July 5, 2005 In the News - Comments by Doug Bracewell

a candidate of biological sciences from the city of Lvov, Ukraine, says that the phenomenon is known as natural magnetism. According to her, humans and animals can possess extraordinary abilities to pull things.

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Pizza Shop Robber Leaves Job Application

“UNITED STATES”

Top 5 Jobs for the new Department of National Intelligence
5) Tell Americans where to find a service station selling gas for less than $2.25 a gallon
4) End the animosity between the CIA and the FBI by making them each other’s "Secret Santa!"
3) Help Americans figure out the last three seasons of "Alias"
2) Find out what the Hell is wrong with Tom Cruise
1) Give President Bush a clue

MSNBC Analyst Says Cooper Documents Reveal Karl Rove as Source in Plame Case

Bush Speech
President Bush addressed the nation last night saying it "was time to give Americans a clear strategy for our presence in Iraq." Um, shouldn't we have had that before we invaded?

I Wrote Bush's War Words -- in 1965

Not with pride, I recognized that I had proposed some of those very words myself. Drafting a speech on the Vietnam War for Defense Secretary Robert S. McNamara in July 1965, I had the same task as Bush's speechwriters in June 2005: how to rationalize and motivate continued public support for a hopelessly stalemated, unnecessary war our president had lied us into.

AUTHOR: Daniel Ellsberg: worked in the State and Defense departments under Presidents Kennedy, Johnson and Nixon. He released the Pentagon Papers to the press in 1971.

Deja vu in Iraq

At Fort Bragg, in front of soldiers and their generals, the president of the United States said, 'Terrorists can strike and can kill without warning before the forces of order can throw them back. And now he has struck again. At this very hour, a second wave of terrorists is striking the cities...' The president reasserted that each soldier represents America's will and commitment at a time that our nation's security and the freedom of an oppressed nation 'is facing a deadly challenge. Men who have never been elected to anything are threatening an elected government and the painfully achieved institutions of democracy.'

This was not this week. This was not President Bush at Fort Bragg. It was 37 years ago. This was President Johnson."

Bush Speech
Finally, President Bush insisted that our efforts in Iraq are “worth it”… especially since as long as we’re there, Republicans can always accuse their critics of jeopardizing the war effort.

Negroponte to Review Intelligence Changes

Director of National Intelligence John D. Negroponte will review changes made at the Army's National Ground Intelligence Center

Dean raps GOP 'culture of corruption,' but fellow Democrats won't join attack

House Democrats are victims of "a kind of mind-set that too often creeps in in Washington — to get along, go along," Bell said. "There's not a more adversarial act you can take in the House than an ethics complaint, and some people just don't have the stomach for it."

Liberals ready to abandon US right to abortion

Last fall, Democrats were fighting to protect the right to have an abortion. Democrats now seem happy to amend - even relinquish - their position on it.

Patriotism vs. the USA Patriot Act
The true test of American patriotism moves to Congress, where both the House and Senate Judiciary Committees will prepare to debate the fate of the USA Patriot Act. But the opportunity for a robust debate has been marred by a pre-emptive effort in the Senate, where the Select Intelligence Committee decided to hold its vote and debate on expanding the Patriot Act in secret -Dorothy M. Ehrlich/San Francisco Chronicle

Border Watchers Gear Up for Expanded Patrol

A grass-roots group has big new plans: covering all 2,000 miles between the U.S. and Mexico.

Kansas High Court May Keep Schools Closed

The Kansas Supreme Court said Saturday it will consider keeping schools closed because state legislators have failed to comply with the court's demand that they spend more money on public schools.

California's Prisons in Crisis

Thursday, a federal judge expressed shock at what he called the neglect and "depravity" in parts of the prison health care system, and ordered that a receiver take control. Court-ordered improvements could send costs soaring in a program that already spends $1.1 billion a year. the system holds twice the number of inmates it was designed for and is still adding more. Hickman said taxpayers will also have to pay many millions of dollars to upgrade older prisons and to comply with court orders demanding the correction of conditions so abysmal that they violate inmates' constitutional rights. With some of the highest costs per inmate, the most violence, the highest rate of parolees going back to prison and the worst crowding, California's corrections system is unlike any other system in the United States.

US Terror Co-Dependency from Klaus Barbie to Posada Carriles

Drug money laundered and funneled to US politicians with knowledge of US intel

WAYNE MADSEN

Doug Feith linked to nuke-smuggling network

WAYNE MADSEN

“ISRAEL”

Israel Creates Military Space Command and to Massively Boost Satellite Capabilities

Israel has revealed plans to expand its recently created military space command and massively boost its reconnaissance satellite capabilities against distant enemy countries.

New satellites can observe a wider range and can produce up-to-the-minute images taken at night, through fog or through a sandstorm. "The space system is turning into a central part of the Air Force infrastructure," an Israeli security source told the paper. Israel energetically cultivating its space tech ties to the EU, signing on to the EU's GPS program (China also a partner). The Israeli Air Force established a space branch in 2003,

In the past, Israel's military top brass have often been frustrated by the reluctance of U.S. administrations and Pentagon officials to share with them what the Israelis regard as crucial U.S. satellite surveillance intelligence on Arab countries in real time. Under Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld, have given Israeli officers unprecedented access over the past four and a half years. But there are many signs that this honeymoon may be ending: the departure of Paul Wolfowitz and Douglas Feith; fury over Israeli sales to China; FBI probes of AIPAC’s Rosen and Weissman (& Larry Franklin).

US House Approves $2.28 Billion Military Aid, $240 Million Civilian Aid for Israel

EVEN AS … Kansas High Court May Keep Schools Closed California's Prisons in Crisis

WHO DO HOUSE MEMBERS SERVE ?

US Evangelicals, Protestants Clash On Israel

United Church of Christ will debate divestment at its July 1-5 synod.

Israeli Government Is in the Grip of Pre-Election Fever
The deep seams in Ariel Sharon’s coalition government cracked further at the cabinet meeting Sunday, July 3, as ministers and factions began striking pre-election campaign poses against their rivals. The general view is that an early election will be held in the first half of 2006.-Debka.com

Congratulations, Shabak! BARRY CHAMISH
Your agent’s performance at the hotel where expulsion resisters were staying was superb. By writing “Mohammed Is A Pig” so all the Arabs could see, you managed to get a race riot broadcast around the world. You then raid the hotel and turn Gush Katif into a closed military zone day before school lets out.

To actually give a voice to Yitzhak Fantik, the former head of the murderous Jewish Department of the Shabak in Makor Rishon. Sure, he came off as a mad dog, bragging about all the squealers and snitches he had planted throughout the religious communities of the country. You even tell all the people Fantick imprisoned and ruined where to find him, at Tzakho's restaurant in Machane Yehuda, Jerusalem every Friday afternoon - a gutsy stroke! In just three days of staged violence, you turned the Israeli public around, from a majority rejecting the pullout, after a few days, now 62% want it.

The killing of OFRA Haza is a subject Israelis do understand, with medical records proving that Ofra did not die of AIDS but was poisoned by her husband, appearing on TV. Her investment in a film exposing the kidnappings of 100,000 Yemenite children by the ruling establishment of Israel in the 1950s sealed her fate. Another filmmaker, Tzipi Talmor made a film about the missing toddlers a decade ago - she and her sister both died of the same cancer two years later. This is precisely as I had written in my new book Shabtai Tzvi, Labor Zionism And The Holocaust. A lot of powerful people in the Labor movement want the issue of the Yemenite children snuffed out forever... Shimon Peres and our State Comptroller Porat (who quashed all legal objections). <SEE COMMENT BELOW>

Your AMERICAN army base is nearing completion in Israel. Reportedly, it has holding facilities for as many as 18,000 protesters, but after visiting it yesterday, I'd say way more. This base is massive. I counted ten enormous US Army issue prefab warehouses and more were going up. My friend at the wheel was even more depressed than me. "It's a concentration camp," he said. <BARRY PROVIDES DIRECTIONS ON LOCATION> The base is located ten minutes from Ben Gurion Airport, and the Americans have the spacious old terminal.

100,000 Radiations - Article AN ACCOUNT OF THE NEAR-LETHAL “MEDICAL” IRRADIATION OF 100,000 CHILDREN …

RESPECT ALL ‘TELLERS OF TRUTH’ - CHAMISH IS ISRAELI NATIONALIST

“MIDDLE EAST”

Iran President
Isn't it weird that 5 former U.S. hostages recognize the new president of Iran as being one of their captors 25 years ago, but there still isn't anybody who remembers seeing President Bush showing up for his National Guard duty?

Revealed: grim world of new Iraqi torture camps Guardian UK

Secret torture chambers, the brutal interrogation of prisoners, murders by paramilitaries with links to powerful ministries... Peter Beaumont in Baghdad uncovers a grim trail of abuse carried out by forces loyal to the new Iraqi government .

UK aid funds Iraqi torture units

The UK has sent £47 million to the Iraqi security services but has remained silent on the country's widening human rights crisis. Steve Crawshaw of Human Rights Watch,said: 'There has been the attempt to suggest that because Saddam's regime is over now everything is rosy in Iraq. What is happening in official places in Iraq is simply horrific and must be stopped.'

Britain 'concerned' at Iraqi police abuse reports

The British Government has said it is "deeply concerned" by reports of abuse of detainees being held in Iraqi police cells. The reports of abuse covered burning, strangulation, sexual abuse, hanging by the arms, the breaking of limbs and - in one case - the use of an electric drill for a knee-capping.

Iraqi government acknowledges torture of detainees

Spokesman attributes incidents of abuse in part to the brutalization of society under ousted regime of Saddam Hussein

Water Plant Fire Deepens Misery in Baghdad

A mortar attack sparked a fire Friday that forced authorities to shut down a water plant, leaving millions of weary Baghdad residents with dry taps in 100-degree heat, Iraqi officials said. U.S. military press office initially quoted Iraqi engineers as saying the fire was triggered by a defective transformer. Later a U.S. spokesman for Task Force Baghdad, said that ‘unexploded ordnance’ was found in the area but "we're still not sure" what triggered the fire. Iraqi municipal official said at least two mortar rounds struck the power station.

RECALL: 'P2OG' allows Pentagon to fight dirty NOV/02 P2OG would launch secret operations aimed at "stimulating reactions" among terrorists and states possessing weapons of mass destruction, meaning it would prod terrorist cells into action

RECALL: Did the US Military participate in starting the Oil Well Fires of Kuwait in 1991?

“There was concern that America, the American public, might see this conflict as an unnecessary thing, and we were asked to do this… or we were ordered to do this in order to remove any… to sway any public opinion… American public opinion to remove any doubts whatsoever that Saddam Hussein and his regime were a terrible evil that had to be dealt with.”

RECALL: Few Iraqi oil wells set afire by retreating troops

the actual number was likely less than 10 wells.

Baghdad Residents Face Blistering Summer With Less Electricity Than Last Year

Iraqi Hospitals Attacked and Damaged By U.S. Forces

Doctors for Iraq Society - Eyewitness and medical personnel in the area have described how US soldiers prevented food and medication reaching Hadeetha and Al Qiem and targeted the cities two main hospitals, medical staff, and ambulances."

SOURCE DUBIOUS – CONSISTENT WITH OTHER CONFIRMED REPORTS

Swiss ask US about death of citizen in Iraq

Switzerland has asked the United States for information on the death of a Swiss man in Baghdad, who was shot after his car was stopped by US soldiers.

Iraqi government worried about civilian killings by US fire

Journalist Federation Wants Probe Over Three More Media Killings Involving US Troops

The first reporter was shot in Baghdad last Friday, Sunday a news editor with the local Baghdad TV channel was shot, and on Tuesday US troops killed a programme director for al-Sharqiya television. The IFJ says this brings to 17 the number of journalists and media staff killed by US soldiers since the invasion of Iraq. Of the 85 media deaths in Iraq since the invasion, 65 are local Iraqi journalists and media staff.

RECALL: A CNN Executive Says G.I.s in Iraq Target Journalists FEB/05

RECALL: Irish TV Video – ‘You Will be Targetted” MARCH/03 TRANSCRIPT:

Tom McGurk:      "...Kate ...sorry Kate ..just to underline that. Sorry to interrupt you. Just to explain for our listeners. Uplinks is where you have your own satellite telephone method of distributing information."
Kate Adie:           " The telephones and the television signals."
Tom McGurk:       " And they would be fired on? "
Kate Adie:           " Yes. They would be 'targeted down,' said the officer."
Tom McGurk:        " Extraordinary ! "
Kate Adie:             He said: ' Who cares! ' he said.. [inaudible] .. ' Well... they know this ...they've been warned.'

Katie Adie: “The BBC's chief news correspondent, KATE ADIE, became one of the best-known faces on television for her reporting from the major wars of recent years. They include the Gulf War, the conflicts in the former Yugoslavia, Albania, Rwanda, China and Sierra Leone.”

Critics Call Radio Hosts' Trip Propaganda Mission

A contingent of conservatives talk radio hosts is headed to Iraq this month on a mission to report "the truth" about the war: American troops are winning, despite headlines to the contrary.

Bush urges Americans to support Iraq campaign

Some Shiites call for vigilantism to ferret out Sunni militants

The Shiite mourners were crying for blood, threatening to burn down a Sunni town where dozens of Shiite travelers had been slain. Their rage boiled over after a fresh spate of bombings killed nearly 40 people in Shiite neighborhoods in Baghdad.

Top Shiite Cleric's Aide Killed, and Shiite Office Attacked

Egypt’s envoy to Iraq kidnapped in Baghdad

Egypt’s envoy to Iraq has been kidnapped in Baghdad, possibly in response to reports he was to become the first full-ranking Arab ambassador to the U.S.-backed Iraqi government, diplomats and police sources said on Sunday.

CUI BONO

US delight as Iraqi rebels turn their guns on al-Qa'eda

America talks: but are these the real rebel leaders?

Despite clandestine negotiations with Iraqi insurgent groups, US officials are still uncertain that they are speaking to the real leaders of the minority Sunni rebellion against democratic rule.

Time Near for Bush to Pay the Piper

According to leaked information from the report, the jihadists fighting the GIs are more dangerous than ever and are increasingly reinforcing themselves with high-tech equipment and men coming from both the Arab-Muslim world and from Europe.

Putin calls on France, Germany to aid US

to bring stability to Iraq, saying after meeting with French and German leaders that past disputes over the US-led war should not prevent future cooperation.

Brits and Americans divided over Iraq pullout as Afghanistan slides toward civil war

There is clearly a behind-the-scenes struggle going on between the Brits and Americans over a pullout from Iraq,

Iran’s proven oil deposits put at over 132 billion barrels

Exploratory operations have been performed on only some 30 percent of the oil deposits in Iran. “Iran’s proven oil deposits have officially been put at over 132 billion barrels, 102 billion barrels of crude oil plus 30 billion barrels of liquids

Russia Will Equip Iranian Subs with Missiles

It was expected that all the major components of the 1992 Russian subs that already exceeded their life expectancy will be replaced. Also, the new anti-ship missile complex Club-S with the target distance of 200 km will be installed on these subs.

RECALL THAT ISRAELIS PUT NUCLEAR TIPS ON AMERICAN-SUPPLIED CRUISE MISSILES INSIDE THEIR FREE GERMAN SUBMARINES

Israel Makes Nuclear Waves With Submarine Missile Test

World united against Iran: Bush

HONESTLY !

Blair makes sudden trip Saudi Arabia

The official gave no details of the planned talks. Officials at Blair's Downing Street office and British diplomats in Riyadh declined to comment.

“FOREIGN AFFAIRS”

Battle Re-Enacted
English and French tall ships staged a re-enactment of the Battle of Trafalgar last night to mark the 200th anniversary of the historic clash. What made the skirmish so historic was the fact that it was the last time the French put up a decent fight.

Bush says: I put US interests first

Bush sounds a warning on Monday to those hoping for a significant deal on Africa and climate change at Wednesday's G8 summit

G8 summit site locked down

With an eight-kilometre ring of steel, 10,000 police on standby, watchtowers and a no-fly zone, Gleneagles Hotel is locked down under a G8 security operation to protect the world's most powerful men.

RULERS PROTECTED BY ARMED GUARD

UK-US extradition treaty under attack

Since the UK-US Extradition Treaty of 2003 was signed, the US has demanded the extradition of over 40 British citizens without having to provide any evidence. Even if the US ratifies the treaty, Britain cannot seek the extradition of any US citizen without first proving a case in a US court

Kissinger 'Regrets' Abusing India and Indira Gandhi

"We really slobbered over the old witch," Nixon told Kissinger. Kissinger replied: "While she was a bitch, we got what we wanted too. She will not be able to go home and say that the United States didn't give her a warm reception and therefore in despair she's got to go to war. The Indians are bastards anyway. They are the most aggressive goddamn people around."

'Chicago Tribune' Says Egyptian Kidnapped by CIA Once Worked for the Agency

An Egyptian cleric allegedly kidnapped from Italy by the CIA once provided the CIA with valuable information about Islamic 'militants' in Albania, according to a published report.

”The Choice: Global Domination or Global Leadership”. Zbigniew Brzezinski FEB/05

Global disorder can be prevented if the US protects its global predominance, only if the country maintains close ties with the European democracies The US has lost its moral authority, antagonized Europeans, and isolated itself as a country that relies on military force with no moral authority. Brzezinski points to the rise of presidential power & abrogation of civil liberties as dangerous internal policies which have led to a dangerous imperial policy.

Russia to help China oust the US from Eurasia PRAVDA

The rapidly developing economy of China pushes the country to search for sources of raw materials and sales markets abroad. The USA is China's major obstacle and China has been consistently asking the USA to withdraw its presence from Eurasia.

It was China, which preserved Russia's integrity during the US triumph in 1991-1993. China and the USA will most likely commence negotiations about the division of the spheres of influence in the Far Eastern region. The conflict potential of relations between the USA and China has been growing nonstop since then, although it is a financial and economic struggle so far. China has been trying to restrain and oust the USA from Eurasia with a threat to destroy the US dollar as the global measure of value.

The three-polar world order with any type of centralization is harmonious and safe: a nation, which does not wage a war, wins. The world of the second half of the 20th century was exactly like that: the USA and the USSR were the active poles of the forces, whereas China was like an absorber between them.

According to the law of the struggle of the opposites, any bi-polar world order is dangerous. Those, who will not be making preparations for a war will inevitably lose. This is the description of the world in the beginning of the 21st century: the USA found itself in the bi-polar world, not in the unipolar world, as it may seem at first sight. China will become a visible center of force in 2007, when it declares its ambitions for influence to the USA.

THERE IS MUCH IN THIS ARTICLE I DO NOT UNDERSTAND - WORTH READING

Kazahkstan and China declare partnership

The two countries pledged to speed construction of an oil pipeline that will bring Kazakhstan's rich oil reserves to energy-hungry China.

Ukraine Cuts Off Electrical Supplies To Russia

The chairman of Ukraine's National Electricity Regulatory Commission, Valeriy Kalchenko, says the commission today decided to almost double the price at which Energoatom buys electricity for export to Russia.

Ukraine locks horns with Russia in escalating gas row

Ukraine warned that it would reduce Russian gas exports to Europe if Moscow makes good on a threat to cut gas deliveries to Kiev, raising tensions in an ongoing row between the two neighbors over the key commodity.

CLIENT-STATE PROVOCATION OF RUSSIA

19 ill after eating poisoned candy bars

massive product recall on Friday after receiving a letter claiming seven Snickers and Mars bars had been contaminated in the Sydney area, the agency said.

Australia recall for Mars and Snickers after terrorist threat

42 Million Signatures Against Japan's Bid For UN Seat Delivered to Annan

Afghan Rebel Site Bombed, U.S. Says

U.S. aircraft bombarded a suspected resistance compound in a mountainous area of northeastern Afghanistan where a military team has been missing since Tuesday, military officials said Saturday. A purported spokesman for the 'ousted' Islamic Taliban militia called news organizations and claimed that 25 civilians had died in the airstrike on the compound in Konar province, a rugged region near the Pakistani border.

US endures deadliest year in Afghanistan

Military figures say 54 killed in half of year

US regrets civilian deaths in Afghanistan airstrike

Drugs and violence in Mexico

Sandanistas block anti-aircraft missile plan, US irked

The Nicaraguan government pledge to scrap its stockpile of more than 1,000 Soviet-made surface-to-air missiles

Chavez Says Venezuela Is Virtually Free of Illiteracy After Government Campaign

President Hugo Chavez declared Venezuela virtually free of illiteracy Sunday after a two-year program to teach the country's poorest adults to read and write.

HE ALSO TAUGHT THEM ABOUT LAW, POLITICAL STRUCTURE AND CIVIL RIGHTS - A TRULY DANGEROUS “GOOD EXAMPLE”

US Envoy says Venezuela is weakening fight on terrorism

A decline in cooperation between Venezuelan and U.S. authorities has weakened efforts to fight terrorism and drug trafficking, the U.S. ambassador to the South American country said.

Who has what to hide about Luis Posada Carriles?

On May 21, Secretary Rice indicated Posada's case might go on for many months and his extradition would be determined on its completion A provision in the US-Venezuela extradition treaty says the custodial state can keep the alleged criminal until its own proceedings against him arising from crimes committed there are completed, this might mean years.

“MILITARY / INTELLIGENCE / SECURITY”

Italian neo-fascist group linked to Pentagon kidnap network and Israel

WAYNE MADSEN

Help From France Key In Covert Operations

The U.S. and France set up a top-secret anti-terrorism centre in Paris that does not gather information, but plans covert operations against terrorists, the Washington Post reported on Sunday, citing unnamed U.S. and foreign secret service specialists.

US Senate Votes To Revive Nuclear Weapon Program
The US Senate has moved to revive a controversial weapons research program aimed at enabling the US military to conduct precision nuclear strikes against hardened underground facilities, including those suspected of storing weapons of mass destruction.

‘PRIVATEERS’ APPROVED FOR NUKES - THE WORST OF ALL POSSIBLE WORLDS

US Withdrawals All Special Forces Units From Spain

The United States plans to cut by almost a third the number of military personnel currently deployed at the Rota naval base in Spain, withdrawing an entire special forces unit as well as an air reconnaissance squadron

US Lobby Pushes for F-16s to Egypt

The sources said Egypt was considering the procurement of up to 100 F-16s along with advanced weaponry and subsystems in a multi-stage project.

“ECONOMICS”

Presidential Hostage-Taker
Five of the former U.S. hostages in Iran say the newly elected president of that country was one of the students who held them captive from 1979 to 1981. The former hostages say they're not exactly surprised to see a former captor again; it's just that they assumed it would be at their local 7-11.

China Aims Spy Network at Trade Secrets in Europe
A network of Chinese industrial spies has been established across Europe as the Communist government's intelligence agencies shift their resources and attention from traditional Cold War espionage towards new forms of subterfuge aimed at achieving global commercial dominance. -UK Telegraph

China tells US Congress to butt out of CNOOC's takeover bid for Unocal

Oil 'will hit $100 by winter'

Surging 'demand' to keep prices high - Oil prices could rocket to $100 within six months, plunging the world into an unprecedented fuel crisis, controversial Texan oil analyst Matt Simmons has warned.

Turkey, Greece Launch Pipeline Project
The Turkish and Greek prime ministers met Sunday on a bridge over the river that divides their countries to launch a joint construction project to connect rich natural gas fields in the Caspian Sea area and Central Asia to energy-hungry markets in Europe.

Driven by energy shortages, China races to expand nuclear power industry

Egypt, Israel to sign major gas deal

Germany breaks EU deficit rule

The German government forecasted a public deficit of 3.7% of gross domestic product this year, 3.4% of GDP in 2006 and 3.1% of GDP in 2007. Under the terms of the EU's Stability and Growth Pact, eurozone countries are not allowed to run up deficits in excesss of 3.0% of GDP. "Germany's financial situation is dramatic," Eichel said.

Bond guru sees lower interest rates

U.S. inflation is becoming a subdued beast and interest rates will drop. That's the contrarian forecast of the chief investment officer of Newport Beach, Calif.-based Pacific Investment Management, the world's largest manager of bonds. Federal Reserve policy-makers raised short-term interest rates another quarter-point yesterday. But if Gross is right and inflation is declining to the 1 to 1.5 percent range, then the Fed will halt its rate increases this year.

“CANADA”

50 Terror Groups Believed to Be in Canada
Though many view Canada as an unassuming neutral nation that has skirted terrorist attacks, it has suffered its share of aggression, and intelligence officials believe at least 50 terror groups now have some presence here. They are from Sri Lanka, Kurdistan and points between and include supporters of some of the best-known Mideast groups, including al-Qaida, authorities say.

US-Canada Border Leaves Many Jittery
Nearly four years after the Sept. 11 terror attacks and after billions in security investment on both sides of this frontier stretching from Atlantic to Pacific, authorities and average folks are still jittery. Here's why.-Washington Post

WHO/WHAT IS PROMPTING THESE STORIES ?

Pilots complete historic transatlantic flight

“ELECTIONS”

PRI Wins Key Governor Race in Mexico
Mexico's former ruling party added momentum for the upcoming presidential race with a crushing victory in the country's biggest state, according to results early Monday.

Judges allege vote fraud in Egypt

Egypt new election law unconstitutional rules court

“DEMOCRACY / FREEDOM”

Forget cameras - spy device will cut drivers’ speed by satellite

The satellite-based system will monitor the speed limit and apply the brakes or cut out the accelerator if the driver tries to exceed it. A government-funded trial has concluded that the scheme promotes safer driving.

TIE IN WITH: PAY-BY-THE-MILE TAXES AND MOVEMENT-TRACKING

Rebels ready to face prison over ID cards UK

A recent ICM poll, commissioned by No2ID, found that 43 per cent believe they are a 'bad' or 'very bad' idea. Many of the tactics to be used by the campaigners have been borrowed from Australia, where in 1987 the government scrapped plans for ID cards after a network of 'refusenik' organisations obstructed the scheme.

Panic in No 10 as National ID card support collapses

Bush administration to keep control of internet's central computers
The Bush administration has decided to retain control over the principal computers which control internet traffic in a move likely to prompt global opposition, it was claimed yesterday. The US HAD pledged to turn control of the 13 computers known as root servers - which inform web browsers and email programs how to direct internet traffic - over to a private, international body -Guardian UK

RIAA wants to take away your right to record songs off the radio

“SOCIETY”

Live 8 Results II
Organizers say the Live 8 concerts and appeals have clearly changed attitudes in the world’s Western countries about the need to do everything possible to feed the hungry people of Africa. In other news, Takeru Kobayashi of Japan won his fifth consecutive Nathan’s hot-dog eating title yesterday by downing 49 frankfurters in 12 minutes!

As Japan's population ages, its universities face bankruptcy as enrollment plunges

Internet beats newspaper as popular news source in Japan

6000-year-old clay coupons discovered in southern Iran

archaeologists have unearthed 12 square-shaped coupons, indicating that the people of the region had economic and commercial ties with neighboring regions in the fourth and fifth millenniums BC.

has obtained an exclusive translation of one of the rarest Egyptian Mystery School texts ever discovered. IT reveals the true depth of the esoteric teachings of the Egyptian Mystery schools almost 5,000 years ago. To discover a fully intact document that deals with the Egyptian concept of the Alchemy of the Soul itself will further our understanding of Egyptian Esoteric Wisdom ten fold and ensure that the Egyptian mystery tradition, which provides the foundation of almost all Magickal and esoteric knowledge, is finally realised…. The Alchemy of the Soul

Reporter Who Broke 2004 Vote Theft Hushed by Media Mogul
Koehler’s controversy surrounds his April 14 column entitled “The silent scream of numbers: The 2004 election was stolen.” Koehler provided facts and details, posing serious questions about voter disfranchisement, electronic voter machine irregularity and ongoing disputes about exit polls not matching the election’s final results. His Chicago Tribune bosses wrote a rebuttal column criticizing his column even though it never appeared in their paper. Koehler said he learned a lesson about the media’s obsession with controlling free speech.

CNN ‘Most Trusted’ News

July 3, on CNN’s 5PM report, the first 9 minutes of their broadcast was dedicated to 2 missing person stories. There were live interviews with on the scene reporters located at both locations.

The Supremacy of the Super-Citizen
A corporation is a non-living entity, a group of people endeavoring to make money in a business enterprise or non-profit organization, right? Wrong. A corporation is indeed a non-living entity, a group of people looking to make money. But thanks to a Supreme Court decision, corporations are also actual living entities in every legal sense of the word, with all rights and privileges of citizenship - and several more besides - intact -William Rivers Pitt/Truthout

ONE OF THE PERVERSITIES OF ‘RULE-BY-LAW’

Selling God A Lucrative Business

Joel Osteen is pastor of Lakewood Church, the largest evangelical church in America with 30,000 weekly attendants. With a TV ministry, it's watched in at least 100 countries. Last year, Lakewood brought in $55 million. Osteen's book "Your Best Life Now" became an instant best seller. HIS NEW CHURCH WILL BE the old Compaq Center where the Houston Rockets played professional basketball and where Osteen hopes to soon save souls. It's a $90 million facility that will seat 16,000 people, double the current space. Osteen sees a day when up to 100,000 will stop in for weekly services.

GOD AS A CORPORATE PRODUCT

“HEALTH / SCIENCE / TECH”

Deep Impact Crash
The Deep Impact spacecraft smashed into a comet yesterday. The crash delighted NASA scientists, mostly because the spacecraft’s collision insurance doesn’t include a deductible.

Closer Look for Possible Ritalin, Cancer Link
Federal health officials are looking into a small Texas study that earlier this year linked Ritalin use to increased risks of cancer later in life.-Houston Chronicle

New FDA Warning About Antidepressants

The Food and Drug Administration issued a second public warning Friday that adults who use antidepressants should be closely monitored for warning signs of suicide, especially when they first start the pills or change a dose.-MSNBC

Birt's secret drug warning to Blair

Tony Blair was warned by his strategy adviser, Lord Birt, that cannabis was responsible for more mental health emergency hospital admissions than crack cocaine. IT has more than one million users and is responsible for 674 admissions to mental health wards in an average year. That compares with 137 admissions for crack, 518 for methadone and 146 for LSD, according to the former BBC director-general. Only heroin was higher with 3,480.

CONTRADICTS PERSONAL EXPERIENCE AND ALL READING I HAVE DONE

Deep Impact Web Site

Russia plans first men on Mars as early as 2015

How do solids melt?

have shown that melting begins at defects before spreading to the entire crystal

Inter-dimensional journey to the outer limits of science

THIS is an intelligent book about a very complicated subject. Randall, a leading American theoretical physicist, believes that the three dimensions of space we see around us are not the whole story. There are other, higher dimensions, which may explain why gravity is so much weaker than magnetism. She refers to these higher dimensions as "passages", and her explanation of them takes us through chapters such as 'Entryway Passages', 'Restricted Passages'

BOOK REVIEW: Warped Passages

Reading human mind using spatial techniques of parallel universe

According physicists dealing with parallel universe and spatial technologies instead of quantum mechanics and related fields, it is possible.

CAVEAT EMPTOR

“INFECTIOUS - DISEASES”

Health Experts at Bird Flu Summit Call for Urgent Measures

Health and animal experts Monday called for the mass vaccination of poultry in Asia to stop the spread of the virulent H5N1 bird flu virus, which has claimed dozens of human lives in the region.

Experts to plan bird flu strategy

Health, food and animal experts plan to hammer out a strategy this week to ensure that the bird flu virus does not spread from humans to humans -- a possibility that has raised fears of an influenza.

China not transparent enough on bird flu action says UN

“ENVIRONMENT / EARTH”

Niger drought: Nigeria warns it will turn back hungry refugees

Bill Would Reduce Government's Role in Protecting Species

Lava Dome Falls Into Mount St. Helens

A large part of the growing lava dome on Mount St. Helens fell, sending an ash plume above the crater rim, the U.S. Geological Survey reported. The volcano was relatively quiet for the rest of the day.

Japan says underwater volcano causing vapour column

An underwater volcano has erupted near a remote Pacific island off southern Japan, spewing a column of steam 1,000-metres (3,280-ft) into the sky

RECALL: Seafloor earthquakes signal Eruption off Vancouver Island MARCH/05

“WEATHER”

Bush dubs Kyoto treaty 'lousy deal' for US economy

France stops exporting electricity to Germany due to Heat Wave

Portuguese wildfire threatens endangered wolf refuge, 13 firemen injured

Alert issued against epidemics in India's flood-ravaged Gujarat state

Health officials Monday sounded an alert against possible epidemics in India's rain-lashed Gujarat state, where floods have affected some 25 million people, as relief teams rushed clean water, food and medicine to hardest-hit areas.

Torrential rainfall victimizes locals in Shaanxi

Torrential rainfall ravaging northwest China's Shaanxi province in the past two days has victimized 22,000 local people and flattened about 3,870 hectares of crops, according to the provincial flood control and prevention headquarters on Sunday.

Thousands evacuated in post-drought Australia rain

Hundreds of buildings flooded as torrential rains hit Istanbul

Rainstorms cause havoc in Bulgaria, leaving one dead

You see things and say ‘why’?

But I dream of things that never were and I say: ‘why not’?

George Bernard Shaw, Back to Methuselah, Part 1, Act 1

Part of the Ministry of Doug Bracewell

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