http://www.washtimes.com/world/20051211-120414-5850r.htm
TORTURE IS AN INSTRUMENT OF TERROR, SAYS ANNAN - "Torture can never be an instrument to fight terror because it is an instrument of terror, United Nations Secretary-General Kofi Annan has said, in his annual Human Rights Day message. He decried the recent trend of countries claiming exceptions to the international prohibition against the practice and called for all states to honour the legally established ban on torture and to vigorously combat the impunity of those who perpetrate it."
http://www.adnki.com/index_2Level.php?cat=Terrorism&loid=8.0.238027590
Pentagon devising scenarios for martial law in US - " According to a report published Monday by the Washington Post, the Pentagon has developed its first ever war plans for operations within the continental United States, in which terrorist attacks would be used as the justification for imposing martial law on cities, regions or the entire country." -- That would be a Bush Administration's wet dream.
http://www.asiantribune.com/show_article.php?id=2620
Secret ID Law to Get Hearing - "On Thursday, Gilmore will argue that the government's secret identification rules -- no federal law compels travelers to show ID -- and no-fly list infringe on his First Amendment rights, but don't make the country safer. In addition, government lawyers long denied the existence of the rule -- which predates the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks -- even though there are signs in airports cautioning passengers that they are required to show identification. The government recently switched tactics, acknowledging the rule exists but arguing that the identification requirement is a law-enforcement technique." -- You WILL show your papers, citizen!
http://www.wired.com/news/politics/0,1283,69774,00.html
White House Liars on the Defensive - "These are people, the official elaborated, who "believe that solutions emerge from your judicious study of discernible reality." The bullying Bush insider warned against such belief, dismissing it as naïve: "That's not the way the world really works anymore," he declared. "We're an empire now, and when we act, we create our own reality. And while you're studying that reality, we'll act again, creating other new realities, which you can study too, and that's how things will sort out. We're history's actors ... and you, all of you, will be left to just study what we do."" -- They will do what they want to do until the people decide to stop them.
http://counterpunch.org/leupp12092005.html
French Told CIA of Bogus Intelligence - "More than a year before President Bush declared in his 2003 State of the Union speech that Iraq had tried to buy nuclear weapons material in Africa, the French spy service began repeatedly warning the CIA in secret communications that there was no evidence to support the allegation."
http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/nation/la-na-niger11dec11,0,3678379.story?coll=la-home-headlines
Poll: Broad Optimism in Iraq, But Also Deep Divisions Among Groups - "An ABC News poll in Iraq, conducted with Time magazine and other media partners, includes some remarkable results: Despite the daily violence there, most living conditions are rated positively, seven in 10 Iraqis say their own lives are going well, and nearly two-thirds expect things to improve in the year ahead."
http://abcnews.go.com/International/PollVault/story?id=1389228
Two countries, one booming, one struggling: which one followed the free-trade route? - "So which of the two has the better recent economic record? The question should be a no-brainer if all the free-trade theories are right - Mexico should be streets ahead of Vietnam. In fact, the opposite is true. Since Mexico signed the Nafta (North American Free Trade Agreement) deal with the US and Canada in 1992, its annual per capita growth rate has barely been above 1%. Vietnam has grown by around 5% a year for the past two decades. Poverty in Vietnam has come down dramatically: real wages in Mexico have fallen."
http://business.guardian.co.uk/story/0,16781,1664984,00.html
The Age of Autism: 'A pretty big secret' - "It's a far piece from the horse-and-buggies of Lancaster County, Pa., to the cars and freeways of Cook County, Ill. But thousands of children cared for by Homefirst Health Services in metropolitan Chicago have at least two things in common with thousands of Amish children in rural Lancaster: They have never been vaccinated. And they don't have autism."
http://www.upi.com/ConsumerHealthDaily/view.php?StoryID=20051204-060313-6829r
Anti-creationism professor: Resignation was forced - "A college professor who drew sharp criticism for comments deriding Christian fundamentalists over "intelligent design" said he was forced out as chairman of the university's religious studies department."
http://www.cnn.com/2005/EDUCATION/12/11/creationism.professor.ap/index.html
Why December 25? - "To us, Christmas and December are inseparable. But for the first three centuries of Christianity, Christmas wasn't in December—or on the calendar anywhere. If observed at all, the celebration of Christ's birth was usually lumped in with Epiphany (January 6), one of the church's earliest established feasts. Some church leaders even opposed the idea of a birth celebration. Origen (c.185-c.254) preached that it would be wrong to honor Christ in the same way Pharaoh and Herod were honored. Birthdays were for pagan gods."
http://www.christianitytoday.com/history/newsletter/2000/dec08.html
The marriage of many - ""Polygamy rights is the next civil rights battle." So goes the motto of a Christian pro-polygamy organization that has been watching the battle over homosexual "marriage" rights with keen interest. "We're coming. We are next. There's no doubt about it, we are next," says Mark Henkel, founder of www.TruthBearer.org."
http://www.washtimes.com/specialreport/20051211-121113-7195r.htm
Scientists: Greenland glaciers rapidly melting - "One of the glaciers, Kangerdlugssuaq, is currently moving about 9 miles a year compared to 3 miles a year in 2001, said Gordon Hamilton of the University of Maine's Climate Change Institute. The other glacier, Helheim, is retreating at about 7 miles a year -- up from 4 miles a year during the same period. "It's quite a staggering rate of increase," Hamilton said at the American Geophysical Union annual meeting."
http://www.cnn.com/2005/TECH/science/12/08/glacier.melt.ap/index.html
THE SKELETON OF JEBAL-BAREZ - "I believe the skeleton was partially unveiled following the earthquake, otherwise it would have been discovered previously. You can see in the photograph the immense size of the creature's ribs and vertebrae in comparison with my small figure, and this is just a small section of the fossil, which stretches a great distance in either direction
(possibly hundreds of feet long total). ... I am simply unaware of any creature that has ever looked quite like this, nor was ever this large. ... this animal is massive, a biological impossibility - and yet there it is, buried in the rock for untold centuries, apparently over 200 feet long. The cavity structure of the fossilized remains suggests it was most certainly reptilian, possibly amphibious or even avian - but none of it makes any sense. As for the apparent wing anatomy, that debate continues. This is a creature that stands outside the known animal kingdom, and will perhaps require years of study to fully understand."http://www.paleoshilling.nl/whatsnew.html
Maryland Begins Taxing Residents for Flushing - "The arrival of bills for the state's new "flush tax" is taking some property owners by surprise in Charles County."
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,178380,00.html
More Wikipedia Inaccuracy - ""There is a problem with the structure of Wikipedia. The basic problem is that no one, neither the Trustees of Wikimedia Foundation, nor the volunteers who are connected with Wikipedia, consider themselves responsible for the content," said Daniel Brandt."
http://news.baou.com/main.php?action=recent&rid=20675
Long-Lost Time Capsule Found in Hawaii - "Using radar equipment along a wall of a landmark Hawaiian building, military specialists Saturday quickly located a time capsule buried more than a century ago by King Kamehameha V."
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20051211/ap_on_fe_st/king_s_capsule;_ylt=AhX8LkK_2xTXP2Yo7tIVDjCs0NUE;_ylu=X3oDMTA3b2NibDltBHNlYwM3MTY
Quote of the day
"Never forget that everything Hitler did in Germany was legal."
~ Martin Luther King, Jr.
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