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Lie No. 5: ?The Iraq regime continues to possess and conceal some of the most lethal weapons ever devised.?

The Washington Post article cited above noted that CIA officials were concerned ?about whether administration officials have exaggerated intelligence in a desire to convince the American public and foreign governments that Iraq is violating United Nations prohibitions against chemical, biological, or nuclear weapons and long-range missile systems.? The article quoted ?a senior intelligence analyst? who said the inspectors could not locate weapons caches ?because there may not be much of a stockpile.?

Lie No. 6: ?[Iraq] has aided, trained and harbored terrorists, including operatives of Al Qaeda.?

No one, not even US government, seriously believes there is a significant connection between the Islamic fundamentalists and the secular nationalist Ba?athist regime in Iraq, which have been mortal enemies for decades. The continued assertion of an Al Qaeda-Iraq alliance is a desperate attempt to link Saddam Hussein to the September 11 attacks.

The goal of the Bush administration is to install a US puppet regime in Baghdad, initially taking the form of an American military dictatorship. It is no exaggeration to say that the US government has been the leading promoter of dictatorships around the world, from Pinochet of Chile to Suharto of Indonesia to Saddam Hussein himself, who, according to one recent report, got his political start as an anti-communist hit-man working in a CIA-backed plot to assassinate Iraq?s left-nationalist President Qasem in 1959.

Lie No. 15: ?War has no certainty except the certainty of sacrifice.?

There will be colossal sacrifices for the Iraqi people, and sacrifices in blood and economic well-being for the American people as well. But for Bush?s real constituency, the wealthiest layer at the top of American society, there will be no sacrifices at all. Instead, the administration is seeking a tax cut package of over $700 billion, including the abolition of taxation on corporate dividends. Major US corporations are in line to reap hundreds of millions of dollars in profits from the rebuilding of Iraqi infrastructure shattered by the coming US assault. These include the oil construction firm Halliburton, which Vice President Cheney headed prior to joining the Bush administration, and which continues to include Cheney on its payroll.

Lie No. 16: ?[T]he only way to reduce the harm and duration of war is to apply the full force and might of our military, and we are prepared to do so.?

Every aggressor claims to deplore the suffering of war and seeks to blame the victim for resisting, and thus prolonging the agony. Bush is no different. His hypocritical statements of ?concern? for the Iraqi people cannot disguise the fact that, as many administration apologists freely admit, this is ?a war of choice??deliberately sought by the US government to pursue its strategic agenda in the Middle East.

No one, even in the American military-intelligence complex, seriously believes this. US counter-terrorism officials have repeatedly said that a US conquest and occupation of Iraq, by killing untold thousands of Arabs and Muslims and inflaming public opinion in the Arab world and beyond, will spark more terrorism, not less.

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Monday night?s 15-minute speech by President Bush, setting a 48-hour deadline for war against Iraq, went beyond the usual distortions, half-truths, and appeals to fear and backwardness to include a remarkable number of barefaced, easily refuted lies.

The enormous scale of the lying suggests two political conclusions: the Bush administration is going to war against Iraq with utter contempt for democracy and public opinion, and its war propaganda counts heavily on the support of the American media, which not only fails to challenge the lies, but repeats and reinforces them endlessly.

In a startling turn-around that doesnt bode well for the Republican party, a myriad of corporate executives who backed George Bush in 2004 are now helping Democrats running for president. This according to Michael Janofsky at Bloomberg.com. Janofsky quotes Fred Wertheimer, president of Democracy 21 as saying this,

Morgan Stanleys CEO John Mack, who raised over $200,000 for Bush in 2004, held a fund-raiser for Hillary Clinton in July. Mack said,

When it comes to supporting a political candidate, I have always looked beyond party labels to the person I felt was best for the job and most able to lead the country forward. I personally believe that person is Hillary Clinton.

As such, Britains Times reported Saturday (emphasis added throughout, h/ts Don Surber and Glenn Reynolds):

Rapeseed and maize biodiesels were calculated to produce up to 70 per cent and 50 per cent more greenhouse gases respectively than fossil fuels. The concerns were raised over the levels of emissions of nitrous oxide, which is 296 times more powerful as a greenhouse gas than carbon dioxide. Scientists found that the use of biofuels released twice as much as nitrous oxide as previously realised. The research team found that 3 to 5 per cent of the nitrogen in fertiliser was converted and emitted. In contrast, the figure used by the International Panel on Climate Change, which assesses the extent and impact of man-made global warming, was 2 per cent. The findings illustrated the importance, the researchers said, of ensuring that measures designed to reduce greenhouse-gas emissions are assessed thoroughly before being hailed as a solution.

The decision for war with Iraq was made long ago, the intervening time having been spent in an attempt to create the political climate in which US troops could be deployed for an attack. According to press reports, most recently March 16 in the Baltimore Sun, at one of the first National Security Council meetings of his presidency, months before the terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center and Pentagon, Bush expressed his determination to overthrow Saddam Hussein and his willingness to commit US ground troops to an attack on Iraq for that purpose. All that was required was the appropriate pretext?supplied by September 11, 2001.

How did Bush get elected?

Our nation is billions in debt, to banks all over the world. Our soldiers are dying, every day, in a winless war in a far off foreign land. Our government can?t even respond, adequately, to a national disaster in Lou-isiana.
It seems, the government has plenty of money to spy on the average citizen, in this country, and resents anyone who says that isn?t right.

Have you noticed, this ad-ministration has not had a plurality of support, from the American people, on anything it has done, with the exception of the frenzy that allowed them to make the gigantic blunder of invading Iraq, but they did it anyway?

PARIS (AFP) - From post-coital cannibalism to love at first sight, the sex life of the African jumping spider is full of surprises, according to a new study.

But none is more unexpected than this, say researchers who studied the blood-gorging Evarcha culicivora up close and personal: while virgin females are attracted to meatier mates, a bit of experience sees them switch to smaller partners.

For starters, both males and females play a roughly equal role in choosing partners, an aberration in the eight-legged world of Arachnida.

That equal opportunity behavior extends to two-way cannibalism as well, with males consuming their loved ones only slightly more often as the reverse.

Virgin females, along with both experienced and inexperienced males, were all more than twice as likely to opt for a meatier mate.

But females that had copulated once before saw things differently: two out of three made a bee-line for the smallest male in sight.

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After a while, your brain figures out what?s going on, and increases the number of receptor cells so it has enough for both caffeine and adenosine.

When that happens, caffeine can?t keep you awake anymore ? unless you increase the amount you drink so it can "plug up" the new receptor cells as well.

This whole process only takes about a week. In that time, you essentially become a caffeine addict. Your brain is literally restructuring itself to run on caffeine; take the caffeine away and your brain has too many receptor cells to operate properly.

If you quit ingesting caffeine "cold turkey," your brain begins to reduce the number of receptors right away. But the process takes about two weeks, and during that time your body sends out mild "distress signals" in the form of headaches, lethargy, fatigue, muscle pain, nausea, and sometimes even stillness and flu-like symptoms. As a result, most doctors recommend cutting out caffeine gradually.

Later Christian writers extended the misogynistic themes in the Bible with a vengeance. Tertullian, one of the early church fathers, wrote:

In pain shall you bring forth children, woman, and you shall turn to your husband and he shall rule over you. And do you not know that you are Eve? God?s sentence hangs still over all your sex and His punishment weighs down upon you. You are the devil?s gateway; you are she who first violated the forbidden tree and broke the law of God. It was you who coaxed your way around him whom the devil had not the force to attack. With what ease you shattered that image of God: Man! Because of the death you merited, even the Son of God had to die. . . . Woman, you are the gate to hell.

It?s part of a small but growing movement in the United States to take back death. Led by aging baby boomers, often dealing with the deaths of their parents and facing their own mortality, Americans are slowly relearning what it means to care for their own dead.

A home funeral can encompass a memorial service, wake, viewing or a combination of the three. Its also an intimate experience: Friends or family members might help wash and dress the body, build or decorate a casket, plan a memorial service or accompany the deceased to the burial site or crematory.

Coming full circle
Lisa Carlson, author of ?Caring for the Dead: Your Final Act of Love? and executive director of the Hinesburg, Vt.-based Funeral Ethics Organization, a nonprofit that examines ethical issues facing the funeral industry, views home funerals as an extension of the natural childbirth and hospice movements rediscovered by baby boomers.

Cornell University did a study of 397 search queries to determine eye tracking patterns for Google results. They used undergraduates students to perform searches in areas related to movies, travel, music, politics, local, and trivia. The picture below is a representation of the results they found.

it is the timeless human desire for attention that emerges as the dominant theme of these vast virtual galleries.

Encouragingly, the condemnation from many Democrats was almost as strong as from Republicans. On the left, General Wesley Clark said that General Petraeus would never give a report he did not truly believe. Senator John Kerry, and even San Francisco liberal Nancy Pelosi, criticized the ad.

In his September 18 Washington Post column, Richard Cohen criticized Senator Clinton for missing her chance to be a moderate. He even said it revealed bad character on her part. It?s devastating when a liberal columnist like Mr. Cohen says that the biggest problem with Senator Clinton is whether she has ?the character to be president.?

President Clinton would have condemned this ad.

This is the man she voted to send to Iraq just earlier this year, when everyone was singing his praise. Now she calls him a liar, and defends those who call him a traitor.

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JFK Quotes You Probably Havent Heard

I believe in an America... where no public official either requests or accepts instructions on public policy from the Pope, the National Council of Churches or any other ecclesiastical source

Compare these quotes to some of the gems our illiterate, clamoring ape of a commander in chief has uttered and realize how far we have fallen as a nation.

Please listen to this Webster Tarpley interview,
where he details what is going on and the severity of the issue.
http://archive.wbai.org/files/mp3/070731_150001talkback.MP3

The article below details the little known truth regarding the The Fascist Nazi interests of George W Bushs Grandfather, Prescott Bush, as he and others attempted to overthrow the US government in the 1930s in order to install a fascist dictatorship. This is important in order to understand the true motivations behind The Bush Family and why they need to be stopped.
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OTTAWA (Reuters) - Google Inc is considering a Canadian launch of its Street View map feature, which offers street-level close-ups of city centers, but would blur peoples faces and vehicle license plates to respect tougher Canadian privacy laws, the Web search firm said on Monday.

Canadas privacy commissioner told Google in August that the feature -- which offers a series of panoramic, 360-degree images of nine U.S. cities -- could violate Canadian laws if it were introduced without alterations.

Some of the pictures feature people who can clearly be identified, which contravenes Canadian legislation on privacy.

"We are thinking about launching it outside the United States, including Canada, and were looking at how it would have to be different in Canada compared to its U.S. version," said Peter Fleischer, Googles global privacy counsel.

Hour-per-hour in the saddle, more riders are seriously injured riding horses than motorcycles.

That is the surprising revelation of a new study from researchers at the University of Calgary.

Equally surprising is that those being hurt and killed are not rookie equestrians but, in large part, veteran riders.

"If youre 47 years old, a good experienced rider and its sunny out, you can still get seriously hurt or die," said Rob Mulloy, an assistant professor at the University of Calgary and co-author of the study.

The reason this happens, he said, is that "horses are independent beings with their own agenda." Not to mention that horses weigh up to 500 kilograms, move at a speed of up to 65 kilometres an hour, elevate riders up to three metres above ground and kick with a force of nearly one ton.

The research, published in the American Journal of Surgery, is based on a decade of trauma data collected at Foothills Medical Centre in Calgary.

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The germ: Salmonella, best known as a culprit of food poisoning. The trip: Space Shuttle STS-115, September 2006. The reason: Scientists wanted to see how space travel affects germs, so they took some along ? carefully wrapped ? for the ride. The result: Mice fed the space germs were three times more likely to get sick and died quicker than others fed identical germs that had remained behind on Earth.

"Wherever humans go, microbes go, you cant sterilize humans. Wherever we go, under the oceans or orbiting the earth, the microbes go with us, and its important that we understand ... how theyre going to change," explained Cheryl Nickerson, an associate professor at the Center for Infectious Diseases and Vaccinology at Arizona State University.

A flier sent home this month in the backpacks of 2,000 Madison elementary students carried an unmistakably religious pitch: "Plant the Seeds of Faith in Jesus in Your Child at our Sunday school."

The Madison-based Freedom From Religion Foundation on Tuesday called upon the Madison School District to ban distribution of such fliers, saying "the district should not act as a PR machine for nonschool enterprises."

However, schools Superintendent Art Rainwater defended the district?s policy, which permits organizations to send a wide range of fliers home with students.

The School Board, he said, intended to create "a limited public forum" when it devised the policy in the early 1990s and updated it in 2003.

"We believe our policy for distribution of materials is appropriate," Rainwater said. "And we stand by it."

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Deep-Voiced Men Have More Kids

If you want to have lots of kids, look for a Barry White instead of a Justin Timberlake. Men with a deep voices have more offspring, a new study suggests.

Previous studies conducted by David Feinberg of McMaster University in Canada have shown that women are more attracted to men with deeper voices, judging them to be older, healthier and more masculine than their higher-pitched rivals.

Men, on the other hand, go for women with higher pitched voices because they find them more attractive, subordinate, feminine, healthier and younger-sounding.

Dear MoveOn member,

Yesterday, an amazing thing happened. After the Senates shameful vote, and after President Bush called MoveOn "disgusting," our email started to fill up with messages like this one:

Im currently in Iraq. I do not agree with this war, and if I did support this war, it would not matter. You have the RIGHT to speak the truth. We KNOW that you support us. Thank you for speaking out for being our voice. We do not have a voice. We are overshooted by those who say that we soldiers do not support organizations like MoveOn. WE DO.

YOU ARE OUR voice.

Fragments of a cassock worn by Pope John Paul II are being offered for sale to the faithful, causing concern in the Vatican over the resurgence in the veneration of relics.

Devotees of John Paul can apply via e-mail, fax or post for fragments of a white cassock to augment their prayers. A cassock worn by John Paul has reportedly been cut into 100,000 pieces to satisfy demand.

The scheme is run by the Vicariate of Rome, which is promoting sainthood for John Paul. The faithful also receive a ?holy card? with a prayer to ?obtain graces through the intercession of John Paul II?.

MoveOn?s Executive Director Eli Pariser joined David Shuster ?filling in for Tucker Carlson? to discuss MoveOn?s factual Petraeus ad last week and the giant distraction non-binding resolution passed yesterday in the Senate condemning it. Shuster is a little tough with Eli, but his resolve was never shaken. The farcical resolution was nothing more than a political stunt by Republicans to distract from the content of the ad (and pathetically fallen for by some 20 Democrats) and was, as Eli points out, an ?inside the Beltway? issue.

Pariser also brings up the fact that it?s ridiculous to think that while our soldiers are dying in Iraq our Senate is debating a newspaper ad ? and ten days later the polls show the country moving with MoveOn?s direction against the war, not against MoveOn. Is it any wonder for the Democrats that going along with these kinds of gutless stunts has managed to do little more than bring record low approval ratings for Congress?

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Reason to visit: Gargantuan radio telescpope

Location: Brentwood School, Essex, UK
Reason to visit: Douglas Adams school

Location: Kennedy Space Center, Florida, USA
Reason to visit: Because its a bloody spaceport 

Location: Bletchley Park, Buckinghamshire, UK
Reason to visit: German Enigma code was cracked here during WWII

Location: 2066 Crist Drive, Los Altos, California
Reason to visit: Apple hand-built its first computers in this houses garage

Location: Arecibo Observatory, Puerto Rico
Reason to visit: Worlds largest radio telescope

Location: CERN, Geneva, Switzerland
Reason to visit: World Wide Web was created here, among other things

Location: Akihabara, Tokyo, Japan
Reason to visit: Awesomely geeky Japanese shopping district 

Location: Chernobyl, Ukraine
Reason to visit: Abandoned radioactive city

Location: Einsteins old flat, Bern, Switzerland
Reason to visit: The dude corrected Newton, come on! 

The stigma of solar only as one of many solutions needed to satisfy our energy needs may not be true. David Mills, chairman and chief scientific officer of solar company Ausra, presented a paper at the International Solar Energy Society conference saying that solar thermal plants could indeed solve all of our energy problems.

Tip of the Iceberg

A new study of a skeleton of a member of a race of three-foot-tall ?hobbits? who lived 12,000 years ago in Indonesia shows that they were a species of human?and that the evolutionary path to Homo sapiens has been tortuous indeed.

failed attempt by one alternative energy company has not stopped efforts to bring wind farms to the Hill Country.

A West Texas-based company has approached landowners in Llano and Gillespie counties, and yet another wind power company has approached a landowner in Mason County.

Despite the promise of alternative energy, coming to Central Texas has not been much of a breeze for this industry.

A top homeland security lawmaker has called for an investigation into possible cyber attacks on computer systems at the Homeland Security Department.

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If a car travels at 1,000mph with its headlights turned on, does the light travel faster?

There may never be a campaign to save the Puget Sound ratfish; no one really loves the ugly fish with rodent-like front teeth. But when a rare albino ratfish was found during a marine survey this past summer, scientists decided it was time to educate the public about the most abundant fish in local waters.

The cartilaginous cousin of skates and rays is usually brown or black with white spots so it can blend in with the bottom of the sound, where it uses its rat-like teeth to crush clams, crabs and worms scooped up from the sand and mud.

"This animal would just stand out like a beacon," says UW fisheries professor Ted Pietsch. "I dont know why it wasnt eaten long before."

The Secret World of Food Coloring

many popular colors are made, in part, from coal tar -- a substance that causes cancer in rats. Some of these colors have actually been banned by countries in the European Union. I was also reminded of the urban legend surrounding Mountain Dew, which derives its unnatural hue from Yellow No. 5: no, it doesnt shrink mens testicles and wither their sperm, but some researchers have linked it to childhood attention disorders.

Ah, chemicals. Who knew that eating a bag of Skittles was such a daring thing to do?

The New Light of Myanmar newspaper quoted Religious Affairs Minister Brig. Gen. Thura Myint Maung as saying that protests by monks had also spread to cities like Mandalay, Hinthada and Monywa in seven of the country?s 14 states and divisions.

The minister was quoted by the newspaper as saying these ?destructive elements? included the political party led by the pro-democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi, who is being held under house arrest, remnants of the now-defunct communist party and some foreign radio stations.

Setting out in the morning from Shwedagon Pagoda, a crowd estimated by The Associated Press to be as large as 100,000 marched unopposed in separate columns through the city. Other protests were reported in Mandalay, Sittwe and Bago. Monks and their supporters have also marched in other cities in recent days.

"This is important because there are always two parents and fathers should have a say in the birth or the destruction of that child," said Adams, a Republican from Sidney. "I didnt bring it up to draw attention to myself or to be controversial. In most cases, when a child is born the father has financial responsibility for that child, so he should have a say."

Claiming to not know the fathers identity is not a viable excuse, according to the proposed legislation. Simply put: no father means no abortion.

With the proposal, men would be guaranteed that voice under penalty of law. First time violators would by tried for abortion fraud, a first degree misdemeanor. The same would be the case for men who falsely claim to be fathers and for medical workers who knowingly perform an abortion without paternal consent.

In addition, women would be required to present a police report in order to prove a pregnancy is the result of rape or incest.

Tens of thousands of Buddhist monks defied orders from the military junta to stay out of politics, relaunching mass protests Tuesday in the countrys two biggest cities.

The monks, cheered on by supporters, marched out for an eighth day of peaceful protest from Yangons soaring Shwedagon Pagoda, while some 700 others staged a similar show of defiance in the countrys second largest city of Mandalay.

and as pro-junta supporters in pickup trucks cruised Yangon warning that large crowds were illegal.

Columbia University Shows True American Values

Columbia University, by inviting Iran?s President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad to speak, has shown confidence in the wisdom and adultness of their students and our republic.

Ahmadinejad is the president of a major nation in a vital part of the world, and we should have enough self-assurance and belief in our own system of government, and in the intelligence of our college students, that we can let them (and our larger public) evaluate his words, whatever they may be.

To be terrified of his speaking there (or, for that matter, laying a wreath at Ground Zero) is behavior one would have expected from a fragile régime like Khrushchev?s USSR or Burma?s military junta, not the bold, brave, and fearless USA.

"Im going to try to see if I can remember as much to make it sound like Im smart on the subject."?answering a question concerning a possible flu pandemic, Cleveland, July 10, 2007

Click here to see video of Bushs comments. The Bushism is at 1:02:50.

"Amnesty means that youve got to pay a price for having been here illegally, and this bill does that."?discussing an immigration reform bill, Washington, D.C., June 26, 2007

Click here to see video of Bushs comments. The Bushism is at 6:22.

"We understand the fright that can come when youre worried about a rocket landing on top of your home."?Washington, D.C., May 17, 2007

Click here to hear audio of Bushs comments. The Bushism is at 3:41.

"Forms of government matter, in my opinion. It matters how?the nature of the government in which people live."?Tipp City, Ohio, April 19, 2007

Click here to see video of Bushs comments. The Bushism is at 12:08.

Democracy in retreat around the world

Rupert Murdochs MySpace has been caught in another act of alternative media censorship after it was revealed that bulletin posts containing links to Prison Planet.com were being hijacked and forwarded to MySpaces home page.

Paul Joseph Watson
Prison Planet
Tuesday, September 25, 2007

Rupert Murdochs MySpace has been caught in another act of alternative media censorship after it was revealed that bulletin posts containing links to Prison Planet.com were being hijacked and forwarded to MySpaces home page. MySpace has placed Prison Planet on a list of blocked websites supposedly reserved for spam, phishing scams or virus trojans.

It has been apparent for at least two weeks that all bulletin posts containing links to Prison Planet were being censored but we decided to wait and see if it was just a technical error before drawing any attention to the problem.

Now there is little doubt that MySpace has deliberately filtered out Prison Planet, preventing anyone from accessing the site via the social networking giant.

"I hope I am not the victim of a hate crime while I sleep tonight. I do not want to die for my country this way," wrote Hall, who said a non-commissioned officer was threatening to beat him. "Im doing my best right now. But I am still afraid that I might be harmed or worse."

And he is reaching out to the public to try to give the laptop campaign a boost. The marketing program, to be announced Monday, is called "Give 1 Get 1," in which Americans and Canadians can buy two laptops for $399.

One of the machines will be given to a child in a developing nation, and the other one will be shipped to the purchaser by Christmas. The donated computer is a tax-deductible charitable contribution. The program will run for two weeks, with orders accepted from Nov. 12 to Nov. 26.

The machines have high-resolution screens, cameras and peer-to-peer technology so the laptops can communicate wirelessly with one another. The machine runs on free, open source software. "Everything in the machine is open to the hacker, so people can poke at it, change it and make it their own," said Bender, a computer researcher. "Part of what were doing here is broadening the community of users, broadening the base of ideas and contributions, and that will be tremendously valuable."

Lies are incompatible with the truth of mankind and with the objectives that the divine lord has given us for humanity. Lies are an incorrect reflection of the reality and a reflection of those behavior of the liars and the way they think.

Lies have nothing to do with the divine spirit of mankind. Lies deviate thoughts and lead to judgments that weaken the truth and deviate mans path.

Therefore, lies and deceits are in fact a form of oppressing mankind.

We are all against that form of oppression, of oppression of all sorts.

Army snipers hunting insurgents in Iraq were under orders to "bait" their targets with suspicious materials, such as detonation cords, and then kill whoever picked up the items, according to the defense attorney for a soldier accused of planting evidence on an Iraqi he killed. Gary Myers, an attorney for Sgt. Evan Vela, said Monday his client had acted "pursuant to orders."

HASHI PUZZLES

Rules

Each circle represents an island and the number in each island tells how many bridges are connected to it. The object is to connect between islands according to the number of bridges so that there are no more than two bridges in the same direction and there is a continuous path connecting all islands together. Bridges can only be vertical or horizontal and are not allowed to cross islands or other bridges.

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Hashi Solution

But despite becoming the star of the television series Make Me A Supermodel, Jen Hunter, 24, has been forced out of her modelling contract - for being too large.

Miss Hunter, a divorcee, was shocked by judges, including model Rachel Hunter, who described her as "fat, lazy and greedy" while competing in the 2006 reality show.

"I just didnt feel comfortable so I decided to change to Excel Models which is a plus size agency."

But her decision to quit to seek employment with plus-size agencies highlights the need for a radical shake-up in the fashion industry.

NEW YORK (CNNMoney.com) -- The United Auto Workers union launched a nationwide strike against General Motors on Monday as 73,000 UAW members walked off the job and hit the picket lines at the nations largest automaker.

UAW President Ron Gettelfinger blasted GM management, saying that the company had not been willing to meet the union part way in negotiations.

Apple To iPhone Hackers: Dont Bother

Says Handsets Unlocked For Other Carriers May Not Work After Next Software Update

Power producer NRG Energy Inc. will submit the first application for a new nuclear reactor in the U.S. in nearly 30 years, the companys chief executive said Monday.

Nuclear regulators expect Tuesday morning to receive NRGs application for two new units at its facility in Bay City,Texas, about 90 miles southwest of Houston. It will be the first complete construction and operating license submission the government has processed since before the Three Mile Island accident in Pennsylvania in 1979.

Crane would not say how far into the 42-month government review process NRG will go before making a final decision on whether to build the reactors. But he said the company already has ordered steel forgings, built exclusively in Japan, that are needed for a new plant.

Ahmadinejad speaks; outrage and controversy follow

NEW YORK (CNN) -- Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad on Monday challenged a university audience to look into "who was truly involved" in the September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks, defended his right to question established Holocaust history and denied there were gay Iranians.

Ahmadinejad is in New York to address the United Nations General Assembly on Tuesday. He spoke at the invitation of Columbias president, Lee Bollinger, who in his introduction excoriated the leader by saying he "exhibit[s] all the signs of a petty and cruel dictator."

Blaming his schedule, Ahmadinejad left Columbia after his speech before answering many questions posed to him, Bollinger said.

I accuse you, Mr. Bush, of lying this country into war. I accuse you of fabricating in the minds of your own people a false implied link between Saddam Hussein and 9/11. I accuse you of firing the generals who told you that the plans for Iraq were disastrously insufficient.... I accuse you of subverting the Constitution, not in some misguided but sincerely motivated struggle to combat terrorists, but to stifle dissent. I accuse you of fomenting fear among your own people, of creating the very terror you claim to have fought. I accuse you of exploiting that unreasoning fear, the natural fear of your own people who just want to live their lives in peace, as a political tool to slander your critics and libel your opponents. I accuse you of handing part of this Republic over to a Vice President who is without conscience and letting him run roughshod over it ...

Scientists Invent Gum That Wont Stick to Your Shoe

Stepping in gum on the sidewalk wont be such a sticky situation anymore?scientists have invented nonstick gum.

Clean Gum, as it is called, supposedly can be easily removed from shoes and pavement (as well as from hair, skin, and clothes). So walk down the street without fear of ruining your favorite shoes.

Results from preliminary tests, announced today at the annual BA Festival of Science held at the University of York, UK, also indicate that the gum will degrade naturally in water.

"The advantage of our Clean Gum is that it has great taste, it is easy to remove and has the potential to be environmentally degradable," said Terence Cosgrove of the University of Bristol in England and a scientist for the company, Revolymer, that created the gum.

A report from security software provider Secunina APS indicates that the Ask.com Toolbar version 4.0.2 for Internet Explorer has a potentially serious vulnerability. According to the report, the flaw could potentially allow an attacker to take control of someone?s computer though an Active X control. According to the report:

?The vulnerability is caused due to a boundary error in the AskJeevesToolBar.SettingsPlugin.1 ActiveX control (askBar.dll) when handling the ?ShortFormat? property. This can be exploited to cause a stack-based buffer overflow by assigning an overly long (greater than 500 bytes) string to the affected property.?

500 Billion Tons of Prehistoric Organic Matter May Massively Accelerate ?Global Warming?

"This will lead to a type of global warming which will be impossible to stop," he said.

"Permafrost thawing results in the release of this carbon in the form of greenhouse gases which will have a positive feedback effect to global warming."

To:  The Greek Parliament,The United Nations,The European Union

I would like you to consider how much damage a fire makes,so everyone will understand and agree with the purpose of this petition.Hundreds of fires the moment we speak destroy our forests and animals that live there.This happens all around the world but this petition is made especially for Greece.Whoever lives in Greece surely knows what has happened the last days.A major number of fires destroyed so many forests which are our last sources of oxygen,but not everyone is responsible for this.So why should they suffer just because of others who do this surely with purpose?Please I ask every single one who reads this petition,no matter from which country he is,to help us DO something about it and give our planet a chance!I hope this petition will be taken into consideration from the competent and help save our forests from elimination.

Sincerely,

The Undersigned

The Brazilian Government has announced that it will spend more than $300 million over the next three years to create new reservations for indigenous groups and bring water and electricity to isolated areas in the Amazon.

According to the most recent census, Brazil has an indigenous population of about 730,000 Indians belonging to more than 200 different ethnic groups.

All together they speak some 180 languages, and many live in the hundreds of reservations which already cover more than 12 per cent of the country.

More than $270 million will be spent over the next three years setting the boundaries of 127 indigenous territories.

The money will also help to compensate and resettle families of 9,000 rural workers occupying those lands.

US authorities have announced a recall of one million cribs made in China after at least two babies became trapped and died, and more than 60 other incidents were reported.

The recall of Simplicity Inc. cots was the latest to hit Chinese-made consumer products, after the large-scale recalls of millions of Mattel toys found to contain lead paint or dangerous parts.

The US Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC) said it was recalling older-style Simplicity cots because the drop-side could became detached, creating a gap which could either trap or suffocate a child.

A nine-month-old baby and a six-month-old were known to have died when the drop-side of their cots were installed upside down and collapsed, the commission said in a statement.

The commission was also investigating the death of a one-year-old in a newer Simplicity crib in which the drop-side was installed upside down.

BAGHDAD -- Iraqi investigators have a videotape that shows Blackwater USA guards opened fire against civilians without provocation in an incident last week in which 11 people died, a senior Iraqi official said Saturday. He said the case had been referred to the Iraqi judiciary.

Iraqs president, meanwhile, demanded that the Americans release an Iranian arrested this week on suspicion of smuggling weapons to Shiite militias. The demand adds new strains to U.S.-Iraqi relations only days before a meeting between President Bush and Iraqs Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki.

Interior Ministry spokesman Maj. Gen. Abdul-Karim Khalaf said Iraqi authorities had completed an investigation into the Sept. 20 shooting in Nisoor Square in western Baghdad and concluded that Blackwater guards were responsible for the deaths.

IT IS one of the biggest stories in years, regularly topping the lists of most-read articles on newspaper websites. Put it on page one and sales soar by 30,000, one tabloid editor says. At the top of its website, between the categories UK News and World News, Sky News lists the subject simply as Madeleine.

Nearly five months since her disappearance, we still do not know the fate of British girl Madeleine McCann. But we have learnt a few things about the media and their relationship with the public ? not simply the mainstream media, but the online world of websites, bloggers and instant public feedback. The old and new media have not just reported the McCann story. They have changed it.

Doug?s Darkworld

Ahmadinejad denied he had questioned the existence of the Holocaust.

He said the Holocaust has been abused as a justification for Israeli mistreatment of the Palestinians.

Asked why he had asked to visit the World Trade Center site ? a request denied by New York authorities ? Ahmadinejad said he wanted to express sympathy for the victims of the Sept. 11 attacks.

"If the root causes of 9/11 are examined properly ? why it happened, what caused it, what were the conditions that led to it, who truly was involved, who was really involved ? and put it all together to understand how to prevent the crisis in Iraq, fix the problem in Afghanistan and Iraq combined," Ahmadinejad said.

President Bush said Ahmadinejads appearance at Columbia "speaks volumes about, really, the greatness of America."