Current News Briefs

______ NEWS as of.. 4 p.m. e.s.t....1-31-05 ____


They Voted for Food
"Two of the food dealers I know told me personally that our food rations would be withheld if we did not vote," said Saeed Jodhet, a 21-year-old engineering student who voted in the Hay al-Jihad district of Baghdad.
http://www.dahrjamailiraq.com/hard_news/archives/hard_news/000192.php

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President Bush said both U.S. and British military personnel had lost their lives in the crash. There had been no previous mention of US deaths Reuters noted . The Daily Telegraph mentions an ominous "maximum" of 70 special forces soldiers from both countries aboard the plane.
"It was not clear why there was still doubt about the casualty toll," Kate Holton for Reuters dryly recorded --hinting at an obvious conclusion: politicians and military don't want to spoil the rosy propaganda about Iraq's "elections" by admitting high casualties.
http://www.libertyforum.org/showflat.php?Cat=&Board=iraq_war&Number=293330953#Post293330953
Ok so if 15 of 70 men were British casualties...that means AMERICAN CASUALTIES NUMBER............????

----The Iraqi Resistance now has thier very own 'No Fly Zone'...wonderful...great work Rummy!---

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LOOKY LOOKY
Raw Story has acquired a copy of Saving Social Security: A Guide to Social Security Reform, printed by the House and Senate Republican Conferences as a guide for Senators and Representatives to market private accounts for the Social Security system.
The document is filled with suggestions for communicating constituents such as, "Talk in simple language: Your audience doesn't understand financial jargon," and "Offer an alternate reality."

These are the first several pages of a 103 page document are posted here. You may download the entire document in PDF format here (2mb).

----Alternate reality....would that be any less sucky than this reality?...just askin-----

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Many of Youths Slain Were Girls, All Were Black
D.C. Police Study of Deaths Last Year Called Sobering
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A49855-2005Jan30.html
----People in D.C.....keep an eye on your daughters....Death is amongst you-----

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By GINA HOLLAND, Associated Press Writer
WASHINGTON - A federal judge ruled Monday that foreign terror suspects held in Cuba can challenge their confinement in U.S. courts and she criticized the Bush administration for holding hundreds of people without legal rights.
http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=542&u=/ap/20050131/ap_on_go_ca_st_pe/guantanamo_detainees_lawsuit&printer=1

----GAWDDD ..WHAT took so freaking long?-----

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Porn arrest shocks Sparta
Posted Saturday, January 29, 2005 by Webmaster By BRENDAN BERLSHerald Staff WriterSPARTA — A well-known local attorney and Republican committeeman is among 39 people across New Jersey facing charges for allegedly downloading an Internet video showing the rape of a 5-year-old girl.The charges filed Thursday against Jeffrey Patti, 36, spread disbelief and horror among the many people who know him in Sparta political circles and the Sussex County legal community — disbelief at the arrest of a seemingly upstanding family man, and horror at the sordidness of the allegations.
http://www.njherald.com/news/newspro/viewnews.cgi?newsid1107033375,60567,/

----I do NOT even want to KNOW or IMAGINE what the HELL is wrong with these people...---

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WASHINGTON, Jan 30 (Reuters) - The U.S.-led authority that governed Iraq after the 2003 invasion did not properly safeguard $8.8 billion of Iraq's own money and this lack of oversight opened up these funds to corruption, said a U.S. audit released on Sunday.
http://www.reuters.com/financeNewsArticle.jhtml?type=bondsNews&storyID=7476569

----Wonder if you can leave 9 billion forgotten in your other pants?....oh..no...?..then hmmmmm...I aint got it...do you?...bigger HMMMM-----

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LOOKY LOOKY
Fresh hope for spinal injury victims.
HUMAN spinal motor nerves have been grown in a laboratory for the first time in a breakthrough which scientists believe will have far-reaching implications for the treatment of devastating injuries and diseases.
http://www.theherald.co.uk/news/32473.html

-----God favors acadamia for a reason..Congrats you guys yall ARE heros..Great Job! and on behalf of man kind..Thank You. Thank You. Thank You.----

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U.S. students say press freedoms go too far
One in three U.S. high school students say the press ought to be more restricted, and even more say the government should approve newspaper stories before readers see them, according to a survey being released today.
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&e=5&u=/usatoday/20050131/ts_usatoday/usstudentssaypressfreedomsgotoofar

-----This is what happens when you pump most school aged kids full of amphetamines for add or adhd..or aadd or adhd..whatever..oh you dont KNOW what Riddlins made of?...These kids HAVE to be high or our schools are failing worse than we thought.--------

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----North Korea is getting freaky again boys and girls....---

Chairman Kim’s dissolving kingdomhttp://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,2089-1462207,00.html

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Jury Selection Begins in Jackson Case
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&e=3&u=/ap/20050131/ap_on_en_mu/michael_jackson


----It cant BE news if its leaving out a Jackson story---

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It must be me, I'm the crazy one!

Unlike a great many of my fellow Americans, who appear to be quite comfortable with whatever nonsense they are told by our glorious leaders, I'm sorry, but I'm not buying any of it.
http://www.unknownnews.net/050205d.html

----Funny AND scary....a literal twofer.----

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Officials: U.S. Rebuffs Europe on Iran Nuke Talks

By Saul Hudson
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The United States has rebuffed pleas to join a European diplomatic drive to persuade Iran to give up any ambitions to add nuclear bombs to its arsenal, U.S. officials and foreign diplomats say.
http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=564&u=/nm/20050130/ts_nm/iran_usa_talks_dc&printer=1

-------This is getting stupid beyond belief.----

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DEMOCRAT ALERT
YOU ARE BEING SOLD OUT AGAIN.

DRAFT LOOMS
Now That Election Is Over, Expect to See Conscription
By Greg Szymanski
Within a matter of weeks, Rep. Charles Rangel (D-N.Y.), plans to try and re-institute the military draft, saying the present voluntary system places an unfair burden of war among lower- and middle-class Americans while giving the rich a free ride from military service.
http://www.americanfreepress.net/html/draft_looms.html

-----%^&*(!@#$%^&*&*()@#$%@#$%^&()#$%^&#$%^&$%^&!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!-----

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Nasa's mission to the edge of the solar system, and beyond
By Steve Connor, Science Editor
31 January 2005
Buzz Lightyear wanted to go to infinity and beyond, now the US National Aeronautics and Space Administration (Nasa) wants to venture almost as far with a survey of the edge of the solar system.
http://news.independent.co.uk/world/science_technology/story.jsp?story=606213

----I just dont have the heart to tell the heroes at NASA the president has done away with science.----

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