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Brit
millionaire marries a dolphin! -
In a highly unusual wedding, a 41-year-old British millionaire has
tied the knot publicly with her 35-year-old sweetheart, a dolphin from
the famous Eilat dolphin reef, a media report said. Sharon
Tendler, a British rock concert producer, met the dolphin, Cindy, 15
years ago and developed a liking resulting in two to three annual
visits every year to spend some time with her underwater love, daily
Yediot Ahronoth reported.
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Catholic
church and abuse victims' lawyers talk settlement - The
Boston Archdiocese cannot afford to pay as much on average for the
latest round of clergy sexual abuse claims as it did two years ago
when it settled more than 550 claims. The
archdiocese has offered to settle 100 claims for between $5,000 to
$200,000 per claim, depending on the severity of the abuse, for a
total of $7.5 million, or an average of $75,000 per claimant,
according to lawyers for both the plaintiffs and the archdiocese.
30th
DECEMBER 2005: -
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Ex-Ambassador
publishes documents -
A former British ambassador has published secret documents which he
claims prove the UK knowingly received intelligence extracted under
torture from prisoners of a brutal dictatorship. Craig
Murray, who was removed as ambassador to Uzbekistan after going public
over his concerns about torture in the central Asian state, published
the internal Foreign Office (FCO) memos on his Internet website.
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Fatty
foods raise type 2 diabetes risk -
Fatty diets have been widely recognized as a risk factor for type 2
diabetes. A new
U.S. study, published in the Dec. 29 issue of the journal Cell,
suggests that a high fat diet or Western diet may cause type 2
diabetes in humans by disrupting insulin production.
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Jet
pilot leaves drunken passenger on tiny island -
An inebriated passenger on a jet that took off from England has been
dumped on a tiny volcanic island in the Atlantic after he launched a
foul-mouthed tirade at the crew. The
unwilling Robinson Crusoe can only leave Porto Santo, a tiny patch of
land off the North African coast, if he books a 2.5-hour ferry trip to
Madeira. He will then have to book a flight to his original
destination, Tenerife, or return to England.
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Officials:
Post-9/11 CIA effort now a behemoth -
Most components, including divisive interrogations and secret prisons,
continue despite broad criticism - The
effort President Bush authorized shortly after Sept. 11, 2001, to
fight al-Qaida has grown into the largest CIA covert action program
since the height of the Cold War, expanding in size and ambition
despite a growing outcry at home and abroad over its clandestine
tactics, according to former and current intelligence officials and
congressional and administration sources.
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A
Summary of World War Events in 2005:
By Michael B. Haupt - While
there are many newsworthy events of 2005, reviewed below are only
those relevant to the Planned World War 3. At first reading, this is a
pretty depressing view of a world sliding down a slippery slope,
particularly if we extrapolate past events into the future. 2006 may
turn out to be an extremely depressing year.
29th
DECEMBER 2005: -
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Navigating
future for road charges -
Motorists are already beginning to embrace the idea of
satellite-navigation units in cars. And
in a few years, sat-nav will be doing far more than simply telling
drivers how to get to their destination. This week, the first test
satellite in Europe's 3.4bn-euro (£2.3bn; $4bn) Galileo
satellite-navigation system blasted off on a Soyuz rocket from
Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan. The final global network of 30
Galileo satellites is crucial to providing the high volumes of time-
and location-based data needed for new services such as advanced sat-nav,
mobile location data, natural disaster surveillance and air traffic
control.
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PERSPECTIVE:
German charged over
'Chile abuse' - A
German woman who worked as a doctor at a commune-like camp in Chile
has been charged with torturing children. A Chilean judge said Gisela
Seewald had confessed to giving electric shocks and sedatives to
children at the secretive German enclave of Colonia Dignidad. She said
the abuses were ordered by the enclave's founder, former Nazi soldier
Paul Schaefer, who is also in custody. Mr Schaefer is facing charges
of child abuse and aiding human rights abuses during Chile's military
dictatorship.
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Sir
Knight's New Book: Revelation
'WWW. is 666,' Ends Great Bible Mystery - W
in ancient Hebrew was used to write numerals. W’s could be written
to represent a 6, 16, 66, 616, or 666. This “Language of God” was
used to write the Ten Commandments and most of the Old Testament. W in
Modern Hebrew can still be used to write a three. John wrote the last
book of the Bible around 95 A.D. in Koin'e Greek, but specifically
named two “key” Hebrew words to demonstrate his knowledge of the
language, that wisdom unlocked this mystery.
(COMMENTARY:
If there is any truth behind the notion that 'www' is a
numerological code for '666', then I would suggest that this is
not necessarily due to the prophetic power of the Bible, but rather
that those who believe in the 'Fire and Brimstone' ending of
the good book as their destiny (a.k.a. the New World Order Beast
System). These guys are heavily into the
Occult and
love to flash their hidden codes, symbols and numbers into the faces
of what they see as the 'profane'. See our
'Occult' section
for more information on this.
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Illegal
CIA abductions, followed by flights to nations that torture, impair
our ability to defeat terrorism -
When 22 CIA operatives seized an Egyptian cleric in Milan, Italy, in
February 2003, according to Italian investigators, they left their
cell phones enabled. Because
mobile phones periodically send a signal revealing their phone number
and position, the Italian authorities were able to identify the
American agents and track their movements.
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Student
stands up to pledge -
A high school junior has sued the Palm Beach County School Board,
claiming he was ridiculed and punished for refusing to stand during
the Pledge of Allegiance. Cameron
Frazier, with the support of the American Civil Liberties Union, is
challenging the school district and Florida law that require students
to show written permission from their parents before declining to
recite the pledge. Teacher Cynthia Alexandre called the 17-year-old
student ''so ungrateful and so un-American'' after he twice refused to
stand for the pledge in her classroom Nov. 8, according to a federal
lawsuit filed Thursday.
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French
Engineer Abducted by Fake Iraqi Terrorists -
We are expected to believe the Iraqi resistance is not only vicious,
but also uninterested in repairing the damage inflicted on its country
by the neocon invasion. It
runs around abducting Christian peace activists, western journalists,
Sudanese and Moroccan embassy employees, and people from countries
that opposed Bush’s invasion.
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Vitamin
D may lessen cancer risk -
Research showing that a large daily dose of vitamin D can dramatically
lower the risk of developing common cancers was given a cautious
welcome. US
researchers found that the "natural" form of the vitamin,
known as D3, could dramatically reduce the chances of developing
breast, ovarian and colon cancer, as well as others, by up to 50%.
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WILL
N.M. BE FIRST STATE TO BAN ASPARTAME? -
One of the most rewarding things about being part of the ever-growing
health freedom movement, is that there is always an upside to what
often looks like a bleak and losing battle against the monolith we
call “modern medicine”. In
addition, some of the people you meet, even if only by phone or by
e-mail, turn out to be spectacular human beings that reaffirm your
faith in your fellow man. In short, ordinary people can do
extraordinary things when put to the test.

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DECEMBER 2005: -
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Chirac
offered to help US film-makers -
US magazine Newsweek has said that French President Jacques Chirac
offered to help the makers of 'The Da Vinci Code' to film in the
Louvre museum in Paris. Newsweek
has reported that Mr Chirac had an hour-long meeting with producer
Brian Grazer and director Ron Howard in December last year. The
magazine also claimed that the French President suggested the
filmmakers cast his daughter's best friend in the leading female role.
The role went to leading French actress Audrey Tautou instead.
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Australian
Government considers ID card - PHILIP
Ruddock is treating the controversial national identity card as the
"the next cab off the rank" for the Howard Government's
security agenda following the passage of its tough anti-terrorism
laws. The
Attorney-General will present the findings of a departmental review of
the new Australia Card proposal to cabinet early next year.
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Comedy
of terror: Tony
Blair, Dick Cheney and Donald Rumsfeld, you're my prize guys - Well
the end of the year is as good a time as any to distribute prizes. And
first is the Gary Glitter Cup for Self-Restraint, to Tony Blair. It
can't have been an easy couple of years for him, and yet he has
somehow managed to keep that smile on his lips and that cheerful
sparkle in his eye with a degree of self-restraint that impressed the
judges. Over the past two years, Tony has seen all his Iraq policies
turn into unmitigated disasters. Instead of his stated aim of bringing
peace and happiness to the people of Iraq, he has brought them chaos,
bloodshed, violence and misery. Instead of making Britain safer, his
policies have made this country a target for terrorism for the
foreseeable future.
(COMMENTARY:
Yeah, like Tony doesn't know that already!)
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Customers
help stamp out Turkey's sex slaves -
An unlikely hero has emerged in Turkey to rescue victims of forced
prostitution: the brothel customer. While
the country's security forces are hardly renowned for their attention
to human rights or sympathetic treatment of women, they have been
chalking up impressive successes in finding and freeing trafficked
women from brothels.
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Xtreme
Wheels Teams with Buffalo Police for Kids' ID Card Program -
A local business is teaming up with police to help keep kids safe. The
Xtreme Wheels indoor skate park was the backdrop Monday for Operation
Child Safe. The Buffalo Police program offers parents free photo ID
cards of their children. Deborah Gasper, the mother of a 7-year-old,
said, "They're taking his fingerprints and his photo so that
we'll have a little card, so if something, God forbid, were to happen,
we'd be able to find my son."
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Tories
ambush Blair on identity cards -
Tory and Liberal Democrat peers are preparing a New Year ambush for
Tony Blair's flagship identity card scheme that could seriously
undermine the legislation.
They are confident of watering down the Government's plans by making
it voluntary rather than effectively compulsory to register on a new
national database, which will include biometric data such as iris
scans, facial images and fingerprints.
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DECEMBER 2005: -
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DECEMBER 2005: -
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Food
Tax Sends Tenn. Shoppers Out of State -
When Julie Abel goes grocery shopping each week, she drives more than
25 miles to Georgia to avoid paying the nation's highest average tax
on food: 8.4 percent in Tennessee.
"If you can save $5 it is worth driving down the road," Abel
said after traveling from her rural home in Hamilton County, which
collects 2.22 percent sales tax on food on top of the 6 percent for
the state. Georgia does not tax food sales.
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California
City Swaps Gifts for Guns -
"Big Daddy" Willis came to Compton to turn an illegal
homemade pistol into Christmas dinner. Charlene
Watt planned to turn three shotguns into a plasma TV. The two were
among dozens of gun-toting residents who converged on a shopping
center parking lot Saturday to anonymously swap firearms for gift
certificates as part of a program aimed at reducing violence in this
crime-plagued city. Each was rewarded with a $100 gift card for
Circuit City or the Ralphs supermarket chain, the program's
co-sponsors.
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Man
shot by Taser, dies later: Victim was shouting in
intersection -
An unarmed man
who was zapped by police with a Taser died after his heart stopped on
the way to hospital. Witnesses say police Tasered the man at a
south-side intersection on Christmas Eve after he began shouting that
he was being attacked by bees. They say the well-dressed man in his
mid-30s was yelling for help and wandering through traffic trying to
flag down passing cars at the intersection at 75 Avenue and 113 Street
just after 3 p.m. Saturday. "He was walking up and down the
street yelling and screaming that the bees were trying to kill
him," said a nearby resident who gave his name as Gerry.
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Powell
Supports Government Eavesdropping -
Former Secretary of State Colin Powell on Sunday supported government
eavesdropping to prevent terrorism but said a major controversy over
presidential powers could have been avoided by obtaining court
warrants.
Powell said that when he was in the Cabinet, he was not told that
President Bush authorized a warrantless National Security Agency
surveillance operation after the Sept. 11, 2001 attacks. Appearing on
ABC's "This Week" Powell said he sees "absolutely
nothing wrong with the president authorizing these kinds of
actions" to protect the nation.
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U.S.
Airstrikes Take Toll on Civilians:
Eyewitnesses Cite Scores Killed in Marine Offensive in Western Iraq - U.S.
Marine airstrikes targeting insurgents sheltering in Iraqi residential
neighborhoods are killing civilians as well as guerrillas along the
Euphrates River in far western Iraq, according to Iraqi townspeople
and officials and the U.S. military.
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THIS
ISN'T RUSSIA!: Russian parliament moves to stifle
dissent - Russia's
lower house of parliament approved a controversial crackdown on the
activities of nongovernmental organizations Friday, brushing aside
widespread concern that the measure would stifle civil society in
Russia and mark another regressive milestone in the country's
post-Soviet evolution.
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New
spyware claim filed against Sony BMG -
The Texas attorney general has added a new claim to a lawsuit against
Sony BMG Music Entertainment accusing it of violating the state's laws
on deceptive trade practices by hiding "spyware" on its
compact discs. The
original lawsuit was filed by Attorney General Greg Abbott in November
against the company for violating state anti-spyware laws by embedding
software in its CDs and media player to monitor users' habits. The new
charges brought by Abbott contend MediaMax software used by Sony BMG
to thwart illegal copying of music on CDs violated state laws because
it was downloaded even if users rejected a license agreement.
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Two
got hepatitis from illicit body parts -
A New Jersey lawyer says two clients who got bone and tissue
transplants from alleged illicitly harvested cadavers both contracted
hepatitis. A
third man, who also had a transplant, has tested positive for
syphilis, said attorney Andrew D`Arcy, the New York Daily News
reported Saturday. Hundreds of people who received transplants via
Michael Mastromarino`s company, Biomedical Tissue Services Ltd. of
Fort Lee, N.J., are being tested after the News alleged the company
failed repeatedly to gain donor consent and forged papers detailing
the medical condition of the deceased.
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It's
The Sugarplum Time of Year:
Parents Alert: Aspartame - It's
the sugarplum time of year, with myriad Candies and Sweets in bright
enticing colors and flavors. Therein lies the hazard, for our Fatal
Drugs Allowed folks, our FDA, has blessed several poisons as sugar
substitutes for holiday confections. As the Big Bad Wolf would say,
"The better to murder you with, my Dear." Under labels as
Sugar Free, Low Cal, and Diet! thousands of tons of deadly aspartame/NutraSweet/Equal,
Neotame and Splenda will be substituted for sugar. All in the name of
good health, of course. These chemicals are a boon to candy &
confection makers.
25th
DECEMBER 2005: -
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DECEMBER 2005: -
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Never
mind the aching body: jogging
is good for the mind - After
years of arguments, worries about knee joints and sore nipples, the
debate has come full circle. Jogging, it appears, really is good for
you - at least for your mind. German researchers have discovered that
pounding the pavement can improve concentration and boost visual
memory. The researchers, who are based at the University of Ulm, sent
a group of 30 people jogging twice a week for 30 minutes and then
tested them for mental improvements. They found that while their
memory for numbers remained much the same, their ability to recall
images and complete visual tasks, such as map work, had dramatically
improved.
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Greece
plans biometric passport -
Greece will overhaul its passport system next year and issue travel
documents equipped to carry biometric data, the government said on
Wednesday. Public
order minister Giorgos Voulgarakis said all Greek passport holders -
as part of European Union-wide measures - would have to replace their
documents by the end of 2006 and obtain new passports with increased
security features.
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"WE
THE PEOPLE" ARE THE AMERICAN GOVERNMENT -
We, the citizens of the United States of America, ARE the American
government. This
Constitutional fact has been forcibly and underhandedly stolen from
the conscious understand of the citizenry. We do not understand our
Constitution. Most American people have never read the document. For
decades, the public school system has steadily removed the reading and
study of the Constitution, and we now have a citizenry that is
ignorant of their rights and responsibilities as American people.
Equally, American students have never been taught the true meaning and
history of Socialism, Marxism, Fascism, and Communism.
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Stem-cell
scientist resigns after school says research faked -
South Korean investigators said yesterday that the apparent landmark
stem-cell research by cloning expert Hwang Woo-suk had been faked,
turning the onetime national hero into a disgraced fabricator. A
nine-member committee from Dr. Hwang's Seoul National University said
his paper published this year in the journal Science contained false
information. "The data of the 2005 paper were not the result of
simple mistakes, but of an intentional fabrication," the
committee said in a statement issued after a weeklong probe.
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Britain
will be first country to monitor every car journey:
From 2006 Britain will be the first country where every journey by
every car will be monitored - Britain
is to become the first country in the world where the movements of all
vehicles on the roads are recorded. A new national surveillance system
will hold the records for at least two years. Using a network of
cameras that can automatically read every passing number plate, the
plan is to build a huge database of vehicle movements so that the
police and security services can analyse any journey a driver has made
over several years.
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DECEMBER 2005: -
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DECEMBER 2005: -
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Chiefs
back police superforce -
Three of the region's top police officers have backed plans to create
a superforce merging West Midlands, West Mercia, Staffordshire and
Warwickshire into a single crime-fighting organisation. Last
night, chief constables Paul Scott-Lee, John Giffard and John Burbeck
signed proposals that aim to unite them into one regionwide body with
14,000 officers and 7,000 staff. However, West Mercia has strongly
opposed the move and has come up with its own suggestions for
modernisation. Critics believe the new regional body would be too big
and no more efficient.
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Lone
protester hits out at CIA 'torture flights' -
CAMPAIGNER Robert Lawrence staged a one-man demonstration outside the
Scottish Parliament today against alleged "torture flights"
into Scottish airports by the United States. The
protest took place as MSPs inside were today expected to call for an
inquiry into the alleged landings at Edinburgh airport and others
across the country.
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Senate
reaches Patriot Act deal - The
US Senate has passed a six-month extension of the anti-terrorist law
known as the Patriot Act. The
deal is seen as a compromise as President George W Bush had pushed for
a permanent extension of the bill, some clauses of which expire on 31
December. But Democrats and some Republican senators said the law did
not provide enough civil liberty safeguards.
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Judge
Rules Caging Ohio Children Was Abuse —
A couple who adopted 11 children with a host of health and behavioral
problems abused some of the youngsters by making them sleep in wooden
cages without pillows or mattresses, a judge ruled Thursday. The
children will remain in foster care until Juvenile Judge Timothy
Cardwell holds a hearing on who should get custody. Their adoptive
parents, Michael and Sharen Gravelle, have not been charged with a
crime and denied abusing the youngsters. They said they built the
cages in 2003 to protect the children from each other and themselves.
21st
DECEMBER 2005: -
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Combining
food additives could harm nervous system, study:
The combination of common food additives could interfere with the
development of the nervous system, raising new concerns about the
health implications of children’s diets, according to a new report
published today - Researchers
at the Univerity of Liverpool studied the effects of food colouring
brilliant blue (E133) combined with monosodium glutamate (MSG; E621)
and colouring quinoline yellow (E951) combined with the sweetener
aspartame (E951). According to the report, published in the journal
Toxicological Sciences, when these additives were combined in levels
similar to those consumed in a typical children's snack and drink,
they stunted the growth of nerve cells in mice, interfering with
proper signalling functions.
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Sweden
to probe dark eugenics history -
Sweden launched a probe on Wednesday to understand how eugenics, a
theory on improving the human race used by Nazi Germany to justify the
Holocaust, became broadly accepted in the Nordic state in the early
20th century. Sweden
is now known for its strong social welfare system and outspoken
advocacy for human rights, but in the past it has experimented with
social engineering. This led to abuses such as the forcible
sterilization of around 60,000 women in 1936-76.
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Bush’s
Snoopgate - The
president was so desperate to kill The New York Times’ eavesdropping
story, he summoned the paper’s editor and publisher to the Oval
Office. But it
wasn’t just out of concern about national security. Bush says
he had ‘legal authority’ to permit the National Security Agency
listen in on American citizens without a warrant.
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Fluoride
being forced on us -
THE threatened, forcible fluoridation of Wodonga and Wangaratta water
supplies raises serious questions. My
discussions with angry people from Wodonga, Ballarat, Horsham,
Gippsland and Geelong all raise the same concerns. Will there be a
referendum first? The Government says no, because people reject
fluoridation once they learn more about it.
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Microwave
Weaponry and Covert Government Harassment Used on Many Average
Americans; Too Many
People Coming Forward To Be Dismissed As Paranoia - Susan
Elmes of Seattle is one such victim of most every type of illegal
government tactic used to silence critics, including gang stalking,
mind-control and sophisticated electronic weaponry.
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Saddam
Says He's Been Beaten in Detention -
Saddam Hussein launched into an extended outburst at his trial
Wednesday, alleging he had been beaten and tortured by his Americans
captors while in detention after a witness testified that his agents
had tortured people by ripping off their skin. Chief
prosecutor Jaafar al-Mousawi said he would investigate and that if
American-led multinational forces were abusing the former Iraqi
leader, he would be transferred to the custody of Iraqi troops.
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INDIANA
JUDGE: PRAY, BUT DO
NOT MENTION CHRIST - Regardless
of religious affiliation, or lack thereof, every single man, woman,
and child in the United States of America should be outraged at the
latest attack on the First Amendment right of free speech and freedom
of religion. U.S. Federal Judge David Hamilton, Southern District of
Indiana, ruled on Nov. 30 that the Indiana state legislature can have
a prayer to open each session, as long as there is no mention of Jesus
Christ. Hamilton was named to the court in 1994 by Pres. Bill Clinton.
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ALERT:
U.S. PROPOSES DOUSING WILDERNESS AREAS WITH PESTICIDES - The
Bureau of Land Management (BLM) has proposed to apply massive amounts
of pesticides to public lands in 17 Western states. The BLM claims
these pesticides need to be applied to forests, rangelands and aquatic
areas in order to reduce the risk of fire and slow the spread of
invasive weeds. Under the proposal 932,000 acres would undergo
chemical application in 17 western states, including National
Monuments and National Conservation areas.
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Welfare
queen: Queen
Elizabeth II received more than $1.7 million in farm subsidies from
the European Union over the past two year - Queen
Elizabeth II doesn't exactly fit the American Gothic image, and it's
difficult to picture her milking a cow, but it turns out that the
queen of England qualifies as a farmer. In today's world, that means
she receives farm subsidies from taxpayers, regardless of the fact
that she has a net worth that runs into the hundreds of millions of
dollars.
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Allegations
of fraud in Iraqi vote - Sunni
Arab leaders are angrily rejecting preliminary election results in
Iraq, saying the vote was fixed in favor of Iranian-backed religious
Shiites and calling for an investigation into possible fraud. Secular
politicians are also denouncing the results and demanding an inquiry.
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Steven
Spielberg’s 9/11 obsession:
The director’s films this year deal with Sept. 11 and its aftermath
- The pair of
films that Steven Spielberg released in 2005 couldn’t be more
different. First was the special effects-laden “War of the
Worlds,” the latest cinematic version of H.G. Wells’ 19th century
novel, that invaded multiplexes this past summer; the second,
“Munich,” is a rich, multi-layered political thriller that ranks
as one of his best. The latter film, which opens on Dec. 23, is a
dramatic meditation on Israel’s response to the 1972 Munich
Olympics, where 11 members of its national team were murdered by
Palestinian terrorists. Together both movies serve as bookends to the
same events: September 11, 2001 and the cultural shift that began on
the morning of Sept. 12 when we woke up to a world where the Twin
Towers and nearly 3,000 of our fellow Americans no longer existed.
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Brainwaves
to be used as identification -
Canadian researchers hope to soon be able to use brain waves to unlock
doors and get access to bank accounts. Some
companies are already offering iris recognition systems that many
countries want to put into biometric passports. But Julie Thorpe, a
researcher at Carleton University in Ottawa wants to take the idea
much further. She says it is possible to do away with key cards, pin
numbers and a litany of other security tools that allow people to
retrieve bank money, access computer data or enter restricted
building.
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Cheney
says 9/11 changed the rules -
Vice President Dick Cheney on Tuesday explained and defended the
administration's assertion of broad presidential powers, saying that
executive authority had become dangerously constrained before
President George W. Bush took office and had to be restored to fight
the threat from terrorism.
(RELATED: See our '9/11
Archive')
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The
Pentagon is Spying on You; Don't Worry It's for Your Own Good -
During his recent media blitz meant to convince us that government
spying on us is in our best interest, President Bush has made some
pretty outrageous claims. This
past week, Bush admitted to giving a 2002 order to the National
Security Agency (NSA), a super-secret, subsidiary of the Pentagon
believed to be even larger than the CIA, to spy on Americans by
wiretapping international phone calls and reading e-mails without
warrants. NSA isn’t saying how many people it is spying on, but
admits the number may be in the thousands.
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150
Pounds of Explosives Missing in N.M. -
About 150 pounds of commercial plastic explosives has disappeared from
a private storage site, along with 2,500 blasting caps and 20,000 feet
of explosive detonation cord, authorities said Monday. "In
the hands of the wrong person, this material can be very, very
destructive," Bernalillo County Sheriff Darren White said at a
news conference.
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Iran
declares ban on western music -
The Iranian president, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, has banned western music
from state radio and TV stations, it was announced today.
In a move reminiscent of the 1979 Islamic revolution, when popular
music was outlawed, Mr Ahmadinejad - the head of the Supreme Cultural
Revolutionary Council - ordered the implementation of a ruling
prohibiting all forms of western music.
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POLICE
BRUTALITY USED AGAINST WTO PROTESTORS IN HONG KONG -
The suppressed violence of the Hong Kong police broke through the
thinly veiled façade of "politeness" and "responsible
behavior" by a series of brutal actions beginning evening of
December 17 and continuing until early morning of December 18. Sources
suggest that over 600 protesters of the ongoing World Trade
Organization negotiations were arrested around 3 a.m. on Sunday, and
were stripped and beaten up in police lock-ups like in Kong Tong (East
Kowloon). It is obvious that the protesters were provoked by the use
of excessive and brutal force by the police, who are now
indiscriminately picking up protesters, even the injured, and jailing
them.
19th
DECEMBER 2005: -
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Video
'shows execution of US hostage' -
An Iraqi extremist group today posted a video on the internet which it
said showed the execution of the American hostage Ronald Allen Schulz.
The video, seen
by the Associated Press, showed an unidentified man being shot in the
back of the head.
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Australians
get Chinese inmate organs: UP
to seven Australians have received kidney transplants from death-row
prisoners executed in China - They
are among dozens of Australians who have travelled overseas to buy
organs in India and Asia, paying between $15,000 and $50,000 for the
transplants. But a number of those who have had the operations became
seriously ill on their return, suffering infections or other
complications after undergoing surgery in third-world hospitals.
Monash Medical Centre's Dr Ian Main said: "I am aware of one
patient who has a lethal virus as a consequence and I've seen two
patients who are very sick."
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London
- A Camera for every 16, One-fifth of the world -
There has been an unusual degree of acceptance of surveillances
installed for the public. In
London, where the population is 7.2 million, has got 450,000 CCTV
cameras fixed. As a result, the UK market for CCTV systems is expected
to increase progressively up to 2010. This includes both sales and
rental. Annual growth rates will, however, be constant at 3%.
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Maggots
found on hospital patient's face -
A hospital trust has been criticised after maggots were found crawling
on a patient's face in a hospital intensive care unit. Nyree
Ellison Anjos was horrified to discover the fly larvae near a feeding
tube attached to her mother's face while she was being treated at the
Gloucestershire Royal Hospital.
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President
Bush authorised secret monitoring after 9/11 -
President George Bush has admitted he authorised secret monitoring of
communications within the United States in the wake of the 2001 terror
attacks. He
said the monitoring was of "people with known links to al-Qaeda
and related terrorist organisations". The President said the
programme was reviewed every 45 days, and made clear he did not plan
to halt the eavesdropping.
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Imminent
attack might affect torture rules -
Sen. John McCain, who pushed the White House to support a ban on
torture, suggested Sunday that harsh treatment of a terrorism suspect
who knew of an imminent attack would not violate international
standards. The
Arizona Republican said legislation before Congress would establish in
U.S. law the international standard banning any treatment of prisoners
that "shocks the conscience." That would include, McCain
said, mock executions and the controversial technique known as
"water boarding," in which a subject is made to think he is
drowning.
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Britain
tortured suspects in a secret German jail:
Post World War II atrocities have now come to light - DESPITE
the six years of bitter World War II fighting that lay behind him,
James Morgan-Jones, a major in Britain's Royal Artillery, could not
have been more specific about the spectacle in front of him. "It
was one of the most disgusting sights of my life," he reported in
1947.
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Caught
On Tape, Suspect Shot With Taser Gun:
Man Charged With Aggravated Battery - A
dashboard camera captured a suspect being shot with a Taser gun by
Florida police. When Daytona Beach Shores police pulled the man over,
he took off, taking police on a chase across town. He eventually ran
over "stop sticks" and bailed out of his car. Officers then
chased him and shot him with the Taser gun. The suspect's family said
he was having mental problems.
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Police
use teargas on Nigerian mothers -
Nigerian police have used teargas and arrested women staging a
peaceful rally to protest against poor air safety after a plane crash
last week in which about 50 of the 106 killed were children. About
200 mothers wearing black gathered in an upmarket area of Lagos on
Friday to deliver a letter of protest to the government when riot
police surrounded them, witnesses said. Bola Belgore, one of 17 women
arrested, said: "We told them we were concerned mothers of
Nigeria and we insisted on walking to government house, but they
blocked the road and threw teargas in front of us and behind us.
Everyone scattered."
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Bush
'backed spying on Americans' -
President Bush allowed security agents to eavesdrop on people inside
the US without court approval after 9/11, the New York Times has
reported. Under
a 2002 presidential order, the National Security Agency has been
monitoring international communications of hundreds in the US, the
paper says. Before, the NSA had typically limited US surveillance to
foreign embassies.
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NEW
WEBSITE ANNOUNCEMENT: "Hi!
I'm Cindy Champion, a hard working mother of five in Jasper County,
GA. I've owned
my own media monitoring business for the past 18 years, so when my son
came through the door with a camera, I knew the capabilities of that
camera. And more importantly, I knew I needed to get answers! This is
what I do for a living: I record news for my clients but I never
wanted to BECOME the news. However, since my son trusted me and knew
in his mind that I could take care of the problem of a camera being in
his school bathroom, I realized that I owed it to him to do something
for all students at his school and schools around the country. So now
I must move forward to do whatever I can to make a change. This is not
my fight: IT'S OURS. Parents, teachers, concerned adults and students
across the country: join me in standing up for our children on this
issue. There is much we can do!!" - WWW.PACIR.ORG
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Pentagon
to spread pro-U.S. messages -
A $300 million Pentagon psychological warfare operation plans to place
pro-American messages in foreign media outlets without disclosing the
U.S. government as the source, the military official in charge of the
program says. Run
by psychological warfare experts at the U.S. Special Operations
Command, the worldwide media campaign is being designed to counter
terrorist ideology.
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QUESTION
OF SECURITY:
Biometric Readers Fooled With Fake Fingerprints - Researchers
at Clarkson University fooled biometric systems with fake fingerprints
made out of Play-Doh nine out of ten times, demonstrating a weakness
of some computer security systems.
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Government
puts brakes on speed cameras -
Speed cameras will no longer be funded by the fines they generate, an
arrangement which has been blamed for the proliferation of devices
across the country, the Government said today. Instead,
Britain's 6,000 cameras will be incorporated into a broader road
safety plan, according to the Transport Secretary, Alastair Darling,
who announced the change alongside a four-year study of the
effectiveness of speed cameras.
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Exercise
your brain and body to improve memory - Memory
exercises and stress reduction coupled with a healthy diet and regular
physical exercise improves memory in older adults, a study shows. This
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