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Well, I based my information on an article I once read at The Guardian's (a British paper) website. Whether or not it is entirely correct, I don't know; I can only hope they did their journalistic research. So, my reply will be constrained to commenting on what I said and giving the context of the quotes that led me to say them:

I don't believe that was offered as one of the reasons why we chose not to sign it.

What I said was that we didn't want a court to be over the US Supreme Court. Here's the quote I based that on: "The US had argued previously that any court interference in the case would effectively turn it into a 'general criminal court of appeal' and claimed that its own sovereignty would be infringed."

No, the Security Council is specifically not involved in the process.

Again, the quote I based my comment on: "Court officials said they expected America to comply. If it did not, a spokeswoman said, it could complain to the UN security council which could impose sanctions on America."

Again, whether or not these quotes are accurate, I can not say. I would at least hope the latter one is accurate since it purportedly quotes a court spokeswoman. But I honestly don't know and am not really interested enough to investigate it myself right now. Anybody who has done the leg work on the issue who wants to chime in, please do.

Incidentally, the quotes came from this article: http://www.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,36 04,889602,00.html.

One more non-quote-related comment:

Besides, the ICC is supposed to be for trying individuals, not governments. The penalties would be jail terms and the like, not embargos and such.

I didn't intend to imply otherwise. My statements referred to a situation in which the United States refused to obey a decision reached by the court and what recourse the court would have to see its decision enforced. (In this case, next to none.)

-FL

I'm sorry, but I'm going to one-up you. I'm fairly impressed that my former personal tutor when I studied physics at aber, Geraint Thomas, managed to get his name and work on the front page of the Times. The thing that occured to me when I saw the picture was that Dr Geraint Thomas IIRC was a supporter of Plaid Cymru (Welsh Nationalist party) and a former colleage of Prof. Phil Williams, the Plaid Cymru member of the welsh assembly who died this year (I was actually sitting in Dr Thomas' office when we heard Phil had been elected), and that perhaps he would not be all that upset if the picture on the front page of the Times were true. Or at least, I bet a small grin managed to escape his beard at the thought.

...Trafalgar Square?

I wonder which one we should belive?

"In one of the more peculiar of English habits, Guy Fawkes is celebrated with his own day of national remembrance for his role in a failed scheme to dispose of King James I and the House of Lords. You'd think they'd celebrate the foiler of the attempt rather than one of its enactors, but then "1st Earl of Salisbury Day" or "Lord Monteagle Day" just don't have the same ring."

We don't exactly celebrate Guy Fawkes -- the tradition is, after all, to burn his effigy.
When we're not burning effigies of ethnic minorities that is...

That is one the silliest things I've read in a looooong time.

1) Freedom of the press is only truly open to those who can afford to publish? Uh, hello, communication channels are more wide open today then they have ever been, thanks to blogs, email, newsgroups, P2P, desktop publishing, etc. Of course big corporations have more options available to them, but that is (and has always been) the case just about everywhere in the world.

2) "What will hopefully emerge from this process is a totally new form of government, a meritocracy. In my opinion, music will be the greatest power." Have you taken your meds today, or are we looking at 50 Cent as the new Director of Homeland Security?

3) "the company with the greatest financial clout in the world right now is Microsoft." A software company, no matter how large, hardly wields "financial clout" like a GE, which spans the globe and gobbles up companies in a variety of industries by the handful, or a huge bank like Citigroup, which brokers deals and provides the financing that makes business projects possible. Microsoft is a giant in the software business, but in terms of the overall business picture, they aren't the biggest kid on the block by far.

4) Gates can direct the "full power of the press" to back candidates of his choosing? While Microsoft has a partnership with NBC, I doubt that he spends his time telling Katie & Matt which candidates to pump up.

5) "If my thesis is right, and this is a plutocratic system, then Gates is nominally the king, with no hereditary right of succession as such, unless he can prolong his wealth into the next generation. Well, your "thesis" is dead wrong from the start, and is certainly finished off by the fact that Gates plans to give all his fortune away.

There are plenty of reasons to bash or admire Microsoft, but paranoid fantasies are another thing entirely...

>It however doesn't mean that we should not pollute.
I completely agree with you here. Whether we have global warming as a long term thing, or are still pulling out of the cold spell from the previous few hundred years, it still doesn't make sense to chuck out millions of tons of rubbish into the atmosphere. It's not just global warming we have to worry about, but global *pollution* in general, if we want to have clean air to breath, and clean water to drink etc.

Red Hat will soon lose its grassroot respect and might just become one of those VC-run and profit-driven corporations; those who have expected Red Hat to become the Microsoft of the Linux world probably were talking about microsoft's marketshare but now it appears the outcome will quite possibly also include microsoft's practices.

This isn't the first alarming sign; there's been a few trickling down for a little while, with all the consolidations, takeovers, acquisitions... et cetera et cetera it won't be long before we'll have to wonder whether the GPL will be able to prevent linux from becoming yet another private affair.

This investors' darling is sure to do as investors want. I have always been and still am more respectful - and i know some of you might be tempted to flame me for this, please don't, it's not my point - of Sun Microsystems than ever been of Red Had; Sun is a company that was started by techies and still run by techies, often acted contrary to investors expectations and still does, and contributed far more to open source, with java and openoffice, than red hat ever would've had it not been for the GPL. The creeping clan of MBAs and capital interests Red Hat is awashed with will only mean it won't be long before it'll be the despise of the people it is now alienating; it's just inevitable. You guys sorta got what you wanted, albeit with a twist; you wanted men in suits to endorse linux and now that they are you seem surprised with their actions. If you invite wolves and sharks to dinner just don't be surprised if they'll shave all the meat off the bones and not care for your share, heck, you may even become the meal too.

I think what linux, and OSS in general needs, is an altogether economic model; you just can't have a conventional financing for an alternative development system and expect all to be good. I think such a system that might have promise would be something like those Mutuals or cooperatives that are proven in the housing market and neighbourhood or workplace groceries; some of such "societies", especially in Europe, are big enough to provide an economically viable business that is also ethically and socially responsible.

Mistrust of corporations is growing because they put shareholders first. That creates opportunities for cooperatives and mutuals, which don't

Congress already has told the TV industry to switch their broadcasts by 2007 to a digital format, which uses computer language, from the current analog format, which uses radio signals sent as waves.

It is now official; Israel confirms: Dead Sea is drying.

One more crippling bombshell hit the already beleaguered Dead Sea community when the Israeli government confirmed that Dead Sea is drying up, now down to less than a fraction of 1 percent of all seas. Coming on the heels of a recent European Union survey which plainly states that Israel is the cause of mid-east tension, this news serves to reinforce what we've known all along. Dead Sea is evaporating in complete disarray.

You don't need to be a Ezekiel to predict Dead Sea's future. The hand writing is on the wall: Dead Sea faces a bleak future. In fact there won't be any future at all for Dead Sea because Dead Sea is drying up. Things are looking very bad for Dead Sea. As many of us are already aware, Dead Sea continues to lose sea area. Water doesn't flow like a river of blood, at least for Dead Sea.

I point to economic growth during the US's recessions rivaling Europe's times of normal productivity as evidence that the free market, despite all invective against it from the left in media and the academy, works incredibly well

Maybe you should tell that to Ohio, or is that just more left wing media invective?

• Atkins Diet Alert, from the Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine
• The Guardian: Atkins diet is 'pseudo-science', say experts
• Big Fat Fake: The Atkins diet controversy and the sorry state of science journalism
• Atkins diet banned in Scottish hospitals

Except I read that Google was valued at 9 billion which would sure eat into MS' reserves.

Here's the Guardian story.

Each ballot paper has a serial no. When the ballot is issued, the serial no. is recorded against the voter no. If someone has stolen your vote, then you can vote on a pink ballot paper, which is not initially counted, but allows the result to be corrected later if there was a significant amount of fraud.

There have also been some major postal vote frauds, not least the incident where an MP's vote was stolen.

Each ballot paper has a serial no. When the ballot is issued, the serial no. is recorded against the voter no. If someone has stolen your vote, then you can vote on a pink ballot paper, which is not initially counted, but allows the result to be corrected later if there was a significant amount of fraud.

There have also been some major postal vote frauds, not least the incident where an MP's vote was stolen.

THIS

The NYT and Washington Post "left-leaning"? You have to be kidding. For example look at a mainstream centre-left newspaper from the UK, The Guardian. Like I said, whilst it may be known as a left-wing rag, it is a well-respected, commercial, high-circulation broadsheet. Compare its take on world news to the NYT and then tell me the Times and Post are left wing.

Microsoft possible buying Google in this week's Guardian. I think this would be a terrible thing, as Google is an excellent service, and if Microsoft got hold of it it would almost complete their monopoly on such things, completely eliminating their only real competitor.

The type of stuff that the story talks about has only one use: weapons. All this boils down to what you believe. The warmongers and weapons manufactuers will obviously hide what they are doing--it has always been like that. You will never find "proof" that anyone is involved in any WMD. Try finding how Agent Orange was developed and you will either find nothing, or will find that it is used for "civilian" use.

My view is that the cited research has no purpose other than weapons. Scientists do not create new, lethal germs or chemicals just to develop an antidote (at least not like here).

You may not agree with that but that is how I see it. Developing a disease, germ, or anything, without any cure has 'warmonger' written all over it. This is the computer equivalent of researchers creating an ultimate computer virus just to study how to defend it. The only people who use such justification are the weapons researchers in military labs.

Anthrax Assasin

From what I recall, the FBI narrowed down the anthrax to some US weapons lab. They also investigated some "suspect". They searched his house, went through all his records, etc. Last I heard, they were draining some swamp somewhere.

The whole anthrax affair is like something out of a mystery novel. Here are some stories on the progression of the event:

Anthrax power production by US military
Underwater story
Chief Suspect, Steven Hatfill

Personally I think the Hatfill dude is a scapegoat. Whoever that was behind the attacks is very good and is attempting to pin the blame on this scientist. I also think the US military is blocking the FBI investigation (this isn't anything new; it happens all the time, especially with CIA operations relating to drug trafficking, arms trafficking, supporting terrorists, and the like). What all this means is that you'll never find the real culprit. It's be another of those 'JFK' cases where the real criminals get away.

US rejection of biological weaposn ban

Here is a story which points out the US rejection of the biological weapons treaty that was being drafted.

I listed a liberal newspaper source. If you think it is all a bunch of lies, you can try searching for other sources. Everything I said (except my speculation that the US military is blocking the investigation) is fact. Any major newspaper, television, or radio would have covered it.

Sivaram Velauthapillai

The type of stuff that the story talks about has only one use: weapons. All this boils down to what you believe. The warmongers and weapons manufactuers will obviously hide what they are doing--it has always been like that. You will never find "proof" that anyone is involved in any WMD. Try finding how Agent Orange was developed and you will either find nothing, or will find that it is used for "civilian" use.

My view is that the cited research has no purpose other than weapons. Scientists do not create new, lethal germs or chemicals just to develop an antidote (at least not like here).

You may not agree with that but that is how I see it. Developing a disease, germ, or anything, without any cure has 'warmonger' written all over it. This is the computer equivalent of researchers creating an ultimate computer virus just to study how to defend it. The only people who use such justification are the weapons researchers in military labs.

Anthrax Assasin

From what I recall, the FBI narrowed down the anthrax to some US weapons lab. They also investigated some "suspect". They searched his house, went through all his records, etc. Last I heard, they were draining some swamp somewhere.

The whole anthrax affair is like something out of a mystery novel. Here are some stories on the progression of the event:

Anthrax power production by US military
Underwater story
Chief Suspect, Steven Hatfill

Personally I think the Hatfill dude is a scapegoat. Whoever that was behind the attacks is very good and is attempting to pin the blame on this scientist. I also think the US military is blocking the FBI investigation (this isn't anything new; it happens all the time, especially with CIA operations relating to drug trafficking, arms trafficking, supporting terrorists, and the like). What all this means is that you'll never find the real culprit. It's be another of those 'JFK' cases where the real criminals get away.

US rejection of biological weaposn ban

Here is a story which points out the US rejection of the biological weapons treaty that was being drafted.

I listed a liberal newspaper source. If you think it is all a bunch of lies, you can try searching for other sources. Everything I said (except my speculation that the US military is blocking the investigation) is fact. Any major newspaper, television, or radio would have covered it.

Sivaram Velauthapillai

The type of stuff that the story talks about has only one use: weapons. All this boils down to what you believe. The warmongers and weapons manufactuers will obviously hide what they are doing--it has always been like that. You will never find "proof" that anyone is involved in any WMD. Try finding how Agent Orange was developed and you will either find nothing, or will find that it is used for "civilian" use.

My view is that the cited research has no purpose other than weapons. Scientists do not create new, lethal germs or chemicals just to develop an antidote (at least not like here).

You may not agree with that but that is how I see it. Developing a disease, germ, or anything, without any cure has 'warmonger' written all over it. This is the computer equivalent of researchers creating an ultimate computer virus just to study how to defend it. The only people who use such justification are the weapons researchers in military labs.

Anthrax Assasin

From what I recall, the FBI narrowed down the anthrax to some US weapons lab. They also investigated some "suspect". They searched his house, went through all his records, etc. Last I heard, they were draining some swamp somewhere.

The whole anthrax affair is like something out of a mystery novel. Here are some stories on the progression of the event:

Anthrax power production by US military
Underwater story
Chief Suspect, Steven Hatfill

Personally I think the Hatfill dude is a scapegoat. Whoever that was behind the attacks is very good and is attempting to pin the blame on this scientist. I also think the US military is blocking the FBI investigation (this isn't anything new; it happens all the time, especially with CIA operations relating to drug trafficking, arms trafficking, supporting terrorists, and the like). What all this means is that you'll never find the real culprit. It's be another of those 'JFK' cases where the real criminals get away.

US rejection of biological weaposn ban

Here is a story which points out the US rejection of the biological weapons treaty that was being drafted.

I listed a liberal newspaper source. If you think it is all a bunch of lies, you can try searching for other sources. Everything I said (except my speculation that the US military is blocking the investigation) is fact. Any major newspaper, television, or radio would have covered it.

Sivaram Velauthapillai

The type of stuff that the story talks about has only one use: weapons. All this boils down to what you believe. The warmongers and weapons manufactuers will obviously hide what they are doing--it has always been like that. You will never find "proof" that anyone is involved in any WMD. Try finding how Agent Orange was developed and you will either find nothing, or will find that it is used for "civilian" use.

My view is that the cited research has no purpose other than weapons. Scientists do not create new, lethal germs or chemicals just to develop an antidote (at least not like here).

You may not agree with that but that is how I see it. Developing a disease, germ, or anything, without any cure has 'warmonger' written all over it. This is the computer equivalent of researchers creating an ultimate computer virus just to study how to defend it. The only people who use such justification are the weapons researchers in military labs.

Anthrax Assasin

From what I recall, the FBI narrowed down the anthrax to some US weapons lab. They also investigated some "suspect". They searched his house, went through all his records, etc. Last I heard, they were draining some swamp somewhere.

The whole anthrax affair is like something out of a mystery novel. Here are some stories on the progression of the event:

Anthrax power production by US military
Underwater story
Chief Suspect, Steven Hatfill

Personally I think the Hatfill dude is a scapegoat. Whoever that was behind the attacks is very good and is attempting to pin the blame on this scientist. I also think the US military is blocking the FBI investigation (this isn't anything new; it happens all the time, especially with CIA operations relating to drug trafficking, arms trafficking, supporting terrorists, and the like). What all this means is that you'll never find the real culprit. It's be another of those 'JFK' cases where the real criminals get away.

US rejection of biological weaposn ban

Here is a story which points out the US rejection of the biological weapons treaty that was being drafted.

I listed a liberal newspaper source. If you think it is all a bunch of lies, you can try searching for other sources. Everything I said (except my speculation that the US military is blocking the investigation) is fact. Any major newspaper, television, or radio would have covered it.

Sivaram Velauthapillai

Shit happens. Everyone - people and countries - make horrible mistakes. And making an honest mistake doesn't make them evil. But to say that one side is "good" by definition, by someone's fiat, and the other side is "bad" - this is just blind arrogance and jingoism of the worst head-in-ass kind.

In my book, whoever has nuclear weapons or other WMDs is just as dangerous. Whoever has them is capable of using them on me and is in danger of letting them loose through an honest mistake. I don't care WHO the fuck they think they are.

1. Afghanistan, 1998, 2001, 2002, 2003
2. Bosnia, 1994, 1995
3. Cambodia, 1969-70
4. China, 1945-46
5. Congo (now Zaire), 1964
6. Cuba, 1959-1961 ("Bay of Pigs" invasion)
7. El Salvador, 1980s
8. Grenada, 1983
9. Guatemala, 1954, 1960, 1967-69
10. Indonesia, 1958
11. Iran, 1987
12. Iraq, 1991-2000, 2003 (The U.S. government used radioactive bombs in the first war against Iraq. See United States War Crimes Against Iraq for what appears to be an accurate history.)
13. Korea and China, 1950-53 (Korean War)
14. Kuwait, 1991
15. Laos, 1964-73
16. Lebanon, 1983, 1984 (both Lebanese and Syrian targets)
17. Libya, 1986
18. Nicaragua, 1980s
19. Panama, 1989. The U.S. government called it "Operation Just Cause". The link is to a U.S. military web site.
20. Peru, 1965
21. Somalia, 1993
22. Sudan 1998. There are doubts

I was indeed mistaken about your nationality. In any case, here are two articles relating to the issue:

Red Cross "clarifies" definition
analysis by Guardian newspaper

My view is closer to the spirit of the law. Creating a totally new category (by US govt of all things; if anything, it should be by the ICRC) is not standard practice.

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Clicking on the main page only shows like 30(?) postings...

Sivaram Velauthapillai

or even the visit of the informant who helped the military find Jessica Lynch!

Yea, they should print more actual news and less spin like the rescue of Jessica Lynch!

Yep, you're right. I'm going to vote for Dean this time around, but not because I am a liberal -- oh no, I am Rush dittohead. Rather, it is because of Bush and his robots.txt! This is completely inexcusable! How dare he!

I'm voting for McCain. I don't care if he runs or if he is bound and gagged by the RNC.

So how about being a good dumb citizen instead of borrowing subversive books from your local library?

His former company (the one that still pays him millions a year) is actualy selling us gasoline at a 63 cent a gallon markup in Iraq. That's $1.59/gallon, more than most of us pay over here with tax!

You think the situation in the Middle East is bad now? Wait until the world no longer relies on them for their oil and their economies fall apart. It will be a complete disaster. I would like to not have to rely on oil as much as the next guy, but I think it's going to cause just as many social problems as it will solve environmental problems.

And not just in the Middle East. The US has a huge deficit, which it supports by priniting copious amount of money. Other contries with our levels of deficit and debt are places like Argentina, which has rioting in the streets... but we're saved from that kind of hyper-inflation because people around the world demand the dollar and they'll buy them up nearly as quickly as we can print them. George Monbiot points this out and covers some of the reasons for it, like the fact that the world's oil supply is priced in dollars, which means that people need our dollars to buy oil.

So, while the Middle East is dependent on us for it's economic welfare, it turns out that we're dependent on it as well. What America needs to do is keep oil prices in dollars and convince China to hit the crude-oil crackpipe. Otherwise we may have to pay off our debts...and I'm not going to find my share of 6 trillion dollars lost beneath the couch cushions.

But on the subject of sesame seeds... they're a very big crop - the sixth largest in the world production of edible oil seeds.

And yes, there is valuable intellectual property in sesame seed genetics.

Well, there is a GM fish being sold called Night Pearl. See here, or here, or here.

~ the small percentage of felons/turban-wearing men who are actually terrorists?

Pogue is - as other writers already has pointed out - somewhat biased in his choice of OS. You might want to check out britsh newspaper The Guardian for another positive review right here. Its not as thorough as Pogues, but still worth a read.

Pogue is - as other writers already has pointed out - somewhat biased in his choice of OS. You might want to check out britsh newspaper The Guardian for another positive review right here. Its not as thorough as Pogues, but still worth a read.

The Guardian reprints a story that may explain some of the difference in price.

For what it's worth, books in India are cheaper yet; I know people with some books (e.g., Radia Perleman's "Interconnections") purchased at a tenth the US price. It's a special India-only edition (or so it says).

And that's remarkably different from the way oil is treated now... like, Iraqi people getting the fair market price for themselves, right? It's not, like, used to rebuild country that was demolished by an invading army; contracts handed out by party responsible for destruction, paid for by assets they confiscated?

And more. Apparently large amounts of the oil are going to the US as reparations for the first Gulf War (despite the fact that Iraqs neighbours have already paid for it). See here

Not sure how it's going since it was launched last summer since I try to keep that stuff out of my gullet. Not that boycotting an addictive product is easy; people love to defend their addictions. It's scary when you see the list of 60-odd brand names that one would have to avoid to participate. Yay conglomeration and the cloaking device of multiple branding!

it is a giant Vagina

Sorry, but just because you can date art, casting ores, and water doesn't mean you can date rocks:

• Rock art is usually made from vegetable (which are made of carbon) or mineral paint. Can you guess what mineral is used to make black?
• To make metal hot enough to cast you stick it in a fire, to make a fire you burn wood, wood is made of...?
• I'm not sure about carbon dating water, but there are similar dating methods.

However, you can uranium date rocks that contain no carbon much as the water is oxygen dated. Unfortunately, dating Stonehenge is still difficult.

He's takling about the United States of America

US on the other hand has kidnapped and detained without trial, pressing charges, or providing legal access to a group of Muslim citizens from many countries. They've been there for two years!!

Yea, you'll allow people to vote.. but only if they haven't been sent to jail (for such harmless things as being caught with a bit of grass).. Then you'll do all you can to screw the system to get an idiot like criminal like Bush elected.

US will forcibly drug criminals just so they are 'sane' enough to be executed

It's one of only a handful of countries who will execute people who were juveniles when the crime was committed (others are places like Iran, Saudi)

Such things are positively barbaric... and all we get from them are nonsense slogans such as 'Liberty', 'Justice', 'Democracy'.

w.r.t forced events, don't kid yourself that you are any less brain washed than Chinese, or the rest of us for that matter. You all seemed to be hyped up into supporting the invasion of Iraq based upon spoon-fed fear (phoney alert levels, duct tape, dirty bombs, and other such nonsense).. Chinese may be given a little media based push to celebrate a successful launch. You guys were conned into supporting the invasion of another country!!

At least we know where we stand with China.

Jeez, this article was on Slashdot exactly a year
ago!!!

http://www.guardian.co.uk/italy/story/0,12576,1061 765,00.html

Martial arts expert kills two raiders

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Magistrates in the central Italian town of Empoli are now seeking to establish whether his self-defence constituted an excessive use of force.

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Disappointed by their meagre booty, the attackers allegedly threatened to rape the two women unless they told them where the rest of their money was hidden.

At this point the doctor managed to free himself, seize a knife from one of the aggressors and deliver a series of lethal stab wounds.

Once again proof that the entire continent of Europe is a barbarian area. If the robbers had actually raped the hairdresser and got away I wonder what they would have faced? But if someone dares to defend themselves, even with the weapon the burglars brought in this case, they go to jail immediately! This guy should get a medal. Too bad he does not live in the US; they'd make him an air marshall or something!

http://www.guardian.co.uk/italy/story/0,12576,1061 765,00.html

Martial arts expert kills two raiders

Philip Willan in Rome
Monday October 13, 2003
The Guardian

A Chinese martial arts expert was in custody yesterday after turning the tables on four burglars armed with knives, killing two of them and seriously wounding a third.
The 28-year-old man, known as "the doctor" for his practice of acupuncture and traditional Chinese medicine, managed to seize one of the two knives carried by his assailants and saw off the entire group with the ferocity of his reaction.

Magistrates in the central Italian town of Empoli are now seeking to establish whether his self-defence constituted an excessive use of force.

The butchery, worthy of a Quentin Tarantino film, began shortly before midnight on Friday when the four men knocked at the apartment of a Chinese hairdresser in the centre of Empoli.

The hairdresser, her assistant and "the doctor", who operated from the same premises, were reportedly overpowered and tied up before the group, all thought to be in their 20s and 30s, ransacked the apartment.

Disappointed by their meagre booty, the attackers allegedly threatened to rape the two women unless they told them where the rest of their money was hidden.

At this point the doctor managed to free himself, seize a knife from one of the aggressors and deliver a series of lethal stab wounds.

Investigators found the body of one man, who had been stabbed in the heart, sprawled on the staircase and another man bleeding to death in the street from a wound to his leg. A third man is recovering in hospital from a punctured lung.

The doctor was found crouching in the entrance to the building with cuts to his shoulder, face and hands.

Investigators are trying to determine whether he inflicted the injuries while defending himself inside the apartment, or hunted down the burglars after they had fled.

There's got to be more political story behind this.

The more political story is that the world is getting more and more wise to the idea that the current US administration is at the least in bed with Sharon's government in Israel, and at the most is controlled by them. This is well-documented on many reputable media websites such as The Guardian and The Independent, not to mention independent media sites like GNN and Indymedia. The story mentioned in the article describes a plot, hatched by the US and Israel together, to dispel the rumors about the US-Israel connection before they become commonly accepted fact.

So, if your kung-fu robot whacks intruders who break into your residence, does it go on trial instead of you?

> no one ever died from being too hot.

The real question is which are they? One mans' terrorist is another mans' freedom fighter.

I don't think most liberals deny the existence of evil; rather, I think they see evil in places where you don't. Like here here , here, and here. Of course, there is also this.

Evil is all too common; don't turn a blind eye to the evil which you find convenient.

Yeah, that or for the dead bodies burried under his house: http://politics.guardian.co.uk/politicspast/story/ 0,9061,1016292,00.html.