When will the stupidity end? Wash. Post:
Official: Russia to Monitor TV [for subliminal messages]:
Deputy Press Minister Valery Sirozhenko told ITAR-Tass news agency that special monitoring equipment would monitor channels inserting extra frames, amid growing reports of their use on Russian airwaves. Violators could face fines or have their broadcast licenses revoked, ITAR-Tass said.
The news agency said unofficial data suggests a fifth of Russian TV programs have extra frames, containing messages ranging from those urging viewers not to switch channels to political ads.
Child sex-slavery, all paid for by the United States.
After a two-year battle, an employment tribunal ruled yesterday that Ms Bolkovac was unfairly dismissed by DynCorp, an American company whose branch in Salisbury, Wiltshire, dealt with the contracts of the American officers working for the international police force in Bosnia. There will be a further hearing at Southampton to decide the amount of compensation DynCorp must pay Ms Bolkovac.
During her time in Bosnia as an investigator, Ms Bolkovac, 41, uncovered evidence of girls who refused to have sex being beaten and raped in bars by their pimps while peacekeepers stood and watched. She discovered that one UN policeman who was supposed to be investigating the sex trade paid £700 to a bar owner for an underage girl who he kept captive in his apartment to use in his own prostitution racket.
Our own home-grown Dr. Mengele’s in the US are itching to test the newest killing machines in the planned charade which will be known as ‘Gulf War 2’, likely lauded in history books as GWII or Revenge of Bush Jr. What’s the good of wasting trillions on defense spending if you can’t blow up homes or decapitate people with cluster bombs?
If the US and Turkey have their way, there will be no independent Kurdish state. The Turks have mistreated Kurds since the creation of Turkey. Turkey, a strong American ally, gassed the Kurds just like Iraq did during the ‘Gulf War’. What most American leaders fail to mention is that the Kurds were gassed because the US had planned to use them as a proxy force to take Baghdad just like the US used the Northern Alliance in Afghanistan.
If the US does a hit on Iraq and Iraq responds by launching scuds at Israel, Israel might become the second nation in human history to use atomic weapons on human beings. The first was of course the United States.
Israel’s likely reaction would be nuclear ground bursts against every Iraqi city not already occupied by US-led coalition forces. Senators were told that, unlike the 1991 Gulf War, when Washington urged Israel not to retaliate against Iraqi missile strikes, Israeli leaders have decided that their credibility would be hurt if they failed to react this time.
It doesn’t seem that the possibility of thousands of civilian casualties is in any way deterring the US from its single-minded march to war. Furthermore, if this is true it doesn’t suggest that the US is in any way attempting to restrain the hand of Israel. These right-ling nutjobs in the US would love to hasten armageddon.
Pentagon plan seeks countries’ OK to attack cells:
Two senior U.S. officials with knowledge about the planning say Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld wants such procedures in place so special operations forces can act on intelligence in hours, not days or weeks. The sources said it is too early to predict whether such agreements can be worked out with all nations where al Qaeda cells exist.
Senior defense officials also want such clandestine missions deemed acts of war so they stay outside the control of civilian law enforcement, the officials said.
This article from the BBC made me realize how rarely I actually see women breastfeeding in public. Is our society so schizophrenic that we influence women to be ashamed or embarrassed to breastfeed in public? Breastfeeding has been shown to have enormous benefit for both mother and child. I found this statistic troubling:
They don’t call it ‘mother’s milk’ for nothing!
Related:
“I could not support such a broad grant of war-making authority to the president,” she said. “Only Congress can declare war, based upon our constitution.”
Although all appropriate steps must be taken to bring the perpetrators to justice and to prevent possible terrorist attacks, Lee said, the U.S. should not resort to military actions that involve the loss of more innocent lives.