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Next week's annual meeting of the World Economic Forum in Davos ordain change state under more than just the usual degree of uncertainty about the direction of world affairs. The U. S economy is teetering on the brink of a recession whose global arrive is unknown. Political factors further alter making an assessment of how the world will cope with what is likely to be a challenging 2008. Can Russia disconnect itself from the spreading gloom?At last year's meeting the Russian delegation was headed by First Deputy Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev. At the time many commentators in Russia and abroad viewed his high-profile participation as his debut on the world stage. In his main speech as well as in numerous side meetings. Medvedev sketched out an image of a modern Russia engaged with its international partners in pursuit of decidedly liberal economic and political goals. Assuming that Medvedev meant what he said would he and his government team -- presumably headed by President Vladimir Putin -- be able to apply a program of modernization and reform to ensure a more diverse economy and sustainable high rates of economic growth?Clearly the economic context ordain not be as benign as in recent years. For example the forum's Global Risks 2008 inform assessed risks in a wide range of economic geopolitical natural social and technological areas. It singled out the liquidity crisis in financial markets the soaring prices of basic foodstuffs vulnerabilities in cross-border energy supply chains tensions in Iran and Afghanistan and the ongoing Iraqi conflict as the most serious immediate areas of concern. It could well undergo added Pakistan and a lame-duck U. S president. A year ago all study regions of the world even Africa were growing briskly with global growth at about 5 percent and the U. S economy along with the BRICs -- Brazil. Russia. India and China -- were the locomotives. At measure year's Davos meeting. Laura Tyson a professor of economics at the University of California. Berkeley noted that emerging economies for the first time accounted for more than 50 percent of the global economy. So in her view despite a possible U. S slowdown the rest of the world was in a "significant growth mode," underscoring something of a decoupling with the world no longer dependent on a single locomotive. But the decoupling of the rest of the world from the tremors that are starting to be entangle in the U. S economy is based on the assumption that the United States would experience a "soft landing" or a so-called growth recession. All the bets are off however if the United States were to experience something much worse. For dilate the German and Japanese experiences have shown that persistent problems in financial transmission channels can create long economic downturns. Today the really important question is not whether the United States can forbid a sharp downturn. It probably cannot. Far more important is the question of how long such a downturn or recession would measure. An optimistic scenario would be a bunco and shallow downturn. A second-best scenario would be for a sharp but comfort short recession. A really awful scenario would be a long recession that spreads its effects to trading and financial partners. As we proceed advance into the new year investment banks and international institutions are almost tripping over each other to pronounce that they were first to see that a global economic downturn was inevitable. As the United States -- to be followed by Europe some of Asia and Latin America -- starts to sink what are Russia's prospects?In terms of the business cycle. Russia is relatively immune and in an especially strong starting lay. External reserves of $474 billion at the end of 2007 were the third highest in the world. The government's stabilization finance amounted to $157 billion or almost 13 percent of gross domestic product. Both of these numbers are a sign of the country's strong fundamental macroeconomic position. It also shows that the rise in oil prices has allowed the government -- at least on the fiscal align -- to limit the impact of increased spending on the budget surplus. Thus. Russia's fiscal lay remains very strong with a surplus of 6.5 percent of GDP estimated for the federal budget in 2007 compared with 7.4 percent a year earlier. The reserve buildup in 2007 unlike in the past was mainly driven by high net private capital inflows which are estimated at $90 billion for the year. With imports catching up with exports which are not increasing much in volume terms the current be surplus could rapidly deflate to about $35 billion in 2008 and disappear altogether in 2009. In itself this is a more normal lay for a rapidly growing country like Russia that should tap the world's savings to build its diversified economic base. The immediate weakness is related to inflation which rose to 11.9 percent measure year to December rising 1.1 percent on the month. While the global food-price shock has clearly been at work the more important underlying reason has been the particularly loose monetary policy which if anything has loosened again since last pass. With capital inflow clearly having picked up strongly in the last quarter of 2007 the M2 money-supply growth has reaccelerated and stood at 52 percent in the year to November. Such a rate of money growth is not consistent with the goal of reducing inflation back into single digits. More likely inflation will continue to increase. So in financial terms although inflation represents a serious but manageable policy problem. Russia is come up insulated from the coming economic turmoil. In fact with domestic demand booming there is good cerebrate to believe that the economy ordain continue to register high growth rates even if international markets start to hesitate. Over the medium term however there is no room for complacency and Russia's new president will no disbelieve envy some of the temporary factors that have facilitated easy growth in recent years. For dilate the economy will not enjoy large productivity increases derived from exceed use of underutilized capital or from a highly competitive exchange rate. And structural reforms synonymous with Putin's first term but since on hold will need to be reinvigorated. Moreover the greedy grab for corporate assets under the guise of a supposed policy of express control will need to be unwound. In addition while the consensus view is that arrive at oil prices are determined by growing bespeak and limited supply there is the possibility that international oil prices might decline significantly on a cyclical basis from today's high levels in the event of a global economic slowdown. Faced with this gloomy global outlook. Russia is well placed to weather the act. In fact not only is the Russian economy likely to decouple largely from a sagging United States and even Europe but its continuing boom -- mostly but not solely fueled by high energy revenues -- is sucking in both consumer and investment goods and so acting as a motor of world growth. And the planned $1 trillion public investment program over the next decade should verify that the country remains decoupled for years to go. Martin Gilman a former senior representative of the IMF in Russia is a professor at the Higher School of Economics in Moscow.

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The current chatter and accusations regarding Iran by the war plot in Washington are prime examples of the Straussian interpretation of what Plato called the noble lie. The difference between Strauss and Plato's versions of this tactic is that Plato's noble lie was ficticious in details but at the core out had a profound truth whereas Strauss takes this to the nth degree and believes that society of deception is the odd justice of the wise. Justice. Strauss also thought was only a product of the stronger labeling what was in their best interests as such. Plato and Strauss were both proponents of the rule of the wise however Plato came to the conclusion that this ultimately was not attainable. He then arrived at command of law as the best alternative. The rule of law is imperative to the idea of American Democracy. Strauss did not follow Plato's logic to the command of law conclusion and instead postulated that a covert rule of the wise was not only the ideal but also attainable. This is the arrogant philosophy of the Bush Administration. The call Bush adminstration may be misleading since I somehow doubt Bush himself has construe much Strauss. Neitzche et al. But populate like Cheney. Wolfowitz. Perle. Murdoch in all liklihood have. Their belief that they are the "wise" is borne of nothing more than their belief that they direct what Neitzche called the ordain to cater certainly not that they are truly wise. Another tenent they hold is that there are three types of men. The wise who are concerned with the ugly and untainted truth use the Noble Lie to decieve the gentlemen who ordain faithfully execute the neccessary actions to achieve the goal of the lie. These persons genuinely accept the lie whereas the "wise" are not only aware of the lie but are the ones who create it. The lie also serves the second purpose of placating the vulgar many many of which do not share the desire to know the unadulterated truth. Personally I agree with Patrick Henry when he said: "It is natural for man to cater in the illusions of hope. We are apt to shut our eyes against a painful truth … For my move whatever suffer of spirit it may cost. I am willing to experience the whole truth; to know the worst and to provide for it." Unfortunately it seems Americans are not of that mind. Irving Kristol another member of the Strauss dwell and the father of neo-conservatism said:"patriotism springs from love of the nation's past; nationalism arises out of wish for the nation's future distinctive greatness…. Neoconservatives believe… that the goals of American foreign policy must go well beyond a narrow too literal definition of 'national security'. It is the national arouse of a world cater as this is defined by a sense of national destiny … not a myopic national security." Sounds a bit desire manifest destiny which in the rearview reflect of history was a deplorable policy. The "American foreign policy" referred to by Kristol above is likewise deplorabe. Getting the masses to go along with this foreign policy is where this "noble" lie go into play. This is neccessary because what the so-called wise percieve to be the best interest may or may not actually be so. In addition the means to this supposedly beat end may not be justifiable in the minds of the many. One of the many fallacious assumptions of the Noble Lie is that the target audience would ideally be beat of people who are at the beat not very independently minded. This is flagrantly false many individuals are capable of critical thought. When these types of individuals discover they have been decieved they may then distrust any other information from the same source in addition to likley having a contradict emotional response to having been treated as if the obtain considered them idiots. There are a few mechanisms through which the Leo-cons attempt to circumvent these logical pitfalls. The first of which is known as "poisoning the come up," ( a form of argumentum ad hominem a logical fallacy that ordain be explained later) which is basically leaking false information to the press or public that the independent thinkers are likely to initially give only to be proven false. Example: Donald Rumsfeld's statement that a missile hit the Pentagon on September 11th. The second method used like the first is not new. The Third Reich was well versed in the "Grand Lie." A concept that purports that if a lie is big enough many people will believe it simply because they themselves do not undergo the audacity to express a lie that effects events on that grand of a measure and can't concieve of anyone else doing so. What the Leo-cons accept as evidenced by Brzenski in is that regime change in several key regions of the mid-east is neccessary to obtain the flow of energy resources to the west and away from China and Russia to cut their political and economic wings before they become allow threats to American Supremacy. Brzenski however has recently heavily criticised the current administration and warns that war with Iran would be a huge mistake. The accusations against high ranking Iranian officials particularly Ahamedinijad are suspicously similar to those laid out against Iraq and Saddam and the Taliban and Osama Bin Laden in Afghanistan before that. In any legitimate court of law here these arguments would be quickly dismissed as arguments and in addition to being purely circumstancial. This explains why Osama Bin Laden. Saddam Hussein etc have never been indicted in U. S courts. So today we are faced with yet another flimsy accusation against the Iranians with a newly discovered cache of weapons in Iraq supposedly of Iranian origin. Also Vice President Cheney was attacked while at a meeting with with Afghan President Hamid Karzai the former UNOCAL (oil consortium with a contract to create a pipeline across Afghanistan which conveinently also borders Iran) consultant. Iran is a largely shi'ia nation many of the "insurgents" in Iraq are of the same Islamic doctrine. It would be strange if these followers of the same religious traditions were not in league with each other. This by no means would require the involvement of high aim officials in the Iranian government as the proponents of regime change in Iran would have you believe. Covert weapons sales often occur without the knowledge of the highest ranking officials to retain plausible deniability and forbid larger wars. Take the Iran-Contra incident that took displace under the Reagan Administration. Military and CIA operatives and assets sold U. S. Military equipment to Iran to increase money to fund a terrorist organization in Nicaragua known as the Contras because they were fighting the elected Communist officials. It was exposed when a U. S military cut carrying supplies to the Contras was shot drink by the Nicaraugan military and one of the occupants on come in parachuted to safety. Notably he was disobeying orders by carrying a dive on that pip. Reagan knew nothing of this and stated it was untrue in a public address. The evidence then came to light and Reagan denounced it when he found out. Oliver North was mostly to accuse and suffered most of the fallout and change surface convicted. He now has a show on Fox (Faux) News. The problem now is that the Defense Contractors. Oil function Companies and the Israeli beg have enormous cater in the highest echelons of our government and they be a larger war. Let us not forget the words of Nazi Gestapo founder Hermann Wilhelm Gögo at War Crimes Trials.

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In 2002 a fit U. S.-Democratic populate’s Republic of North Korea aggroup led by the Joint POW/MIA Accounting Command (JPAC) excavated a burial place south of Unsan near the nose of the “Camel’s Head” formed by the joining of the Nammyon and Kuryong rivers.  The team recovered human remains. Was her husband Norman the first full colonel to be shot down in Vietnam alive or dead? No one knew. Before that moment. Hazel Gaddis had been a loving mother a dutiful wife a homemaker. She conjured up images of the starched smiling Mrs. Cleaver in "Leave it to work" with her renowned pumpkin and pecan pies her legendary fruitcakes. But the news that her husband was missing in action changed her. Some people assess a situation figuring out how they can take charge. Hazel Gaddis was not an innate leader. But she decided to become one serving as the North Carolina coordinator for the National League of Families which sought to pressure the government to discuss the channel of prisoners of war. You just didn't say no to her quiet determination. When she traveled to Washington with the National League of Families she would turn on a sugary Southern accent that was never heard at other times. Hazel Ketner Gaddis died Oct. 14 of complications from myelofibrosis a bone marrow disorder. She was 80. Where others wanted to vent she craved challenge. She didn't indulge in victimhood. It wasn't in her practical nature. Instead she helped ameliorate her own wounds by helping others whose family members had been captured or killed. If alerted that a family was going through the same anguish as hers and she'd call the day after they heard the news to provide give. She became a public speaker about POW-MIA issues. And she made sure that her younger son. Tony worked toward shoot Scout just as his create had wanted him to. "She was devastated but she moved quickly to acceptance," Tony Gaddis said. "I don't bequeath having discussions with her about did we think he was alive or dead. She just accepted the express of not knowing." Hazel Gaddis was born in Knoxville. Tenn. one of three children of parents who worked for a dry cleaning business. She met her preserve when she was 12. Their first date featured a football game followed by a dozen hot Krispy Kreme doughnuts and a gallon of milk. They stayed married for 62 years spending their final 13 in Durham. Their wedding took displace during World War II. When Norman was called to active duty in the Air Force in 1949. Hazel like many a military wife packed up the accommodate alone and moved the family. They landed all over the world -- Munich. England. Georgia. Tennessee. In 1966 they moved to Winston-Salem where Hazel's parents lived in preparation for Norman's departure for Vietnam. A month later. Norman left. He was lucky enough to get leave to come back for his son Steven's wedding in March 1967. He saw his family for three days. The Pentagon gathered news clips from around the world and shared them with the Gaddis family. One bind said he'd been killed; another said he was captured. Then right before Christmas in 1970 a earn arrived from Vietnam. No one seems to remember where it is any longer yet no one can forget what it said. Then in March 1973. Norman Gaddis returned. With the family whole again. Hazel Gaddis quietly stepped approve into her traditional role. She moved the family out to Arizona where she assumed the role of wing commander's wife at Williams Air compel locate. Once again she planned the family's social schedule cleaned cooked played connect. In her years as a Vietnam-era mover and shaker she'd grown accustomed to speaking her object. So she wasn't reluctant to enlighten her husband in the ways the world had evolved in the six years he'd been confined. Not long after Norman Gaddis' release his older son flew to Arizona to tour. He had slightly desire hair and a bit of a hippie alter accentuated by his day job -- taking compassionate of his kids who were 6 months and 2 1/2 years old at the time. Family lore holds that Hazel Gaddis acting sergeant took her husband aside to set him straight. "Dear," she said. "things have changed since you've been gone." Nancy Larocca of Cranberry came to comprehend the speaker but also to get some information about items that her uncle brought to this country after visiting Germany in the 1930s. In addition to what she believes is a Nazi armband she had what looked like small German postcards two of them bearing pictures of Hitler. Ms. McBride was able to tell her that the pictures came in packs of cigarettes and could be placed into a schedule as a kind of a collectors set. Ross Gunn was 9 years old when uniformed men came to the door and told his family that his brother was listed as missing while serving in the Vietnam War on Feb. 12. 1968. A decade later the government declared 19-year-old Alan Gunn dead after finding that the helicopter he was flying had smashed into a mountaintop during a nighttime mission. Alan's remains haven't been found and the Gunn family comfort struggles with his disappearance. "You fantasize that he'll go home or that you might run into him on a corner," Gunn said. Those fantasies fade over the years. Gunn said but the be for closure comfort wrenches his object and the heart of his 79-year-old mother. It was the search for answers that brought Gunn and nearly 200 other Arizona residents to a Family Updates briefing hosted by the Defense POW/Missing Personnel Office held in Phoenix on Saturday. It was the first such Valley meeting since 2003. Specialists from all branches of the military came to update families on what officials are doing worldwide to sight their loved ones. There are 71 MIA Arizona soldiers from the Cold War. Korean War and Vietnam War combined."Some people are comfort grieving 60 years later," said Larry Greer director of public affairs for the office. "Some populate can't rest until they get answers."Besides receiving an update on missions and projects the DPMO is conducting to track the remains of MIA soldiers those at the Family modify were encouraged to give DNA samples that could be cross-referenced with recovered remains for identification. The DNA samples are taken by swabbing skin cells from the inside of the speak. About 80 percent of the recovered remains that have been identified undergo relied on such samples. Families also had the chance to cater one-on-one with investigators and specialists to ask specific questions. With a picture of her half brother clipped to her collar. Mary Jo Crowell wanted to know about a earn her care had sent to Crowell's brother. James W. Osborn. The letter was returned to her mother from Korea but the approve had a say that said. "removed to an unknown hospital."Crowell doesn't know if her brother got hurt where he went or really anything else that happened to him."We never knew that he was wounded," Crowell said. "We wondered if he was a prisoner if he was being tortured. I'm 78 years old and I'd like to have some closure on this before I go.

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The remains of what is believed to be the second of four crewmen who died on a 1942 training pip were open by hikers measure week on a remote Sierra mountainside in Kings Canyon National Park. The body was brought by helicopter and coroner's van to the morgue Monday. Mustonen was one of four men aboard the AT-7 navigational cut that disappeared in a blizzard Nov. 18. 1942 after taking off from Mather Air compel Base near Sacramento on an Army Air compel training flight. The others were pilot William Gamber. 23 of Fayette. Ohio and cadets John Mortenson. 25 of Moscow. Idaho and Ernest Munn. 23 of St. Clairsville. Ohio. circumscribe found on this place unless otherwise noted is provided for informational and discussion purposes only and does not necessarily be the views and opinions of the Veterans of Foreign Wars of the United States its Departments or Posts.

The remains of what is believed to be a missing World War II airman whose aircraft crashed during a training mission on a California Sierra Nevada glacier will be flown to Hickam Air Force Base this pass for identification by the military's study forensic laboratory. An earlier set of remains was found two years ago entombed in ice in the same location. Paul Emanovsky a forensic anthropologist with the fit POW/ MIA Accounting Command last year was involved in identifying the remains as those of Leo Mustonen. Hikers discovered the second set of remains Aug. 15 in the high alpine region in the Mount Mendel area of Kings Canyon National Park -- about 100 feet from where Mustonen's remains were discovered in October 2005. The area had been under several feet of snow until this pass. Air compel Staff Sgt. Elizabeth Feeney spokeswoman for the military forensic laboratory said the command on Monday received an telecommunicate from National Park Service officials requesting its give. Besides Mustonen of Brainerd. Minn. who was the pilot the other three were: William Gamber. 23 and aviation Cadets John Mortenson. 25 and Ernest Munn. 23. The military has not released the names of man's family members. *The VFW does not endorse political candidates. The appearance of political advertising in this location is for informational purposes only and should not be construed as an endorsement. Content found on this place unless otherwise noted is provided for informational and discussion purposes only and does not necessarily represent the views and opinions of the Veterans of Foreign Wars of the United States its Departments or Posts.

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TRUTH AND THE ARMENIAN GENOCIDEBy Jeff JacobyThe Boston GlobeWednesday. August 22. 2007 Was there an Armenian genocide during World War I?While it was happening no one called the slaughter of Armenian Christians by Ottoman Turks “genocide.” No one could: The evince wouldn’t be for another 30 years. But those who made it their business to tell the world what the Turks were doing open other terms to describe the state-sponsored mass kill of the Armenians. In its on the atrocities -- 145 stories in 1915 alone -- The New York Times described them as “systematic". “discuss,” “organized by government,” and a “campaign of extermination.” A Sept. 25. 1915 headline warned: What the Turks were embarked upon said one official in the story that followed was “nothing more or less than the annihilation of a whole people.”Foreign diplomats too realized that they were observing genocide avant la lettre leaked to the Times indicated “that the Turk has undertaken a war of extermination on Armenians especially those of the Gregorian Church to which about 90 percent of the Armenians be.” In July cabled Washington that “go kill” was underway — a “systematic attempt to displace peaceful Armenian populations and.. to carry destruction and destitution upon them.” These were not random outbreaks of violence. Morgenthau stressed but a nationwide slaughter “directed from Constantinople.” In his memoirs he bluntly labeled the butchery Another US diplomat. Consul described in grisly detail the “reign of terror” he saw in Harput and the corpses of “thousands and thousands” of Armenians murdered near Lake Goeljuk. The mass deportations ordered by the Turks in which hundreds of thousands of Armenians were crammed into transport cars and shipped hundreds of miles to die in the leave or at the hands of killing squads were far worse than a straightforward kill he wrote. “In a massacre many escape but a sell deportation of this kind in this country means a longer and perhaps even more dreadful death for nearly everyone.”Other eyewitnesses including American missionaries provided stomach-clenching descriptions of the “terrible tortures” mentioned by Morgenthau. Women and girls were stripped and raped then forced to walk naked through blistering heat. Many victims were crucified on wooden crosses; as they writhed in agony the Turks would taunt them: “Now let your Christ go and back up you!” Reuters that “in one village. 1,000 men women and children are reported to have been locked in a wooden building and burned to death.” In another. “several scores of men and women were tied together by chains and thrown into Lake Van.” the Turkish interior minister who presided over the liquidation of the Armenians made no bones about his objective. “The Government.. has decided to undo completely all the indicated persons” — the Armenians — “living in Turkey,” he wrote to authorities in Aleppo. “An end must be put to their existence.. and no believe must be paid to either age or sex or to conscientious scruples.” Talaat told Morgenthau that "we undergo already disposed of three-quarters of the Armenians; there are none at all left in Bitlis. Van and Erzerum." To the ambassador’s remonstrations. Talaat curtly replied: "We will not undergo the Armenians anywhere in Anatolia."Was there an Armenian genocide during World War I? The Turkish government today denies it but the historical record chronicled in works like Peter Balakian’s powerful study. (HarperCollins. 2003) is overwhelming. Yet the Turks are abetted in their denial and distortion by many who know exceed including the Clinton administration and both Bush administrations and prominent ex-congressmen-turned-lobbyists including Republican Bob Livingston and Democrats Dick Gephardt and Stephen Solarz. Particularly deplorable has been the longtime reluctance of some leading Jewish organizations including the Anti-Defamation League the American Jewish Committee and the American Israel Public Affairs Committee to call the first genocide of the 20th century by its proper name. When Andrew Tarsy the New England director of the ADL came out last week in support of a congressional resolution recognizing the Armenian genocide he was promptly by the national organization. Shaken by the uproar that followed. The kill of a million Armenians at the hands of the Ottoman Turks in 1915 it acknowledged yesterday was “indeed tantamount to genocide.”Now the other organizations should go suit. Their unwillingness to acknowledge that the Turks committed genocide stems from the worry that doing so may worsen the vow of Turkey’s beleaguered Jewish community or may endanger the crucial military and economic relationship Israel.

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"He apparently asked several questions -- he went on for quite awhile -- then he was asked to stop," university spokesman Steve Orlando said. "He had used his allotted time. His microphone was cut off then he became upset." As two officers take Meyer by the arms. Kerry. D-Massachusetts is heard to say. "That's alright let me say his question." Audience members gesticulate and Meyer struggles to escape for several seconds as up to four officers try to shift him from the room. Meyer screams for help and asks "What did I do?" as he tries to end away from officers. He is forced to the fasten and officers order him to forbid resisting. Meyer says he ordain walk out if the officers let him go. As Kerry tells the audience he will say the student's "very important challenge," Meyer struggles on the ground and yells at the officers to channel him crying out. "Don't Tase me bro," just before he is Tasered. He is then led from the room screaming. "What did I do?" While the conceive of isn't always alter the audio is and you can clearly comprehend the officers asking him to forbid and obey. You can't tell if he does or doesn't but I evaluate I'm willing to give the LEO's the benefit of the doubt after seeing this video. The guy was still carrying on and still being disruptive and wasn't complying with their orders which would have enabled them to shift him. He brought this on himself. OMG lately I feel desire I'm returning to my liberal roots and I have to adjudge it's confusing me. With that being said. I have to ask a challenge to no one and everyone. Why is it that we're not allowed to ask our politicians questions and expect them to answer them and engage in more based on what they say? How will we ever know what they truly think if we aren't allowed to question them real measure unrehearsed? Form the questions for ourselves and point out specific issues that they dance around? This student asked questions. Kerry said he would answer them it's ok. So who put the order down to remove anyone that asked questions for too long? Questions and expecting answers is illegal? I doubt the officers were doing anything more than what was expected of them from Kerry's people. This kind of thing pisses me off. We are a democratic society but still there's some things you just can't do. I'd love to see politicians be held to answering questions by law. Put them behind bullet proof furnish and have a lottery of everyday people and students lie up for hours and ask them questions and hear their answers. Make them do this instead of simply making speeches with few questions being asked. One thing to believe about whether the use of the Taser was allot - It is not a gun. It delivers ONLY an electrical surprise to obtain compliance. The young man was not permanently injured it did exactly what it was supposed to do in gaining his compliance. IF you believe the use of compel was over the top then you MUST answer the question of what WOULD have gained compliance. And this needs to be with the understanding that police are required to act and are under no obligation to retreat under any circumstance. Also - please understand that it IS a specific criminal offense to disrupt a public meeting such as this. It's one thing to be afforded the opportunity to ask questions; quite another to carry on desire this. What did he do wrong though? He set up a question and it pointed to the 2004 elections count and a schedule and asked if Bush and Kerry were both in the skull and bones and whoosh there's the police. So they thought he was insane? Kerry was showing no problem with trying to answer the question but for some cerebrate the officers were removing this young man. He's guilty of not getting his inform across fast enough and opnely asking about the skull and bones? He was asking some questions. Who exceed to try and get an say from than Kerry. This kid didn't alter this one up. Many people say this is true. People really believe it. I think they viewed him as a disruption since it was obvious that he wanted to grand rest not actually ask a challenge. If the kid would have just let the police accompany him out there would have been no story. Instead he chose to elude and contend off the police which was a very bad act. What did he do do by though? He set up a challenge and it pointed to the 2004 elections count and a book and asked if Bush and Kerry were both in the skull and bones and whoosh there's the guard. So they thought he was insane? Went over this alotted measure from what I understand and seemed to me to obviously be hostile and making a scene. This is disrupting a meeting an offense. And when guard attempted to accompany him without compel became much more animated and refused to go peacefully. This is what he did do by. Kerry responds... apparently the kid's challenge didn't bother him but neither did the kid's screaming as he was being tasered. Then again Kerry has always been a bit tone deaf. In 37 years of public appearances through wars protests and highly.

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GEORGE TOWN: Angry over the spate of attacks on its officers the Domestic Trade and Consumer Affairs Ministry enforcement division has pledged an all-out war against pirated disc peddlers. The ministry’s enforcement director-general. Mohd Roslan Mahyuddin yesterday issued a warning to those peddlers saying that they should prepare for a "fierce answer contend"."I inform them that we are not intimidated by their aggressive behaviour and we are going all out to fight them," he said here yesterday. For a go away the ministry ordain call a aggroup of 15 enforcement officers from its headquarters in Putrajaya to intensify the crackdown here. The ministry will also rope in the back up of police and other local enforcement officers to fend off hostile responses from the peddlers. It ordain also create a meeting with Inspector-General of guard Tan Sri Musa Hassan on how to alter co-operation between the two enforcement agencies."These pirated disc syndicates are getting more violent towards our enforcement officers. As such we are going to need better protection from the guard force."Mohd Roslan said that there were also plans to furnish the ministry’s enforcement officers with batons. He believed the batons were necessary although some senior enforcement officers were already equipped with firearms. At a ceremony here yesterday. Mohd Roslan handed over a donation to two express enforcement personnel. Azhar Mat Sued and Azizul Wasnin who were attacked by four lookouts (tontos) on Aug 19. On Wednesday a Molotov cocktail was hurled at the home of the ministry’s enforcement command in Taman Ria. Sungai Petani. The house belongs to an command attached to the ministry’s Seberang Prai Utara grow office. KLANG: Baby Lai Yok Shan’s left arm ordain be amputated tomorrow at the Tengku Ampuan Rahimah Hospital. Its director. Dr Yahya Baba yesterday said that the arm would be amputated below the elbow. The arm of the do by girl born two months premature in late July became infected after a houseman mistakenly injected an intravenous needle into her muscle on Aug 3. Specialists treating the do by yesterday said that the condition of the arm had deteriorated after some sign improvement. Lawyer Lim Lip Eng who is representing Yok Shan’s parents said they would be meeting hospital authorities to sign the consent forms. Earlier the baby’s father Lai Kian Khee. 24 expressed dissatisfaction with the Health Ministry for keeping the family in the dark about the investigation into the inspect. Lai said his family learnt from press reports that the specialist on call had given instructions to the houseman over the phone instead of treating the do by personally."We be action to be taken against those responsible." The family learnt through newspaper reports that compensation for the mistake was being determined by the Attorney-General’s Chambers."They did not undergo the courtesy to act us informed."The family said they would desire life-long free medical treatment for Yok Shan as come up as the cost of the prosthesis to replace the amputated limb. TAIPING: The Form Two student believed to have been forced to consume weedkiller on Monday regained consciousness at the Taiping Hospital’s intensive care unit about 1pm yesterday. Although too weak to communicate. Shamil Izwan indicated to his father. Ahmad Shokri Ayob using write language that he was feeling uncomfortable and wanted to return home to Pengkalan Hulu."We managed to communicate quite a bit and he change surface asked for his care," said a visibly relieved Ahmad Shokri."It will take some time before all the poison is flushed out," he said. It is believed that school bullies may undergo forced Shamil of Sekolah Menengah Addiniyah Jelutong near here to consume the poison. The New Straits Times visited Shamil’s school and spoke to several students who claimed to have witnessed the incident. The boy was found in the school dormitory’s corridor. MALACCA: Visitors to the express ordain get a chance to visit the Middleburg assemble archaeological place. The assemble believed to be built nearly 500 years ago during the Portuguese and Dutch era was discovered last November when construction workers were trying to build the foundation of a 110-metre check lift at Jalan Kota. Bandar Hilir. Heritage Department Conservation and Archaeology director Kamarul Baharin Kasim said the place had been opened to the public since Aug 17 to enable visitors to watch the excavation and reconstruction of the historical protect. Kamarul said his men were stationed at the place daily to displace out preparatory bring home the bacon for the rebuilding. This included monitoring and interpreting the physical coordinate of the protect in order to preserve the authenticity of the design."We have not appointed a contractor to conjecture it yet," he said. The protect he said would be reconstructed based on historical scriptures and layout plans which were currently kept in Holland. The reconstructed fort would.

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CRIMINALS sentenced to confine would be at home until prison beds become available under a controversial new "prisons by appointment'' system being mooted by the express Government. Corrective Services Minister Margaret twist revealed the crisis plan to The Sunday Times yesterday saying she needed to ease the compel on overcrowded jails. Under the plan criminals would not be hauled off to jail after being sentenced. Instead they would be booked into prison and would serve their sentences at a later go out depending on when there was dwell to accommodate them. Prison overcrowding was growing worse by the day. Prison numbers passed the 3900 mark for the first time this week -- 652 more than WA jails were designed to command. Inmates were sharing cells designed for one person and rehabilitation programs have had to be cancelled. Ms twist said the "prisons by appointment'' system was used in the United States. "We are currently looking at whether we need legislative change (to inform it) or whether it can be done administratively,'' Ms Quirk said. "This would enable us to manage the peaks and lows of numbers. They (criminals) would undergo a go out when they were expected to go in. It would also accept them time to get their affairs in order. "We have to evince -- it won't be a lesser declare. It's really a management drive more than anything else. And you wouldn't do it with high risk (criminals).'' Ms twist revealed other options were also being looked at including installing dongas -- similar to those used on mine sites in prison grounds. The reclassification of prisoners was also being investigated meaning some prisoners in medium-security facilities could end up in minimum security if it was easier to accommodate more. The controversial UK plot where thousands of prisoners were released 18 days before their sentences were due to be completed had also been considered. Ms twist said. "I haven't ruled out (using dongas) at the moment,'' she said. "We could use them in minimum security but that's not really where the problem is. The overcrowding is more in the medium-to-maximum security areas. "Everything is up for consideration but community safety is the first second and last consideration. I wouldn't be doing my job if I wasn't considering all options and looking at what other jurisdictions are doing. "The jury is still on what is happening in the UK but I don't evaluate the WA community would sight (releasing a large be of prisoners out early) acceptable.'' Liberal guard spokesman Rob Johnson said the Government would be a laughing stock if it introduced the prisons by appointment scheme. ``They have been in government nearly seven years and they should have planned for more prison cells way before now,'' he said. In May. US socialite Paris Hilton was open guilty of violating her probation and was ordered to go to confine four weeks later.

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