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Fate of Oregon's ailing giant is up in the air
Post Date: 2007-01-08 09:06:52 by A K A Stone
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SEATTLE — The 200-foot-tall Sitka spruce tree has stood for 700 years, but after a fierce windstorm swept through the Pacific Northwest last month, the famed Klootchy Creek Giant may not stand much longer. The storm left the tree, designated one of the two largest Sitka spruces in the nation, with a spiral hole in its trunk a foot and a half deep and more than 15 feet long. It won't take another storm to bring down the tree, which has a trunk circumference of 52 feet. Even warming temperatures as the wood dries out could be enough to change the tree's dynamics, causing it to fall or split along the fault line. In windstorms, trees must be able to release energy to withstand ...
Boston looks to buy city-wide microphone system to listen for gun shots...
Post Date: 2007-01-06 23:34:23 by A K A Stone
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Veto keeps the red-light cameras rolling
Post Date: 2007-01-06 23:11:30 by A K A Stone
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COLUMBUS — Gov. Bob Taft on Friday vetoed a bill passed by the state legislature that threatened to block cities' ability to use automated cameras to catch motorists who run through red lights. The cameras, which are in use in Dayton, Trotwood, Middletown and Springfield, are triggered when a car fails to stop at a red light, and they take a picture of the vehicle, its license number and the person behind the wheel. The cities use the information the camera captures to support citations ordering offenders to pay fines. Extras Latest headlines * Cooperation key to productive term in split Statehouse * Barbara Cox Anthony Scholarships to reward outstanding area students * Crash ...
Pentagon Joint Chiefs Don't Like Tom Toles Cartoon
Post Date: 2007-01-05 19:05:36 by A K A Stone
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"Now that the Joint Chiefs have addressed the insidious threat cartoons pose to our troops, perhaps they can move on to less pressing issues like getting them their damn body armor,"Aravosis from AmericaBlog told E&P.
A Tom Toles editorial cartoon published in The Washington Post on Monday and on its Web site has drawn a very rare and very strong protest letter to the editors from all six members of The Joint Chiefs of Staff, E&P learned Wednesday.
The letter was published in the Post on Thursday, along with a separate column by Howard Kurtz in which Toles, and Editorial Page Editor Fred Hiatt, responded. Hiatt said, "While I certainly can understand the strong feelings, I took ...
Bush says feds can open mail without warrant
Post Date: 2007-01-04 11:56:29 by A K A Stone
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WASHINGTON — President Bush quietly has claimed sweeping new powers to open Americans' mail without a judge's warrant. Bush asserted the new authority Dec. 20 after signing legislation that overhauls some postal regulations. He then issued a "signing statement" that declared his right to open mail under emergency conditions, contrary to existing law and contradicting the bill he had just signed, according to experts who have reviewed it. A White House spokeswoman disputed claims that the move gives Bush any new powers, saying the Constitution allows such searches. Still, the move, one year after The New York Times' disclosure of a secret program that allowed ...
VIDEO LINK TO:George H. W. Bush Eulogizes Ford and makes strange comment about JFK assassination
Post Date: 2007-01-04 11:11:34 by A K A Stone
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Here is what Bush Sr said on the matter "After a deluded gunman assassinated President Kennedy, our nation turned to Gerald Ford and a select handful of others to make sense of that madness," said Bush. "And the conspiracy theorists can say what they will, but the Warren Commission report will always have the final definitive say on this tragic matter. Why? Because Jerry Ford put his name on it and Jerry Ford's word was always good."
http://www.canada.com/story.html?id=6fc1a5d4-397a-49bc-a1dd-76e1631c5fa3&k=66883#
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I saw this on Live TV. It was very strange as I had been reading about Bush's involvement in Kennedy assassination. ...
Amazing Ironies, Striking Similarities & Curious Coincidences Of Two Suspicious Events
Post Date: 2007-01-03 13:07:17 by A K A Stone
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(A). Fifteen minutes after JFK is shot, Dallas Police dispatch an APB for a suspect fitting Lee Harvey Oswald's exact description, although Oswald has neither been implicated nor his weapon found. Moments after 9-11 attack, a scorched passport allegedly belonging to an Islamic hijacker is found near the WTC wreckage. (B). Alleged JFK assassin, Lee Harvey Oswald, was a former CIA operative. Alleged 9-11 mastermind, Osama Bin Ladin, was former CIA operative. (C). Oswald allegedly had a Communist background. Islamic hijackers allegedly had an Al Qaeda background. After JFK assassination and convenient murder of Oswald, Cold War spending increases; Vietnam war escalates. After WTC ...
“Bush - Nazi Dealings Continued Until 1951” - Federal Documents
Post Date: 2007-01-03 12:28:12 by A K A Stone
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After the seizures in late 1942 of five U.S. enterprises he managed on behalf of Nazi industrialist Fritz Thyssen, Prescott Bush, the grandfather of President George W. Bush, failed to divest himself of more than a dozen "enemy national" relationships that continued until as late as 1951, newly-discovered U.S. government documents reveal. Furthermore, the records show that Bush and his colleagues routinely attempted to conceal their activities from government investigators. Bush's partners in the secret web of Thyssen-controlled ventures included former New York Governor W. Averell Harriman and his younger brother, E. Roland Harriman. Their quarter-century of Nazi financial ...
Army Attempts to Redefine Free Speech
Post Date: 2007-01-02 08:03:01 by A K A Stone
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In May of this year, I conducted an independent news interview with Ehren Watada while working as a freelance journalist. Watada is a 1st Lieutenant in the U.S. Army and is the first commissioned officer to publicly refuse orders to deploy to Iraq. In his interview, Lieutenant Watada asserted that he had a duty as a U.S. Army officer to evaluate the legality of his orders and conduct himself accordingly. For this reason he said that he could not participate in the Iraq War because it was "manifestly illegal" and that his participation would make him a party to war crimes. In June, Lieutenant Watada made national headlines when he refused to deploy to Iraq. Lieutenant Watada ...
Wendy Johnson is an ENEMY of the American Peoples Constitution!!!
Post Date: 2007-01-01 22:33:11 by A K A Stone
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FAYETTEVILLE -- A man charged with possessing illegal machine guns shouldn't be able to make constitutional arguments at trial, according to a motion filed Friday by federal prosecutors. Hollis Wayne Fincher, 60, a lieutenant commander of the Militia of Washington County, is charged in U.S. District Court with possessing three homemade, unregistered machine guns and an unregistered sawed-off shotgun. Trial is set for Jan. 8 in Fayetteville. Assistant U.S. Attorney Wendy Johnson filed the motion asking U.S. District Judge Jimm Larry Hendren to preclude Fincher and his attorney, Oscar Stilley, from arguing matters of law to the jury as a defense. The government believes Fincher wants ...
US home sales rise, defy forecasts
Post Date: 2006-12-28 11:57:25 by A K A Stone
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US home resales increased 0.6 percent in November, industry data showed, suggesting the slumping property market is stabilizing. The National Association of Realtors said existing-home sales amounted to a seasonally adjusted annual rate of 6.28 million units in November, well ahead of the 6.15 million figure expected on Wall Street. This followed a 0.5 percent increase in October. The November sales level was 10.7 percent below the pace of a year ago, reflecting the tumble in the real estate market after years of spectacular growth. David Lereah, NAR's chief economist, said the report suggests the worst may be over for the housing slump. "As the housing market recovers from its ...
About That “Mandate,” Ms. Pelosi
Post Date: 2006-12-27 09:01:27 by alwaysontheright
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About That “Mandate,” Ms. Pelosi In the weeks following the November elections, Speaker-elect Nancy Pelosi has boldly announced the arrival of a “New Day in America,” now that Democrats are the majority party in both the U.S. House and Senate. Although she has not said so in as many words, Pelosi has implied that the election results represent a “mandate” from the American people. If so, that must mean that the American people want and expect: * Abandonment of racial profiling, domestic spying, and other programs vital to the war on terror, when such activities “offend” minority groups * Higher taxes and scores of billions of additional taxpayer ...
Frisco Democrat Mayor Says NO! to Democracy
Post Date: 2006-12-20 12:05:32 by alwaysontheright
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On November 7, San Francisco voters passed Proposition I, which asked the mayor to appear before the Board of Supervisors once a month at a Q-and-A session to discuss city policy. Passage of Proposition 1 sent a clear message that San Francisco voters want their mayor to work with the supervisors, rather than against them. San Francisco’s current mayor, Gavin Newson, was opposed to the proposition and following passage has thumbed his nose at the non-binding measure. Ever the liberal elitist, Newsom has given every indication that he does not intend to submit to the intellectual and moral snake pit known as the San Francisco Board of Supervisors, notwithstanding the wishes of the ...
Cops Caught Stealing Protestors' Cameras
Post Date: 2006-12-18 21:17:17 by A K A Stone
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In the latest attack on the first amendment, a shocking video has emerged of the NYPD attacking a protestor and stealing his camera and footage at a demonstration demanding justice for an independent video journalist who was shot and killed earlier this year. The filmmaker, Flux Rostrum, was filming the interaction between protestors and police outside the Mexican Consulate in late October at a demonstration protesting the murder of journalist Brad Will, who was shot and killed on October 27, 2006 during the teachers' strike in the Mexican city of Oaxaca. His murderers are believed to be local officials. Flux was not arrested, nor did he receive a receipt for seized property. Without ...
Unseen McVeigh Video Proves He Was Still in Army in '93
Post Date: 2006-12-18 17:41:30 by A K A Stone
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Boston Air Traffic Controller Says 9/11 An Inside Job
Post Date: 2006-12-14 12:16:11 by A K A Stone
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Knew people in FAA on day of hijackings who said intercept procedures should have been enacted as normal Paul Joseph Watson Prison Planet Thursday, December 14, 2006 A former Boston Center air traffic controller has gone public on his assertion that 9/11 was an inside job and that Donald Rumsfeld and the Pentagon tracked three of the four flights from the point of their hijacking to hitting their targets. In an astounding telephone interview, Robin Hordon claims air traffic controllers have been ignored or silenced to protect the true perpetrators of 9/11. A recording of the phone conversation was posted on Google video late yesterday by the Pilots For 9/11 Truth organization. After ...
Mint bans melting coins now worth more as liquid than loot
Post Date: 2006-12-14 12:12:01 by A K A Stone
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WASHINGTON -- Given rising metal prices, the pennies and nickels in your pocket are worth more melted down than their face value -- and that has the government worried. U.S. Mint officials said Wednesday they were putting into place rules prohibiting the melting down of 1-cent and 5-cent coins, with a penalty of up to five years in prison and a fine of up to $10,000 for people convicted of violating the rule. Because of the prevailing prices of metals, the cost of producing pennies and nickels exceeds the coins' face value. A nickel is 25 percent nickel and 75 percent copper. The metal in one coin costs 6.99 cents for each 5-cent coin. Modern pennies have 2.5 percent copper content ...
True deficit: for 2006 3.5 TRILLION Analyst says coming Treasury report will document 'unsustainable' pace
Post Date: 2006-12-14 10:51:01 by A K A Stone
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A report scheduled to be released by the Treasury Department tomorrow is expected to show the true deficit in the Bush administration's 2006 federal budget to be an astounding $3.5 trillion in the red, not $248.2 billion as previously reported. "The Bush administration is running a federal budget deficit at an unsustainable, system-dooming pace of about $3.5 trillion a year, econometrician John Williams, who publishes the website Shadow Government Statistics, told WND. Williams' argument is fully validated in the Financial Report of the United States, a little-known report Congress has mandated that the Treasury Department publishes each year, reporting the federal budget on ...
Senate bans pastor after he condemns same-sex marriage
Post Date: 2006-12-13 23:31:08 by A K A Stone
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The Rev. Vincent Fields says he didn't plan to speak out against same-sex marriage when he offered the invocation at the opening of the Senate session on Monday. At first, he prayed for wisdom and understanding for the senators. But then, the Absecon pastor recalled yesterday, "the Holy Spirit took over, and I had to pray what he said." What Fields said next -- on a day a Senate committee advanced a bill allowing civil unions for same- sex couples -- has gotten the pastor banned from giving future Senate invocations. "We curse the spirit that would come to bring about same-sex marriage," Fields said in the Senate chamber. "We ask you to just look over this ...
Amish in WNY told their children can't work
Post Date: 2006-12-13 22:49:11 by A K A Stone
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"After years of going about their traditions unhindered," some Amish families in western New York state say they may move because authorities have told them they must stop employing their underage children in sawmilling, woodworking and construction-related work, The Amherst Record reports.
It is "a clash of titans — the state of New York versus God," the newspaper writes. And it is a clash that threatens "a bedrock principle of
the Amish faith, according to local church Deacon Jerome Graber."
"Old Order Amish children," the Record reports, "attend school through eighth grade, then commence vocational training with their parents, girls in the home and boys with their fathers in the ...
You feeling safer, too?
Post Date: 2006-12-13 22:45:40 by A K A Stone
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First, our federal government told us of Saddam Hussein’s purported weapons of mass destruction in far away Iraq. Now we read chilling accounts of illegal weapons much closer to home. Right here in Northwest Arkansas, government agents have targeted a portly 60-year-old and a small cache of allegedly unregistered weapons as objects warranting prosecution. Hollis Wayne Fincher of Fayetteville has made headlines this month since federal agents from the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives, operating under the auspices of the Project Safe Neighborhoods program, raided his home and found illegal firearms in his possession, according to an ATF news release. The ...
“Creating Change,” Corrupting Children: the ‘Gay’ Task Force’s Evil Agenda
Post Date: 2006-12-13 22:40:12 by A K A Stone
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How Does a Teenager Get Started in Homosexual “Sex Work”? Just ask the National Gay & Lesbian Task Force… It’s about time that Christian Americans learn to distinguish between the man or woman struggling with homosexual temptations–to whom we should extend a loving hand and God’s grace to help them overcome–and a “gay” activist movement bent on destroying all sexual and gender norms in the culture. Last month, the National Gay & Lesbian Task Force held its 2006 Creating Change conference at the Westin Crown Hotel in Kansas City, Missouri. Americans For Truth sent reporters to the Nov. 10-12 event–and they witnessed the farthest ...
Husband Brands Wife's Rear On Wedding Night
Post Date: 2006-12-13 08:31:10 by continental op
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London, England (AHN) - There's nothing that says 'I do' more than having your rear end forever marked with your husband's initials on your wedding night. Officials are questioning a 54-year-old man who forcibly used a cattle brander on his 22-year-old wife the night before their wedding.
The jealous husband explains that he tried to justify the branding by saying he wanted to make sure that other men knew right away that his new wife was his, and only his.
According to Ananova, police called him in for questioning after his wife contacted a local women's rights organization.
The Web site reports a police spokesman as saying: "We want him for questioning. He has some explaining to ...
Southern Poverty Law Center Pushes Twisted Definition of 'Hate'
Post Date: 2006-12-12 07:47:42 by cwrwinger
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Southern Poverty Law Center Pushes Twisted Definition of 'Hate' by Matthew Vadum Posted Dec 11, 2006 The Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) has one key message: The nation is boiling over with hatred and intolerance. Decades after the civil rights movement forever changed America and despite the enactment of the Civil Rights Act, the Voting Rights Act and the imposition of affirmative action, American race relations are always worse today than in the days of Jim Crow, according to SPLC. “Hate in America is a dreadful, daily constant. The dragging death of a black man in Jasper, Tex.; the crucifixion of a gay man in Laramie, Wyo.; and post-9/11 hate crimes against ...
New Technologies Could Move Video Surveillance to New Level
Post Date: 2006-12-11 22:12:59 by A K A Stone
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Newswise — Surveillance cameras are sprouting up in more and more places, forming an ever more powerful tool for solving crimes after they happen. But what about using them to prevent or stop criminal and terrorist acts? This requires that someone, or something, watch these rapidly multiplying video feeds 24-7. And that’s the problem. Paying people to adequately monitor dozens, or even hundreds, of surveillance cameras can be highly expensive. Plus, humans tend to get bored and lose focus staring at security TV monitors hour after hour, day after day. Computerized monitoring would seem to be the obvious answer, but creating software programs that can recognize suspicious ...
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