Archive for September, 2007
American Christian Freed
From Chinese Prison After 4 Years
Steve Kim, an American citizen from Huntington, New York, is a free man again.
The businessman, who provided North Korean refugees with food and shelter until they were healthy enough to make it to South Korea, had been imprisoned in China since September 23, 2003.
Kim worked with the support of his home church, Good Neighbor Community Church on Long [...]
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Ted Olson, Top Pick for AG,
Is Lobbyist for Big Pharma
Ted Olson, the leading candidate to replace Alberto Gonzales as attorney general, will have to cut some of his ties if appointed.
Olson is currently registered to lobby Congress on behalf of pharmaceutical company Hoffmann-LaRoche on tariff and patent laws. He is a partner at Gibson Dunn & Crutcher LLP.
But he probably won’t have to give up [...]
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KSM: ‘I Feel Very Sorry
They Been Kids Killed in 9/11′
“When I said I’m not happy that three thousand been killed in America. I feel sorry even. I don’t like to kill children and the kids.”
That’s Khalid Sheikh Muhammad during his combatant status review tribunal. The Pentagon just posted the transcript and the audio of his testimony, which references everything from Henry Kissinger and George [...]
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KSM: ‘I Feel Very Sorry
They Been Kids Killed in 9/11′
“War start from Adam when Cain he killed Abel until now. It’s never gonna stop killing of people.”
That’s Khaild Sheikh Muhammad during his combatant status review tribunal. The Pentagon just posted the transcript and the audio of his testimony.
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Document Dump:
USA vs. Norman Hsu (Criminal Complaint)
Here’s the unsealed complaint in the case of USA vs. Norman Yung Yuen Hsu, the Democratic donor who raised more than $850,000 for Hillary Clinton, charging him with unlawful flight to avoid prosecution. (HSU complaint.pdf)
In the affidavit, FBI special agent Andrew Patrick describes how an individual called the bureau’s office in San Francisco on September [...]
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Studies that Prove the Obvious:
Drunk Hip-Hoppers, High Househeads
This is the first installment in a new feature in which we look at the plethora of superfluous scientific (and pseudo-scientific) studies that prove the obvious, such as the fact that a healthy diet reduces the risk of cancer.
This study, which was funded by the U.S. Department of Justice, examines the drug-crime connection within the [...]
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Did Osama’s Book Club Gets Results?
Chomsky, Scheuer & Todd See Sales Bump
As expected, sales of books by authors name-dropped in Osama Bin Laden’s last speech have improved in the last few days.
Bin Laden praised MIT professor Noam Chomsky:
“This war was entirely unnecessary, as testified to by your own reports. And among the most capable of those from your own side who speak to you on this [...]
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Is There a Cholera Epidemic in Iraq?
Just last week the U.S. military was reassuring reporters that accounts of a cholera epidemic were ”overstated” and added that “the risk of Cholera spreading to Baghdad is reasonably low.” (Sulaymania.pdf)
Well, today the World Health Organization warned that millions of people in northern Iraq are at risk of being exposed to cholera:
“All evidence suggests that transmission [...]
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The Craig Defense: I Was
Compelled to ‘Grasp the Lifeline’
From Idaho Senator Larry Craig’s motion to withdraw his guilty plea to disorderly conduct in a men’s room at Minneapolis Airport:
“While in this state of intense anxiety, Senator Craig felt compelled to grasp the lifeline offered to him by the police officer: namely that if he were to submit to an interview and plead guilty, [...]
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