Saturday, March 26, 2005
posted by Jimbo Trout @ Saturday, March 26, 2005
Bush world view: Paranoid.
"America’s strength is being challenged by ‘a strategy of the weak,’ a Pentagon document says, listing diplomatic and legal challenges in international forums in the same sentence with terrorism."
Little Reporting on Paranoia in High Places
posted by Jimbo Trout @ Saturday, March 26, 2005
FL Agents en route to Kidnap Schiavo Stopped
"For a brief period, local police, who have officers around the hospice to keep protesters out, prepared for what sources called a showdown ... 'We told them that unless they had the judge with them when they came, they were not going to get in,' said a source with the local police."
Yahoo! News - Fla. officials' attempt, fail to seize Schiavo
posted by Jimbo Trout @ Saturday, March 26, 2005
Thursday, March 24, 2005
Aged & Cured: Actual Dinosaur Flesh Found
A 70-million-year-old Tyrannosaurus rex fossil dug out of a hunk of sandstone has yielded soft tissue, including blood vessels and perhaps even whole cells, U.S. researchers reported on Thursday ...
Yahoo! News - Scientists Find Soft Tissue in T-Rex Bone
posted by Jimbo Trout @ Thursday, March 24, 2005
posted by Jimbo Trout @ Thursday, March 24, 2005
Sunday, March 20, 2005
posted by Jimbo Trout @ Sunday, March 20, 2005
posted by Jimbo Trout @ Sunday, March 20, 2005
Regardless of 9/11, Bush Planned War vs. Iraq
'In fact there were two conflicting plans, setting off a hidden policy war between neo-conservatives at the Pentagon, on one side, versus a combination of "Big Oil" executives and US State Department "pragmatists." "Big Oil" appears to have won. The latest plan, obtained by Newsnight from the US State Department was, we learned, drafted with the help of American oil industry consultants. Insiders told Newsnight that planning began "within weeks" of Bush's first taking office in 2001, long before the September 11th attack on the US ... The new plan was crafted by neo-conservatives intent on using Iraq's oil to destroy the Opec cartel through massive increases in production above Opec quotas.'
BBC NEWS | Programmes | Newsnight | Secret US plans for Iraq's oil
posted by Jimbo Trout @ Sunday, March 20, 2005
MS-13: Transnational Street Gang"MS-13 got started in Los Angeles in the 1980s by Salvadorans fleeing a civil war. Many of the kids grew up surrounded by violence ... an MS-13 member who recounted one of his earliest memories: guarding the family's crops at the age of 4, armed with a machete, alone at night. When he and others reached the mean streets of the L.A. ghetto, Mexican gangs preyed on them. The newcomers' response: to band together in a mara, or "posse," composed of salvatruchas, or "street-tough Salvadorans" (the "13" is a gang number associated with southern California). Over time, the gang's ranks grew, adding former paramilitaries with weapons training and a taste for atrocity. MS-13 eventually adopted a variety of rackets, from extortion to drug trafficking. When law enforcement cracked down and deported planeloads of members, the deportees quickly created MS-13 outposts in El Salvador and neighboring countries like Honduras and Guatemala ... While machete attacks might occur on the East Coast, they're rare on the West Coast. While car thefts and drug trafficking might be big in North Carolina, gang-on-gang violence predominates in Virginia." MSNBC - The Most Dangerous Gang in America
posted by Jimbo Trout @ Sunday, March 20, 2005
posted by Jimbo Trout @ Sunday, March 20, 2005
posted by Jimbo Trout @ Sunday, March 20, 2005
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