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Bridge stirs the waters in Machu Picchu By Dan Collyns BBC News, Peru In the year that Peru is trying to get Machu Picchu voted one of the new Seven Wonders of the World, there are growing tensions over the country's greatest tourist attraction. Machu Picchu is located high in the Andes Mountains A former mayor has built a bridge which creates a new route to the World Heritage site, threatening to bring more tourists and, some say, open up a new route for drug traffickers. The 80-metre long Carilluchayoc bridge, which crosses the Vilcanota river near the base of...

There was real pain in Andre Waters' voice. This was April. Waters was on his cell phone, driving a carload of at-risk teenagers to a barbershop and then on to a barbecue place. He was working with court-adjudicated youths, but still trying desperately to get back into the one business he knew best. "I love the kids, I really do," the former Eagles safety said that day, just six months before he apparently took his own life. "But football, that's where I believe I have the most to offer. I just can't get a chance." Waters, 44, died early yesterday...

(CBS) LOS ANGELES A civil rights activist obtained a stay-away order against Rep. Maxine Waters, D-Los Angeles, claiming the congresswoman threatened him at a Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger campaign appearance, the activist said Wednesday. Najee Ali. executive director of Project Islamic Hope, said he sought the order, which he said requires the congresswoman to stay five yards away from him, to show "no one is above the law." Mikael Moore, Waters' chief of staff in Washington, D.C., had no immediate comment. Los Angeles Superior Court Judge Richard E. Rico issued the temporary restraining order against Waters Wednesday and set a Nov....

Aided by a governor who has promised to preserve the coast, California is expanding its network of areas where fishing and other marine harvesting are banned or restricted. The idea is to better safeguard the diversity and abundance of marine life by limiting those activities in key habitats such as lagoons, bays, kelp forests, rocky reefs and the edges of marine canyons. California already has 80 “marine protected areas” covering about 4 percent of state waters, but scientists agree that most of those sites are too small to help depleted species rebound. “No other state in the Union has done...

MANSFIELD -- When there are speakers hanging over the concourse and up on the lawn you know someone from Pink Floyd must be playing the Tweeter Center. Roger Waters, former bassist and songwriter for the legendary rockers, brought the surround sound, an unimpeachable nine-person band, and grand visual accompaniment to bear on a catalog steeped in majesty, misanthropy, and the tiniest glimmer of hope. In the first of a two-night stand Waters, looking fighting-trim, played a wide-ranging 2-hour-and-40-minute set with the celebrated 1973 Floyd album ``The Dark Side of the Moon" at its heart.

The documents seized in the FBI raid on the offices of Rep. William Jefferson (D-LA) remain unread by Justice Department investigators, pending a federal Appeals Court ruling scheduled for August 27. [snip] But we already know a bit about the charges and some of the alleged partners of Congressman Jefferson. Two people have pleaded guilty to bribing him.

The documents seized in the FBI raid on the offices of Rep. William Jefferson (D-LA) remain unread by Justice Department investigators, pending a federal Appeals Court ruling scheduled for August 27. Jefferson is anxious to overturn the ruling of federal Judge Hogan of the Washington, DC federal District Court, who allowed the raid. One can only surmise that the seized documents contain material even more embarrassing than the discovery of $90,000 in cash in Jefferson’s freezer. But we already know a bit about the charges and some of the alleged partners of Congressman Jefferson. Two people have pleaded guilty to...

If the chips fall right for Democrats and their party seizes control of the House, President Bush's agenda on Capitol Hill would fall into the hands of some of his most dogged opponents. It's not just would-be Speaker Nancy Pelosi of California, but a boatload of Democrats newly running committees who would determine what legislation gets debated and which programs and agencies get scrutiny. So who are the chairmen to be? _a Polish-American lawyer with a reputation for making witnesses quiver. _a die-hard liberal from New York's Harlem with 35 years in the House. _a free-spending progressive from Wausau, Wis....

5/16/2006 - PORTLAND, Ore. (AFPN) -- The 304th Rescue Squadron here hosted a Homeland Defense-sponsored underwater hazardous devices search course at the Portland Air National Guard base May 8 to 12 to help pararescuemen and local public safety divers keep Oregon and Washington’s ports safe from terrorism. The course is designed to enhance the protection of U.S. maritime infrastructure -- ports, water ways, and ships -- by training public safety divers to search for, identify and mark underwater hazardous devices, according to a Homeland Defense press release. This training, and the associated increase in critical infrastructure responsiveness it provides, enhances...

A mother that gives violin lessons will face trial in the northwestern US state of Washington on charges she was an environmental terrorist, prosecutors said. Briana Waters, 30, of the famously liberal California city of Berkeley, has pleaded innocent in a Seattle federal court that she that fire bombed a horticulture center in 2001. A US district court judge allowed Waters to remain free pending the start of her trial in June, but ordered that she turn in her passport and have her whereabouts monitored electronically. Waters was the first person charged in connection with an attack that destroyed the...

CAMP FALLUJAH, Iraq (March 15, 2006) -- Grunts with 1st Battalion, 1st Marine Regiment walk without fear thanks to a helping hand from tankers and a seldom used tool in their inventory. Marines with D Company, 2nd Tank Battalion, assigned to Regimental Combat Team 5, recently deployed their M-60A1 Armored Vehicle Launched Bridge to help the infantry living north of Gharmah. It was the first time the tankers could recall the bridge being used since the initial thrust toward Baghdad in 2003. The need for a reliable bridge arose after an existing bridge leading to an observation post began to...

WASHINGTON — As President Bush prepared to address Congress, some members of the House began calling for his impeachment — a call that has been growing over the last few months, when only the far fringes of the American left called for his ouster. On Tuesday, eight-term California Democratic Rep. Maxine Waters said the president should be impeached for authorizing the warrantless surveillance of some Americans through the National Security Agency. "If a president's untruthfulness about sexual relationships is an impeachable offense, then surely spying on American citizens, undermining the Constitution and contravening current standing law are impeachable offenses," Waters...

Wary of public anger over Stanley Tookie Williams' pending execution, local leaders on Friday called for peace if the Crips gang co-founder is put to death next week for four shotgun murders in Los Angeles County. Authorities have received reports of possible plans to commit violence if Williams is denied clemency, calling the threats a "credible concern."

Today on the FreeRepublic Hour on Rightalk Radio, my guest was Joe Connor. Joe's dad was killed in an FALN bomb blast at Fraunces Tavern in 1975. Among the people we discussed were Bill Clinton, who pardoned FALN terrorists to help his wife, William Morales, FALN chief bombmaker being protected by Fidel Castro, and Joanne Chesimard, a cop-killer who is also being protected by Castro. The Bush-hating and despicable women from Code Pink, the group harassing wounded soldiers and families at Walter Reed Army Medical Center every week, will soon be off to visit their pal Fidel in his island...

Using unusually intemperate rhetoric even for a Democrat, firebrand Congresswoman Maxine Waters is blasting President Bush and Vice President Cheney over their conduct of the Iraq war, calling Bush "a liar" and Cheney "a thief." After attending a mock impeachment hearing two weeks ago staged by House Democrats, Rep. Waters told cheering onlookers, "Finally Congress has come alive and decided to take on this president in a real way."

Using unusually intemperate rhetoric even for a Democrat, firebrand Congresswoman Maxine Waters is blasting President Bush and Vice President Cheney over their conduct of the Iraq war, calling Bush "a liar" and Cheney "a thief." After attending a mock impeachment hearing two weeks ago staged by House Democrats, Rep. Waters told cheering onlookers, "Finally Congress has come alive and decided to take on this president in a real way." "The president is a liar," she continued. "Dick Cheney, the chief architect of the Big Lie, is not only a liar, he is a thief." She accused Cheney of helping his...

A few months ago a secret memo from Tony Blair's government fell into the hands of a British newspaper. The 'Downing Street memo' as it has been called, states that the Bush administration had decided that sooner or later we were going to attack Iraq, and that the WMD question would be the justification. According to john Conyers, Maxine Waters and the Democratic 'leadership', this proves their conspiracy theory that the whole war was cooked up by Bush. The problem is that they have no motive.

During the absolute sham that happened on the floor of the United States House of Representatives on Thursday afternoon, Rep. Maxine Waters of California finally admitted for the official record what many of us have known for a long time - Michael Moore runs the Democratic Party. Waters took to the well of the House near the end of what can very loosely be called a debate on the question of objecting to the certification of the Ohio electoral votes of the 2004 presidential election. In a quivering voice that betrayed either an oncoming eruption of tears or outright fury,...

WASHINGTON - A group of congressional Democrats is asking President Bush (news - web sites) to dismiss a senior military intelligence officer who made church speeches that included inflammatory religious remarks while discussing the war on terrorism. In a letter to Bush released Thursday, Rep. Barney Frank (news, bio, voting record), D-Mass., and 10 others said action in the matter of Lt. Gen. William Boykin is long overdue, and he must be removed from his post as deputy undersecretary for defense. A Pentagon (news - web sites) investigation concluded that Boykin violated regulations by failing to make clear he was...

Omega Letter Christian Intelligence Digest Ten Congress Members Call For Boykins' Removal They Were Appalled By His Mention Of GodCommentary on the NewsSaturday, September 04, 2004OL StaffTen members of Congress wrote a letter to President Bush stating that Lt. Gen. William Boykin should be dismissed as the Deputy Undersecretary of Defense for Intelligence. In case you don't remember, Boykin is the man in charge of hunting for Osama and was caught speaking to a church while in uniform. The letter states that Boykin has offended Muslims and he lacks objectivity. They seem to be overlooking the fact that it...

t is a bit of irony that Ernie Garven,who died last week at his Florida home, wrote the unforgettable Hamm's beer advertising jingle, "From the land of sky blue wa-a-aters.

"Angel In The Waters"; a book by Regina Doman.

New book makes kids PRO-LIFEREAD IT ONLINE NOW . . . IN JUST TWO MINUTES! Angel in the Waters is a simple, non-confrontational book that will make young children decidedly pro-life long before they ever hear the word "abortion." It will convince many mothers contemplating abortion to keep their babies. In just two minutes, you can read the whole book online. (Just last week our proofreader, Nora, was proofreading Angel in the Waters online when her three-year-old daughter turned away from a cartoon show, saw a page of this book on the computer screen, and demanded that Nora read the...

...Here's a case of misplaced moral outrage if we've ever seen one. Mr. Franks is mad about the salaries when he really should be mad at the rigged political game that has made them possible. Fannie's regulator, the Office of Federal Housing Enterprise Oversight, has reported that Fannie has been cooking its books. Add that to the increasing evidence that Fannie has been ignoring its mission to provide affordable housing, and we wonder if Mr. Frank doesn't need an eye checkup.... Maxine Waters (D., California) cooed all over Mr. Raines, and Clay Lacy (D., Missouri) played the race card by...

Link post: go to the thread below for images and discussion/commentary. The article link is to the Washington Post article about the now-official upgrade of Great Sand Dune National Monument to Great Sand Dunes National Park. Geology Picture of the Week, September 12-18, 2004: Great Sand Dunes National PARK

Sewage waters a tenth of world's irrigated crops 12:01 18 August 04 NewScientist.com news service A tenth of the world’s irrigated crops - everything from lettuce and tomatoes to mangoes and coconuts - are watered by sewage. And much of that sewage is raw and untreated, gushing direct from sewer pipes into fields at the fringes of the developing world’s great megacities, reveals the first global survey of the hidden practice of waste-water irrigation. And, however much consumers may squirm, farmers like it that way. Because the stinking, lumpy and pathogen-rich sewage is rich in nitrates and phosphates that fertilise...

Roger Waters launches 'The Writings on the Wall campaign ____ On the 8th of July, one day before the International Court of Justice ruled the Israeli wall illegal under international law, Roger Waters, ex-member of super group Pink Floyd, launched ‘the Writings on the Wall’ campaign with his most famous line “we don’t need no thought control” scribbled under his signature. From Glastonbury festival to Parliament Square, radical anti-poverty charity ,'War on Want, has asked stars of stage and soap box to voice their protest at the construction of Israel’s Separation Wall, by graffiti-ing their names on a 24-foot model...

<p>PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti -- Secretary of State Colin L. Powell yesterday rejected a proposed U.N. probe into former President Jean-Bertrand Aristide's departure, saying the United States had helped to prevent a blood bath.</p> <p>Haitian Prime Minister Gerard Latortue, standing beside Mr. Powell at a press conference, announced that all major political parties and civilian groups had agreed to hold presidential and parliamentary elections next year.</p>

American Blacks, Homosexual Marriage, and Aristide: A Correlation While homosexuals are getting married in California, Massachusetts, and sundry other States, proponents of these “marriages” are using civil rights arguments that were rightfully used during the late 1950’s and 1960’s by American blacks. These proponents argue that their plight, the right to marry whom they love even if the loved one is of the same sex, is no different than the struggle for Constitutional rights that black people endured. President George W. Bush has come out in favor of an amendment to the Constitution that would define marriage as between...

Maxine Waters began her expected screed last night on Chris Matthews' show as the first results started rolling in. Despite his unrealistic prediction that Bustamante would win, Matthews did his best to take this one on the chin. He's nothing if not an effective chameleon. Waters, by contrast, swore that if Arnold won, there would be another immediate recall of him. She and the Democrats would do well to leave that threat where it belongs... on the cutting room floor. The voters in California have done some odd things over the years, but none was more amazing or unexpected than...

The Dead Sea is dying as its dark salty waters retreat (Filed: 04/10/2003) Human exploitation is forcing the surface level down by three feet each year, reports David Blair The jagged cliffs of the Judaean desert mountains, where John the Baptist wandered and Jewish fighters made their last stand at Masada, once sloped directly into the Dead Sea. Today, many of those cliffs descend into ugly mudflats covering much of the basin marking the lowest point on Earth. For the Dead Sea is in retreat as human intervention forces the water level downwards by more than three feet per year....

Yellowstone National Park-- A five-year-old girl was burned after she fell into 160-degree water while playing with her brother near a geyser in Yellowstone National Park. Yellowstone superintendent Suzanne Lewis says the Tucson, Arizona girl suffered minor burns to her legs and back when she fell from a boardwalk late yesterday afternoon. Lewis says the water was less than two inches deep but extremely hot. Her parents and an eyewitness administered first aid before the girl was treated and released from the Lake Clinic.

Troubled waters for Bangladesh as India presses on with plan to divert major rivers UN urged to act amid warnings of social and ecological disaster John Vidal in Dhaka Thursday July 24, 2003 The Guardian (UK) Indian plans to divert vast quantities of water from major rivers, including the Ganges and Brahmaputra, threaten the livelihoods of more than 100 million people downstream in Bangladesh, the Bangladeshi government fears. Ministers are so concerned that they are considering appealing to the United Nations to redraft international law on water sharing. The ambitious Indian plans to link major rivers flowing from the Himalayas...

Here we go again. Or rather there they go again. Before we could round up the usual suspects, they rounded themselves up, threw themselves into a secure cell, locked the door, and tossed the key into the moat below their prison window. They intend to stay put until George W. Bush is impeached, defeated, and drawn and tie-dyed. The group comprises an ideal mix of Democrat Dems and Democrat hacks: Ted Kennedy, Paul Krugman, Dick Durbin, Paul Krugman, John Kerry, Paul Krugman, and Joe Commissar, Harold Meyerson, and, for sheer gall, Robert Scheer, that panty hose. Have we forgotten anyone?...

POTOMAC JUNCTION: Byrd brain wounds Democrats 2003-05-15 By Robert L. Haught WASHINGTON -- If Sen. Robert C. Byrd finds a pair of crosses burning on his lawn he might have a momentary nostalgic memory of his days in the Ku Klux Klan. But such an event, if it were to occur, more likely would be race- related only as it applies to the 2004 race for president. The Democrats who are running no doubt would like to send a graphic message accusing Byrd of a double cross. The West Virginia Democrat did his party and its candidates a great disservice...

Maxine Defends Ex-Klansman May 8, 2003 Imagine if you will, California congresswoman Maxine Waters, defending an ex-Klansman just because he’s a Democrat. The depths of desperation to which these people are plunging is unbelievable. Maxine just plunged further by echoing Robert Byrds latest Bush bash on the Senate floor. In doing so, she opened the door into her own face and bloodied her nose - as is becoming standard Democrat operating procedure. Maxine appeared on the News with Brian Williams Wednesday night on CNBC, where she and great moderate Peter King got into it. You just have to hear this,...

Your Social Democrat Party wants to thank our troops for winning the war against Saddam Hussein so quickly. Their victory has taken another weapon from George Bush's bag of tricks for the next election. Now that Iraq has been conquered in the very unequal war with the United States, your Social Democrat Party leaders want to make sure that the new government of Iraq will be established according to "their" proper guidelines. Described below are some of the items that they will demand to be inserted into the new proposal of government for Iraq. Senator Ted Kennedy wants to make...

"We still have a window of opportunity tonight," said Rep. Barbara Lee, D-Calif., the only House member who voted against a resolution over a year ago authorizing President Bush to use force against anyone associated with the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks. We are worried that the war on terrorism is taking a back seat to a pre-emptive strike on Saddam Hussein," Waters said. "Yes, every country should be able to defend itself, but we're in no danger from Iraq. Striking Saddam is not fighting terrorism."

Arrests urged to foil Web piracy on campus By ANGEL WILSON COX NEWS SERVICE WASHINGTON -- Colleges need to monitor campus Internet activity more closely and possibly arrest students who download copyrighted material for free, members of a congressional panel said yesterday. Rep. Robert Wexler, D-Fla., said students who download music and movies from file-sharing Web sites are clearly breaking copyright laws. "It's electronic theft, plain and simple," said Wexler, a member of the House Judiciary subcommittee on courts, the Internet, and intellectual property. Lesser-known artists are being forced to find other lines of work because they are not being...

I was channel surfing when I came across Talkback Live on CNN, and Maxine Waters was talking about how we should end the embargo on Cuba. The subject of the show is Carter's current visit to Cuba.

U.S. Rep. Maxine Waters (D-Los Angeles) and several dozen supporters crammed a Los Angeles Police Commission meeting Tuesday, demanding that commission President Rick Caruso resign because he allegedly used a slur in referring to the congresswoman. Waters and others criticized Caruso during a public comment period that lasted two hours. Dozens of people who could not fit inside the meeting room at Parker Center lined the hallway outside, listening to the comments over a loudspeaker. Caruso, who has declined to comment on the matter, did not attend the meeting. "If it is all right for the Police Commission president to...

Leave it to the Log Cabin Republicans, the GOP's resident gay organization, to applaud a nasty insult of a Democratic member of Congress and lend it a certain consumerist panache. "Rhymes with Abercrombie and . . . " begins Wednesday's LCR Congressional Briefing on Rep. Maxine Waters (D-Calif.) and her fight with the Los Angeles Police Department over Police Commission President Rick Caruso's use of the b-word to describe her during a recent meeting with top brass. The item in LCR's "Inclusion Wins" newsletter, which is e-mailed weekly to 2,000 subscribers, then notes: "OK, it's tacky to call a Congresswoman...