ReBelle Daily Dispatch
China says it has plans to unhook currency from U.S. dollar -but no timetable
LONDON (AP) - China will free its currency from its peg to the U.S. dollar eventually, a central bank official told international officials Saturday, but emphasized that the weakness in the dollar is not China's concern.
http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=1821&u=/cpress/20050205/ca_pr_on_bu/britain_g7&printer=1
---BIGGGG UHHOHHHH---
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Destroyed embryo deemed human
A frozen embryo destroyed in a Chicago fertility clinic was a human being whose parents are entitled to file a wrongful-death lawsuit, a Cook County judge ruled Friday
http://www.suntimes.com/output/news/cst-nws-egg05.html
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Ignoring the Smoke
Humankind is changing, or at least helping change, Earth's climate by pumping carbon dioxide and other "greenhouse" gases into the atmosphere, mostly by burning fossil fuels. The United States is doing more of this than any other nation. The consequences aren't coming; they're already here: Some scientists believe thousands have already died because of man-made atmospheric warming.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A62111-2005Feb3.html
--Scary stuff---
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Mystery list may trace to team
The whodunit mystery surrounding the do-not-admit list for President Bush's Fargo visit still hasn't been solved, but clues uncovered Friday indicate a worker with the White House advance team may have been the culprit.
http://www.in-forum.com/articles/index.cfm?id=82503§ion=News
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GOP proposes bill that would suspend ALL laws
But -- most overlooked -- is Section 102 of this bill. It would empower the Secretary of Homeland Security to suspend any and all laws in order to ensure the "expeditious" construction of a set of barriers and roads south of San Diego, to keep illegal immigrants out. It also would prohibit ANY judicial review of the Secretary of Homeland Security's decision to suspend any law. ON EDIT: While the law the bill references mentions barriers and roads "near San Diego," it does not appear to be (technically speaking) limited to that area -- but to any barriers or roads "in the vicinity of the United States border." (See comments below).
http://dailykos.com/story/2005/2/5/15448/41910
----Again. Big HMMMM------
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Marine General Is Told To Speak 'More Carefully'
The Marine Corps commandant yesterday urged a three-star general to choose his words "more carefully," after the general told a San Diego conference this week it was "a lot of fun to shoot" the enemy.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A61672-2005Feb3.html
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The Scourge of Her Conviction
Two days before Christmas, Elena Sassower walked out of the Washington, D.C., jail where she'd just finished serving a sentence that should frighten anyone inclined to protest in the halls of power.
http://villagevoice.com/news/index.php?issue=0505&page=lombardi&id=60660
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----This is becoming a habit Georgie----
Journalists paid to write for military Web site
WASHINGTON - The Pentagon’s chief investigator is looking into the military’s practice of paying journalists to write articles and commentary for a Web site aimed at influencing public opinion in the Balkans, officials said Friday.
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/6915347/
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Wounded in action Haunted by his experiences as an army medic in Iraq, David McGough couldn't cope with life after his tour of duty. Yet it took two failed suicide attempts before he was diagnosed as suffering from post-traumatic stress disorder. Alison Roberts on the forgotten casualties of the war
http://society.guardian.co.uk/mentalhealth/story/0,8150,1405859,00.html
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HAHAHAHAHAHAHA
U.S. 'in for a shock' In early election results, Shiite cleric's alliance trouncing Washington's favorite
Baghdad -- Partial results from Sunday's election suggest that U.S.-backed Prime Minister Ayad Allawi's coalition is being roundly defeated by a list with the backing of Iraq's senior Shiite cleric, Grand Ayatollah Ali al- Sistani, diminishing Allawi's chances of retaining his post in the next government.
http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2005/02/04/MNGSMB5MDT1.DTL
-----What happens when bush realizes he just lost control of the second largest oil reserve on earth?..WHAT will he tell DADDY?----
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New York court rules in favor of same-sex marriage
A Manhattan judge declared Friday that a New York state law that forbids same-sex marriage is unconstitutional--a first-of-its-kind ruling in the state that if upheld on appeal would allow gay couples to wed. State supreme court justice Doris Ling-Cohan ruled in favor of five same-sex couples who had filed a lawsuit after being denied marriage licenses by a New York City clerk.
http://www.advocate.com/new_news.asp?id=15048&sd=02/05/05-02/07/05
---Won't we all go gay now? I mean now that its legal wont that trigger my lesbianisim? Damn gotta do the dating thing all over again---
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UPDATE: Officials Back Away from Early Estimates of Iraqi Voter Turnout
Then, in Friday's paper, Burns and Filkins noted that one election commision official was "evasive about the turnout, implying it might end up significantly lower than the initial estimate." They quoted this official, Safwat Radhid, exclaiming: "Only God Almighty knows the final turnout now." They revealed that the announcement of a turnout number, expected to be released this weekend, has been put off for a week, due to the "complex" tabulation system.
http://www.editorandpublisher.com/eandp/columns/pressingissues_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1000788083
---Can you vote Vietnam on Diebold machines?---
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Statement on the Bush Blacklist for Fargo
"News of the Bush blacklist of dozens of citizens from a Fargo, North Dakota speech is as frightening as it has become routine for this Administration. To blacklist a local citizen because he produces a radio program at odds with the political agenda of the White House is dangerous for Democracy.
This Administration cannot promote freedom and liberty abroad while banning our most fundamental freedoms here at home. The pattern of stifling those voices that do not represent conservative orthodoxy has chilling implications for our Democracy.
http://www.democracyradio.org/node/view/37
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Stark is first to put video on congressional Web site
Washington -- Fremont Rep. Pete Stark made a little bit of congressional and high- tech history Friday by becoming the first member of Congress to post a video clip on his official Web site.
His 3 1/2-minute blistering response to President Bush's State of the Union speech on Wednesday night is part of a new program devised by Democratic activists to let members of Congress communicate directly with their constituents by video. Republicans are expected to follow suit, and soon.
http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2005/02/05/BAGDGB6A5O1.DTL
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Tapes Reveal Enron's Power Plant Rigging
Transcripts detail how electricity traders conspired to shut down smooth-running generating facilities during the energy crisis.
By Jonathan PetersonTimes Staff WriterFebruary 4, 2005Enron Corp. traders conspired to shut down a healthy power plant as blackouts rolled across California in early 2001, according to documents released Thursday.
http://www.latimes.com/business/la-fi-enron4feb04,1,7827702,print.story?coll=la-headlines-business&ctrack=1&cset=true
----And when they came close to being caught in the act they asked themselves...oh where oh where can we find another energy related source to loot?----
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Pentagon still failing to protect the troops
By Edward M. Kennedy and Brian and Alma Hart February 3, 2005
THE THREE of us first met in November 2003 at Arlington National Cemetery when PFC John Hart was buried after being killed in an ambush of his unarmored Humvee in northern Iraq. We discussed the armor issue and how to resolve it, and we've been working together ever since to get the troops what they need as quickly as possible.
Unarmored Humvees had first come to our attention in August 2003 when Massachusetts soldiers serving in the Rhode Island National Guard were killed by roadside bombs called IEDs -- "improvised explosive devices." Our troops quickly learned that improvised armor protection was not effective against these improvised explosives. Soon we began seeing reports of anxious parents buying body armor, and even vehicle armor, and mailing it to their sons and daughters in a desperate effort to fill the gap.
So when Specialist Thomas Jerry Wilson questioned Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld in Kuwait in December about why soldiers had to dig through landfills to find scrap metal to protect their Humvees, he was asking a question that should have been answered many months ago, when it first became clear that our troops were being sent out on patrol in inadequately armored vehicles.
http://www.boston.com/news/globe/editorial_opinion/oped/articles/2005/02/03/pentagon_still_failing_to_protect_the_troops/
----To our fine veterans..I love you guys. I find this appalling and intolerable...
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.Parents censor high school literature and are allowed to burn books they find offensive
Here in Norwood, a small group of parents sent letters to Superintendent Bob Conder, expressing their concern over, "Bless Me, Ultima," a book being used in the classroom as a literature book. Conder said the books, about 2 dozen in total costing $6.99 each, were pulled from the classroom, and designated to be destroyed. The parents approached the superintendent and asked that they be able to burn the books instead of the school janitor destroying them.
Conder granted them their request, as he has the right to dispose of them. Conder informed the School Board in a letter after the fact. He further stated, "I can’t dictate morality, but my job is to protect the kids. The books should have never been purchased, and were not properly disclosed for approval."
http://www.ala.org/ala/oif/bannedbooksweek/bbwlinks/norwoodhighschool.htm
--I am so sick of this NAZI bullshit----
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Rumsfeld may skip Germany because of war-crimes suit
WASHINGTON -- Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld said Thursday he may skip a trip to a security conference in Germany next week because of a lawsuit there accusing him of war crimes.
"It's something that we have to take into consideration," he said when asked whether the suit was a factor in weighing whether to attend the Munich Conference on Security Policy, an annual gathering of government defense officials and lawmakers, where an address by the U.S. defense secretary is typically a highlight.
Attorneys from the New York-based Center for Constitutional Rights filed a suit with German prosecutors last November charging that U.S. officials, including Rumsfeld, are responsible for acts of torture against detainees at the Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq.
http://www.indystar.com/articles/4/219765-7564-P.html
------They waited YEARS to get Pinochet...They will get you too Rummy. You will NEVER be able to run far enough----
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Was There Pundit Payola at the Pentagon?
NEW YORK Will the next revelations about newspapers columnists paid by the government come out of the Pentagon? The Washington Times reports today that an in-house probe is underway at the Defense Department.
http://www.editorandpublisher.com/eandp/news/article_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1000789070
---This is so outta control ----
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http://www.libertyforum.org/showflat.php?Cat=&Board=news_international&Number=293347912
Russia said yesterday it had abandoned efforts to tie the rouble's movement closely to the dollar and switched to shadowing both the euro and the US currency.
---UHOHH---
LONDON (AP) - China will free its currency from its peg to the U.S. dollar eventually, a central bank official told international officials Saturday, but emphasized that the weakness in the dollar is not China's concern.
http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=1821&u=/cpress/20050205/ca_pr_on_bu/britain_g7&printer=1
---BIGGGG UHHOHHHH---
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Destroyed embryo deemed human
A frozen embryo destroyed in a Chicago fertility clinic was a human being whose parents are entitled to file a wrongful-death lawsuit, a Cook County judge ruled Friday
http://www.suntimes.com/output/news/cst-nws-egg05.html
---hmmm---
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Ignoring the Smoke
Humankind is changing, or at least helping change, Earth's climate by pumping carbon dioxide and other "greenhouse" gases into the atmosphere, mostly by burning fossil fuels. The United States is doing more of this than any other nation. The consequences aren't coming; they're already here: Some scientists believe thousands have already died because of man-made atmospheric warming.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A62111-2005Feb3.html
--Scary stuff---
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Mystery list may trace to team
The whodunit mystery surrounding the do-not-admit list for President Bush's Fargo visit still hasn't been solved, but clues uncovered Friday indicate a worker with the White House advance team may have been the culprit.
http://www.in-forum.com/articles/index.cfm?id=82503§ion=News
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GOP proposes bill that would suspend ALL laws
But -- most overlooked -- is Section 102 of this bill. It would empower the Secretary of Homeland Security to suspend any and all laws in order to ensure the "expeditious" construction of a set of barriers and roads south of San Diego, to keep illegal immigrants out. It also would prohibit ANY judicial review of the Secretary of Homeland Security's decision to suspend any law. ON EDIT: While the law the bill references mentions barriers and roads "near San Diego," it does not appear to be (technically speaking) limited to that area -- but to any barriers or roads "in the vicinity of the United States border." (See comments below).
http://dailykos.com/story/2005/2/5/15448/41910
----Again. Big HMMMM------
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Marine General Is Told To Speak 'More Carefully'
The Marine Corps commandant yesterday urged a three-star general to choose his words "more carefully," after the general told a San Diego conference this week it was "a lot of fun to shoot" the enemy.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A61672-2005Feb3.html
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The Scourge of Her Conviction
Two days before Christmas, Elena Sassower walked out of the Washington, D.C., jail where she'd just finished serving a sentence that should frighten anyone inclined to protest in the halls of power.
http://villagevoice.com/news/index.php?issue=0505&page=lombardi&id=60660
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----This is becoming a habit Georgie----
Journalists paid to write for military Web site
WASHINGTON - The Pentagon’s chief investigator is looking into the military’s practice of paying journalists to write articles and commentary for a Web site aimed at influencing public opinion in the Balkans, officials said Friday.
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/6915347/
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Wounded in action Haunted by his experiences as an army medic in Iraq, David McGough couldn't cope with life after his tour of duty. Yet it took two failed suicide attempts before he was diagnosed as suffering from post-traumatic stress disorder. Alison Roberts on the forgotten casualties of the war
http://society.guardian.co.uk/mentalhealth/story/0,8150,1405859,00.html
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HAHAHAHAHAHAHA
U.S. 'in for a shock' In early election results, Shiite cleric's alliance trouncing Washington's favorite
Baghdad -- Partial results from Sunday's election suggest that U.S.-backed Prime Minister Ayad Allawi's coalition is being roundly defeated by a list with the backing of Iraq's senior Shiite cleric, Grand Ayatollah Ali al- Sistani, diminishing Allawi's chances of retaining his post in the next government.
http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2005/02/04/MNGSMB5MDT1.DTL
-----What happens when bush realizes he just lost control of the second largest oil reserve on earth?..WHAT will he tell DADDY?----
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New York court rules in favor of same-sex marriage
A Manhattan judge declared Friday that a New York state law that forbids same-sex marriage is unconstitutional--a first-of-its-kind ruling in the state that if upheld on appeal would allow gay couples to wed. State supreme court justice Doris Ling-Cohan ruled in favor of five same-sex couples who had filed a lawsuit after being denied marriage licenses by a New York City clerk.
http://www.advocate.com/new_news.asp?id=15048&sd=02/05/05-02/07/05
---Won't we all go gay now? I mean now that its legal wont that trigger my lesbianisim? Damn gotta do the dating thing all over again---
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UPDATE: Officials Back Away from Early Estimates of Iraqi Voter Turnout
Then, in Friday's paper, Burns and Filkins noted that one election commision official was "evasive about the turnout, implying it might end up significantly lower than the initial estimate." They quoted this official, Safwat Radhid, exclaiming: "Only God Almighty knows the final turnout now." They revealed that the announcement of a turnout number, expected to be released this weekend, has been put off for a week, due to the "complex" tabulation system.
http://www.editorandpublisher.com/eandp/columns/pressingissues_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1000788083
---Can you vote Vietnam on Diebold machines?---
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Statement on the Bush Blacklist for Fargo
"News of the Bush blacklist of dozens of citizens from a Fargo, North Dakota speech is as frightening as it has become routine for this Administration. To blacklist a local citizen because he produces a radio program at odds with the political agenda of the White House is dangerous for Democracy.
This Administration cannot promote freedom and liberty abroad while banning our most fundamental freedoms here at home. The pattern of stifling those voices that do not represent conservative orthodoxy has chilling implications for our Democracy.
http://www.democracyradio.org/node/view/37
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Stark is first to put video on congressional Web site
Washington -- Fremont Rep. Pete Stark made a little bit of congressional and high- tech history Friday by becoming the first member of Congress to post a video clip on his official Web site.
His 3 1/2-minute blistering response to President Bush's State of the Union speech on Wednesday night is part of a new program devised by Democratic activists to let members of Congress communicate directly with their constituents by video. Republicans are expected to follow suit, and soon.
http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2005/02/05/BAGDGB6A5O1.DTL
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Tapes Reveal Enron's Power Plant Rigging
Transcripts detail how electricity traders conspired to shut down smooth-running generating facilities during the energy crisis.
By Jonathan PetersonTimes Staff WriterFebruary 4, 2005Enron Corp. traders conspired to shut down a healthy power plant as blackouts rolled across California in early 2001, according to documents released Thursday.
http://www.latimes.com/business/la-fi-enron4feb04,1,7827702,print.story?coll=la-headlines-business&ctrack=1&cset=true
----And when they came close to being caught in the act they asked themselves...oh where oh where can we find another energy related source to loot?----
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Pentagon still failing to protect the troops
By Edward M. Kennedy and Brian and Alma Hart February 3, 2005
THE THREE of us first met in November 2003 at Arlington National Cemetery when PFC John Hart was buried after being killed in an ambush of his unarmored Humvee in northern Iraq. We discussed the armor issue and how to resolve it, and we've been working together ever since to get the troops what they need as quickly as possible.
Unarmored Humvees had first come to our attention in August 2003 when Massachusetts soldiers serving in the Rhode Island National Guard were killed by roadside bombs called IEDs -- "improvised explosive devices." Our troops quickly learned that improvised armor protection was not effective against these improvised explosives. Soon we began seeing reports of anxious parents buying body armor, and even vehicle armor, and mailing it to their sons and daughters in a desperate effort to fill the gap.
So when Specialist Thomas Jerry Wilson questioned Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld in Kuwait in December about why soldiers had to dig through landfills to find scrap metal to protect their Humvees, he was asking a question that should have been answered many months ago, when it first became clear that our troops were being sent out on patrol in inadequately armored vehicles.
http://www.boston.com/news/globe/editorial_opinion/oped/articles/2005/02/03/pentagon_still_failing_to_protect_the_troops/
----To our fine veterans..I love you guys. I find this appalling and intolerable...
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.Parents censor high school literature and are allowed to burn books they find offensive
Here in Norwood, a small group of parents sent letters to Superintendent Bob Conder, expressing their concern over, "Bless Me, Ultima," a book being used in the classroom as a literature book. Conder said the books, about 2 dozen in total costing $6.99 each, were pulled from the classroom, and designated to be destroyed. The parents approached the superintendent and asked that they be able to burn the books instead of the school janitor destroying them.
Conder granted them their request, as he has the right to dispose of them. Conder informed the School Board in a letter after the fact. He further stated, "I can’t dictate morality, but my job is to protect the kids. The books should have never been purchased, and were not properly disclosed for approval."
http://www.ala.org/ala/oif/bannedbooksweek/bbwlinks/norwoodhighschool.htm
--I am so sick of this NAZI bullshit----
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Rumsfeld may skip Germany because of war-crimes suit
WASHINGTON -- Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld said Thursday he may skip a trip to a security conference in Germany next week because of a lawsuit there accusing him of war crimes.
"It's something that we have to take into consideration," he said when asked whether the suit was a factor in weighing whether to attend the Munich Conference on Security Policy, an annual gathering of government defense officials and lawmakers, where an address by the U.S. defense secretary is typically a highlight.
Attorneys from the New York-based Center for Constitutional Rights filed a suit with German prosecutors last November charging that U.S. officials, including Rumsfeld, are responsible for acts of torture against detainees at the Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq.
http://www.indystar.com/articles/4/219765-7564-P.html
------They waited YEARS to get Pinochet...They will get you too Rummy. You will NEVER be able to run far enough----
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Was There Pundit Payola at the Pentagon?
NEW YORK Will the next revelations about newspapers columnists paid by the government come out of the Pentagon? The Washington Times reports today that an in-house probe is underway at the Defense Department.
http://www.editorandpublisher.com/eandp/news/article_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1000789070
---This is so outta control ----
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http://www.libertyforum.org/showflat.php?Cat=&Board=news_international&Number=293347912
Russia said yesterday it had abandoned efforts to tie the rouble's movement closely to the dollar and switched to shadowing both the euro and the US currency.
---UHOHH---
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