Guest guest Posted January 17, 2008 Report Share Posted January 17, 2008 New solar cycle, a cooling cycle.....it will make you the global warming hysterics cry for the good time of global warming. > Blair kicks off campaign 2become EU Pres.,Germany pardons Dutchman > beheaded 4Reichstag fire,Sedatives & chemo drugs found in > drinking water,NASA:Solar cycle may cause ¡§dangerous¡¨ global cooling > in a few yrs time > > > > Homicides by US Iraq and Afghan war vets up 90 percent > > January 13, 2008 ¡P No Comments > > Reuters | Jan 12, 2008 > NEW YORK, Jan 12 (Reuters) - A survey of public records by The New > York Times found at least 121 U.S. veterans of Iraq and Afghanistan > committed a killing or were charged with one after returning home from > duty, the newspaper reported on Saturday. > The Times said the numbers indicated a nearly 90 percent increase in > homicides involving active-duty military personnel and new veterans > for the six-year period since the 2001 invasion of Afghanistan. > Neither the Pentagon nor the Justice Department tracks such killings, > which are handled by civilian courts. An Army spokesman said the > report did not offer a complete picture. > Saying its research likely uncovered only the minimum number of such > cases, the Times found three-quarters of the veterans charged were > still in the military at the time of the killings, more than half of > which involved guns. > Some 25 of the offenders faced murder, manslaughter or homicide > charges for fatal car crashes resulting from drunken, reckless or > suicidal driving. > The overwhelming majority had no prior criminal records, the Times > said, but it added that in some of the cases, ¡§the fact that the > suspect went to war bears no apparent relationship to the crime > committed.¡¨ > The Times said about one-third of the victims were spouses, > girlfriends, children or other relatives, while some 25 percent were > fellow service members. > Army spokesman Paul Boyce told Reuters in an e-mail that Army > statistics ¡§show little or no increases in positive drug use, driving > under the influence crimes or domestic abuse in the past years among > the more than 300,000 soldiers who have deployed in this war.¡¨ > The findings stemmed from searches of local news reports, examination > of police, court and military records and interviews with defendants, > their lawyers and families as well as victims¡¦ families and military > and law enforcement officials. > Interviews with relatives of the veterans brought a common refrain of > ¡§He came back (from war) different,¡¨ the Times said, with references > to substance abuse and mental instability such as paranoia. > Few of the 121 veterans received more than cursory mental health > screening at the end of their deployments, the veterans, their > lawyers, relatives and prosecutors said. While many showed signs of > combat trauma, they were not evaluated for or diagnosed with > post-traumatic stress disorder until after the homicides, according to > the interviews. > Boyce said the newspaper¡¦s statistics ¡§appear to be based on a basic > review of American newspaper crime stories from 2004 to 2006, rather > than statistics provided by the U.S. Army or the Department of > Defense, or even any interviews with military medical or judicial > professionals.¡¨ > Such methodology would make it ¡§nearly impossible for reporters to > determine the extent of highly personal mental-health assistance > provided to individual members of the Armed Forces,¡¨ Boyce wrote. > (Writing by Chris Michaud; Editing by Peter Cooney) > ¡÷ No CommentsCategories: Crime & Corruption ¡P Perpetual War > > > Organs to be taken without consent > > January 13, 2008 ¡P No Comments > > Telegraph | Jan 13, 2008 > By Patrick Hennessy and Laura Donnelly > > Gordon Brown has thrown his weight behind a move to allow hospitals to > take organs from dead patients without explicit consent. > Writing in The Sunday Telegraph, the Prime Minister says that such a > facility would save thousands of lives and that he hopes such a system > can start this year. > The proposals would mean consent for organ donation after death would > be automatically presumed, unless individuals had opted out of the > national register or family members objected. > But patients¡¦ groups said that they were ¡§totally opposed¡¨ to Mr > Brown¡¦s plan, saying that it would take away patients¡¦ rights over > their own bodies. > There are more than 8,000 patients waiting for an organ donation and > more than 1,000 a year die without receiving the organ that could save > their lives. > > More- http://aftermathnews.wordpress.com/ > ¡÷ No CommentsCategories: Medical Mafia > > > Germany pardons Dutchman beheaded for Reichstag fire > > January 13, 2008 ¡P No Comments > <image.tiff> > Mentally disabled Marinus van der Lubbe was cleared under a law > introduced in 1998 to lift unjust verdicts dating from the Nazi era. > > Agence France-Press | Jan 11, 2008 > > BERLIN ¡X Seventy-five years since the Reichstag building in Berlin was > gutted by fire, the Dutchman executed by the Nazis for starting the > blaze has been posthumously pardoned by the German state, federal > justice officials said yesterday. > Marinus van der Lubbe, a member of the Communist party, was cleared > under a law introduced in 1998 to lift unjust verdicts dating from the > Nazi era. > The Reichstag, the imposing stone building that housed the > Nazi-controlled parliament, was gutted by fire on Feb. 27, 1933 ¡X one > month after Adolf Hitler rose to power. > > A Nazi court found Van der Lubbe guilty of arson and high treason and > he was beheaded in 1934. > The verdict remains a source of controversy. > Some historians say the Dutchman admitted burning down the Reichstag > alone in an attempt to rouse Germans to rise up against the Nazis. > Others believe he was made a scapegoat for a fire that the Nazis > started themselves. > ¡÷ No CommentsCategories: Nazism ¡P Terror Psyops > > > > Blair kicks off campaign to become EU President > > January 13, 2008 ¡P 8 Comments > > > <image.tiff> > Apparently, since he has converted to Catholicism, Blair can now > become the new leader over the entire European empire with the > blessings of the papacy > The Observer | Jan 13, 2008 > Alex Duval Smith in Paris > > Tony Blair launched his campaign to become the first fully-fledged > President of the European Union yesterday by describing the notion of > left- and right-wing politics as redundant. > > With France preparing to oversee the appointment process, Blair set > out his vision of modern European democracy at a meeting of the French > governing conservative party by also claiming that EU countries could > achieve far more by working together than acting in isolation. > ¡¥Europe is not a question of left or right, but a question of the > future or the past, of strength or weakness,¡¦ said the former British > Prime Minister, speaking in French. > In his most important speech since leaving Downing Street last June, > addressing 2,000 supporters of French President Nicolas Sarkozy, Blair > said globalisation was eradicating traditional party lines and class > distinctions and rendering old political remedies obsolete. ¡¥It¡¦s > about today versus yesterday. Less about politics and more about a > state of mind; open as opposed to closed,¡¦ he said. > ¡¥Terrorism, security, immigration, organised crime, energy, the > environment, science, biotechnology and higher education. In all these > areas, and others, we are much stronger and able to deliver what our > citizens expect from us as individual nations if we are part of a > strong and united Europe,¡¦ he added before supporters of Sarkozy¡¦s > Union Pour Un Mouvement Populaire (UMP) party. Blair, a close ally of > Sarkozy who advised the French politician during his rise to power, is > strongly backed by the French President to become President of the EU > Council of Ministers in January next year, a position he has > previously said he was not interested in. > Sarkozy, 52, who appeared at the Palais des Sports rally without his > 40-year-old girlfriend, Carla Bruni, offered unequivocal backing for > Blair yesterday, describing him as an ideal candidate to run Europe. > ¡¥He is intelligent, he is brave and he is a friend. We need him in > Europe. How can we govern a continent of 450 million people if the > President changes every six months and has to run his own country at > the same time? I want a President chosen from the top - not a > compromise candidate - who will serve for two-and-a-half years,¡¦ added > Sarkozy. > A UMP party grandee, Jean-Pierre Rafarin, wrote in yesterday¡¦s Le > Monde newspaper that Blair¡¦s experience in Europe positioned him well > for the post. The position of President of the European Council - > which meets at head-of-state and government level, usually four times > a year - is due to be created by the 27-nation grouping in the second > half of 2008, when France will chair EU ministerial meetings. > At the end of this month, Blair will continue his campaign to win the > leadership of Europe when he addresses a conference at the Sorbonne of > Les Progressistes, a breakaway socialist party group which has joined > Sarkozy¡¦s government. Blair is also due to attend the World Economic > Forum in Davos, Switzerland, this month. > After Blair¡¦s speech, Sarkozy took the former Prime Minister for lunch > at the Hotel Bristol near the Elysee Palace. Despite support from > Sarkozy - who is the architect of the mini-treaty for a European > constitution - Blair is an outsider for the EU job. His support for > the war in Iraq and Britain¡¦s reluctance to join the euro and other > core projects is likely to count against him when EU leaders vote for > their president later this year. > ¡÷ 8 CommentsCategories: Crime & Corruption ¡P European Union ¡P Global > Government > > > Sedatives and chemo drugs found in drinking water > > January 13, 2008 ¡P 1 Comment > > Telegraph | Jan 13, 2008 > By Richard Gray > Britain¡¦s tap water should be monitored for powerful medicines after > traces of cancer and psychiatric drugs were detected in samples, a > report has warned. > The 100-page statement, commissioned by the drinking water watchdog, > the Drinking Water Inspectorate (DWI), reveals that pharmaceuticals > are finding their way into the water supply despite extensive > purification treatments used by water companies. > Trace levels of bleomycin, a cancer chemotherapy drug, and diazepam, a > sedative, have been found during tests on drinking water, the report > reveals. > More- http://aftermathnews.wordpress.com/ > ¡÷ 1 CommentCategories: Big Pharma ¡P Depopulation ¡P Eugenics ¡P Health & > Fitness ¡P Social Engineering > > > Lives of Poverty Untouched by China¡¦s Boom > > January 13, 2008 ¡P No Comments > > <image.tiff> > Li Enlan at her home in Yangmiao, a village in Henan Province in > China. ¡§We eat somehow, but it¡¦s never enough,¡¨ she said. > NY Times | Jan 13, 2008 > By HOWARD W. FRENCH > YANGMIAO, China ¡X When she gets sick, Li Enlan, 78, picks herbs from > the woods that grow nearby instead of buying modern medicines. That is > not a result of some philosophical choice, though. She has never seen > a doctor and, like many residents of this area, lives in a meager > barter economy, seldom coming into contact with cash. > ¡§We eat somehow, but it¡¦s never enough,¡¨ Ms. Li said. ¡§At least we¡¦re > not starving.¡¨ > > In this region of southern Henan Province, in village after village, > people are too poor to heat their homes in the winter and many lack > basic comforts like running water. Mobile phones, a near ubiquitous > symbol of upward mobility throughout much of this country, are seen as > an impossible luxury. People here often begin conversations with a > phrase that is still not uncommon in today¡¦s China: ¡§We are poor.¡¨ > China has moved more people out of poverty than any other country in > recent decades, but the persistence of destitution in places like > southern Henan Province fits with the findings of a recent World Bank > study that suggests that there are still 300 million poor in China ¡X > three times as many as the bank previously estimated. > Poverty is most severe in China¡¦s geographic and social margins, > whether the mountainous areas or deserts that ring the country, or > areas dominated by ethnic minorities, who for cultural and historic > reasons have benefited far less than others from the country¡¦s long > economic rise. > But it also persists in places like Henan, where population densities > are among the greatest in China, and the new wealth of the booming > coast beckons, almost mockingly, a mere province away. > ¡§Henan has the largest population of any province, approaching 100 > million people, and the land there just cannot support those kinds of > numbers,¡¨ said Albert Keidel, a senior associate at the Carnegie > Endowment for International Peace and an expert on Chinese poverty. > ¡§It is supposed to be a breadbasket, but there has always been major > discrimination against grain-based areas in China. The profit you can > get from a hectare of land from vegetables, or a fish farm or oils, is > so much more.¡¨ > > Full Story > ¡÷ No CommentsCategories: Communism ¡P Economic Meltdown > > > Researchers Create New Rat Heart in Lab > > January 13, 2008 ¡P 2 Comments > > NY Times | Jan 13, 2008 > By LAWRENCE K. ALTMAN > > Medicine¡¦s dream of growing new human hearts and other organs to > repair or replace damaged ones received a significant boost on Sunday > when University of Minnesota researchers reported success in creating > a beating rat heart in a laboratory. > Experts not involved in the Minnesota work called it ¡§a landmark > achievement¡¨ and ¡§a stunning¡¨ advance. But they and the Minnesota > researchers cautioned that the dream, if it is ever realized, is still > at least 10 years away. > Dr. Doris A. Taylor, the head of the team that created the rat heart, > said that she followed a guiding principle of her laboratory ¡X ¡§give > nature the tools and get out of the way.¡¨ > > Full Story > ¡÷ 2 CommentsCategories: Biotech ¡P Sci-Tech > > > Official Version of Naval Strait of Hormuz Incident Starts to Unravel > > January 13, 2008 ¡P No Comments > > Press-TV | Jan 10, 2008 > by Gareth Porter > > > > WASHINGTON, Jan 10 (IPS) - Despite the official and media portrayal of > the incident in the Strait of Hormuz early Monday morning as a serious > threat to U.S. ships from Iranian speedboats that nearly resulted in a > ¡§battle at sea¡¨, new information over the past three days suggests > that the incident did not involve such a threat and that no U.S. > commander was on the verge of firing at the Iranian boats. > > The new information that appears to contradict the original version of > the incident includes the revelation that U.S. officials spliced the > audio recording of an alleged Iranian threat onto to a videotape of > the incident. That suggests that the threatening message may not have > come in immediately after the initial warning to Iranian boats from a > U.S. warship, as appears to do on the video. > Also unraveling the story is testimony from a former U.S. naval > officer that non-official chatter is common on the channel used to > communicate with the Iranian boats and testimony from the commander of > the U.S. 5th fleet that the commanding officers of the U.S. warships > involved in the incident never felt the need to warn the Iranians of a > possible use of force against them. > Further undermining the U.S. version of the incident is a video > released by Iran Thursday showing an Iranian naval officer on a small > boat hailing one of three ships. > The Iranian commander is heard to say, ¡§Coalition warship 73, this is > Iranian navy patrol boat.¡¨ He then requests the ¡§side numbers¡¨ of the > U.S. warships. A voice with a U.S. accent replies, ¡§This is coalition > warship 73. I am operating in international waters.¡¨ > The dramatic version of the incident reported by U.S. news media > throughout Tuesday and Wednesday suggested that Iranian speedboats, > apparently belonging to the Iranian Revolutionary Guard navy, had made > moves to attack three U.S. warships entering the Strait and that the > U.S. commander had been on the verge of firing at them when they broke > off. > Typical of the network coverage was a story by ABC¡¦s Jonathan Karl > quoting a Pentagon official as saying the Iranian boats ¡§were a > heartbeat from being blown up¡¨. > Bush administration officials seized on the incident to advance the > portrayal of Iran as a threat and to strike a more threatening stance > toward Iran. National Security Adviser Stephen Hadley declared > Wednesday that the incident ¡§almost involved an exchange of fire > between our forces and Iranian forces¡¨. President George W. Bush > declared during his Mideast trip Wednesday that there would be > ¡§serious consequences¡¨ if Iran attacked U.S. ships and repeated his > assertion that Iran is ¡§a threat to world peace¡¨. > Central to the depiction of the incident as involving a threat to U.S. > warships is a mysterious pair of messages that the sailor who heard > them onboard immediately interpreted as saying, ¡§I am coming at you¡K¡¨, > and ¡§You will explode after a few minutes.¡¨ But the voice in the audio > clearly said ¡§I am coming to you,¡¨ and the second message was much > less clear. > Furthermore, as the New York Times noted Thursday, the recording > carries no ambient noise, such as the sounds of a motor, the sea or > wind, which should have been audible if the broadcast had been made > from one of the five small Iranian boats. > A veteran U.S. naval officer who had served as a surface warfare > officer aboard a U.S. Navy destroyer in the Gulf sent a message to the > New York Times on-line column ¡§The Lede¡¨ Wednesday pointing out that > in the Persian Gulf, the ¡§bridge-to-bridge¡¨ radio channel used to > communicate between ships ¡§is like a bad CB radio¡¨ with many people > using it for ¡§hurling racial slurs¡¨ and ¡§threats¡¨. The former officer > wrote that his ¡§first thought¡¨ was that the message ¡§might not have > even come from one of the Iranian craft¡¨. > Pentagon officials admitted to the Times that they could not rule out > that the broadcast might have come from another source > The five Iran boats involved were hardly in a position to harm the > three U.S. warships. Although Pentagon spokesman Bryan Whitman > described the Iranian boats as ¡§highly maneuverable patrol craft¡¨ that > were ¡§visibly armed,¡¨ he failed to note that these are tiny boats > carrying only a two- or three-man crew and that they are normally > armed only with machine guns that could do only surface damage to a > U.S. ship. > The only boat that was close enough to be visible to the U.S. ships > was unarmed, as an enlarged photo of the boat from the navy video > clearly shows. > The U.S. warships were not concerned about the possibility that the > Iranian boats were armed with heavier weapons capable of doing serious > damage. Asked by a reporter whether any of the vessels had anti-ship > missiles or torpedoes, Vice Adm. Kevin Cosgriff, Commander of the 5th > Fleet, answered that none of them had either of those two weapons. > ¡§I didn¡¦t get the sense from the reports I was receiving that there > was a sense of being afraid of these five boats,¡¨ said Cosgriff. > The edited Navy video shows a crewman issuing an initial warning to > approaching boats, but the footage of the boats maneuvering provides > no visual evidence of Iranian boats ¡§making a run on U.S. ships¡¨ as > claimed by CBS news Wednesday in its report based on the new video. > Vice Adm. Cosgriff also failed to claim any run toward the U.S. ships > following the initial warning. Cosgriff suggested that the Iranian > boat¡¦s manoeuvres were ¡§unduly provocative¡¨ only because of the > ¡§aggregate of their manoeuvres, the radio call and the dropping of > objects in the water¡¨. > He described the objects dropped by the Iranian boat as being ¡§white, > box-like objects that floated¡¨. That description indicates that the > objects were clearly not mines, which would have been dark and would > have sunk immediately. Cosgriff indicated that the ships merely > ¡§passed by them safely¡¨ without bothering to investigate whether they > were explosives of some kind. > The apparent absence of concern on the part of the U.S. ships¡¦ > commanding officers about the floating objects suggests that they > recognised that the Iranians were engaging in a symbolic gesture > having to do with laying mines. > Cosgriff¡¦s answers to reporters¡¦ questions indicated that the story > promoted earlier by Pentagon officials that one of the U.S . ships > came very close to firing at the Iranian boats seriously distorted > what actually happened. When Cosgriff was asked whether the crew ever > gave warning to the Iranian boats that they ¡§could come under fire¡¨, > he said the commanding officers ¡§did not believe they needed to fire > warning shots¡¨. > As for the report circulated by at least one Pentagon official to the > media that one of the commanders was ¡§close to firing¡¨, Cosgriff > explained that ¡§close to¡¨ meant that the commander was ¡§working > through a series of procedures¡¨. He added, ¡§n his mind, he might > have been closing in on that point.¡¨ > Despite Cosgriff¡¦s account, which contradicted earlier Pentagon > portrayals of the incident as a confrontation, not a single news > outlet modified its earlier characterisation of the incident. After > the Cosgriff briefing, Associated Press carried a story that said, ¡¨ > U.S. forces were taking steps toward firing on the Iranians to defend > themselves, said the U.S. naval commander in the region. But the boats > ¡X believed to be from the Iranian Revolutionary Guard¡¦s navy ¡X turned > and moved away, officials said.¡¨ > That was quite different from what Cosgriff actually said. > In its story covering the Cosgriff briefing, Reuters cited ¡§other > Pentagon officials, speaking on condition of anonymity¡¨ as saying that > ¡§a U.S. captain was in the process of ordering sailors to open fire > when the Iranian boats moved away¡¨ ¡X a story that Cosgriff had > specifically denied. > *Gareth Porter is an historian and national security policy analyst. > His latest book, ¡§Perils of Dominance: Imbalance of Power and the Road > to War in Vietnam¡¨, was published in June 2005. > More- http://aftermathnews.wordpress.com/ > ¡÷ No CommentsCategories: Perpetual War > > NASA: Solar cycle may cause ¡§dangerous¡¨ global cooling in a few > years time > > January 13, 2008 ¡P 3 Comments > > > > <image.tiff> > Changes in the Sun¡¦s Surface to Bring Next Climate Change > spaceandscience.net | Jan 13, 2008 > > Today, the Space and Science Research Center, (SSRC) in Orlando, > Florida announces that it has confirmed the recent web announcement of > NASA solar physicists that there are substantial changes occurring in > the sun¡¦s surface. The SSRC has further researched these changes and > has concluded they will bring about the next climate change to one of > a long lasting cold era. > Today, Director of the SSRC, John Casey has reaffirmed earlier > research he led that independently discovered the sun¡¦s changes are > the result of a family of cycles that bring about climate shifts from > cold climate to warm and back again. > ¡§We today confirm the recent announcement by NASA that there are > historic and important changes taking place on the sun¡¦s surface. This > will have only one outcome - a new climate change is coming that will > bring an extended period of deep cold to the planet. This is not > however a unique event for the planet although it is critically > important news to this and the next generations. It is but the normal > sequence of alternating climate changes that has been going on for > thousands of years. Further according to our research, this series of > solar cycles are so predictable that they can be used to roughly > forecast the next series of climate changes many decades in advance. I > have verified the accuracy of these cycles¡¦ behavior over the last > 1,100 years relative to temperatures on Earth, to well over 90%.¡¨ > As to what these changes are Casey says, ¡§The sun¡¦s surface flows have > slowed dramatically as NASA has indicated. This process of surface > movement, what NASA calls the ¡§conveyor belt¡¨ essentially sweeps up > old sunspots and deposits new ones. NASA¡¦s studies have found that > when the surface movement slows down, sunspot counts drop > significantly. All records of sunspot counts and other proxies of > solar activity going back 6,000 years clearly validates our own > findings that when we have sunspot counts lower then 50 it means only > one thing - an intense cold climate, globally. NASA says the solar > cycle 25, the one after the next that starts this spring will be at 50 > or lower. The general opinion of the SSRC scientists is that it could > begin even sooner within 3 years with the next solar cycle 24. What we > are saying today is that my own research and that of the other > scientists at the SSRC verifies that NASA is right about one thing ¡V a > solar cycle of 50 or lower is headed our way. With this next solar > minimum predicted by NASA, what I call a ¡§solar hibernation,¡¨ the SSRC > forecasts a much colder Earth just as it has transpired before for > thousands of years. If NASA is the more accurate on the schedule, then > we may see even warmer temperatures before the bottom falls out. If > the SSRC and other scientists around the world are correct then we > have only a few years to prepare before 20-30 years of lasting and > possibly dangerous cold arrive.¡¨ > When asked about what this will mean to the average person on the > street, Casey was firm. ¡§The last time this particular cycle > regenerated was over 200 years ago. I call it the ¡§Bi-Centennial > Cycle¡¨ solar cycle. It took place between 1793 and 1830, the so-called > Dalton Minimum, a period of extreme cold that resulted in what > historian John D. Post called the ¡¥last great subsistence crisis.¡¦ > With that cold came massive crops losses, food riots, famine and > disease. I believe this next climate change will be much stronger and > has the potential to once more cause widespread crop losses globally > with the resultant ill effects. The key difference for this next > Bi-Centennial Cycle¡¦s impact versus the last is that we will have over > 8 billion mouths to feed in the next coldest years where as we had > only 1 billion the last time. Among other effects like social and > economic disruption, we are facing the real prospect of the ¡¥perfect > storm of global food shortages¡¦ in the next climate change. In answer > to the question, everyone on the street will be affected.¡¨ > Given the importance of the next climate change Casey was asked > whether the government has been notified. ¡§Yes, as soon as my research > revealed these solar cycles and the prediction of the coming cold era > with the next climate change, I notified all the key offices in the > Bush administration including both parties in the Senate and House > science committees as well as most of the nation¡¦s media outlets. > Unfortunately, because of the intensity of coverage of the UN IPCC and > man made global warming during 2007, the full story about climate > change is very slow in getting told. These changes in the sun have > begun. They are unstoppable. With the word finally starting to get out > about the next climate change, hopefully we will have time to prepare. > Right now, the newly organized SSRC is the leading independent > research center in the US and possibly worldwide, that is focused on > the next climate change. Some of the world¡¦s brightest scientists, > also experts in solar physics and the next climate change have joined > with me. In the meantime we will do our best to spread the word along > with NASA and others who can see what is about to take place for the > Earth¡¦s climate. Soon, I believe this will be recognized as the most > important climate story of this century.¡¨ > > ¡÷ 3 CommentsCategories: Global Warming Hoax ¡P Sci-Tech > > > > > > > <image.tiff> > > Looking for last minute shopping deals? Find them fast with > Search. > Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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