One of Americans' favorite beach destinations, the Bahamas, is getting a new U.S. arrival -- sophisticated equipment to detect radioactive materials in shipping cargo. But U.S. customs agents won't be on site to supervise the machine's use as a nuclear safeguard for the American shoreline that is just 65 miles away from Freeport. Under an unusual arrangement, a Hong Kong company will help operate the detector. The Bush administration says it is finalizing a no-bid contract with Hutchison Whampoa Ltd. It acknowledged the deal is the first time a foreign company will be involved in running a radiation detector at an overseas port without American customs agents present. The administration is negotiating a second no-bid contract for a Philippine company to install radiation detectors in its home country, according to documents obtained by The Associated Press. At dozens of other overseas ports, foreign governments are primarily responsible for scanning cargo....
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Editor - 14:59:00 03-24-06
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 Former First Lady Barbara Bush's Hurricane Donation Earmarked to Buy Software From Son's Company |
Former first lady Barbara Bush gave relief money to a hurricane relief fund on the condition that it be spent to buy educational software from her son Neil's company.The chief of staff of former President George H.W. Bush would not disclose the amount earmarked for purchases from Ignite Learning.Since Barbara Bush's gift, the Ignite Learning program has been given to eight public schools with high numbers of Hurricane Katrina evacuees, the Houston Chronicle reported."Mrs. Bush wanted to do something specifically for education and specifically for the thousands of students flooding into the Houston schools," the former President Bush's chief of staff Jean Becker said Thursday....
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Editor - 14:50:00 03-24-06
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| FBI Whistleblower asks judge to withdraw |
An FBI whistleblower is calling on the judge in her case to recuse himself, because his decision to keep his financial disclosure information private creates the appearance of a conflict of interest. Sibel Edmonds, a former FBI contract linguist who revealed the parlous state of the bureau's translation unit, filed her motion in the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia Wednesday. Citing the provision of the U.S. code that requires a federal judge to disqualify himself "in any proceeding in which his impartiality might reasonably be questioned," Edmonds' motion asks for District Judge Reggie Walton to withdraw and another judge to be assigned to the case. The case in question -- a suit under the Federal Tort Claims Act -- is the latest in a series that Edmonds has fought against the FBI in furtherance of her claim that she was retaliated against by managers after raising serious questions about security in the bureau's Washington translation unit. ...
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Editor - 13:40:00 03-24-06
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| Controversial paper on “Israel Lobby” will not display KSG logo or series. The strength of the Jewish Lobby to kill this story, is a news story itself |
The Kennedy School of Government (KSG) removed its logo from a controversial paper published last week by Academic Dean Stephen M. Walt and the University of Chicago’s John J. Mearsheimer. A disclaimer stating that the views expressed belong only to the authors was also made more prominent on the working paper’s cover. In their paper, Walt and Mearsheimer argued that the “Israel Lobby,” composed of active supporters of Israel, has seized control of U.S. foreign policy and made it reflect Israel’s interests more than those of the U.S. Since its publication in the London Review of Books last Thursday, the authors have drawn heated criticism from many academics, including Harvard’s Frankfurter Professor of Law Alan M. Dershowitz and longtime Harvard lecturer Martin Peretz, who is also the editor-in-chief of The New Republic. The authors and any who published the story of the Power of the Jewish lobby are under heavy attack, but the truth and or accuracy of their story is not. ...
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Editor - 13:22:00 03-24-06
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| Harvard's Paper on Israel Drew From Neo-Nazi Sites. Notice: they do not say it’s not true. They attack the messenger not the message |
A prominent Harvard law professor, Alan Dershowitz, is alleging that the authors of a Harvard Kennedy School paper about the "Israel lobby," one of which is the Kennedy School's academic dean, culled sections of the paper from neo-Nazi and other anti-Israel hate Web sites. "What we're discovering first of all is that the quotes that they use are not only wrenched out of context, but they are the common quotes that appear on hate sites," Mr. Dershowitz, who is identified in the paper as part of the "lobby," told The New York Sun yesterday. "The wrenching out of context is done by the hate sites,and then [the authors] cite them to the original sources, in order to disguise the fact that they've gotten them from hate sites." They do not like this story and they are doing everything they can to kill it. We have to face the facts that Israel has too much control over our government, now the question remains, what are we going to do about it? ...
http://www.nysun.com/article/29741
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Editor - 12:55:00 03-24-06
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| Authorities Reviewing Video Showing Indigent Hospital Patient Dumped on L.A.'s Skid Row |
Authorities are examining a surveillance tape that shows an elderly woman wandering Skid Row in a hospital gown and slippers as they investigate the practice of hospitals and police agencies dumping homeless people downtown.Carol Ann Reyes, 63, of Gardena, was taken from a Kaiser Permanente hospital in Bellflower on Monday to the downtown area known as Skid Row, authorities said.A surveillance camera outside the Union Rescue Mission showed Reyes walking from the direction of a taxi that had just driven away. She wandered the street for about three minutes before a mission staff member brought her inside.City officials have been looking into the alleged dumping of homeless people in Skid Row, a ramshackle area downtown....
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