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She robs, she injects herself with heroin, she seems to kill with almost professional precision – and, as far as German detectives are concerned, she has no identity. The hunt for the woman known as the Phantom of Heilbronn has been stepped up after the discovery of new traces of her DNA in a blood-stained white Ford Escort. “The noose is tightening,” Erwin Hetger, the chief of police in Baden-Württemberg, southwest Germany, said. For 15 years a mysterious woman has been leaving traces of her DNA at crime scenes across Europe, suggesting her involvement in at least six murders and scores of break-ins. Rarely are there witnesses. Instead, police in the countries where she has been roaming – Germany, France and Austria – have had to piece together a profile from saliva left on biscuits nibbled at the site of a murder, a discarded cigarette packet and a spot of blood. She may flit across borders like a ghost but she has been leaving a trail behind her. A human being loses on average four hairs in an hour and sheds a million dead cells in 40 minutes: that forensic scence harvest is all the police have to go on. More Also See: Junkie’s needle may lead to woman serial killer they call the Phantom Germany hunts phantom killer
A new book of photographs by his friend Barry Feinstein takes us behind the scenes during Dylan’s first electric tour of Europe.
Scotland, 1966
In the book, photographer Weinstein writes of his relationship with Dylan: “Bob and I were friends long before we worked together. We hung out and understood each other. When there was something to say we would talk, when there wasn’t we were silent. We were similar in that way, no bulls___.” More
The credit derivative market, which has ballooned to over $62 trillion to dwarf the underlying debt market, has yet to experience the default of significant issuer since its rapid growth. Corporate defaults, however, are on the uptick and expected to accelerate, and the number of companies with credit default swaps trading at distressed levels are also on the rise indicating the market may soon be tested. Some lags in processing credit derivative trades have made regulators and market participants nervous there could be confusion if a large borrower, or even worse a counterparty, failed. More
Scripts, letters, designs, props, photographs – as many as 900 boxes of material belonging to one of the greats of cinema have been made available to a wider audience. Stanley Kubrick’s widow, Christiane, has donated the auteur’s paperwork to the University of the Arts, and the collection, carefully sifted for this Kubrick retrospective by Chris Hastings, gives us a fascinating insight into the public and private worlds of an inspirational film-maker. More
When Bill Jakob, a federal officer specialising in drug enforcement, offered his services to a tiny town in Missouri that was struggling with a wave of methamphetamine use, the local officials couldn’t believe their luck. Here was a man who was the image of the tough but reliable FBI agent - stocky build, close-cropped hair, military boots and trousers and a determination to get results. He came sporting a badge, federal ID and a gun at his side.
He said he would not cost the local community of Gerald a penny - he was a gift from the Drug Enforcement Agency in Washington to help the town clean up its drug problems. As an added incentive, he arrived in town driving an unmarked police car, equipped with siren and police radio, that he promised to leave behind him when the job was done.
There was only one problem: “Sergeant Bill”, as he came quickly to be known by the 1,200 townspeople of Gerald, was not a federal agent, and never had been. He was in fact unemployed, a former truck driver with a criminal record who had fallen into debt and filed for bankruptcy. More
Lt. Gen. Ann E. Dunwoody became the first woman in the United S tates of America History that has been nominated to serve as head of the Army’s supply arm. Dunwoody became the first four Star woman in Defense, received the orders from the President Bush on monday. Dunwoody, a native of New York, was commissioned as a second lieutenant in 1975 after her graduation from the State University of New York in Cortland. She also holds graduate degrees in national resource strategy and logistics management. She became the Army’s top-ranking woman in 2005 when she received her third star and became deputy chief of staff for Army logistics. More
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Casual observers might be excused for thinking of Gore Vidal in posthumous terms. A twilight pall suffused his most recent memoir, “Point-to-Point Navigation,” which described the death of Vidal’s longtime companion even as it ladled out retribution against longtime enemies. Many of those enemies have likewise passed on, and in recent appearances, Vidal has had to squeeze his proud, patrician figure into a wheelchair.
The old lion may be enfeebled, but he still has teeth. Doubters are referred to Deborah Solomon’s recent New York Times Magazine interview, in which Vidal responded to the question “Were you chaste?” with a line that Groucho Marx might have coveted — “Chased by whom?” — and succinctly described his feelings on the death of William F. Buckley: “I thought hell is bound to be a livelier place, as he joins forever those whom he served in life, applauding their prejudices and fanning their hatred. More
Newsweek When business people need a crystal ball, they turn to consultant Laura Day, the ‘intuitionist.’
It’s impossible to objectively judge psychic powers. Are psychics just good listeners who pick up enough clues from their clients to provide seemingly insightful answers? Are they making lucky guesses? “It’s kind of a dirty secret,” Day says of business people who use psychics like herself. She declines to identify most of her clients, and almost all who spoke to NEWSWEEK also requested anonymity out of concern for their reputations.
Day is one of a small but expanding cadre of corporate psychic consultants—the professionalized face of an occupation better known for hokey headscarves and crystal balls. Rebranded as “intuitionists” or “mentalists”—terms more palatable to mainstream America—psychic advisers in recent years have been crossing over into the world of legitimate business, where they are used by decision makers in law, finance and entertainment looking for an edge in a down economy. “I specialize in nonbelievers,” says Day, referring to her roster of “red-meat-eating, Barneys-shopping, Type A personalities.”
For a flat rate of $10,000 a month, Day’s insight is available for rent. She has about five monthly clients at a time, offering them unlimited 24-hour access. She works from her airy Tribeca apartment, fielding calls while juggling domestic life as the mother of a 16-year-old boy, whose friends are often over in packs. The commotion is helpful, she says, allowing her to keep her “rational mind busy” while she picks up on things from “left field.” (Though she admits her teenager can be psychically distracting as well: “I don’t want to see what he did with that girl until 2 a.m.,” she says. “But I can.”) In a typical call early last year, a prominent Wall Street money manager asked whether he should pull out of a risky, multimillion-dollar energy deal or let his money ride. “My gut,” Day recalls saying, “is that you’re not going to get your return.” The money manager listened and yanked his investment, she says, just before the deal nose-dived. More
(CNN) — Lifestyle guru Martha Stewart hopes to return to the United Kingdom as soon as a reported travel ban stemming from her criminal history is “resolved,” the chairman of the company she founded said Friday. The statement was released after British newspapers, led by the Telegraph, reported that she had been refused a visa to enter Great Britain because of her criminal convictions four years ago.
Stewart was scheduled to meet at the Royal Academy with several figures in the fashion and leisure industry, the Telegraph reported. A representative of the British Borders Agency would not comment on Stewart, saying only that “we continue to oppose the entry to the UK of individuals where we believe their presence in the United Kingdom is not conducive to the public good or where they have been found guilty of serious criminal offenses abroad.” More
ZION, Ill. (AP)– A school bus driver and amateur artist from the Chicago suburb of Zion has legally changed his name to “In God We Trust.” A Lake County circuit court judge approved Steve Kreuscher’s (CROY’-shirz) name change petition on Friday. The 57-year-old’s first name was changed to “In God,” while his last name was changed to “We Trust.” He says the new name symbolizes the help God gave him during tough times and says he can’t wait to begin signing his artwork with the new moniker.
Film legend Paul Newman has made a brave public appearance amid reports he is suffering from lung cancer. The 83-year-old cut a frail figure as arrived at fundraising event in Connecticut for his children’s cancer chartiy, The Hole in the Wall Gang.
He mingled with Martha Stewart at the event, with the US domestic doyen posting photographs of the two on her blog. The Butch Cassidy And The Sundance Kid actor has been suffering from ill health for many months and in May was forced to pull out of directing a production of John Steinbeck’s Of Mice And Men, according to reports. More
Holyfield’s $10 million US estate in suburban Atlanta is under foreclosure, the mother of one of his children is suing for unpaid child support, and a Utah consulting company has gone to court claiming the boxer failed to pay for more than half a million dollars for landscaping. A legal notice that ran Wednesday in a small newspaper in Georgia said Holyfield’s estate will be auctioned off “at public outcry to the highest bidder for cash” at the Fayette County courthouse on July 1. More
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For more than five decades, scores of historians and academics had been searching in vain for any clues that would solve one of the untold mysteries of the Second World War: whatever happened to the English Hitler?
After a difficult childhood in England, a spell in Germany before the war, and a tour of duty as a US seaman fighting with the Allies during the war, the burden of his name simply became too much. William Patrick Hitler adopted a double-barrelled surname and dropped out of sight in 1946, creating a new life for himself a world away from the horror of the Holocaust. More
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HAVANA (AP) — Cuba has authorized sex-change operations and will offer them free for qualifying citizens, an official said Friday. The move is the latest in a series of changes implemented by President Raul Castro since he succeeded his elder brother, Fidel, in February. Raul Castro’s daughter, Mariela, heads Cuba’s National Center for Sex Education, which strongly backs the new policy.
Health Minister Jose Ramon Balaguer signed a resolution approving sex-change surgery, said an official at the center who spoke on condition of anonymity because the measure has not been formally published. The resolution will be posted on the Internet on Saturday, the official said. The procedure would be available to Cubans for free as part of their country’s health-care system. More
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FRANCE’S 1960s screen icon Brigitte Bardot has received a 15,000 euros ($24,440) fine today for inciting hatred against Muslims. In December 2006, the film star-turned-animal rights activist wrote a letter to France’s then interior minister, current President Nicolas Sarkozy, arguing that Muslims should stun animals before slaughtering them during the Aid al-Kabir holiday. She outraged anti-racist groups by saying: “I’ve had enough of being led by the nose by this whole population which is destroying us, (and) destroying our country by imposing their ways.” More
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Police say Academy Award-winning actress Tatum O’Neal has been arrested after allegedly buying crack cocaine near her home in Manhattan. Police say the 44-year-old actress was seen making the illicit purchase at about 7:30 last night. She is charged with criminal possession of a controlled substance. O’Neal is the daughter of actor Ryan O’Neal and appears regularly on the cable television series “Rescue Me.” She was the youngest person to win an Oscar — for her role in 1973’s “Paper Moon.” She chronicled her struggles with addiction in her memoir, “A Paper Life.” Police could not say whether she had an attorney. Messages left for a publicist were not returned early today.
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Formula 1 boss Max Mosley has filed suit in Paris against the British newspaper News of the World over its claims about his part in an alleged Nazi-style sex orgy with five London prostitutes. His lawyer, Philippe Ouakrat, said the suit against the paper’s editor, one of its journalists and its publisher News Group Newspapers accused them of violating Mosley’s privacy and libel He said the case could be heard in France because the newspaper is sold there and a video the paper put online of the orgy in March 2008 could be seen there.
Mosley, 68, whose father led the British fascist party in the 1930’s, has vehemently denied any “Nazi” connotation and is pursuing unlimited damages from the Sunday tabloid. The case has been set down for July 2008. He faces an extraordinary hearing of the International Motoring Federation’s general assembly in Paris on June 3, 2008 during which a vote of confidence will be taken.
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SYDNEY, AUSTRALIA — News Corp. boss Rupert Murdoch’s 99-year-old mother beat Australian tax authorities in court Wednesday over a tax bill on an $81-million (U.S.) payment. Dame Elisabeth Murdoch had appealed an Australian Taxation Office order to pay tax on the sum following a 1994 reorganization of family trusts. The quantity of the tax bill was not disclosed.
An administrative court rejected her first appeal, but three Federal Court judges unanimously upheld her appeal Wednesday and agreed that she owed no tax on the sum. The Murdoch matriarch’s husband was the late Sir Keith Murdoch, from whom Rupert Murdoch, the 76-year-old chairman and chief executive officer of a U.S.-based global media empire, inherited his first newspaper.
Photo Siebbi CNN - The 50-year-old actress suggested last week that the devastating May 12 earthquake in China could have been the result of bad karma over the government’s treatment of Tibet. That prompted the founder of one of China’s biggest cinema chains to say his company would not show her films in his theaters, according to a story in The Hollywood Reporter.
Ng See-Yuen, founder of the UME Cineplex chain and the chairman of the Federation of Hong Kong Filmmakers, called Stone’s comments “inappropriate,” adding that actors should not bring personal politics to comments about a natural disaster that has left five million Chinese homeless, according to the Reporter. More
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Much of 11-year-old Hamsa Abdul Khadom’s young life has been punctuated by the sound of car bombs exploding in Iraq. Her 13-year-old brother, Maher, can’t shake the memory of kidnappers ripping their 6-year-old neighbor from his mother’s arms. Their house in Basra was shot at twice, and militants tried to kill their father because of his leadership of a minority religious group.
Now safe in Dallas, the children still don’t understand the war. Maher was about 8 when the war started. The older he gets, the more it confuses him, he said. “I want to understand,” he said. “I’ve heard many things, but I don’t understand.” Hamsa is also at a loss. “I cannot know the war or the reason the war started,” she said. Hamsa said she can’t forget the sounds of explosions about 500 yards away.
“I couldn’t see it, but I could hear car bombs – the mortar, the vibrations. It was a big sound, horrible sound.” Maher was traumatized when he saw his young neighbor abducted two years ago and feared he would suffer the same fate. More
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Jill Bolte Taylor was a neuroscientist working at Harvard’s brain research center when she experienced nirvana. But she did it by having a stroke. On Dec. 10, 1996, Dr. Taylor, then 37, woke up in her apartment near Boston with a piercing pain behind her eye. A blood vessel in her brain had popped. Within minutes, her left lobe — the source of ego, analysis, judgment and context — began to fail her. Oddly, it felt great.
The incessant chatter that normally filled her mind disappeared. Her everyday worries — about a brother with schizophrenia and her high-powered job — untethered themselves from her and slid away. Her perceptions changed, too. She could see that the atoms and molecules making up her body blended with the space around her; the whole world and the creatures in it were all part of the same magnificent field of shimmering energy.
“My perception of physical boundaries was no longer limited to where my skin met air,” she has written in her memoir, “My Stroke of Insight,” which was just published by Viking. More
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Legendary music mogul Lou Pearlman, who created the boy bands Backstreet Boys and ‘N Sync, was sentenced Wednesday to 25 years in prison for stealing more than $300 million from investors.
But Federal Judge G. Kendall Sharp, in Orlando, Fla., said he would reduce the jail time by one month for every $1 million Pearlman returned to the investors.
Pearlman bilked thousands of people out of millions of dollars in an investment scam that went on for decades, authorities said. His victims included “his family, his close friends and people in their 70s and 80s who have lost their life savings,” according to Sharp. Read more
Mark Engler, analyst with Foreign Policy in Focus and author of How to Rule the World: The Coming Battle Over the Global Economy, discusses the disputes between the different factions behind our global empire, the differences in the doctrines of corporate and imperial globalization, the misuse of the term “free-trade” by politicians to describe their mercantilist/fascist policies, how the neocons’ alienating the U.S. from the international organizations has hurt the empire’s domination of the world economy, the IMF/World Bank’s loss of power and influence over the third world, the tension between a state of democracy and empire and the numbers Republican business leaders are now contributing to Democrats over Republicans. Go here
Photo by RinzeWind Investigators revisit rugged Calif. site after tests hint at more graves
Decades after law enforcement raided the ranch where Charles Manson hid following a 1969 killing spree, detectives and scientists are returning to hunt for undiscovered graves.
The dig scheduled to begin Tuesday will be led by sheriff’s officials, with help from specialists in detecting disturbed soils and chemical markers that indicate likely grave sites.
The expedition to the secluded ranch is expected to last through Thursday and will take investigators into the Panamint Mountain range, within Death Valley National Park, where temperatures are forecast to surpass 100 degrees. Read more
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A more recent book is her [Frances Fox Piven is a Canadian-born Professor of Political Science and Sociology at The Graduate Center, City University of New York] 2006-published “Challenging Authority” and subject of this review. It’s about how social movements can be pivotal forces for change because ordinary people in enough numbers have enormous political clout. Abolitionists, labor movements and civil rights activists proved it. Piven examines their collective actions plus one other in the four examples she chose - the American Revolution.
Piven’s book is succinct and masterful. Howard Zinn calls it a “brilliant analysis of the interplay between popular protest and electoral politics.” Canadian Professor Leo Panitch says the book is “theoretically profound, yet immensely readable,” and sociologist and social movements expert Susan Eckstein describes the book as “quintessentially Piven-esque.” It “eloquently (shows) how ordinary people….have taken it upon themselves to correct injustices.”
Piven’s theme is powerfully relevant at a perilous time in our history. The nation is at war on two fronts, a third one looms, constitutional protections have eroded, social services erased, the country is militarized, dissent repressed, and the government is empowered to crush freedom and defend privilege at the expense of beneficial social change it won’t tolerate.
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“It seemed obvious to the ‘ladies’ that there was some big ‘number’ I had just left … ‘Good morning,’ I would say. ‘Good morning,’ they would answer. And then I would get into this long black limousine with its uniformed driver, and we would glide off into the early morning light.” — Barbara Walters, “Audition”
Heather Havrilesky Salon.com
I know I do. And I can only hope that, by compiling complicated analyzes of deeply trivial televised entertainments, I can be like a beacon unto all of the overeducated but ultimately shallow and unfocused young people out there, and encourage them to train their powerful minds not on big, important questions and problems, but on trifles and whimsy. Remember, whippersnappers, if you don’t have the energy to be inspiring and famous and powerful and serious — or the thought of that life makes you want to crawl into bed with a bottle of red wine and a 10-pound brick of chocolate — that doesn’t mean you can’t do something kind of fun and lively and ultimately pointless but reasonably well-paid. Read more
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U.S. Senator Ted Kennedy was airlifted to a Boston hospital Saturday morning after falling ill at the Kennedy compound in Hyannisport, the Cape Cod Times reported. He was first rushed to Cape Cod Hospital, and after being in the emergency room for two hours he was transferred to Massachusetts General Hospital, according to the Times. It’s unknown what the 76-year-old senator’s medical condition is. CNN reports Senator Kennedy had the symptoms of a stroke.
Sam Anderson New York Magazine
At first glance, you might think that everything you need to know about Chris Farley could be written with a dull crayon on the back of a used paper plate—and it essentially was, in the tabloid frenzy following his death: fat, clumsy, loud guy who OD’d like his hero Belushi. Farley’s shtick, as expressed in five seasons of Saturday Night Live and three No. 1 films, was massively simple: He was the fattest of the fat, loudest of the loud, sweatiest of the sweaty, drunkest of the drunk.
His comedy consisted almost exclusively of pratfalls and nudity and shouting. To many, he epitomizes arguably the worst era of SNL: the catchphrase-addicted, innovation-free, post-Myers, pre-Ferrell frat-house nadir of a once-mighty institution. The Farley canon, as he left it when he died in 1997 at age 33, is tiny and tainted: the discordant bellowing of Cindy, his fry-eating Gap Girl; his virtuosically incompetent celebrity interviews on “The Chris Farley Show”; Matt Foley, his supremely unmotivating motivational speaker who lives “in a van down by the river.” Read more
“Esref Armagan is a blind painter of Turkish origin. He was born blind to a poor family in Turkey, and has been drawing or painting since childhood. In 2004, he was the subject of a study of human perception, conducted by the psychologist John Kennedy of University of Toronto”.
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CHICAGO — At just six years old, Emily Bear is an accomplished Pianist and composer. How many six year olds can say they performed at the White House? The little girl from Rockford, Ill., was born to play the piano, and she not only plays, she also composes her own music. “This is all unknown territory for all of us,” Andrea Bear, Emily’s mother, said. “I’ve heard about kids like this–I never thought I’d have one.”
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London, May 15 (ANI): After strapping an 8ft jet-powered wing to his back, a former Swiss fighter pilot became a human rocket man flying at 8,200ft for more than five minutes. Swooping and diving above the mountainous town of Bex in western Switzerland, Yves Rossy is the world’s first man to fly with fitted jet-fuel powered wings strapped to his back, reports the Telegraph. Read more
Ding dong, the DC Madam is dead
Hung from the rafters of her mother’s shed.
Hide under yer covers, Ye Dicks and Ye Johns!
Ye Senators and Prosecutors, Ye Media Cons!
There’s blood on yer hands, though you pretend to be clean,
Ye’ll always be haunted by the Ghost of Deborah Jeane…
The D.C. Madam wasn’t sentenced to death by hanging, but she might as well have been. All of the Johns and Dicks she serviced, including apparently, U.S. V.P. Cheney, covered their guilty dickheads and looked the other way, as police, prosecutors and judges vilified, harassed and condemned her, turning her into a “red meat” sacrifice for the sadistic entertainment of the Religious Right in the Coliseum of the American Media. Read more
“Two days before the quake thousands of toads suddenly decided to move across a bridge in Taizhou. In the city of Mianzhu, 60 miles from the epicentre, bloggers pointed to reports just weeks before the earthquake of a mass migration of more than one million butterflies.” more
Mark Dulyanai Tahoe Daily Tribune
Cal Orey, a South Lake Tahoe author, bases most of her book on the research and findings of “earthquake predictor”/geologist James Berkland. Orey gives us a brief sketch of Berkland from his childhood passion for science to his life as a “renegade geologist.”
Berkland has done many studies that have linked outbreaks of aberrant animal behavior occurring before major earthquakes. Orey documents these studies and their results in a way that is both readable and entertaining. “The Man Who Predicts Earthquakes” also touches on the subject of humans who are “earthquake sensitive,” as well as how other earthbound factors (tidal movements, moon phases, etc.) can also be indicators of incoming earthquakes. Read more
“Berkland claims that he can predict earthquakes with over 75% accuracy by calculating the number of lost pet ads in the newspaper, and observing the lunar-tide cycles. He has been meticulously saving and counting lost pet ads for many years, and he says that the number of missing dogs and cats goes up significantly for as long as two weeks prior to an earthquake.” more
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Internet porn made Greg Lasrado a millionaire. But failed deals and drugs have left him destitute, and now he could face jail, writes Eammon Duff. Five years ago Greg Lasrado drove a $500,000 black Lamborghini Diablo, rubbed shoulders with high-powered people such as US president Bill Clinton, lived between multimillion-dollar penthouses and bought racehorses for fun. Today his sole asset is a rusty ute, he lives in his parents’ spare bedroom and spends most weekends helping his mum with the housework.
During the 1990s, Lasrado went from being a university student drop-out to Australia’s No.1 internet porn tycoon, accumulating a $60million fortune along the way. But an extravagant lifestyle and poor business management sent him on a downward spiral to a broken marriage, heroin addiction and, finally, bankruptcy. Read more
D. B. Cooper (aka “Dan Cooper”) is an alias of an aircraft hijacker who, on November 24, 1971, after receiving a ransom payout of US$200,000, jumped from the back of a Boeing 727 as it was flying over the Pacific Northwest of the United States somewhere over the Cascade Mountains, possibly over Woodland, Washington. No conclusive evidence has surfaced regarding Cooper’s whereabouts; the FBI believes he did not survive the jump. Several theories offer competing explanations of what happened after his famed jump. Three significant clues have turned up in the case. Read more
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Literary agents Marianne Strong and Jason Allen Ashlock are discussing doing a documentary on Palfrey with producer Beverly Camhe, and they have also commissioned legendary biographer C. David Heymann and Gerry Visco to “pen a book looking inside the sex industry, with Palfrey as the touchstone. Perhaps her life won’t have been taken in vain,” Strong told us.
The The Supreme Court said Monday that it cannot intervene in an important dispute over the rights of apartheid victims to sue U.S. corporations in U.S. courts because four of the nine justices had to sit out the case over apparent conflicts. The result is that a lawsuit accusing some prominent companies of violating international law by assisting South Africa’s former apartheid government will go forward.
Apartheid was a system of legal and racial separation that dominated South Africa from 1984 to 1993. The court’s hands were tied by federal laws that require at least six justices to hear any case before them. Short of the required number by one, the court took the only path available to it and upheld an appeals court ruling allowing the suit to proceed.
The justices have ties to Bank of America, Bristol-Myers Squibb, Colgate-Palmolive, Credit Suisse, Exxon Mobil, Hewlett-Packard, IBM and Nestle, among nearly three dozen companies that asked the high court to step in. Read more
Has another name been added to the long list of government-sponsored murders, with possible chief suspects belonging to the Bush-Clinton crime cabal? And, although police Captain Jeffrey P. Young revealed that at least two apparent suicide notes were discovered, suspicions are running high that foul play was involved in Palfrey’s hanging.
For starters, less than 10 percent of all female suicides are by hanging. According to journalist Mick Gregory, “of all female suicides, very few are by hanging. It’s been out of fashion for 100 years.”
What propelled this story into the national headlines was a client list of 10,000 to 15,000 names that included Washington’s political and business elite, including officials from the IMF and World Bank, corporate CEOs, White House and Pentagon employees and lobbyists.
Palfrey’s “little black book” of telephone numbers weighed 46 pounds and had already caused the resignation of Randall L. Tobias, deputy secretary of state to Condoleezza Rice. Others named in these phone logs were Bill Clinton’s former advisor Dick Morris, along with Harlan K. Ullman, the man who came up with “shock and awe.” Read more
