:45...according to a new study of U.S. viewing habits...
81% of American TV watchers worry about the kinds of programs their children could be exposed to...
91% of parents said more parental involvement is the best way...
Just 9% of parents said the government should increase control and enforcement of network television programming...
Animal Culturewftv.com/ ... 10:52:25DogST. CLOUD, Fla... 5-month-old puppy... was found buried alive in a yard... owner... said he buried the dog alive in a hole because he kept digging...
Theory of Sex Educationwbir.com/ ... 10:46:51...administrators who stopped distribution of the school newspaper... said the controversial articles weren't appropriate for all high school students... [School paper] Editor Brittany Thomas explained... "No one got to read those words because it was censored. It was just taken away... There are quite a few pregnant girls at the high school. You see them everyday when you're walking down the hall, and the article was just to be like [sic] our students are having sex and our sex education isn't teaching what the contraceptives are..."
[The administrators, right or wrong, are within well-established rights... and the students are free to start their own newspaper....]
Supernatural Whoopsurantia.org/ ... 10:44:12[For those who find Limbo lacking...]
...These infant-receiving schools are enterprises devoted to the nurture and training of the children of time, including those who have died on the evolutionary worlds of space before the acquirement of individual status on the universe records. In the event of the survival of either or both of such a child's parents, the guardian of destiny deputizes her associated cherubim as the custodian of the child's potential identity, charging the cherubim with the responsibility of delivering this undeveloped soul into the hands of the Mansion World Teachers in the probationary nurseries of the morontia worlds.... thescotsman.scotsman.com/ ... 10:41:09Pope to abandon idea of unbaptised babies forever in limbo... [Idea that God is a homophobic pederast lunatic still being debated...]
Sexual Equality??stuff.co.nz/ ... 10:39:50Air New Zealand and Qantas have banned men from sitting next to unaccompanied children on flights...
Air New Zealand tried to seat children near a crew area so crew could keep an eye on them and, when possible, children were seated next to an empty seat. "Sometimes this isn't possible, so the preference is to seat a female passenger next door to an unaccompanied minor," she said. When asked if the airline considered male passengers to be dangerous to children, Ms Paul replied: "That's not what I said." When it was put to her that that was the implication of the policy, she repeated: "No, that's not what I said..." [Which is not an answer...]
Transportthescotsman.scotsman.com/ ... 10:29:52A [35yo] man put his hands under a train so his fingers would be severed and he could collect an insurance pay-out, prosecutors in Austria have alleged... told police he was riding his bicycle when he lost control and rolled down an embankment on to rail tracks just as a train was passing. He lost a thumb on one hand and an index finger and a pinky on the other. Investigators were suspicious when they found the man took out a £700,000 insurance policy a few months earlier... [accident or fraud, it's hard to imagine how the railroad is liable in any case...]
Christmas 2005timesonline.co.uk/ ... 10:23:19...headmistress... it has become a matter of principle to shield her pupils from the full force of the [Christmas] hype... has won praise from parents for keeping Christmas off the syllabus at Piper’s Vale primary school in Ipswich until December 7... has banned pupils from mentioning Christmas in lessons until after Advent to stop them getting overexcited... Her success, coupled with the John Lewis Partnership’s decision to move its Christmas range into its stores two weeks later than usual, suggests that the tide may at last be turning. The retail giant held its festive produce back until a relatively modest October 3 this year and last year because of customer demand... worldnetdaily.com/ ... 10:21:53Teachers at a Georgia elementary school reportedly were told to nix any religious pins and refrain from referring to a party as a "Christmas" party, while the local district has censored certain religious Christmas songs from its "winter" program...
Under Digital Tyrannybreitbart.com/ ... 10:20:28In an attempt to boost its stalled economy, the hurricane-ravaged city of New Orleans is starting the nation's first free wireless Internet network owned and run by a major city...
Disinformation Propaganda & Spinnydailynews.com/ ... 10:17:15Writer Mitch Glazer recalls that all Woodward wanted to hear about was Belushi's drug use. "Whenever I started telling him the good things about John, he would literally put down his pen and wait for me to finish..."
World Without Bordersvoanews.com/ ... 10:02:26Mexican President Vicente Fox says serious discussions and cooperation between the United States and Mexico, rather than reinforcing the entire border with a fence, is the way to organize orderly migration, while insuring security...
Sex can be... unconscious?sciencedaily.com/ ... 09:42:49A Toronto man has been acquitted of sexual assault charges, as medical officials said he was asleep at the time, with a disorder known as "sexsomnia..." sexual behavior during sleep, brought on by alcohol, sleep deprivation and genetics... The judgment outraged women's groups...
In Self-Defensesciencedaily.com/ ... 09:40:57Off-the-shelf equipment can turn off law enforcement wiretaps and falsify telephone numbers that are dialed, U.S. computer security experts said Wednesday...
TUE 2005-NOV-29
Animals can be Deadlychicagotribune.com/ ... 18:55:41THORNDALE, TEXAS -- A pack of six... pit bull-Rottweiler mixed breeds... mauled a 76-year-old woman to death as she... was riding on a lawn mower in her front yard... dogs were found at the home of Stiles' neighbor...
Psychotic Religoius Fanaticssuntimes.com/ ... 22:04:07CHITTAGONG, Bangladesh-- Bombs exploded in two Bangladesh cities on Tuesday, killing at least eight people and injuring 66 in what appeared to be the latest attack by militant Muslims intent on imposing harsh Islamic law... abcnews.go.com/ ... 18:53:44OAKLAND, Calif... First, a liquor store was vandalized by a gang of men in suits and bow ties for selling alcohol to blacks. Then, days later, the store owner was kidnapped, and the business was burned down... found safe in the trunk of a car Monday, about 12 hours after the fire... No arrests have been made...
Transport Tragedylatimes.com/ ... 18:54:08Authorities piecing together the cause of a fatal Greyhound bus crash in Santa Maria, Calif., said Monday that though they believe the 63-year-old driver may have fallen asleep, they do not think he had been illegally overworked... news.bbc.co.uk/ ... 18:33:57about 60 may have been killed... after being knocked off the top of a train as it crossed a bridge in the Democratic Republic of Congo... Goods stacked on the roof are believed to have hit support beams on the bridge and knocked passengers off the train... into a river with a strong current... trains that travel on that line always have lots of people and goods on the roof... to avoid the ticket inspectors or because the train was overcrowded...
Mass Murdering Monstersnews.bbc.co.uk/ ... 18:32:08A Briton, two Canadians and a US citizen were kidnapped in western Baghdad on Saturday... al-Jazeera has aired a video... claimed they were undercover spies working as Christian peace activists...
In the Line of Dutynbc5i.com/ ... 18:52:13FORT WORTH, Texas -- A standoff ended in a far north Fort Worth neighborhood after a police officer was shot in the head and critically injured... The gunman had barricaded himself inside the home with a 25-year-old woman, whom he released at about 4:40 p.m...
US Militaryjanes.com/ ... 18:36:12The US Air Force has unveiled its first hand-held laser weapon... in prototype form and years away from fielding... known as the Personnel Halting and Stimulation Response (PHaSR) system... capable of temporarily impairing an individual's vision...
US Military Casualtiesdefenselink.mil/ ... 15:52:52us-flagArmy Pfc. Ryan D. Christensen, 22, of Spring Lake Heights, N.J., died at the Medical University of Charleston in Charleston, S.C., on Nov. 24, of a non-combat related illness identified in Balad, Iraq, on Nov. 10. defenselink.mil/ ... 15:52:30us-flagMarine Master Sgt. Brett E. Angus, 40, of St. Paul, Minn., died Nov. 26 from an improvised explosive device while conducting combat operations against enemy forces in the vicinity of Camp Taqaddum, Iraq. defenselink.mil/ ... 15:52:07us-flagArmy Sgt. 1st Class Eric P. Pearrow, 40, of Peoria, Ill., died in Baghdad, Iraq, on Nov. 24, when his M1A2 Abrams tank accidentally rolled over into a canal. defenselink.mil/ ... 15:51:39us-flagArmy Staff Sgt. Aram J. Bass, 25, of Niagara Falls, N.Y.
us-flagArmy Sgt. William B. Meeuwsen, 24, of Kingwood, Texas
died in Baghdad, Iraq on Nov. 23, when their unit came under direct fire during combat operations. The circumstances of the soldiers' deaths are under investigation as a potential friendly-fire incident.
Slow Learnersfoxnews.com/ ... 22:03:42Cops arrested a Kingsbury, N.Y., hunter last week for refusing to get off train tracks — and then holding up his hand to halt the train as he lined up a shot aimed at a deer... train driver managed to hit the brakes and stop before slamming into 68-year-old hunter... crew.. tipped off police... had apparently already been warned about hunting near the tracks...
Culturefoxnews.com/ ... 22:02:30American Architecture: Form Doesn't Follow Function... When you can't tell City Hall from an art museum, perhaps architecture isn't doing its job... "If form follows function, then you should be able to look at a building and have a good idea about what goes on inside... That didn't happen in our survey, which suggests form is not following function in American architecture..." Why does it matter? "If you can make sense of a place, it should make life in the city more pleasurable and comfortable, and help people figure out where they are..."
"form follows function" was coined in 1918 by American architect Louis Sullivan, who wrote that if "a building is properly designed, one should be able with a little attention, to read through that building to the reason for that building..."
Sexual Equality??foxnews.com/ ... 22:01:13Attractive people may sometimes have a leg up in climbing corporate ladders. But sexy presentation on its own can work against women who are already well up the ladder...
Hang Those Who Betray Public Trustcbc.ca/ ... 18:50:55An eight-term Republican congressman and former Vietnam fighting ace has tearfully confessed that he took $2.4 million US in bribes while pleading guilty to multiple graft charges in a San Diego court... California congressman Randy (Duke) Cunningham, 63... admitting he used his influential position as a member of the U.S. House Appropriations subcommittee to secure defence contracts worth tens of millions of dollars for those who bribed him...
Yuck!today.reuters.com/ ... 18:48:45CHICAGO - Fatter rear ends are causing many drug injections to miss their mark, requiring longer needles to reach buttock muscle...
Disinformation Propaganda & Spinmediainfo.com/ ... 18:48:12Antiwar activist Cindy Sheehan and her book publisher are upset about Associated Press and Reuters photos that allegedly presented a misleading impression of her book signing last weekend in Texas... Her new book, “Not One More Mother's Child..." [which probably does not refer to those killed by the terrorists...] Sheehan accused “right-wing” sites of “spreading a false story that nobody bought my book at Camp Casey on Saturday. That is not true, I sold all 100 copies and got writer's cramp signing them..."
Christmas 2005detnews.com/ ... 18:45:19neighborhood association has ordered the Novi family to remove its seven-piece plastic display or face possible fines of $25 to $100 per week... worldnetdaily.com/ ... 18:43:33One day after a WorldNetDaily story brought national exposure, the home-improvement retailer Lowe's dropped references to "Holiday Trees" in favor of "Christmas Trees" only...
Human Rightusatoday.com/ ... 18:43:00To some, a never-enforced New Hampshire law requiring parental notification before a minor has an abortion is a backward step for women's rights. To others, it protects parents' right to know if their child is having an abortion. The U.S. Supreme Court will consider those arguments Wednesday...
In Self-Defensebreitbart.com/ ... 18:42:36LINCOLN, Neb... After church on Sunday, Pearl Fritts, 76, decided to drive and visit her mom at a nursing home. ...pulled up behind the home to drop off some recyclables. ...heard someone behind her ask whether she wanted help... [then] "She just slammed my head against that bin... I was so shocked..." [Pearl] whipped around and put up her dukes. "I think she was surprised that a little old, gray-haired lady with glasses would come around swinging..." [girl] wanted Fritts' car... girl realized Fritts wasn't about to give up the car, so she ran... was found and picked up at a nearby restaurant...
Under Tyrannyrockymountainnews.com/ ... 18:38:34[You vill show your papers or else!]
Federal prosecutors are reviewing whether to pursue charges against an Arvada woman who refused to show identification to federal police while riding an RTD bus through the Federal Center in Lakewood... When she refused to show her ID, she said, officers with the Federal Protective Service removed her from the bus, handcuffed her, put her in the back of a patrol car and took her to a federal police station within the Federal Center, where she waited while officers conferred. She was subsequently given two tickets and released...
MON 2005-NOV-28
Violencestarbulletin.com/ ... 15:35:34Police arrested five Kalihi boys yesterday in connection with the Tuesday night gang rape of an 11-year-old girl in Beretania Community Park... [ages 15, 14, 13, 13, & 11]
Supernatural Threatssuntimes.com/ ... 15:33:17Chicago... [18yo man] believed a satanic ritual would help him get his girlfriend back, but he lacked a key ingredient -- a little girl... Friday afternoon... [with] a buddy allegedly kidnapped a 6-year-old girl and her 8-year-old brother... was arrested before carrying out his demonic plan, which authorities said involved carving a pentagram in the girl's chest...
World Zookeepingnews.bbc.co.uk/ ... 15:29:05A lioness cub and two Arabic-speaking parrots have been kidnapped from a zoo in Gaza. Gunmen overpowered the zookeeper...
Industrial Tragedytimesonline.co.uk/ ... 15:27:22Anxious relatives of missing miners demanded to be allowed into a coal mine today after an explosion killed at least 134 people and left rescuers searching for 15 others...
Mass Murdering Monsterscbsnews.com/ ... 15:25:50Gunmen ambushed a bus Monday carrying British Muslims to Shiite shrines south of Baghdad, killing two Britons and wounding three others...
an American is missing in Iraq _ presumably one of four Western aid workers who disappeared over the weekend...
Monday, two Sunni Arab politicians were slain in separate attacks...
Disturbing Family Patternswral.com/ ... 15:23:27An N.C. State assistant professor is accused of using an electronic device, possibly a stun gun, on her 11-year-old daughter...
Nature is Dangerousbreitbart.com/ ... 15:22:52The H5N1 strain of bird flu seen in human cases in China has mutated as compared with strains found in human cases in Vietnam...
Sexual Equality??news.bbc.co.uk/ ... 15:29:35Women in Saudi Arabia have taken part in an election, both as voters and as candidates, for the first time...
Love is Strangenews.bbc.co.uk/ ... 15:28:29romantic love lasts little more than a year, Italian scientists believe... raised levels of a protein was linked to feelings of euphoria and dependence experienced at the start of a relationship... receded in time... did not mean people were no longer in love, just that it was not such an "acute love"...
Digital Culturebreitbart.com/ ... 15:24:52Although Internet domain names may be getting longer or more complex as Web sites creatively squeeze into the crowded ".com" address space, most single-letter names like "a.com" and "b.com" remain unused. That may soon change as the Internet's key oversight agency considers lifting restrictions on the simplest of names...
Supernaturalsfgate.com/ ... 15:37:21SACRAMENTO... A statue of the Virgin Mary that has begun "crying" a substance that looks like blood... Red liquid trailed from the side of Mary's left eye, streaming about halfway down the robe made of concrete. Many drove long distances to see the statue... [photos]
Theory of Educationnews.telegraph.co.uk/ ... 15:35:56Millions of secondary school pupils will be taught how to make friends, express their feelings and manage their anger in a controversial Government scheme to be rolled out nationally, the Sunday Telegraph can reveal...
Disinformation Propaganda & Spinworldnetdaily.com/ ... 15:30:50e-mail from adjunct English professor John Daly of Warren County Community College in Washington, N.J. to Rebecca Beach, a 19-year-old freshman at the school who announced an Iraq war hero would be speaking on campus. Daly subsequently resigned from his teaching post Nov. 22... drudgereport.com/ ... 15:22:29A CNN switchboard operator was fired over the holiday -- after the operator claimed the 'X' placed over Vice President's Dick Cheney's face was "free speech!" "We did it just to make a point. Tell them to stop lying, Bush and Cheney," the CNN operator said to a caller. "Bring our soldiers home." The caller initially phoned the network to complain about the all-news channel flashing an "X' over Cheney as he gave an address live from Washington. "Was it not freedom of speech? Yes or No?" the CNN operator explained. "If you don't like it, don't watch..."
US Judicial Branchtoday.reuters.com/ ... 15:21:20A chunk of marble fell from near the roof of the U.S. Supreme Court onto the stairs in the front of the building but no one was injured...
SUN 2005-NOV-27
Slavery - still with usnews.telegraph.co.uk/ ... 11:06:11Our investigation uncovered shocking evidence in eastern Europe, including video footage, of groups of women locked in squalid cellars below motels. The victims - found by police in a series of raids - were allowed out of the cramped bunkers only to "service" clients in nearby rooms before being taken straight back underground. The "cellar girls" were among thousands of young women lured to Macedonia from their native countries across eastern Europe by ruthless criminal gangs. Promised jobs as waitresses, au pairs or dancers, they are forced into prostitution before being sold to human traffickers...
Digital Threatbreitbart.com/ ... 11:03:31A 17-year-old likely will face misdemeanor charges after allegedly losing control of his car while text messaging and [fatally] hitting a bicyclist...
Theftnews24.com/ ... 10:59:10Portland - A 40-year-old man is behind bars, accused of stealing hundreds of thousands of dollars of Lego sets... allegedly stole Lego sets from Target stores in Oregon by switching the bar codes on the boxes, covering over the pricing labels of expensive sets with labels from inexpensive ones.. then resold on the internet...
Nature is Dangeroustoday.reuters.com/ ... 10:57:32Ten people were killed and some 50 injured when an earthquake razed mud-brick villages on the Gulf island of Qeshm off Iran's south coast on Sunday... magnitude of 5.9, shook southern Iran for about 10 to 15 seconds... three strong aftershocks...
US Militarymsnbc.msn.com/ ... 11:04:46...Although the shattering psychological impact of war is well known, experts have become increasingly interested in those who emerge from combat feeling enhanced. Some psychiatrists and psychologists believe that those soldiers have experienced a phenomenon known as "post-traumatic growth," or "adversarial" growth...
US Military Casualtiesdefenselink.mil/ ... 10:44:22us-flagArmy Spc. Gregory L. Tull, 20, of Pocahontas, Iowa, died in the Al Anbar Province, Iraq, on Nov. 25, when an improvised explosive device detonated near his vehicle during combat operations. Tull was assigned to the Army National Guard.
Threatskvoa.com/ ... 11:10:45Police have arrested a man at Sky Harbor International Airport for making threats of terrorism and for restraining an information desk clerk... jumped behind a ticket counter, grabbed the clerk and held her hands behind her back while screaming that he was armed and was affiliated with terrorist groups... demanded the release of prisoners from an Illinois jail... [one name was recognized] as a character in the 1985 movie 'The Falcon and the Snowman', a fact-based drama about two American men caught selling government secrets to the Soviet Union...
Sex can be Dangerousonnnews.com/ ... 11:07:14A high school science teacher faces charges for having sex with a female student, even though police say he waited until the girl turned 18. State law bars a teacher from having sex with a student at the same school...
Transport Troublelocal6.com/ ... 11:02:33An intoxicated passenger who lit a cigarette and urinated in the aisle led pilots to divert a United Airlines flight from Orlando to Washington, D.C...
Human Righttoday.reuters.com/ ... 11:01:04Singapore has sacked its long-serving hangman, less than a week before the scheduled execution of an Australian drug smuggler, after his identity and picture was exposed by media...
SAT 2005-NOV-26
War is Hellcbc.ca/ ... 23:52:13Four U.S. soldiers will be disciplined for burning the bodies of two Taliban militants in Afghanistan and then taunting insurgents about the incident, the U.S. military says... "Our investigation found there was no intent to desecrate the remains, but only to dispose of them for hygienic reasons..." the two junior officers who ordered the bonfire would be reprimanded for showing a lack of cultural and religious understanding, but said they didn't know of the Muslim stricture at the time... two other noncommissioned officers would be punished for making taunting comments about the burned bodies over loudspeakers...
Transport Tragedysuntimes.com/ ... 23:47:05A multimillion-dollar bridge or just plain ol' common sense would have prevented Wednesday's Metra train accident at the Grand Avenue crossing in Elmwood Park... clear there wouldn't have been an accident if people had not stopped their cars on the tracks. As a rule, the NTSB recommends the costly reconfiguring of street-level crossings to separate cars from trains, which absolutely prevents accidents... But more important, drivers are responsible for putting themselves in a perilous position...
Theftananova.com/ ... 11:30:23Four cop cars took over an hour to catch a gang of teenage thieves who had escaped on a cart pulled by a donkey. Officers from the Greek town of Patras said they were unable to keep up with the donkey which the boys steered down the old town's winding streets and narrow alleyways...
Sociopath Threatsworldnetdaily.com/ ... 11:11:25A U.S. senator says he's been shown "anecdotal evidence" suggesting an Arabic presence along the U.S.-Mexico border, noting the Bush administration has not publicly released the information because it is "a matter of intelligence..."
Mass Madnessworldnetdaily.com/ ... 11:17:26Another eyewitness said laptops were being thrown "20 feet in the air and people were collapsing on each other to grab them. It was ridiculous..." sun-sentinel.com/ ... 11:07:03in South Florida early today with a 73-year-old woman being knocked down as a crowd at an electronics store rushed a metal security gate to get inside... "I was trying to get out of the way, but they knocked me down... I hit my head on the floor, and people stepped on me... I don't understand why people do these things..."
A woman at a Pembroke Pines Wal-Mart was also injured and required hospital treatment when she was pushed to the ground by another shopper... kbtv4.tv/ ... 11:05:22Early morning shoppers at Beaumont’s Wal-Mart say they were pepper sprayed by an off-duty police officer working security as a large crowd gathered in the electronics department of the store. “There were some people trying to break thru the crowds because they were throwing up, and couldn`t breathe... It was pretty bad..."
Mass Murdering Monsterscbsnews.com/ ... 11:01:11A suicide bomber drove his pickup truck into a crowded gas station in central Iraq on Saturday and detonated it, killing six people, while a car bomb targeting a convoy of foreigners in the capital killed four people...
Sex can be Fatalctv.ca/ ... 11:00:14A Quebec teenager with a peanut allergy has died after kissing her boyfriend who had eaten a peanut butter sandwich hours earlier... went into anaphylactic shock and in spite of being given an adrenalin shot, could not be revived...
Nature is Dangerousobserver.guardian.co.uk/ ... 23:50:14...nearly half a million fled their homes after an earthquake struck central China yesterday morning. The tremor, the biggest in the region in half a century, measured 5.7 on the Richter scale and was felt in cities hundreds of miles away... 370 injured... destroyed 8,000 homes in the city of Ruichang, in the Jiangxi province... cbsnews.com/ ... 10:54:40An earthquake with a magnitude of at least 5.5 shook part of central China on Saturday, killing at least 14 people and injuring nearly 400.
Only Naturaltimesonline.co.uk/ ... 11:29:29AN ENGINEER has survived 28 cardiac arrests in a single afternoon, after he was resuscitated on each occasion using a defibrillator. ...54... from Whipton, Devon, remembers little about it but his doctors and paramedics certainly will...
US Military Casualtiesdefenselink.mil/ ... 10:56:23us-flagArmy Staff Sgt. Steven C. Reynolds, 32, of Jordan, N.Y.
us-flagArmy Pfc. Marc A. Delgado, 21, of Lithia, Fla.
died in Baghdad, Iraq, on Nov. 24, when an improvised explosive device detonated near their HMMWV causing it to flip into a canal. defenselink.mil/ ... 10:55:46us-flagArmy Spc. Javier A. Villanueva, 25, of Temple, Texas, died in Al Asad, Iraq, on Nov. 24, of injuries sustained in Hit, Iraq, on Nov. 23, when an improvised explosive device detonated near his dismounted patrol during combat operations. defenselink.mil/ ... 10:55:25us-flagArmy Spc. Allen J. Knop, 22, of Willowick, Ohio, died in Baghdad, Iraq, on Nov. 23, from non-combat related injuries.
Business Wisdomsuntimes.com/ ... 23:49:11GARY, Ind. -- A woman who was robbed at knifepoint while pumping gas into her church's van couldn't believe it when the gas station attendant refused to call police for help... request to call 911 was met with silence from the other side of the Citgo station's counter... tried again.. "Use your cell phone.''
The gas station's manager said he was sorry about the robbery, but clerks at the station do not make emergency calls from the front counter, fearing retaliation from criminals... "We have to be careful,'' he said. "If we call, then there are problems. They can hear. So we use the back phone. We are always helpful to the customer, but we have to protect ourselves.'' Members of the Moving Spirit Church, which Heffner attends, regularly use the gas station to refill the church's vehicles. At least they used to...
Puritan Tyrannybreitbart.com/ ... 11:11:02Massachusetts' attorney general is launching an investigation into several supermarkets that stayed open opened on Thanksgiving in defiance of the state's Puritan-era Blue Laws...
Disinformation Propaganda & Spintoday.reuters.com/ ... 11:35:37Boston set off a furor this week when it officially renamed a giant tree erected in a city park a "holiday tree" instead of a "Christmas tree..." breitbart.com/ ... 11:28:09During its live coverage of the annual Macy's Thanksgiving Day parade, NBC did not tell viewers that a giant balloon had caught on a street lamp and injured two sisters. At the point in the broadcast when the "M&M's Chocolate Candies" balloon was supposed to have crossed the finish line, announcers Katie Couric, Matt Lauer and Al Roker stuck close to their scripts and the network ran footage of the balloon from last year's parade... reuters.myway.com/ ... 11:10:39...CNN earlier this month broadcast a documentary, "Undercover in the Secret State," which among other images showed a grainy clip of what it called a public execution by firing squad of a man accused of helping a refugee cross into neighboring China. "The video tape is full of sheer lies negating the popular and class nature and the democratic principle of the DPRK's laws and tarnishing its image from A to Z," the North's official KCNA news agency said in a commentary...
Supernatural Threatsinsidebayarea.com/ ... 11:26:00Oakland liquor stores under siege -- Suspected Black Muslims warn business owners not to sell alcohol to African Americans... news.bbc.co.uk/ ... 11:03:24Millions of Americans, most of them supporters of the Republican party, believe that the world was created only a few thousand years ago as per the account in Genesis and the dinosaurs can only date from then, so the Tyrannosaurus Rex romped around with Adam and Eve. In other words these Americans, heirs to every scientific advance in history, deny rational accounts of how the world came to exist... Left-wing flower-power Democrats can be Catholics, so can right-wing socially conservative Republicans. American Jews, Hindus, even Muslims are not politically defined by their faith. But evangelical Christians, operating inside the Republican party, have coalesced their energies and their resources around a set of beliefs on homosexuality, abortion and Darwinism which place them on the authoritarian right of every political question and at odds with science campaigning. For instance, to tell visitors to the Grand Canyon that this wondrous sight is not millions of years old, which it is...
Digital Threattoday.reuters.co.uk/ ... 10:57:51The cost of building a Microsoft Corp. Xbox 360 video game console is nearly 40 percent higher than the retail price... the big winner in the video game wars is IBM, since its microprocessors power all three of the new consoles from the industry's heavy hitters...
FRI 2005-NOV-25
Violencehosted.ap.org/ ... 01:02:55KABUL, Afghanistan -- Suspected Taliban militants shot to death three Afghan police Wednesday...
[Tuesday].. a roadside bombing killed a U.S. service member in the same province...
Villagers.. found the nearly decapitated body of an Indian truck driver who had been kidnapped in the southwest over the weekend... hosted.ap.org/ ... 00:55:52GLEN BURNIE, Md. -- A fired employee shot two supervisors at a food distribution business Wednesday, then fatally shot himself in the head just outside the front door... victims.. were in stable condition with non-life-threatening injuries...
Transport Tragedynews.bbc.co.uk/ ... 10:54:43At least 58 bodies have been recovered after two packed passenger buses were swept away in floods in India's Tamil Nadu state... suntimes.com/ ... 10:42:15Chicago... Federal investigators said crossing gates were working properly Wednesday night when a Metra express train bound for Antioch blasted through vehicles blocking the tracks in Elmwood Park... witnesses described the collision as something out of an action movie... rocketing a red GMC sport-utility vehicle 20 feet into the air and blasting one car hundreds of feet down the tracks... "The light turned red. The train rails started blinking. They came down... I was stuck. I couldn't get out. We were all trying to squeeze up. I was trying to move my car as close as I could. I remember looking up and saw the train, and that was it..." "We don't know exactly what happened, other than we know cars were in a place they shouldn't have been... We know the train was moving 70 mph and struck..." Since 1976, there have been 26 accidents at the crossing, with 10 injuries and two deaths -- one death in 1983 and another in 1997... hosted.ap.org/ ... 01:00:53LIMA, Peru -- Sixteen people were killed when a passenger bus plunged into a river Thursday... included a 1-year-old child... hosted.ap.org/ ... 01:00:20A pickup truck went out of control on a slippery road and crashed into a daycare center Wednesday morning, hitting and seriously injuring a 4-year-old girl... broken shoulder, broken collarbone and a broken cheekbone... 4-year-old boy was treated for a bruised finger... center is licensed to serve 50 children, but only about 15 had arrived by the time the truck slid into a large picture window... hosted.ap.org/ ... 00:54:22Two freight trains collided south of Chicago Thursday morning, injuring three crew members and forcing the evacuation of homes down wind of the tracks after flammable alcohol leaked from a tanker car... hosted.ap.org/ ... 00:53:20MILWAUKEE -- Four friends [ages 44-74] traveling to Mississippi for a Thanksgiving gathering were killed when their vehicle collided nearly head-on with a tractor-trailer in southeastern Missouri... sports utility vehicle crossed the median on Interstate 55 and into the path of the semi-truck Wednesday morning near Portageville, Mo... truck driver.. was hospitalized in serious condition...
Industrial Threattoday.reuters.com/ ... 00:35:16In the southwestern city of Chongqing, more than 6,000 people were evacuated after an explosion at another chemical plant killed one and injured three on Thursday, raising fears of benzene contamination there as well...
Extraordinary Lifeusatoday.com/ ... 10:58:09Actor Pat Morita, whose portrayal of the wise and dry-witted Mr. Miyagi in The Karate Kid earned him an Oscar nomination, has died. He was 73... For years, Morita played small and sometimes demeaning roles in such films as Thoroughly Modern Millie and TV series such as The Odd Couple and Green Acres. His first breakthrough came with Happy Days, and he followed with his own brief series, Mr. T and Tina. The Karate Kid, led to three sequels, the last of which, 1994's The Next Karate Kid, paired him with a young Hilary Swank... Born in northern California on June 28, 1932, the son of migrant fruit pickers... spent most of his early years in the hospital with spinal tuberculosis. He later recovered only to be sent to a Japanese-American internment camp in Arizona during World War II... "Only in America could you get away with the kind of comedy I did... If I tried it in Japan before the war, it would have been considered blasphemy, and I would have ended in leg irons..."
Extraterrestrial Threatnews.yahoo.com/ ... 10:53:39Paul Hellyer, Canada’s Defence Minister from 1963-67... On September 25, 2005, in a startling speech at the University of Toronto... has joined forces with three Non-governmental organizations to ask the Parliament of Canada to hold public hearings on Exopolitics -- relations with “ETs...” ethical, advanced extraterrestrial civilizations that may now be visiting Earth...
"UFOs, are as real as the airplanes that fly over your head... I'm so concerned about what the consequences might be of starting an intergalactic war, that I just think I had to say something... The secrecy involved in all matters pertaining to the Roswell incident was unparalled. The classification was, from the outset, above top secret, so the vast majority of U.S. officials and politicians, let alone a mere allied minister of defence, were never in-the-loop... The United States military are preparing weapons which could be used against the aliens, and they could get us into an intergalactic war without us ever having any warning... The Bush administration has finally agreed to let the military build a forward base on the moon, which will put them in a better position to keep track of the goings and comings of the visitors from space, and to shoot at them, if they so decide... The time has come to lift the veil of secrecy, and let the truth emerge, so there can be a real and informed debate, about one of the most important problems facing our planet today... "
Animal Culturebreitbart.com/ ... 10:45:32CheetahCheetahGODE, Ethiopia U.S. troops found two cheetah cubs _ one of them blinded _ being forced to fight each other for the amusement of jeering children in this dusty, forgotten village...
Only Naturaltimesonline.co.uk/ ... 10:44:04psychiatrists have shown that swimming with dolphins can relieve depression... today.reuters.com/ ... 00:36:49Cranberries, which already are known to help thwart urinary tract infections, may also prevent tooth decay and cavities, dental researchers reported in the January issue of the journal Caries Research... today.reuters.com/ ... 00:36:18Scientists monitoring earth movements in Antarctica believe they have found a singing iceberg...
Why People Go Vegantoday.reuters.com/ ... 10:58:54[Wednesday]... a Virginia woman grabbed the world turkey-eating title on Wednesday by gobbling down a whole roast bird in 12 minutes...
Disinformation Propaganda & Spinreuters.myway.com/ ... 10:44:39Satellite images could help determine if the CIA ran secret prisons in Europe...
Justice?hosted.ap.org/ ... 01:01:48BELFAST, Northern Ireland (AP) -- An Algerian man was convicted Thursday of possessing information on making a concealed bomb that could be used to blow up a commercial airliner. Abbas Boutrab, 32, had claimed during his trial he had downloaded the information onto 25 computer disks out of simple curiosity. But Belfast Crown Court Justice Ronnie Weatherup found him guilty of possessing information "for a purpose connected with the commission, preparation or instigation of an act of terrorism...
Modern Family Lifehosted.ap.org/ ... 00:59:12GAINESVILLE, Ga. -- A judge on Wednesday declared a 15-year-old boy a delinquent for violating his probation by skipping school to marry a 37-year-old woman who is pregnant with the boy's child... hosted.ap.org/ ... 00:58:33MEMPHIS, Tenn. -- A state appeals court Wednesday refused to return a 6-year-old Chinese girl to her biological parents, who put her in the custody of an American couple shortly after her birth... five-year struggle by... Chinese citizens who live in Memphis, to regain custody... were facing financial and legal troubles when their daughter was born, say they thought they were putting her in temporary foster care... will be appealed to the state Supreme Court... could go on for up to three more years and end up in the federal courts
Sex can be Dangeroustoday.reuters.com/ ... 00:51:41TAMPA, Florida... [25yo] former Florida school teacher, pleaded guilty Tuesday to having sex with a 14-year-old male student and was sentenced to 10 years of community control and probation...
Anger can be Dangeroustoday.reuters.com/ ... 00:37:22Men with heart disease who have high levels of hostility are more than twice as likely as men with more trusting personalities to get sick or require hospitalization for heart-related causes...
Broadcast is Deadtv.com/ ... 00:34:06They're often blond, very ambitious and always beautiful. They're the young women who travel from towns and cities across America in hopes of sharing one man's incredible dream: life at the Playboy Mansion. This unique eight episode reality series takes viewers beyond the gates and behind closed doors to reveal the world of Hugh Hefner's mansion as it has never been seen before...
Fun can be Dangerousnytimes.com/ ... 00:31:48... The M&M balloon... 515-pound plastic contraption filled with 13,335 cubic feet of helium... crashed into a lamppost and was punctured... collapsed... pulled off a light fixture... the victims - a 26-year-old woman, who was using a wheelchair, and her 11-year-old sister... cuts and bruises... girl.. was cut in the back of the head, received six stitches and had a chipped tooth; her older sister Mary, suffering with a bruised forehead...
THU 2005-NOV-24
Sociopath Threatsexpatica.com/ ... 12:12:08Russia on Thursday said it was ready to enter into an unprecedented nuclear deal with Iran aimed at breaking the deadlock in the international dispute over Iran's nuclear programme... Iran would be allowed to convert uranium inside Iran under the supervision of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), but send it to Russia for enrichment...
Industrial Threatcbc.ca/ ... 12:11:24A slick of flammable nitrobenzene, 80 kilometres long, has begun making its way along the Songhua River through Harbin, a northeastern Chinese city of 3.8 million people... water supply.. has been shut down... provincial governor said the system should be up and running again by Saturday... The Chinese government and local authorities have come under fire for not revealing the existence of the nitrobenzene slick until this week... originated from a chemical plant explosion almost two weeks ago in the city of Jilin, 200 kilometres to the southeast... expected to continue floating along the Songhua and into neighbouring Russia by means of the Heilongjiang River... news.ft.com/ ... 00:40:13Thousands of residents of Harbin on Wednesday night jammed its railway station and booked out all available flights as a deadly 80km toxic slick made its way down the Songhua river, threatening to poison the north-eastern Chinese city’s water supplies. The slick of benzene and other toxins was leaked into the river, the city’s main source of water, after a series of explosions 10 days ago at a chemicals factory 200km upriver...
Violencetimesonline.co.uk/ ... 12:14:44A suicide car bomber today killed 30 people outside a hospital in central Iraq, including four police guards, three women and two children. Four US soldiers who had been handing out toys to children outside the hospital in Mahmoudiya.. were injured in the blast... 35 other people were also wounded... today.reuters.com/ ... 12:12:54One in six women worldwide suffers domestic violence -- some battered during pregnancy -- yet many remain silent about the assaults, the World Health Organization (WHO) said on Thursday... apnews.myway.com/ ... 00:33:46BAGHDAD, Iraq - Gunmen wearing Iraqi army uniforms broke into the home of a senior Sunni leader Wednesday and killed him, his three sons and his son-in-law...
Transport Tragedybreitbart.com/ ... 00:39:17A commuter train struck several vehicles during the holiday rush hour in suburban Chicago Wednesday, injuring at least 13 people... hit five vehicles at a busy diagonal intersection, setting off a chain reaction that ultimately damaged about a dozen vehicles... At least one of the vehicles burst into flames... at least three people in the vehicles were in critical condition... hosted.ap.org/ ... 00:30:45SAN JOSE, Calif... A [20yo] baby sitter was arrested Tuesday after a child in her care was struck and killed by a train... allegedly led the boy and two other children across the tracks Monday, then went back for a stroller carrying her own infant... The toddler apparently tried to follow her and was struck by the Amtrak train...
US Militarydefenselink.mil/ ... 00:43:10This week, the Air Force and Navy announced an increase in the number of reservists on active duty in support of the partial mobilization, while the Army, Coast Guard and Marine Corps had a decrease. The net collective result is 4,727 fewer reservists mobilized than last week. This brings the total National Guard and Reserve personnel, who have been mobilized, to 143,890, including both units and individual augmentees...
Supernatural Consequencesktul.com/ ... 00:36:03Tulsa - ...Billy Joe Daugherty of Victory Christian Center... Sunday... right in front of his own congregation at Victory Christian Center. "Standing just like this, he went 'POW', and that knocked me back and I spun like that and he grabbed my coat..." With blood pouring down his face, Daugherty kept on preaching and forgiving. "We don't forgive because we feel like it... We forgive because it's the right thing to do... Did you ever think I'm gonna smack this guy?.. I never once thought of even hitting back...
US Military Casualtiesdefenselink.mil/ ... 00:27:50us-flagArmy Sgt. Denis J. Gallardo, 22, of St. Petersburg, Fla., died in Tal Afar, Iraq, on Nov. 22, from a non-combat related illness. defenselink.mil/ ... 00:27:34us-flagNavy Petty Officer 3rd Class Emory J. Turpin, 23, of Dahlonega, Ga., died Nov. 20 when he drowned in the Seychelles. defenselink.mil/ ... 00:27:02us-flagArmy Pfc. John W. Dearing, 21, of Hazel Park, Mich., died in Habbaniyah, Iraq on Nov. 21, when an improvised explosive device detonated near his HMMWV during combat operations. Dearing was assigned to the Army National Guard. defenselink.mil/ ... 00:25:08us-flagArmy Spc. Matthew P. Steyart, 21, of Mount Shasta, Calif., died in Shah Wali Kot, Afghanistan, on Nov. 22, when an improvised explosive device detonated near his HMMWV during patrol operations.
Fun can be Dangerousnewsday.com/ ... 12:17:54A giant [M&M] balloon at the Thanksgiving parade snagged a street light in Times Square and caused part of it [the head of the street lamp] to fall into the crowd, injuring a woman and a child... in stable condition at.. Bellevue... nature of their injuries was not immediately known...
Noise can be Dangerousforbes.com/ ... 12:13:51"Our results demonstrate that chronic noise exposure is associated with a mildly to moderately increased risk of heart attack... The increase appears more closely associated with actual sound levels rather than with subjective annoyance. However, there were differences between men and women and these need further investigation...."
Alcohol Was Involvednews.bbc.co.uk/ ... 00:36:30About one-third of all the pubs, clubs and shops in England and Wales licensed to sell alcohol are to get longer opening hours, BBC research suggests. New licensing laws which allow pubs to apply for 24-hour drinking in some areas come into force at midnight...
Disinformation Propaganda & Spinworldnetdaily.com/ ... 00:33:15In violation of CIA regulations that bar contact with reporters without permission, Joseph Wilson's agency-employed wife Valerie Plame apparently accompanied him to a breakfast meeting with New York Times reporter Nicholas Kristof in which they discussed the ambassador's controversial mission to Niger one month before Plame allegedly was "outed" by Robert Novak...
Transporthosted.ap.org/ ... 00:32:49Harley-Davidson Inc. issued a voluntary safety recall on 2006 model Dyna series motorcycles built between June 9 and Oct. 19 due to a transmission defect...
Supernatural Threatshosted.ap.org/ ... 00:31:53Creationism and intelligent design are going to be studied at the University of Kansas... A course being offered next semester by the university religious studies department is titled "Special Topics in Religion: Intelligent Design, Creationism and other Religious Mythologies" "The KU faculty has had enough," said Paul Mirecki, department chairman. "Creationism is mythology... Intelligent design is mythology. It's not science. They try to make it sound like science. It clearly is not...."
Digital Threathosted.ap.org/ ... 00:29:11OLD TAPPAN, N.J... high school was closed Monday while authorities investigated a threat that a student received in a computer instant message... was a hoax, sent by a former student who was in eighth grade when he moved back to Kazakhstan with his family two years ago...
WED 2005-NOV-23
Sociopath Threatsworldnetdaily.com/ ... 08:20:05[Seattle mall shooter] ...Maldonado never took his finger off the trigger of one of his two loaded semi-automatic rifles. But Maldonado's demeanor changed as they talked. "It changed from being self-conscious, to being worried, and then to being sympathetic to us, and then to being scared... He actually mentioned to us that he had taken some meth before all of this and then, when that wore off, he realized what he had really done..." told them he had intended to shoot himself but lost his nerve...
Only Naturalnews.xinhuanet.com/ ... 08:25:37A US study has found that the longer women nursed the lower their risk of developing type 2 diabetes...
Animal Culturecanada.com/ ... 08:21:24SimianIt may exist somewhere but so far no one has found the lost giant-spider-pit sequence that was excised from 1933's King Kong, just prior to its theatrical release... Peter Jackson and his Weta Workshop F/X crew in New Zealand. Having just finished work on their upcoming theatrical remake of Kong, and being loyal fans of the original, they decided, just for fun, to try and replicate the sequence, based on surviving still photos, storyboards and the original script... used 1930s film equipment and technology - none of their latter-day award-winning computerized effects - to try and replicate the stop-motion and matte techniques that were pioneered by Kong's chief technician Willis O'Brien...
Disinformation Propaganda & Spinedmontonsun.com/ ... 08:18:01...American political journalist Chris Matthews... host of the CNBC current affairs show Hardball... yesterday... In a speech to political science students at the University of Toronto... "The person on the other side is not evil. They just have a different perspective..."
Sex can be Dangerousmuskogeephoenix.com/ ... 08:16:42A man who participated in the popular "Wife Swap" television show is suing producers for $10,225,000 after the "wife" they sent to his home was a gay man...
Let It Go Already!news.bbc.co.uk/ ... 08:13:06Venice... Italian experts are proposing a dramatic new solution... Rather than battling to keep the sea out... scheme would involve pumping huge quantities of sea water into the ground... down 12 pipes each of which would be 700m (765 yards) long. The sea water would make the sand beneath the city expand lifting Venice by 30cm (11.8 inches) in 10 years... would help raise Venice by almost as much as it has sunk over the past three centuries...
Alcohol Was Involvedtoday.reuters.com/ ... 08:10:48...western [German] town of Muelheim... [60yo] man... "He was too drunk to go to the toilet... [wet his bed]... next morning... put a switched-on hairdryer on the bed to dry it and left the apartment... Firemen eventually put out the blaze...
Hiding in Plain Viewtoday.reuters.com/ ... 08:07:57Russia... "Then the wife of one of the investigators was watching this TV show. She decided to take a quick look at the credits ... and then she screamed, 'Darling, isn't that your man?' And as it turns out, it was..." [murder suspect working in costuming]...
Whoopstoday.reuters.com/ ... 08:05:30...On the front of the new [Filipino] 100-peso note, which is worth about $1.83, the last name of President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo is spelled "Arrovo," with a "v..." The number of bills mistakenly released was "insignificant" and some people had returned them... [making the ones that weren't returned all the more valuable as collectors' items!..]
Supernatural Whoopstoday.reuters.com/ ... 08:02:54...small southern town of Soverato [Italy]... fugitive being chased by police... gave them the slip... dashed into a church... where other police were attending mass. They recognized him and arrested him... But... honored his request to attend the rest of the mass...
TUE 2005-NOV-22
Violenceworldnetdaily.com/ ... 10:35:30Hezbollah fired dozens of rockets at Israeli neighborhoods along the Lebanese border, prompting Jewish residents to hide in bomb shelters and the Israeli Defense Forces to respond with artillery... Four Israeli troops were injured, one critically. Hezbollah terrorists also fired light arms at Israeli farmers working in fields near the border... cbsnews.com/ ... 10:33:41Court papers filed Monday by Lancaster County prosecutors say Kara Borden, 14, left willingly with boyfriend, David Ludwig, 18, after he gunned down her parents last week... Kidnapping charges against Ludwig will be dropped... Ludwig said he shot Kara's parents after her father told him to stop seeing her, according to the papers. She got in the car and said she wanted to "get as far away as possible, get married, and start a new life," the papers quote Ludwig as telling detectives...
Sociopath Threatsbreitbart.com/ ... 22:15:23Toll collectors at San Francisco's landmark Golden Gate Bridge have been issued body armor to guard against armed bandits... washtimes.com/ ... 10:46:26...A single nuclear weapon carried by a ballistic missile and detonated a few hundred miles over the United States would cause "catastrophe for the nation" by damaging electricity-based networks and infrastructure, including computers and telecommunications, according to "War Footing: 10 Steps America Must Take to Prevail in the War for the Free World..." kltv.com/ ... 10:37:50...Investigators believe two vials of antimony-124, a radioactive material used in the oil and gas industry, were stolen before the truck got to Kilgore [TX]... The material is not considered a terrorist threat because of the small amount involved... can cause skin ulcers and even be lethal if ingested... bloomberg.com/ ... 10:32:20Jose Padilla, a U.S. citizen being held as an "enemy combatant" in the war on terrorism, has been indicted in connection with a plot to blow up apartment buildings with natural gas...
Animal Culturebreitbart.com/ ... 22:08:36KittyAbout 56 cats were recovered Tuesday from a Northeast Washington home where authorities said the animals were being hoarded. "There are cats on the floors, and in the cabinets, and under the dishwasher, and behind the refrigerator, and under cabinets, and in closets... A very strong smell of ammonia, and there's only a few litter boxes for all the cats and they're all incredibly overflowing. And with this number of cats they won't go in the litter box, they go all over the furniture and the floors..."
Supernaturaltelegraph.co.uk/ ... 10:42:40Thousands of pilgrims are pouring into the dense jungle of southern Nepal to worship a 15-year-old boy who has been hailed as a new Buddha. Devotees claim that Ram Bomjon, who is silently meditating beneath a tree, has not eaten or drunk anything since he sat down at his chosen spot six months ago. Witnesses say they have seen light emanating from the teenager's forehead... Ram's mother, who is called Maya Devi, like the Buddha's mother, admits to anxiety, particularly at meal times. But she tells herself: "God took him to the forest and I have faith that God will feed him..."
"Tell the people not to call me a Buddha. I don't have the Buddha's energy. I am at the level of rinpoche [lesser divinity]... I need six years of deep meditation..."
US Military Casualtiesdefenselink.mil/ ... 22:10:28us-flagArmy Spc. Michael J. Idanan, 21, of Chula Vista, Calif., died in Bayji, Iraq on Nov. 19, when an improvised explosive device detonated near his HMMWV during combat operations. defenselink.mil/ ... 22:10:14us-flagArmy 1st Lt. Dennis W. Zilinski, 23, of Freehold, N.J.
us-flagArmy Staff Sgt. Edward Karolasz, 25, of Powder Springs, N.J.
us-flagArmy Cpl. Jonathan F. Blair, 21, of Fort Wayne, Ind.
us-flagArmy Spc. Dominic J. Hinton, 24, of Jacksonville, Texas
died in Bayji, Iraq on Nov. 19, when an improvised explosive device detonated near their HMMWV during combat operations. defenselink.mil/ ... 22:09:21us-flagMarine Lance Cpl. Miguel Terrazas, 20, of El Paso, Texas died Nov. 19 from an improvised explosive device while conducting combat operations against enemy forces in the vicinity of Hadithah, Iraq. defenselink.mil/ ... 22:09:05us-flagMarine Lance Cpl. Tyler J. Troyer, 21, of Tangent, Ore., died Nov. 19 from wounds received as a result of small arms fire while conducting combat operations against enemy forces near Al Karmah, Iraq. defenselink.mil/ ... 10:29:06us-flagArmy Sgt. Dominic J. Sacco, 32, of Albany, N.Y., died in Taji, Iraq, on Nov. 20, when his M1A1 Abrams tank was attacked by enemy forces using small arms fire. defenselink.mil/ ... 10:28:47us-flagArmy Master Sgt. Anthony R. C. Yost, 39, of Flint, Mich., died in Mosul, Iraq on Nov. 19, when a vehicle-borne improvised explosive device detonated near his position during combat operations. defenselink.mil/ ... 10:28:27us-flagArmy Staff Sgt. Ivan V. Alarcon, 23, of Jerome, Idaho, died in Tal Afar, Iraq, on Nov. 17, when his HMMWV accidentally rolled over during combat operations. defenselink.mil/ ... 10:28:06us-flagArmy Pvt. Christopher M. Alcozer, 21, of DeKalb, Ill., died in Mosul, Iraq, on Nov. 19, when his unit was attacked by enemy forces using small arms fire and grenades. defenselink.mil/ ... 10:27:33us-flagArmy Sgt. Luis R. Reyes, 26, of Aurora, Colo., died en route to Ali Al Salem, Kuwait, on Nov. 18, when the bus in which he was riding rolled over. Reyes was assigned to the Army National Guard.
Justice?breitbart.com/ ... 22:11:39An Arab-American college student was convicted Tuesday of joining al- Qaida and plotting to assassinate President Bush. The federal jury rejected Ahmed Omar Abu Ali's claim that Saudi authorities whipped and tortured him to extract a false confession...
Whoops!cnn.com/ ... 10:39:04A French woman who is terrified of flying admitted in an Australian court Monday that she drunkenly tried to open an airplane door mid-flight to smoke a cigarette...
Sex can be Dangerousthisislondon.com/ ... 10:43:19Disgraced Seventies rock star Gary Glitter could face death by firing squad after he was accused of having sex with a girl aged just 12... Sexual intercourse with a 12-year old regardless of whether there is consent is still considered rape under Vietnamese law, with a maximum penalty of death before a firing squad... sky.com/ ... 10:38:46A teenager has been charged with indecent exposure after he was caught trying to have sex with a female mannequin on display at an arts centre...
Disinformation Propaganda & Spinnews.bbc.co.uk/ ... 22:15:06The White House has dismissed claims George Bush was talked out of bombing Arab television station al-Jazeera by UK Prime Minister Tony Blair... "We are not going to dignify something so outlandish with a response..." news.yahoo.com/ ... 22:13:26CNN apologized on Tuesday and offered a rare explanation from its control booth for... a large "X" the network flashed over Vice President Dick Cheney's face... senior management concluded "this was a technical malfunction, not an issue of operator error..." The "X" image, a place-holding marker used by technicians to cue up graphics, is not supposed to be visible to viewers but was inadvertently projected onto the screen by a malfunction in a "switcher..." worldnetdaily.com/ ... 10:47:39"Upon seeing this unfortunate but very brief graphic, CNN senior management immediately investigated. We concluded this was a technological malfunction, not an issue of operator error. A portion of the switcher experienced a momentary glitch. We obviously regret that it happened and are working on the equipment to ensure it is not repeated." "It glitched over and over again, huh?" Drudge responded. "The timing of the glitch is interesting..." mirror.co.uk/ ... 10:45:48PRESIDENT Bush planned to bomb Arab TV station al-Jazeera in friendly Qatar, a "Top Secret" No 10 memo reveals. But he was talked out of it at a White House summit by Tony Blair, who said it would provoke a worldwide backlash. A source said: "There's no doubt what Bush wanted, and no doubt Blair didn't want him to do it." Al-Jazeera is accused by the US of fuelling the Iraqi insurgency... drudgereport.com/ ... 10:38:17At 11:04:45 AM ET Monday CNN was airing Vice President Dick Cheney's speech live from the American Enterprise Institute in Washington -- when a large black 'X' repeatedly flashed over the vice president's face! The 'X' over Cheney's face appeared each time less than a second, creating an odd subliminal effect...
Learning from Tyrants?worldnetdaily.com/ ... 10:36:05Inspired by a trip to Communist China, Chicago's Mayor Richard Daley says he wants the city's public schools to move to a six-day school week...
Now That's Funny!news.bbc.co.uk/ ... 10:34:31President George W Bush tried to make a quick exit from a news conference in Beijing on Sunday - only to find himself thwarted by locked doors... tugged at both handles on the double doors before admitting: "I was trying to escape. Obviously, it didn't work..."
Digital Threatnews.zdnet.com/ ... 10:31:26No IEExploit code for a new flaw in Internet Explorer could put systems at risk of remote attack, security experts warned Monday... aims to take advantage of the "extremely critical" vulnerabilities in IE 5.5 and IE 6 running on XP Service Pack 2 (SP2), and IE 6 running on Windows 2000 SP4... Once a PC user is tricked into visiting a malicious Web site, the exploit can be triggered automatically, without the user doing anything... "An attacker could use the exploit to run any code they want to on a person's system..." flaw lies in a Javascript component of IE used for loading Web pages onto a compute... Microsoft has not released a patch... work around the problem by either shutting off Javascript or using another type of browser...
SUN 2005-NOV-20
Prison Suckshosted.ap.org/ ... 12:27:30LOS ANGELES -- An inmate was stomped to death after he cut in front of two gang members in a dinner line at the Men's Central Jail...
Disturbing Family Patternshosted.ap.org/ ... 12:26:19DELRAY BEACH, Fla. -- A man stabbed and strangled his wife, then started a fire that killed the couple's 2-year-old son and himself... The couple's two other children, ages 10 and 12, were at school when the fire began... hosted.ap.org/ ... 12:24:31After reporting his 6-year-old daughter missing earlier this week, Aaron Thompson went on television to plead with the public for help.... Behind the scenes, police said it was a different story... [child] ostensibly went missing in the middle of a snow storm and freezing weather... family was uncooperative. ...The most recent picture of the girl, who would turn 7 Nov. 30, was a grainy photograph taken when she was 4 1/2 years old. Neighbors couldn't recall ever seeing the child and she wasn't enrolled in school, even though she would be old enough for first grade... Police on Thursday declared ...missing person report a lie. Cadaver dogs searched the backyard... after someone told police she was killed at the home... as long as 18 months ago... seven other children in the household who have since been placed in foster homes... alertnet.org/ ... 10:43:03A Chinese peasant woman who suffered a brain haemorrhage was left at the undertakers alive for cremation because her family could no longer afford hospital treatment, state media said on Friday. She was only saved by the tears in her eyes...
Hurricane Katrina 2005foxnews.com/ ... 10:40:23Engineers responsible for monitoring the levees that failed following Hurricane Katrina were never told that canal water had been pooling in yards beside a flood wall months before the storm... Complaints about the management of the levee system have been growing since levee failures during the storm left 80 percent of the city inundated...
Under Tyrannytheledger.com/ ... 10:34:52It would be an overstatement to say there is a sizable religious revival in North Korea. With the possible exception of Albania, no communist country had managed so thoroughly to eradicate organized religion. But there is little doubt that it is seeping back in through porous borders and challenging the idiosyncratic doctrine of juche that reveres founder Kim Il Sung and his son, current leader Kim Jong Il, as gods. "Once you read the Bible, you stop believing in Kim Il Sung," said Choi, who is now 19 and living in Seoul, the South Korean capital. (Like many defectors, she is living under an assumed name to protect relatives in North Korea.)...
Violencehosted.ap.org/ ... 12:33:07HIALEAH, Fla. -- A convicted sex offender [39] accused of abducting a 17-year-old girl apparently shot and killed himself and the girl escaped uninjured Thursday after police pulled over the car they were in... hosted.ap.org/ ... 12:21:45PHILADELPHIA -- An 18-year-old gunned down on his way home from work had been honored by People magazine this past summer as an outstanding father. Terrell Pough, a single parent who worked to support his 2-year-old daughter while finishing school, was shot in the head Thursday night in front of his home, police said. He later died at a hospital. Pough, the night manager at a fast-food restaurant, was not robbed and has no record of violence, police said. However, his family said his new car and its key were missing. The Honda Civic was given to him by someone who had read the People article, which ran in August... hosted.ap.org/ ... 12:15:21RUBIDOUX, Calif... A man [27] suspected of shooting his girlfriend, her mother and her two young children was arrested early Saturday in Phoenix... taken into custody during a traffic stop... girlfriend and her mother shot multiple times, a young girl with a bullet wound to the head and a toddler with unspecified gunshot injuries. All four victims were hospitalized Saturday, and the young girl was critically injured... news.telegraph.co.uk/ ... 10:38:23...The SAS soldiers were told that it was vital that the three bombers would have to be killed simultaneously. If one of them was allowed to detonate a device, scores of people could be killed or injured... As the terrorists entered the street, a volley of shots rang out and the three insurgents slumped to the ground. Each terrorist had been killed by a single head shot - the snipers having spent the past few days rehearsing the ambush in minute detail... cbn.com/ ... 10:33:27Markus Sambuwe, the father of one of the girls, remarked," I am really angry, but the Holy Spirit touched my heart and changed me. I forgive them just as Jesus has forgiven my sins..." heraldsun.news.com.au/ ... 10:32:02INDONESIAN police have arrested a 23-year-old man on suspicion of involvement in the beheading of three teenage Christian girls in the religiously divided district of Poso. Machete-wielding attackers ambushed the three high school students on their way home on October 29, killing three and wounding the fourth, police said. Two of the victims' heads were found near a police post while the third was discovered outside a Christian church... seattletimes.nwsource.com/ ... 10:24:04[re 18yo PA boyfriend who allegedly killed parents of 14yo girl] ...In an 18-minute video recovered from a laptop computer in his home, Ludwig discusses plans to conduct an armed raid on another family's home. The video shows him and [a friend] taking guns to a home, but court documents say they scrapped the plan because there was too much traffic. Police also seized 54 guns from the home where Ludwig lived with his parents...
In the Line of Dutyhosted.ap.org/ ... 12:30:49WOODLAND, Calif. -- A manhunt involving hundreds of officers was launched after a California Highway Patrol Officer was fatally shot during a traffic stop... Officer Andy Stevens, 37, a commercial vehicle inspector, had made a traffic stop Thursday...
Animal Culturebsudailynews.com/ ... 10:42:38Authorities are still investigating why four dead animals – a doe, buck, coyote and possum – were found scattered throughout the house of an off-campus fraternity...found the doe in the kitchen, the coyote in the living room, the buck in the downstairs laundry room and the possum in the bathroom... “I doubt that they all walked in and died...”
Justice?hosted.ap.org/ ... 12:25:02APPLETON, Wis. -- A 75-year-old man was arrested at a group home and charged Friday with murdering a night watchman during a robbery at a car dealership nearly 40 years ago...
Whoops!hosted.ap.org/ ... 12:20:44PHILADELPHIA -- A city health official has apologized to the relatives of a woman whose body sat unidentified in the medical examiner's office for more than two years...
Swords into Plowshareshosted.ap.org/ ... 12:20:01NEWPORT, Ind. -- Workers fixed faulty gaskets on a chemical reactor built to neutralize the Newport Chemical Depot's stockpile of VX and restarted destruction of the deadly nerve agent Saturday...
Alcohol Was Involvedtimesonline.co.uk/ ... 10:40:59SCIENTISTS have captured graphic images of the damage done to unborn babies as a result of women drinking during pregnancy. Just one glass of wine a week can make babies “jump” in the womb throughout a nine-month pregnancy. Experts believe this abnormal hyperactive behaviour is the result of alcohol slowing or retarding the formation of the central nervous system...
World Without Bordersworldnetdaily.com/ ... 10:31:26U.S. Border Patrol agents were backed down this week by armed men, dressed in what appeared to be Mexican military uniforms and carrying military weapons, who seized a captured dump truck filled with marijuana from the U.S. agents and dragged it across the border into Mexico with a bulldozer...
Vigilantismtelegraph.co.uk/ ... 10:26:09Cowboys take up AK47s to combat drug runners on Mexican frontier...
Rebuildingguardian.co.uk/ ... 10:25:27Iraq's president said Sunday he was ready for talks with opposition figures and members of Saddam Hussein's outlawed Baath Party, and he called on the Sunni-led insurgency to lay down its arms and join the political process...
Disinformation Propaganda & Spintimesonline.co.uk/ ... 10:20:32THE mysterious source who gave America’s foremost journalist, Bob Woodward, a tip-off about the CIA agent at the centre of one of Washington’s biggest political storms was Stephen Hadley, the White House national security adviser, according to lawyers close to the investigation... It is an offence in America to reveal the identity of a covert agent, although doubts remain about Plame’s precise status... Woodward said the unnamed official told him about Plame in “an offhand, casual manner . . . almost gossip” and “I didn’t attach any importance to it”. He never wrote up the story...
SAT 2005-NOV-19
Under Tyrannyworldnetdaily.com/ ... 22:24:52Able-bodied white men seeking a career in Canada's Department of Public Works had best wait awhile before submitting their resumes – the deputy minister of the federal agency has instructed managers to temporarily hire only visible minorities, women, aboriginals and the disabled... breitbart.com/ ... 08:04:09Chinese authorities have arrested a priest and 10 seminarians from that nation's underground Roman Catholic Church...
[Quote from Chinese official on Thursday (blogged below): "Chinese people enjoy all forms of democracy and freedom under law, including freedom of religion and belief..."]
Sociopath Threatsmercurynews.com/ ... 07:55:26The Mideast's most feared terrorist sought Friday to justify a triple suicide bombing on Amman hotels that killed 59 civilians, insisting he did not deliberately target a wedding party and appealing to Muslims to believe that he was not attacking them... [The absolute unclarity on the concept that IT DOESN'T MATTER is amazing...] Both the bride's parents were among the dead, as was the father of the groom... [Will we now hear all the formerly pro-war now anti-Bush voices decrying al-Zarqawi for acting on "bad intelligence?.."] breitbart.com/ ... 07:31:56An audiotape purportedly from the head of al-Qaida in Iraq said Friday the group's suicide bombers did not intend to bomb a Jordanian wedding party at an Amman hotel last week, killing about 30 people. The speaker on the tape, identified as Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, also threatened to kill Jordan's King Abdullah II and bomb more hotels and tourist sites...
Violencecrimelibrary.com/ ... 22:26:27Two days before he allegedly gunned down the parents of his underage girlfri