The news business is in trouble. Readership and viewership are declining, public trust is plummeting, and advertisers are beginning to wonder whether they're getting their money's worth. This has led people to think about what blogger and tech journalist Doc Searls calls business models for "news without newspapers," an approach to reporting and disseminating news that doesn't depend on layers of editors for publication, and big ads from carmakers for funding.

On Wednesday 6th July, the eight leaders of the most powerful and richest countries in the world will gather for a summit meeting in the town of Gleneagles in Scotland.

These men can make poverty history and change the future for hundreds of millions of people - but they will only do it if enough of us tell them to.

That's what LIVE 8 - The Long Walk To Justice is all about, and that's why we want your voice, not your money.

Burning CDs, downloading mobile-phone ringtones, even printing digital-quality photos could soon be the newest things on the McDonald's menu.

Here is what Norvell fessed up to in the May 20 Wall Street Journal Europe:

Even we at Fox News manage to get some lefties on the air occasionally, and often let them finish their sentences before we club them to death and feed the scraps to Karl Rove and Bill O'Reilly. And those who hate us can take solace in the fact that they aren't subsidizing Bill's bombast; we payers of the BBC license fee don't enjoy that peace of mind.

Fox News is, after all, a private channel and our presenters are quite open about where they stand on particular stories. That's our appeal. People watch us because they know what they are getting. The Beeb's institutionalized leftism would be easier to tolerate if the corporation was a little more honest about it.

...of the Ten Most Harmful Books of the 19th and 20th Centuries.

"In a nutshell, the treaty is dead," says Daniel Keohane, senior research fellow for the Center for European Reform in London. "I think it will be very difficult to continue with ratification."

Polls predicted the French vote, which doesn't threaten the existence of the EU itself or the monetary union. Yet the defeat is seen as a blow to further European unification, with a number of potential economic effects.

The Netherlands still goes to the polls June 1 to deliver its verdict on the pact. Yet the rejection by France, a founding member of the EU that has participated in every step of the region's integration, puts the treaty's adoption in serious doubt.

Bush regime is currently reviewing anti-terrorism policies --Plans to look beyond Al Qaeda [Al CIAduh] --Dictator George W Bush,s administration is conducting a broad internal review of its anti-terrorism policies, and may shift the focus from capturing Al Qaeda leaders to a broader push to defeat "violent extremism," The Washington Post said on Sunday.

The Washington Post today confirmed that W. Mark Felt, a former number-two official at the FBI, was "Deep Throat," the secretive source who provided information that helped unravel the Watergate scandal in the early 1970s and contributed to the resignation of president Richard M. Nixon.

Google just released the next version of their Keyhole software.

Prime Minister Tony Blair will hold talks with US President George Bush in Washington next week, Downing Street has announced.

..."what do we now?" kinda thing

Bob Geldof has asked the world's most prominent figures, including Pope Benedict XVI, the Dalai Lama and Nelson Mandela to take part in the anti-poverty rally and Live 8 charity concert this summer to mark the first day of the G8 Summit of world leaders.

When the CIA wants to grab a suspected member of Al Qaeda overseas and deliver him to interrogators in another country, an Aero Contractors plane often does the job.

If agency experts need to fly overseas in a hurry after the capture of a prized prisoner, a plane will leave Johnston County and stop at Dulles Airport outside Washington to pick up the CIA team on the way.

BBC NEWS ---> Police in Israel say they have uncovered a huge industrial spying ring which used computer viruses to probe the systems of many major companies.

At least 15 Israeli firms have been implicated in the espionage plot, with 18 people arrested in Israel and two more held by British police.

Among those under suspicion are major Israeli telecoms and media companies.

Police say the companies used a "Trojan horse" computer virus written by an Israeli to hack into rivals' systems.

Interpol and the authorities in Britain, Germany and the US are already involved in investigating the espionage, which Israeli police fear may involve major international companies.

Justice Department is also expected to file indictments against two former senior American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC) staffers - Steve Rosen and Keith Weissman - and, according to sources familiar with the affair, the charges will be subsumed under the Espionage Act.

Sony Entertainment has just introduced new form of compact discs that feature First4Internet?s XCP copy protection technology. XCP is also known as Extended Copy Protection technology that is expected to control piracy on a simple level with regular users.

Please forward widely!

"Downing Street Memo," which actually consists of the minutes of a July 2002 meeting between British Prime Minister Tony Blair and his top advisers. During this meeting, Blair and his advisers reveal details about conversations with their American counterparts. These details cast substantial doubt on the honesty of contemporaneous claims made by the Administration to Congress and to the American people about the Iraq war.

Ralph Nader and Kevin Zeese ---> THE IMPEACHMENT of President Bush and Vice President Cheney, under Article II, Section 4 of the Constitution, should be part of mainstream political discourse.

A glance at the structure of our government in this late era of republican governance demonstrates a variety of oddities and ironies. The most interesting is the observation that each branch of our government is now ignoring those areas where its actual responsibilities lie while simultaneously intruding into areas where it was once explicitly forbidden.

Thus, we have a judiciary that is meekly turning over its responsibility to scrutinize warrants to various elements of the executive branch. Meanwhile, these same judges have abandoned the constitution?s moorings and are dictating social policy to the nation far in excess of any powers envisioned by our Founders.

Pope Benedict XVI waded into Italian politics Monday by endorsing calls for voters to boycott a referendum aimed at repealing restrictions on artificial insemination and embryonic research.

Bounties ranged from $3,000 to $25,000, the detainees testified during military tribunals, according to transcripts the U.S. government gave The Associated Press to comply with a Freedom of Information lawsuit.

...and said Tuesday the allegations were made by "people who hate America."

A former FBI official claims he was "Deep Throat," the long-anonymous source who leaked secrets about President Nixon's Watergate coverup to The Washington Post, his family said Tuesday.
Felt, who lives with his daughter Joan in Santa Rosa and is in declining health, kept the secret even from his family until 2002, when he confided to a friend that he had been Post reporter Bob Woodward's source, the magazine said.

Riggs was blunt and outspoken on a number of issues and publicly contradicted Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld by arguing that the Army was overstretched in Iraq and Afghanistan and needed more troops.

U.S. efforts to dominate the world could end in disaster, Mikhail Gorbachev.
"That doesn't work with small countries nowadays, and even less with big ones like Russia, Iran and -- heaven forbid -- China. That way lies disaster," said Gorbachev.

The U.S. military nearly set off a sectarian crisis Monday by mistakenly arresting the leader of Iraq's top Sunni Muslim political party.

A chemical widely used in food packaging may be a contributing factor to women developing breast cancer, scientists have suggested.

Justin Raimondo ---> Could it have had something to do with the Larry Franklin spy scandal?

Peacemakers Team

John was born a Jew. He is now a member of this team which protects Palestinians from violent Jewish settlers and records all abuses of human rights.

The Israeli air force has fired missiles at the northern Gaza refugee camp of Jabaliya, Israeli military sources say.

Do the people of Iraq have the right to defend themselves against violent foreign invasion and occupation by any means at their disposal against an aggressive and rapacious enemy enjoying overwhelming military superiority?

This is a right Americans unquestionably would invoke were their country invaded and occupied by a foreign power. They would take whatever measures were necessary to defeat the enemy and force it to withdraw.

...are among some 1,000 pages of tribunal transcripts the U.S. government released to The Associated Press under a Freedom of Information Act lawsuit ? the second batch of documents the AP has received in 10 days.

In the last few months, the small commercial air service to the naval base at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba, has been carrying people the military authorities had hoped would never be allowed there: American lawyers.

"Frankly, I was offended by it," Cheney said in the videotaped interview. "For Amnesty International to suggest that somehow the United States is a violator of human rights, I frankly just don't take them seriously."

Newsweek ---> The bitter debate about John Bolton's nomination to the United Nations may have called unwelcome attention to the spying practices of the National Security Agency. Bolton told Congress last month that he asked the NSA for the names of Americans in raw intel reports. NSA rules prohibit the agency from spying on Americans; if electronic eavesdroppers inadvertently pick up American names, the NSA is supposed to black them out before forwarding reports to other agencies. But analysts and policymakers can make written requests to the NSA for U.S. names, which the State Department says Bolton did 10 times since 2001.

...the more homogeneous a group of people are in their thinking, the narrower the range of ideas that the group will openly consider. The more open minded, creative, and courageous, a group is, the wider the pool of ideas they?ll be capable of exploring.

If you want your smart people to be as smart as possible, seek a diversity of ideas. Find people with different experiences, opinions, backgrounds, weights, heights, races, facial hair styles, colors, past-times, favorite items of clothing, philosophies, and beliefs. Unify them around the results you want, not the means or approaches they are expected to use. It?s the only way to guarantee that the best ideas from your smartest people will be received openly by the people around them.

Harpers.org ---> "Church" is insufficient to describe the complex. There is a permanent structure called the Tent, which regularly fills with hundreds or thousands of teens and twentysomethings for New Life's various youth gatherings. Next to the Tent stands the old sanctuary, a gray box capable of seating 1,500; this juts out into the new sanctuary, capacity 7,500, already too small. At the complex's western edge is the World Prayer Center, which looks like a great iron wedge driven into the plains. The true architectural wonder of New Life, however, is the pyramid of authority into which it orders its 11,000 members. At the base are 1,300 cell groups, whose leaders answer to section leaders, who answer to zone, who answer to district, who answer to Pastor Ted Haggard, New Life's founder.

Pastor Ted, who talks to President George W. Bush or his advisers every Monday.

French voters have overwhelmingly rejected the European Union's proposed constitution in a key referendum.
Turnout was high - with early estimates ranging between 70% and 8O%.

The Socialized.Net is a peer-to-peer network based with socialized peers. Routing in the network is thus based on knowledge about other node's interests, making it work much in the same way as humans cooperate. When I want to get information about used cars, I'm more likely to ask my car-interested buddy than starting on the first page in the phone-book...

The Socialized.Net is designed to work in both disconnected, weakly-connected (ad-hoc) and fully connected modes. The idea is that many of the future networking capable devices will be both very mobile. If we carry computers around, they should at least be able to help navigate the environment they are in. For example, travellers on a train should be able to find out about the train's schedule and progress. This can easily be done locally on the train, thus using local communication as opposed to global communication (through the Internet). So, a traveller might ask "does anyone in this train know our schedule?", and the train (or another traveller) can give a reply.

The $20bn total is 40 per cent of the international communities' overseas development pot of $50bn - money that is meant to relieve poverty in developing countries.

'something about blogs [that] makes a lot of respectable journalists hyperventilate. News pros seem terribly threatened by online amateurs.'

Bloggers are outwitting the empire lying machine. Why ?
Simply Because they write with their hearts, they are free, they have no ideology. Their style is easy and direct. They don't fight for a bloodthirsty master. Their style may look frustrated somehow, yes, but they struggle for the truth, and they are winning. These blog sites are visited by millions all over the planet.

The Sunday Times newspaper said that separate information obtained by the Liberal Democrats, a British opposition party which opposed the Iraq war, showed that British and US planes dropped twice as many bombs on Iraq in the second half of 2002 as they did during the whole of 2001.

The minutes of the 2002 meeting also show British ministers? efforts to justify full-scale military action.

"It seemed clear that (US President George W.) Bush had made up his mind to take military action, even if the timing was not yet decided," they said.

THE RAF and US aircraft doubled the rate at which they were dropping bombs on Iraq in 2002 in an attempt to provoke Saddam Hussein into giving the allies an excuse for war, new evidence has shown.

Letters from Iraq's former deputy PM Tariq Aziz insist he is innocent and claim he is being held illegally.

Prophet Yahweh press release --->Prophet is in direct telephatic contact with his space being friends.
They have revealed that they will send UFOs as soon as Prophet starts asking for them to appear.

Video ---> ...actually shows a UFO appear as he summons it.

Al-Zarqawi has shrapnel lodged in his chest and may have been moved to Iran, The Sunday Times newspaper reported, adding his supporters may try to move him on to another country for an operation.

The Bush administration is undertaking a review of its anti-terrorism strategy in recognition that the al Qaeda network has morphed substantially in past years

...the review could lead to a new national security presidential directive superseding the October 2001 document signed by Bush.

The Bush administration asked a federal appeals court Friday to restore its ability to compel Internet service providers to turn over information about their customers or subscribers as part of its fight against terrorism.

Two Army analysts whose work has been cited as part of a key intelligence failure on Iraq -- the claim that aluminum tubes sought by the Baghdad government were most likely meant for a nuclear weapons program rather than for rockets -- have received job performance awards in each of the past three years.

Latter-day knight of the stage does Saladin justice in film.

"George Bush is stupid and he loves blood more than the people and the music," says Massoud.

The Europeans had invaded Muslim lands in a most bloody fashion.

"Entering the city [Jerusalem, July 15, 1099], our pilgrims pursued and killed Saracens up to the Temple of Solomon, in which they had assembled and where they gave battle to us furiously for the whole day so that their blood flowed throughout the whole temple. Finally, having overcome the pagans, our knights seized a great number of men and women, and the killed whom they wished and whom they wished they let live.... Then, rejoicing and weeping from extreme joy, our men went to worship at the sepulchre of jour Saviour Jesus and thus fulfilled their pledge to Him.... They also ordered that all the Saracen dead should be thrown out of the city because of the extreme stench, for the city was almost full of their cadavers. The live Saracens dragged the dead out before the gates and made piles of them, like houses. No one has ever heard of or seen such a slaughter of pagan peoples since pyres were made of them like boundary marks, and no one except God knows their number." -- [Histoire anonyme de la premiere croisade, L. Brehier, ed. Paris: Champion, 1924 (From The Portable Medieval Reader, Ed. James Bruce Ross and Mary Martin McLaughlin)]

When Saladin retook the city, he was driving a foreign invader out. There is nothing inaccurate about that; it did happen just that way.

Two hand-in-glove presidential appointments ? Undersecretary of Defense Paul Wolfowitz to the World Bank, and Undersecretary for Arms Control John Bolton as US Ambassador to the UN ? have had wildly divergent histories. In Wolfowitz's case, once the initially-hesitant WB Directors were assured their jobs, their cut of the pie and their national companies' contracts would continue unabated, they slipped right into place while praising the "intellectual depth" of a man who has never so much as written a book.

A Minnesota appeals court has ruled that the presence of encryption software on a computer may be viewed as evidence of criminal intent.

Bush has harassed the high military command for not being sufficiently servile to him and for not going along with his outrageous and weird ideas. He has insulted, in public, a number of their top officers and now has decided to supply commercial mini-vans to transport the troops in Iraq. A mini-van is about as safe to ride around in as a go-cart but Bush?s friends in the collapsing auto industry have bribed him to demand this change. All that will happen is that more soldiers will die quicker. It is not possible to adequately armor plate a mini van and there is no intention of armor plating them. Bush has also enraged veteran members of the CIA , not because they did not give him adequate intelligence concerning Iraq but because they did. Bush does not want facts. He demands obedience to his whims and because the CIA reports did not favor his propaganda, he hated them and trashed their abilities in public. They retaliated by releasing material that made Bush look like the vicious fool that he is and he cracked down on them, appointing the awful Porter Goss to control them. Goss, acting like a drunk bull in a china shop, has fired very competent personnel and replaced them with obedient, and worse, Republican faggots who will do the Head Queen?s biddings.

"We were set to perform 'The Hand That Feeds' with an unmolested, straightforward image of George W. Bush as the backdrop. Apparently, the image of our president is as offensive to MTV as it is to me," Nine Inch Nails' leader
Trent Reznor said in a statement posted on the band's Web site.

Israel's true power lies with Jewish lobby in U.S.

In an almost unnoticed move, President Bush on Thursday May 19 extended for one year the blanket immunity from legal action conferred on US corporations doing business in Iraq.

Chris Floyd ---> Road to Damascus

The world's richest nations greatly exaggerate their aid to poor countries - with the US, the worst offender, giving only 0.02% of its income in real assistance

The fact is, the neocon movement is a lot like a cult.

The Saudi Institute ---> King Fahd has been dead since late Wednesday, according to several well-placed sources in the capital Riyadh who spoke to the Saudi institute on the condition of anonymity.

Judge Alvin Hellerstein, finding the public has a right to see the pictures, told the government Thursday he will sign an order requiring it to release them to the American Civil Liberties Union, the lawyers said.

Madness
Madness
Madness

Killing people is ok!
...by thousands at a time...it's fine...just fine!
...anywhere in the world...without or with fixed law.
...it's good...and good for you.

Golden Moment!

Ignoring real needs of the society is ok!
...race by race
...city by city
..."just work for us, consume and die"
...what education? what health care?
Spending bilions on murder, tears and hate.

Golden Moment?

right...
perhaps in the devil's sick reality?

Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice brushed off growing calls for an independent investigation of conditions at the Guantanamo Bay detention center and in an interview labeled as "absurd".

...eight years of close observation with insights from former White House spokesman Ari Fleischer --->

An explicit art piece at the private, nonprofit Broward Art Guild was removed from its prominent position in the gallery after the agency's director received a phone call from the county's Department of Cultural Affairs, which partially funds the group.
The piece in question is a painting depicting President Bush being sodomized.

...field commander Shamil Basayev has claimed responsibility for the power cut that caused major disruption in Moscow on Wednesday.

A statement on a website with links to the rebels said Basayev's men had attacked an electricity substation, causing the outage.

The cut paralysed public transport and left thousands without power.

Moscow has not responded to the claims, but, at the time, officials said sabotage was not to blame.

An Arab official, speaking on condition of anonymity because of the sensitivity of the situation, said the Saudi government had put the kingdom - the world's largest oil exporter - on a state of alert and canceled military leaves. Other officials confirmed the alert among security forces and said leaves were being discouraged and government meetings with foreign dignitaries would be canceled.
The Interior Ministry denied that any emergency had been declared.

The technology, called the HP National Identity System, is designed to be used in conjunction with a number of Microsoft products, including its .Net line of server, database and middleware programs. The companies plan to jointly develop, market and offer training for the authentication system.

The product can be used to authenticate visitors to government Web sites, to control access to services and manage citizens' online identity, HP said.

The National Identity System can handle numerous tasks, including online and offline identity verification, live capture of demographic and biometric data, and secure access to documents. It's also compatible with various biometric identification systems and incorporates public key infrastructure and digital signatures, the company said.

by default, the aim of the "evil"(anti-force, anti-IS) is to create opposite of free :

feeling being observed 24/7/365
knowing that our behavior, acts and choices have to meet government standards, rules, laws and regulations.
Totally un-natural, BORG like society.

do you think John Lennon would've been allowed to create his "art" under such laws?
or
Elvis
or
Sex Pistols
or
Howard Stern

can you imagine Internet under absolute corporate/police control?

instead of teaching (starting from a womb) of love and compassion and peace and sharing and helping each other and free choice and art.....
they feed us junk food and junk values, killings and war and lies and fake smiles and greed and non-spirituality and fear and police and national ID....


...don't let evil eat you.

"These results are startling," she continued, "and indicate that we need a much better understanding of how the American diet has changed.

Today's New York Times (print edition) has a full-page advertisement on page 5 from the Council for the National Interest Foundation headlined:

AIPAC?s Agenda is Not America?s

The Homeland Security Department is looking to employ scanning systems...

The grand prize is a suborbital trip to the fringe of space, on a yet-to-be-flown craft that's based on SpaceShipOne technology.

About 6,000 Soldiers Deserted From Iraq War; 150 Fled To Canada

Several people are now claiming that is not what happened at all. They claim that the plane that crashed was not a passenger jet at all, and that it was all a plot to mislead the American people.
They say a Boeing 757 was never found at The Pentagon, that only one engine was found and that engine does not seem to match the engine from a 757, that airplane crashes leave wreckage, they mess up the ground -- Not at The Pentagon.

...workers quietly retro-fitted missile and remote control systems onto A-3 jets at Colorado public airport prior to September 11 when similar A-3 parts much smaller than a Boeing 757 were found at Pentagon.

"See, in my line of work you got to keep repeating things over and over and over again for the truth to sink in, to kind of catapult the propaganda."

...into whether Bush acted illegally in push for Iraq war

Confronted by serious political opposition at many turns, President Bush has come up with an across-the-board public response: Don't acknowledge any of it.

Cholera is spreading in Baghdad?s impoverished al-Amil quarter where overcrowding and contaminated water are leading to fears of an epidemic. City officials blame insurgent attacks on infrastructure for the outbreak in southwest Baghdad.

Children have so far been the worse affected, with one doctor at a Baghdad hospital saying he is now seeing young cholera patients on a daily basis.

The revelation comes ahead of next month?s G8 summit where Foreign Secretary Jack Straw will push for an arms trade treaty banning sales of any weapon that could be used against civilians.

Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld on Wednesday denied a report that he authorized the military to shoot down a small plane that prompted evacuations of Washington power centers earlier this month.

The California State Senate recently passed SB 862 prohibiting the use of RFID in any state-issued "document" (including driver's licenses, ID cards, student ID cards, health insurance or benefits cards, professional licenses and library cards). The bill was supported by a number of prominent privacy and civil liberties groups including the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) and the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF).

Rothstein is talking about individuals who would spend as much as $10,000 to have sex with young boys and girls. And this new evidence points to the involvement of U.S. government officials. "They were using kids to compromise people. And what better way to compromise somebody than get a young boy with a politician or some powerful person that may be in the military or whatever and then you can compromise them and get what ever you want."

CHIRAC of France is preparing to throw Europe into confusion and put Britain on the spot by backing moves to keep the European constitution alive if it is rejected in Sunday?s referendum.

The United States wants Britain's proposed identity cards to have the same microchip and technology as the ones used on American documents.

The aim of getting the same microchip is to ensure compatability in screening terrorist suspects. But it will also mean that information contained in the British cards can be accessed across the Atlantic.

"It would be very bad if we all invested huge amounts of money in biometric systems and they didn't work with each other."

Chertoff said compatability and the checking system was intended purely to track down "terrorists and criminals" and the main aim was to provide a "fair and reasonable system".

They face one conspiracy count that carries a maximum penalty of three years in prison and a $250,000 fine, plus three counts of interstate stalking and one count of conspiracy to commit interstate stalking, each carrying a maximum penalty of five years in prison and a $250,000 fine.

The United States has ramped up arms sales to some of the world's most repressive and undemocratic regimes in a misguided attempt to bolster counter-terrorism efforts since the Sep. 11, 2001 attacks on U.S. soil, says a new report from leading arms trade researchers.

The US Defence Department responded to the report, saying that "the detention of enemy combatants is not criminal in nature, but to prevent
them from continuing to fight against the United States".

BP, the giant oil company, has adopted a "zero tolerance" policy for bad news. Ad Age reports today that BP has informed print publications that its ads must be removed from any edition containing "objectionable editorial coverage."

According to Ad Age, BP wants advance notification "of any news text or visuals?that directly mention the company, a competitor or the oil-and-energy industry."

...calling it "the gulag of our time" in the human rights group's harshest rebuke yet of American detention policies.
Amnesty urged Washington to shut down the prison at the U.S. Navy's base in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, where some 540 men are held on suspicion of links to Afghanistan's ousted Taliban regime or the al-Qaida terror network. Some have been jailed for more than three years without charge.

Hundreds of US soldiers have swept through the western Iraqi town of Haditha, searching homes and seizing suspected insurgents.

In their crusade against 'hate speech', regulators want to subject all internet users to a system of parental controls.

The Human Cost of War

The EU has also decided that member states should issue passports with two biometric identifiers, such as electronic fingerprints and facial scans.

A range of new criminal offences will be created to safeguard the security of the database. They include a £2,500 civil penalty for failing to register and £1,000 fines for failing to renew your card or notify a change of address or other details.

Policy is being fixed around the facts of corporate America?s insatiable lust for profits, desire to control world oil supply, and to maintain Israel as a key ally facing interminable Arab rejection.

Israel has prevented the deputy chairman of the Islamic Movement's northern branch, Sheikh Kamel Khatib, from taking part in a conference on the right of return, which is scheduled to take place in London this weekend.
"The investigator told me that if I go, the score would be settled upon my return, by detention or a harsher measure," Khatib said.

Official website for the Tribunal to prosecute US war crimes

To many Americans, the idea that U. S. leaders could be prosecuted for war crimes comes right out of left field.
"What do you mean war crimes? Our leaders are only protecting our nation! No foreign court should be allowed to bring politically motivated charges against our leaders! It's a new world order! In the age of terrorism the old rules of war no longer apply!"

When you see a peace protestor shouting that Bush is a war criminal, you're hearing more than partisan hyperbole. When you hear someone refer to the war in Iraq as an illegal war, such an accusation is not made lightly. As Americans we are all party to having allowed this war to take place.

...he and his colleagues have received information that a significant number of agents in the FBI, CIA, and other intelligence services are talking about the complicity of rogue elements within the US government in the 9/11 attacks. He is pulling together information to write an article about officials within government who do not believe the government's official story.

An Indianapolis father is appealing a Marion County judge's unusual order that prohibits him and his ex-wife from exposing their child to "non-mainstream religious beliefs and rituals."

The parents practice Wicca, a contemporary pagan religion that emphasizes a balance in nature and reverence for the earth.

Seeking to improve its image among Palestinians, the United States has launched an advertising campaign in the West Bank, using billboards and television commercials filled with grinning children to tell Palestinians they have cleaner water and more classrooms thanks to its generosity.

The FBI says it has located 340 documents related to the bombing of the Oklahoma City federal building in 1995, documents that could reveal damaging information about what the agency and its informants knew about the mass murder plot, reports the McCurtain Daily Gazette.

In its annual report, Amnesty International pointed out that Israeli occupation troops and paramilitary Jewish terrorists murdered as many as 700 Palestinians in 2004, including 150 children.

The report said that most of the casualties were caused by shooting, explosions, and aerial attacks on residential neighborhoods.

Conrad Black has been ordered by an Ontario court to return 12 boxes of unidentified materials after he was captured on security cameras removing cartons through the back door of Hollinger Inc.'s Toronto head office late Friday afternoon.

The CIA is conducting a war game this week to simulate an unprecedented, Sept. 11-like electronic assault against the United States. The three-day exercise, known as "Silent Horizon," is meant to test the ability of government and industry to respond to escalating Internet disruptions over many months, according to participants.

Aboriginal legend holds that the white bison is a harbinger of peace and unity. And in that spirit, Blatz says she has named the male calf Spirit of Peace.

Chris Floyd ---> The U.S. Congress gave away its powers long ago to corporate interests and the almighty executive branch that every legislator secretly hopes to lead one day, Pentagon thunderbolts in hand. (Who would curb Caesar that might Caesar be?) This "degradation of the democratic dogma" has been the work of more than 50 years of bipartisan goonery, but it has now reached its nadir in the festering pit of blood and bile that is the Bush Regime.

Iomega Corporation today announced that the United States Patent & Trademark Office (USPTO) recently issued two highly notable patents to Iomega for its work with nano-technology and optical data storage, and external storage media.
New technologies could potentially allow 40-100 times more data to be stored on a DVD with data transfer rates 5-30 times faster than today's DVDs, and at similarly low costs.

Human rights watchdog Amnesty International accused the United States of violating human rights, ignoring international law and sending a "permissive signal to abusive governments".

Koran flushing...and much more.

The action was the first criminal enforcement against individuals who are using cutting-edge BitTorrent software to obtain pirated content online, Justice and Homeland Security Department officials said.

Unlimited energy. Fast-growing fruit. Free air-conditioning. John Piña Craven says we can have it all by tapping the icy waters of the deep.

washingtonpost.com ---> How much clout does AIPAC have?

Well, consider that during the pro-Israel lobby's annual conference yesterday, a fleet of police cars, sirens wailing, blocked intersections and formed a motorcade to escort buses carrying its conventioneers -- to lunch.

...according to a Web posting.

Mark Twain wrote more than a century ago: "Everybody lies ... every day, every hour, awake, asleep, in his dreams, in his joy, in his mourning. If he keeps his tongue still his hands, his feet, his eyes, his attitude will convey deception." Deceit is fundamental to the human condition.

It is 42 inches wide, 1,090 miles long and is intended to save the West from relying on Middle Eastern oil. Nothing has been allowed to stand in its way - and it finally opens today.
The first drops of crude will snake their way along a pipeline that traverses some of the most unstable and war-ravaged countries on earth. This is the oil flow that was meant to save the West.

A sign in front of Danieltown Baptist Church, located at 2361 U.S. 221 south reads "The Koran needs to be flushed," and the Rev. Creighton Lovelace, pastor of the church, is not apologizing for the display.

Lovelace said he felt it was the work of God to display the sign and that no one in the church has spoken up against it to him.

...no point getting angry at them.
...they're, simply, brainwashed.
...they're uninformed and have been fed big lies.
...their reasoning and reactions are based on a powerful false "understanding'
...love and compassion work very selectively for them.

The Syrian government has halted all cooperation with the United States in sharing information about the war on terror, Syria's ambassador said Tuesday.

The reasons for the protest varied: Sharon?s past crimes; opposition to Israel?s Apartheid Wall and its brutal treatment of the Palestinian people; and, also its dubious disengagement plan were raised. Israel?s role, via the shifty Neocons, in instigating the Iraqi War and pushing, too, for a U.S.-led war with Iran and Syria were also on the agenda.

The Devil, they say, has all the best tunes. Until now he has also had the video games market sewn up.

Ignoring
President Bush's veto threat, the House voted Tuesday to lift limits on embryonic stem cell research, a measure supporters said could accelerate cures for diseases but opponents viewed as akin to abortion.

Every waking moment of our lives, we swim in an ocean of advertising, all of it telling us the same thing: consume, consume. And then consume some more. The epidemic of overconsumption begins with the things we put in our mouths. The United States is the fattest nation on earth. Sixty-five per cent of American adults are overweight; 30 per cent are obese. In the decade between 1991 and 2001, obesity figures almost doubled.

An international team of astronomers has found a planet which, at about 15,000 light-years from Earth, is one of the most distant yet detected.

Dan Senor, the company's new Global Communications and Strategy VP.
A former Senior Associate at the Carlyle Group, Senor was briefly Scott McLellan's deputy as White House spokesman before becoming head of the the Coalition Provisional Authority in Iraq's information department. The White House web site bills him as Senior Advisor to Presidential Envoy L. Paul Bremer III. Fox News hired Senor as a panelist in February. While in Iraq Senor showed his loyalty by going jogging in a Bush-Cheney '04 tracksuit.

The most recent example of this was revealed by the British newspaper The Guardian in its article THE FILM U.S. TV NETWORKS DARE NOT SHOW (May 12, 2005). This article discusses the resistance filmmaker Adam Curtis encountered during his attempts to locate a major American media outlet willing to show his documentary film, THE POWER OF NIGHTMARES.

Video ---> The United States has focused the world's attention on Iran's pursuit of weapons of mass destruction. And along with our allies, we are working to gain full disclosure of Iran's efforts to obtain nuclear weapons. The world must not tolerate any Iranian attempt to develop a nuclear weapon. (Applause.) Nor can it tolerate Iran's efforts to subvert democratic governments through terrorism. (Applause.)

Bank security breach may be biggest yet.

Account info at Bank of America, Wachovia sold by employees; more arrests expected, N.J. police say.

Senators Avert Showdown Over Filibusters

Whiz kid inventor Bram Cohen and a small cadre of developers and entrepreneurs are in the final stage of launching an advertising-supported search engine dedicated to cataloging and indexing the thousands of movies, music tracks, software programs and other files for download over Cohen's popular BitTorrent protocol.

Microsoft sends news today that founder Bill Gates has announced a MSN Virtual Earth service is to debut in the summer. The service is promised to provide:

* Satellite images with 45-degree-angle views of buildings and neighborhoods

* Satellite images with street map overlays

* Ability to add local data layers, such as showing local businesses or restaurants

The service will allow users to choose from a number of different data types plus allow people to contribute their own information. The announcement came today

On Thursday, May 26, the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence will consider in closed session a draft bill that would both renew and expand various USA PATRIOT Act powers. The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) has obtained a copy of the draft bill, along with the committee's summary of it, and has made them available to journalists and interested citizens on its website, http://www.eff.org/.

..."even more unchecked authority to demand the private records of citizens who are not suspected of any crime"

A provision in at least one of the bills (authored by Rep. Robert Ace
Barbers) authorizes the government to conduct electronic surveillance
allowing it to tap, monitor or intercept email, voice mail, even text
messages of any person suspected of being a member of a terrorist
organization. Bantay ICT feels that:

"this encroaches on the people's right to privacy, freedom of
expression, and communication. Under the pretext of combating
'terrorism', this bill threatens our personal freedom to communicate
as we fear that the government will abuse this measure to conduct
surveillance to minimize dissent and silence activists."

Britain's leading thinker on the future offers an extraordinary vision of life in the next 45 years.

Aeroplanes will be too afraid to crash, yoghurts will wish you good morning before being eaten and human consciousness will be stored on supercomputers, promising immortality for all.

...a technique called multiphoton-absorption photopolymerization (MAP), in which a polymer can be deposited at the focal point of a laser beam; scanning of the laser beam in a desired pattern then allows for the formation of intricate, three-dimensional patterns. This technique, also being explored by a handful of other groups worldwide, makes it possible to create features that are 1000 times smaller than the diameter of a human hair.

...I love human creativity!

...Now...Let us look up close: "the medium is the massage"
...mR = M
where: mR is real world, fact, independent existence, product, external, medium
and...
M is knowledge, experience, benefit, growth, massage, internal

....Now: "meme and info" of the fact ( any case: Micro-Structures On A Human Hair) is soaring.
Let's say from 1 (value before the fact) to 1+x, where x is Your own "jaw-dropping level".
or (there is never a negative value in the experience)
"meme and info" of the fact (any case: Bush killing, torturing fellow humans) is soaring.
Let's say from 1 (value before the fact) to 1+x, where x is Your own "horror level".

M always grows
...in what values?
again, your own "balance of the facts, you+mR" ( f )

Our own private facts within a society, f*P=F (f times population) create F
F i s a "balance of the facts, group+mR" for the group of humans
(which is regulated, shaped, indoctrinated, controlled.....by governments, influential bodies, lobbies, groups, systems, clubs, parties)
Shaping of the F "was or/and is" always a part of human growth...
F is one of the elements necessary for creation, development and maintaining of civilization.
...because it's regulated it "could or/and is" always vulnerable to abuse.

mR affects both f and F
M, however, in our world usually doesn't have the same value on level f and F

The USA Patriot Act, with its broad definition of "suspicious activity," has cracked the door wider to individual interpretation.

If you pull out a camera on a New Jersey train, you will have company - law enforcement company. If you size up a shot on the New York subway, you'll probably be questioned by security and told to keep the lens cap tightly on. Even if you plan to snap some innocuous bank building from a public sidewalk, you might find guards telling you it's not allowed.

Many of the prisoners portray their circumstances as Kafka-esque, similar to Franz Kafka's The Trial, where a man is arrested and forced to defend himself against a secret crime.

Imagine what it's like to open the newspaper and read that scientists in faraway South Korea have made a huge breakthrough toward curing a disease that is slowly wrecking your life. But closer to home, your own government is trying to prevent that cure.

U.S. newspapers and magazines print few photos of American dead and wounded, a Times review finds. The reasons are many...

China has sealed off nature reserves and rushed more than 3 million doses of bird flu vaccine to a remote western province after migratory birds were found dead from the H5N1 strain, which can be fatal to humans.

Just a day after Defence Department official Larry Franklin was arrested on charges of passing classified information in the service of Israel, America's Director of National Intelligence John Negroponte was the guest at a pro-Israel event, where he praised Israel as an American ally.

Such is the degree of America's blindness to Israel's espionage activities in the United States.

Had this occurred in the USSR during the Cold War, diplomats would have been declared persona non grata. Even when long-term American ally France was caught in commercial espionage, the public repercussions were greater.

The silence about this case of Israeli espionage was so deafening that even The Jerusalem Post noted: "The American Israeli Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC) seems to be breathing a sigh of relief and is expecting Washington to go about business as usual."

How Much More Evidence is Needed?

...the decision to invest in the bases, which will require the construction of more permanent structures such as blast-proof barracks and offices, is seen by some as a sign that the US expects to keep a permanent presence in Iraq.

SPIEGEL ---> The United States is having trouble recruiting new soldiers for the war effort in Iraq. So the army is recycling its old fighters. The blog "War is Real" is written by just such a soldier. He describes his fears of returning to the desert -- and his battle with Post Traumatic Stress Disorder.

Sergeant Kevin Benderman cannot shake the images from his head.

There are bombed villages and desperate people. There are dogs eating corpses thrown into a mass grave. And most unremitting of all is the image of a young Iraqi girl, no more than eight or nine, all but one of her arms severely burned and blistered and the sound of her screams.

Last January these memories became too much for this veteran of the war in Iraq. Informed that his unit was about to return, he told his commanders he wanted out and applied to be considered a conscientious objector. The Army refused and instead charged him with desertion. His case - which carries a penalty of up to seven years' imprisonment - has now started before a military judge at Fort Stewart in Georgia.

"If I have to go to prison because I don't want to kill anybody, so be it," said Sergeant Benderman.

Helen Thomas ---> You don't have to draw a diagram for the Arab world to know what country invaded Iraq on March 19, 2003 -- against the wishes of every nation in the region -- and tried to justify the attack with a rationale that shifted each time the previous version was shown to be false.

There's a sense of hypocrisy that pervades the huffing and puffing by Bush administration officials as they rush to criticize Newsweek. Where was their outrage when they saw the photographs of the shameful mistreatment of the prisoners of war at the Abu Ghraib facility, with forced nudity, humiliation, sexual harassment, brutal interrogation and dogs?

BBC NEWS ---> ...according to a new study by Stephen Hsu and Roman Buniy, of the University of Oregon, US, this method of building a traversable wormhole may be fatally flawed.

Demonstrators from Houston Global Awareness (HGA) used street theater, giant puppets, noisemakers, and nonviolent direct action to voice their concerns of Halliburton?s corruption and greed during the Halliburton Shareholders Meeting at the Four Seasons Hotel in downtown Houston, May 18, 2005.

Mrs Hurndall's comments came amid renewed accusations that the military leadership has created a climate of impunity for soldiers who kill civilians.

Last week, a military court sentenced a soldier who shot dead a Palestinian man as he adjusted the television aerial on his roof to 20 months in prison. Last month, the army dropped charges against a soldier who shot dead a British journalist, James Miller, in the Gaza strip.

The commander of a new unit set up to fight insurgents in Iraq has been shot dead in Baghdad.

A local Vienna politician wants to use DNA technology to chase down owners of dogs that leave their droppings on streets and sidewalks.
...owners of dogs found to have left droppings in the wrong places would have to pay for the costs of the DNA analysis in addition to fines of up to euro225 (US$284).

...a close reading of the recent 600-page report by the president's commission on intelligence, and the previous report by the Senate panel, shows that as war approached, many U.S. intelligence analysts were internally questioning almost every major piece of prewar intelligence about Hussein's alleged weapons programs.

Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez says he will consider breaking diplomatic ties with the US if it fails to hand over a Cuban-born terror suspect.

Rats fed on a diet rich in genetically modified corn developed abnormalities to internal organs and changes to their blood, raising fears that human health could be affected by eating GM food.

Everything you never wanted to know about ID

If we continue with current rates of species extinction, we will have no chance of rolling back poverty and the lives of all humans will be diminished.

That is the stark warning to come out of the Millennium Ecosystem Assessment (MA), the most comprehensive audit of the health of our planet to date.

Organisms are disappearing at something like 100 to 1,000 times the "background levels" seen in the fossil record.

Scientists warn that removing so many species puts our own existence at risk.

President George Bush's own Methodist church has launched a scathing attack on his preparations for war against Iraq, saying they are 'without any justification according to the teachings of Christ'.

Jim Winkler, head of social policy for United Methodists, added that all attempts at a 'dialogue' between the President and his own church over the war had fallen on deaf ears at the White House.

The church represents eight to nine million regular churchgoers and is the third biggest in America.

Somerset Maugham said, "If a nation values anything more than freedom it will lose its freedom - and the irony of it is that if it is comfort or money that it values more - it will lose that too."

Lie #1: Prescription drugs will make you healthier.

Truth #1: Prescription drugs only mask symptoms. They do nothing to correct the underlying biochemical causes of disease. Simultaneously, most prescription drugs cause nutritional deficiencies which lead to further progression of chronic disease.

AIPAC and the neoconservative Likudniks in the Pentagon and in the Bush administration today represent the greatest threat to world peace. They are plotting to ignite hostilities that could ratchet up to World War III. This would fit in nicely with martial law control over the American populace as General Tommy Franks envisioned, and could lead to US rule by a one government international New World Order seemingly so desired by both Bush and Kerry.

The bomb-Iran-now lobby is gathering strength in Washington. The United States must halt Iran's nuclear weapons programs by any means necessary, said the Presidential Study Group, sponsored by the Washington Institute for Near East Policy, an Israel-leaning think tank whose board of advisers includes three former secretaries of State (Alexander Haig, Warren Christopher, Lawrence S. Eagleburger) and such neo-conservative luminaries as Richard Perle, R. James Woolsey, Martin Peretz, and Mortimer Zuckerman.

Prior to the invasion of Iraq, many of the same voices pooh-poohed the notion of an Iraqi insurgency following the liberation of the country from Saddam's despotic rule. Now they tend to dismiss Iran's retaliatory capabilities. They believe air attacks on Iran's nuclear facilities would accelerate "regime change."

Neighbors spying on neighbors? Mothers forced to turn in their sons or daughters? These are images straight out of George Orwell's 1984, or a remote totalitarian state. We don't associate them with the land of the free and the home of the brave, but that doesn't mean they couldn't happen here. A senior congressman, James Sensenbrenner (R-Wis.), is working quietly but efficiently to turn the entire United States population into informants--by force.

James Petras analyzes the war on Iraq from a rather Marxist perspective and comes to the conclusion that the war was driven by neocons for the interests of Israel. He shows why the oil argument used by most of the Left is incorrect. Petras is a professor of sociology and the author of many works on revolutionary movements in Latin America

The 10 inquiries into prisoner abuse have let Bush and Co off the hook.

The U.S. military said the offensive had been set in motion to root out insurgents, especially those who have staged bloody assaults on the U.S.-run Abu Ghraib prison and the notoriously dangerous road from downtown to the airport.

US congressmen ---> While top Israeli and Palestinian officials met here to talk security, a US senator dispensed bitter pills to Arab leaders: The United States isn't ready to risk the prestige needed to create a Palestinian state and America's priority is to secure Israel in a way that, "if possible," is just to the Palestinians.

"Obviously one of the greatest commitments that we have is to the Jewish people and the State of Israel, to try and manage the difficult process of the peace there and securing that nation, and doing so in a way that, if possible, is just to the Palestinians," Smith said.

New documents released by the Department of Defense reveal more cases of abuse including mock executions and use of a religious symbol to taunt detainees, the American Civil Liberties Union said today.

European space scientists are planning to join Russia in constructing an ambitious new manned spaceship, the Clipper.

...the Museum of Earth History is a museum with a controversial difference. To one side, peering through the bushes, are Adam and Eve. The display is not an image of the Cretaceous. It is Paradise. 'They lived together without fear, for there was no death yet,' the voice intoned about Man and Dinosaur.

Nestling deep in the Ozark mountains of Arkansas, in the heart of America's Bible Belt, this is the first dinosaur museum to take a creationist perspective.

Dramatic details of conditions at Camp Cropper, the top-secret Baghdad prison where Saddam Hussein is being held, have been revealed by a senior UN weapons inspector.

Three Romanian journalists kidnapped in Iraq in March have been freed, the Romanian government has announced.

Protesters besieged Laura Bush during her visit Sunday to two of Jerusalem's most sacred sites, with Israeli police locking arms to restrain the crowd and Secret Service agents packed tightly around America's first lady.

She then went to the Dome of the Rock, a mosque on a hilltop compound known to Muslims as Haram as-Sharif and to Jews as Temple Mount. As she left the mosque, one heckler yelled, "How dare you come in here?" and "Why do you hassle our Muslims?"

Baghdad, Iraq, might be accustomed to seeing houses destroyed. But villagers in Baghdad, Brazil, were surprised and angry when police demolished 100 of their homes - apparently by mistake.

If only more politicians, British and American alike, were able to display such courage in the face of the atmosphere of neoconservative intimidation prevalent in Washington these days.

World's Most Powerful Laser Could Generate Energy to Rival Sun's Center and Hydrogen Bomb.

In a building the size of a football stadium, engineers have assembled the framework for a network of 192 laser beams, each traveling 1,000 feet to converge simultaneously on a target the size of a pencil eraser.

The trip will take one-thousandth of a second during which the light's energy is amplified many billions of times to create a brief laser pulse 1,000 times the electric generating power of the United States.
The goal is to create unimaginable heat 180 million degrees Farenheit and intense pressure from all directions on a BB-size hydrogen fuel pellet, compressing it to one-thirtieth of its size.

A former Canadian ambassador to Washington has revealed the dark - and amusing - sides of free-trade negotiations with the United States in the 1980s.

At least one person has died and 49 people have been injured in New Delhi after explosions at two cinemas located in crowded shopping districts.

Secrets Revealed !!!!

...the evidence this time is strong and keeps growing. If it bears out, it will challenge one of medicine's most fundamental beliefs: that people need to coat themselves with sunscreen whenever they're in the sun. Doing that may actually contribute to far more cancer deaths than it prevents, some researchers think.

The vitamin is D, nicknamed the "sunshine vitamin" because the skin makes it from ultraviolet rays. Sunscreen blocks its production, but dermatologists and health agencies have long preached that such lotions are needed to prevent skin cancer. Now some scientists are questioning that advice. The reason is that vitamin D increasingly seems important for preventing and even treating many types of cancer.

In the last three months alone, four separate studies found it helped protect against lymphoma and cancers of the prostate, lung and, ironically, the skin. The strongest evidence is for colon cancer.

A new laser warning system is coming into operation in Washington to prevent planes straying into the restricted air space over the US capital.

The CIA Gulfstream V jet touched down at a small airport west of here just before 9 p.m. on a subfreezing night in December 2001. A half-dozen agents wearing hoods that covered their faces stepped down from the aircraft and hurried across the tarmac to take custody of two prisoners, suspected Islamic radicals from Egypt.

Some very strange coincidences about the 3/11 bombings in Madrid have come to light. El Mundo, the Spanish-language daily, has been investigating the entire incident.

Britain's Sun newspaper has published more controversial photos of Saddam Hussein amid complaints their release violates his rights as a prisoner.
The photos also appeared in the New York Post. The owner of both newspapers, media mogul Rupert Murdoch, says a U.S. military source provided the photos, hoping their release would deal a "body blow" to the insurgency.

...the photos violate military and possibly Geneva Convention guidelines "for the humane treatment of detained individuals."

Library officials in this suburb west of Chicago have come up with a high-tech solution for keeping unauthorized visitors from using their computers: fingerprint scans.

The scanners _ to be installed on 130 library computers this summer _ will verify the identity of computer users.

The European Union?s energy commissioner has called for a 100kph ? 62mph ? speed limit to be adopted throughout Europe. Andris Piebalgs said roads in all 25 member states should be posted with a uniform limit to cut accidents and save fuel.

President Putin is restoring the Soviet system with elements of capitalism, former Russian Prime Minister Mikhail Kasyanov said at a press conference Thursday, Interfax reports.

While Bush prays against 'forces of evil,' thousands around the world pray Bush reveals truth about conspiracy behind 9/11.

A Wisconsin college professor, disgusted with the Bush administration and the war in the Middle East, has formed a worldwide alliance of people from all faiths who have banned together to stop American imperialism by first getting to the bottom of the 9/11 story.

The F.B.I. would gain broad authority to track the mail of people in terror investigations under a Bush administration proposal, officials said Friday, but the Postal Service is already raising privacy concerns about the plan.

The proposal, to be considered next week in a closed-door meeting of the Senate Intelligence Committee, would allow the bureau to direct postal inspectors to turn over the names, addresses and all other material appearing on the outside of letters sent to or from people connected to foreign intelligence investigations.

An ancient and continued tactic of totalitarian systems is to demand the public worship of its leaders, from the Pharaohs of Egypt and the Emperors of Rome to Hirohito of Japan and Stalin of the Soviet Union.

And they used to say, "It can?t happen here."

Help the President with His widsom.

Pray for every person who bravely serves America through the military.

Pray for Director of Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms.

Pray for Director of the Office of National Drug Control Policy.

President Bush has called us to pray for peace in the world and for the safety of our troops.

...thank them for the way they gave themselves so that we could continue to enjoy our freedom.

Children of Israel worked as slaves in Egypt. It was very hard work and the conditions were very bad - and kept getting worse.

Do you know a Bible verse that talks about the importance of praying for the people who lead our nation?

...you have to check this out!

Sadly, few American fundamentalist Christians realize that Islam recognizes that Jesus was not a heretic, but brought a message from God to mankind and that he gave people a path to God and to Heaven.
Islam also recognizes his virgin birth and reveres his mother, Mary and his father, Joseph, and the Bible he brought from his Father, God. Muslims also believe that Jesus is in Heaven, taken their by God, and sits next to God in Heaven. All of this is in the Qur?an.

Thus, when the thugs who now are dishonoring our nation, dishonoring Christianity and dishonoring Islam, dishonor and desecrate the Qur?an, they are also desecrating their own Christian religion by behaving like the devil, not like children or believers in God or in the words and deeds of Christ. These thugs in uniform should be jailed and dishonorably discharged, as should their senior leaders be barred from office, and kicked out of the Department of Defense, starting with the most ignorant of them, Donald Rumsfeld.

A U.S. cover-up?

The Center's just-released Occasional Paper entitled, What to Do About Venezuela, documents the extent to which the so-called revolutionary "Bolivarian" regime in Venezuela is becoming a "clear and present danger" to the countries and people of Latin America and beyond.

The Union of Concerned Scientists, a watchdog group that opposes weapons in space, said the United Nations should consider drafting a treaty that would prohibit interfering with unarmed satellites, taking away any justification for putting weapons in space to protect them.
The Union's demand comes as the administration of President Bush is reviewing the U.S. space policy doctrine. Some scientists worry that the review will set out a more aggressive policy that could lead to the greater militarization of space.

Notice to websites promoting items critical of President Bush: don't expect Google Adwords to approve your internet campaign using their search engine and sponsored links service. In what is believed to be a stunning act of political censorship, the creators of the "Deck of Bush", a satirical playing card deck listing "54 reasons NOT to re-elect the President" were informed Tuesday that their recently submitted ad word campaign did not meet Google's guidelines and was being suspended. In an e-mail sent to the "Deck of Bush" creators, Google stated that their policy "does not permit the advertisement of websites that contain language that advocates against an individual, group, or organization". They were also told that use of the search term keywords "George Bush", "George W. Bush", "President Bush", "Bush Cards", "Bush Decks" were all unacceptable

The pacemaker-like device, called a vagus nerve stimulator, is surgically implanted in the upper chest, and its wires are threaded into the neck, where it stimulates a nerve leading to the brain. It has been approved since 1997 for the treatment of some epilepsy patients, and the drug agency has told the manufacturer that it is now "approvable" for severe depression that is resistant to other treatment.

Michael Chertoff, the US homeland security secretary, said on Thursday he would push for the creation of a global "security envelope", allowing trusted people and cargo to move freely while screening out potential threats to US security.

Chertoff outlined a far more ambitious proposal, working with overseas allies "to accomplish a mission that will secure the entire world".

He said that, with proper technology and secure travel documents, people and cargo should be able "to move relatively freely from point to point all across the globe", allowing those within the security envelope not to be "stopped at every point mechanically, and re-vetted and re-checked".

That would allow scarce inspection resources to be focused on individuals and cargo deemed "high-risk", he said.

...when the questions turn to safety, some Tri-state recruiters make Iraq sound more like a trip to Tahiti than a journey to war."

Recruiter: "You've got more chance of dying over here than you do over there."

Recruiter: "If you add it together, 1,500 people died in five counties alone within two weeks, just from car wrecks."
(ed.The truth is, there aren't 1,500 deaths from car wrecks in the entire state of Ohio for an entire year.)

Twelve methods that will exercise parts of your brain that rarely get it, and make you more creative and better able to understand the world.

Global Research ---> The driver did leave in a hurry, but was soon alarmed with a feeling that his car was driving as if carrying a heavy load, and he also became suspicious of a low flying helicopter that kept hovering overhead, as if trailing him. He stopped the car and inspected it carefully. He found nearly 100 kilograms of explosives hidden in the back seat and along the two back doors.

The only feasible explanation for this incidence is that the car was indeed booby trapped by the Americans and intended for the al-Khadimiya Shiite district of Baghdad. The helicopter was monitoring his movement and witnessing the anticipated "hideous attack by foreign elements".

The Italian hostage in Afghanistan Clementina Cantoni, human right worker in the organization Care International who was kidnapped on Monday evening was executed by her kidnappers

Pepe Escobar --->
Al-Qaeda and all the other components of the Salafi-jihadi (or Islamist) front are on the verge of scoring a major double blow. Unlike September 11, now their fight not only is being recognized by top Islamic scholars as legitimate, but they have also managed to capitalize on major blunders in the "war on terror" to strengthen the anti-imperialist, anti-US impulse among global, moderate Muslims. How did that happen?

Chris Floyd ---> It is George W. Bush who lifted the protection of the Geneva Conventions from all those he has rounded up in his "war on terror," including the literally thousands of innocent people (as confirmed by the Red Cross) devoured by his gulag. It is George W. Bush -- this sniveling, smirking, shirking little coward, this cosseted little pipsqueak trying to prove his manhood with macho bluster and aggressive war -- who is directly responsible for establishing this world-wide system of inhuman degradation and pig-ignorant bullying. It is his direct orders, his implications, his rhetoric and his will -- passed down along the entire chain of command -- that have instigated these crimes, these bloody stains on the national honor.

According to Reuters, the pictures were given to the paper by U.S. military sources quoted as saying the released the pictures "in the hope of dealing a body blow to the resistance in Iraq."

Saddam Hussein plans to take legal action after a British newspaper published photos of him half-naked in his prison cell and doing his washing.

BBC News ---> 'Undercover Mossad agents' in UN team.

A UK MP has said that four members of the United Nations weapons inspection team in Iraq are Israeli spies.

Labour's George Galloway, who has campaigned against air strikes on Iraq, named four people he alleged were agents of Mossad, the Israeli secret service, working under false names and papers with the Unscom team.

...??????
...could that be THE reason they are after Galloway?

The prisoner, a slight, 22-year-old taxi driver known only as Dilawar, was hauled from his cell at the detention center in Bagram, Afghanistan, about 2 a.m. to answer questions about a rocket attack on an American base. When he arrived in the interrogation room, an interpreter who was present said, his legs were bouncing uncontrollably in the plastic chair and his hands were numb. He had been chained by the wrists to the top of his cell for much of the previous four days.

An interrogator told Dilawar that he could see a doctor after they finished with him. When he was finally sent back to his cell, though, the guards were instructed only to chain the prisoner back to the ceiling.


Several hours passed before an emergency room doctor finally saw Dilawar. By then he was dead, his body beginning to stiffen.

"History" Hegel said, "is a slaughterhouse." And war is how the slaughter is carried out.

Thousands of Shiites stomped on American flags painted on roads outside mosques in a show of anger over the U.S. presence in Iraq, while Sunni leaders called Friday for a closure of places of worship to protest the sectarian violence many fear may erupt into civil war.

This what happened when Jorge Cortell was trying to defend the legal use of P2P networks in Spain.

Scientists at Newcastle University, the first in Britain to obtain a licence to carry out therapeutic cloning for stem cell research, said they had successfully produced a blastocyst -- a tiny, early-stage embryo consisting of a hollow ball of cells -- cloned from a human cell using nuclear transfer.

Scientists hope the work will eventually lead to successful treatments for degenerative diseases such as Parkinson's and Alzheimer's, or for the paralysed victims of spinal injuries.

Armed with this and other blessings, Jones is now excited to uncover his life's pursuit. He believes the ark will be discovered by Tisha B'Av (Aug. 14), a day of repeated tragedy in Jewish history. Most notably, it is the anniversary of the destruction of both the First and Second Holy Temples.

Noahide guru Jones says that the State of Israel is passing through the same biblical straights as the generation that first entered Israel after the exodus from Egypt. ?If history repeats itself, the history itself is prophecy,? Jones says.

A Russian village was left baffled on Thursday after its lake disappeared overnight.

Writing today in the journal Science, they report that they used their method to produce 11 human stem cells lines that are genetic matches of patients aged 2 to 56.

In a unanimous decision Thursday, the Federal Court of Appeal dismissed the Canadian Recording Industry Association's appeal of a March 2004 ruling that said ISPs like Shaw, Rogers and Bell did not have to reveal the names of 29 users accused of sharing thousands of music files.
In his 2004 ruling, Justice Konrad von Finckenstein had said that sharing music files does not breach Canada's copyright laws.

Senate's website ---> The May 17th hearing:
Panel 1
Mark L. Greenblatt [View PDF] , Counsel , U.S. Senate Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations
Steven A. Groves [View PDF] , Counsel , U.S. Senate Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations
Dan M. Berkovitz [View PDF] , Counsel to the Minority , U. S. Senate Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations

Panel 2
George Galloway , Member of Parliament for Bethnal Green and Bow , Great Britain

Panel 3
Thomas A. Schweich [View PDF] , Chief of Staff, U.S. Mission to the United Nations , U. S. Department of State
Robert W. Werner [View PDF] , Director, Office of Foreign Assets Control , U. S. Department of the Treasury
Peter Reddaway [View PDF] , Professor Emeritus of Political Science and International Affairs , George Washington University

...where is Galloway's PDF?
...where is the truth?
...where?

...Cowards and Murderers!!!

The government moves to give immunity to the World Bank will be a free license to commit mass destruction in the name of development. In 1972 and 1973 The IMF and ADB were given immunity and the World Bank was then given partially. Now the BNP-Jamat led coalition attempts to complete the process! Why does the government take such move? Why does the government want to hide the ugly face of World Bank?

Russia and Venezuela have today signed an agreement in Moscow for the sale of automatic weapons.

...and life expectancy at birth is 45 years, compared with 67 worldwide.

American officials and lawmakers seem to believe that they have the right and the obligation to instruct the leaders of China and Russia ? and of other alleged backward areas of the world that are not (yet) under direct US control ? in Democracy 101, Introduction to Human Rights, and other related topics that are included in the Freedom's Guide to the Universe.

If Democrats had half the spine that Galloway does? if you would stop chasing your creepy little careers through the caviar and chicken-salad circuits of duck-and-cover American political double-speak, then not only would people like me not be calling for all to abandon the Democratic Party and take their fight to the streets like good Bolivians? not only that, but you?d have won the last election.

You don?t deserve anyone?s support, not even as a tactical matter any longer, because you end up doing ritual verbal combat then giving the "cornpone Nazis" of the Republcan Party any goddamn thing they want. That?s why Galloway rhetorically spanking that soap-opera-looking shitbird was the most satisfying thing many of us have seen in months.

The International Committee of the Red Cross documented what it called credible information about U.S. personnel disrespecting or mishandling Korans at the Guantanamo Bay detention facility and pointed it out to the Pentagon in confidential reports during 2002 and early 2003, an ICRC spokesman said.

For the war effort in Iraq, the Bush administration has hired at least one company tied to the network of Victor Bout, one of the world's most notorious arms traffickers.

WHAT HAPPENED TO $1 TRILLION?

One-third of the faculty members have signed a letter of protest that will appear in a half-page ad in the Grand Rapids Press on Saturday, the day Bush is to deliver the commencement address to 900 graduating seniors at Calvin.

More than 800 students, faculty and alumni also have signed a letter protesting Bush's visit that will appear Friday as a full-page ad in the Grand Rapids paper.

And about 100 students are expected to adorn their graduation gowns with armbands and buttons bearing the slogan: "God is not a Republican or Democrat."

As with the siege of Fallujah six months back, U.S. claims over the siege of the Iraqi town Al Qa'im are being challenged now by independent sources.

Galloway is not a standard-issue American politician -- the kind who has nothing to say and says it poorly. He is a veteran of the rough-and-tumble politics of Glasgow and the equally rough-and-tumble politics of the British Parliament. In other words, Galloway comes from places where voters and politicians do not suffer fools. And anyone who has ever followed British politics knows that George Galloway has beaten every political challenge he has faced -- even those posed by British Prime Minister Tony Blair.

"Now, Senator, I gave my heart and soul to oppose the policy that you promoted. I gave my political life's blood to try to stop the mass killing of Iraqis by the sanctions on Iraq which killed one million Iraqis, most of them children, most of them died before they even knew that they were Iraqis, but they died for no other reason other than that they were Iraqis with the misfortune to born at that time. I gave my heart and soul to stop you committing the disaster that you did commit in invading Iraq. And I told the world that your case for the war was a pack of lies," Galloway informed the fool on Capitol Hill.

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"It's appalling that this story got out there," Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice said on her way back from Iraq.

What's not appalling to Condi is that the US is holding prisoners at Guantanamo under conditions termed "torture" by the Red Cross. What's not appalling to Condi is that prisoners of the Afghan war are held in violation of international law after that conflict has supposedly ended. What is not appalling to Condi is that prisoner witnesses have reported several instances of the Koran's desecration.

What is appalling to her is that these things were reported. So to Condi goes to the Joseph Goebbels Ministry of Propaganda Iron Cross.