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Posted on 04/18/2006 11:09:45 PM PDT by nwctwx
OPINION: If you've ever been unfortunate enough to be acquainted with child molesters; you mighht revise your opinion.
That said, I would have to see the fine details of any bill attempting to pass before agreeing that it is a good thing. The "fine details" aka add ons to a bill can be quite breath-taking.
PROPAGANDA ON THE NET...
http://www.almujahideen.com/Mujahidnews.htm
http://www.jihadunspun.com
"The page cannot be found"
http://www.jihadunspun.net
"The page cannot be found"
http://www.jusonenews.com/
"huh?!?!?!?!"
http://www.jusonenews.com/jusstore/orderpage.php
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http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1630944/posts
"The Terrorist Round-up for 5/12/06"
5/12/06
Posted on 05/12/2006 12:54:43 AM PDT by Straight Vermonter
http://www.townhall.com/opinion/columns/ollienorth/2006/05/12/197112.html
"'Spies'"
May 12, 2006
by Oliver North
http://www.townhall.com/opinion/columns/davidlimbaugh/2006/05/12/197110.html
"Fatherly lessons from President Ahmadinejad"
May 12, 2006
by David Limbaugh
COLUMN SNIPPET: "Leave it to the American left to play right into the hands of yet another of America's sworn enemies by treating this raving zealot who denies the Holocaust occurred and has called for Israel to be wiped off the map as a respectable statesman."
COLUMN SNIPPET #2: "Liberals are showing their true colors again for all to see. No amount of provocation is ever enough for them. We just need a little more sensitivity training. We just need to open our eyes, hearts and minds to the "very good ideas" of this "thoughtful" Iranian "teacher.""
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1630949/posts
"Leakers Lack the Purpose of Cold Warriors"
Real Clear Politics ^ | May 12, 2006 | Daniel Henninger
Posted on 05/12/2006 2:00:33 AM PDT by Caipirabob
ON THE NET...
http://www.internet-haganah.com/jihadi/hamas.html
http://www.memritv.org/Search.asp?ACT=S1
http://www.memri.org/bin/search/search.cgi?nocpp=1&p%3Ats_udav=0&sort-method=3&Match=1&Terms=hamas&Realm=All
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/keyword?k=hamas
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http://www.frontpagemag.com/Articles/ReadArticle.asp?ID=22438
"Hamas Hate-Comics for Kids"
By Itamar Marcus and Barbara Crook
Palestinian Media Watch | May 12, 2006
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http://www.al-fateh.net
http://www.al-fateh.net/fa-75/luab.htm
http://www.al-fateh.net/fa-75/gadab.htm
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Iranian FM to co-chair bilateral commission with Russia
RIA Novosti ^ | 11MAY06 | RIA Novosti
Posted on 05/12/2006 2:24:52 AM PDT by familyop
MOSCOW, May 11 (RIA Novosti) - Iran's foreign minister has taken over as the Iranian co-chairman of a bilateral Russian-Iranian trade and economic cooperation commission, the Russian nuclear power agency said.
An agency news release said Iran had informed Russia that the main role in the commission would be transferred from the Economics and Finance Ministry to the Foreign Ministry, and that Manouchehr Motaki would take up the position of chairman.
Agency head Sergei Kiriyenko, the Russian co-chairman of the commission, met an Iranian delegation Thursday to discuss the initiative.
Iran stands accused of pursuing a covert nuclear weapons program, a charge it denies. The Islamic Republic says it is enriching uranium for use in nuclear power plants to generate electricity, and that it has the right to do so under international treaties.
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Russian and Iranian experts consult on nuclear cooperation [Russia delivering enriched uranium.]
Deutsche Presse-Agentur by way of Monsters and Critics ^ | 11MAY06 | Deutsche Presse-Agentur
Posted on 05/12/2006 2:57:19 AM PDT by familyop
Moscow - Senior Russian and Iranian officials met in Moscow Thursday to discuss completion of the nuclear power plant at Bushehr and a proposal to enrich uranium in Russia for use in Tehran's civil nuclear power industry.
Sergei Kiriyenko, the head of Russia's nuclear power agency Rosatom, hosted the meeting with Iranian ambassador Gholamreza Ansari and Mohammad Saeedi, deputy head of the Atomic Energy Organization of Iran.
Saeedi said before leaving Tehran that he wanted to discuss 'fuel deliveries to the Bushehr nuclear power plant and a final date for its physical launch.'
The first reactor of the station is almost 90-per-cent ready, according to the Russian Atomstroieksport company that is carrying out the work. Construction was due to be finished by the end of this year.
Kiriyenko said deliveries of Russian fuel to the plant would take place six months before the unit is powered up.
The United States is highly critical of Russia's cooperation with Iran and says the technology is being used in a secret weapons programme.
Russia says the work, including measures for the return of spent fuel, complies fully with international law.
The sides were also expected to discuss Moscow's proposal for the long-term enrichment of fuel in Russia for Iran as a solution to the crisis around Tehran's nuclear programme.
Earlier talks brought no breakthrough when Iran said it would continue developing a full fuel cycle at home.
Meanwhile, the Secretary of the Russian Security Council, Igor Ivanov, warned that any military action against Iran 'will lead to consequences that may seriously blow up the situation in the region and outside it.'
The crisis could only be effectively resolved through reaching a consensus in the United Nations Security Council, he told journalists in Moscow.
ON THE NET...
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http://www.assistnews.net/Stories/s06050051.htm
ASSIST News Service (ANS) - PO Box 609, Lake Forest, CA 92609-0609 USA
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Thursday, May 11, 2006
International Christian Concern calls for WTO boycott of Vietnam after another Christian dies in a Vietnamese prison
By Michael Ireland
Chief Correspondent, ASSIST News Service
VIETNAM (ANS) -- The Washington-DC based human rights group, International Christian Concern (ICC) www.persecution.org, is calling for a boycott of Vietnam in the World trade Organization following the death of another Vietnamese Christian, Siu Lul (a Montagnard), who succumbed to the effects of food and water deprivation and torture in a Vietnamese prison.
ICC says Siu Lul was 62 years old and from the village of Ploi Kueng, Habong commune, Cu Se District, Gia Lai Province. He had been held at the Ha Nam Prison facility since 2004, where he experienced deprivation of food and water, beatings, and torture by the prison authorities. Prison authorities wanted the family to take his body back to his village, but his family did not have money to pay for transportation, so he was buried in Ha Nam.
The group states there are still over 350 Montagnard prisoners of conscience who remain imprisoned in Vietnam’s brutal prison system. Vietnam has brutally suppressed the Montagnard Christians for decades and Siu Lul was not the first Christian to die a slow death at the hands of the Vietnamese authorities.
Vietnam's treatment of its Christians is the reason they remain on the State Department’s CPC (Country of Particular Concern) list and were "re-elected" to that list by the State Department just this month.
Vietnam is currently seeking entry into the WTO (World Trade Organization).
As a result of Vietnam's continued massive human rights abuses towards Christians, and their refusal to cooperate with the UN Human Rights Committee which has tried to get access to prisoners of conscience, ICC is calling for a boycott of Vietnam from the WTO.
ICC says: "At the heart of this argument is the carrot or the stick dilemma. Many people say that Vietnam will change through more acceptance into the world body and through greater economic integration. Senators John McCain and John Kerry are key proponents of this approach and have blocked efforts in the US Senate to hold Vietnam accountable for its actions in the past.
"While we don’t necessarily disagree with this approach in the long term, it has meant oppression, torture, and death for Vietnamese Christians in the short term. Siu Lul was one such casualty of this approach."
ICC would argue that both the carrot and the stick are needed in dealing with nations like Vietnam. Now is the time for the stick.
ICC wishes to thank The Montagnard Foundation for its continued support of the oppressed Montagnards of Vietnam and for the information of Siu Lul's death.
ICC will supply the list of prisoners to any interested parties.
ICC is a Washington-DC based human rights organization that exists to help persecuted Christians worldwide. ICC delivers humanitarian aid, trains and supports persecuted pastors, raises awareness in the US regarding the problem of persecution, and is an advocate for the persecuted on Capitol Hill and the State Department. For additional information or for an interview, contact ICC at 800-422-5441.
Contact Jeff King President, International Christian Concern, 2020 Pennsylvania Ave. NW #941, Washington DC 20006-1846; www.persecution.org; Email: icc@persecution.org; Phone: 301-989-1708.
** Michael Ireland is an international British freelance journalist. A former reporter with a London newspaper, Michael is the Chief Correspondent for ASSIST News Service of Lake Forest, California. Michael immigrated to the United States in 1982 and became a US citizen in September, 1995. He is married with two children. Michael has also been a frequent contributor to UCB Europe, a British Christian radio station.
** You may republish this story with proper attribution.
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***200 Feared Dead in Nigeria Oil Blast (5/12/06)***
May 12 9:18 AM US/Eastern LAGOS, Nigeria
An oil pipeline exploded Friday in Nigeria and up to 200 people are feared dead, a local television station reported.
Nigeria's Channels Television reported the fiery blast came as villagers flocked to a ruptured conduit at Ilado town outside the main city of Lagos to scoop up fuel gushing out. Up to 200 may have perished in the explosion, the station said. There was no immediate confirmation.
Doctors puzzled over bizarre infection surfacing in South Texas (5/11/06)
If diseases like AIDS and bird flu scare you, wait until you hear what's next. Doctors are trying to find out what is causing a bizarre and mysterious infection that's surfaced in South Texas.
Morgellons disease is not yet known to kill, but if you were to get it, you might wish you were dead, as the symptoms are horrible.
"These people will have like beads of sweat but it's black, black and tarry," said Ginger Savely, a nurse practioner in Austin who treats a majority of these patients.
Patients get lesions that never heal.
"Sometimes little black specks that come out of the lesions and sometimes little fibers," said Stephanie Bailey, Morgellons patient. Patients say that's the worst symptom — strange fibers that pop out of your skin in different colors. "He'd have attacks and fibers would come out of his hands and fingers, white, black and sometimes red. Very, very painful," said Lisa Wilson, whose son Travis had Morgellon's disease.
While all of this is going on, it feels like bugs are crawling under your skin. So far more than 100 cases of Morgellons disease have been reported in South Texas....
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Yes, I remember it being discussed here. It sounded horrific then, and even more so now.
Man shoots at US mission guards in Saudi:
May 12, 2006 — RIYADH (Reuters) - A man was arrested after shooting from his car on guards at the U.S. consulate in the Saudi city of Jeddah on Friday, a security source said. No one was hurt in the shooting.
The source said police chased the car and arrested the man after the drive-by shooting in which several shots were fired at the mission's guards. There were no other details available.
In December 2004, al Qaeda militants stormed the U.S. consulate compound in the Red Sea port city, killing five non-American consular staff. Four of the five attackers died in the attack and a fifth was wounded and arrested.
Saudi Arabia has been battling a wave of al Qaeda violence since May 2003 when suicide bombers struck at three residential compounds in the capital Riyadh.
http://abcnews.go.com/International/wireStory?id=1954901
If diseases like AIDS and bird flu scare you, wait until you hear what's next. Doctors are trying to find out what is causing a bizarre and mysterious infection that's surfaced in South Texas.
Morgellons disease is not yet known to kill, but if you were to get it, you might wish you were dead, as the symptoms are horrible.
"These people will have like beads of sweat but it's black, black and tarry," said Ginger Savely, a nurse practioner in Austin who treats a majority of these patients.
Patients get lesions that never heal.
"Sometimes little black specks that come out of the lesions and sometimes little fibers," said Stephanie Bailey, Morgellons patient.
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Patients say that's the worst symptom — strange fibers that pop out of your skin in different colors.
"He'd have attacks and fibers would come out of his hands and fingers, white, black and sometimes red. Very, very painful," said Lisa Wilson, whose son Travis had Morgellon's disease.
While all of this is going on, it feels like bugs are crawling under your skin. So far more than 100 cases of Morgellons disease have been reported in South Texas.
"It really has the makings of a horror movie in every way," Savely said.
While Savely sees this as a legitimate disease, there are many doctors who simply refuse to acknowledge it exists, because of the bizarre symptoms patients are diagnosed as delusional.
"Believe me, if I just randomly saw one of these patients in my office, I would think they were crazy too," Savely said. "But after you've heard the story of over 100 (patients) and they're all — down to the most minute detail — saying the exact same thing, that becomes quite impressive."
Travis Wilson developed Morgellons just over a year ago. He called his mother in to see a fiber coming out of a lesion.
"It looked like a piece of spaghetti was sticking out about a quarter to an eighth of an inch long and it was sticking out of his chest," Lisa Wilson said. "I tried to pull it as hard as I could out and I could not pull it out."
The Wilson's spent $14,000 after insurance last year on doctors and medicine.
"Most of them are antibiotics. He was on Tamadone for pain. Viltricide, this was an anti-parasitic. This was to try and protect his skin because of all the lesions and stuff," Lisa said.
However, nothing worked, and 23-year-old Travis could no longer take it.
"I knew he was going to kill himself, and there was nothing I could do to stop him," Lisa Wilson said.
Just two weeks ago, Travis took his life.
Stephanie Bailey developed the lesions four-and-a-half years ago.
"The lesions come up, and then these fuzzy things like spores come out," she said.
She also has the crawling sensation.
"You just want to get it out of you," Bailey said.
She has no idea what caused the disease, and nothing has worked to clear it up.
"They (doctors) told me I was just doing this to myself, that I was nuts. So basically I stopped going to doctors because I was afraid they were going to lock me up," Bailey said.
Harriett Bishop has battled Morgellons for 12 years. After a year on antibiotics, her hands have nearly cleared up. On the day, we visited her she only had one lesion and she extracted this fiber from it.
"You want to get these things out to relieve the pain, and that's why you pull and then you can see the fibers there, and the tentacles are there, and there are millions of them," Bishop said.
So far, pathologists have failed to find any infection in the fibers pulled from lesions.
"Clearly something is physically happening here," said Dr. Randy Wymore, a researcher at the Morgellons Research Foundation at Oklahoma State University's Center for Health Sciences.
Wymore examines the fibers, scabs and other samples from Morgellon's patients to try and find the disease's cause.
"These fibers don't look like common environmental fibers," he said.
The goal at OSU is to scientifically find out what is going on. Until then, patients and doctors struggle with this mysterious and bizarre infection. Thus far, the only treatment that has showed some success is an antibiotic.
"It sounds a little like a parasite, like a fungal infection, like a bacterial infection, but it never quite fits all the criteria of any known pathogen," Savely said
No one knows how Morgellans is contracted, but it does not appear to be contagious. The states with the highest number of cases are Texas, California and Florida.
The only connection found so far is that more than half of the Morgellons patients are also diagnosed with Lyme disease.
For more information on Morgellons, visit the research foundation's Web site at www.morgellons.org.
ON THE NET...
http://www.google.com
http://www.internet-haganah.com/harchives/005604.html
11 May 2006
"New PIJ site unveiled, and a review of all active PIJ sites"
ARTICLE SNIPPET: "After issuing a communiqué promising that they would show the FBI that they could not be kept offline, US designated Terrorist group Palestinian Islamic Jihad has finally unveiled their saraya.ps site, representing their operational/terrorist unit - the Saraya al-Quds Brigade. Despite the Palestinian domain name, it is operating on a server in the USA.
In fact, all but one of the sites of the PIJ that currently active online are on servers in the USA."
http://saraya.ps
http://sarayaalquds.org
http://shikaki.net
http://rabdullah.net
http://qudsnews.net
http://qudsway.net
Thank you all4one for the links.
I don't recall that.
I'll see what I can find.
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