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We're twinseparable! Happy with his brother, the boy who refused to die
Post Date: 2007-11-03 18:29:42 by A K A Stone
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They say twins share a strong bond - but the one between Gabriel and Ieuan Jones was unbreakable. When doctors found that Gabriel was weaker than his brother, with an enlarged heart,and believed he was going to die in the womb, his mother Rebecca Jones had to make a heartbreaking decision. Doctors told her his death could cause his twin brother to die too before they were born, and that it would be better to end Gabriel's suffering sooner rather than later. Scroll down for more... twins Thriving: Gabriel, right, with his twin brother Ieuan, is now a healthy 12lb 6oz at seven months Mrs Jones decided to let doctors operate to terminate Gabriel's life. Firstly they tried to ...
Al-Jazeera 'USAF struck Syrian nuclear site'
Post Date: 2007-11-02 17:09:11 by A K A Stone
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The September 6 raid over Syria was carried out by the US Air Force, the Al-Jazeera Web site reported Friday. The Web site quoted Israeli and Arab sources as saying that two US jets armed with tactical nuclear weapons carried out an attack on a suspected nuclear site under construction.
A US Air Force F-22 Raptor, an F-117 Nighthawk, an F-4 Phantom and an F-15 Eagle fly over Holloman Air Force Base, N.M. Photo: US Air Force
The sources were quoted as saying that Israeli F-15 and F-16 jets provided cover for the US planes.
The sources added that each US plane carried one tactical nuclear weapon and that the site was hit by one bomb and was totally destroyed.
At the beginning of ...
Turkey expects US to destroy Kurdish bases in Iraq
Post Date: 2007-11-02 00:06:26 by A K A Stone
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Ankara, Nov 1 (RIA Novosti) Turkey has said it expects urgent action from the US to destroy Kurdish insurgent bases in northern Iraq. "We expect the US to take urgent, concrete steps against terrorist bases," Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan, who is set to meet US President George W. Bush Nov 5 to discuss Kurdish rebellion, told parliament Tuesday. Turkey is not receiving adequate support in fighting terror from leading world and regional powers, he said. "Turkey's patience has run out. We will discuss with the US about countries that are harbouring terrorists, as well as measures that are necessary to fight terrorism," Erdogan said. Turkey's parliament ...
Let's Keep People Poor And Stupid For The Sake Of The Environment
Post Date: 2007-11-02 00:04:03 by A K A Stone
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Because when people get an education, find success in their careers and make money they tend to consume more energy and natural resources. And that, of course, is bad This passage is taken from the Education for Sustainable Development Toolkit, which was written by Dr. Rosalyn McKeown of the University of Tennessee: Generally, more highly educated people, who have higher incomes, consume more resources than poorly educated people, who tend to have lower incomes. In this case, more education increases the threat to sustainability. . . Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) Statistical Yearbook and World Education Report, for example, show that in the United ...
Wall Street drilling for Middle East riches
Post Date: 2007-11-01 23:37:42 by A K A Stone
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Wall Street bankers are flocking to the Middle East, and it's not for oil or the balmy weather. Years of raging energy prices have made the states surrounding the Persian Gulf one of the fastest-growing regions and a source of immense wealth seeking investments at home and around the world. The sovereign investment arms of Saudi Arabia, Bahrain, Qatar, United Arab Emirates, Oman and Kuwait have an estimated $1.5 trillion at their disposal. So it's little surprise that Goldman Sachs Group, Morgan Stanley and other investment banks have secured banking licenses and opened offices to develop a local presence in the Gulf, same as they have in the so-called BRIC markets of Brazil, ...
Scientists Find Oldest Living Animal, Then Kill It
Post Date: 2007-10-29 23:29:26 by A K A Stone
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A clam that lived on the seabed in the frigid waters off Iceland's north coast has been hailed as the longest-lived animal ever discovered. The mollusc, which is thought to have lurked beneath the waves until at least the age of 405, would have been a juvenile when Galileo picked up his first telescope, Hamlet was first staged and the gunpowder plot failed to blow up King James I. The Arctica islandica clam was plucked from 80m-deep water by researchers at Bangor University in Wales, who were dredging the north Iceland shelf for the creatures. By studying their shells, the scientists hope to learn how the marine environment has changed in recent centuries. The clam was alive when it ...
Low Morale Has U.S. Troops in Iraq Pretending to Patrol
Post Date: 2007-10-29 22:26:10 by A K A Stone
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Morale among US soldiers in the country is so poor, many are simply parking their Humvees and pretending to be on patrol, called "search and avoid" missions. New York -- Iraq war veterans now stationed at a base here in upstate New York say that morale among US soldiers in the country is so poor, many are simply parking their Humvees and pretending to be on patrol, a practice dubbed "search and avoid" missions. Phil Aliff is an active duty soldier with the 10th Mountain Division stationed at Fort Drum. He served nearly one year in Iraq from August 2005 to July 2006, in the areas of Abu Ghraib and Fallujah, both west of Baghdad. "Morale was incredibly low," ...
Pacman @ University of Dayton
Post Date: 2007-10-24 22:06:28 by A K A Stone
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Smear Campaign Against Ron Paul Goes Into Overdrive
Post Date: 2007-10-13 10:22:34 by A K A Stone
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The smear campaign against Presidential candidate Ron Paul has hit an all time high with the corporate media today ludicrously declaring that the Congressman's immense worldwide popularity is all a huge con emanating from Dr Paul's own office. Rupert Murdoch owned Australian outlet News.com.au has today disseminated the most insidious and farcical report concerning Ron Paul to date. Headlined Republican Ron Paul in possible 'fake online campaign', the article attempts to convince the reader that every aspect of Ron Paul's popularity, from his you tube website, to his dominance of online polls and debate polls has been totally faked by his own staff! The astounding ...
Ice melt raises passage tension
Post Date: 2007-10-08 23:58:24 by A K A Stone
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In another sign of potential friction in the warming Arctic, Canada has warned that it will step up patrols of the Northwest Passage. Record summer melting of sea-ice has made the passage fully navigable; and immediately escalated a dispute over who controls the route. Canada maintains the waterway that connects the Atlantic with the Pacific lies within its territorial waters. It has backed that up with plans for a new military base in the Arctic. However, the United States, and other countries claim international rights to use the route for shipping. Big melt In an interview with BBC News, the head of the Canadian Coast Guard, George Da Pont, said: "Our view is that it's our ...
Bees to make elephants 'buzz off'
Post Date: 2007-10-08 23:47:41 by A K A Stone
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The buzz of angry bees could provide some relief for African villagers whose crop fields are regularly pillaged by hungry elephants.
Oxford University researchers found that elephants would quickly vacate a spot after hearing recordings of bees.
The insects are able to inflict painful stings inside the animals' trunks, and it is thought that elephants have learned to avoid them.
The research is reported in the scientific journal Current Biology.
"We're a bit cautious about how effective this would be on a large scale," lead researcher Lucy King told the BBC News website from Kenya, where she is running field trials.
"But bees may become one deterrent that farmers could ...
Report: Russia warns of arms war in space
Post Date: 2007-10-03 23:59:38 by A K A Stone
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MOSCOW (Reuters) - Russia's military space commander vowed to retaliate with an arms race if any country started putting weapon systems into orbit, he said in remarks published on Wednesday. "We need to have strong rules about space, to avoid its militarization and if any country will place a weapon in space, then our response will be the same," Space Forces Commander Colonel-General Vladimir Popovkin told the newspaper Trud. Popovkin's remarks were the latest in a series of increasingly assertive statements from the Russian military, which is alarmed at what it sees as a growing hardware imbalance with the West. Stung by NATO expansion up to Russia's borders, ...
U.N. members move toward gun treaty
Post Date: 2007-10-03 23:43:24 by A K A Stone
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United Nations — Britain, Japan, Australia and others are pushing for an unprecedented treaty regulating the arms trade worldwide, in a campaign sure to last years and to pit them against a determined American foe, the National Rifle Association. In what U.N. officials say is an “overwhelming” response, almost 100 governments have submitted ideas for such a treaty, to be reviewed over the next year. There’s an “extremely urgent” need for controls on the international gun trade, says Kenya, echoing the sentiment in much of guns-besieged Africa. But in the U.S., the NRA says it sees a creeping attempt to limit civilian gun ownership within nations — even ...
Tens of thousands of CCTV cameras, yet 80% of crime unsolved
Post Date: 2007-09-21 00:28:45 by A K A Stone
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London has 10,000 crime-fighting CCTV cameras which cost £200 million, figures show today. But an analysis of the publicly funded spy network, which is owned and controlled by local authorities and Transport for London, has cast doubt on its ability to help solve crime. A comparison of the number of cameras in each London borough with the proportion of crimes solved there found that police are no more likely to catch offenders in areas with hundreds of cameras than in those with hardly any. In fact, four out of five of the boroughs with the most cameras have a record of solving crime that is below average. The figures were obtained by the Liberal Democrats on the London Assembly ...
The trial of Chemical Ali-the media farce continues
Post Date: 2007-09-09 23:30:00 by A K A Stone
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Like a distant historical footnote to the bloody tragedy raging in Iraq, the trial of Saddam Hussein’s cousin, Chemical Ali, and 14 other former lieutenants of Saddam, began this week. The prosecutor accused them of perpetrating “ among the ugliest crimes ever committed against humanity in modern history.” In a just world, George H.W. Bush and James Baker would also be in the dock. Chemical Ali and his cohorts are being charged with the slaughter of tens of thousands of Shiites following the failed uprising of 1991. It is the third trial before the Iraqi Special Tribunal for crimes against humanity committed during Saddam’s reign. But, from the beginning, the Tribunal ...
One in four mammals under threat
Post Date: 2007-09-09 23:19:07 by A K A Stone
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Thousands of species in danger of extinction in the wild may survive only in captivity. The annual 'Red List' of extinct and endangered species to be published on Wednesday by the World Conservation Union is expected to show another increase in the numbers under threat of being wiped out by habitat loss, hunting, alien predators and climate change. Last year the union warned that the world faced 'the sixth great extinction of life on earth' as mammals, amphibians, birds, insects, fish and plants were being lost at 'unprecedented rates'. One in four mammals and one in eight bird species have been labelled 'threatened'. News that the list will show another ...
U.S. under U.N. law in health emergency
Post Date: 2007-09-03 23:01:43 by A K A Stone
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The Security and Prosperity Partnership of North America summit in Canada released a plan that establishes U.N. law along with regulations by the World Trade Organization and World Health Organization as supreme over U.S. law during a pandemic and sets the stage for militarizing the management of continental health emergencies. The "North American Plan for Avian & Pandemic Influenza" was finalized at the SPP summit last week in Montebello, Quebec. At the same time, the U.S. Northern Command, or NORTHCOM, has created a webpage dedicated to avian flu and has been running exercises in preparation for the possible use of U.S. military forces in a continental domestic emergency ...
Four 'witches' beheaded after boy dies of snakebite
Post Date: 2007-09-02 20:41:06 by A K A Stone
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FOUR people in eastern India were beheaded after being accused of witchcraft, police said today. Four people have been arrested after three decapitated bodies were pulled from a river on Wednesday. “The four arrested people have confessed to killing four people, including three women,” said district police official PK Das, adding that divers were searching the river for the body of the fourth victim. “So far we have recovered the headless and decomposed bodies of two females and a male. "The body of the fourth female victim is yet to be traced. "Initial clues suggest the murders could be linked to sorcery.” Police have linked the beheadings to a local ...
China's IP policies not as far from the west as you may think
Post Date: 2007-09-02 16:28:20 by A K A Stone
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While politicians trade attacks on Chinese copyright enforcement for political capital with lobbiests, they seem to miss the closest parallel to China's current IP enforcement issues - 19th century United States. Representative Frank Wolf of Virginia delivered one of the more stinging counterattacks last month, warning that the United States "must be vigilant about protecting the values we hold dear" in the face of China's depredations. A century and a half ago, another fast-growing nation had a reputation for sacrificing standards to its pursuit of profit, and it was the United States. In the United States of the early 19th century, capitalism as we know it today was ...
GLOBALISTS TRASH BORDERS
Post Date: 2007-08-26 23:12:10 by A K A Stone
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Leaders of Bilderberg have gathered the appropriate flunkies at the Fairmont Le Chateau Montebello, about 50 miles outside Quebec, to accomplish a North American Union without congressional action. Bilderberg met at the same site in 1983. The Aug. 20-21 session of the unknown Security and Prosperity Partnership (SPP) is struggling to define its goal of a borderless union of the United States, Mexico and Canada as something Americans will welcome, after it has been accomplished. On the agenda is a report by the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS), which is being translated into Spanish and French so all three governments can celebrate it together. The report explains how ...
We shouldn’t be causing this
Post Date: 2007-08-24 22:39:08 by A K A Stone
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AMMAN, Jordan -- Here in Amman, Jordan, a British teenager, Sonia, age 12, recently spent four days interviewing and befriending Iraqi youngsters close to her in age. She wanted to learn, firsthand, about the experiences of Iraqi youngsters who have fled war and violence in their home country. A versatile and talented child, Sonia loves to play the trumpet and perform classical Indian dances, the latter being somewhat unusual for a Muslim girl. When she was eight years old, shortly before the U.S. and the U.K. attacked Iraq, she wrote a poem urging respect for the rights of Iraqi children whose lives and hopes would be destroyed by war. The poem reached many people, intensifying efforts of ...
Tony Snow musings
Post Date: 2007-08-06 00:56:04 by A K A Stone
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http://www.NewsAndOpinion.com -- The war in Afghanistan is over, for all intents and purposes, but now begins something even more challenging: Peace in Afghanistan. Afghanistan is less a country than a collection of tribes with a long history of fighting and reconciling -- kind of like a large and very combative family. The country, which for centuries has been the crossroads of Central Asia, has hosted explorers -- such as Marco Polo -- superpowers -- the British and the Soviets -- and adventurers of all descriptions. It has seen intrigue, violence, conquest and liberation -- just about everything but prosperity. The real challenge for the United States and its allies is to succeed where ...
Losing land to palm oil in Kalimantan
Post Date: 2007-08-05 01:00:21 by A K A Stone
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Barto is more sad than angry. He is a leader of a Dayak Kanayan community in a remote part of the rainforest in deepest Borneo. Barto Barto and his fellow villagers have seen chunks of their land destroyed Gazing out over a vast expanse of freshly planted palm oil plants, he says: "This is our ancestors' land which we have had for years, and now we have lost it." Barto's village of Aruk is on the Indonesian side of the border with Malaysia, in West Kalimantan. It is a key region earmarked for palm oil expansion, as Indonesia hopes to reap the benefits of a growing demand for palm oil products in China, India and Europe. The EU recently agreed to replace 10% of its ...
Grocery Baggers In Mexican Wal-Mart Receive No Pay Or Benefits
Post Date: 2007-08-04 00:07:51 by A K A Stone
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Wal-Mart prides itself on cutting costs at home and abroad, and its Mexican operations are no exception. That approach has helped the Arkansas-based retail giant set a track record of spectacular success in the 16 years since it entered Mexico as a partner of the country's then-leading retail-store chain. But some of the company's practices have aroused concern among some officials and nongovernmental organizations (NGOs) that Wal-Mart is taking advantage of local customs to pinch pennies at a time when its Mexican operations have never been more profitable. Wal-Mart is Mexico's largest private-sector employer in the nation today, with nearly 150,000 local residents on its ...
Analyst: Al-Qaeda Videotapes Digitally Doctored
Post Date: 2007-08-02 23:21:23 by A K A Stone
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An expert computer analyst has presented evidence that so-called "Al-Qaeda" tapes are routinely digitally doctored and has also unwittingly exposed an astounding detail that clearly indicates a Pentagon affiliated organization in the U.S. is directly responsible for releasing the videos. "Neal Krawetz, a researcher and computer security consultant, gave an interesting presentation today at the BlackHat security conference in Las Vegas about analyzing digital photographs and video images for alterations and enhancements," reports Wired News. "Using a program he wrote (and provided on the conference CD-ROM) Krawetz could print out the quantization tables in a JPEG ...
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