Mummified body found in front of television in Hampton Bays homeSouthampton police responding to burst water pipes in a Hampton Bays home found the mummified body of the owner -- dead for more than a year -- sitting in a chair in front of a television, officials said Friday.
The television was still on.
Vincenzo Riccardi, 70, appeared to have died of natural causes in his home on Wakeman Road, said Dr. Stuart Dawson, Suffolk deputy chief medical examiner.
The medical examiner's office considered his body mummi... (more)
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Kodak Files Patent For Edible RFID TagsNewScientist.com has uncovered a recently filed patent application from camera and imaging technology giant Kodak that outlines a compelling new application of RFID: ingestible tags that act as monitors for health characteristics within the human body.
The idea is that the RFID tag antenna -- the critical component which allows data to broadcast -- be composed of organic material that would dissolve as a result of certain chemical reactions within the human body.
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'24' tamps down the torture Fox's 24 will become less torturous, but not because the U.S. military, human rights groups and children's advocates want it to.
So says Howard Gordon, an executive producer of the hit thriller starring Emmy winner Kiefer Sutherland as secret antiterrorist operative Jack Bauer, whose interrogation tactics make oatmeal of the Geneva Conventions.
Our hero routinely shoots, suffocates, drugs and/or electrocutes suspects. One of them, his treacherous ... (more)
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Fortunate Son: The Untold History of George W. BushIf social promotion is a perverse gift to poor and disenfranchised youth, that is, to push them while failing through America's school systems to get them out the door, just imagine what social promotion could do for a poor little rich kid whose father, connected to power and politics like rockets to Apollo's rear, could promote George W. through Andover, Yale and Harvard upwards to the presidency.
In 1989, the young oilman, George W. Bush, was reported in Fortunate Son by J. ... (more)
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Neo-Nazi rally was organized by FBI informantA paid FBI informant was the man behind a neo-Nazi march through the streets of Parramore that stirred up anxiety in Orlando's black community and fears of racial unrest that triggered a major police mobilization.
That revelation came Wednesday in an unrelated federal court hearing and has prompted outrage from black leaders, some of whom demanded an investigation into whether the February 2006 march was, itself, an event staged by law-enforcement agencies.
The FBI ... (more)
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The US Propaganda Campaign Against IranThe US government has stepped up its rhetoric against Iran this week with a presentation held in Baghdad designed to support the claim that, as worded by President Bush last month, “Iran is providing material support for attacks on American troops.”[1] US officials said that weapons were being smuggled into Iraq by an elite unit of the Iranian Revolutionary Guard known as the Quds Force on orders “coming from the highest levels of the Iranian government.”[2] But, as the W... (more)
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The Neoconservative EmpireStatement on the Iraq War Resolution Before the U.S. House of Representatives February 14, 2007
This grand debate is welcomed but it could be that this is nothing more than a distraction from the dangerous military confrontation approaching with Iran and supported by many in leadership on both sides of the aisle.
This resolution, unfortunately, does not address the disaster in Iraq. Instead, it se... (more)
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Co-Dependent Congress Must Wake Up: The President Needs a Straight-Jacket and a Padded CellIt’s time to simply admit the obvious: The president of the United States is crazy as a loon, and the Congress and the media are functioning as co-dependents as he runs the country off a cliff.
Bush says in his latest press conference that he is “certain” that Iran is providing “technically sophisticated” roadside bomb weapons to Iraqi insurgent forces to help them to kill Americans.
He probably is “certain.” But nobody else... (more)
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Revolution just ain't what it used to beIf you were to publicly declare your discontent with the U.S. government and your subsequent desire to abolish that government, the land of the free would likely reward you with an orange jumpsuit and a one-way ticket for an all-inclusive vacation at Guantanamo Bay.
Now imagine if you instead chose to stand in front of a crowded room and utter something along these lines:
"I think all men and women are created equal and are endowed with certain undeniable ri ... (more)
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It’s only Iraq and Roll (but we seem to like it)In 1972, anti-war activists like Jane Fonda and Ramsey Clark traveled to North Vietnam and in the process, helped shine a light on the American tactic of bombing Vietnamese dikes. In 2006, rocker-rapper Kid Rock traveled to Iraq because, he says, he wanted “to see exactly what the soldiers are going through . . . and let them know they’re in our hearts.” The times, they have a-changed.
In the latest issue of Blender Magazine, Kid Rock talks about spending Chr... (more)
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Cheney's Call Early on the morning of June 20, 2002, then-Senate Intelligence Committee Chairman Bob Graham, D-Fla., received a telephone call at home from a highly agitated Dick Cheney. Graham, who was in the middle of shaving, held a razor in one hand as he took the phone in the other.
The vice president got right to the point: A story in his morning newspaper reported that telephone calls intercepted by the National Security Agency on September 10, 2001, apparently warned ... (more)
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US teenage drinkers face alcohol testBIG Brother has arrived at a high school in New Jersey. Determined to stop their students consuming alcohol at weekends, staff at Pequannock Township High School in Morris county are to start using a controversial test that can detect if students have been drinking up to a week earlier.
The test measures urine concentrations of an ethanol breakdown product called ethyl glucuronide (EtG). "We plan to use this new test as part of our comprehensive testing programme to keep our kids ... (more)
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UN Peacekeeping ParamilitarismThe world community calls them "Blue Helmets" or "peacekeepers," and the UN defines their mission as "a way to help countries torn by conflict create conditions for sustainable peace" by implementing and monitoring post-conflict peace processes former combatants have agreed to under provisions of the UN Charter. The Charter empowers the Security Council to take collective action to maintain international peace and security that includes authorizing peacekeeping operations provided a host country... (more)
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Police face inquiry over signing protest petitionPolice officers and staff who used work computers to protest against the Government's road charging plans could face disciplinary action.
Police officers and civilian staff at Dorset Police were amongst more than 1.2 million people who signed an online petition against the Department of Transport's proposals to introduce a national road pricing scheme.
Opposition has been so great that Downing Street's website crashed under the weight of people wanting to sign the o... (more)
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Thousands of government snoops to police smoking banThousands of council staff are being trained to police the smoking ban in bars, restaurants and shops in England.
Ministers have given councils £29.5m to pay for staff, who will be able to give on-the-spot £50 fines to individuals and take court action against premises.
They will have the power to enter premises undercover, allowing them to sit among drinkers, and will even be able to photograph and film people.
S... (more)
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Killers in the Classroom During a heated debate in a class I teach on social justice, several US Marines who had done tours in Iraq told me that they had "sacrificed" by “serving” in Iraq so that I could enjoy the freedom to teach in the USA. Parroting their master’s slogan about “fighting over there so we don’t have to fight over here”, these students proudly proclaimed that they terrorized and killed defenseless Iraqis. They intimated that their Arab victims are nothing more to them... (more)
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Iraq invasion plan 'delusional'The US invasion plan for Iraq envisaged that only 5,000 US troops would remain in Iraq by December 2006, declassified Central Command documents show.
The material also shows that the US military projected a stable, pro-US and democratic Iraq by that time.
The August 2002 material was obtained by the National Security Archive (NSA). Its officials said the plans were based on delusional assumptions.
The US currently has some 132,000 troops in the violen... (more)
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“Vulture Fund” Company Seeks $40 Million Payment from Zambia on $4 Million Debt“Vulture fund” companies buy up the debt of poor countries at cheap prices, and then demand payments much higher than the original amount of the debt, often taking poor countries to court when they cannot afford to repay. Investigative journalist Greg Palast reports on one company trying to collect $40 million from the government of Zambia after buying its debt for $4 million. [includes rush transcript]
In his recent State of the Union address, President Bush declare... (more)
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Thought Crime: Jail for German Holocaust denierA German Holocaust denier who regularly lavished praise on Adolf Hitler has been sentenced to five years in jail by a German court.
Ernst Zuendel was convicted of 14 counts of inciting racial hatred and for denying that the Nazis killed six million Jews during World War II.
He received the maximum sentence under German law which bans Holocaust denial.
Zuendel moved to Canada in 1958 but was judged a national security threat and deported back to German... (more)
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'Wash Times' Columnist Uses Fabricated Abraham Lincoln Quote NEW YORK The drive by some political and military figures -- and pundits -- to paint those who oppose the war in Iraq as traitors or at least not supporting the troops has hit another low, with a Washington Times columnist trumpeting an incendiary quote from Abraham Lincoln shown to be a fabrication last year.
Frank Gaffney, Jr. opened his latest column with this: "Congressmen who willfully take actions during wartime that damage morale and undermine the military are saboteurs and... (more)
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Political blogger warned he could be jailed The Charity Commission has warned an online blogger he could go to jail unless he submits information he has gathered about the activities of the Smith Institute, the left-wing think tank under investigation for links to the Labour Party.
The formal direction was issued to Paul Staines, who runs the Guido Fawkes political website, ordering him to release documents relating to the institute by Friday.
Chancellor Gordon Brown has admitte... (more)
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Road pricing 'won't end congestion problems' The case for road pricing as the key solution to the country's congestion problems received a further blow yesterday from the influential all-party Transport Select Committee at Westminster.
In a withering condemnation of the Department for Transport's performance, it said that pay-as-you-drive charges were not the panacea that ministers had claimed.
The MPs also warned the DfT against putting pressure on councils to sign up to road pricing. ... (more)
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Rep. Ellison calls the cops to snuff Tancredo’s cigar Rep. Keith Ellison (D-Minn.) believes it is his right as a Muslim to be sworn into Congress with the Quran. But apparently, the freshman lawmaker doesn’t believe it’s Rep. Tom Tancredo’s (R-Colo.) right to smoke a cigar in his congressional office.
Ellison’s office called the Capitol Hill Police on Tancredo last Wednesday night as Tancredo was in his office smoking a cigar. The lawmakers have neighboring offices on the first floor ... (more)
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