Scientists Treat Hospital Infection With 'Fecal Transplant'

For Years I've been saying that if Fox News reported that eating doo doo could cure all health issues, people would break their necks to eat their own poop. All they had to do at Fox was get a few scientists to go on the air during a breaking news report and say they have scientifically proven that eating human feces once or twice a week would cure most health problems and I was SURE there'd be some people who would rush to the store to stock up on glad sandwich bags and jelly jars in order to stock pile their new found cure to ANYTHING that ails them. I've used this senerio a million times as an example to show how much people believe everything they see and hear on the news.

Impending Danger Threatens the Life of Veteran Journalist and Activist Mumia Abu-Jamal

 The life of African American leader and death-row prisoner Mumia Abu-Jamal is in new danger. A pending US Supreme Court ruling on a case in Ohio could set the stage for the reinstatement of Mumia's death sentence.

Activists continue to voice their anger at US judicial injustices. They are calling for a fair trial of the internationally renowned journalist and activists Mumia Abu-Jamal who has spent the last 30 years in US jails.

Incredibly corrupt American judicial system has convicted Abu-Jamal for a crime the veteran journalist denies he had committed. Meanwhile, the 2008 US presidential candidate, Gloria La Riva, has recently criticized court proceedings in Abu-Jamal’s case, describing the verdict of the death penalty as a clear example of shameful racism in the United States.

Joseph Stack Suicide Letter [The Man Who Crashed His plane into the IRS Building]

 They're calling it the Joseph Stacks Manifesto below you find it in full....it's long but worth the read.....at least you'll get a better understanding of why he.....or should I say, what drove him to do what he did. I still don't think I would have taken the route that he did though....

Federal authorities are investigating the following Web posting linked to Joseph Stack, the pilot of the single-engine plane that crashed into an Austin, Texas, office building that housed IRS offices.
If you’re reading this, you’re no doubt asking yourself, “Why did this have to happen?” The simple truth is that it is complicated and has been coming for a long time. The writing process, started many months ago, was intended to be therapy in the face of the looming realization that there isn’t enough therapy in the world that can fix what is really broken. Needless to say, this rant could fill volumes with example after example if I would let it. I find the process of writing it frustrating, tedious, and probably pointless… especially given my gross inability to gracefully articulate my thoughts in light of the storm raging in my head. Exactly what is therapeutic about that I’m not sure, but desperate times call for desperate measures.

US draws Russian fire, signing missile defence deal

PRAGUE (AFP) — US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice signed Tuesday what she called a "landmark" missile defence deal with the Czech Republic, drawing immediate condemnation and threats from Russia.

The accord permits the siting of a tracking radar station on Czech soil as part of an extended US missile shield that Washington says is necessary to ward off potential attacks by so-called "rogue" states such as Iran.

Moscow immediately threatened to respond with "military resources" to what it sees as a threat on its doorstep from the proposed system.

"If a US strategic anti-missile shield is deployed near our borders, we will be forced to react not in a diplomatic fashion but with military resources," a statement from the foreign ministry said.

But the United States said Wednesday that Russia and Europe should be "equal partners" in its planned missile defence.

"We seek strategic cooperation on preventing missiles from rogue nations, like Iran, from threatening our friends and allies," said White House spokesman Gordon Johndroe. "We will continue to have a dialogue with the Russians."

"We want to design a system between the United States, Russia and Europe, with everyone participating as equal partners," Johndroe said on the margins of a rich nation summit at Toyako in northern Japan.

"It's truly a landmark agreement," Rice said after signing the accord with Czech Foreign Minister Karel Schwarzenberg. "It is an agreement that is befitting for friends and allies who face a common threat in the 21st century."

During her talks in Prague, Rice charged that Iran's work to build longer-range missiles was proceeding "apace" while at the same time it was defying international calls to halt sensitive nuclear technology.

"Ballistic missile proliferation is not an imaginary threat," the top US diplomat warned.

Rice also reiterated Washington's position that the radar station was not aimed at Russia and instead served as a "building block" for not just Czech and US security but for the "international community as a whole."

The United States wants the radar twinned with interceptor missiles in neighbouring Poland, although negotiations with Warsaw have becomed bogged down with Polish demands for additional security guarantees.

Rice said she thought it made no sense to visit Poland during her current tour of Europe because gaps remained in the negotiations.

Russian President Dmitry Medvedev had already clashed with US President George W. Bush over missile defence at their first face-to-face meeting, during the G8 summit in Japan on Monday.

Analysts say the Russians fear not only a potential long-term threat to their own nuclear deterrent and the security of their airspace but also associate the shield with NATO's enlargement to include Ukraine and Georgia.

NATO endorsed the US missile defence plan at its April summit in Bucharest.

The US has in the past suggested that Russian inspectors could visit the anti-missile sites, as long as Prague and Warsaw agreed.

"We want the system to be transparent to the Russians," Rice insisted Tuesday.

Protestors from Greenpeace, who fear the missile shield will trigger a new arms race, unrolled a massive image of a target on one of the hills overlooking Prague ahead of Rice's arrival.

Opinion polls regularly show around two-thirds of Czech opposed to hosting the US radar.

Around 2,000 demonstrators gathered in Prague's central Wenceslas Square, with banners proclaiming "No to the Radar" and "Resign."

But Schwarzenberg expected the deal to be ratified by parliament.

"There are sufficient lawmakers who are sufficiently aware of their responsibility and will go forward in strength during the voting," he told reporters.

Czech Prime Minister Mirek Topolanek said the deal reflected a "joint desire to protect the free world".

Prague was the first leg of a three-country tour that will take Rice to Bulgaria and Georgia where she will renew US support for Tbilisi's bid for NATO membership -- another bone of contention with Moscow.

Government seeks to redefine privacy

NOTE: Even though we KNOW they're listening in on our conversations, pay close attention to this article, you just 'might' learn something. Then ask yourself....WHO are they REALLY protecting? Please don't fall for the ol', this is done on behalf of America's safety and all that 'National Security' bull krap. Who's the real enemy here? Seems like it's you & me. They're even more concerned about the phone companies then they are the American Citizens! Heard any clicking on your phones lately?

By PAMELA HESS, Associated Press Writer Sun Nov 11, 6:18 AM ET

WASHINGTON - A top intelligence official says it is time people in the United States changed their definition of privacy.

Privacy no longer can mean anonymity, says Donald Kerr, a deputy director of national intelligence. Instead, it should mean that government and businesses properly safeguards people's private communications and financial information.

Kerr's comments come as Congress is taking a second look at the Foreign Surveillance Intelligence Act.

Lawmakers hastily changed the 1978 law last summer to allow the government to eavesdrop inside the United States without court permission, so long as one end of the conversation was reasonably believed to be located outside the U.S.

The original law required a court order for any surveillance conducted on U.S. soil, to protect Americans' privacy. The White House argued that the law was obstructing intelligence gathering.

The most contentious issue in the new legislation is whether to shield telecommunications companies from civil lawsuits for allegedly giving the government access to people's private e-mails and phone calls without a court order between 2001 and 2007.

Some lawmakers, including members of the Senate Judiciary Committee, appear reluctant to grant immunity. Suits might be the only way to determine how far the government has burrowed into people's privacy without court permission.

The committee is expected to decide this week whether its version of the bill will protect telecommunications companies.

The central witness in a California lawsuit against AT&T says the government is vacuuming up billions of e-mails and phone calls as they pass through an AT&T switching station in San Francisco.

Mark Klein, a retired AT&T technician, helped connect a device in 2003 that he says diverted and copied onto a government supercomputer every call, e-mail, and Internet site access on AT&T lines