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On March 29, 2005 the London Arab daily Al-Hayat published a report on Iran’s current preparedness for an American or Israeli attack. The report was translated by www.memri.org (Middle East Media Research Institute). MEMRI introduced the report as follows: “In recent months, commanders of Iran’s Revolutionary Guards and armed forces have announced their complete preparedness for a possible military attack on Iran’s nuclear installations and other sensitive sites. Iranian spokesmen have declared that Iran’s response would be formidable.” The interview indicates the hostility, confidence, determination and intractability of the Iranian leadership. Following are excerpts from that article: “Iranian military sources...

Italian prelate pleads for Terri Schiavo's life Vatican, Mar. 07 (CWNews.com) - With a deadline looming for the removal of food and water from a brain-damaged Florida woman, the president of the Pontifical Council for Justice and Peace has asked: "How can anyone who claims to speak of the promotion and protection of rights-- of human life-- remain silent?" Cardinal Renato Martino (bio - news) observed, in a March 7 public statement, that if feeding tubes are removed from Terri Schiavo, "She will die a horrible and cruel death." With a court-ordered date for the removal of those tubes quickly...

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"When American citizens go to the polls in November, they will have the opportunity to change the course of history. On their decision largely rests the style and structure of the immediate future..... We, your Elder Brothers, cannot stand aside and watch while the very future of the world is under threat. America is a great nation with much of good to give the world. It must now awaken to its soul's longing to serve, to live in peace and justice, and, together, in harmony and co-operation, to work with all nations to remake this world. This election can be...

Group to Propose New High-Speed Wireless Format Thu Aug 12,12:46 PM ET LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - A group of technology companies including Texas Instruments Inc. (NYSE:TXN), STMicroelectronics (STM.PA) and Broadcom Corp. (Nasdaq:BRCM), on Thursday said they will propose a new wireless networking standard up to 10 times the speed of the current generation. The group says they are submitting a plan for a new standard for a popular short range wireless networking technology known as Wi-Fi -- which is used in airports, hotels and coffee shops to access the Web without wires. The group, calling itself "WWiSE," said their version...

Prospect Of Sudden Climate Change snap frozen in a single lifetime? Washington (SPX) May 31, 2004 By now, many of us have heard the ominous predictions of a possible future global apocalypse, where cataclysmic floods, tornadoes, and blizzards threaten to destroy civilization. As a consequence of climate change, the melting of polar ice supposedly could send vast quantities of fresh water into the North Atlantic's salty oceans. This torrent would work to shut down a major Atlantic Ocean current that stabilizes the Northern Hemisphere's climate system, unleashing abrupt and drastic changes to our climate. While these forecasts are extreme, most...

Medieval sea chart was in line with current thinking (Filed: 04/05/2004) The 16th-century Carta Marina, complete with sea monsters, gives an accurate location for dangerous eddies. Roger Highfield reports A satellite image of the north-east Atlantic has revealed that medieval cartographers knew much more about ocean currents than was thought. The ornate Carta Marina, published in 1539, appears crude by today's standards, depicting sea monsters off the coast of Scotland, sinking galleons, sea snakes, and wolves urinating against trees. But when oceanographers examined a large group of swirls and whorls drawn off the south-east of Iceland, complete with ships, a...

U.S. Democratic presidential candidate Senator John Kerry (news - web sites) (D-Ma) reacts as a campaign staffer misses the catch on a baseball thrown by the candidate while playing catch with staff members on the tarmac at the airport in San Antonio, Texas, March 6, 2004. Kerry is heading to campaign in Mississippi as he continues his quest for the Democratic presidential nomination on the heels of his Super Tuesday election wins. REUTERS

“Ah, but you are confusing Islam with Islamic fundamentalism. The Real Islam has nothing to do with violence,” apologists of Islam argue. There may be moderate Muslims, but Islam itself is not moderate. There is no difference between Islam and Islamic fundamentalism: at most there is a difference of degree but not of kind. All the tenets of Islamic fundamentalism are derived from the Qur’an, the Sunna, and the Hadith – Islamic fundamentalism is a totalitarian construct derived by Muslim jurists from the fundamental and defining texts of Islam. The fundamentalists, with greater logic and coherence than so-called moderate or...

...The largest provider of abortions in the United States will no longer be able to use government facilities to further its propaganda, thanks to the settlement of a Texas lawsuit. Planned Parenthood of Texas has agreed to close down its branch of the Waco (Texas) Public Library System, and to pay damages to three pro-life women who were prevented from using the facility. Kelly Shackelford, chief counsel for Liberty Legal Institute, says this settlement should send a message to any government entity that teams up with Planned Parenthood. According to Shackelford, news of the settlement will hurt Planned Parenthood's national...

Scott Garrett for CongressI wanted to drop everyone a note regarding where Assemblyman Garrett will be this weekend, and what he will be up to. Please pay special attention to the note after the schedule on an upcoming debate, and how to get tickets.Saturday:9:00am Scott will be attending a candidates Breakfast hosted by the Ridgewood GOP, and the Ridgewood Republican Committee with Special Guest Steve Malzberg. The Breakfast will be at Café Wineberrie, 30 Oak Street, Ridgewood, NJ11:00am Scott is scheduled to be at the Bergenfield Street fest/Sidewalk Sale. The Bergenfield Republican Club has a booth on Washington Ave. Please...

Posted on Fri, Feb. 21, 2003 Radical Islam is sanitized for American textbooks By Suzanne Fields WASHINGTON TIMES One man's jihad can be another man's mission of distortion. The Islamist terrorists who attacked America on Sept. 11 cited their murderous rampage as a "jihad." The suicide bombers who terrorize Israeli schools, restaurants and malls called their mission their "jihad." But American school kids might never know anything about it. A lot has gone missing in our textbooks. "Patterns of History," for example, published by Houghton Mifflin and adopted as a world history textbook in high school classes in Texas and...

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Thursday, Jan. 23, 2003 10:24 a.m. EST Hillary Tainted by Bin Laden Cash? New York Sen. Hillary Clinton's household income for 2002 included $750,000 in payments from three Arab nations with ties to the 9/11 hijackers, including a $267,000 speaking fee from a group funded by the family of Osama bin Laden, NewsMax.com has learned. In late January 2002, ex-president Bill Clinton traveled to bin Laden's hometown of Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, to address a group of Saudi businessmen. He was paid $267,000 for a 40-minute speech, according to a Jan. 25, 2002, report in The Middle East Newsfile, a British-...

Current Judicial Appointments Data     11/15/2002By Thomas JippingUpdated November 15, 2002 Court Seats Current Vacancies Pending Nominees Confirmed Defeated Before Judiciary Committee Before Full Senate U.S. District Court 665 50 32 66 0 13 17 U.S. Court of Appeals 179 28 16 14 2 15 1 U.S. Supreme Court 9 0 0 0 0 0 0 U.S. Court of Int'l Trade 9 1 1 0 0 1 0 TOTALS 862 79 49 80 2 29 20 FOR MORE INFORMATION: Current Vacancies: the latest vacancy list compiled by the Administrative Office of the U.S. Courts. Pending Nominees: the complete list of nominations compiled...

WHO'S HOT.... 1. THE NFL Hey, after Bud Selig and baseball, any sport looks good! 2. NORMAN MAILER Gosh. It's been a long time since the cultural cognoscenti have been so excited by anything emanating from the pen of former novelist/essayist extraordinaire and drunken boor, Norman Mailer. However, old maniacal mouth has just authored an 8,000-word anti-American diatribe in the pages of London's Sunday Times. And in words which could have just as aptly summed up the evolution of his career and personality, Mr. Mailer opines: "Culturally, emotionally America is growing more loutish, arrogant, and vain." Irrational, biased and patriotically...

The BigonAlbert Manque is a physicist of the old school. "Fifty years ago physicists could make experiments using material from the hardware store," says Manque, who works at the Centre de l'Etude des Choses Assez Minuscules in Paris. "I too prefer to work on a small scale." His penchant for tabletop research recently paid off. He and a colleague at the center have discovered an extraordinary new fundamental particle. Although the particle exists for just millionths of a second, it is the size of a bowling ball. Its existence, says Manque, could possibly explain a host of mysterious phenomena. Manque...