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AND HE SHALL BE JUDGED

Former defense secretary Donald Rumsfeld has always answered his detractors by claiming that history will one day judge him kindly. But as he waits for that day, a new group of critics—his administration peers—are suddenly speaking out for the first time. What they’re saying? It isn’t pretty

on the morning of Thursday, April 10, 2003, Donald Rumsfeld’s Pentagon prepared a top-secret briefing for George W. Bush. This document, known as the Worldwide Intelligence Update, was a daily digest of critical military intelligence so classified that it circulated among only a handful of Pentagon leaders and the president; Rumsfeld himself often delivered it, by hand, to the White House. The briefing’s cover sheet generally featured triumphant, color images from the previous days’ war efforts: On this particular morning, it showed the statue of Saddam Hussein being pulled down in Firdos Square, a grateful Iraqi child kissing an American soldier, and jubilant crowds thronging the streets of newly liberated Baghdad. And above these images, and just below the headline secretary of defense, was a quote that may have raised some eyebrows. It came from the Bible, from the book of Psalms: “Behold, the eye of the Lord is on those who fear Him…To deliver their soul from death.”

This mixing of Crusades-like messaging with war imagery, which until now has not been revealed, had become routine. On March 31, a U.S. tank roared through the desert beneath a quote from Ephesians: “Therefore put on the full armor of God, so that when the day of evil comes, you may be able to stand your ground, and after you have done everything, to stand.” On April 7, Saddam Hussein struck a dictatorial pose, under this passage from the First Epistle of Peter: “It is God’s will that by doing good you should silence the ignorant talk of foolish men.” (To see these and more Bush-administration intelligence cover sheets, visit GQ.com’s exclusive slideshow).

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Gods Gonna Cut You Down – Johnny Cash

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Battling With High Blood Preasure and Sexuality

Luckier than most, I caught it early and found a smart doctor who knows why and can explain it to me.  My delima is that I can’t take DHEA or Yombe as those two items appear to raise my blood pressure.  These two items do very well keeping you sexually young.

This is a strange thing that young people might not understand, but I’m sure many my age would understand.

In my younger days I would masturbate and get myself off about 3 times a day and I thought I was a sinner and I felt real guilty about it, but it seemed I couldn’t do nothing about it.  When a women walked by who I found attractive, magic would happen inside, I would be awe struck, like a dear in headlights.

Years later I had discovered that there was nothing sinful about this at all.  It is perfectly natural. Everybody is different and some people are more sexual then others and it is not a curse or sign of weakness, but a blessing that has been ruined by an awful belief that sex is sinful.

How can you explain this to a young person without coming off sounding like a perv?  That is a very painful thing.  Very sad that we live in a society that is sex phobia and sadly the young people pick it up right away and will also bear their children in sinfulness.  Only Jesus born of a virgin is righteous.  If I’m not mistaken, this is the 21st century isn’t it?

Now that I’m older and this magic no longer happens and it is even difficult to get off once a day, sometimes impossible.  Some would say that I’m still pretty lucky.  There are a few who have never experienced an orgasm and yet others, very rarely and they might mistakenly believe it is because they are righteous while inside they feel anger finding it difficult to experience bliss.  Be careful of these people.  I believe they are the conservatives who believed in Bush, I bet you Dick Cheney is one of them.

We need to learn to talk about these things. Ok, that’s all I have to say for now.

Poem of The Day – 05 11 09

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Justice

They pushed her in the door
She hit the floor
Stealing those gifts from family and friends
Laughter was all they said

Got a thousand pounds of hatred crumbling my soul
I want to kill the person who hurt me so

They hit him in the head
He hit the ground
Stealing the earning of another man’s labor
Laughter was all they said

Got a thousand pounds of hatred crumbling my soul
I want to kill the person who hurt me so

The word within speaks
“Is not your God a just God?
Will goodness come to those who do evil?
Come that judgment day
What will God have to say?”

By:  Roger Harkness

Living on the east coast, the local news can be so dreadful at times.  This was from a news story.  Followed an old lady home and just after she unlocked her door, they pushed her inside.  This became a common act of crime, like car jacking.  You just follow someone home and wait for them to unlock their door, you rob them and you might beat them up too just for the fun of it. You can’t help but be angry at those who hurt others just for the fun of it.

MUST READ – Green is good, Red is bad

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My wife forwarded this to me and feels it is  very important information to pass on.  Normal  alternative medications like echinacea will not work and actually will make things worse if you catch the swine flu or suspect you have it.  There are however other alternative treatments that will help. So what I have hi-lighted green is good and what I hi-lighted red is bad.  Pass this on.

http://www.the-health-gazette.com/health-gazette-blog/alternative-medicine/natural-antivirals

Natural Antivirals Submitted by Health Gazette on Thu, 2006-05-11 08:55.

Alternative Medicine

Regular readers know that I have no time for the nonsense relating to imagined bird-flu pandemics. However. I regarded the following item of sufficient novelty to be of some interest. You may judge its merits for yourself.

Research suggests certain natural foods may be as effective against virus H5N1 as commercial antivirals.

(PRWEB) May 10, 2006 — A Biology teacher from Australia, named Stephen Jones, has done extensive research into the H5N1 virus and compiled a list of natural foods that are effective against it and listed others that are detrimental.

The list may come as a surprise to many people since foods such as spirulina and echinacea are listed as detrimental. This strange occurrence is largely due to the fact that the virus is immune to 2 cytokines that the body produces (TNF-a and IL-6). Cytokines are compounds produced by the body’s immune system that attack and remove foreign bodies. The problem is that when a foreign body is immune to certain cytokines, the body sees that its immune response is not working and tries even harder, which can lead to what is called a cytokine storm, where the body becomes flooded with these compounds and they eventually destroy the body itself. Foods such as Echinacea
actually stimulate the production of these specific cytokines; hence consuming it is not a good idea if one suspects they may have the virus.

During the 1918 Spanish Flu many healthy young people died from cytokine storms due to their immune systems overreacting. Consuming foods which suppress the production of cytokines TNF-a and IL-6 and enhance the production of the ones that actually are effective against the virus will aid the patient greatly.

Other foods that create mucous in the respiratory tract, such as bananas, are also listed as detrimental due to the fact that the predominant breeding ground of the virus is the respiratory tract and another way in which a patient may suffer is due to the body’s over production of mucous in this area.

Folk Medicines and Herbs to use and avoid with Bird Flu

Below is a list of foods that are said to contain substances that are natural antivirals, immune boosters or they decrease cytokines TNF-a and IL-6.

Alternative medications that are most likely to help us during a
severe pandemic:

Garlic (allicin) – Very effective antiviral. Best if fresh (raw) and
crushed. Must be consumed within 1 hour of crushing. Dosage is
initially 2 to 3 cloves per day but later reduce until no body odour
occurs. No toxic effects noted. (Pubmed PMID 9049657)

Vitamin C – Boosts the immune system and is an antiviral by blocking
the enzyme neuraminadase. Viruses need neuraminadase to reproduce.
There are anecdotal stories of people taking large amounts of Vitamin
C (children ½) surviving the Spanish Flu. Research shows that it may
reduce the production of cytokines TNF-a and IL-6. A study on 470
people involved giving the test group 1000 mg hourly for 6 hours and
then 1000 mg 3 times daily after reporting flu symptoms. Symptoms
decreased by 85%. (Pubmed PMID 10543583, 634178, 16169205, 12876306)

Green Tea (possible Tamiflu/Relenza alternative)- Very effective
antiviral. Also decreases the production of the cytokine (catechins)
TNF-a. Inhibits neuraminidase. May have antiviral activity that is
equal to other antivirals such as Tamiflu. (Pubmed PMID 16137775)

St Johns Wort (Hypericum) – Very effective antiviral. Also decreases
the production of the cytokine IL-6. Hypericum is an extract from St
John’s Wort. There have been some very successful field trials in
commercial flocks infected with H5N1 in Vietnam. (Pubmed PMID 7857513,
11518071, 11362353, 7857513, 11518071)

Vitamin E – Immune booster. Also decreases the production of the
cytokine TNF-a. (Pubmed PMID 155882360, 10929076) Experiments involved
using mice. Very suitable for immune compromised people, especially
the elderly. Effects enhanced when taken with Vitamin C.

Apple Juice – Antiviral. Fresh apple juice including the pulp and skin
has greater antiviral activity than heated commercial apple juice.
More research is needed. Effectiveness on H5N1 is unknown. (Pubmed
PMID 32832, 12452634)

Resveratrol – Antiviral. In addition to inhibiting neuraminidase,
Resveratrol also sends a message to cells to stop manufacturing
viruses. This is a proven antiviral found naturally in red wine,
peanuts, mulberries, Japanese Knotwood root (richest source), raisins
and red grapes. Resveratrol supplements are relatively inexpensive,
are more stable than wine and is available in liquid form for
absorption in the mouth. No toxic effects noted. (Pubmed PMID 1583880, 12817628, 15985724)

Scuttellaria (Skullcap) – Antiviral. A herb used as a tea. It has no
side effects and is also a mild tranquilliser. Research suggests
neuraminidase, which is a substance needed by the H5N1 virus to
reproduce, may be inhibited.

Cranberry Juice – Early research shows that it may be an antiviral,
making viruses less able to invade or multiply. Effectiveness on H5N1
is unknown. (Pubmed PMID15781126)

Cat’s Claw (Uncaria tomentosa) – Decreases the production of the
cytokine TNF-a. Also boosts immune system. The number of white blood
cells was significantly increased during treatment. No toxicity was
noted. (http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?CMD=search&DB=pubmed)
Active constituents can be found in the leaves, bark, vine, and roots.
Water extraction from bark used. Children and pregnant women are to
avoid. Has a potentially damaging effect on the DNA of proliferating
cells. (cancers, foetuses, growing children)

Curcumin (Tumeric Spice) – Decreases the production of the cytokine
TNF-a. This is the yellow compound in turmeric spice. Research shows
that this may be very good for preventing a cytokine storm although
this is not proven. Must be taken with food or gastritis or peptic
ulcers may occur. Pregnant women and feeding mothers should avoid
this. The medicinal properties of curcurnin cannot be utilised when
used alone due to rapid metabolism in the liver and intestinal wall.
When combined with Piperine found in black pepper the absorption is
increased with no adverse effects. Obtainable from health stores in
tablets, liquid, capsules already combined with piperine. Dosage is
500mg to 4000mg daily.

Astragalus root (Astragali Radix) – Boosts immune system. (Pubmed PMID15588652)

Tea tree Steam Inhalation – Reduces the cytokine TNF-a. Add 2 drops of
tea tree oil in a bowl of steaming water. Cover head with a towel and
inhale for 5 to 10 minutes. Relieves congestion and fights infection.
Its effectiveness is unknown. (Pubmed PMID 11131302)

The following substances may be best to avoid during a H5N1 pandemic

Elderberry juice (Sambucal) – AVOID – Increases production of
cytokines TNF-a and IL-6. This substance is very effective against the
common flu but may not be desirable for the H5N1 virus. Increases in
these cytokines may trigger a lethal cytokine storm. (Isr Med
Journal2002 Nov;4:944-6)

Micro Algae (Chlorella and Spirulina) – AVOID – Increases production
of cytokine TNF-a. (Pubmed PMID 11731916)

Honey – AVOID – Increases production of cytokines TNF-a and IL-6.
(Pubmed PMID12824009)

Chocolate – AVOID – Increases production of cytokines TNF-a and IL-6.
(Pubmed PMID 12885154, PMID 10917928)

Echinacea – AVOID – Increases production of cytokines TNF-a and IL-6.
Although it is often used for normal flu, research shows that it may
increase the chance of cytokine storms for H5N1. (Pubmed PMID
15556647, 9568541)

Kimchi – AVOID – Increases production of cytokines TNF-a and IL-6.
(Pubmed PMID15630182)

Dairy products & Bananas – AVOID – These foods increase mucous production.

References:

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/ (search using Pubmed ID number listed after each food)

A Woman Shakes The Hand of A Brave Man

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See the original image at huffingtonpost.com —

Naked Wizard Taser Brawl At Coachella (VIDEO NSFW)

huffingtonpost.com — The police officers beg and plead for the man to put on his robes, but all the Naked Wizard wants to do is be free of his wizard sleeves and hang in the breeze. He throws his colorful garb onto the grass. “It doesn’t have to stop,” the Naked Wizard says.


Indecent exposure – think about it. Let me ask, is there something indecent about our body. This is what we are taught. WHY DO WE BELIEVE IT? That’s a brave man, I wish I could be so brave.

Sad thing is, he will be charged with a sex crime. He will only be able to live in certain areas and all mothers will believe he is a child molester and every women will think he’s a rapist as the law will always require that he be identified. Strangely however murderes and violent criminals after their short stay behind bars, they are free.

Why did they tase him, one of the officers realising they had gone to far made them stop. Did you see that one officer knee him and the other pull his hair while he was down. Surely they could have just put him in handcuffs, draped a blanket around him, read him his rights and took him to jail. There were three of them and only one of him. When you brake laws enforcing the law, you are a hypocrite. Let me ask another question, who is worse, a hypocrite or someone who is not ashamed of their body?  Oh wait, I know, we’re all supposed to be ashamed of our body, now that’s thinking inside the box. Safe inside that box we are, only a few brave souls dare wander.

This is only a free country because people stand up for freedom, and when we stop doing that, we stop being free.  So stand up for those who take the chance who stand against the laws that keep us from being free.


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Net Neutrality – It’s YOUR Free Speech

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I think Net Neutrality is very important.  Some people will tell me that the Internet is full of porn or that we should be talking to each other face to face, while these arguments have some merit, these same people have tvs and spend most of their free time watching them.  First of all, what is porn, it is sex, what is sex, it was how you and I were created, is that so wrong?  Ok, now what’s on tv.  You will watch five people die a day, how can that be good.  So what’s the logic, there isn’t none, we are brain washed, really, we are.  The other argument, I will agree we need to visit more with eachother, but when we do, we talk about tv, really.  You know what’s really funny about tv shows, you never watch anybody watch tv, but thats what most of us do.  Our lives our so unreal, living our lives in a tv show.  So give me the Internet and the porn, it’s more real than you and your tv watching people die every day.


Net neutrality is very important. What the phone companies and cable companies want us to do is to have those of us who provide content (blogs, personal pages and myspace/facebook/etc.) on the Internet, pay them to host it at high speed, the free sites slow speed, so that once again there will be a one way conversation between the haves and have nots just like Print, TV and Radio. Right now our democracy is those who have the most dollars have the votes, it’s a scam guiding us with misinformation and entertainment. The Internet is turning that around and we can’t let them take that away from us. That’s my soap box. Later.

U.S. shipped 989 munitions containers to Israel before Gaza invasion

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U.S. shipped 989 munitions containers to Israel week before Gaza invasion –Shipment included white phosphorous 10 Apr 2009 In the dying days of the Bush administration, and a week before Israel launched an aerial bombing campaign, followed by a land invasion of the Gaza Strip, the U.S. military shipped 989 containers of munitions to Israel. Each container was 20-feet long with a total estimated net weight of 14,000 tonnes. The shipment reportedly reached Israel last month at Ashdod, 40 kilometres north of Gaza. According to Amnesty International in the UK, the shipment included white phosphorous.

Cost of Iraq war will surpass Vietnam’s by year’s end –If Congress approves the latest funding request, as expected, the Iraq war will have cost about $694 billion, making it the second most expensive conflict in U.S. history behind World War II. 11 Apr 2009 The amount of U.S. money spent on the Iraq war will surpass the cost of Vietnam by the end of the year, making it the second most expensive military conflict in American history, behind World War II, according to Pentagon figures provided Friday. If Congress approves the supplemental funding request submitted this week by the Obama administration, the cost of the war will rise by $87 billion for 2009, including a previous supplement approved during the Bush administration.

Contractor Must Pay in Iraq Fraud, Court Rules 11 Apr 2009 A federal appeals court ruled Friday that a contractor [mercenaries] found to have committed widespread fraud in Iraq could not avoid paying millions of dollars in damages by claiming that the United States law governing false claims essentially did not apply there, as a previous judge had found on technical grounds. The earlier decision set aside a jury’s verdict in 2006 that the contractor, Custer Battles, must pay about $10 million in damages and penalties to the United States government and two whistle-blowers.

US setting stage for longer Iraq stay? 11 Apr 2009 The top US commander in Iraq has suggested increasing the number of combat forces in breach of a recently signed deal for their withdrawal. General Ray Odierno said in an interview with The Times that he would ask the White House to keep combat troops in the northern provinces of Mosul and Baqubah beyond a deadline set last year for their withdrawal by the end of June.

Is Gates channeling Cheney on Iraq with ‘last gasp’ remark? 10 Apr 2009 Midway through a week of mayhem in Iraq, Defense Secretary Robert Gates raised eyebrows when he said the recent resurgence of violence in Baghdad was “a last gasp” of Islamic extremists. It was an echo of former Vice President [sic] Dick Cheney, who in 2005 said the insurgency was “in the last throes.” The following two years were the deadliest period of the war. A truck bomb Friday in the northern city of Mosul killed five U.S. soldiers in the deadliest attack on U.S. forces in 13 months. Since Monday, a series of explosions around the country has killed at least 60 Iraqis and injured 200.

Iraqi babies for sale: people trafficking crisis grows in corrupt system –At least 150 children a year sold for £200 to £4,000 –Some bartered youngsters become sex abuse victims 06 Apr 2009 Corruption, weak law enforcement and porous borders are compounding a growing child trafficking crisis in [Bush's] Iraq, according to officials and aid agencies, with scores of children abducted each year and sold internally or abroad. Criminal gangs [Xe/KBR] are profiting from the cheap cost of buying infants and the bureaucratic muddle that makes it relatively easy to move them overseas. Accurate figures are difficult to obtain because there is no centralised counting procedure, but aid agencies and police say they believe numbers have increased by a third since 2005 to at least 150 children a year.

‘Israel killed 437 kids in blockaded Gaza’ 11 Apr 2009 Israel’s three-week war on the Gaza Strip left 437 children dead and 1872 more wounded, the Ministry of Social Affairs in Gaza has said. Ahmad Al Kurd, Minister of Social Affairs, said on Friday that the Israeli army targeted women and children, and that its shelling targeted homes, hospitals, educational facilities and even mosques, International Middle East Media Center reported.

60 drone hits kill 14 al-Qaeda men, 687 civilians 10 Apr 2009 Of the 60 cross-border predator strikes carried out by the Afghanistan-based American drones in Pakistan between January 14, 2006 and April 8, 2009, only 10 were able to hit their actual targets, killing 14 wanted al-Qaeda [al-CIAduh] leaders, besides perishing 687 innocent Pakistani civilians. The ’success’ percentage of the US predator strikes is thus not more than six per cent.

Australian opposition says ministers fail to get exit strategy from U.S. 11 Apr 2009 Two Australian federal government ministers failed to get an exit strategy from Afghanistan when they met U.S. cabinet secretaries in Washington, the federal opposition said on Saturday. Foreign Minister Stephen Smith and Defense Minister Joel Fitzgibbon met with their U.S. counterparts, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and Secretary of Defense Robert Gates, on Friday in Washington as part of the Australia-U.S. Ministerial (AUSMIN) talks.

120 more troops likely for Afghanistan 10 Apr 2009 Australia is set to send more troops to Afghanistan — most likely about 120 — to help protect ‘voters’ from attack when they go to the polls in August.

Russia test fires intercontinental missile 10 Apr 2009 Russia has successfully test-launched a PC-12M Topol intercontinental ballistic missile, Russian news agencies have reported. According to the agencies, the missile was jointly launched by the Strategic Rocket Forces and the Space Forces from the Plesetsk Cosmodrome on Friday.

US navy eyeballs Somali pirates in hostage standoff 11 Apr 2009 Somali elders sought to mediate between the U.S. navy and pirates holding an American hostage today in a high-seas standoff that presents President Barack Obama with a nasty new dilemma. Four pirates adrift in a lifeboat far out in the Indian Ocean with Richard Phillips, the American captain of a cargo ship they tried to seize on Wednesday, have demanded $2 million for his release and a guarantee of their own safety.

Officials: FBI launches criminal piracy probe 11 Apr 2009 FBI agents are investigating the Somali pirates who hijacked a U.S. ship and are holding its captain hostage, U.S. officials said Saturday, raising the possibility of federal charges against the men if they are captured.

You are being lied to about pirates –Some are clearly just gangsters. But others are trying to stop illegal dumping and trawling By Johann Hari 05 Jan 2009 Who imagined that in 2009, the world’s governments would be declaring a new War on Pirates? …But behind the arrr-me-hearties oddness of this tale, there is an untold scandal. The people our governments are labelling as “one of the great menaces of our times” have an extraordinary story to tell – and some justice on their side.

Poll: Three-quarters favor relations with Cuba 10 Apr 2009 A new poll shows that two-thirds of Americans surveyed think the U.S. should lift its travel ban on Cuba, and three-quarters think the U.S. should end its five-decade estrangement with the country. According to the CNN/Opinion Research Corp. poll conducted April 3 to 5, 64 percent of the 1,023 Americans surveyed by telephone thought the U.S. government should allow citizens to travel to Cuba.

Manchester link to plots across Europe 12 Apr 2009 The alleged Al-Qaeda plot to bomb shopping centres in Manchester over Easter had been ordered by a fugitive British terrorist, investigators believe. Rashid Rauf, identified by MI5 as Al-Qaeda’s “director of operations” [!] in Europe, is suspected of planning the bombing as part of a wider “master plan” for a number of attacks on cities across the Continent.

Pakistan arrests Briton on terror charges 11 Apr 2009 Pakistan interior minister chief says a British national has been arrested in Peshawar city on suspicion of having links with al-Qaeda. Rehman Malik said Saturday that the Pakistani authorities are interrogating the Briton without giving further information, a Press TV correspondent reported. The detention is largely viewed as retaliation to the Wednesday arrests in northwest England in which 12 people – among them 11 Pakistanis — were detain for allegedly planning terror attack on the British soil.

Pathologist in Ian Tomlinson G20 death case was reprimanded over conduct –G20 pathologist reprimanded over conduct –MP asks why first post mortem was held so quickly, and calls for public inquiry 11 Apr 2009 The initial post mortem examination of the man who died at the G20 protests after being attacked by a police officer, which found he had died of a heart attack, was conducted by a forensic pathologist once reprimanded about his professional conduct by the General Medical Council. Ian Tomlinson, a 47-year-old newspaper seller, died on April 1 after being assaulted at least once by officers policing the G20 demonstrations. He had been trying to walk home from work when he was confronted by police, hit with a baton and thrown to the ground.

Should Obama Control the Internet? –A new bill would give the President emergency authority to halt web traffic and access private data. By Steve Aquino 02 Apr 2009 Should President Obama have the power to shut down domestic Internet traffic during a state of emergency? Senators John Rockefeller (D-W. Va.) and Olympia Snowe (R-Maine) think so. On Wednesday they introduced a bill to establish the Office of the National Cybersecurity Advisor–an arm of the executive branch that would have vast power to monitor and control Internet traffic to protect against threats to critical cyber infrastructure.

Goldman Sachs hires law firm to shut blogger’s site 11 Apr 2009 Goldman Sachs is attempting to shut down a dissident blogger who is extremely critical of the investment bank, its board members and its practices. The bank has instructed Wall Street law firm Chadbourne & Parke to pursue blogger Mike Morgan, warning him in a recent cease-and-desist letter that he may face legal action if he does not close down his website. Florida-based Mr Morgan began a blog entitled “Facts about Goldman Sachs” — goldmansachs666.com — just a few weeks ago.

All passengers will ‘go through the whole-body imager instead of the walk-through metal detector.’ Whole-Body Scans Pass First Airport Tests 07 Apr 2009 In a shift, the Transportation Security Administration plans to replace the walk-through metal detectors at airport checkpoints with whole-body imaging machines — the kind that provide an image of the naked body. Initially, the machines were supposed to be used only on passengers who set off the metal detectors, to provide them with an option to the customary secondary physical pat-downs and inspections by electronic wand. But Robin Kane, the agency’s acting chief technology officer, said that the initial results from pilot tests at some checkpoints at 19 airports in the United States had been so good that the idea of using the machines as the standard checkpoint detectors made sense.

Hundreds of Ill. patients possibly exposed to TB 11 Apr 2009 Hundreds of patients and staff at three Chicago-area hospitals may have been exposed to tuberculosis by a contagious doctor-in-training, officials said Friday. About 300 staff and 150 patients may have been exposed at Children’s Memorial Hospital, said Dr. Stan Shulman, the hospital’s chief of pediatric infectious disease. Seventeen patients may have been affected at Northwestern Memorial Hospital, officials said.

Suspected Nazi can stay in US for now: officials 11 Apr 2009 Suspected Nazi guard John Demjanjuk can remain in the United States while an immigration court considers his latest appeal against extradition to Germany, US officials said Wednesday. “It is a subject for the courts at this point,” said Pat Reilly, a spokeswoman for US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE).

States Slashing Social Programs for Vulnerable 12 Apr 2009 Battered by the recession Bush Depression and the deepest and most widespread budget deficits in several decades, a large majority of states are slicing into their social safety nets — often crippling preventive efforts that officials say would save money over time. President Obama’s $787 billion stimulus package… will offset only 40 percent of the losses in state revenues, and programs for vulnerable groups have been cut in at least 34 states, according to the Center for Budget and Policy Priorities, a private research group in Washington.

Tell the Pesticide Peddlers: We support Michelle Obama’s organic garden. (CREDO) 11 Apr 2009 The Mid America CropLife Association (MACA) has a bone to pick with Michelle Obama. MACA represents chemical companies that produce pesticides, and they are angry that – wait for it – Michelle Obama isn’t using chemicals in her organic garden at the White House. We are not making this up. In an email they forwarded to their supporters, a MACA spokesman wrote, “While a garden is a great idea, the thought of it being organic made [us] shudder.” MACA went on to publish a letter it had sent to the First Lady asking her to consider using chemicals — or what they call “crop protection products” — in her garden.

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Previous lead stories: General Odierno: US troop numbers in northern Iraq could rise rather than fall 10 Apr 2009 The activities of ‘al-Qaeda’ in two of Iraq’s most troubled cities could keep US combat troops engaged beyond the June 30 deadline for their withdrawal, the top US commander in the country has warned. US troop numbers in Mosul and Baqubah, in the north of the country, could rise rather than fall over the next year if necessary, General Ray Odierno told The Times in his first interview with a British newspaper since taking over from General David Petraeus in September. [See: 'US behind recent Iraq bomb attacks' 09 Apr 2009.]

Lawsuit filed against 3 US companies for supplying chemical WMDs to Iraq — Alcolac pleaded guilty in 1989 to knowingly violating export laws by shipping a mustard-gas ingredient that ultimately went to Iran. 09 Apr 2009 Five survivors of the 1988 poison gas attacks of ethnic Kurds in Iraq have filed a class action lawsuit in Maryland claiming three American companies and the government of Iraq violated the Geneva Convention by using mustard and nerve gasses to kill tens of thousands of people. Filed in U.S. District Court in Baltimore, the lawsuit says the companies supplied the regime of former Iraqi dictator [CIA asset] Saddam Hussein with the chemical precursors and compounds needed to make the poison gases used in the six-month long “Operation Anfal.”

US military admits killing mother, children 09 Apr 2009 The US military in Afghanistan admitted Thursday that four people its troops killed in a raid were not “combatants”, after Afghans said they included a mother and her children, with a baby dying afterwards. Afghan officials and witnesses earlier accused the forces of killing civilians in an overnight raid in the eastern province of Khost that the US military initially said killed “four combatants”.

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From Veterans For Peace on Afghanistan

News, No War No Comments

For Immediate Release

Veterans For Peace: www.veteransforpeace.org
March 27, 2009 CONTACT: Mike Ferner 419-360-3621
Michael T. McPhearson 314-303-8874

Today President Obama announced what he termed, “a comprehensive, new strategy for Afghanistan and Pakistan.”

The President went on to say, “I want the American people to understand that we have a clear and focused goal: to disrupt, dismantle and defeat al-Qaida in Pakistan and Afghanistan and to prevent their return to either country in the future. That’s the goal that must be achieved. That is a cause that could not be more just. And to the terrorists who oppose us, my message is the same: We will defeat you.”

The national organization Veterans For Peace takes issue with the President’s characterization of the conflict in Afghanistan and his policies.

Vietnam War Navy Corpsman and National President of VFP, Mike Ferner, said, “The President has already escalated the war in Afghanistan by an additional 17,000 troops. Today’s announced escalation of 4,000 more troops is another step into the swamp. It doesn’t matter if those steps are big or small, we’re still going into the swamp and we need to turn around. At some point we will undoubtedly stop bombing and start talking. The sooner we do that the better.”

Ferner, who as a Corpsman attended hundreds of wounded troops, added, “Some of what the President said will help the situation, but it is all undercut by the basic belief that more force will provide security. U.S. use of force in the region has caused the deaths of thousands of civilians, greatly increasing opposition to U.S. presence and undermining confidence in the local government. Our military operations in Pakistan have aggravated an already unstable environment, and expanding them will only increase instability. Obama’s plan will ensure more of the same in both countries.”

VFP Executive Director Michael T. McPhearson stated, “President Obama expressed concerns for the women and girls in Afghanistan. VFP shares those same concerns for the women serving in our Armed Forces who are more likely to be sexually assaulted than their civilian counter-parts. What I do not hear in this discussion is the fact that those who suffer the most in war are women and children. War does not protect the vulnerable, it throws social mores out the window and women are seen as spoils. VFP urges the President to rethink his plan of escalation and put the full force of U.S. efforts in diplomacy, economic assistance and humanitarian aid.”

In their August, 2008 Annual Convention VFP passed a resolution calling for: “the government of the United States to immediately withdraw all military and intelligence forces from Afghanistan and Pakistan; to provide humanitarian aid directly to the people of Afghanistan, in non-coercive forms, to help the Afghan people rebuild their own nation and their lives in cooperation with other nations in the region; and to allow the people of Afghanistan to freely determine their own government without interference by the US.”

The resolution also renounced the claim that the war in Afghanistan is somehow the “right” war and reaffirmed their position that war must be abolished.

Founded in 1985, Veterans For Peace is a national organization of men and women veterans of all eras and duty stations spanning the Spanish Civil War (1936-39), World War II, the Korean, Vietnam, Gulf and current Iraq wars as well as other conflicts cold or hot. It has chapters in nearly every state in the union and is headquartered in St. Louis, MO. Our collective experience tells us wars are easy to start and hard to stop and that those hurt are often the innocent. Thus, other means of problem solving are necessary. Veterans For Peace is an official Non- Governmental Organization (NGO) represented at the U.N.

Veterans For Peace: www.veteransforpeace.org

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My two cents on this is that we need more troops in Afghanistan. It is out of a lack of troops and the use aerial bombings taking its place that has caused a great deal of harm in Pakistan and its borders.

However I agree 100 percent with Mike in “efforts in diplomacy, economic assistance and humanitarian aid.” The troops should only be there to provide security making it possible to distribute humanitarian aid creating a secure atmosphere for deliberations. The troops should only be there as security. This ain’t cowboys and Indians. Though our cause may be noble, so was Vietnam, and we lost. We’re not going to win this with brawn and bullets, there has got to be negotiations. If we play this right, Iran and all the other Muslim nations will be our ally on this. Because it is not in the interest of any Muslim nation to let the Taliban have control of Pakistan’s nukes. The Taliban has become powerful by fighting against America the great Satan. This is because in Afghanistan there is great hunger and thirst. Survival trumps all logic, whoever provides the food and water is your friend. The Taliban has been this unbeatable angel of mercy growing so ever strong in numbers forcing the people to follow a strict fanatic Islamic code that most Islam itself does not accept.

I can only hope that Obama and Mr. Gates knows what they are doing. But we should remind them just in case.

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