Tom DeLay "Now Tell Me The Truth Boys, Is This Kind Of Fun?''This morning, U.S. House Majority Leader Tom DeLay's visit to the Reliant Park this offered him a glimpse of what it's like to be living in shelter.
While on the tour of a shelter with top administration officials from Washington, including U.S. Secretary of Labor Elaine L. Chao and U.S. Treasury Secretary John W. Snow, DeLay stopped to chat with three young boys resting on cots.
The congressman likened their stay to being at camp and asked, ``Now tell me the truth ... (more)
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July 7 was a shock but no surprise, says head of MI5MI5 was "shocked but not surprised" by the July terrorist attacks in London, the head of the security service said in her first public comment since the atrocity that killed 56 people, including four suicide bombers.
Dame Eliza Manningham-Buller, the director-general, confirmed that a parliamentary committee was to carry out a review of whether MI5 could have done more to prevent the attacks or had missed any intelligence about their planning.
But she said: "No one ... (more)
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Mexico, Holland send troops to BiloxiSep. 9 - The Marines have landed in Biloxi -- the Mexican Marines.
And Dutch Marines as well.
For the first time since the 19th Century, Mexican troops landed Friday on U.S. soil, sent from the Mexican Navy ship ARM Papaloapan anchored near the USS Bataan. The Mexican ship's name means, "River of Butterflies."
Marines from Mexico, Holland and the U.S. are part of an international Hurricane Katrina cleanup effort building up on ships about 20 miles off... (more)
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Bush links September 11 to 'challenge' posed by KatrinaPresident George Bush has linked the 9/11 attacks to the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina, saying the US was able to "overcome any challenge". Days before the fourth anniversary of the terror attacks on New York and Washington, Mr Bush declared: "America is a strong and resilient nation." At the swearing-in-ceremony for Karen Hughes, his new senior official for "public diplomacy", Mr Bush said 100 countries had offered assistance to help hurricane victims. He said there had been a "a similar outpo... (more)
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Envoy walks out over 'British terrorism' claimThe British high commissioner to Malaysia walked out of a speech yesterday when the country's former prime minister condemned Britain and America as "terrorist nations".
Mahathir Mohamad said that British and American pilots in Iraq were "murderers". He claimed that the two countries were responsible for the deaths of "500,000 infants" through sanctions imposed against Saddam Hussein and accused Downing Street of lying over the 45-minute weapons of mass destruction claim.
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Flight 93 victims honored with Muslim Crescent?: Pastor threatens lawsuit, sees design as bow to terrorists A Pennsylvania pastor is fighting the newly approved design of the Flight 93 National Memorial, contending its crescent pattern is a symbol of Islam.
Rev. Ron McRae, head of the Bible Anabaptist Church near Jerome, Pa., about 55 miles from Pittsburgh, said a private group he formed might go to court to block the "Crescent of Embrace" memorial designed by Paul Murdoch Associates of Los Angeles.
"This is a memorial to the terrorists who killed those people, not a mem... (more)
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Fighting terrorism the high-tech way: While officials laud the latest security tools, some say it’s not enoughMalene Meisner stiffened as quick puffs of air shot out from the machine and pelted her body. Within seconds, the high-tech new machine indicated there were no traces of explosives, so the airport screener waved Meisner through Terminal 1 at Kennedy Airport.
Meisner of Denmark had just stepped through the latest in airport security screening.
"I think it's great if it can detect explosives. The more security the better," said Meisner, 34, who was leaving New York Wednesday ... (more)
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Filling Up Abroad Becomes a Financial DrainLONDON — One hundred fifty dollars to fill 'er up.
That's what it cost Adam Mleasai, a 28-year-old builder, to fill his battered green Audi beneath the lighted canopy of a BP station on North London's Finchley Road.
"It's so frustrating," he said, estimating that he is paying 80 pounds a week, about $150, to fill his gas tank. As British fuel prices edge toward 1 pound per liter, nearly $7 a gallon, that buys only about 83 liters, or 22 gallons.
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Scientists create human embryo without a fatherDUBLIN - Human embryos have been created in Britain without using sperm for the first time.
The "virgin conception" embryos, which mark a new way to grow a woman's cells and tissues for a vast range of treatments, were revealed by an Edinburgh team.
The development is the second time in as many days that U.K. scientists have pushed back the boundaries of reproductive science.
On Thursday, approval was given to experiments to create embryos from three ... (more)
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ASPARTAMEAspartame is the most controversial food additive in history. The most recent evidence, linking it to leukaemia and lymphoma, has added substantial fuel to the ongoing protests of doctors, scientists and consumer groups who allege that this artificial sweetener should never have been released onto the market and that allowing it to remain in the food chain is killing us by degrees.
Once upon a time, aspartame was listed by the Pentagon as a biochemical warfare agent. Today ... (more)
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Animal organs 'will soon be used for transplants'The transplantation of organs from animals to humans could soon be a reality, scientists said yesterday.
Speaking at the BA Festival of Science in Dublin, Dr Anthony Warrens, of Imperial College, London, said xenotransplantation, the process of transplanting organs from one species into another, could soon ease the shortages in body parts.
There are about five times more patients than organs available for transplant.
Dr Warrens said he would have been... (more)
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Texas Fires Lawyer After Story on RoveA staff attorney with the Texas secretary of state said yesterday that she was fired this week for violating press protocols when she spoke to a Washington Post reporter who was working on a story about presidential adviser Karl Rove.
Elizabeth Reyes, 30, of Austin said she was fired Tuesday after she was quoted in a Post story that ran Sept. 3 about tax deductions on Rove's homes in the District and in Texas.
Scott Haywood, a spokesman for Texas Secretary of State ... (more)
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Defeating terror may mean giving up rights, MI5 warnsTHE head of MI5 has publicly backed Tony Blair’s warning that the rules of how Britain combats the threat of terrorism have to change.
In a break with tradition, Dame Eliza Manningham-Buller, Director-General of MI5, allowed a confidential speech that she had given to Dutch intelligence officers to be published on the agency’s website yesterday. She gave a warning that an erosion of civil liberties might be necessary to stop more British citizens from being killed by t... (more)
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FEMA Chief Brown Paid Millions in False Claims to Help Bush Win Fla. Votes in '04Michael Brown, the embattled head of the Federal Emergency Management Agency, approved payments in excess of $31 million in taxpayer money to thousands of Florida residents who were unaffected by Hurricane Frances and three other hurricanes last year in an effort to help President Bush win a majority of votes in that state during his reelection campaign, according to published reports.
“Some Homeland Security sources said FEMA's efforts to distribute funds quickly after Fran... (more)
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Where’s Osama?It has now been four years since the largest foreign terrorist attack within the United States, and the war on terror, for all its expensive destruction and rebuilding overseas and attacks on civil liberties at home, has still failed to apprehend the presumed chief culprit behind 9/11.
Bush is probably too preoccupied with the horrendous aftermath of Katrina – surely doing everything he can to deliver "millions of tons of food" to the victims – to worry about the l... (more)
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College bars Christian from sharing faith: Religious expression not 'cultural, educational, social or recreational'A man barred from speaking about his Christian faith on a New York state college campus filed a civil-rights lawsuit claiming violation of his free-speech rights.
Officials at Ulster County Community College in Stone Ridge, N.Y., told Greg Davis of Indian Lake, N.Y., that he needed to file a facilities use permit application to speak about his faith with students in a public, grassy area on campus in October 2003.
But when he did so, his application was denied becau... (more)
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U.S. import prices up, export prices downHigher energy prices boosted the cost of U.S. imports 1.3 percent in August, slightly higher than expected.
Meanwhile, export prices slipped 0.1 percent last month after a 0.1-percent rise in July, the Labor Department said Friday. Most analysts had forecast export prices to hold steady in August.
The 1.3 percent rise in import costs, which slightly exceeded economists' expectations of a 1.1-percent upturn, was driven by a 7.1-percent rise in crude oil and petroleum... (more)
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Total Gun Confiscation of Law Abiding Citizens Begins: Federal forces lead criminal gangs of police in America-killing gun grab“The balloon has gone up, the shoe has dropped. Anyone doubting the criminal intentions of the social engineer control-freaks in Washington need only look at middle-class neighborhoods being stormed by black-masked wearing jackboots on a mission to steal guns.
This is a precedent setting case for national gun confiscation. This is a clear declaration of war by the Federal Government against the American people. This is exactly how Lexington and Concord started the Revolution... (more)
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Terror "suspects" to be fitted with "tracking devices"TERROR suspects could be fitted with tracking devices and anyone who preaches violence could be thrown in jail under tough anti-terror laws unveiled by the Howard Government yesterday.
The laws, which need the support of the states, will also mean more security cameras on Australia's transport networks.
And any traveller who leaves a bag unattended at an airport could find themselves fined or even jailed if the offence is considered malicious.
The law... (more)
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Physician who told Cheney to go F*ck Himself Lost his Home in Katrina, Detained, Cuffed by Cheney's M-16-carrying GoonsDr. Ben Marble, a young emergency room physician who plays in alternative rock bands and does art on the side, needs our help. Since he was the one who told Dick Cheney to "go f*ck yourself" on Sept. 8, that's the least we can do.
Marble is a complex guy, to say the least. Some of the lyrics he writes can be considered harsh by some – personally what I've heard is very much on target - but he has a softer side as an organizer of breast cancer fund-raisers, not to mention an ... (more)
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Babies show signs of crying in the wombAn infant's first cry may occur not in the delivery room, but in the womb, researchers have found.
With the help of video-recorded ultrasound images, the investigators found that a group of third-trimester fetuses showed evidence of "crying behavior" in response to a low-decibel noise played on the mother's abdomen.
Fetuses showed a "startle" response to the noise, along with deep inhalations and exhalations, an open mouth and a "quivering" chin -- all signs of cryi... (more)
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Scientists Discover How Fish Oil Protects the BrainFRIDAY, Sept. 9 (HealthDay News) -- Louisiana State University scientists say they have discovered how the fatty acids found in fish oil help protect the human brain from the type of cognitive decline associated with Alzheimer's disease.
Their study shows that docosahexaenoic acid (DHA), an omega-3 fatty acid found in coldwater fish such as mackerel, sardines and salmon, reduces levels of a protein known to cause damaging plaques in the brains of Alzheimer's patients.
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Conditioning Children for the Police State: Playmobil security check pointFrom the Manufacturer
The woman traveler stops by the security checkpoint. After placing her luggage on the screening machine, the airport employee checks her baggage. The traveler hands her spare change and watch to the security guard and proceeds through the metal detector. With no time to spare, she picks up her luggage and hurries to board her flight!
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Locals believe Levees were Intentionally blown: Evidence suggests there were "cracks" in levees that were intentionally ignored, questions over how they failedSteve Watson/Prisonplanet | September 9 2005
Could the levees in New Orleans have been INTENTIONALLY blown out in order to save sections of the city deemed to be more important?
The locals certainly seem to think so, yet, as usual, the mainstream media is barely picking up on this wave of opinion, so it is left to us once again to bring the issue into the open.
When Katrina hit, it drifted 15 miles to the east of... (more)
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