Want to get away with murder... hello Milam County Texas.
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www.news8austin.com
Authorities' hands are tied in dog mauling case
Updated: 11/28/2005 11:37:20 PM
By: Bob Robuck
Milam County authorities believe six dogs belonging to a nearby neighbor attacked and killed 76-year old Lillian Stiles of Thorndale Saturday afternoon.
The dogs are also believed to have bitten a man who tried to help the Stiles family. The animals have been euthanized. Their remains have gone to a lab for rabies testing.
The dogs present a unique problem for investigators attempting to pursue criminal charges against their owner. Milam County is a rural area, and there are no laws on the books that cover what happened to Stiles.
"What I'm incensed about is that somebody needs to be responsible for what happened to this woman," Milam County Sheriff Charlie West said.
Officers are proceeding with their investigation. A local veterinarian has collected evidence.
"We collected hair out of their mouths and saliva for DNA testing," veterinarian Valerie Bobbitt said.
What happened to Stiles in her own front yard has drawn attention to a small community that didn't want it -- putting pressure on authorities to act. County lawmakers say they can't even pass new laws that may stem from the incident.
"Under state law, the commissioners hands are tied. I don't think they have the authority to pass any ordinances or laws," West said.
An autopsy is currently underway. Investigators hope to have preliminary results sometime Tuesday.
Tuesday, November 29, 2005
Friday, November 18, 2005
Zaqari kills muslims, but claims he doesn't target them
Zarqawi: "We ask God to have mercy on the Muslims, who we did not intend to target, even if they were in hotels which are centers of immorality."
BAGHDAD, Iraq - Suicide bombers killed 74 worshippers at two Shiite mosques near the Iranian border Friday.
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So... muslims in hotels were supposedly unintentional, but what about the muslims in the mosques? The mosques aren't American made, as far as I know anyway. Yeah, this zarqari guy is nothing but a lying murderer/terrorist. He and his cult don't care if you're muslim, they just want to blow stuff up and see how many people they can kill before they're eventually killed or caught. That people are STILL willing to die under him, is natural selection at work.
BAGHDAD, Iraq - Suicide bombers killed 74 worshippers at two Shiite mosques near the Iranian border Friday.
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So... muslims in hotels were supposedly unintentional, but what about the muslims in the mosques? The mosques aren't American made, as far as I know anyway. Yeah, this zarqari guy is nothing but a lying murderer/terrorist. He and his cult don't care if you're muslim, they just want to blow stuff up and see how many people they can kill before they're eventually killed or caught. That people are STILL willing to die under him, is natural selection at work.
Thursday, November 10, 2005
Jordanians Rally to Denounce Al-Zarqawi
Is this a first? Has to be. Not blaming America for something bad that happened in the arab world... yeah this has to be a first. Are the arabs finally realizing that maybe, just maybe, that they're killing each other in the name of killing things American? Sure, you hate America, so you go blow up a bunch of Iraqi children because they had some American candy... this actually made sense to someone!
Anyway, article below:
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Jordanians Rally to Denounce Al-Zarqawi
By JAMAL HALABY, Associated Press Writer 28 minutes ago
AMMAN, Jordan - Hundreds of angry Jordanians rallied Thursday outside one of three U.S.-based hotels attacked by suicide bombers, shouting, "Burn in hell, Abu Musab al-Zarqawi!" after the terrorist's group claimed responsibility for the blasts that killed at least 56 people.
In an Internet statement, al-Qaida in Iraq linked the blasts at the Grand Hyatt, the Radisson SAS and the Days Inn hotels to the war in Iraq and called Amman the "backyard garden" for U.S. operations.
Police continued a broad security lockdown and authorities sent DNA samples for testing to identify the attackers. Land borders were reopened after being closed for nearly 12 hours.
The Amman protest was organized by Jordan's 14 professional and trade unions — made up of both hard-line Islamic groups and leftist political organizations — traditionally a vocal critic of King Abdullah II's moderate and pro-Western policies.
Protesters — including women and children — gathered outside a bombed hotels, shouting, "Death to al-Zarqawi, the villain and the traitor!" Drivers honked the horns of vehicles decorated with Jordanian flags and posters of the king. A helicopter hovered overhead.
"We sacrifice our lives for you, Amman!" the protesters chanted.
State television said a second rally was planned in the Red Sea port of Aqaba, where attackers using Katyusha rockets narrowly missed a U.S. ship and killed a Jordanian soldier in August.
The streets of the capital appeared deserted early Thursday, which was declared a day of mourning. Public and private offices were closed under government instructions, apparently to allow tightened security measures to take hold.
Government spokesman Bassel Tarawneh said 56 people were killed in the suicide attacks, but he said that number likely would rise. The victims included 15 Jordanians, five Iraqis, one Saudi, one Palestinian, three Chinese, one Indonesian; 30 others had not been identified.
The nearly simultaneous attacks also wounded more than 115 people, police said. They detained several people overnight, although it was unclear if they were suspects or witnesses.
The al-Qaida claim said Jordan became a target because it was "a backyard garden for the enemies of the religion, Jews and crusaders ... a filthy place for the traitors ... and a center for prostitution." The authenticity of the posting could not be independently verified, but it appeared on an Islamic Web site that is a clearing house for statements by militant groups.
The claim, signed in the name of the terrorist group's spokesman, said the attacks put the United States on notice that the "backyard camp for the crusader army is now in the range of fire of the holy warriors."
The hotels, frequented by Israelis and Americans among other foreign guests, have long been on al-Qaida's hit list.
Iraqi government spokesman Laith Kubba said the attack should alert Jordan that it needed to stop hosting former members of
Saddam Hussein's regime.
"I hope that these attacks will wake up the `Jordanian street' to end their sympathy with Saddam's remnants ... who exploit the freedom in this country to have a safe shelter to plot their criminal acts against Iraqis."
He also said Iraqis may have had a hand in the attacks.
"The al-Qaida organization has become as a plague that affected Iraq and is now transmitted by the same rats to other countries. A lot of Iraqis, especially former intelligence and army officers, joined this criminal cell," Kubba said.
Deputy Prime Minister Marwan Muasher said shortly after the blasts that al-Zarqawi was a "prime suspect." The Jordanian-born al-Zarqawi is known for his animosity to the country's Hashemite monarchy. The claim of responsibility did not name King Abdullah II but twice referred to the "tyrant of Jordan."
In the attacks, the suicide bombers detonated explosives at the three hotels just before 9 p.m. One explosion occurred inside a hall where 300 guests were celebrating a wedding.
Until late Wednesday, Amman — a comfortable, hilly city of white stone villas and glitzy high-rises — had mostly avoided large-scale attacks and was a welcome sanctuary of stability in a troubled region.
Al-Zarqawi is most known for the string of devastating suicide attacks launched in Iraq, often against U.S. targets but also against Shiite Iraqis. He has shown a flair for propaganda and drawn wide support among militants in the region.
But outside Iraq, and especially in Jordan, he has been equally active.
He was sentenced to death in absentia by a Jordanian military court for the October 2002 assassination of a U.S. diplomat, Laurence Foley, in Amman.
His group also is accused of previously trying to blow up the Radisson SAS in Amman as part of the so-called Millennium plot in 1999 and of the August attack at the Jordanian port of Aqaba. In Amman, a security official said authorities had tips on suspects who are being hunted, including possible sleeper cells or individuals who may have assisted the attackers and later fled in a vehicle bearing Iraqi license plates.
The official, insisting on anonymity because he is not allowed to speak to reporters, said DNA tests were being carried out to determine the identity of the perpetrators, including two suicide bombers who blew themselves up. A third suicide attacker used a car.
The state Jordan Television showed Abdullah inspecting the sites of the blasts after returning home early Thursday, cutting short an official visit to Kazakhstan. He later presided over a meeting of his security chiefs, including police and intelligence.
Anyway, article below:
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Jordanians Rally to Denounce Al-Zarqawi
By JAMAL HALABY, Associated Press Writer 28 minutes ago
AMMAN, Jordan - Hundreds of angry Jordanians rallied Thursday outside one of three U.S.-based hotels attacked by suicide bombers, shouting, "Burn in hell, Abu Musab al-Zarqawi!" after the terrorist's group claimed responsibility for the blasts that killed at least 56 people.
In an Internet statement, al-Qaida in Iraq linked the blasts at the Grand Hyatt, the Radisson SAS and the Days Inn hotels to the war in Iraq and called Amman the "backyard garden" for U.S. operations.
Police continued a broad security lockdown and authorities sent DNA samples for testing to identify the attackers. Land borders were reopened after being closed for nearly 12 hours.
The Amman protest was organized by Jordan's 14 professional and trade unions — made up of both hard-line Islamic groups and leftist political organizations — traditionally a vocal critic of King Abdullah II's moderate and pro-Western policies.
Protesters — including women and children — gathered outside a bombed hotels, shouting, "Death to al-Zarqawi, the villain and the traitor!" Drivers honked the horns of vehicles decorated with Jordanian flags and posters of the king. A helicopter hovered overhead.
"We sacrifice our lives for you, Amman!" the protesters chanted.
State television said a second rally was planned in the Red Sea port of Aqaba, where attackers using Katyusha rockets narrowly missed a U.S. ship and killed a Jordanian soldier in August.
The streets of the capital appeared deserted early Thursday, which was declared a day of mourning. Public and private offices were closed under government instructions, apparently to allow tightened security measures to take hold.
Government spokesman Bassel Tarawneh said 56 people were killed in the suicide attacks, but he said that number likely would rise. The victims included 15 Jordanians, five Iraqis, one Saudi, one Palestinian, three Chinese, one Indonesian; 30 others had not been identified.
The nearly simultaneous attacks also wounded more than 115 people, police said. They detained several people overnight, although it was unclear if they were suspects or witnesses.
The al-Qaida claim said Jordan became a target because it was "a backyard garden for the enemies of the religion, Jews and crusaders ... a filthy place for the traitors ... and a center for prostitution." The authenticity of the posting could not be independently verified, but it appeared on an Islamic Web site that is a clearing house for statements by militant groups.
The claim, signed in the name of the terrorist group's spokesman, said the attacks put the United States on notice that the "backyard camp for the crusader army is now in the range of fire of the holy warriors."
The hotels, frequented by Israelis and Americans among other foreign guests, have long been on al-Qaida's hit list.
Iraqi government spokesman Laith Kubba said the attack should alert Jordan that it needed to stop hosting former members of
Saddam Hussein's regime.
"I hope that these attacks will wake up the `Jordanian street' to end their sympathy with Saddam's remnants ... who exploit the freedom in this country to have a safe shelter to plot their criminal acts against Iraqis."
He also said Iraqis may have had a hand in the attacks.
"The al-Qaida organization has become as a plague that affected Iraq and is now transmitted by the same rats to other countries. A lot of Iraqis, especially former intelligence and army officers, joined this criminal cell," Kubba said.
Deputy Prime Minister Marwan Muasher said shortly after the blasts that al-Zarqawi was a "prime suspect." The Jordanian-born al-Zarqawi is known for his animosity to the country's Hashemite monarchy. The claim of responsibility did not name King Abdullah II but twice referred to the "tyrant of Jordan."
In the attacks, the suicide bombers detonated explosives at the three hotels just before 9 p.m. One explosion occurred inside a hall where 300 guests were celebrating a wedding.
Until late Wednesday, Amman — a comfortable, hilly city of white stone villas and glitzy high-rises — had mostly avoided large-scale attacks and was a welcome sanctuary of stability in a troubled region.
Al-Zarqawi is most known for the string of devastating suicide attacks launched in Iraq, often against U.S. targets but also against Shiite Iraqis. He has shown a flair for propaganda and drawn wide support among militants in the region.
But outside Iraq, and especially in Jordan, he has been equally active.
He was sentenced to death in absentia by a Jordanian military court for the October 2002 assassination of a U.S. diplomat, Laurence Foley, in Amman.
His group also is accused of previously trying to blow up the Radisson SAS in Amman as part of the so-called Millennium plot in 1999 and of the August attack at the Jordanian port of Aqaba. In Amman, a security official said authorities had tips on suspects who are being hunted, including possible sleeper cells or individuals who may have assisted the attackers and later fled in a vehicle bearing Iraqi license plates.
The official, insisting on anonymity because he is not allowed to speak to reporters, said DNA tests were being carried out to determine the identity of the perpetrators, including two suicide bombers who blew themselves up. A third suicide attacker used a car.
The state Jordan Television showed Abdullah inspecting the sites of the blasts after returning home early Thursday, cutting short an official visit to Kazakhstan. He later presided over a meeting of his security chiefs, including police and intelligence.
Tuesday, November 08, 2005
Austin going Republican?
In case a "protest by not even showing up" campaign didn't work, Austin police set up a barrier so that nobody could see a KKK rally. Might as well have told the KKK that they could have the podium in the middle of the woods. Anyway, the plan worked, no violence or riots, which is a good thing. However, why not just ban the KKK from speaking instead of going through this elaborate exercise to deny speech being heard?
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Austin police sued over anti-Klan protest
11/7/2005 5:37 PM
By: Hermelinda Vargas
The hate group visiting Austin this weekend has come and gone, but the effects of their visit may play itself out in the courtroom in the weeks and months ahead..
Eight Austinites are now suing the city for what they claim was a violation of their First Amendment rights. They say the violations occurred during the Ku Klux Klan's rally at City Hall Plaza on Saturday.
The individuals are Alex Costilla, Ken Zarifis, Debbie Russell, Charles Brown, Isa Boonto, Nick Papatonis, Pam Thompson and Spencer Nutting. The lawsuit is filed on behalf of the Texas Civil Rights Project.
Costilla calls himself a “hobby historian.”
"I was at the last two Klan rallies in ‘93 and ‘94 and I figured this was of historical significance what happened this past Saturday. So I came out here just to get a little bit of history," he said.
Instead, what Costilla got is a view towards the City Hall Plaza from Colorado and Cesar Chavez. A police barricade kept him and others from going any further to witness or voice their message to the Klan directly. He said that's a violation of his First Amendment rights.
"Not only could we not hear them, we couldn't even see them," he said.
But what the plaintiffs see as free speech violations, the city sees as necessary to protect the peace.
"The police department felt like they needed to secure the safety of individuals that were going to be here, both people in the Klan and the counter-protestors," city of Austin chief of litigation Anne Morgan said.
On Saturday, Austin Police Chief Stan Knee called the area between the hate group and the counter-demonstrators a safety zone. Morgan reiterated that idea.
"That's the way it is with the KKK. Because there is that history of violence and so they do have a separation," Morgan said.
The situation had about 14 of the hate group members in City Hall Plaza with about 200 police in riot gear guarding various barricades. The closest counter-demonstrators were about 40 feet away from the opposite side of the street. The media was allowed closer in, but only with city credentials.
On Saturday, Knee told the press he was proud of his department and of Austinites because violence was averted. But what Knee claims is a victory, Costilla sees as a loss because he believes the city thought too much of safety and not about the rights of free assembly and free speech.
At least two plaintiffs said they are suing the city because of its media credential policy for the protest. Both are independent documentary filmmakers and said the policy was made up at the last minute to exclude non-mainstream media.
The city said it only asked for two letters of recommendation from news organizations that had previously hired freelancers. The two freelancers counter that policy was made up two days before the weekend event.
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Austin police sued over anti-Klan protest
11/7/2005 5:37 PM
By: Hermelinda Vargas
The hate group visiting Austin this weekend has come and gone, but the effects of their visit may play itself out in the courtroom in the weeks and months ahead..
Eight Austinites are now suing the city for what they claim was a violation of their First Amendment rights. They say the violations occurred during the Ku Klux Klan's rally at City Hall Plaza on Saturday.
The individuals are Alex Costilla, Ken Zarifis, Debbie Russell, Charles Brown, Isa Boonto, Nick Papatonis, Pam Thompson and Spencer Nutting. The lawsuit is filed on behalf of the Texas Civil Rights Project.
Costilla calls himself a “hobby historian.”
"I was at the last two Klan rallies in ‘93 and ‘94 and I figured this was of historical significance what happened this past Saturday. So I came out here just to get a little bit of history," he said.
Instead, what Costilla got is a view towards the City Hall Plaza from Colorado and Cesar Chavez. A police barricade kept him and others from going any further to witness or voice their message to the Klan directly. He said that's a violation of his First Amendment rights.
"Not only could we not hear them, we couldn't even see them," he said.
But what the plaintiffs see as free speech violations, the city sees as necessary to protect the peace.
"The police department felt like they needed to secure the safety of individuals that were going to be here, both people in the Klan and the counter-protestors," city of Austin chief of litigation Anne Morgan said.
On Saturday, Austin Police Chief Stan Knee called the area between the hate group and the counter-demonstrators a safety zone. Morgan reiterated that idea.
"That's the way it is with the KKK. Because there is that history of violence and so they do have a separation," Morgan said.
The situation had about 14 of the hate group members in City Hall Plaza with about 200 police in riot gear guarding various barricades. The closest counter-demonstrators were about 40 feet away from the opposite side of the street. The media was allowed closer in, but only with city credentials.
On Saturday, Knee told the press he was proud of his department and of Austinites because violence was averted. But what Knee claims is a victory, Costilla sees as a loss because he believes the city thought too much of safety and not about the rights of free assembly and free speech.
At least two plaintiffs said they are suing the city because of its media credential policy for the protest. Both are independent documentary filmmakers and said the policy was made up at the last minute to exclude non-mainstream media.
The city said it only asked for two letters of recommendation from news organizations that had previously hired freelancers. The two freelancers counter that policy was made up two days before the weekend event.
Friday, November 04, 2005
Some Iranians Trying to Rein in [their] President
In addition to some of the evils mentioned on this nutcase, he was also one of the main figures during the Iranian Hostage Crisis. Let's not forget that one.
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Some Iranians Trying to Rein in President
By ALI AKBAR DAREINI, Associated Press Writer 17 minutes ago
TEHRAN, Iran - Since taking office in August, President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has jettisoned
Iran's foreign policy of detente and moderation, provoking international outrage and deepening the country's isolation. Some in Tehran's leadership cadre are searching for a way to rein him in.
It took the ultraconservative Ahmadinejad less than three months to re-stamp the country's international and social agendas with the radicalism of the late Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini and to largely bury the reforms crafted by his predecessor,
Mohammad Khatami, during an 8-year struggle to loosen the control of the country's Shiite Muslim clerical ruling class.
Ahmadinejad replaced all the pragmatists on the Supreme National Security Council, a powerful body that handles Iran's nuclear negotiations with Europe, with hard-liners.
His interior minister replaced all reformist provincial governors with hard-liners supporting Ahmadinejad's anti-reform domestic agenda.
Then, the president provoked global condemnation after he said
Israel should be "wiped off the map." The call sounded alarm bells in the United States and some European capitals, prompting fresh calls for containment of the Islamic republic and its nuclear ambitions. Washington says Tehran wants to build a weapon. The Iranians say their atomic program is for generating electricity.
Ignoring global and domestic outrage, perhaps even relishing it, an unrepentant Ahmadinejad renewed his call for the Jewish state's destruction just days later.
His comment sent the stock exchange plummeting 30 percent despite continued high oil prices. Iran is the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries' second largest producer.
Further consolidating the changes, Ahmadinejad's foreign minister announced Wednesday that 40 of Iran's ambassadors and senior diplomats — all of whom supported warmer ties with the West — will be removed from their posts by March. Some have already lost their jobs.
Reformists from other key ministries have also been ousted in the largest shake-up inside Iran's ruling establishment in more than 20 years.
"Ahmadinejad believed democratic reforms pursued by Khatami betrayed the goals of the 1979 Islamic revolution that brought hard-line clerics to power," said Hashem Sabbaqian, a liberal dissident and former interior minister. "He seeks to take Iran back to its days of radicalism in the 80s."
Sabbaqian said Ahmadinejad — a former Tehran mayor and Republican Guard commander — is fulfilling his campaign pledge to fight Western influence and return Iran to the fundamentalist state that emerged under Khomeini after the ouster of the U.S.-allied shah.
Ahmadinejad's cultural policy seeks to re-impose many social restrictions Khatami had eased step by step.
His minister of culture, Hossein Safar Harandi, has banned women employees at his ministry from work after sunset, saying females need to be home to look after their families.
The all-powerful clerics who have the last say in national affairs appear to be watching developments closely.
"The establishment is now thinking about how to contain this president whose actions risk global confrontation with Iran," said Davoud Hermidas Bavand, a professor of international relations at Tehran's Imam Sadeq University.
It's not clear how far Iran's supreme ruler, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, can comfortably back Ahmadinejad. So far, Khamenei has refused to say anything for or against Ahmadinejad since his anti-Israel comments. But some observers say Khamenei is not entirely pleased.
He has increased the powers of the Expediency Council, which arbitrates between the parliament and the government. That effectively undercuts the authority of Ahmadinejad's government and hard-line voices in the parliament, many of them former military commanders opposed to the United States.
"Khamenei is worried that Ahmadinejad, his trusted agent, is causing too many problems for Iran. It appears that Khamenei doesn't like everything Ahmadinejad does but wants to give him time," Bavand said.
Meanwhile, moderates including former president Hashemi Rafsanjani have sought to dial back the rhetoric and assure the world that Ahmadinejad won't be allowed to turn Iran into a full-fledged rogue nation.
Rafsanjani told King Abdullah of Saudi Arabia during a recent visit to Saudi Arabia that Ahmadinejad will be contained, a close aide to Rafsanjani said on condition of anonymity because he was not authorized to speak to the press.
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Some Iranians Trying to Rein in President
By ALI AKBAR DAREINI, Associated Press Writer 17 minutes ago
TEHRAN, Iran - Since taking office in August, President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has jettisoned
Iran's foreign policy of detente and moderation, provoking international outrage and deepening the country's isolation. Some in Tehran's leadership cadre are searching for a way to rein him in.
It took the ultraconservative Ahmadinejad less than three months to re-stamp the country's international and social agendas with the radicalism of the late Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini and to largely bury the reforms crafted by his predecessor,
Mohammad Khatami, during an 8-year struggle to loosen the control of the country's Shiite Muslim clerical ruling class.
Ahmadinejad replaced all the pragmatists on the Supreme National Security Council, a powerful body that handles Iran's nuclear negotiations with Europe, with hard-liners.
His interior minister replaced all reformist provincial governors with hard-liners supporting Ahmadinejad's anti-reform domestic agenda.
Then, the president provoked global condemnation after he said
Israel should be "wiped off the map." The call sounded alarm bells in the United States and some European capitals, prompting fresh calls for containment of the Islamic republic and its nuclear ambitions. Washington says Tehran wants to build a weapon. The Iranians say their atomic program is for generating electricity.
Ignoring global and domestic outrage, perhaps even relishing it, an unrepentant Ahmadinejad renewed his call for the Jewish state's destruction just days later.
His comment sent the stock exchange plummeting 30 percent despite continued high oil prices. Iran is the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries' second largest producer.
Further consolidating the changes, Ahmadinejad's foreign minister announced Wednesday that 40 of Iran's ambassadors and senior diplomats — all of whom supported warmer ties with the West — will be removed from their posts by March. Some have already lost their jobs.
Reformists from other key ministries have also been ousted in the largest shake-up inside Iran's ruling establishment in more than 20 years.
"Ahmadinejad believed democratic reforms pursued by Khatami betrayed the goals of the 1979 Islamic revolution that brought hard-line clerics to power," said Hashem Sabbaqian, a liberal dissident and former interior minister. "He seeks to take Iran back to its days of radicalism in the 80s."
Sabbaqian said Ahmadinejad — a former Tehran mayor and Republican Guard commander — is fulfilling his campaign pledge to fight Western influence and return Iran to the fundamentalist state that emerged under Khomeini after the ouster of the U.S.-allied shah.
Ahmadinejad's cultural policy seeks to re-impose many social restrictions Khatami had eased step by step.
His minister of culture, Hossein Safar Harandi, has banned women employees at his ministry from work after sunset, saying females need to be home to look after their families.
The all-powerful clerics who have the last say in national affairs appear to be watching developments closely.
"The establishment is now thinking about how to contain this president whose actions risk global confrontation with Iran," said Davoud Hermidas Bavand, a professor of international relations at Tehran's Imam Sadeq University.
It's not clear how far Iran's supreme ruler, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, can comfortably back Ahmadinejad. So far, Khamenei has refused to say anything for or against Ahmadinejad since his anti-Israel comments. But some observers say Khamenei is not entirely pleased.
He has increased the powers of the Expediency Council, which arbitrates between the parliament and the government. That effectively undercuts the authority of Ahmadinejad's government and hard-line voices in the parliament, many of them former military commanders opposed to the United States.
"Khamenei is worried that Ahmadinejad, his trusted agent, is causing too many problems for Iran. It appears that Khamenei doesn't like everything Ahmadinejad does but wants to give him time," Bavand said.
Meanwhile, moderates including former president Hashemi Rafsanjani have sought to dial back the rhetoric and assure the world that Ahmadinejad won't be allowed to turn Iran into a full-fledged rogue nation.
Rafsanjani told King Abdullah of Saudi Arabia during a recent visit to Saudi Arabia that Ahmadinejad will be contained, a close aide to Rafsanjani said on condition of anonymity because he was not authorized to speak to the press.
InformationWeek - Sony Issues Patch As Hackers Pounce On Rootkit
"Sony Issues Patch As Hackers Pounce On Rootkit Nov. 3, 2005
Sony's patch removes the cloaking technology it's been using for audio CDs--but hackers are already talking about ways to use the rootkit to hide their own illegal code.
By Gregg Keizer
TechWeb News"
And suddenly, I no longer trust Sony products. I'm wondering if this is incorporated into their new DVD format, Blu-ray. What else are they willing to secretly do to people who use their products? Nope, that's it, to hell with Sony because it isn't worth the risk.
Sony's patch removes the cloaking technology it's been using for audio CDs--but hackers are already talking about ways to use the rootkit to hide their own illegal code.
By Gregg Keizer
TechWeb News"
And suddenly, I no longer trust Sony products. I'm wondering if this is incorporated into their new DVD format, Blu-ray. What else are they willing to secretly do to people who use their products? Nope, that's it, to hell with Sony because it isn't worth the risk.
Thursday, November 03, 2005
Senate kills effort to strike Arctic drilling from bill - Oil and Gas - Energy - Commodities
"Access to Alaska oil, revenue closer
Senate votes to keep drilling language in budget bill
By Stephanie I. Cohen, MarketWatch
Last Update: 12:42 PM ET Nov. 3, 2005"
So, oil companies are making record profits, and now we want to open up even more oil for them in an guise to lower prices? Cmon, we're just extending the time they'll keep making record profits. There obviously isn't enough competition between the companies, or better yet there's a collusion between them.
I'm really sick of liar Bush's corruption and lack of real leadership. I'm really sick of Republicans in general now too. So much so, I'll probably vote a straight ticket next election for the first time ever. Sure, I live in Texas so it probably won't matter, but hopefully enough Texans will open their eyes and vote accordingly in such numbers that it will give our representatives a wake-up call. Doubtful, but I can hope.
Senate votes to keep drilling language in budget bill
By Stephanie I. Cohen, MarketWatch
Last Update: 12:42 PM ET Nov. 3, 2005"
So, oil companies are making record profits, and now we want to open up even more oil for them in an guise to lower prices? Cmon, we're just extending the time they'll keep making record profits. There obviously isn't enough competition between the companies, or better yet there's a collusion between them.
I'm really sick of liar Bush's corruption and lack of real leadership. I'm really sick of Republicans in general now too. So much so, I'll probably vote a straight ticket next election for the first time ever. Sure, I live in Texas so it probably won't matter, but hopefully enough Texans will open their eyes and vote accordingly in such numbers that it will give our representatives a wake-up call. Doubtful, but I can hope.
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