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"There is no
doubt in my mind
when history was
written, ...
doubt in my mind
when history was
written, ...
verbatim number 26.4
...victory was achieved by
the United States of America
for the good of the world."
Kuwait 01.12.08
the United States of America
for the good of the world."
Kuwait 01.12.08
...the final page
will say...
will say...
A study of financial records
provided by the pharmaceutical
industry has shown that drug
companies spend nearly twice as
much marketing and advertising
products than they spend on
researching and developing new
drug treatments for diseases.
Researchers form Toronto’s York
University found that in 2004
American drug manufacturers
spent more than $57 billion on
advertising and promotion their
products while they spent just
over $31 billion on the developing
new drugs. The researchers also
reported that US drug companies
spent 24.4 percent of their sales
profits on marketing and only
13.4 percent on the development
of new medicines.
The researchers reviewed public
data complied by two of the
largest pharmaceutical market
research companies, IMS Health
and the CAM Group, which
provide marketing and consulting
services to the pharmaceutical
industry. IMS collects data from
drug manufacturers and CAM
surveys the nation’s doctors to
capture information about the
provision of free drugs to patients
and meetings between doctor’s
and drug salespeople.
The study challenges the notion
promoted by drug makers that
the pharmaceutical industry is
driven to create new life-saving
drug treatments by showing that
the industry instead derives
profits mainly from marketing its
products. The study found that
the drug industry spends $61,000
per US physician to promote drug
products. it's all true
provided by the pharmaceutical
industry has shown that drug
companies spend nearly twice as
much marketing and advertising
products than they spend on
researching and developing new
drug treatments for diseases.
Researchers form Toronto’s York
University found that in 2004
American drug manufacturers
spent more than $57 billion on
advertising and promotion their
products while they spent just
over $31 billion on the developing
new drugs. The researchers also
reported that US drug companies
spent 24.4 percent of their sales
profits on marketing and only
13.4 percent on the development
of new medicines.
The researchers reviewed public
data complied by two of the
largest pharmaceutical market
research companies, IMS Health
and the CAM Group, which
provide marketing and consulting
services to the pharmaceutical
industry. IMS collects data from
drug manufacturers and CAM
surveys the nation’s doctors to
capture information about the
provision of free drugs to patients
and meetings between doctor’s
and drug salespeople.
The study challenges the notion
promoted by drug makers that
the pharmaceutical industry is
driven to create new life-saving
drug treatments by showing that
the industry instead derives
profits mainly from marketing its
products. The study found that
the drug industry spends $61,000
per US physician to promote drug
products. it's all true
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Candidates from both parties have
requested a hand recount of votes cast
in the recent New Hampshire primary
election due to concerns raised when
analysis of polling data revealed difficult
to explain anomalies in results returned
from precincts that use electronic voting
machines made by the company Diebold
Election Systems (recently re-named
Premier Election Solutions). The last
time a recount was requested in a New
Hampshire presidential primary election
was in 1980.
Polling records released by the state of
New Hampshire showed that the winner
of the Democratic primary, Hillary
Clinton, had received 52.95 percent of
votes made on Diebold optical scan
machines and Barack Obama received
47.05 percent. In precincts where
ballots were counted by hand, the vote
requested a hand recount of votes cast
in the recent New Hampshire primary
election due to concerns raised when
analysis of polling data revealed difficult
to explain anomalies in results returned
from precincts that use electronic voting
machines made by the company Diebold
Election Systems (recently re-named
Premier Election Solutions). The last
time a recount was requested in a New
Hampshire presidential primary election
was in 1980.
Polling records released by the state of
New Hampshire showed that the winner
of the Democratic primary, Hillary
Clinton, had received 52.95 percent of
votes made on Diebold optical scan
machines and Barack Obama received
47.05 percent. In precincts where
ballots were counted by hand, the vote
tallies were exactly reversed with Obama
receiving 52.95 percent of the votes and
Clinton receiving 47.05 percent. After
the ballot analysis was reported, the two
largest newspapers in the state received
a flood of e-mails from concerned New
Hampshire voters questioning the
integrity of the voting system in the
state. 81 percent of votes cast in the
state were made on voting equipment
manufactured by Diebold.
One of the candidates who requested
the hand recount, Democrat Dennis
Kucinich, wrote in a letter to the
Secretary of State in New Hampshire,
that because “serious and credible
reports, allegations and rumors have
surfaced in the past few days…It is
imperative that these questions be
addressed in the interest of public
confidence.” it's all true
receiving 52.95 percent of the votes and
Clinton receiving 47.05 percent. After
the ballot analysis was reported, the two
largest newspapers in the state received
a flood of e-mails from concerned New
Hampshire voters questioning the
integrity of the voting system in the
state. 81 percent of votes cast in the
state were made on voting equipment
manufactured by Diebold.
One of the candidates who requested
the hand recount, Democrat Dennis
Kucinich, wrote in a letter to the
Secretary of State in New Hampshire,
that because “serious and credible
reports, allegations and rumors have
surfaced in the past few days…It is
imperative that these questions be
addressed in the interest of public
confidence.” it's all true
A Canadian federal judge has struck
down a refugee treaty with the United
States stating that the Canadian
government cannot guarantee that
refugees will be accorded basic rights by
US authorities. The ruling came on the
same day court documents were
disclosed that revealed that the Canadian
Foreign Service identifies that the US and
Israel are among the countries in the
world that are known to practice
torture.
The Safe Third Country Agreement,
implemented in 2004, barred refugees
from crossing the land border between
the US and Canada because both
countries considered the other to be a
“safe country”. Several Canadian
refugee rights organizations, including
the Canadian Council of Churches and
Amnesty International, challenged the
down a refugee treaty with the United
States stating that the Canadian
government cannot guarantee that
refugees will be accorded basic rights by
US authorities. The ruling came on the
same day court documents were
disclosed that revealed that the Canadian
Foreign Service identifies that the US and
Israel are among the countries in the
world that are known to practice
torture.
The Safe Third Country Agreement,
implemented in 2004, barred refugees
from crossing the land border between
the US and Canada because both
countries considered the other to be a
“safe country”. Several Canadian
refugee rights organizations, including
the Canadian Council of Churches and
Amnesty International, challenged the
agreement in court citing the experience
of Maher Arar, the innocent Canadian
citizen who was held by the US and
tortured prior to his being released after
two years having never been charged
with a crime. Justice Michael Phelan
ruled in the case that the US does not
follow international conventions barring
torture nor does it provide basic rights
to refugees. In the year after the
treaty was implemented, the number of
claims for refugee status at Canadian
land borders has declined by 40 percent.
On the day that the treaty was voided by
the Canadian courts, Amnesty
International released documents that it
had subpoenaed in the case that revealed
that the Canadian Foreign Service had
placed the US and Israel on it’s list of
countries known to practice torture.
Also on the list are countries such as
of Maher Arar, the innocent Canadian
citizen who was held by the US and
tortured prior to his being released after
two years having never been charged
with a crime. Justice Michael Phelan
ruled in the case that the US does not
follow international conventions barring
torture nor does it provide basic rights
to refugees. In the year after the
treaty was implemented, the number of
claims for refugee status at Canadian
land borders has declined by 40 percent.
On the day that the treaty was voided by
the Canadian courts, Amnesty
International released documents that it
had subpoenaed in the case that revealed
that the Canadian Foreign Service had
placed the US and Israel on it’s list of
countries known to practice torture.
Also on the list are countries such as
Egypt, China and Afghanistan. The
document included a list of
interrogation techniques that the US
employs that are considered to be
torture by the Canadian Foreign
Service, including forced nudity,
hooding and blindfolding, isolation
and sleep deprivation.
Both the US and the Canadian
governments have appealed Judge
Phelan’s ruling to strike down the
Safe Third Country Agreement and
the US Ambassador to Canada said
that the inclusion of the US on the
list of torturing countries was
“offensive”. The US has demanded
that the Canadian Foreign Service
delete any references to torture
being used by American authorities
or military personnel from their
official documents. it's all true
document included a list of
interrogation techniques that the US
employs that are considered to be
torture by the Canadian Foreign
Service, including forced nudity,
hooding and blindfolding, isolation
and sleep deprivation.
Both the US and the Canadian
governments have appealed Judge
Phelan’s ruling to strike down the
Safe Third Country Agreement and
the US Ambassador to Canada said
that the inclusion of the US on the
list of torturing countries was
“offensive”. The US has demanded
that the Canadian Foreign Service
delete any references to torture
being used by American authorities
or military personnel from their
official documents. it's all true
A federal appeals court has dismissed a
lawsuit brought by four British citizens
who allege that they were systematically
tortured and subjected to religious abuse
during more than two years of detention
at the US military prison at Guantanamo
Bay, Cuba. In dismissing the case, the
appellate court ruled that the former
detainees could not be recognized as
“persons” under the federal Religious
Freedom Restoration Act, because they
were alien captives held outside the
United States. The decision effectively
exonerated the eleven senior Pentagon
officials named in the suit, including
former Joint Chiefs of Staff Chairman
Gen. Richard Myers and former Defense
Secretary Donald Rumsfeld.
lawsuit brought by four British citizens
who allege that they were systematically
tortured and subjected to religious abuse
during more than two years of detention
at the US military prison at Guantanamo
Bay, Cuba. In dismissing the case, the
appellate court ruled that the former
detainees could not be recognized as
“persons” under the federal Religious
Freedom Restoration Act, because they
were alien captives held outside the
United States. The decision effectively
exonerated the eleven senior Pentagon
officials named in the suit, including
former Joint Chiefs of Staff Chairman
Gen. Richard Myers and former Defense
Secretary Donald Rumsfeld.
The three-judge panel of the US Circuit
Court of Appeals for the District of
Columbia accepted the defense
argument that then-Attorney General
John Ashcroft had certified that the
military officials were acting within the
scope of their positions when they
authorized interrogation tactics widely
held to be torture.
Judge Karen LeCraft Henderson, who
was appointed by the president’s father,
wrote in her opinion that “It was
foreseeable that conduct that would
ordinarily be viewed as ‘seriously
criminal’ would be implemented by
military officials responsible for detaining
and interrogating suspected enemy
Court of Appeals for the District of
Columbia accepted the defense
argument that then-Attorney General
John Ashcroft had certified that the
military officials were acting within the
scope of their positions when they
authorized interrogation tactics widely
held to be torture.
Judge Karen LeCraft Henderson, who
was appointed by the president’s father,
wrote in her opinion that “It was
foreseeable that conduct that would
ordinarily be viewed as ‘seriously
criminal’ would be implemented by
military officials responsible for detaining
and interrogating suspected enemy
combatants.” Judge Janice Rogers
Brown, an appointee of the current
president, wrote in a dissenting
opinion that the appellate court’s
decision “leaves us with the
unfortunate and quite dubious
distinction of being the only court to
declare that those held at
Guantanamo are not ‘persons.’”
The four Britons were seized by local
tribal leaders in various parts of
Afghanistan during 2001 and 2002.
After being sold to US forces for
bounty payments, they were held for
more than two years at Guantanamo
Bay before being released without
charge in 2004. it's all true
Brown, an appointee of the current
president, wrote in a dissenting
opinion that the appellate court’s
decision “leaves us with the
unfortunate and quite dubious
distinction of being the only court to
declare that those held at
Guantanamo are not ‘persons.’”
The four Britons were seized by local
tribal leaders in various parts of
Afghanistan during 2001 and 2002.
After being sold to US forces for
bounty payments, they were held for
more than two years at Guantanamo
Bay before being released without
charge in 2004. it's all true
Canadian Court Rules America's Stance on Torture Moot
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Researchers studying African giraffe
populations have discovered that,
contrary to the previously accepted
scientific consensus that there was a
single species of the world’s tallest
land animal, there appear in fact to
be at least six separate species of
giraffe on the continent. Some of the
newly documented species are
extremely endangered, with
populations of less than 1000
individual giraffes. The researchers
warn in their report that the false
assumption of a single species of
giraffe has tended to obscure the
severity of the risk of extinction for
some of these sub-species.
The researchers blame unrestricted
poaching and violent regional wars in
Kenya, Ethiopia, and Somalia for
drastic reductions in populations of
reticulated giraffes, from some
27,000 individuals in the mid-1990’s
to a total of about 3000 today.
According to the report, “Several of
these previously unrecognized
genetic units are highly endangered,
such as the West African giraffe,
numbering about only 100 individuals
and restricted to a single area in
Niger.” it's all true
populations have discovered that,
contrary to the previously accepted
scientific consensus that there was a
single species of the world’s tallest
land animal, there appear in fact to
be at least six separate species of
giraffe on the continent. Some of the
newly documented species are
extremely endangered, with
populations of less than 1000
individual giraffes. The researchers
warn in their report that the false
assumption of a single species of
giraffe has tended to obscure the
severity of the risk of extinction for
some of these sub-species.
The researchers blame unrestricted
poaching and violent regional wars in
Kenya, Ethiopia, and Somalia for
drastic reductions in populations of
reticulated giraffes, from some
27,000 individuals in the mid-1990’s
to a total of about 3000 today.
According to the report, “Several of
these previously unrecognized
genetic units are highly endangered,
such as the West African giraffe,
numbering about only 100 individuals
and restricted to a single area in
Niger.” it's all true
Statements made by Director of
National Intelligence Michael McConnell
during a series of interviews for a
recently published magazine profile
appear to confirm reports that the
government is preparing to implement a
surveillance program that would monitor
all US Internet traffic, including private
emails, file transfers, and search
histories, in an effort to deter acts of
“cyberterrorism.” Sketchy details of a
sweeping federal cyberspace security
initiative first emerged in September,
when an investigation by the Baltimore
Sun reported on a “multi-billion-dollar”
effort being secretly undertaken by the
National Security Agency. Now
McConnell, in an expansive interview in
the New Yorker, has provided new
details of the administration’s ambitious
plans, acknowledging that the program
will prompt a debate over civil liberties
and privacy rights.
McConnell stresses importance of
quickly developing a security policy to
address what he describes as the
vulnerability of government agencies,
civil infrastructure, and private
corporations and financial institutions to
computer-based attacks. Lawrence
Wright, who conducted the interviews,
said of McConnell in a podcast on the
New Yorker website, “He’s come up
National Intelligence Michael McConnell
during a series of interviews for a
recently published magazine profile
appear to confirm reports that the
government is preparing to implement a
surveillance program that would monitor
all US Internet traffic, including private
emails, file transfers, and search
histories, in an effort to deter acts of
“cyberterrorism.” Sketchy details of a
sweeping federal cyberspace security
initiative first emerged in September,
when an investigation by the Baltimore
Sun reported on a “multi-billion-dollar”
effort being secretly undertaken by the
National Security Agency. Now
McConnell, in an expansive interview in
the New Yorker, has provided new
details of the administration’s ambitious
plans, acknowledging that the program
will prompt a debate over civil liberties
and privacy rights.
McConnell stresses importance of
quickly developing a security policy to
address what he describes as the
vulnerability of government agencies,
civil infrastructure, and private
corporations and financial institutions to
computer-based attacks. Lawrence
Wright, who conducted the interviews,
said of McConnell in a podcast on the
New Yorker website, “He’s come up
with a cyber security policy that the
president has not announced yet, but it
would in many ways revolutionize the
relationship between government and
industry and also with American citizens.
Every bit of information throughout the
Internet could be monitored by the
government.”
Although Congress has been only
minimally advised on the plan,
McConnell’s preoccupation with the
concept of integrating surveillance with
private telecommunications systems has
been well known for months. In
October, the Baltimore Sun reported,
“Known internally as the ‘Cyber
Initiative,’ the program is designed to use
the spying capabilities of the National
Security Agency and other agencies to
protect government and private
communications networks from
infiltration by terrorists and hackers.”
The Wall Street Journal recently
reported that Congressional leaders
were summarily briefed on the initiative
for the first time just hours before the
White House sought funding for the
expansion of the program in November.
The Journal adds that Congressional
aides are "anticipating a fight over civil
liberties" when the program is finally
unveiled by the White House. it's all true
president has not announced yet, but it
would in many ways revolutionize the
relationship between government and
industry and also with American citizens.
Every bit of information throughout the
Internet could be monitored by the
government.”
Although Congress has been only
minimally advised on the plan,
McConnell’s preoccupation with the
concept of integrating surveillance with
private telecommunications systems has
been well known for months. In
October, the Baltimore Sun reported,
“Known internally as the ‘Cyber
Initiative,’ the program is designed to use
the spying capabilities of the National
Security Agency and other agencies to
protect government and private
communications networks from
infiltration by terrorists and hackers.”
The Wall Street Journal recently
reported that Congressional leaders
were summarily briefed on the initiative
for the first time just hours before the
White House sought funding for the
expansion of the program in November.
The Journal adds that Congressional
aides are "anticipating a fight over civil
liberties" when the program is finally
unveiled by the White House. it's all true
Judge Says Torture Victims Should Have Foreseen That They Were Not Persons
NSA Plans Invasion of Privacy, Occupation of Cyberspace
Candidates Experience Electile Dysfunction
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