From Tommy Franks, a doomsday scenario

St. Petersburg Times

What is the worst thing that can happen in our country?" Franks asked rhetorically. "Two steps. The first step would be a nexus between weapons of mass destruction . . . and terrorism." The second step would be "the western world, the free world, loses what it cherishes most, and that is freedom and liberty we've seen for a couple of hundred years in this grand experiment that we call democracy."

If SARS Hits U.S., Quarantine Could Too

NYT

"It's a virtual certainty that sometime in the near future we will see a SARS-like event in the United States, a highly communicable infectious disease that will require mass quarantine or isolation," Dr. Iton said.

Silicon.com

The pilot will test iris pattern and fingerprint biometrics enrolment and verification, as well as collection and verification of a facial recognition biometric.

Drinking Water Pathogens and Their Indicators: A Reference Resource

EPA

Cryptosporidium : A Drinking Water Supply Problem 

University of North Carolina

Several waterborne outbreaks of cryptosporidiosis have occurred over the past ten years in the United States and a great deal of concern has been raised about this organism and drinking water supplies.

E. coli 0157:H7 in drinking water -- US EPA

EPA

Fecal coliforms are bacteria that are associated with human or animal wastes.  They usually live in human or animal intestinal tracts, and their presence in drinking water is a strong indication of recent sewage or animal waste contamination. 

Prozac, other drugs detected in streams and their inhabitants

CNN

number of aquatic and amphibian species are being exposed to small amounts of everything from Prozac to perfume to birth control pills that make their way into U.S. rivers and streams.

Had Enough? How do You Protect Yourself?

Infowars.com

Give the gift of Health -- Protect Yourself and Your Family with Powerful British Berkey Water filters

Kim Jong-Il goes underground

World Tribune

North Korean leader Kim Jong-Il has not been seen in public since Oct. 31, fueling concerns that the reclusive communist leader has gone into hiding.

France split by proposal to ban Islamic headscarves and crucifixes in schools

London Independent

President Jacques Chirac must make a potentially explosive decision in the next few days whether to demand a new law banning Islamic headscarves and other religious symbols from French state schools.

5 Killed in Suicide Attack in Russia

AP

female suicide bomber detonated explosives in a car near Moscow's Red Square on Tuesday, killing five people and injuring 13

Ananova

A video of cannibal Armin Meiwes killing and eating his victim has been shown to a court.

Sex slavery rampant in Turkey

Middle East Times

According to Amnesty International, Turkey is a transit stop for women from the former Soviet republics who are forced into prostitution in European and Arab countries.

Italy Was Warned of Iraq Attack

Washington Post

Reports of Threats to Nasiriyah Base Were Disregarded

Joint Task Force Told Face to Face, Blackout was a Military Test

Prison Planet

At an under publicized public comment meeting, which was publicly 'announced' by a Department of Energy news release, Michael Kane outlined his report, published at Global Free Press, stating that the August 14th blackout was part and parcel to a multi-faceted military test. The Task Force was very attentive, attempting to take notes as fast as Michael spoke.  

Sickening: China's Wen to get 19-gun salute, "spectacular" pomp from White House

AFP

President George W. Bush may have stripped down White House protocol in keeping with a time of "war" but Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao will get "spectacular" treatment Tuesday, complete with a 19-gun salute, an official said

Time Warner Cable to launch web phone

Financial Times

Time Warner Cable, the second-largest US cable group, will next year roll out a national internet-based telephone service, posing a significant additional challenge to US telecommunications operators already suffering from intense competition.

Daughter's downloads get mom sued

NJ Star-Ledger

Scimeca, a secretary for an insurance company, said she and her husband, a mechanic, are "scraping by" to pay the mortgage and cannot afford a lawyer -- let alone penalties that could reach $150,000 per song under federal copyright law.

Memos reveal abortion-rights strategy

WND

Groups seeking to use U.N., international law, to impose agenda

Voting-Machine Makers To Fight Security Criticism

Washington Post

Electronic-voting-machine companies announced yesterday that they are banding together to counter mounting concerns about whether their machines are secure enough to withstand tampering by hackers.

President Bush Is Less Conservative Than Clinton

Orange County Register

This president has not vetoed a single bill, which means he has signed into law every big-spending project that has come down the pike. Federal spending, even on non-military matters, has soared. His nation-building experiments are downright Wilsonian, a far cry from the "humbler" foreign policy he promised when he ran for office.

Computer system helps track livestock

AP

A new computer system developed by an Iowa company will help state and federal health officials track livestock moving across state lines.

UN warns of population surge -- and you know the NWO's genocidal solution

BBC

The United Nations has published new predictions on the size and age of the world's population 300 years from now.

Less than half show support for EU

London Telegraph

Less than half the population in the European Union's member states now support the EU project, according to polling results yesterday.

Israel trains US assassination squads in Iraq

London Guardian

Israeli advisers are helping train US special forces in aggressive counter-insurgency operations in Iraq, including the use of assassination squads against guerrilla leaders, US intelligence and military sources said yesterday.

Car Bomb Injures 31 U.S. Troops in Iraq

AP

The attack came less than a day after insurgents shot and killed a soldier from the Army's 101st Airborne Division as he guarded a gas station in Mosul, 250 miles north of Baghdad, Brig. Gen. Mark Kimmitt said in Baghdad

Japan's approves dispatch of non-combat troops to Iraq in biggest deployment since World War II

AP

Following the Cabinet meeting, Koizumi was to go before the nation to explain why he is pushing ahead with the controversial plan, which opposition leaders say could draw the troops into actual fighting and violate Japan's postwar pacifist constitution.

Pakistan's leader thinks bin Laden dead

CNN

Pakistani President Gen. Pervez Musharraf said Friday he thinks Osama bin Laden has not been able to get treatment for his kidney disease and is most likely dead.

Bush Senior Met With Bin Laden's Brother on 9/11

Prison Planet

Comment: Despite studying September 11 for two years solid, one fact I only just discovered is that George W. Bush's father was meeting with Osama bin Laden's brother, Shafig bin Laden, in the Ritz-Carlton Hotel, Washington, on the morning of 9/11. They were on Carlyle Group business just a few miles from where hijackers supposedly acting on behalf of Osama bin Laden would fly a plane into the Pentagon.

Ban swords! Woman Slashed To Death In Sword Attack

Local 6

A man slashed his wife to death with a sword Sunday in their Bronx apartment and charged police screaming "I'm God! Kill me!" when they came to investigate, officials said.

Taiwan Warned By U.S.

Washington Post

On the eve of Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao's visit, the Bush administration signaled a tougher stance on Taiwan's moves toward independence yesterday, warning the island not to take any unilateral steps that might provoke the government on the Chinese mainland.

Missiles Outfitted With "Dirty Bomb" Warheads Apparently Missing, Expert Says

Associated Press

CHISINAU, Moldova (AP) - Dozens of rockets outfitted with so-called dirty bombs - warheads designed to scatter deadly radioactive material - appear to be missing in a breakaway region of Moldova, an expert said Monday.

Humans 'could survive Mars visit'

BBC

taken by the US space agency's Mars Odyssey craft prove that a human mission could survive on the Martian surface.

UK: Teen generation will be 'world's sickest adults'

London Telegraph

The present generation of children and teenagers will turn into the most obese and infertile adults in the history of mankind, doctors warned yesterday.

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