Wednesday, February 21. 2007
'A previously unreleased film of President John F. Kennedy's motorcade has revealed new details of the final moments before his assassination.
'The silent film shows the president and his wife Jackie shortly before the fatal shot was fired.
'Amateur photographer George Jefferies held onto the film for more than 40 years believing it was unimportant.
'But Dallas museum curator Gary Mack says it is bound to provide new fuel to the conspiracy theorists.' (BBC News article). media-underground.net
Monday, February 19. 2007
'An asteroid may come uncomfortably close to Earth in 2036 and the United Nations should assume responsibility for a space mission to deflect it, a group of astronauts, engineers and scientists said on Saturday.' (Mail & Guardian Online article). media-underground.net
Sunday, February 18. 2007
'People applying for a new British passport will have to attend a face-to-face interview from April as part of a drive to cut identity fraud, the government said on Saturday.
'The Home Office said it will help tackle crime but critics condemned the move as intrusive and unnecessary, saying it would make everyone a suspect.' (Reuters article). media-underground.net
Friday, February 16. 2007
'An Italian judge today ordered 26 Americans, almost all CIA agents, to stand trial on charges of kidnapping a terrorism suspect in 2003 and flying him to Egypt, where he says he was tortured.
'The Milan judge set a trial date for June 8. Prosecutors allege that five Italian intelligence officials worked with the Americans to abduct Osama Moustafa Hassan Nasr from a Milan street in February 2003.
'The Americans will almost certainly be tried in absentia.' (Guardian article). media-underground.net
Thursday, February 15. 2007
'The Kansas Board of Education on Tuesday threw out science standards deemed hostile to evolution, undoing the work of Christian conservatives in the ongoing battle over what to teach U.S. public school students about the origins of life.
'The board in the central U.S. state voted 6-4 to replace them with teaching standards that mirror the mainstream in science education and eliminate criticisms of evolutionary theory.' (Reuters article). media-underground.net
Friday, February 2. 2007
'Campaigner and Irish rocker Bob Geldof's television production company Ten Alps is launching a broadband channel aimed at promoting world peace.
'The anti-poverty campaigner's company has been commissioned to create a business plan for the project, which is being funded by Point of Peace, a Norwegian human rights organisation.' (Reuters article). media-underground.net
Tuesday, January 30. 2007
Sitting at work today (Tuesday) I read an article about an ex-soldier called David Bradley who had a history of mental health problems. He apparently shot four members of his own family before handing himself, and his guns, in at the local police station. The article was a one sided account of a drug crazed menace killing innocent people and angered me so much I was compelled to write the following letter...
Having read your article on the ex-soldier David Bradley, who killed four members of his family in an unprovoked attack (Tuesday 30th January 2007), I am disgusted at the level of sensationalist reporting in the article. The opening paragraph states categorically that cannabis was directly responsible for this man's actions, when in fact he had been mentally ill for nearly a decade and had refused treatment for depression on a number of cases.
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Monday, January 29. 2007
'"Imangine that on 9/11, six hours after the assault on the twin towers and the Pentagon, terrorists had carried out a second wave of attacks on the United States, taking an additional 3,000 lives. Imagine that six hours after that, there had been yet another wave. Now imagine that the attacks had continued, every six hours, for another four years, until nearly 20 million Americans were dead. This is roughly what the Soviet Union suffered during World War II, and contemplating these numbers may help put in perspective what the United States has so far experienced during the war against terrorism.' (L.A. Times article). media-underground.net
Sunday, January 28. 2007
'"One relief to getting older,'' wrote Norman Mailer four years ago, just as he was about to turn 80, "is that I no longer have to square my shoulders every time I go into a bar.'' But the old tough guy might want to warm up the pugilistic muscles as he faces the reading public with his new novel, The Castle In The Forest. It's about the boyhood of Adolf Hitler.' (Mercury News article). media-underground.net
Friday, January 19. 2007
'A Cambodian woman who went missing in the jungle for 18 years before being found last week is struggling to adapt to life as a human and wants to return to the forest, police said on Friday. "She prefers to crawl rather than walk like a human," said Mao Sun, a district police chief in the jungle-clad northeastern province of Rattanakiri where the girl's family live' (Reuters article). media-underground.net
Friday, January 5. 2007
'A 10-year-old US boy who hanged himself may have been inspired to do it by television coverage of Saddam Hussein's execution, police say.
'Relatives told police in Houston, Texas, that Sergio Pelico had seen the video of the former Iraqi leader's hanging, which included footage of the noose being placed around his neck, and asked about it before the incident on Sunday.
'The boy was found dead in his room on New Year's Eve, having tied a slipknot around his neck while on a bunk bed.' (Sydney Morning Herald article). media-underground.net
Wednesday, January 3. 2007
'There is a joke heard in London, meant to portray a perceived backwardness in Scotland: "When it's 7pm in London, it's the 17th century in Edinburgh."
'But now an English Tory MP has suggested that Scotland really should lag behind the English calendar, with a backbench bill to move the clocks forward in England one hour, but leave the time-change decision to the Scottish Parliament.' (Scotsman article). media-underground.net
Tuesday, January 2. 2007
'U.S. and Japanese scientists reported on Sunday that they had used genetic engineering to produce cattle that resist mad cow disease.
'They hope the cattle can be the source of herds that can provide dairy products, gelatin and other products free of the brain-destroying disease, also known as bovine spongiform encephalopathy or BSE.' (Reuters article). media-underground.net
'Scientists are conducting experiments to change the sexuality of “gay” sheep in a programme that critics fear could pave the way for breeding out homosexuality in humans.
'The technique being developed by American researchers adjusts the hormonal balance in the brains of homosexual rams so that they are more inclined to mate with ewes.'
It seems we are coming closer and closer to creating "perfect" human beings. The implications of these experiments are immense and terrifying, if we become able to genetically modify gender and sexuality where will it stop? Will we be able to breed Conservatives, Catholics, morally uncorruptable beings? The mind boggles, read on. (Times Online article). media-underground.net
Sunday, December 31. 2006
'It has been many months since George W. Bush topped the polls, but the US President has outflanked both Osama bin Laden and former Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein to seize the dubious honour of the ultimate villain of 2006.
'If it's any consolation for the beleaguered President, he also managed to take out the AP/AOL News Poll's 2006 hero of the year, albeit by a much smaller margin.
'Among entertainment celebrities, TV talk-show host Oprah Winfrey edged out actor Michael J.Fox as the best celebrity role model, while pop singer Britney Spears was the clear choice over Paris Hilton for worst.' (The Australian article). media-underground.net
Saturday, December 23. 2006
'Some people celebrate success at work with a drink or a meal at their favourite restaurant. But for a group of workers in Turkey their decision to sacrifice a camel to mark a job well done could end up costing them their jobs.' (Times Online article). media-underground.net
'In a letter sent to hundreds of voters this month, Representative Virgil Goode, a Republican from Virginia, warned that the recent election of the first Muslim to Congress posed a serious threat to the nation's traditional values.
'Goode was referring to Democratic Representative Keith Ellison and criminal defense lawyer who converted to Islam as a college student and was elected to the House in November. Ellison's plan to use the Koran during his private swearing-in ceremony in January had outraged some Virginia voters, prompting Goode to issue a written response to them, a spokesman for Goode said.' (Taipei Times article). media-underground.net
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