http://www.rainews24.rai.it/ran24/inchiesta/video/fallujah_ING.wmv
US forces 'used chemical weapons' during assault on city of Fallujah - "Powerful new evidence emerged yesterday that the United States dropped massive quantities of white phosphorus on the Iraqi city of Fallujah during the attack on the city in November 2004, killing insurgents and civilians with the appalling burns that are the signature of this weapon. ... "Phosphorus burns bodies, in fact it melts the flesh all the way down to the bone ... I saw the burned bodies of women and children. Phosphorus explodes and forms a cloud. Anyone within a radius of 150 metres is done for." ... The documentary, entitled Fallujah: the Hidden Massacre, also provides what it claims is clinching evidence that incendiary bombs known as Mark 77, a new, improved form of napalm, was used in the attack on Fallujah, in breach of the UN Convention on Certain Conventional Weapons of 1980, which only allows its use against military targets." -- See video above.
http://news.independent.co.uk/world/middle_east/article325560.ece
Insiders say Rove may leave White House - "Karl Rove's colleagues are preparing for the possibility that he may leave the White House because of the CIA leak case."
http://www.upi.com/NewsTrack/view.php?StoryID=20051106-102707-6462r
Bush declares: 'We do not torture' - "Bush supported an effort spearheaded by Vice President Dick Cheney to block or modify a proposed Senate-passed ban on torture." -- Actions speak much louder than words.
http://www.islandpacket.com/24hour/front/story/2876704p-11538930c.html
$5,000 for loss of wife and son: how US prices death - "HAMEED Hassan sat in the remains of his car, next to his dead wife, and watched his four-year-old son begin to bleed to death. The family had been on the way to buy clothes in Rawah's small market when the American soldiers opened fire. A helicopter gunship joined in the attack, cutting the car and two of its occupants to pieces. ... The soldiers drove off, leaving the family in the street. The US military has not apologised for the incident. But it has agreed to pay compensation for the killings, an acceptance that innocent lives were lost. Under the US "consequence management" system, there is a maximum payout of $2,500 per claim. A dead wife and a dead son are equivalent to two claims; meaning Hassan is in line to receive a total of $5,000 in cash."
http://thescotsman.scotsman.com/index.cfm?id=2208712005
So Iraq Was About the Oil - "While bemoaning the administration’s incompetence in implementing the war strategy, Wilkerson said the U.S. government now had no choice but to succeed in Iraq or face the necessity of conquering the Middle East within the next 10 years to ensure access to the region’s oil supplies."
http://www.consortiumnews.com/2005/110705.html
Evolution in the bible, says Vatican - "The Vatican has issued a stout defence of Charles Darwin, voicing strong criticism of Christian fundamentalists who reject his theory of evolution and interpret the biblical account of creation literally. Cardinal Paul Poupard, head of the Pontifical Council for Culture, said the Genesis description of how God created the universe and Darwin's theory of evolution were "perfectly compatible" if the Bible were read correctly. His statement was a clear attack on creationist campaigners in the US, who see evolution and the Genesis account as mutually exclusive."
http://www.news.com.au/story/0,10117,17162341-13762,00.html
Budget for U.S. spying slips out — $44 billion - "In an apparent slip, a top U.S. intelligence official has revealed at a public conference what has long been secret: the amount of money the nation spends on its spy agencies. At an intelligence conference in San Antonio last week, Mary Margaret Graham, a 27-year veteran of the CIA and now the deputy director of national intelligence for collection, said the annual intelligence budget was $44 billion."
http://deseretnews.com/dn/view/0,1249,635159613,00.html
Pataki wants DNA samples taken even for misdemeanors - "In a state where 15,000 DNA profiles have been extracted from unsolved crimes and where cold cases are reopened daily on the basis of DNA evidence, proponents say a database including all offenders will give police the tool they need to track down thousands of attackers, rapists and murderers."
http://poughkeepsiejournal.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20051107/NEWS05/511070323
Bush’s legacy will haunt U.S. for years to come - "Unfortunately, it appears that the worst president in our history has again proposed an incarnation of Caligula’s horse for the Supreme Court, and the fears you’ve expressed will be fully actualized when the Senate’s shamefully obedient Republican bloc rubber-stamps this right-wing extremist for Justice Sandra Day O’Connor’s seat, despite the clear threat he presents to the core American value of honoring citizens’ individual freedoms before governmental caprice."
http://showmenews.com/2005/Nov/20051107Comm005.asp
A Nanotech Cure for Cancer? - "To anyone familiar with the long, often fruitless search for cancer's cure, or the unfulfilled promise of nanotechnology, this may seem far-fetched. But in recent years, scientists have learned more about how cancer works at the cellular level. They have also learned to build molecules that could detect and destroy cancer cells, making today's painful and often-ineffective treatments a thing of the past. Though the jump from lab to patient is long, scientists are confident that it can be made."
http://www.wired.com/news/medtech/0,1286,69206,00.html?tw=wn_tophead_1
Workers face paycheck pinch - "For all its strength, the current economic expansion is not boosting the American worker's paycheck. Wages have been rising nominally: Average pay rose 8 cents last month to $16.27 an hour, according to a government report Friday. That's not fast enough to counter inflation. By one common measure, average pay for an hour's work has less purchasing power than it had four years ago - when the current growth cycle began."
http://news.yahoo.com/s/csm/20051107/ts_csm/awages_1
Quote of the Day
"I guess that's the real point of war, isn't it? To create intolerable deprivations and induce deaths."
~ Walter Tevis, WARDAY by Whitley Streiber and James Kunetka
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