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The Pentagon stalled efforts to clean water supplies contaminated by a carcinogenic chemical despite evidence that it posed a significant health risk to millions of people, it was reported yesterday.

The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) investigated the solvent, trichloroethylene, extensively used on military bases, after significant quantities were found in water supplies. In its report, published in 2001, the EPA found it to be 40 times more likely to cause cancer than had been previously thought, and recommended tough safety standards to limit public exposure. There was also evidence the chemical played a role in birth defects.

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The Pentagon stalled efforts to clean water supplies contaminated by a carcinogenic chemical despite evidence that it posed a significant health risk to millions of people, it was reported yesterday.

The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) investigated the solvent, trichloroethylene, extensively used on military bases, after significant quantities were found in water supplies. In its report, published in 2001, the EPA found it to be 40 times more likely to cause cancer than had been previously thought, and recommended tough safety standards to limit public exposure. There was also evidence the chemical played a role in birth defects.

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Duck and Cover
Towns water supply damaged by teenagers in Massachusetts-not terrorists

Duck and Cover
2 dirty bombs carried into the us by us agents-not terrorists

Duck and Cover
Bush blames Iraq’s Instability on Saddam Hussein-not terrorists

Duck and Cover
Congress wants to send all the Mexicans home, right at gardening season-not terrorists.

WASHINGTON — Amid calls to inject fresh blood into his White House staff, President Bush announced Tuesday that his chief of staff, Andrew Card, has resigned and will be replaced by budget director Josh Bolten.

It seems odd that Bush is replacing people, in his administration, that don’t even appear to be on the publics hit list. You would ASSUME (therz that catch all word again) that a name like Rumsfeld, or Cheney would pop up. That is if he really had any hopes of reversing his poll numbers.
See, thats the difference between ‘ol DamSpot and the government. I’ve only had 54 years to learn common sense. They have had 230 years and still don’t have any.

TODAYS HEADLINE
Report: Dirty bomb material smuggled into U.S.

Two teams of government investigators using fake documents were able to enter the United States with enough radioactive sources to make two dirty bombs, according to a federal report made available on Monday.

Booga, Booga, Booga, Terrorists.

WHAT GOVERNMENT SCIENTISTS DECIDED TO RECREATE

Terrence Tumpey stepped into the laboratory and glanced at the dead mice. Suddenly it hit him — the significance of what scientists were attempting.

A few days earlier, Tumpey had infected the mice with genes from the 1918 influenza virus. The virus killed 40 million to 50 million people in the worst infectious disease outbreak in recorded history, then vanished.

For years, scientists had attempted to decipher the virus’ genetic code from snippets of lung tissue preserved from flu victims.

At this point in 2001, they had identified two of the virus’ eight gene segments and wanted to test the effect on mice. There was no mistaking the result.

“It brought a chill down my spine because I knew that I had this deadly virus,” said Tumpey, a research scientist for the national Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. “I didn’t have the whole thing, but I knew I had parts of it.”

Now, with the current track record of our Government ‘taking care of us’, which incident should we be more afraid of?

What we have learned today is this: The only difference between a Democrat and a Republican is that nether one likes you if you disagree with anything they have to say.
What we have also learned is that what ever you want people to read better be in the first sentence. It seems that the first sentence is the only one they either read, or the only one they don’t criticize.
And the biggest thing we have learned is that people will support a drunken, irrational, idiot simply because he fails to criticize the Party Line, sooner then someone who has an overall ‘Karnak’ leval of 98%. Well, so far this shit for brains closed 2 web sites and is currently working on number 3 . But thats OK. He has used so many different names that he is slowly burning out.
But I guess I’m just being ZenFull.

American foreign policy has been weighed down for all too many years by an albatross hung round Uncle Sam’s neck, one that distorts our stance especially vis-à-vis Middle Eastern issues and ultimately works against U.S. interests in the region and around the world: that albatross is unconditional support for the state of Israel. Of course, saying this amounts to a hate crime in today’s political atmosphere, and it is almost impossible to criticize the Jewish state without being accused of religious bigotry, which is just how Israel’s partisans want it. In the halls of Congress and the corridors of power, Israel is above criticism. But not anymore…

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Rights defenders targeted worldwide, report says

GENEVA (Reuters) - More than 1,100 human rights defenders in 90 countries like Colombia, China and Russia were targeted for their activism last year and many were murdered, tortured or jailed, a report released on Wednesday showed.

Repression of activists was particularly high in Asia, led by China, Iran and Nepal, according to the joint report by the Paris-based International Federation for Human Rights (FIDH) and Geneva-based World Organization Against Torture (OMCT).

Belarus and Russia were among those who made it harder to register non-governmental organizations (NGOs), and Mexico and the Democratic Republic of Congo used smear campaigns to discredit rights groups, according to the “Steadfast in Protest” report, released in Geneva.

“This year again, the list is long of the women and men who risked everything in order to promote and defend human rights,” the report said.

It cited a wide variety of repression tactics including assassinations, torture, ill-treatment, death threats, arbitrary arrests and detentions, judicial proceedings and adoption of restrictive legislation.

In all, 1,172 cases of repression were reported. This included some 117 murders or attempted assassinations, 92 cases of ill-treatment or torture, 56 physical attacks and 315 arbitrary detentions.

In Asia, the welfare of defenders deteriorated in Iran, the Philippines and Cambodia, the report found.

“The degree of repression remained such that there was no independent human rights NGO in Burma (Myanmar), Laos, North Korea or Vietnam,” it said.

“In China, defenders were confronted with a systematic repression of their activities,” it added.

Colombia, where 47 human rights defenders were killed and 15 others kidnapped or tortured last year, remained among the most dangerous in the world for activists who denounce their government’s policy on security and human rights, it said.

The report blamed paramilitaries for most of the executions in Colombia, which also had the most trade union activists assassinated — 29 during just the first six months, it said.

Louise Arbour, U.N. High Commissioner for Human Rights, paid tribute to all defenders in a foreward to the 289-page tome:

“They are the guardians of our fundamental freedoms. Without defenders, human rights would not exist. They are the conscience of the international community forbidding us to avert our eyes.”

Anyone who has read my blog or articles that I have written for other blogs knows the (KOF) love that I have for Microsloth. I have been particulary hard on ‘VISTA’, their latest and greatest replacement for XP. I was most amused to find out that VISTA was the first BETA to have a critical update patch applied prior to final release. I have also said that VISTA would be a Kludge, due to the fact, that it runs on the same kernal that was used for Windows 3.0. Over the years, they have continued to load more crap on until ME came along and it barely ran at all. Removing DOS allowed for some improvement with NT, but problems began to show up in XP when they started loading up the junk again. And now, VISTA is going to be the Kludge of them all. The final version will contain less than 1/4 of the newest widgets that were originaly promised. There have been delays after delays, and now, this article from our friends at CNN Money:

SEATTLE (Reuters) - Microsoft Corp. said on Tuesday it plans to delay the consumer launch of its much-anticipated Windows Vista operating system to January 2007 from its earlier target of the second half of 2006, sending its shares down nearly 3 percent.

Microsoft plans to launch a product for corporate customers in November and then roll out Windows Vista for consumers after the holiday shopping season, Jim Allchin, co-president of the company’s Platforms & Services Division, said on a conference call.

Vista is the first major overhaul of Windows since Microsoft rolled out Windows XP nearly five years ago.

Microsoft said Vista is delayed because it wants to improve overall quality, particularly in security, and that PC makers didn’t want the operating system introduced in the middle of holiday sales, because a new version would create instability in the market.

Redmond, Washington-based Microsoft is planning six core offerings of the Vista operating system, targeting how people use computers instead of PC hardware specifications.

Three will be aimed at consumers, two at business users, and a stripped-down version for emerging markets. Unlike the current Windows XP, there will be no versions designed specifically for advanced 64-bit computing, multimedia computers or Tablet PCs.

Windows, which is found in about 90 percent of all computer desktops, is one of Microsoft’s biggest cash cows.

The end is coming soon.
Not the end of the world. The end of the Bush Administration.
Despite the fact that the Democrats are acting like a bunch of idiots, they will still win many seats during the 2006 election. Then they will come out of their shells and demand impeachment and civil trials for those who support his positions.

The only thing that we can hope for is that the economy does not collapse into a depression prior to the election. If it does, the American People will not have the energy or the will to go through impeachment proceedings.

Only an armed takeover of the government would succeed in that scenario.
The fact is that we are very close to both things happening right now. Sales of semi automatic weapons have more than tripled since the first of the year. So have the sales, where available of AK47’s and AR 15’s.
Many civilian organizations are gaining memberships as far as civil defense and personal defense. Even the hated KKK and American Nazi Party are increasing their memberships for the first time in many years.

It seems that the hatred of the government is out shining those opinions who normally would have no connection with radical organizations at all.

Well, I have water, food, generator, firearms, and internet access that should survive an uprising. I suggest that all who read this arm yourselves as well.