President Bush warned North Korea on Wednesday of a "grave consequence" if it tried to sell nuclear arms, and Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice reassured Asian allies of America's commitment to defend them. In his sternest message to Pyongyang since its October 9 nuclear test, Bush vowed the United States would use whatever means necessary to keep North Korea from proliferating nuclear arms beyond its borders. Bush, who has stressed the need to resolve the North Korea standoff through diplomatic means, acknowledged it was still an open question whether U.N. Security Council sanctions would convince Pyongyang to abandon its nuclear program. But he made clear that Washington, which has not ruled out military options, would take strong action if North Korea tried to sell nuclear weapons to America's enemies. Yes Bush will huff and puff and have a temper tandem then go and attack Somalia ...
http://abcnews.go.com
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 FDA Is Set To Approve Milk, Meat From Clones |
Three years after the Food and Drug Administration first hinted that it might permit the sale of milk and meat from cloned animals, prompting public reactions that ranged from curiosity to disgust, the agency is poised to endorse marketing of the mass-produced animals for public consumption. The decision, expected by the end of this year, is based largely on new data indicating that milk and meat from cloned livestock and their offspring pose no unique risks to consumers. "Our evaluation is that the food from cloned animals is as safe as the food we eat every day," said Stephen F. Sundlof, the FDA's chief of veterinary medicine, who has overseen the long-stalled risk assessment. Farmers and companies that have been growing cloned barnyard animals from single cells in anticipation of a lucrative market say cloning will bring consumers a level of consistency and quality impossible to attain with conventional breeding, making perfectly marbled beef and ...
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/10/16/AR2006101601337.html
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Editor - 18:41:00 10-18-06
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| U.S. military trials ordered in Iraq murder cases. Ok so they are charging the little guys. But when do the trials start for Bush and all Congress that caused this illegal war |
US service members will face military trials in 3 separate cases for the murders of Iraqi civilians, including the gang rape and murder of a teenage girl and the killing of her family in their home in Mahmudiya, the military said on Wednesday. An Army general ordered the court-martial of 4 soldiers in the Mahmudiya case and said 2 of the 4 could face death if found guilty. One of the accused will testify against the others, according to his Wash attorney, David Sheldon. Army Maj. Gen. Thomas Turner also ordered military trials for 4 other soldiers accused of murdering 3 Iraqi detainees during a raid on a suspected insurgent camp near Thar Thar Lake, southwest of Tikrit. Lets get the Big boys also, they started it, now let them pay for their crimes. Get the Bastards that gave the orders to start this illegal war and all those that ignored their oath to the Constitution and that includes all the Generals that had to know better. Why do they only pick on the low ranking soldiers? ...
http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20061018/ts_nm/crime_iraq_soldiers_dc
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Editor - 14:35:00 10-18-06
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| ‘National yawn as our rights evaporate’ New law redefines habeas corpus; law professor explains on ‘Countdown’ |
First thing this morning, the president signed into law the Military Commissions Act of 2006, which does away with habeas corpus, the right of suspected terrorists or anybody else to know why they have been imprisoned, provided the president does not think it should apply to you and declares you an enemy combatant. Further, the bill allows the CIA to continue using interrogation techniques so long as they do not cause what is deemed, quote, “serious physical or mental pain.” And it lets the president to ostensibly pick and choose which parts of the Geneva Convention to obey, though to hear him describe this, this repudiation of the freedoms for which all our soldiers have died is a good thing. To assess what this law will truly mean for us all, I’m joined by Jonathan Turley, professor of constitutional law at George Washington University....
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/15318240/
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Editor - 13:26:00 10-18-06
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| New Microsoft License Ties Vista To Hardware |
Microsoft may be capitulating to complaints from other software firms and European governments, but it's getting pretty rough with its customers. Perhaps too rough. Earlier this month it was learned that the Windows Genuine Advantage (WGA) program in Vista would actually lock computers that failed a WGA authentication check. Now comes word that Microsoft (Quote) has changed the licensing terms for the retail version of Vista. Customers will only be able to reinstall Vista on a new machine once. After that, they will have to buy a new copy of Vista. With Windows XP, Microsoft introduced a validation tool that checks with a Microsoft server to make sure the copy of XP hasn't been installed on other computers. However, there was no real enforcement against people who purchased a new computer to retire an old machine and used the same copy of XP. ...
http://www.internetnews.com/security/article.php/3638581
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Editor - 13:05:00 10-18-06
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| War in Afghanistan: Britain's Vietnam |
These are the images that reveal the gritty, deadly reality of the British engagement in Afghanistan. And they have been released to the world by the angry and beleaguered troops themselves.The pictures were captured on digital cameras over recent months by infantrymen belonging to the Battlegroup of the 3rd Battalion The Parachute Regiment. For the most part, they have been sent back to Britain by e-mail, sidestepping the Government's attempts to keep the true nature of the conflict away from the public gaze.This is a deployment that Ministers, safe in their plush Whitehall offices, have characterised as a peacekeeping mission. John Reid, now Home Secretary, notoriously predicted that the British would serve their tour of duty without a shot being fired. Visits to troops by news teams have been discouraged or stage-managed....
http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/news/article-23369142-details/War+in+Afghanistan%3A+Britain%27s+Vietnam/article.do#readerComments
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Editor - 10:04:00 10-18-06
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