Soldiers taunt crippled dog in Iraq - * May be disturbing to some* - "This is a video of several sick-in-the-head US soldiers throwing rocks and laughing at a poor dog with a very severe spinal deformity, who was obviously suffering even before they started abusing the poor, wretched animal." -- Fucking assholes.
Military judge: objector can't raise questions about war legality - "An Army officer cannot try to justify his refusal to report for duty in Iraq by questioning the legality of the war because that is a political issue, a military judge has ruled." -- So much for the Geneva conventions.
How US is deferring war costs - "But to pay for the ongoing wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, the US has used its credit card, counting on the Chinese and other foreign buyers of its debt to pay the bills. Now, as President Bush is promising to boost the number of troops in Iraq, there is increased scrutiny over how the US is going to pay for it all."
Bush Seizes Control Over State Militias - "To the dismay of the nation’s governors, the White House now will be empowered to go over a governor’s head and call up National Guard troops to aid a state in time of natural disasters or other public emergencies. Up to now, governors were the sole commanders in chief of citizen soldiers in local Guard units during emergencies within the state."
Congress to Send Critics to Jail - "In what sounds like a comedy sketch from Jon Stewart's Daily Show, but isn't, the U. S. Senate would impose criminal penalties, even jail time, on grassroots causes and citizens who criticize Congress."
Critics See 'Slippery Slope' in Reintroduced Federal 'Hate Crimes' Law - "As the new Democratic majority continues its 100-hour legislative blitz in the U.S. House, one Democrat has quietly reintroduced controversial legislation that would give the federal government more authority over so-called "hate crimes.""
TV programme reveals the REAL Frankensteins - "Resembling something dreamed up by Mary Shelley's Dr Frankenstein, it seemed literally incredible. But as the Soviet propaganda machine informed the world, this canine curiosity was both very real - and a scientific triumph." -- Imagine what must be held in secret today.
Sex pests 'could have hormone injections' - "Sex offenders could be forced to have hormone injections under radical plans to tackle crime being considered by Downing Street."
US housing bust getting worse, warns Goldman - "The US Federal Reserve will need to slash interest rates three times this year as the housing slump goes from bad to worse and the American consumer begins to buckle, Goldman Sachs has warned."
Weather Channel Climate Expert Calls for Decertifying Global Warming Skeptics - "The Weather Channel’s most prominent climatologist is advocating that broadcast meteorologists be stripped of their scientific certification if they express skepticism about predictions of manmade catastrophic global warming. This latest call to silence skeptics follows a year (2006) in which skeptics were compared to "Holocaust Deniers" and Nuremberg-style war crimes trials were advocated by several climate alarmists."
Crunch year for planet Earth - "This will be a crunch year for action on the climate crisis, a leading environmental lobbyist said on Wednesday."
Music industry threatens ISPs over piracy - "The music industry opened up a new front in the war on online music piracy yesterday, threatening to sue internet service providers that allow customers to illegally share copyrighted tracks over their networks." -- Your antique business model needs to be updated.
Air Force colonel reports lights 'not of this world' - "In the wake of reports of unidentified objects flying over Chicago's O'Hare Airport, a retired Air Force pilot has his own mystery with a rash of bright, colorful lights he photographed hovering in skies over western Arkansas last week. "I believe these lights were not of this world, and I feel a duty and responsibility to come forward," Col. Brian Fields told WND. "I have no idea what they were.""
Cheap, safe drug kills most cancers - "It sounds almost too good to be true: a cheap and simple drug that kills almost all cancers by switching off their “immortality”. The drug, dichloroacetate (DCA), has already been used for years to treat rare metabolic disorders and so is known to be relatively safe. It also has no patent, meaning it could be manufactured for a fraction of the cost of newly developed drugs. Evangelos Michelakis of the University of Alberta in Edmonton, Canada, and his colleagues tested DCA on human cells cultured outside the body and found that it killed lung, breast and brain cancer cells, but not healthy cells. Tumours in rats deliberately infected with human cancer also shrank drastically when they were fed DCA-laced water for several weeks."
In North Dakota, playing house is a sex crime - "In North Dakota, a man and woman who live together without being married are committing a sex crime. It's right there in the law, a state senator says, alongside the prohibitions against adultery, incest and indecent exposure."
Who's on the other side of that dressing-room mirror? - "A New York-based designer has come up with a mirror equipped with infrared technology that sends a live video feed to any cell phone, e-mail account or personal digital assistant device selected by a shopper."
Quote of the Day
"It is a rule of thumb concerning Black Projects, that any information made public about a technology is 20 years behind where the classified technology has advanced to."
~ Professor James McGee
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