"A prudent man forseeth the evil, and hideth himself: but the simple pass on, and are punished."   Proverbs 22:3 and Proverbs 27:12  KJV   Word study on this verse

 Bush Maps Out Iraq Strategy abcnews.go.com 11/30/5 [""As the Iraqi forces grow more capable, they are increasingly taking the lead in the fight against the terrorists," the president told a supportive audience at the U.S. Naval Academy. "Our goal is to train enough Iraqi forces so they can carry the fight against the terrorists.""]
 Netherlands: Rules set on baby euthanasia theaustralian.news.com.au 11/30/5 ["The Netherlands is setting up a commission to regulate the practice of ending the lives of "seriously suffering" newborn babies, the government said today, in a move critics said could allow more euthanasia.  Euthanasia of newborns and late abortions remain illegal, but the commission - composed of three doctors, a lawyer and an ethicist - is likely to recommend that doctors who follow certain rules are not charged in concrete cases."]
 UN talks adopt Kyoto rules on global warming reuters.co.uk 11/30/5 [" The Montreal meeting agreed to all but one of the 22 sections of the rules but Saudi Arabia, the world's biggest oil exporter  ...The United States pulled out in 2001, saying that it would cost U.S. jobs and wrongly excluded developing nations."]
 Terror laws rammed through without change theage.com.au 11/30/5 ["which wanted a controversial sedition section removed and the sunset clause changed to ensure the law expired in five years rather than 10."]
 Miami Police Take New Tack Against Terror ap.org 11/30/5 ["Police are planning "in-your-face" shows of force in public places, saying the random, high-profile security operations will keep terrorists guessing about where officers might be next.  As an example, uniformed and plainclothes officers might surround a bank building unannounced, contact the manager about ways to be vigilant against terrorists and hand out leaflets in three languages to customers and people passing by, said police spokesman Angel Calzadilla. He said there would be no random checks of identification."]
 Swedish anti-gay pastor acquitted news.bbc.co.uk 11/30/5 ["He has shown little regret for his comments when addressing the media. He has also said his comments referred to a homosexual lifestyle, rather than individuals."]
 California Stem Cell Research Lawsuits Will Proceed, Judge Rules lifenews.com 11/30/5 ["A judge ruled on Tuesday that two lawsuits filed against Proposition 71, the measure which will spend $6 billion on embryonic stem cell research, should not be dismissed even though they're holding up grants for research."]
 Is the President's Soul in Jeopardy? infowars.com 11/30/5 ["On August 17, 2000 there was an interview with President George W. Bush that bestirred controversy regarding his initiation into Skull and Bones. Time Magazine asked if it troubled him that he had been initiated into the Society when he was a young man. President Bush responded, "No qualms at all. I was honored." Inevitably some people, knowing the Skull and Bones reputation of blasphemy, were surprised that the President said he was "honored." Others, particularly Christians defended him saying, in effect, "Let's put this aside. He was forgiven of that when he accepted Christ." The disturbing fact, however, is that President Bush's statement came many years after he announced he had accepted Jesus as his Lord and Saviour."]
 Gold price breaks $US500 an ounce theage.com.au 11/30/5 ["or the first time in 18 years, prompting predictions that it has $US525 an ounce in its sights before testing its record of $US850 an ounce, set in January 1980.  ...After adjusting for 18 years of inflation, the surge in the US dollar gold price is no bonanza for local miners"]
 

 UK: Fifty babies a year are alive after abortion timesonline.co.uk 11/27/5 ["Its guidelines say that babies aborted after more than 21 weeks and six days of gestation should have their hearts stopped by an injection of potassium chloride before being delivered. In practice, few doctors are willing or able to perform the delicate procedure."]
 The Gathering Winds washingtonpost.com 11/27/5 ["With Katrina, the inundation of New Orleans and an Atlantic storm season so active it stretched forecasters beyond the normal alphabetical list of names into the Greek of Alpha, Beta and Gamma, 2005 racked up more storm deaths and destruction than the previous 10 years -- combined ."]
 Strong earthquake kills at least seven in Iran alertnet.org 11/27/5 ["earthquake razed mud-brick villages on the Gulf island of Qeshm off Iran's south coast on Sunday, officials and state media said.  Iran's official news agency IRNA said the quake, with a magnitude of 5.9, shook southern Iran for about 10 to 15 seconds"]
 Iran president in war charges call news.scotsman.com 11/27/5 ["Iran's hard-line president has called for the Bush administration to be tried on war crimes charges related to Iraq and denounced the West for its stance on Iran's controversial nuclear programme.  "You, who have used nuclear weapons against innocent people, who have used uranium ordnance in Iraq should be tried as war criminals in courts,"  ...Who in the world are you to accuse Iran of suspicious nuclear armed activity?"]
 EU Wants Israel to Divide Jerusalem israelnationalnews.com 11/27/5 ["The EU has accused Israel of a de facto annexation of East Jerusalem. Senior Israeli officials will be absent from an EU conference Sunday, when the PA will echo the call for dividing the capital."]
 Pentagon Expanding Its Domestic Surveillance Activity washingtonpost.com 11/27/5 ["The proposals, and other Pentagon steps aimed at improving its ability to analyze counterterrorism intelligence collected inside the United States, have drawn complaints from civil liberties advocates and a few members of Congress, who say the Defense Department's push into domestic collection is proceeding with little scrutiny by the Congress or the public.  "We are deputizing the military to spy on law-abiding Americans in America. This is a huge leap without even a [congressional] hearing," Sen. Ron Wyde"]
 Climate talks - hoops and hot air bbc.co.uk 11/27/5 ["With the Kyoto targets already achieved, the Montreal summit will focus on the next round of commitments for developed and developing countries alike.  Richer states are preparing to pledge cuts of 30% by 2020, as a step towards their declared aim of 90% reductions by 2050; while developing nations have agreed an initial target of 5%. "]
 

 Quake in east China kills twelve reuters.com 11/26/5 ["Some 130,000 homes were damaged in the worst-hit Jiujiang and Ruicheng counties, while 420,000 people were evacuated to safer areas as emergency officials rushed tents to the zone to shelter the homeless."]
 Resistance 'not terrorism' news24.com 11/26/5 ["Resistance is not the same as terrorism, a leading Sunni Arab leader said on Friday, adding that "resistance to the occupier is a natural and legitimate right" in Iraq."]
 New Chief Justice Faces Abortion Issue washingtonpost.com 11/26/5 ["The case stems from a 2003 New Hampshire law requiring teenagers to tell a parent before getting an abortion. While the law has an exception for girls who would die without the procedure, New Hampshire lawmakers omitted an exception for other non-life-threatening health problems because they felt it would render the law meaningless."]
 Administration heads off legal showdown over executive powers miami.com 11/26/5 ["The Justice Department's decision to indict Jose Padilla is the latest example of how the Bush administration short-circuits any legal review of the expansive powers it has claimed in the war on terror, legal experts said Tuesday."]
 China Honors Astronauts After Mission abcnews.go.com 11/26/5 [""The fact that China had realized the great jump from one-person, one-day space flight to multi-person, multi-day space missions within two years has marked a new landmark victory in China's manned space technology," Hu said as he gave the men medals and certificates of achievement."]
 Sex shop chain withdraws from lawsuit after citizens stand up against proposed store alliancedefensefund.org 11/26/5 [""Protecting our children comes first. When lawmakers have to choose between that or protecting a sex shop, protecting our children should be given the priority," said ADF Litigation Staff Counsel Jeremy Tedesco. "This is the type of success story that can come about when citizens decide to take a stand for their children and their neighborhoods.""]
 Mental Records Missing From Gun Database news.yahoo.com 11/26/5 ["Most states have privacy laws barring such information from being shared with law enforcement. Legislation pending in Congress that has bipartisan support seeks to get more of the disqualifying records in the database.  In addition to mandating the sharing of mental health records, the legislation would require that states improve their computerized record-keeping for felony records and domestic violence restraining orders and convictions..."]
 

 HIV Escalating: 20% Increase in Canada; Doubles to 40 Million World-Wide lifesite.net 11/25/5 ["Homosexual sex accounted for the majority of new cases...  A growing phenomena is the spread of HIV to women by so-called bi-sexual men who pass on infections acquired by homosexual sex to women sexual partners. In the United States this is said to be an especially serious problem among black Americans. "]
 Palestinians celebrate opening of Gaza border iht.com 11/25/5 ["the Gaza Strip's border crossing with Egypt on Friday, giving Palestinians control over one of their frontiers for the first time."]
 Over 180 killed in a week in Iraq dailytimes.com.pk 11/25/5 ["US Major General Rick Lynch said earlier this week that since mid-September, US-led forces had killed over 700 rebels"]
 Commonwealth calls for equal trade cnn.com 11/25/5 ["A Commonwealth summit has opened in Malta, with members calling for poorer countries to draw greater benefits from global markets.  ...much still remains to be done" if U.N. targets to halve the number of the world's poor are to be achieved by their 2015 deadline."]
 Harbin endures third day without water japantoday.com 11/25/5 [" While the government tried to reassure Harbin's 3.8 million urban residents that water supplies would resume quickly and safely, many people were still evacuating the city and engineers were continuing to sink dozens of wells.  ...Although the initial panic of hoarding that preceded the water stoppage appeared to have passed, many residents were still unprepared to put their trust in a government that had initially covered up the chemical spill."]
 Warren: Churches Must Be Part of Solution to Global Health Crisis christianpost.com 11/25/5 [" Churches constitute the largest distribution center in the world, says Warren. The vast network of churches is the only solution to "universal distribution," a problem that's plagued global health initiatives.  ....Warren said, there are five "spiritual Goliaths" or giant problems in the world today: spiritual emptiness, egocentric leadership, poverty, disease, and illiteracy."  Editor: More Purpose-Drivel Fluff.  THE problem with the world is sin!  Mt 16:26 "For what is a man profited, if he shall gain the whole world, and lose his own soul? or what shall a man give in exchange for his soul?"  Disease, poverty, and illiteracy are not a spiritual problem.  Yes, we should be mindful of the poor, but that is not the function or the 'purpose' of the church.]
 Abortion, Not Poverty, Is the Greater Tragedy Says Southern Baptist Leader lifesite.net 11/25/5 ["“There’s not a single day that goes by, for the last 32 years (since Roe vs. Wade) that I have not personally grieved and prayed for the 4,000-some odd babies, disproportionately African-American babies, I might add, who have been aborted."]
 ‘Narnia’ brings compelling storytelling along with faith gwinnettdailypost.com 11/25/5 ["If all of the energy put into the failed boycott of Disney for “gay day” at Walt Disney World now goes into praising Disney and Walden for creating a magnificent work, this “light” will overcome that other “darkness.” "]
 Marketing the occult: Harry's impact on "Christian" values crossroad.to 11/25/5 ["Who cares if these friendly folks are all witches and wizards? Here paganism seems normal! Never mind that the supernatural forces they manipulate correspond to those of Satan rather than God. In this enticing setting, the occult realm feels good to the unthinking audience. .
Those affirming feelings are important. They help the audience identify with the "good" wizards and -- through the imagination -- participate in the action."]
 Narnia film seen fresh chance to pack church pews reuters.com 11/25/5 ["Evangelical publishers have sent out special packs to churches, Methodists prepared themed sermons and one Anglican church is giving out free tickets to single parents for "The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, The Witch and the Wardrobe"."]
 

 Weapons were bought, bartered in private deals seattlepi.nwsource.com 11/24/5 ["Laws requiring background checks don't cover such private transactions. That's a loophole that gun-control advocates say ought to be closed, but supporters of gun rights say a better solution is keeping people such as Maldonado, who has a long criminal record, under close supervision."]
 Norwegian Government Minister Calls for Homosexual Hate Crimes Legislation lifesite.net 11/24/5 ["After a Salvation Army employee was allegedly fired over homosexuality, in violation of Army Christian moral principles, a Norwegian Cabinet Minister is calling for a change in the law to prevent discrimination against homosexuals."]
 Bush’s space exploration plan in danger msnbc.msn.com 11/24/5 ["unless the number of planned flights is cut virtually in half or the White House agrees to add billions of dollars to the human spaceflight budget."]
 Straight to gay is the Oscar way smh.com.au 11/24/5 ["Breaking America's taboos on sexuality is seen as this year's sure-fire route to winning nominations for Oscars and Golden Globes."]
 China city braces for wave of river pollution nzherald.co.nz 11/24/5 ["Harbin, one of China's biggest cities, on Wednesday temporarily restored water supplies shut off at midnight to allow residents to stock up as a wave of polluted river water flowed towards the area.  ...metropolitan area of nine million people. "]
 

 Guantanamo Bay Prisoner Sues U.S. to Get a Bible latimes.com 11/23/5 ["he also wants an English translation of the King James version of the Bible.  ...Although a judge has not sorted out the dispute, the prison has recently "cleared for release" the Shakespeare plays. But still no Bible for Paracha."]
 BEIJING: Parents sign up to "e-heroin" lawsuit xinhuanet.com 11/23/5 ["The growing problem of juvenile Internet addiction has prompted 63 parents to back a joint lawsuit against Web game companies.  The extreme behaviour of addicts, causing parents to dub Internet games "e-heroin," has become an increasing cause for concern. "]
 Venezuela to Provide Discount Oil to Mass. 11/23/5 ["Thousands of low-income Massachusetts residents will receive discounted home heating oil this winter under an agreement signed Tuesday with Venezuela, whose government is a political adversary of the Bush administration.  A subsidiary of Venezuela's state-owned oil company will supply oil at 40 percent below market prices."  Editor: another sign of a declining superpower]
 

 Slashing the Budget? house.gov 11/22/5 [Ron Paul: "Only in Washington DC can a spending increase be called a spending cut-- but that’s exactly what happened last week. Congress passed a budget bill that merely slows the rate at which some federal spending grows by a tiny percentage, and both parties acted as though a revolution had taken place."]
 Univ. of Kansas Takes Up Creation Debate news.yahoo.com 11/22/5 ["A course being offered next semester by the university religious studies department is titled "Special Topics in Religion: Intelligent Design, Creationism and other Religious Mythologies.""]
 Conference to develop strategy to combat bird flu gulf-news.com 11/22/5 ["The conference is of key importance to Saudi Arabia as the country prepares for the Haj when around two million pilgrims from around the world will converge here."]
 Darfur descending into total lawlessness: Annan reuters.com 11/22/5 ["Tens of thousands of Sudanese have been killed since a revolt in Darfur began in early 2003 by non-Arab villagers who accused the government of neglect and repression."]
 

 "American Girl" Not the Only Company Funding Pro-Abortion Group dakotavoice.com 11/21/5 [""Groups that work with young people need to get out of the abortion-advocacy business," Scott said. He identified Girls Inc., YWCA, Camp Fire, Girl Scouts, and Outward Bound as nonprofits that either have a pro-abortion policy statement or have worked with groups that do."]
 Bird flu early warning unveiled theaustralian.news.com.au 11/21/5 [" THE UN announced overnight the creation of an early warning system that will track the flight patterns of migratory birds to better assess the global threat of avian flu, despite not having funding for the idea."]
 Researcher: Abortion, Infanticide Means 200 Million Fewer Woman lifenews.com 11/21/5 ["A UN researcher says the prevalence of abortion and infanticide targeting girls ahas caused a gender imbalance that has resulted in 200 million fewer women than there should be worldwide. The researcher says the girls are "missing" because of a practice he calls "gendercide.""]
 School district bans novel about gay teenagers seattlepi.nwsource.com 11/21/5 ["following parents' complaints.  ...We want to send a strong consistent message to all our students that meeting individuals via the Internet is extremely high-risk behavior"]
 41 arrested protesting Army school in Ga usatoday.com 11/21/5 ["n annual protest calling for the closing of the Western Hemisphere Institute for Security Corporation, formerly known as the Army's School of the Americas, organizers said Sunday.  School of the Americas Watch, the group that sponsors the annual rally, alleges the school's graduates have committed murders, rapes and tortures in Latin America."]
 Body Count on the Rise on Prime-Time TV news.yahoo.com 11/21/5 [""The most difficult issue here is desensitization," said Whitney Vanderwerff, former head of the National Alliance for Non-Violent Programming. "People have become so accustomed to this that it no longer registers. "But," she maintains, "it does to kids." "]
 Armed standoff on Rio Grande worldnetdaily.com 11/21/5 ["As WorldNetDaily has reported, there are widespread reports of U.S.-trained Mexican commandos, called the Zetas, making cross-border runs into U.S. territory in military-style vehicles, armed with automatic weapons."]
 

 Nuremburg trials resonate in courts detnews.com 11/20/5 ["The Nuremberg proceedings broke new ground in holding government leaders individually responsible for their aggression and slaughter of millions of innocents.  They also established new offenses: crimes against peace, waging a war of aggression, war crimes and crimes against humanity.  "Nuremberg is considered to be the birthplace of a new international law," said Hans Hesselmann, a Nuremberg historian and head of the city's human rights agency. "]
 Insurance Commissioners Announce Framework for National Cat Program insurancejournal.com 11/20/5 ["insurance commissioners from California, Florida, Illinois and New York on Wednesday agreed that they had a basic framework for a national catastrophe insurance program—but the details were not yet ironed out."  Editor: Sign of the times]
 Planned Parenthood Hires Homosexual Activist For Republican Outreach lifenews.com 11/20/5 ["the political director of a pro-gay rights Republican group to direct its efforts to reach out to pro-abortion Republicans for support. The nation's largest abortion business hired Christopher Barron, an official with the Log Cabin Republicans."]
 The Darwin exhibition frightening off corporate sponsors telegraph.co.uk 11/20/5 ["An exhibition celebrating the life of Charles Darwin has failed to find a corporate sponsor because American companies are anxious not to take sides in the heated debate between scientists and fundamentalist Christians over the theory of evolution."]
 Philippines: Too many women still resort to abortion, says study news.inq7.net 11/20/5 ["INDUCED ABORTION is illegal in the Philippines, yet approximately one in five pregnant women makes the desperate choice to undergo an abortion."]
 Gay characters emerge as detectives, athletes and cowboys tallahassee.com 11/20/5 ["Ready or not, here come the post-gay movies. And audiences do seem to be ready.
Ready for movies where the characters are not merely gay - which used to be as much reality as mainstream viewers could take. These new characters are gay-plus.  ...They suggest that mainstream viewers, by and large, no longer find gayness shocking or exotic enough to be of interest on its own. Like the coffee in your local convenience store, it has become humdrum. Hence the need for add-in flavors."]
 Canada: Edmonton MP Calls Euthanasia Bill a Stealth Weapon lifesite.net 11/20/5 ["is part of a concerted effort by activists to create public acceptance for euthanasia in Canada. "]
Bush: 'May God bless the Christians of China' cnn.com 11/20/5 ["President Bush attended a legally sanctioned church Sunday in Beijing before scheduled talks on religious freedom with President Hu Jintao and Premier Wen Jiabao."]
 Report: Military recruitment falls short for key jobs indystar.com 11/20/5 ["The report found that, in all, the military, which is engaged in the most demanding wartime recruitment effort since the 1970s, had failed to adequately staff fully 41 percent of its array of combat and noncombat ranks."]
 

 Atheist sues over "In God We Trust" on money reuters.com 11/19/5 ["Newdow wrote that he finds it "deeply offensive to have his government and its agents advocating for a religious view he specifically decries."  ..."This lawsuit is another attempt to use the legal system to remove a legitimate reference to the religious heritage of America," said Jay Sekulow of the American Center for Law and Justice, which will represent Congress members in the suit."]
 Pro-Life Law Firm Asks Supreme Court to Take Partial-Birth Abortion Case lifenews.com 11/19/5 ["The American Center for Law and Justice (ACLJ) Thursday filed an amicus brief representing 70 members of Congress in support of a request from the Bush administration asking the Supreme Court of the United States to uphold the constitutionality of the national ban on partial-birth abortions."]
 Having Bible Still a Danger in N. Korea theledger.com 11/19/5 [""]
 Magnitude 6.5 Quake Hits Off Indonesia abcnews.go.com 11/19/5 ["A magnitude 6.5 quake rattled two islands off the coast of Sumatra on Saturday, triggering a tsunami alert and panicking some residents, officials said. There were no immediate reports of damage or casualties."]
 UK: Wedding show held for gay couples news.bbc.co.uk 11/19/5 ["Under the Civil Partnership Act, gay couples will be able to take part in a ceremony which legally recognises their relationship and gives them some of the same rights as married couples. "]
 Mo. officials will review earthquake preparedness stltoday.com 11/19/5 ["Officials said the plan would address problems expected from a 7.6 magnitude earthquake along the New Madrid fault, which runs through southeast Missouri. Scientists say there's a 7 to 10 percent chance of a catastrophic earthquake striking in the next 50 years."]
 Ford to Cut About 4,000 White-Collar Jobs news.yahoo.com 11/19/5 ["The move is the latest in a series of shake-ups and cost-cutting moves at the Dearborn-based automaker, which reported a third-quarter loss of $284 million. In North America, it lost $1.2 billion before taxes.  Ford and other U.S. automakers have been hurt by competition from Asia as well as high health care and materials costs and bloated plant capacity."]
 

Return of the Patriot Act iht.com 11/18/5 ["The Washington Post recently reported that the FBI now issues more than 30,000 national security letters a year.   ...Congress may also add some new, troubling provisions to the act, like a disturbing weakening of habeas corpus protection - an important method of challenging a wrongful conviction - in all capital cases, not just ones connected to terrorism."]
 Quakes Rattle The Geysers In Lake County ktvu.com 11/18/5 ["measuring 4.1 and 3.5  ...about 90 miles northwest of San Francisco.   The quake occurred near a location called The Geysers, according to the USGS. The geologically active area -- home to geothermal plants -- is hit by many small quakes a year..."]
 Population Control Fanatic Advocates “Voluntary Human Extinction” as Means to “Green” the Planet lifesite.net 11/18/5 ["Although bizarre, Knight is not alone in his views – in the closing plenary session of the State of the World Forum convened in 1995 by former Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev, philosopher/author Sam Keen endorsed a 90 percent reduction in world population. Other notable attendees at that conference included former US President George HW Bush, former Canadian Prime Minister Brian Mulroney, and former British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher. Gorbachev candidly revealed the purpose of the conference: “We shall have to address the problem of controlling the world’s population.”"]
 Danger Zones wired.com 11/18/5 ["Ten trouble spots you aren't already worried about."]
 PM's nod opens door for abortion pill smh.com.au 11/18/5 ["Parliament is likely to debate an amendment to the therapeutic goods legislation before the end of the year which would axe a law giving the Health Minister veto over the introduction of RU486."]
 Ohio Senate Approves Bill Banning Embryonic Stem Cell Research $ lifenews.com 11/18/5 ["The Ohio state Senate has approved legislation that would ensure state dollars don't pay for embryonic stem cell research. The vote comes on the heels of a state initiative approved by voters in November that would use millions for stem cell research in general."]
 

 Gold holds near 18-year high, platinum pauses reuters.com 11/17/5 [" Funds have been bidding gold higher on ideas that the metal was primed to soon challenge the psychological level of $500, which now stood less than $15 away."]
 Incendiary weapons: The big white lie news.independent.co.uk 11/17/5 [" US finally admits using white phosphorus in Fallujah - and beyond. Iraqis investigate if civilians were targeted with deadly chemical"]
 Beyond Treason beyondtreason.com 11/17/5 ["From the first Gulf War the VA has determined that 250,000 troops are now permanently disabled, 15,000 troops are dead and over 425,000 troops are ill and slowly dying from what the Department of Defense still calls a “mystery disease.”"]
 Detainee total surpasses 83,000 thestate.com 11/17/5 ["The administration defends the practice of holding detainees in prisons from Afghanistan to Guantanamo Bay as a critical tool to stop the insurg"]
 Another Reason Not To Live In San Frascisco newswithviews.com 11/17/5 ["If there's a tremendous earthquake in San Francisco and looting, you don't want your family protected? You don't want a firearm in your house? You're living in the world of Oz."]
 God Sends Shocking Message To Emerging Church! newswithviews.com 11/17/5 [""His eye is on the sparrow" but evidently not on a prominent Emerging Church leader standing in a baptistery full of water holding an electronically charged microphone before a crowd of 800 on Sunday morning following a prayer where he petitioned the Almighty to "surprise me."  ...Do you get the uneasy feeling that a completely different gospel is being preached today?"]
 

 Deal Reached on Managing the Internet news.yahoo.com 11/16/5 ["A U.N. technology summit opened Wednesday after an 11th-hour agreement that leaves the United States with ultimate oversight of the main computers that direct the Internet's flow of information, commerce and dissent."]
 LA Times New Porn Column another Symptom of Normalization of Pornography in Society lifesite.net 11/16/5 ["...exposure to pornography puts viewers at increased risk for developing sexually deviant tendencies, committing sexual offences, experiencing difficulties in intimate relationships, and accepting of the rape myth. Evidence of a causal connection between pornography and violent sex crimes has also been established."]
 US to cut Katrina hotel payments news.bbc.co.uk 11/16/5 ["Many US families forced to leave their homes by devastating storms have been told that funding for accommodation in hotels will be cut by 1 December."]
 Patriot Act Deal May Cut FBI Power cbsnews.com 11/16/5 ["The 2001 Patriot Act removed the requirement that the records sought be those of someone under suspicion. As a result, FBI agents can review the digital records of a citizen as long as the bureau can certify that the person's records are "relevant" to a terrorist investigation."]
 

 Abstinence Educators Call for GAO Investigation of Government Spending on Comprehensive Sex Education usnewswire.com 11/15/5 ["One such study is on the Focus on Kids program that evaluated children as young as age nine on condom use.  ... SIECUS and the CDC have a record of recommending curricula with extremely graphic content"]
 Al-Zarqawi myth U.S.'s own creation wpherald.com 11/15/5 ["Napoleoni, the author of "Insurgent Iraq," told reporters last week that Powell's argument falsely exploited Zarqawi to prove a link between then-Iraqi President Saddam Hussein and al-Qaida. She said that through fabrications of Zarqawi's status, influence and connections "the myth became the reality" -- a self-fulfilling prophecy."]
 Wake Up and Smell the Fascism oldamericancentury.org 11/15/5 ["In "Fascism Anyone?," Laurence Britt identifies 14 characteristics common to fascist regimes. His comparisons of Hitler, Mussolini, Franco, Suharto, and Pinochet yielded this list of 14 "identifying characteristics of fascism.""]
 U.S. Senate passes Guantanamo rights compromise  alertnet.org11/15/5 ["The U.S. Senate on Tuesday voted to let terrorism suspects at the Guantanamo Bay prison appeal their verdicts by military tribunals to federal courts, but sustained its earlier vote to otherwise curb their access to federal court protections."]
 Gay Presbyterian Minister Ordained in N.Y. tuscaloosanews.com 11/15/5 ["A Presbyterian congregation has ordained a gay man who refuses to embrace celibacy despite the denomination's ban on sexually active homosexuals joining the clergy."]
 Council considers gay-rights ordinance dailylocal.com 11/15/5 ["We should be a place in Pennsylvania where this is not allowed and we should not be afraid to write it down."  ...The proposed ordinance, which is modeled after one that was recently adopted by Swarthmore Borough, calls for prohibiting discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation in housing, employment and public-accommodations use. It also establishes a process for complaint adjudication."]
 

 French Cabinet to Propose Extending State-of-Emergency Measures by Three Months ap.tbo.com 11/14/5 ["President Jacques Chirac said at a Cabinet meeting, quoted by government spokesman Jean-Francois Cope. "It's a strictly temporary measure that will only be used where it is strictly necessary.""]
 Bush Rewrites History To Criticize His Anti-war Critics news.yahoo.com 11/14/5 ["Actually, Congress did not approve Bush's decision to remove Saddam. In October 2002, the House and Senate approved a resolution that gave Bush the authority to go to war in Iraq if he deemed that appropriate..."]
 EU says states could face sanctions for CIA jails reuters.co.uk 11/14/5 [""Were these events to have occurred, then clearly this would constitute a grave infringement of the values and rules of the European Union," he told lawmakers at the European Parliament."]
 Cologne, Germany, Announced as Host For 2010 Gay Games usnewswire.com 11/14/5 ["he Gay Games are a quadrennial athletic competition and cultural festival that highlights participation, inclusion and achieving one's personal best while helping to advance the cause of equality for the lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender community internationally.  ...The Gay Games has become one of the most sought -- after international events by cities around the world as it signifies a city's inclusiveness, diversity and creative spirit by welcoming tens of thousands of athletes, artists and their friends and families"]
 Mother Nature tops Time person of the year list reuters.co.uk 11/14/5 ["Mother Nature -- encompassing natural disasters from the Asian tsunami to Hurricane Katrina and the Pakistan earthquake -- evokes issues ranging from presidential politics to race to oil to infrastructure and leadership, said NBC news anchor Brian Williams, one of the panellists gathered to debate the annual selection."]
 New FDA Condom Guidelines “An Appalling Deception” According to Family Group lifesite.net 11/14/5 ["The US Center for Disease Control reported last year that HPV is the most common sexually-transmitted disease in America, with 20,000,000 affected, with new infections occurring at a rate of 5.5 million infections per year."]
 

 Scholars look between lines for Bible's abortion stance denverpost.com 11/13/5 ["Gorman, who calls himself an evangelical, cites the early church's opposition to abortion and broader themes that suffuse the Scriptures, rather than specific verses: "There's an impetus in the Bible toward the protection of the innocent, protection for the weak, respect for life, respect for God's creation.""]
 Roe v. Wade dominates confirmation debates seattletimes.nwsource.com 11/13/5 ["One-third of U.S. women will have had an abortion by age 45, based on current abortion rates  ...If Roe were overturned, Bennett said, "It's not going to have the consequences that a lot of people on the left say," because states still could allow legal abortions."]
 Appeals Court Says Girl Can Have Abortion Without Telling Parents tbo.com 11/13/5 ["A majority of the three-judge panel said Thursday that the girl has the maturity to decide whether to have an abortion or to decide if telling her parents would serve her best interests.  ...She said she wants to have an abortion because she is not prepared financially or otherwise to support a child."  Editor: 'otherwise'? - in other words, she is not mature enough mentally.]
 Abortion makes America hypocritical qctimes.net 11/13/5 ["We say we are appalled by the number of 2,000 deaths of our military in Iraq, yet we condone the 4,000 deaths of the unborn each and every day right here in America. We have killed more babies than all the soldiers who have died from all the wars we have ever been in!"]
 Bible Verses Relating to the Unborn 11/13/5 [""]
 U.S. 'can't maintain Iraq troop levels' upi.com 11/13/5 [""It has become clear that if we still have 140,000 ground troops in Iraq a year from now, we will destroy the all-volunteer army,"  ...The training of the Iraqi military has gone slowly because there has been a lack of motivation, Korb said, noting that American troops regularly enter combat situations with only basic training.  ...we send them to three months of training"]
 Senate Approves Limiting Rights of U.S. Detainees nytimes.com 11/13/5 ["the law would nullify a June 2004 Supreme Court opinion that detainees at Guantánamo Bay had a right to challenge their detentions in court.  Nearly 200 of roughly 500 detainees there have already filed habeas corpus motion"]
 

 Racist Abortion Is Evil -- but Eugenicist Abortion Is OK? thenewamerican.com 11/12/5 ["If it’s unacceptable for William Bennett to link abortion even conversationally with a whole class of people (and, of course, it is), why then do we as a society view abortion as justified and unremarkable in the case of another class of people: children with disabilities?"]
 U.N. urges cleanup of Iraq waste sites seattlepi.nwsource.com 11/12/5 ["The sites include chemical and petrochemical factories, mines, military scrap-yards and sites polluted by depleted uranium."]
 Gay officials to gather in Seattle seattlepi.nwsource.com 11/12/5 ["Gov. Christine Gregoire will welcome more than 200 political heavy-hitters and openly gay officeholders from around the country who plan to gather in Seattle next week and call for closeted gay officials to go public."]
 FEMA aid for Rita tops total from past decade chron.com 11/12/5 ["Federal aid to Texas Hurricane Rita victims for housing, medical expenses and related needs topped $500 million this week, almost doubling the total of individual assistance that the Federal Emergency Management Agency has disbursed in the state during disasters occurring in the previous 10 years."]
 America's Growing Educational and Job Nightmare newswithviews.com 11/12/5 ["Four aspects of our Constitution erode every single day of the year because of massive, unrelenting legal and illegal immigration. What does it take to run a successful American society? First, it takes a highly educated populace. Two, everyone must buy into and adhere to a similar moral code. Third, each citizen must appreciate and abide by the same ethical system and finally, a single language is imperative to discuss, debate and evolve solutions for the common good. "]
 

 Paris police issue temporary protest ban iol.ie 11/11/5 ["temporary ban on some types of public gatherings, citing concerns about a string of mobile phone or Internet messages urging “violent actions” in the French capital.  Any gatherings of “a nature that could provoke or encourage disorder”"]
 TX: Church to Continue Marrying Gay Couples woai.com 11/11/5 [" The Rev. Dr. Jo Hudson, pastor of the Cathedral of Hope in Dallas, which bills itself as the largest gay, lesbian, bisexual, and 'transgendered' church in the world. tells 1200 WOAI news that she'll continue performing gay marriages, just like she's done for years."]
 Trade gap soars to record cnn.com 11/11/5 ["The U.S. trade deficit soared to record levels in September, according to a government report, as higher oil prices, rising gasoline imports and a fall in exports caused the gap to widen far more than forecasts."]
 Christian Leaders Won't Meet With Planned Parenthood "Chaplain" lifenews.com 11/11/5 ["In an attempt to overcome its pro-abortion, anti-family image within the Christian community, Planned Parenthood appointed a national "chaplain" to represent people of faith who support the nation's largest abortion business.  ...Castuera, senior pastor of St. John's United Methodist Church in the Watts community of Los Angeles, told the Herald Leader few would meet with him because he's doing what Jesus would want him to do.  "The closer Jesus got to the cross, the smaller the crowds got," the chaplain said. "This is pretty close to the cross because [pro-abortion] people have to take derision, ostracism, all that."" Editor: Rank Blasphemy!]
  A Series of Dramatic Archaeological Finds israelnationalnews.com 11/11/5 ["Archaeologists announced this week the discovery of a 3,000-year-old Hebrew inscription. It is merely the latest of a series of dramatic archaeological finds in Israel in recent months."]
 Professor thinks bombs, not planes, toppled WTC infowars.com 11/11/5 ["The physics of 9/11 — including how fast and symmetrically one of the World Trade Center buildings fell — prove that official explanations of the collapses are wrong, says a Brigham Young University physics professor."]
 

 Loophole in US 'torture' policy theaustralian.news.com.au 11/10/5 [" US Defence Secretary Donald Rumsfeld can authorise exceptions to a new Defence Department policy on military interrogations that bars torture and calls for "humane" treatment of detainees, a spokesman said overnight."]
 Australia Health Official Says Abortion Drug Has Risks That Should be Studied lifenews.com 11/10/5 ["There are serious concerns about the impact on the health of women who have been prescribed RU486 in countries that allow its use, which the minister would be required to consider"]
 Abortion Measure Rejected By Voters nbcsandiego.com 11/10/5 ["California voters reaffirmed the state's commitment to unrestricted abortion access by rejecting a proposed constitutional amendment that would have required doctors to notify parents before performing the procedure on minors."]
 IBM calls for global identity management solution news.zdnet.co.uk 11/10/5 ["What's missing right now, he noted, is a trusted third party to authenticate trustworthiness. "So we've got inconsistent and incomplete implementation [in individual countries], and also no standard approach to the future nor a target to shoot at.""]
 UK: Hoteliers and B&B owners can no longer bar gay customers caterersearch.com 11/10/5 ["The Government accepted amendments to its Equality Bill, which will outlaw discrimination on grounds of sexual orientation in the provision of goods and services.  The Equality Bill was initially intended to prohibit discrimination against religious groups but more than 100 MPs signed an early day motion to extend the bill to sexuality."]
 

 San Francisco Voters Approve Handgun Ban news.yahoo.com 11/9/5 ["The gun ban prohibits the manufacture and sale of all firearms and ammunition in the city, and makes it illegal for residents to keep handguns in their homes or businesses.  Only two other major U.S. cities — Washington and Chicago — have implemented such sweeping handgun bans.  ...58 percent of voters backed the proposed gun ban while 42 percent opposed it.  ...current handgun owners would have to surrender their firearms by April."]
 UN Assembly Urges US to Drop Cuba Embargo voanews.com 11/9/5 ["This is the 14th consecutive year the General Assembly has passed a resolution criticizing Washington's embargo against Cuban leader Fidel Castro's government.  The margin of approval - 182 in favor, four against, with one abstention - was the widest since Cuba began introducing the measure in 1992."]
 Consent for police searches of homes divides high court chron.com 11/9/5 ["The U.S. Supreme Court appeared to be closely divided Tuesday as it debated when police should be allowed to search a home without getting a warrant.  The case, Georgia v. Randolph, is expected to settle the question of what happens when one person in the home consents to the search but another says, "No.""]
 Tsunami bomb NZ's devastating war secret nzherald.co.nz 11/9/5 ["Details of the tsunami bomb, known as Project Seal, are contained in 53-year-old documents released by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade.  Papers stamped "top secret" show the US and British military were eager for Seal to be developed in the post-war years too. They even considered sending Professor Leech to Bikini Atoll to view the US nuclear tests and see if they had any application to his work"]
 Alito: US abortion ruling deserves 'great respect' reuters.myway.com 11/9/5 [""He basically said ... that Roe was precedent on which people, a lot of people, relied, and had been precedent now for decades and therefore deserved great respect," Lieberman told reporters."]
 Pennsylvania Voters Oust School Board That Backed Intelligent Design ap.tbo.com 11/9/5 ["Voters came down hard Tuesday on school board members who backed a statement on intelligent design being read in biology class, ousting eight Republicans and replacing them with Democrats who want the concept stripped from the science curriculum.  ...Eight of the nine school board members were up for election Tuesday. They were challenged by a slate of Democrats who argued that science class was not the appropriate forum for teaching intelligent design."]
 Blair Suffers Major Defeat on Terror Bill news.yahoo.com 11/9/5 ["lost a crucial parliamentary vote Wednesday on sweeping new legislation allowing police to detain terrorism suspects for 90 days without charge"]
 Study Says There Is More Sex on TV news.yahoo.com 11/9/5 ["double the number of sex scenes aired seven years ago ...the number of shows that included a message about the risks and responsibilities of sex is still very small, and has remained flat since 2002."]
 

 China Authorities Close Down Law Firm Helping Forced Abortion Activist lifenews.com 11/8/5 ["A Chinese law firm that has been helping a blind man who exposed a radical campaign to force thousands of women in Linyi, China to have abortions or be sterilized has been closed down by national officials. Authorities were also upset that the firm was helping people involved in religious practices opposed by the federal government."]
  Cruise lines turn to sonic weapon news.bbc.co.uk 11/8/5 ["The long range acoustic device, or LRAD, is a high-tech loudhailer capable of causing permanent damage to hearing from a distance of more than 300 metres (984ft).  ... it was deployed for crowd control in New Orleans in the wake of Hurricane Katrina."]
 Fiji church could face prosecution for anti-gay march radionz.co.nz 11/8/5 ["Dr Shameem says when expressing views through marches or assemblies, the first march or assembly counts as freedom of expression, but if there is a second or third march, it would be seen as encouraging discrimination."]
 French Authorize Curfews to Stop Violence news.yahoo.com 11/8/5 ["Among other powers, police will be able to conduct raids if they suspect weapons are being stockpiled, said Interior Minister Nicolas Sarkozy added."]
 Syphilis Rates Rising Among U.S. Men forbes.com 11/8/5 ["In a report released Tuesday, the CDC attributed the bulk of this latest spread of syphilis to men who have sex with men.  ...The rate increased 8 percent from 2003 to 2004, largely due to increases among men"]
 California Holds Tanning Salons to Higher Standards Than Abortion Centers lifenews.com 11/8/5 ["Despite the fact that parents generally have the best interests of their children in mind and they are legally liable for any costs or complications resulting from their minor daughter’s abortion, the state of California does not require them to be notified. Yet, the state requires not only parental notification but parental consent for a minor age 14 to 18 to use a tanning bed. A minor under the age of 14 cannot use a tanning bed under any circumstance, but she can have an abortion without telling her parents."]
 3 million still lack shelter in Kashmir iht.com 11/8/5 ["out in the open, one month after the disaster struck the mountainous region, where subzero temperatures will start being felt soon in some areas, the United Nations said Tuesday."]
 Could French-style riots happen here? worldnetdaily.com 11/8/5 ["a leader of the separatist Aztlan movement in the U.S. says it's only a matter of time before worse unrest hits the streets of America."]
 Evolution suffers Kansas setback news.bbc.co.uk 11/8/5 ["The new standards include several specific challenges, including statements that there is a lack of evidence or natural explanation for the genetic code, and charges that fossil records are inconsistent with evolutionary theory.  It also states that says certain evolutionary explanations "are not based on direct observations... and often reflect... inferences from indirect or circumstantial evidence". "]
 

 Connecticut case exposes Patriot Act fortwayne.com 11/7/5 ["The Connecticut case affords a rare glimpse of an exponentially growing practice of domestic surveillance under the USA Patriot Act, which marked its fourth anniversary Oct. 26. “National security letters,” created in the 1970s for espionage and terrorism investigations, originated as narrow exceptions in consumer privacy law, enabling the FBI to review in secret the customer records of suspected foreign agents. The Patriot Act, and Bush administration guidelines for its use, transformed those letters by permitting clandestine scrutiny of U.S. residents and visitors who are not alleged to be terrorists or spies."]
 U.S. Supreme Court Will Review Guantanamo Military Tribunals bloomberg.com 11/7/5 [" The U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit in July ruled 3-0 that Congress authorized the president to set up military tribunals when it approved the use of force to fight terrorism following the Sept. 11 attacks. The court also said the Geneva Convention isn't enforceable in federal court and doesn't apply to members of bin Laden's al-Qaeda network."]
 Pentagon identifies major elements of 2006-2008 troop rotation for Iraq newsday.com 11/7/5 ["Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld indicated that the newly announced rotation did not necessarily reflect plans for how many American troops will actually be needed in Iraq over the coming two years."]
 Australian Police Arrest 15 People in Terrorism Raids bloomberg.com 11/7/5 ["for allegedly stockpiling explosive chemicals and planning a ``catastrophic'' terrorist attack that may have killed hundreds of people."  Editor: How convenient for their pending anti-terror legislation]
 Pakistan, India Exchange Aid Across Disputed Kashmir Frontier ap.tbo.com 11/7/5 ["at a much-heralded opening of their disputed Kashmir border - a mostly symbolic act of cooperation after the region's huge October quake. Pakistani police fired tear gas at villagers chanting for a free Kashmir.  ..."It's definitely a historical moment," said Braj Raj Sharma, a top civilian official in India's Jammu-Kashmir state. "They say that adversity unites people. This is what is happening today.""]
 Dirty Downloads Ready to Go on IPods news.yahoo.com 11/7/5 ["One online social network of amateur pinup girls said it logged 500,000 downloads of the sexy "featurettes" — three- to five-minute video clips — in the first 24 hours targeting the new iPod-toting crowd.  It's a no-brainer: pornography to go."]
 China mobilises military to fight bird flu chinadaily.com.cn 11/7/5 ["China has mobilised its armed forces and allocated emergency funds and vaccines to fight bird flu as a mass cull of poultry and birds continued following a new outbreak in the country's northeast.  ...Officials will also "launch a province-wide surveillance, not missing one village, one family or one poultry, and vaccinating 100 percent of the poultry"]
 

 Gay bishop: Church 'more godly place' if it embraced homosexuals boston.com 11/6/5 ["Rev. V. Gene Robinson addressed a crowd of about 150 at St. Martin-in-the-Fields church in London to mark the 10th anniversary of Changing Attitude, a British-based group that promotes the ordination of openly gay clergy."]
 Bird flu pandemic may force countries to shut down, says UN official guardian.co.uk 11/6/5 ["The UN official charged with preparing the world for a flu pandemic said yesterday that there was a danger of panicked countries closing their borders, withdrawing their diplomats and operating a general "lock down" as soon as the disease began to spread.  ...it will be necessary to have dialogue with military capability," Dr Nabarro said. "Given that we are going to have very limited time to move staff and we don't know to where that is going to be and there may be difficulties with civilian transport once the first rumours begin, we are going to have to use military transport.""]
 Talks aim to build global defense against bird flu reuters.myway.com 11/6/5 ["The three days of talks hosted by the World Health Organization are believed to be the largest such meeting since the virus began to spread in late 2003.  The virus remains hard for people to catch and is passed on almost exclusively through human contact with birds.  ...discussions will be held on setting up a global trust fund which he said would require initial donations of $300 million-500 million."]
 Aftershock Rattles Quake Victims cbsnews.com 11/6/5 ["it was one of the biggest aftershocks of the original 7.6-magnitude quake, seismologists in the northwestern city of Peshawar said.  Sunday's jolt unleashed landslides throughout the Kaghan valley, including some that temporarily blocked traffic in the Balakot area"]
 Proposition 73 sanluisobispo.com 11/6/5 ["Why is it that a minor child is considered sufficiently mature to seek and obtain a non-therapeutic abortion with its array of potential risks, but is not considered able to seek and obtain medical or surgical procedures which are therapeutic and which often do not have the same potential physical and psychological risk? Why not allow minor children to also seek care for a headache, pneumonia or a perceived cosmetic defect?"]
 UK: Better for old to kill themselves than be a burden, says Warnock timesonline.co.uk 11/6/5 ["BRITAIN'S leading medical ethics expert has suggested that the frail and elderly should consider suicide to stop them becoming a financial burden on their families and society.  ...spoke on the eve of a Commons debate on the Mental Capacity Bill, which critics claim will allow "euthanasia by the back door".  ...also suggests that parents of premature babies should be charged to keep them on life support machines if doctors write off their chances of leading a healthy life."]
 

 Hollywood Winds Down 2005 with Gay-Themed Pics npr.org 11/5/5 ["there's at least one such movie for every week between now and Christmas."]
 House Vote Counters Eminent Domain Measure news.yahoo.com 11/5/5 ["The House legislation, passed 376-38, was in response to a widely criticized 5-4 ruling by the Supreme Court last June that allowed eminent domain authority to be used to obtain land for tax revenue-generating commercial purposes.  ...The bill would withhold for two years all federal economic development funds from states and localities that use economic development as a rationale for property seizures. It also would bar the federal government from using eminent domain powers for economic development."]
 Wal-Mart economy keeps lid on US inflation: study  breitbart.com 11/5/5 [" Tracy Sefl, spokeswoman for Wal-Mart Watch, a leading critic of the company, said her group's research, based on data from congressional reports, concludes that Wal-Mart benefits from at least 1.5 billion dollars in public subsidies each year.  Additionally, Sefl noted other reports showing retail workers lost 4.7 billion dollars as a result of depressed wages and that nearly half of the children of Wal-Mart employees qualify for the government's Medicaid health program for the needy. "]
 Nearly 900 vehicles torched as French rioting rages on abc.net.au 11/5/5 ["Popular daily Le Parisien said many of those arrested were previously known to police, calling the youths burning cars "a mix of delinquents, recidivists and part-time rioters".  In contrast, Liberation, said the rioters were inspired by a combination of anger, urban deprivation, unemployment, policing...."]
 PBS Documentary to Show Pro-Life Successes in Closing Abortion Facilities lifesite.net 11/5/5 ["In addition, state funds, earned from pro-life license plates, go to fund pro-life and pro-mother crisis pregnancy centres where women receive medical referrals, financial assistance and help with parenting.  According to the PBS programme, the reduction of abortions in the US South can also be attributed to the passage of informed consent laws that require doctors to tell mothers about the development of their unborn children. Some states even require an ultra sound so that mothers can see their babies before making the decision. "]
 

 Pentagon Eyeing Cuts in Weapons Programs ap.tbo.com 11/4/5 ["Struggling to pay for a costly war in Iraq, the Pentagon is considering as much as $15 billion in cuts to aircraft, shipbuilding and other weapons purchases as it begins to craft a budget for next year.  ...The Army, Navy and Air Force would be responsible for cutting as much as $3 billion to $5 billion each"]
 Abortion is not birth control news-leader.com 11/4/5 ["Are we not aware of the many protectives available to us from the local drug store? And, last, but not least, abstinence. Did anyone every tell you that abortion does not remove STDs or AIDS? But abstinence does."]
 Russians Celebrate New National Holiday abcnews.go.com 11/4/5 ["although many people did not even know its name or what it stood for.  ...the "Day of People's Unity," designed to commemorate Moscow's liberation from Polish invaders in 1612."]
 Details of Forced Abortions in China Emerge as Blind Activist Detained lifenews.com 11/4/5 ["In the few months before he spoke with reporters, Chen said 7,000 women had been forcibly aborted or sterilized. He went to Beijing to plead his case with government officials and alert the world when he was detained."]
  'Thrill' of rioting fires up another night in Paris theaustralian.news.com.au 11/4/5 ["France since 1905 has had an official separation between church and state."]
 Chavez Against U.S. Free Trade Plan guardian.co.uk 11/4/5 ["Chavez has said free trade is being forced on Latin American countries and the deal would only help the rich. Instead, he has pushed for an anti-FTAA deal based on socialist ideals.  Chavez has strained relations with Washington and regularly claims the United States is trying to overthrow his government, an accusation U.S. officials dismiss. He has used Venezuela's oil wealth to push for regional solidarity, offering fuel with preferential financing to various Caribbean and Latin American countries.  Venezuela is a member of Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries and the world's fifth largest oil exporter as well as a major supplier to the U.S. market. "]
 Pentagon to Keep Troop Levels in Iraq guardian.co.uk 11/4/5 ["The U.S. military is likely to keep an expanded force of about 160,000 troops in Iraq through the Dec. 15 election of a new government and then make a ``fairly rapid'' reduction to what has been the standard troop level of about 138,000, a senior Pentagon official said Thursday."]
 Europe shocked by CIA prison camp claims upi.com 11/4/5 ["Allegations that the Central Intelligence Agency is running prison camps for suspected al-Qaida terrorists in Eastern Europe have sparked howls of protest from EU legislators and human rights groups, but strenuous denials from politicians in Poland -- one of the countries said to host the secret jails."]
 UK: Flu doctors to be given police guards timesonline.co.uk 11/4/5 ["POLICE guards will be placed on doctors’ surgeries and NHS clinics in the event of a flu pandemic to stop panicking crowds from trying to get their hands on antiviral drugs."]
 

 Boston Gay Activists Harass and Intimidate Focus on the Family Ex-Homosexual Conference lifesite.net 11/3/5 ["A pastor who came out to photograph the crowd saw that it filled the entire block. He was told by police to go back inside for his safety and not to come out again."]
 U.S. Circulates Draft Resolution on Iraq guardian.co.uk 11/3/5 ["a draft U.N. Security Council resolution that would extend the mandate of the nearly 180,000-strong multinational force in Iraq for a year"]
 Paris riots spread, shaking French government sg.news.yahoo.com 11/3/5 ["Gangs of stone-throwing youths clashed with police and torched 180 cars overnight in several towns north and west of Paris in an escalation of dusk-to-dawn violence that has raged since last Thursday following the death of two teenagers in the northeast suburb of Clichy-sous-Bois."]
 Muslims fast another day as the Moon hides int.iol.co.za 11/3/5 ["The Moon is looked for on the 29th day of each Islamic calendar month to determine its length of 29 or 30 days."]
 Anglicans Representing Two-Thirds of Global Body Reject Gay-Friendly North American Church lifesite.net 11/3/5 ["Anglican prelates from Africa, Asia, and Latin America, meeting at a summit last week, condemned Canadian Anglicans and the US Episcopal Church’s willingness to ordain homosexual priests and to bless same-sex unions."]
 

 Samuel Alito's Votes on Other Abortion Cases Prompt Questions lifenews.com 11/2/5 ["Alito's rulings in three other abortion cases are prompting some questions about where he stands.  For pro-life groups, the best evidence a judicial nominee can give showing their position on abortion and whether they would vote to overturn Roe v. Wade is their decisions in prior abortion cases.  The ruling drawing the most attention in the press is Alito's participation in a 1991 case involving Pennsylvania's abortion regulations. "]
 Milwaukee Paper Apologizes for Accepting 'Cooked' WMD Evidence  editorandpublisher.com 11/2/5 ["...For that lack of skepticism and the failure to include the proper caveats to the WMD claim, we apologize, though I would note that, ultimately, we didn't believe that the president's central WMD argument warranted war. Not then and especially not now."]
 Democrats Force Secret Senate Session abcnews.go.com 11/2/5 ["Unable to win their way with votes, outnumbered Democrats used a rarely invoked Senate rule to force a secret session as a way to dramatize their assertions that the Bush administration misused intelligence in the run-up to war in Iraq."]
 U.S. Military Wants to Own the Weather space.com 11/2/5 ["High frequency Active Auroral Research Program (HAARP) is based in Gakona, Alaska and is dedicated to upper atmospheric and solar-terrestrial research. This U.S. military operated installation might be inadvertently providing clues for modifying the weather."  Editor: Almost blatantly admitting that it can affect weather!]
 Anti-Bush Protesters Gather in Argentine Resort Ahead of Americas Summit ap.tbo.com 11/2/5 ["Free trade efforts have lost steam since the first Summit of the Americas in 1994 gave a big push for establishing FTAA by early this century across the Western Hemisphere."]
  Earthquake toll leaps to 73,000 news.bbc.co.uk 11/2/5 ["Mr Khan said in Islamabad that 41 villages "had not yet been accessed by the relief and rescue teams due to roads destroyed by the quake", 31 of them in North-West Frontier Province."]
 Texas Southern Baptists Resolve to Investigate Homosexual Activism in Schools agapepress.org 11/2/5 ["has unanimously passed a resolution encouraging Christian parents to look into whether their local public schools are involved in homosexual activism and, where this is the case, to pursue alternative choices for their children's education."]
 Alito's 1971 Gay Support Raises Hope civilrights.org 11/2/5 ["as a senior at Princeton University, Samuel Alito chaired a task force that recommended decriminalizing sodomy and saying discrimination against gays in hiring "should be forbidden."  "This is a hopeful sign that may provide insight into his philosophy," said Human Rights Campaign President Joe Solmonese. "There were very few people standing up for gay Americans 34 years ago and most who did have evolved even more since." "]
 

 Chertoff: Preparedness Depends on People news.yahoo.com 11/1/5 ["Stockpiling supplies and developing family response plans in case disaster strikes not only might save lives — it's also a civic duty  ..."The great lesson of all of these events is interdependence," Chertoff said. "We're all dependent on everybody else. Everybody has their role to play, and if people fail in their role, it's going to have a cascading effect.""]
 Bush Outlines $7.1B Flu-Fighting Strategy news.yahoo.com 11/1/5 ["aiming to overhaul the vaccine industry so eventually every American could be inoculated within six months of a pandemic's beginning.  Such a huge change would take years to implement — Bush's goal is 2010.   ...States, too, got an unpleasant surprise, ordered to purchase millions of doses of an anti-flu drug with their own money.  ...Still to be finalized is a plan from the
Homeland Security Department, which will coordinate how the government balances protecting the public with keeping schools, businesses and transportation sectors running.  "People think, "Oh, if I get sick, I'll stay home,'" said Homeland Security spokesman Brian Doyle. "But what happens when schools are closed for four months? Will truck drivers want to deliver food?"]
 Belmont considers changing laws for occult businesses sfexaminer.com 11/1/5 ["the Belmont City Council will examine whether it wishes to dispense with the public hearing process and let staff simply issue the permits after conducting a background check."]
 Last Trumpet Ministries Newsletter: A Nation and World at the Gates of Hell! lasttrumpetministries.org 11/1/5 ["the name Chertoff is Russian and literally means devil’s son! In the Russian language, the word chert means devil. When we add ov or off to a Russian word, it means either pertaining to or son of; thus, Chertoff means either devil’s son or devil’s own. There is no other meaning for that name."]
 For some Americans, every day is Halloween worldnetdaily.com 11/1/5 ["Bizarre sex, self-mutilation, 'love of death' becoming increasingly commonplace"]
 Israel: Gov't OKs EU monitors at Rafah crossing jpost.com 11/1/5 ["Although Sharon and Shalom indicated their desire to see the EU monitors take an active role in running the border crossing, one official close to the negotiations said their role would not be to inspect suitcases and identify people, but rather to monitor the performance of the Palestinians as they perform these tasks. "]
 Congress Set To Pass Law Eliminating Liability For Vaccine Injuries nvic.org 11/1/5 ["The proposed legislation will strip Americans of the right to a trial by jury if harmed by an experimental or licensed drug or vaccine that they are forced by government to take, whenever federal health officials declare a public health emergency."]
 Russia: Strategic Missile Troops to switch over to Topol-M's in 2006 interfax.ru 11/1/5 ["It is more mobile than other missile systems and is better protected from the enemy's reconnaissance.  ...Several dozen additional engines and control gear make its flight unpredictable for the enemy. Topol-M's designers claim the system is absolutely immune to electromagnetic impulses."]