February 16, 2008
The Serbs vow never to give up the land where their history goes back 1,000 years.
Cop arrest a firefighter who is in the process of assisting someone in need....
Britain's overstretched Armed Forces are to send as many as 1,000 troops to the Balkans in a move that will see the military's last remaining reserve unit deployed on operations. The imminent departure of the 1st Bn Welsh Guards to Kosovo has been ordered in response to fears that the newly formed independent state could slide into "ethnic cleansing". But last night MPs and former military chiefs described the move as "irresponsible" and "demented", accusing the Ministry of Defence of being "bankrupt". Anyone in the UK feeling a draft?? - M. R.
Russia: US Satellite Shot a Weapons Test
Russia: US Satellite Shot a Weapons Test
Russia said Saturday that U.S. military plans to shoot down a damaged spy satellite may be a veiled test of America's missile defense system. The Pentagon failed to provide "enough arguments" to back its plan to smash the satellite next week with a missile, Russia's Defense Ministry said in a statement. This speculation may not be so far off the mark. - M. R.
By 2010, Intelligent Optical Systems hopes to be selling a sort of high-powered flashlight, the "LED Incapacitator," which would act by not only effectively blinding its target, but overloading his or her brain, with rapidly flashing lights at varying colors and frequencies. In addition to disorientation, headache and nausea are also likely.
One has to wonder against whom the DHS is intending to use this weapon. - M. R.
Do you think that because you may not own a gun, the
rights guaranteed by the Second Amendment don't
matter?
It had already been rumored a few days ago that Toshiba was planning to get out, but it seems that now it’s official. Toshiba has announced it’s getting out of HD-DVD, with the announcement coming first in Japan. As the developer of the format, this is truly “the end.”
Meanwhile, manufacturers of Blu-Ray players are facing a class action suit because those first "Get 'em into the stores before Christmas" players do not support the full Blu-Ray specification, and hence used the Blu-Ray name in a fraudulent manner. - M. R.
That Waxman would abuse his position by pursuing such trivia while Americans continued to fight and die in a war built exclusively on a framework of lies is disturbing.
"Kosovo resembles Bosnia in the period 1878 - 1914. In 1878, the Treaty of Berlin put Bosnia under provisional Austrian administration while stipulating that it remained part of the Ottoman empire. In 1908, Austria violated the terms of the Treaty and annexed the territory directly. Serbia protested, but in vain. Ten years later the Archduke Franz-Ferdinand was assassinated by a Serb patriot in Sarajevo. The rest, as they say, is history." - John Laughland, author.
According to Khalid Amayreh, even Israel’s closest ally, the Palestinian Authority is getting fed up with Israel’s tactics….
Rabbi Menachem Froman of the West Bank settlement of Tekoa has for years been involved in interfaith dialogue toward Israeli-Palestinian peace.
After a series of interfaith meetings, Rabbi Froman and Hamas-allied friend Khaled Amayreh succeeded in drafting a cease-fire agreement between Israel and
Hamas.
The two submitted the document, which covers the release of abducted Israeli soldier Gilad Shalit, to the cabinet and to the Hamas government in the Gaza Strip.
According to them, Hamas leaders have agreed to the deal’s terms, but Israel has rejected them.
The ‘eavesdropping law’ is just one of the many attempts to legalise the erosion of the Constitution itself…. it’s lapse will be a step in the right direction….BUT…. as of today, there are 340 days left for the Bush Administration to totally destroy the Constitution, the country and the world…. START THE COUNTDOWN TO FREEDOM!
Pelosi talks tough ... with an election coming up. - M. R.
Experts Scoff at Sat Shoot-Down Rationale...
I am glad to see I was not the only one with concerns. - M. R.
The Times to Cut 100 News Jobs...
Black voters are heavily represented in the 94th Election District in Harlem's 70th Assembly District. Yet according to the unofficial results from the New York Democratic primary last week, not a single vote in the district was cast for Senator Barack Obama.
That anomaly was not unique. In fact, a review by The New York Times of the unofficial results reported on primary night found about 80 election districts among the city's 6,106 where Mr. Obama supposedly did not receive even one vote, including cases where he ran a respectable race in a nearby district.
[Limbaugh's] shows appear to present classic, psychosociological studies in the frightening vein of, say, philosopher Eric Hoffer's The True Believer, but perhaps it's only the appearance that's real. Rush may in fact represent less of an actual, loosely organized mass movement than merely a massive intellectual bowel movement. On-air, three-hours long, dumped on 600 stations, five times a week.
US customs agents can examine, copy data from searched laptops...
"Hey, looks like this guy's company is about to hit the market with a hot new product. Lemme call my broker before you give the guy his laptop back!" -- Any one of a million goons
- M. R.
Holocaust® Reparations Bill in Congress could cost Americans 200 BILLION DOLLARS...
WAIT JUST A @#$%ING MINUTE!
Why, and especially after all the billions the US taxpayer has already been soaked for to hand to Israel (and which they use to kill other people), is the United States in any way, shape, or form, obligated to pay "Holocaust Reparations?"
The Holocaust, regardless of what it was or was not, HAPPENED IN GERMANY IN THE MIDDLE OF THE LAST CENTURY. It was carried out by a German government which does not exist any more.
And, (I wonder if this counts as "Holocaust Denial") the United States did not take part in or support the actions of the German government in the middile of the last century (aside form the Bush family).
In fact, as I recall from my grandfather and various uncles who had battle scars on their bodies, it was the United States who helped STOP Hitler from completing whatever plans he had in the first place. And it was not without price for us to do so.
For Israel to approach the nation which has supported and defended it at great loss of international respect, then demand that we all somehow pay them for property lost to a now vanished German government is the height of greed, ingratitude, and disrespect.
I hope they don't expect us to save their sorry asses the next time they get into trouble.
- M. R.
The fall of the Dollar Empire...
America's fate is at the mercy of foreign investors (China, India, Russia and many others with around 10 % annual GDP growth) which are getting stronger by the day and represent the economies of the future. - M. R.
'£10 licence to smoke' proposed...
I am starting to look at the "second hand smoke" issue in the same light I look at global warming. After all the verbal clamour about health and safety, the end "solution" is just another tax. - M. R.
Key Clinton ally defects to Obama...
Two sources confirmed Somma was wearing a cocktail dress, women's hose and high heels when his Mercedes-Benz E320 sedan struck a pickup truck stopped at a red light on Elm Street about 11:29 p.m. on Feb. 6.
Get ready to scream,
and get ready to shout,
here come da judge;
let it ALL hang out!
Flip Wilson, "Laugh In" - M. R.
"We are seeking to launch an oil exchange in Iran selling the crude in currencies other than US dollar. It is possible that in the future, we'll be able to use the ruble, Russia's national currency, in our operations," the Iranian Ambassador to Moscow Gholam-Reza Ansari noted.
"Russia and Iran, two major producers of the world's energy, should encourage oil and gas transactions in various non-dollar currencies, releasing the world from being a slave of dollar," he added. "Bomb 'em! Bomb 'em! Bomb 'em NOW! NOW, NOW, NOW!!!" -- Official White Horse Souse - M. R.
The dollar had its biggest weekly loss this year against the euro after Federal Reserve Chairman Ben S. Bernanke signaled he may cut interest rates further amid mounting concern that the economy is headed for a recession.
Gee said Marshall-Jones was aware of the warrant for her arrest, but that he didn't know when she might turn herself in.
Taser the bitch! - M. R.
Power failures and maintenance have disrupted running water supplies to almost half of the capital, Baghdad, home to nearly 6 million people.
Would someone please tell me again just how much better it is for Iraq's people after the invasion and occupation?? - M. R.
Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries plans to discuss a proposal by Iran and Venezuela to price oil in non-dollar currencies.
This, coupled with the opening of the Iranian bourse on the 27th of this month, could be devastating to the standing of the dollar in the international currency markets. - M. R.
Some 80 per cent of Zimbabweans live below the poverty line. Food shortages are worsening. Up to four million people will need food aid by elections on 29 March, agencies say.
The dead included a woman and five children, VOI said.
The Iraqis do not hate us "because we are free". - M. R.
According to as-Safir, Hizbullah has ordered 50,000 of its fighters to be on high alert, and has also evacuated most structures used by the group for non-military purposes in south Lebanon, in order to prepare “to curb any Israeli aggression.”
Whoever assassinated Mugniyah knew full well what the consequences of this assassination would be. Those consequences look like they are about to get seriously ugly. Israel is itching to have an excuse to hit any country in the region where they think their chances of a big military "win" are at least decent. Remember: President Bush has pledged to support Israel militarily, no matter whether it starts the next new regional conflict or not. - M. R.
The FBI and Department of Homeland Security sent a bulletin Friday to state and local law enforcement authorities advising them to watch for potential retaliatory strikes by Hezbollah, one day after the Lebanese militia group vowed to avenge the death of a top commander by attacking Israeli and Jewish targets around the world.
It couldn't be that this administration is concocting some kind of false flag operation to be ultimately blamed on Iran, could it? Or are they, predictably, playing the "fear card" because Bush didn't get the FISA bill he wanted passed by the House before he left for his African trip? - M. R.
With the United States entrenched as Kosovo's most powerful friend, Russia said yesterday that the new state's split from Serbia would force it to reconsider its own position on territorial disputes. As a first step, Russia's foreign ministry announced it would review its relations with two breakaway regions of neighbouring Western-backed Georgia.
Obama is working hard to allay the fears of "Israel's friends," a description reserved mainly for activists of the pro-Israeli lobby AIPAC and for Malcolm Hoenlein, the executive vice chairman of the Conference of Presidents. As far as they're concerned, whoever doesn't support the Israeli government's policy 100 percent is unfit for leadership.
This Haaretz article elevates one issue in the US presidential contest completely above all the rest. Note the statement "...whoever doesn't support the Israeli government's policy 100 percent is unfit for leadership." The person who becomes the President, in these next elections, must put the US first, second, third, and foremost in their thinking, and domestic and foreign policies. - M. R.
February 15, 2008
Mainstream Media hard-sells the war...
Get out the hip waders, people, the bovine excrement has hit flood stage!
When you email the author, please make sure to include the military enlistment form so he can join the army to fight this war he obviously thinks is such a great idea!
MAILING LINK FIXED! - M. R.
Stephen Kazmierczak, the 27-year-old who opened fire on a crowded Northern Illinois University lecture hall, killing five, and then himself on Thursday, was discharged from the United States Army in February 2002 for unknown reasons, ABC News has learned.
The Army teaches you to solve all your problems by shooting them. - M. R.
A prominent U.S.-based human rights group Friday released what it said was a recording of Pakistan's attorney general acknowledging that next week's national elections would be "massively" rigged.
Watch both videos below, then try to guess which person interviewed made 7 BILLION BUCKS from the 911 attacks.
Purported Al Qaeda Video Shows Prisoners Burned Alive...
The session was apparently called at Iran's request, and it amounted to a hearing for Iran's answer to international claims that it is complicit in money laundering and bankrolling terror. for groups the U.S. has designated as terrorist organizations, the official said.
The "good reason" for this meeting allegedly had to do with Iran's response to US charges that their banks were money laundering for organizations the US has deemed as "terrorists" But is it possible that the "real reason" was to attempt to dissuade Iran from opening their oil Bourse, due to start business a little later this month? - M. R.
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The 27-page document, labeled SECRET, though much of it is actually unclassified, was obtained and released on February 4 by the Wikileaks website. Wikileaks is an uncensorable version of Wikipedia for untraceable mass document leaking and analysis.
The document has received attention in the mainstream press because it it appears to authorize raids into Syria and Iran.
Those who knew gunman are baffled...
There was another student rampage at the Appalachian School of Law, just a few miles from the Virginia Tech campus. But this shooting did not make the news because the Appalachian School of Law, unlike Virginia Tech, unlike the Northern Illinois University, is NOT a gun free zone, and a student, armed with a legally owned firearm and trained to use it, stopped the killing.
Get this into your heads, people. The police do not PREVENT crime. They do not STOP crimes in progress. The police, when they are not busy harassing political protesters, show up AFTER the crime is all over, the body already dead, the woman already raped, the valuables already taken, and act all official, promising revenge somewhere down the road, a revenge which according to statistics, as about a 1 in 40 chance of ever actually happening. - M. R.
Zero tolerance, huh? Gun-free zones, huh? Try this on for size: Columbine gun-free zone, New York City pizza shop gun-free zone, Luby's Cafeteria gun-free zone, Amish school in Pennsylvania gun-free zone and now Virginia Tech gun-free zone.
and Illinois University Gun Free Zone - M. R.
One gun, one person trained how to use it and willing to do so could have stopped most of this:
The US "surge" is likely to end in July with more troops in Iraq than the 132,000 that were there before five extra combat brigades were sent in more than a year ago, a senior Pentagon official said.
Translation: we're not leaving Iraq for decades. - M. R.
California Department of Transportation attempting to halt Longest Walk Northern Route...
Parliamentary elections are scheduled for February 18 in Pakistan. Sadly, it is essentially irrelevant which party will come out strongest and what kind of government will result from the post-election political machinery. Pakistan faces a very real danger of collapsing as an effective national state, yet at a time when the country would need its political system for contributing to a sense of Pakistani “togetherness”, its politicians have long lost the capability to do so. There are signs that the Pakistani Army is preparing to take over.
When Hermann Hesse warned of the rise of Fascism in Germany, he was rejected by a majority of the population. The truth is that most people were experiencing first hand the benefits of Fascist ideology. Today we look at that part of our global history with shame, asking ourselves how something like Auschwitz could be allowed to happen. The problem is that while we identify it in our past, we are reluctant to acknowledge it happening in our present. During the rise of the short-lived Nazi empire, criticizing Hitler and his party, to the average German civilian, would have undoubtedly received strong rejection. Today the same holds true to critics of the mighty “democratic” empire, built by the U.S. with the submissive support of its “client states”.
“Currently, one in seven children in Iowa lives in poverty and one in three is eligible for free or reduced-price lunches,” said Mike Crawford, the report’s author. “The economic conditions for many families have stagnated or worsened over the past six years.” What hasn’t improved is the financial situation for families around the state. Billions for the war, billions in foreign aid.... and we can't take care of our own? What does this tell you about the state of our national leadership? - M. R.
A US Congressional team traveling to Pakistan to observe its parliamentary election warned President Pervez Musharraf's administration of "consequences' if the polls were not free, fair and transparent.
Pot...Kettle...Black. - M. R.
"As Comptroller General of the United States and head of the GAO, there are real limitations on what I can do and say in connection with key public policy issues, especially issues that directly relate to GAO's client -- the Congress," Walker said in a statement.
Apparently, true accountability and transparency are not what this congress or administration want. - M. R.
The U.S. on Friday demanded that Iran confess to trying to make atomic weapons, suggesting that anything short of that would doom an International Atomic Energy Agency probe of Tehran's nuclear past.
In other words, the US is saying that Iran's refusal to confess to making nuclear weapons is proof that Iran is making nuclear weapons.
This is sort of like the witch trials where refusal to confess to being a witch was proof that the accused was a witch.
I am worried that as soon as the "This bomb was made in Iran (honest)" sign is glued to the warhead, we may get a big bang! - M. R.
YouTube - 9/11 Coincidences (Part Nine)...
Sent in in response to my request for videos about the strange workmen in the World Trade Towers just before 9-11. - M. R.
In Basra, five years after the U.S.-led invasion, women find themselves under the thumbs of religious fundamentalists who, in the absence of Saddam's iron-fisted secular rule, are killing them in front of their children. Some have been kidnapped, raped, strangled and beheaded, their limbs chopped off for purported violations of the Islamic faith. Women who under Saddam worked outside of their homes have been driven back inside, and if they dare to come out, wearing make-up or wearing a headscarf deemed too brightly colored, they very well could die.
People in crowds behave just like sheep, scientists claim, by blindly following one or two people who seem to know where they are going.
The company planned to bring in up to 300 specialists within the next few weeks, and a total of 1,000 before the year was out, nearly doubling the current 1,500 Atomstroiexport staff at the site, Shmatko said.
Translation: if the US and/or Israel bombs this facility after this staffing increase, they will very likely have created anywhere from three hundred to one thousand Russian victims involved in this project. War with Russia, anyone?? - M. R.
The estate of "Lord of the Rings" creator J.R.R. Tolkien is suing the film studio that released the trilogy based on his books, claiming the company hasn't paid it a penny from the estimated $6 billion the films have grossed worldwide.
Russian state-controlled Channel One TV has broadcast a report containing allegations that US forces are involved in drug-trafficking from Afghanistan to Europe. It also highlighted the problem of drug abuse in the British army.
"He had stopped taking medication and become somewhat erratic in the last couple of weeks," Grady said, declining to name the drug or provide other details.
There is something weird about this story. It is being reported that this student did not have a history of mental problems. This does not jibe with the claim that he was on some kind of medication. - M. R.
Syria vows to strike back at Israel for Imad Mughniyeh’s killing in Damascus and "repeated encroachments"...
Translation: Israel is getting ready to kick off a war with Syria. Syria has a defense pact with Iran, so if this happens, it will draw Iran into the conflict as well. Please remember: Bush has vowed the US will support Israel militarily, no matter whether or not they have begun the conflict. - M. R.
The meltdown in the US subprime real-estate market has led to a global loss of 7.7 trillion dollars in stock-market value since October, a report by Bank of America showed Thursday. The crisis, which has spread beyond US shores to banks and other sectors worldwide, is "one of the most vicious in financial history," according to Bank of America chief market strategist Joseph Quinlan.
London bombs justify 'torture', says Bush...
Memo to President Bush; if this country is both utilizing and justifying torture as a normal procedure to garner information under American Law, we should withdraw from any and all human rights treaties this country has ever signed immediately, just to let the world know precisely where we stand. And where we stand is precisely shoulder to shoulder right now with every repressive, contemptible regime which does this on a routine basis. We cannot lecture the world about human rights, freedom, human dignity and democracy, and torture at the same time: the resulting mocking laughter is becoming deafening. - M. R.
How curious that on the day of the attack, Guiliani and his entourage set up shop in a different headquarters, abandoning the special bunker designed precisely for such an event.
"REMEMBER, we're dealing with TWO different issues here. “Automatic Citizenship upon birth” doesn't also automatically qualify one as the “natural born” requirement of the federal constitution. According to that Supreme Court case, there's the matter of “geography” involved. And also, remember, the “birth certificate” didn't exist at the time of the adoption of the federal constitution. Also, this country didn't have territories and military bases in other countries, nor “such District (not exceeding ten Miles square): Article I, Section 8. [17]” which is today's federal District of Columbia. The federal constitution at that time was only dealing with 13 States, each which had its own constitution, but which was considered the “country known as the United States.” (In the Declaration of Independence the country was termed to be “the united States,” another issue, but I note it just so the reader realizes there are many side/extended/related issues in all of this.) So I believe that “natural born” in regards to being born within the geographical boundaries of this country would be a correct interpretation by the Supreme Court in its decision."
Oil, a heightened US military presence on the continent with AFRICOM and ever-tougher competition from China are all issues that will not be far from the surface during George W. Bush's latest Africa tour. Washington also hopes to better its image by highlighting its Africa Growth and Opportunity Act (AGOA) which has since 2000 enabled some 40 countries to have access to the US market until 2015 without paying customs duties. However in 2007, more than 90 per cent of exports from sub-Saharan Africa to the US were petroleum products. Africa has become the "New Middle East" in terms of resource exploitation. - M. R.
This is What A Police State Looks Like...
Lieberman backs waterboarding; 'It's not like we're burning people with hot coals'...
Memo to Senator Joe Lieberman; to paraphrase the American poet, Gertrude Stein, "torture is torture is torture", period, end of discussion, whether it is physical or psychological. And sir, if you are unclear that this practice is torture, I suggest you volunteer to have the procedure done to yourself at one of the US's "black sites", or perhaps at Gitmo. Additionally, this form of torture can lead to death; ask any scholar of the Inquisition. Or the Nazis.
As a final note, the question is not whether waterboarding is torture or not, but whether it is cruel and unusual punishment, which is prohibited by the 8th Amendment to the Constitution. The question is whether forced confessions are self-incrimination, which is prohibited under the 5th Amendment to the Constitution. - M. R.
Statistics obtained by the Canadian Press bear out that idea, showing that in some of the cities that have recently adopted Tasers, the number of police shootings has remained fairly consistent and low, while Tasers are being used exponentially more often.
Taser: Police brutality with all the modern improvements. - M. R.
Hillary gets desperate...
Hazmat Crews Test Substance Found In IRS Mailroom...
US subprime crisis costs global 7.7 trillion dollars...
Pentagon officials have announced plans to shoot down a failing spy satellite orbiting over Ireland with a missile from a US navy warship to prevent debris from showering the Earth.
Oh? Just where do they think the debris is going AFTER they hit it with that missile?
Note to my Irish readers: DUCK! - M. R.
Six years of fighting for justice left Lotfi Raissi an emotional and physical wreck and his marriage close to ruin. But yesterday, the Algerian pilot falsely accused of training the September 11 terrorists heard, finally, that he was “completely exonerated” of any part in the attacks on the twin towers.
"Evidence linking these Israelis to 9/11 is classified. I cannot tell
you about evidence that has been gathered. It's classified information." --
US official quoted in Carl Cameron's Fox News report on the Israeli spy ring and its connections to 9-11. - M. R.
The Popocatepetl volcano in central Mexico was very active Thursday and three times spewed ash into the air in 3- kilometre-high columns. The National Centre for Disaster Prevention said the 5,452-metre volcano, which can be seen from Mexico City, had 44 bouts of low to moderate activity between midday Wednesday and Thursday morning. Some of the events also involved minor tremors.
The Israeli Peace Piece process has been operational on a daily basis here…. instead of the Peace that is supposedly what Israel wants, it’s actually a process of taking a piece of Palestine here…. and another there…
Israeli soldiers prevented a Palestinian woman from getting an ambulance to take her to a local hospital in the occupied West Bank. The woman had suffered a stroke and needed immediate hospital care, which she was denied. This resulted in her death.
The tales they tell are unbelievably shameful and expose yet another aspect of the racism inherent in zionism…. I’ll deal with just one of these stories in this post, but keep in mind that this is just one of a thousand of such examples…
Sarkozy defends Holocaust proposal amid uproar...
Oh yes, let us have the public taxpayer funded schools teach children all about the holocaust, so they can grow up and get jobs in ... the holocaust industry.
Folks, we live in the 21st Century. The history of Germany in WW2 is from the middle of the last century, and while it is worth study to the same extent that we would study the early days of spaceflight, the Wright Brothers, or (in the US) the Civil War, the fact is that our FUTURE depends on dealing with the events that are happening today, with the genocides that are happening today, and most important, that children in school be taught science and technology on which the future industry of their nations will be built.
It is time for some people to stop living in the past and join the modern world.
- M. R.
USS Liberty Gets Its Own Weekly Radio Program on the Republic Broadcasting Network...
Hundreds of scientists, economists, and public policy experts are set to meet in Manhattan next month to discuss the other side of the climate change debate that the establishment media prefers to pretend does not exist.
A keynote research paper showing that Middle Eastern Jews and Palestinians are genetically almost identical has been pulled from a leading journal.
Academics who have already received copies of Human Immunology have been urged to rip out the offending pages and throw them away.
Such a drastic act of self-censorship is unprecedented in research publishing and has created widespread disquiet, generating fears that it may involve the suppression of scientific work that questions Biblical dogma. The Ashkenazi, who are not descendants from the Biblical Hebrews but are in fact descendants of converted Khazars, like to claim am ancestral right to Palestine, but the scientific evidence shows that it is the Palestinians and Middle Eastern Jews and not the Ashkenazi, who are the descendants of the Biblical Hebrews. - M. R.
A report just released by the Acting Chair of the Coroner’s Council has shown natural medicines have the lowest fatality rate of all medical treatments in this country.
Cop ODs on confiscated pot...
Despite having hundreds of sonar contacts over the years, the trail has since gone cold and Rines believes that Nessie may be dead, a victim of global warming.
Ummm .... sure. - M. R.
To judge from the talk in Washington, the 'surge' that put 30,000 more US troops on the ground in Iraq has succeeded in bringing stability to a nation still riven by ethnic, religious and tribal conflict. Life, the Pentagon boasts, is returning to normal. But the truth is a very different story.
The House voted Thursday to issue contempt citations against the White House chief of staff and a former White House counsel for refusing to cooperate in an investigation into the mass firings of federal prosecutors.
Northern Illinois University - Update on Campus Shootings...
7th fatality now confirmed. - M. R.
A California mountain highway near the Mexican border is closed because of a surprise snowstorm that stranded as many as 500 motorists.
Snow is being reported in downtown San Diego; the first time snow has fallen on the city since 1967. - M. R.
February 14, 2008
Illinois school shooting leaves 6 dead, 16 wounded...
The gun-grabbers will blame the guns, insist on more gun-free zones, forgetting that this campus was already a "gun free zone", which is why nobody had the means to defend themselves, and the police, as always, arrived after the killing was all over.
The perpetrator, we are told, had no prior criminal record or past history of mental illness, and just decided for the heck of it to walk into a lecture hall and open fire on everyone. How wonderfully convenient for the gun-grabbers who have been losing ground as study after study shows that neighborhoods where people are armed have lower crimes rates.
- M. R.
NYC 911 Ballot Initiative...
These people are working to put a ballot initiative on the November ballot to force a new investigation into 9-11.
I admire the effort, but frankly, a new investigation means a new cover-up, because the government will never, EVER, admit what they did; they would rather shoot us all first. And to be honest, I do not NEED a new investigation. I know what happened, and I don't need the government to tell me my conclusions are the correct ones.
- M. R.
The more the Israelis bomb and commit murder by targeted assassinations of Palestinians in the Gaza then the more Palestinian fighters are likely to retaliate. It is exactly what the Israelis want. It will eventually give them the excuse they need to invade the Gaza and put it under full military occupation.
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According to the United Nations — citing reports from Iraq's southern province of Qadissiyah — 275 children have been struck with leishmaniasis, which is spread by sand flies. Most have a form that causes skin sores, but others have a type that strikes internal organs and can be fatal.
He urged the House of Representatives to pass a White House-backed bill approved by the Senate on Tuesday, and insisted that a failure to act would jeopardize U.S. national security. The current legislation expires on Saturday.
Congressman Sylvestre Reyes, Chairman of the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence, has already informed Bush that he has no intention of signing the FISA bill in its current form. And it doesn't appear that there is any way to change his mind on this. Even if Bush postpones the Africa trip, it doesn't look as though there is much that will change Congressman Reyes' mind. - M. R.
The Bush administration asked the Supreme Court on Thursday to limit judges' authority to scrutinize evidence against detainees at Guantanamo Bay. A three-judge panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit initially ruled on the case in July. The full court refused in early February, in a 5-5 split, to reconsider that ruling. It takes a majority of the court to reconsider a panel decision. The ruling held that, when Guantanamo Bay detainees challenge their status as "enemy combatants," judges must review all the evidence, not just the evidence the military chooses. The administration said the decision jeopardizes national security. When any member of this administration starts prattling about national security, one can almost be certain that this is not the real issue here. - M. R.
"I, for one, do not intend to back down – not to the terrorists and not to anyone, including a President, who wants Americans to cower in fear. We are a strong nation. We cannot allow ourselves to be scared into suspending the Constitution. If we do that, we might as well call the terrorists and tell them that they have won."
Stocks slip Thursday - Feb. 14, 2008...
Being an innocent bystander, a model citizen, a Rotarian is not enough to keep you safe from rogue cops, tin-horn sheriffs, or other so-called law enforcement personnel. Who let these dogs out? Who uncorked this evil genie? What Nazi mentality makes a lethal enemy of those who had been sworn to "protect and serve" us?
The dawn raid, which took six months to plan, was one of more than 30 that took place throughout the day at homes and businesses across London and the Home Counties in the largest operation of its type in Britain.
Now, one of the most dangerous, irrational and power-mad gangsters operating within the Neocon mafia–Normon Podhoretz–is again bringing his gruff, threatening voice to bear on the necessity of going to war against Iran for Israel’s sake. In a recent piece he penned for Commentary Magazine (the printed voice of the American Jewish Committee) entitled Stopping Iran: Why the Case for Military Action Still Stands the ‘former’ Communist-Trotskyite and unregistered agent for a foreign country makes it clear–Bush needs to bomb Iran, sooner rather than later, and if not Bush, than certainly the next guy (or gal).
THE KIPLINGER TAX REBATE CALCULATOR...
Do you get a check? - M. R.
Clear Channel, Fire Victims OK $22M Deal...
I am no fan of Clear Channel, but this lawsuit is total bovine excrement! - M. R.
Facing a torrent of criticism Tuesday, Blue Cross of California abruptly halted its practice of asking physicians in a letter to look for medical conditions that could be used to cancel patients' insurance coverage.
Another frame-up of Muslims collapses...
Cuba demands US gives back Guantanamo Bay...
US law sets the precedent where landlords may evict tenants engaged in illegal actions on their property. Hence, with the US engaged in torture and other violations of International Law, there is merit in Cuba's demand.
It won't happen, of course, and Cuba risks a war by asking, but they do have a point. - M. R.
Montreal was digging out of some 20 centimetres of the white stuff, an amount that brought the city a record snowfall to date at 262 cm of snow so far this year.
Meanwhile, pockets in northern parts of the Prairie provinces, Nunavut and the Northwest Territories were under a mix of extreme wind chill and blizzard alerts.
And southern parts of Saskatchewan and Manitoba were under blizzard warnings with overnight temperatures expected to feel like the -40s with the wind chill.
Pentagon officials are quoted as saying they want to fire a missile from a US Navy ship to destroy satellite "US 193" before it enters the atmosphere.
Okay, two problems with this story.
The first is that this is an admission that the US has high-altitude interception missiles on Navy ships; a violation of the ABM treaty.
More to the point,, the problem with destroying a satellite in orbit, even a decaying one, is that instead of having one large object whizzing around or crashing to Earth, now you have thousands of smaller objects, impossible to track with radar, and for every fragment the explosion brings down to Earth more quickly, a fragment of equal mass will be shoved back up into a high orbit, where it will be a threat to other low Earth orbit satellites.
When you destroy an object on the ground, or even up in the air, gravity sweeps up the debris and brings it down to the ground. But up in orbit, debris from a destroyed satellite continues in new orbits, and if those fragments hit other satellites, they too will shatter into thousands of new fragments, in new orbits, geometrically increasing the hazard. In a worst case scenario, we could see all of the satellites around Earth destroying each other with shrapnel, and creating a barrier of debris through which future spaceflights would have to travel, at great peril.
Whoever is dreaming up this missile idea is not very knowledgeable about orbital mechanics. - M. R.
Bush says US will waterboard whether legal or not...
Which means Bush has just committed us to WW3, because otherwise, he will face international war crimes trials when he leaves office. - M. R.
Olmert is reading the international map and he knows what Israel has planned should the Qassam fire continue. Together with Livni and Barak, they postpone the decision to embark on major Gaza operation every week. Yet the three of them know that it is impossible to go on with a situation whereby civilians are subjected to Qassam barrages and a game of Palestinian roulette.
I can guarantee you, no matter who is actually launching those kassams, that the missile strikes will continue until Israel thinks it has a "critical mass" of incidents to be used as the justification for a military assault against Gaza. Don't expect the international community to do anything except watch, and do nothing as the carnage continues, just as happened with the Israeli assault against Lebanon. - M. R.
WFP is currently unable to provide 84,000 of its poorest beneficiaries in Gaza their full aid rations, also because of the continued closure. Some of the poorest families in the Gaza Strip are struggling to obtain adequate food for their children.
This appears to be one of the most horrific outcomes of Israel's blockade: the slow near-starvation of infants and toddlers. The babies who do wind up here are the lucky ones. For others whose families can't get to this facility, the outcome of malnutrition can be devastating. Just imagine, for one moment, that you were the mom of one of these kids. - M. R.
It was primarily through the good offices of the European Union (EU), which had a formal role in managing the Rafah crossing, that Israel always had a veto on the opening of the crossing. In practice, whenever Israel didn't want the crossing open, the EU obligingly kept it shut. The Rafah crossing was open almost every day from 25 November 2005 to 24 June 2006, though not for 24 hours a day as intended. However, after 24 June 2006, when an Israeli soldier was captured by Palestinians, the EU, at Israel's insistence, prevented it from opening regularly and then kept it closed completely since 9 June 2007, after Hamas took control of Gaza.
Iran to launch oil and gas exchange on Feb. 27
Iran to launch oil and gas exchange on Feb. 27
Iran will launch a commodities exchange for oil, petrochemicals and natural gas on February 27, the Islamic Republic's oil minister said on Wednesday.
With the dollar in free-fall, the opening of this bourse will not bode well for it. Saddam Hussein was about to accept Euros for Iraqi oil right before we invaded. - M. R.
Bonds sold by U.S. municipal borrowers with rates set through periodic auctions failed to attract enough buyers as banks including Goldman Sachs Group Inc. and Citigroup Inc. that run the bidding won't commit their own capital to the debt.
If our lending institutions can't sell the debt off, the party's over. - M. R.
Public support for the war is waning in Europe. This is America's war, not theirs. Europeans don't need to occupy foreign nations to meet their energy needs. Their economies are thriving and they can simply pay for their fuel on the open market. Only America wants the war. It's all part of a crazy geopolitical "grand strategy" to project US power into the region to control its resources. So far, there's no indication that the plan will succeed. Eventually, the Europeans will see the futility of the war and leave. And that will be the end of NATO.
Hawaii's Invisible Cows!...
he Ukrainian President Viktor Yushchenko has promised to pass a law outlawing Nato military bases on his country's territory just a day after Vladimir Putin had threatened to point nuclear missiles at Ukraine if the country joined the alliance.
Looks as though Ukrainian President Yushchenko blinked. - M. R.
Italy shuts down blog exposing Italy's Jewish academic mafia...
Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice vehemently defended her integrity Wednesday when asked about an independent report that found she made 56 false statements on the threat posed by Saddam Hussein's Iraq.
The words "integrity" and "Secretary Rice" are mutually exclusive, at this point.< The game plan, for the entire administration, was to lie this nation into war. Blaming faulty intelligence is just a complete cop-out, and Rice knows it. - M. R.
Commenting on Spielberg’s withdrawal, one wrote: “Do you think you are a human rights warrior? Don’t pretend to be great when in fact you’re just creating publicity for yourself.”
Not All Americans are dumb...
Two videos, one of a home-schooled child, one of a child in public school. Guess which is which. - M. R.
The U.S. is launching a diplomatic offensive to meet the growing threat to its energy security from powerful and increasingly wealthy producers who are flexing their new geopolitical muscles. Faced with oil-related challenges on a number of fronts - from Venezuela to countries of the former Soviet Union - U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice said yesterday that she will appoint a special envoy for energy issues to deal with countries that use their oil and gas for political means. One has to laugh at that line "...for political means", as though the US absolutely doesn't. But my bet will be that we'll be looking to exploit is Africa, because of its vast untapped mineral, oil, and natural gas wealth. Remember the launch of "Africom" some time back? This was to present the kinder, gentler face of the American military in African, complete with road building, school building, etc.. That's going to be the "wedge" the US is using right now with a number of African countries to soften them up in return forlarge Western oil companies coming in and laying claim on their resources for the US. - M. R.
Gun-Grabbing gets absurd...
Saturn's smoggy moon Titan has hundreds of times more natural gas and other liquid hydrocarbons than all the known oil and natural gas reserves on Earth, scientists said today.
I am pretty certain Titan never had any dinosaurs.
So this strongly supports the abiotic theory for the origin of oil. - M. R.
In its e-mail announcement on the closing of Economic Indicators, the Department of Commerce acknowledged the “inconvenience” and offered “a free quarterly subscription to STAT-USA®/Internet™” instead. Once this temporary subscription runs out, however, the public will be forced to pay a fee. So not only will economic data be more hidden, it will also cost money.
When in doubt, this administration hides the data, lies to We the People,, and tells us that everything in this country is just peachy. - M. R.
Help Pass the Ammunition Accountability Act...
HB 2833 requires all ammunition manufacturers to encode a unique serial number on the base of every bullet and on the inside of every cartridge. The bullet serial number and cartridge casing serial number would have to be identical.
This means two things. Home reloading will become illegal, and the price of manufactured ammunition will double.
If they can;t grab the guns, they will make the ammo hard to get. - M. R.
Hugo Chavez, known for his frequent run-ins with the US, is at it again. However, this time he has put his money where his mouth is. Hugo Chavez has ordered oil supplies to be cut-off to the American oil giant -- Exxon Mobil.
"Invade, INVADE!!!" Official White Horse Souse. - M. R.
Magnitude 6.7 - SOUTHERN GREECE...
Diplomats advised to compare 9/11 cases to Nazi war crime trials...
"Hey, it makes perfect sense! Those Nazis were tortured into their confessions, then hanged; we've tortured these clowns into confessions, so why not go the distance? I love history." -- Official White Horse Souse - M. R.
Russian President Vladimir Putin said Thursday he was ready to target missiles at former Warsaw Pact countries, including neighbouring Ukraine, if they join NATO or host Western military facilities.
Putin is no fool, and understands precisely what is going on here. - M. R.
A new bill proposed at the legislature would allow for police to withhold misconduct reports from the public. Supporters of the bill believe that police misconduct should be kept secret from the public so to not discredit police testimony. Others say that a forthright police unit is essential to the community.
Saturn’s orange moon Titan has hundreds of times more liquid hydrocarbons than all the known oil and natural gas reserves on Earth, according to new Cassini data. The hydrocarbons rain from the sky, collecting in vast deposits that form lakes and dunes.
There are two thoughts that come to mind with this story.
First, we could probably take the money we are spending on (unsuccessfully) conquering the Mideast oil fields and build a system of space "tankers" to haul all those hydrocarbons from Titan to Earth (probably cheaper). Of course, we could also develop fusion power with some of that money, but both of these solutions require foresight and imagination; two qualities in short supply in our government.
Second, I am pretty certain that Titan never had any dinosaurs, which raises the possibility that if Titan's hydrocarbons are not created by life forms, then neither are Earth's. - M. R.
U.S. health officials are urging that Gulf Coast hurricane victims be moved out of their government-issued trailers as quickly as possible after tests found toxic levels of formaldehyde fumes. Commonly used in manufactured homes, formaldehyde can cause respiratory problems and has been classified as a carcinogen by the International Agency for Research on Cancer and as a probable carcinogen by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency. So now, they inform these folks that the trailers they've been living in, years, after the fact, are a huge health hazard. With many of these people still jobless and generally without funds or resources, where are they supposed to go? New Orleans is in the process of "gentrifying" much of the flood-ravaged areas, demolishing much of the public housing which used to exist. - M. R.
POlice to be given real-time access to spy satellite data....
When you look at Google Earth, you are often looking at images taken many years ago. as one benign example, taking a close look at the Hawaii State Sound Stages on Oahu, the image does not show the new production office complex which was built two years ago. Many other images used to assemble the Google Earth Map are equally out of date. But police are to be given access to a system with up-to-date spy satellite photos of your homes and businesses, to peek at you, and as was the case with the Seattle APEC, steal your business secrets for their own personal profit (when they are not watching the clothing optional beaches). - M. R.
Joining the House, the Senate has voted to prohibit waterboarding and other harsh methods of interrogation.
Senator McCain voted AGAINST this measure. - M. R.
A senior Justice Department official says laws and other limits enacted since three terrorism suspects were waterboarded has eliminated the technique from what is now legally allowed, going a step beyond what CIA Director Michael Hayden has said.
A Bush administration spending plan that would slash money for the Forest Service could lead to massive layoffs at the agency charged with managing 193 million acres of national forests, Democratic lawmakers said Wednesday.
A leading U.S. government scientist says his country and Canada are on a collision course over seabed rights in the Arctic Ocean, where vast, untapped oil and gas deposits are fueling an undersea land grab and researchers from all polar nations are racing to collect data backing their countries' territorial claims.
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Now, that struggle is set to go to the sea floor.
"If the U.S. goes north and Canada goes out toward the west, then those areas are going to overlap," Armstrong told Canwest News Service, a day after NOAA unveiled a "big discovery" about the geology of the floor of the Chukchi Sea that it says will bolster U.S. claims in the boundary waters between Russia and Alaska.
But the head of Canada's own Arctic mapping mission dismissed the U.S. comments as "premature" and "speculative."
Rep. Ike Skelton, D-Mo., sent a letter to Secretary of the Army Peter Geren on Monday in which the congressman admonished the Army for not releasing a RAND Corp. report that reportedly found problems with nearly every organization that had a role in planning for the war.
Maybe because the people planning the war for the most part had never actually fought in one. - M. R.
"In sum, at the core of plaintiffs' case against Defendant Jeppesen are 'allegations' of covert US military or CIA operations in foreign countries against foreign nationals - clearly a subject matter which is a state secret," Judge James Ware wrote in a ruling.
Mr Raissi, 33, trained at the same flight school as Hani Hanjour, the man suspected of crashing Flight 77 into the Pentagon
But he has since been cleared of any involvement in the attacks after the US failed to produce any evidence against him. "We are sending him a box of delicious assorted cookies." -- Official White Horse Souse - M. R.
VALENTINES DAY MASSACRE ~~ ZIOSTYLE
VALENTINES DAY MASSACRE ~~ ZIOSTYLE
Is there a real difference between a criminal state and a criminal individual? Is there a difference between classical gangsters and armed robbers who hold-up people and steal their money at gunpoint, and a state, which claims to be the only democracy in the Middle East and a light upon the nations of the world, that commits very much the same crime?
American Jews are losing interest in Israel, according to figures released Tuesday in the American Jewish Committee 2007 Annual Survey of American Jewish Opinion.
Israel’s nationwide sushi craze is being endangered by a wasabi-strength threat: The government, seeking to protect local jobs, wants to send all foreign-born Asian chefs packing by January 2009.
February 13, 2008
The other wiki 911 theory - What Really Happened Wiki...
Some good stuff is showing up in the WRH Wiki! - M. R.
Excitement is growing in the Northern England town of Huddlesfield following the news that a local man saw an image of the big-bang in a piece of toast.
Appeals court overturns Texas ban on sex toys...
Just in time for Valentine's day! - M. R.
The Federal Reserve keeps trimming interest rates. But credit card costs are soaring.
The banks are screwing their good customers to cover the bad customers. - M. R.
16th Amendment - The Law That Never Was...
16th Amendment - The Sixteenth Amendment Bill Benson Litigation...
President George W. Bush said Wednesday he was widening US sanctions against Syria, targeting officials engaged in "public corruption," amid charges Damascus is destabilizing Iraq and Lebanon.
Iran has capacity to produce nuclear arms: US intelligence...
Notice the timing: this gentleman's testimony comes just a couple of weeks before ElBaradei's IAEA report. This means that no matter how thorough, thoughtful, and correct ElBaradei's report will be, the US has set in motion a tactic by which to repudiate it completely. One has to wonder if this is the justification Bush will use to order a pre-emptive attack on Iran.
- M. R.
A commuter was arrested at gunpoint and had his DNA and fingerprints taken simply for listening to his MP3 player while waiting for a bus.
The amazing thing about this story is that apparently, the police were too stupid to realize it was an mp3 player during the entire time he was arrested, transported, fingerprinted, photographed, DNA swabbed, and tossed in a cell. - M. R.
Fear that a hobbled banking sector may set off another Great Depression could force the U.S. government and Federal Reserve to take the unprecedented step of buying a broad range of assets, including stocks, according to one of the most bearish market analysts.
The Government scientists were also asked to test whether the weapons could cause a miscarriage if used on a pregnant woman. While not saying whether police would be allowed to Taser an expectant mother, the Home Office said the DSAC committee had "specifically asked" for computer simulations to be carried out to analyse the effect on "a pregnant female". Pregnant women and children need to be protected, not tasered. We somehow used to understand how to deal with unruly kid behavior without potentially killing them. A society which decides that it's OK to potentially kill kids and/or pregnant women is both lost, and doomed not to survive. - M. R.
There’s a new rule on Capitol Hill: the Chairman of the House Judiciary Committee can remove impeachment from the Constitution, but cannot also use te | 
