http://gaelicstarover.blogspot.com/2005/09/cindy-sheehan-arrested-in-washington.html
Societies worse off 'when they have God on their side' - "RELIGIOUS belief can cause damage to a society, contributing towards high murder rates, abortion, sexual promiscuity and suicide, according to research published today. ... The study counters the view of believers that religion is necessary to provide the moral and ethical foundations of a healthy society. ... “In general, higher rates of belief in and worship of a creator correlate with higher rates of homicide, juvenile and early adult mortality, STD infection rates, teen pregnancy and abortion in the prosperous democracies." ... “The widely held fear that a Godless citizenry must experience societal disaster is therefore refuted.”"
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,2-1798944,00.html
New Analyses Bolster Central Tenets of Evolution Theory - "If Darwin was right, for example, then scientists should be able to perform a neat trick. Using a mathematical formula that emerges from evolutionary theory, they should be able to predict the number of harmful mutations in chimpanzee DNA by knowing the number of mutations in a different species' DNA and the two animals' population sizes. "That's a very specific prediction," said Eric Lander, a geneticist at the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard in Cambridge, Mass., and a leader in the chimp project. Sure enough, when Lander and his colleagues tallied the harmful mutations in the chimp genome, the number fit perfectly into the range that evolutionary theory had predicted."
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/09/25/AR2005092501177_pf.html
'Intelligent design' trial begins today in Pennsylvania - "A court case brought by parents in Pennsylvania could have a profound impact on America's debate over religion and its role in public life."
http://www.smirkingchimp.com/print.php?sid=22909
If it's freedom and success 'they' hate, why aren't 'they' attacking Norway? - "Most Americans like to believe they live in the best country in the world. They don't. According to the United Nations Human Development Report for 2005, Norway is number one. Why? It's a welfare state. There is a pleasant economic equality enjoyed by the Norwegian polity. No one is too poor; no one is too rich. In fact, great wealth is regarded as some sort of social disease. Third oil exporter after Saudi Arabia and Russia, Norway is tucking away a national fund of over $180 billion for when the oil runs out, guaranteeing each family the quaint sum of $22,000 per year—in addition to guaranteed health care, education, pensions, and paid maternity leaves and vacations to die for! True, a glass of beer will cost you $8, but the waiter makes a good salary. Americans like to think that terrorists attack them because they are rich, free, and number one. Not true. They don't attack Norway—another benefit for keeping your neck out of the woods, minding your own business, taking care of your own people, and planning for tomorrow—not to mention preventing your government from being drowned in the bathtub by snake-oil salesmen posing as public servants, so it can't help when an iceberg hits a fjord, or equivalent natural disaster. Norwegians seem proud of having government on their backs! Not too heavy when they can request and obtain any government record they please for their review! They are also disgustingly healthy. Must be the lack of stress. Thirty million Americans are on anti-depressants. You wonder why. Lots of Americans like to think they have the most generous government in the world. Again, not true. The US is the stingiest donor of foreign aid among rich nations."
http://www.onlinejournal.com/Commentary/092105Bohne/092105bohne.html
Entire 101st Airborne Division Deploying to Iraq - "Around 20,000 soldiers got their final briefing Friday afternoon at Ft. Campbell. It's been two years since the division was last deployed to Iraq." -- Hmmm.
http://www.newschannel5.com/content/news/14622.asp
With Hand on Heart: Pelosi Admits Israel Comes First - "Despite the fact that AIPAC was recently busted for spying on the United States, Pelosi, along with many other top bureaucrats from Washington, gushed effusions of praise on the foreign power. "There are those who contend that the Israeli-Palestinian conflict is all about Israel's occupation of the West Bank and Gaza," Pelosi said as she rallied AIPAC loyalists. "This is absolute nonsense. In truth, the history of the conflict is not over occupation, and never has been: it is over the fundamental right of Israel to exist." Apparently Pelosi has never asked Palestinians what they think of Israel's brutality. Not that she hasn't witnessed the occupation firsthand; Pelosi is just not concerned in the least with the Palestinian resistance."
http://www.antiwar.com/orig/jfrank.php?articleid=6157
Hospital Halts Organ Program - "St. Vincent Medical Center, one of the largest organ transplantation centers in the state, has suspended its liver program after discovering that its doctors improperly arranged for a transplant to a Saudi national using an organ that should have gone to a much higher priority patient at another hospital, officials said. Hospital staff members then falsified documents several times to cover up the alleged maneuver, pretending that the transplant was for a patient who was near the top of the regional waiting list, hospital President and Chief Executive Gus Valdespino confirmed Monday."
http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/latimests/20050927/ts_latimes/hospitalhaltsorganprogram
Kissinger's 1974 Plan for Food Control Genocide - "On Dec. 10, 1974, the U.S. National Security Council under Henry Kissinger completed a classified 200-page study, "National Security Study Memorandum 200: Implications of Worldwide Population Growth for U.S. Security and Overseas Interests." The study falsely claimed that population growth in the so-called Lesser Developed Countries (LDCs) was a grave threat to U.S. national security. Adopted as official policy in November 1975 by President Gerald Ford, NSSM 200 outlined a covert plan to reduce population growth in those countries through birth control, and also, implicitly, war and famine. Brent Scowcroft, who had by then replaced Kissinger as national security adviser (the same post Scowcroft was to hold in the Bush administration), was put in charge of implementing the plan. CIA Director George Bush was ordered to assist Scowcroft, as were the secretaries of state, treasury, defense, and agriculture."
http://www.schillerinstitute.org/food_for_peace/kiss_nssm_jb_1995.html
Torturous Silence on Torture - "Where do American religious leaders stand on torture? Their deafening silence evokes memories of the unconscionable behavior of German church leaders in the 1930s and early 1940s."
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article10410.htm
Louis Farrakhan: Divers Found Levee Explosives - "Nation of Islam chief Minister Louis Farrakhan has expanded on his theory that New Orleans' levees were blown up during Hurricane Katrina, announcing Friday that divers working on the levee break have found evidence of explosives. ... Farrakhan predicted that when New Orleans is rebuilt, it will be "a white city.""
http://www.newsmax.com/archives/ic/2005/9/26/121533.shtml
Osama Who? Media Begins the "Protect bin Laden Campaign!" - " Last night 60 Minutes (CBS) took part in a campaign to make the public think that catching Osama bin Laden is not important. You may see this message in many forms over the next few months. This, to me, indicates that Osama is indeed being protected by the US. We never intended on getting him. The media is now getting the public opinion in line. This speaks volumes."
http://tvnewslies.org/blog/?p=131
Saudi Prince Buys Large Share of Fox News - "Saudi Prince Al-Waleed bin Talal has purchased 5.46 percent of the Fox corporation, according to Gulf Daily News, raising concern that the conservative Fox News may soften its anti-terror stance due to the views of the new shareholder."
http://www.israelnationalnews.com/news.php3?id=90439
China Wants Only 'Healthy' News on Web - "Only "healthy and civilized news and information that is beneficial to the improvement of the quality of the nation, beneficial to its economic development and conducive to social progress" will be allowed, Xinhua said. "The sites are prohibited from spreading news and information that goes against state security and public interest," it added. While the communist government encourages Internet use for education and business, it also blocks material it deems subversive or pornographic. Online dissidents who post items critical of the government, or those expressing opinions in chatrooms, are regularly arrested and charged under vaguely worded state security laws."
http://apnews.myway.com/article/20050925/D8CRHGP83.html
Woman Ticketed for Sitting on a Playground Bench with No Kids - "It's an only in New York story. A woman was given a ticket for sitting on a park bench because she doesn't have children." -- This country really has lost its mind.
http://abclocal.go.com/wabc/story?section=local&id=3480711
Squid's in -- and now it's on film - "Until now, the only evidence of giant squids was extraordinarily rare -- from dead squids that washed up on remote shores or got snagged on a long-line fish hook or from ships' crews who spotted the deep-sea denizen as it made a sortie near the surface. But almost nothing was known about where and how Architeuthis lives, feeds and reproduces. And, given the problems of getting down to its home in the ocean depths, no-one had ever obtained pictures of a live one."
http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/afp/20050927/sc_afp/scienceanimalssquid_050927231557
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"Shut up Ann Coulter."
~Many, many people
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