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China: Tension MountsUS ship transits Taiwan Strait after China flap Reuters - 59 minutes ago By Andy Sullivan WASHINGTON, Nov 29 (Reuters) - A US aircraft carrier group sailed through the tense waters between China and Taiwan after it was denied entry last week to a Hong Kong port, the US Navy said on Thursday. China fuels confusion over US carrier spat MSNBC China Denies Saying Incident Was `Misunderstanding' (Update1) Bloomberg Reuters UK - International Herald Tribune - Aero-News Network - Voice of America all 656 news articles » What Goes Around Comes Around1973 U.S. Cable on Mideast Mirrors Current Events Memo, Among Newly Released Nixon-Era Documents, Warns Saudi Monarch of Dangers From Fatah By Walter PincusWashington Post Staff WriterThursday, November 29, 2007; Page A03 A March 1973 State Department cable released yesterday by the National Archives recounts a promise by Saudi Arabia's King Faisal that terrorist threats to U.S. interests could be resolved as soon as Washington pressed Israel to withdraw from territory it had seized. The cable is one of 10,000 Nixon administration documents that were disclosed for the first time, including some related to terrorism and Middle East policymaking that illustrate how little has changed in more than 30 years.
On March 1, 1973, eight terrorists representing the Black September Organization, a Palestinian group with ties to Yasser Arafat and his Fatah political party, had seized the Saudi Embassy in Khartoum, Sudan's capital, during a reception for the departing U.S. deputy chief of mission. Diplomats, including the U.S. and Saudi ambassadors, were taken hostage, and demands were made for the release of Palestinian guerrillas held in various countries, including Israel. In the end, the two U.S. diplomats and a Belgian diplomat were killed, after which the terrorists surrendered to Sudanese officials. Two were immediately released, and after a trial, the six others were turned over to Arafat's organization. http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/11/28/AR2007112802408.html?hpid=topnews Coast Guard Makes Record Drug Bust of 40,000 Pounds of CocaineALAMEDA, Calif. — The U.S. Coast Guard on Monday began unloading more than 40,000 pounds of cocaine seized from three ships off the Central American coast, including one bust called the largest in U.S. maritime history.The Coast Guard boarded a 330-foot ship heading north off the Pacific coast of Panama last month and discovered about 38,000 pounds of cocaine in two shipping containers, officials said.The bust was the largest single sea-based seizure of cocaine by a U.S. agency, Coast Guard Petty Officer Brian Leshak said. In another bust off Panama's coast last month, a Coast Guard cutter chased down a cigarette-style speedboat carrying about 2,000 pounds of cocaine, officials said.The Coast Guard in February intercepted an Ecuadorian-flagged fishing vessel allegedly loading cocaine into speedboats off Mexico's coast.The fishing vessel's crew set fire to their ship to destroy the evidence and tried to flee in the speedboats, but were caught, according to the Coast Guard. About 900 pounds of cocaine were seized.The Coast Guard detained a total of 32 crew members in the three busts....see other related stories in my Blog ...Peace ... Gandalf Mission to Mars
The US space agency envisages despatching a "minimal" crew on a 30-month round trip to the Red Planet in a 400,000kg (880,000lb) spacecraft. Details of the concept were outlined at a meeting in Houston, Texas. Video of Bob Knight Shooting Incident
Home video is providing new details on the alleged shooting involving Texas Tech Basketball Coach Bob Knight. As we told you Tuesday night, two Lubbock residents say they were hit with shotgun pellets while Knight was dove hunting last month. One of those residents, James Simpson, says Knight fired at him on purpose. Simpson video taped his confrontation with Coach Knight. The Lubbock Police Department closed their investigation earlier this month. They told NewsChannel 11 they couldn't find any evidence that Coach Knight shot at Simpson. On Wednesday, Simpson gave us a copy of his confrontation with Coach Knight back on October 21st. Simpson says shotgun pellets landed on his house, around his yard, and in his pool. He says he confronted Knight three times before bringing the camera out. Click on the video on THE (PICTURE OF KNIGHT) UPPER LEFT to view the video of the incident provided by Simpson. MORE @ KCBD.COM Sam Madina! What the Hell Were You Thinking?SAM!
Knowing what you know about my case and what was done to my family and me, having been a partner with Tommy Turner my defense attorney, I am asking you straight out dude: Sam what the hell were you thinking? Gandalf.
The Seventh court of appeals in Amarillo reversed the dismissal of a suit against Blake Littlejohn a former Lubbock Police officer. Littlejohn is accused of assaulting a 20 year old woman and forcing her to perform sexual acts on him in the back of his squad car. Littlejohn pled guilty to criminal charges and was then faced with a civil law suit which was dismissed. The court held that Judge Sam Medina of the 237th district court should not have dismissed the suit and that he committed an error when he did so. Littlejohn plead guilty
Rebecca Hernandez v. The City of Lubbock and Blake Littlejohn--Appeal from 237th District Court of Lubbock County This is in reference to a incident involving Littlejohn(LPD officer) and Hernandez that had Littlejohn being arrested for soliciting sex to tear up a traffic tickets and ignore outstanding warrants on Hernandez in summer of 2004. Littlejohn resigned and Sam Medina took it on himself to dismiss civil suit against city and Littlejohn filed by Hernandez. Medina is (R) and may have thought David Miller(R) needed off-the-hook on this "sleazy" conduct of LPD officer. Appeals court did not buy into the county judge lending a hand to both City of Lubbock and Littlejohn. Suit against Littlejohn has been reinstated BUT City of Lubbock has been given "free-pass" on civil liability thus getting City of Lubbock dismissed from this suit.
Appeals court reverses Lubbock court's decision
The Seventh Court of Appeals in Amarillo this week reversed a dismissal of a lawsuit against a former Lubbock Police officer. The appeals court held that Judge Sam Medina, of the 237th district court, should not have dismissed the suit against Blake Littlejohn and that he committed error when he did so. KFYO and Lubbock County Register used as sources. Gandalf A Close Look at Stem CellsBreakthrough shouldn't derail current research
Mercury News Editorial
Article Launched: 11/27/2007 01:38:58 AM PST The wisdom of California's stem-cell research strategy shone through last week amid the news of an exciting potential breakthrough by scientists in Japan and Wisconsin. Researchers announced significant progress in advancing the possibility that human skin cells could be reprogrammed to behave like embryonic stem cells. Any development that brings us closer to curing some of the world's most devastating diseases should be greeted with open arms - but a possibility years in the future is no substitute for the work going on today thanks to the foresight of California voters. http://www.mercurynews.com/opinion/ci_7568755?nclick_check=1 Induced Pluripotent Stem Cell Lines Derived from Human Somatic Cells Published Online November 20, 2007
Science DOI: 10.1126/science.1151526 Somatic cell nuclear transfer allows trans-acting factors present in the mammalian oocyte to reprogram somatic cell nuclei to an undifferentiated state. Here we show that four factors (OCT4, SOX2, NANOG, and LIN28) are sufficient to reprogram human somatic cells to pluripotent stem cells that exhibit the essential characteristics of embryonic stem cells. These human induced pluripotent stem cells have normal karyotypes, express telomerase activity, express cell surface markers and genes that characterize human ES cells, and maintain the developmental potential to differentiate into advanced derivatives of all three primary germ layers. Such human induced pluripotent cell lines should be useful in the production of new disease models and in drug development as well as application in transplantation medicine once technical limitations (for example, mutation through viral integration) are eliminated.
To whom correspondence should be addressed. DEVELOPMENTAL BIOLOGY: A Loss of Flexibility With AgeBeverly A. Purnell
As a cell transitions from an undifferentiated state to a differentiated cell type, its gene expression profile changes, which in part reflects physical changes in chromatin structure. In a complementary approach, Pajerowski et al. have examined the macroscopic properties of the nucleus during differentiation. Aspiration with a micropipette revealed that the nuclei of pluripotent human embryonic stem cells could be deformed relatively easily; however, as the cells differentiated, the nuclei became stiffer. Hematopoietic stem cells (from bone marrow) were able to differentiate into fewer cell types than embryonic stem cells and, similarly, showed an intermediate level of deformability. Progression toward the differentiated state was accompanied by an increase in the filamentous protein lamin A/C and greater condensation of chromatin. When lamin A/C was knocked down in epithelial cells, their flow behavior resembled that of hematopoietic stem cells. Further analysis showed that the fluid character of the nucleus is determined primarily by chromatin but that the degree of nuclear deformability is set by the lamina. Variations in the physical plasticity of the nucleus may be important for allowing less differentiated cells to move through tissues. -- BAP Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U.S.A. 104, 15619 (2007). Observation of Berry's Phase in a Solid-State QubitPublished Online November 22, 2007 In quantum information science, the phase of a wavefunction plays an important role in encoding information. While most experiments in this field rely on dynamic effects to manipulate this information, an alternative approach is to use geometric phase, which has been argued to have potential fault tolerance. We demonstrate the controlled accumulation of a geometric phase, Berry's phase, in a superconducting qubit, manipulating the qubit geometrically using microwave radiation, and observing the accumulated phase in an interference experiment. We find excellent agreement with Berry's predictions, and also observe a geometry dependent contribution to dephasing. To whom correspondence should be addressed. Government Abandons Current "No Match" Rule Harmful to Legal Workers (11/24/2007) http://www.aclu.org/immigrants/workplace/32870prs20071124.html
Homeland Security Department to Issue Revised Rule Still Relying on Flawed Social Security Database FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE SAN FRANCISCO – The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) abandoned its attempt to enforce its proposed "no match" rule that would improperly use social security records for immigration enforcement. JFK Case Heats Up Forty four years ago they shot JFK
To me that was pure chicken shit and my sense of fair play has been inflamed to this day. Forgive my indulgence but I have attached an audio file of investigations into the JFK murder. Go to my "file" section and under "Public Folders"... Click On: "JFK 44 Years Later". Here you will find more evidence of that case that the government has been hiding from us but thanks to these men and their relentless endeavor. you have the opportunity to inform yourself. The (Audio) is poor guys so play it low or try a high frequency filter to help eliminate that noise.
http://www.jfkmurder.com/ http://www.politicalassassinations.com/ "....if by a liberal they mean someone who looks ahead and not behind, someone who welcomes new ideas without rigid reactions, someone who cares about the welfare of the people- their health, their housing, their schools, their jobs, their civil rights, their civil liberties.. if that is what they mean by a "liberal" then I am proud to be a liberal. ": John F. Kennedy as you listen to the show go to these related links ....Peace.....GANDALF Evidence brings arrests in teen's Aruba disappearance(CNN) -- Authorities have re-arrested three men in connection with the disappearance of an Alabama teenager in Aruba in 2005, based on new evidence in the case, prosecutors announced Wednesday. http://www.cnn.com/2007/WORLD/americas/11/21/holloway.arrest/index.html?eref=googletoolbar 25 MILLION ID's and BANK RECORDS LOST
Former Iranian Airforce General Parviz Jafari vs UFOIran UFO CaseIn 1976, two F-4 jets attempted to chase a UFO in Tehran airspace. The elliptical UFO, which was reported to pulsate with a bluish-white light and... MORE: CLICK the above link for details and go to my public shared folders for the interview with Iranian General Parviz Jafari telling how he tried to shoot it down: as heard on Coast to Coast 11-20-2007. Deadline for Chavez on Farc talks
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