Democratic Senate Leader Reid Told Cheney To Pick MiersDemocratic Senate Leader Harry Reid (D-NV) urged President Bush to pick White House counsel Harriet Miers as his nominee to the Supreme Court, RAW STORY can confirm.
In a conference call held with liberal bloggers last week, Reid declared that he had told Vice President Dick Cheney and White House Chief of Staff Andy Card that Miers was a good choice for the Court.
"I said, 'I think that rather than looking at the people your lawyer’s recommending, pick her," ... (more)
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Miers' record begins to fill in: Bush pick supported International Criminal Court, homosexual adoptions, women in combat, tax hikeWASHINGTON – Harriet Miers, President Bush's nominee to the U.S. Supreme Court to replace Sandra Day O'Connor, is on record as supporting the establishment of the International Criminal Court, homosexual adoptions, a major local tax increase and women in combat, WorldNetDaily has learned.
While some conservative leaders and organizations were stunned by the appointment, most were not alarmed by the lack of a paper trail by the nominee who has never served as a judge at any l... (more)
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Oklahoma bomber had jihad materialAn Oklahoma University student who killed himself by detonating a bomb strapped to his body outside a packed stadium over the weekend was a "suicide bomber" in possession of "Islamic jihad" materials, according to a new report.
Joel Henry Hinrichs III, 21, an engineering major at the school blew himself up outside OU's football stadium during Saturday night's game against Kansas State. Doug Hagmann, a seasoned investigator, told WND he was informed by multiple reliable law-enforce... (more)
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U.S. Calls on Russia to Freeze Nuclear Cooperation with IranThe United States, in a message aimed at Russia, called on governments involved in nuclear projects in Iran to immediately freeze those projects, Reuters reported Tuesday.
Stephen Rademaker, the U.S. assistant secretary of state for arms control, said nations should tighten their policies following last month’s finding by the International Atomic Energy Agency that Iran should be reported to the UN Security Council because it failed to convince the international community th... (more)
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Mysterious red lights appear over SouthlandThey're baaack!
Those peculiar pulsing red lights reappeared over Southland skies early Saturday morning, causing many a neck to crane upward and many a police switchboard to light up with calls.
A trio of steady red lights seemed to swim across the western night sky starting about 11 p.m. Friday night and reappearing after midnight. The three dots at times formed a triangular shape, but they then seemed to straighten into a line, much like sightings in the same are... (more)
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Secret paper links Thatcher to freebies probeA DOCUMENT linking Margaret Thatcher to a US corruption probe is so explosive civil servants have been asked to ensure it remains "sealed".
The 79-year-old former Premier is said to have met Congressman Tom DeLay in Britain while he was on a suspected favours-for-freebies scam.
In return for his free holiday, DeLay - who resigned as Republican leader of Congress last week after being accused of laundering political funds - allegedly backed legislation favourable to ... (more)
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Pill-sized camera gets to grips with your gutIT SOUNDS like the stuff of nightmares - a robot that crawls around inside your gut, anchoring itself by biting onto the walls of your intestine.
But the researchers behind a new take on the camera-in-a-pill claim its ability to move and stop on command will give doctors greater control over the images it takes, allowing them to focus on particular areas of concern.
Existing camera capsules designed to take images of the intestine cannot be controlled externally, so... (more)
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Miers supported full civil rights for gays and lesbians and backed AIDS education programs for the city of Dallas What kind of Supreme Court justice would Harriet Miers be? For anyone trying to assess her qualifications, analyze her philosophy and predict her behavior, Miers would seem to present a fairly blank slate. She has no judicial resume and hasn't left a long trail of noteworthy memos, briefs, oral argument transcripts or law journal articles.
Gay Rights
An indication of her stance on gay rights comes from this questionaire from the Lesbian/Gay Political Coalition of D... (more)
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Schemes to Control the Weather Clouded by FailureScientists agree they can't totally control the weather. But some experts think they can tame it a bit.
Schemes are wide-ranging, with proposals to throttle everything from fog to global warming. Results have been mixed and the controversy constant.
Nature's most powerful storms, hurricanes, are another matter. Hurricanes rely on warm water for fuel. Experts disavow schemes from ocean plowing (to cool the water and remove the energy source) to dragging icebergs into... (more)
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Army to Lower Bar for RecruitsWASHINGTON — Facing recruiting shortages brought on by the conflicts in Iraq and Afghanistan, the Army has decided to accept a greater number of recruits who score near the bottom of military aptitude tests, the secretary of the Army said Monday.
Coming off a recruiting year in which the Army fell short of its goal of 80,000 active-duty soldiers, Army Secretary Francis J. Harvey announced that the Army would allow up to 4% of its recruiting class to be Category IV recruits &... (more)
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Nobel for scientist who poisoned himself to prove his ulcer theoryThe discovery that bacteria rather than stress cause stomach ulcers and that antibiotics can cure the condition has won this year's Nobel prize in physiology or medicine.
Two Australian scientists who isolated the microbe responsible for peptic ulcers and were the first to show the condition is infectious were yesterday jointly awarded the £1m prize.
In 1982, Robin Warren, a pathologist at the Royal Perth Hospital, was the first to show that patients with chro... (more)
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Jails watchdog bans St George pins: English national flag could be 'misinterpreted' as a racist symbolPrison officers who wore a St George's Cross tie-pin have been ticked off by the jails watchdog.
The English national flag could be "misinterpreted" as a racist symbol, Chief Inspector of Prisons Anne Owers said in a report on Wakefield prison.
The pins had been bought by officers at the top security jail to support a cancer charity.
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A section on race relations in Ms Owers' report said: "We were concerned ... (more)
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Man sues over false sex label: A York resident says his neighbor and an online registry wrongly identified him as a sexual offender.YORK -- A York County man is suing his neighbor and a Florida company for $2.35 million, claiming their actions were slanderous, leading people to improperly label him a sex offender.
The complaint, filed recently in Portsmouth Circuit Court, states that neither the plaintiff, Darren K. Matthews, nor his 12-year-old nephew, who lives with him, was ever charged with a sex offense.
Nevertheless, Matthews' address was falsely identified as the home of a sex offender by... (more)
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China's Web Watchers: The Internet was supposed to be immune to censorship, but Beijing has found ways to stifle online dissent Nothing in Zheng Yichun's upbringing foreshadowed his landing in a political prison. His English-speaking father interrogated captured American G.I.s during the Korean War, and as a teenager two decades later, Zheng led his middle school's Communist Youth League. Only when the reform era hit China in the 1980s did the aspiring poet have what his family calls an "awakening." China's leaders were corrupt and tyrannical, he said, and he would fight them with words. Yet despite the provocative titl... (more)
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Four more infected by mysterious respiratory virus in TorontoOTTAWA, Oct. 2(Xinhuanet) -- Four more people were infected by the mysterious respiratory virus that has killed four in Toronto since outbreak, making the number of the patients up to 77, local reports said Sunday.
Despite the encouraging recoveries so far of some patients, there has been a slight increase in the number of the sickened, Dr. David McKeown, Toronto's Medical Officer of Health, told Canadian TV (CTV) in Toronto.
The rise of patients is not alar... (more)
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The idiot box: Watching TV may damage children's brain developmentWatching TV may damage children's brain development, leading to increased anti-social behaviour, new research claims.
There is also a correlation between the amount of TV children watch and the degree of educational damage they suffer, according to the report by Aric Sigman, an associate fellow of the British Psychological Society.
And significant long-term damage occurs even at so-called modest levels of viewing - between one and two hours a day - the report, Remot... (more)
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Will Israel Start World War Three?: And finish the set-up the US started by radicalizing and arming Iran in the first placePaul Joseph Watson/Alex Jones | October 2 2005
Israeli rhetoric towards Iran has considerably heated in the last few weeks as the world hurtles towards an inevitable confrontation over Iran's nuclear programs.
Last week three senior Israeli lawmakers went public to warn that Israel would act unilaterally to eliminate any perceived Iranian threat. Yosef Lapid, head of the centrist... (more)
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Foreknowledge of the Bali Terror Bombings?Queensland's Premier Peter Beattie couldn't resist a joke. He leaned towards the microphone and said:
"We might announce a coup. Men and women of Australia...". (Canberra Summit Press Conference, 27 September 2005).
The October 1st Bali bombing occurred a few days after a special meeting of The Council of Australian Governments in Canberra, during which the State premiers agreed to the adoption of far-reaching antiterrorist measures. The day following the Canberra S... (more)
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Big Brother: Should it be in your car?: Feds say 'black boxes' could make cars safer, but more states pass laws to protect drivers' privacy.WASHINGTON -- A growing number of states are grappling with a new privacy dilemma: what to do about cars that can spy on their owners.
At least two-thirds of new vehicles, including those built by General Motors Corp. and Ford Motor Co., come equipped with event data recorders -- "black boxes" that can tell tales even after a car has been totaled.
The recorders track speed, engine revolutions per minute, braking and seat belt usage and other data in the moments befo... (more)
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Poll: Privacy Rights Under AttackCBS) This CBS News/New York Times Poll shows widespread concern about what has become a common business practice -- collecting personal information about individuals. Most Americans condemn the practice, and two thirds think the federal government should be doing more to regulate it. Many Americans are concerned about their own identities being stolen.
Most Americans believe that the right to privacy in general in this country has been compromised. 52% think the right to privacy i... (more)
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ID chips for all livestockThese ear tags are becoming a thing of the past as states try out high-tech identification chips. (Photo courtesy of the USDA)
The federal government is phasing in a national identification tracking system for livestock to help trace and curb threats, such as Mad Cow disease and even bio-terrorism. One state is even advancing what it calls micro-chip, injectable social security numbers for livestock. But many farmers worry that Big Brother may be moving into the barn. The Great La... (more)
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Buying of News by Bush's Aides Is Ruled IllegalWASHINGTON, Sept. 30 - Federal auditors said on Friday that the Bush administration violated the law by buying favorable news coverage of President Bush's education policies, by making payments to the conservative commentator Armstrong Williams and by hiring a public relations company to analyze media perceptions of the Republican Party.
In a blistering report, the investigators, from the Government Accountability Office, said the administration had disseminated "covert propaganda... (more)
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The police must end their abuse of anti-terror legislationThere was a good deal of justifiable anger over the Brown Shirt tactics of the Labour Party in ejecting an 82-year-old German-Jewish émigré from its conference in Brighton for having the effrontery to heckle Jack Straw's foreign policy speech. But the most bizarre aspect of the affair was the use of the Terrorism Act 2000 to detain Walter Wolfgang, albeit briefly, as he tried to get back in.
Why on earth did the police invoke counter-terrorist legislation against an ... (more)
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Did H.W. Bush, Clinton officials orchestrate OKC bombing?The OKC bombing was a National Security Council (NSC) operation. The groundwork for the operation was laid in the HW Bush administration. The operation was carried out and covered up during the Clinton presidency, and further covered up during the GW Bush presidency.
Within weeks of the OKC bombing Clinton convened an NSC meeting. An attendee of the meeting has said that after Clinton left the meeting, officials of the NSC, DOJ, FBI, CIA, and BATF remained behind and engaged in he... (more)
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Police stun-gun may be lethal, firm admitsThe manufacturer of a stun-gun used in the arrest of a July 21 London bomb attempt suspect is restricting the use of the phrase "non-lethal" in its marketing campaigns amid an investigation by American state authorities.
Taser International, which makes weapons that fire up to 50,000 volts and are used to incapacitate a person, also said it would no longer claim in its consumer literature that its guns "left no lasting effects".
The voluntary concessions come after ... (more)
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The Occupation of New OrleansThe appearance of fully-armed mercenaries on the streets of New Orleans tells us that the city is currently under occupation. Whenever foreign troops are deployed within an urban area it can only mean one thing; the loss of sovereignty. It’s no different here. Blackwater mercenaries are part of a privately owned army that has seized control of the streets from their rightful owners, the people of New Orleans. They are an integral part of a much broader plan to militarize the nation and tur... (more)
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Activists gather to decry Taser useCHARLOTTE, N.C. – Many Charlotte-area police officers are armed with Tasers. But after two separate incidents in the span of a week, a group of concerned citizens are asking police to rethink their policy regarding the high-voltage weapons.
Fifty thousand volts of electricity is enough to stop almost anyone in their tracks. And last week, two Charlotte-Mecklenburg students found that out when school resource officers used the weapons to put an end to what they considered unr... (more)
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