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Thursday, June 23, 2005 TRUTH REVEALED: The New York Times is a Master at DeceptionA brilliant article by Sanjoy Mahajan in ZNET analyzes with crystalline clarity and exposes the shameless cover-up tactics used by The New York Times when dealing with the Downing Street Memos (minutes) and briefings. In Mahajan's words: The NYT articles -- masterpieces of delay, indirection, distraction, fake rebuttals, and elegant omission -- keep readers ignorant of the lies and the lying liars who tell them. No wonder so many Americans still support this gangster war. In Mahajan's article he first compares headlines from the British media...

<p>People who want to keep assault weapons off the streets are divided over how best to extend the ban on those guns, which is set to expire two months before the 2004 elections.</p> <p>Sen. Dianne Feinstein, D-Calif., on Thursday intends to introduce an extension of the assault weapons ban that she helped enact in 1994. The Bush administration has announced its support for continuing the prohibition on military-style assault weapons.</p>

Package of Bones Sent To Florida Congresswoman Posted: 9:50 a.m. EST March 29, 2003 Updated: 4:40 a.m. EST March 31, 2003 BROOKSVILLE, Fla. -- A Florida congresswoman who proposed exhuming the remains of American veterans buried in France and Belgium and shipping them home has received a package of bones in the mail. Rep. Ginny Brown-Waite, R-Fla., was not in the office Friday when her staff noticed a peculiar odor coming from a bulging, 8 1/2-by-11-inch envelope postmarked from Germany. "The contents appeared to be bones of some type, which would explain the odor," said Lt. Joe Paez, spokesman for...

[b]N.Y. Councilmen say even water guns should be banned[/b] January 5, 2003, 5:31 PM EST NEW YORK (AP) _ Two city councilmen said Sunday that last week's fatal police shooting of a teenager who was holding a pellet gun highlights the importance of their proposed bill to ban the sale and possession of toy guns. Current city law permits the sale of only brightly colored toy guns constructed of transparent material. At a City Hall news conference, Councilman David Weprin, a Queens Democrat, brandished his daughter's water pistol, which he had painted black, to demonstrate that even obviously fake guns...

<p>PARIS (AP) - The French division of McDonald's has run ads that included a surprising suggestion: Kids shouldn't eat at McDonald's more than once a week.</p> <p>The ads, quoting information from specialists, aim to show that "McDonald's meals are part of a balanced weekly diet," said Euro RSCG, the agency that came up with the ads, which appeared this spring, mostly in French women's magazines.</p>

<p>A court in Yakima, Washington is taking Lady Justice digital by allowing drivers to e-mail their excuses or explanations instead of appearing in court.</p> <p>Other courts allow attorneys to file briefs online. And many counties let offenders pay traffic fines on the Web. But Yakima County is believed to be the first court in the country to let defendants plead their cases via e-mail.</p>

Colorado Libertarians amused and irritated at secret ‘spy file’ kept by Denver policeColorado LP leaders say they are more amused than angry that a newly released Denver Police Department "spy file" describes the Libertarian Party as a "militia" type organization. "A political party as a militia group? How ridiculous!" said John Berntson, State Chair of the Colorado LP. "Is this the quality of the law enforcement in Denver? Is Barney Fife running the shop?" According to news reports, the Denver Police Department maintained files on approximately 3,200 Colorado citizens and 208 organizations from across the political spectrum. The files, which...

A scandal-plagued Tokyo doctor faces charges after his 17-year-old daughter died on the operating table while he was performing a late-term abortion on her, police said Saturday. Prosecutors accusing the 57-year-old doctor of negligence resulting in the death of a fetus have been sent to the Tokyo District Public Prosecutors Office. Further charges may arise in the case, according to the police. Police said that the doctor took his daughter to a gynecologist's clinic in Fukushima Prefecture during May last year. His daughter was then six months pregnant. While performing the abortion, the fetus' head destroyed the lining of the...

<p>WASHINGTON (CNN) -- Ramzi Binalshibh, one of the al Qaeda operatives most wanted by the U.S. government, has been captured and is in the hands of Pakistani authorities, U.S. government officials told CNN Friday.</p> <p>Binalshibh is believed to have played a direct role in planning the September 11 terrorist hijackings. In an audio message played Thursday on the Arabic news network Al-Jazeera, Binalshibh said he had hoped to be one of the hijackers but could not obtain an entry visa into the United States.</p>

Schroeder, challenger seek advantage in Germany's first U.S.-style TV debate Sun Aug 25, 3:07 PM ET By TONY CZUCZKA, Associated Press Writer BERLIN - Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder and his conservative challenger faced off Sunday in an unprecedented TV debate four weeks before national elections, both gambling that they can sway the many wavering voters in the closely fought race to lead Germany. Schroeder launched confidently into the 75-minute duel with Bavarian governor Edmund Stoiber, his standing bolstered by taking charge of relief efforts after major flooding that has dominated German headlines for the past two weeks. "When I look at...

Hello, I'm completely insane! Want proof? Just check out my website!!! Enjoy! Randy Crow - Democrat for President 2004

JAPANESE soldiers butchered Australian soldiers for food on the Kokoda Track, veterans have claimed. Sixty years after they fought on the infamous track, Australian veterans say cannibalism was common among enemy troops after their supply lines were cut. In a Sky TV documentary to be aired today, one digger describes finding the body of an Australian sergeant with his heart and liver missing, and strips of flesh cut from the arms, legs and buttocks. Disobeying orders not to engage the enemy, he says that the patrol pursued the Japanese and found four of them cooking the human flesh. The veterans...

August 14, 2002 Should Americans laugh or cry at Bush's 'fiscal restraint'? WASHINGTON, DC -- President Bush's much-publicized refusal to spend $5.1 billion approved by Congress is such a weak-kneed attempt at fiscal responsibility that Libertarians don't know whether to laugh or cry. The reason: That $5.1 billion amounts to just one-quarter of 1 percent of the federal budget. "Was President Bush joking when he claimed he was practicing 'fiscal restraint' by preventing one more drop of water from falling into the ocean of federal spending?" asked Steve Dasbach, Libertarian Party executive director. "If so, America should laugh right along...

Very interesting comparison of: California AB1607 January 1, 2000 www.leginfo.ca.gov/bilinfo.html AND Nazi Weapons Law March 11, 1938 www.jpfo.org/ California's 2000 "Assault Weapons" Ban Reflects Its Nazi Roots

<p>WASHINGTON (CNN) -- Vice President Dick Cheney will address representatives from six Iraqi opposition groups Saturday via a videoconference link a day after the group had what they said was "important and constructive" talks with U.S. State Department and Pentagon officials.</p>

<p>LONDON, England -- A British teenager has been jailed for 12 years for murdering his elderly neighbour and drinking her blood in a vampire ritual.</p> <p>Vampire-mad art student Mathew Hardman, 17, cut out Mabel Leyshon's heart after stabbing her 22 times at her home in Llanfairpwll, North Wales, last November.</p>

The former United Nations chief arms inspector in Iraq, has for the first time publicly accused the US and other countries of manipulating the missions for their own political ends. Swedish diplomat Rolf Ekeus, speaking on Swedish Radio, said the US had sought information about how the Iraqi security services were organised. They were also trying to dig up intelligence on the whereabouts of the Iraqi leader, Saddam Hussein, Mr Ekeus said. Arms inspectors left Iraq in 1998 Allegations of manipulation have been made in the past, notably by the Baghdad government itself. Mr Ekeus ran Unscom - the UN...

<p>A Baltimore County Circuit Court judge has agreed with state Attorney General J. Joseph Curran Jr. that a civic leader who was a Maryland "citizen of the year" should not be allowed to have a gun.</p> <p>Judge John F. Fader II's ruling reverses the decision of the state's Handgun Permit Review Board and reignites anger among lawmakers and gun-rights activists over a state police initiative that is confiscating guns and denying permits to Marylanders for minor and old convictions.</p>

BEIJING (AP) - Internet portals ( news - web sites) in China, including Yahoo!'s Chinese-language site, have signed a voluntary pledge to purge the Web of content that China's communist government deems subversive, organizers of the drive say. The "Public Pledge on Self-discipline for China Internet Industry" has attracted more than 300 signatories since its launch March 16, said a spokeswoman for the Internet Society of China, who identified herself only as Miss Sun. The pledge's main aims appear fairly benign: promotion of Internet use, prevention of cyber crime, (department of precrime?) fostering healthy industry competition, avoiding intellectual property violations....

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