Soldier continues fight not to serve under U.N.
Michael New claims U.S. Constitution forbids military from donning blue beret
Posted: January 11, 2006
1:00 a.m. Eastern
© 2006 WorldNetDaily.com A U.S. soldier court-martialed for refusing to wear the insignia and blue beret of the United Nations and serve under the world body's command is now appealing his case to a federal appeals court.
Michael New was among several hundred troops sent to Macedonia by President Clinton in 1995 on a U.N. peacekeeping mission. But New refused to obey the order, calling it illegal for him to serve under a foreign power.
New's attorney, Henry L. Hamilton, argued both Clinton's order to deploy troops to Macedonia and his order for soldiers to wear the U.N. uniform were illegal, because deployment required congressional approval, and the U.N. uniform is not authorized by either the Department of Defense or the U.S. Army.
Now the former Army specialist is preparing for oral hearings Feb. 16 in the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit.
His attorneys says the issue is whether an American soldier, having taken an oath to support and defend the Constitution of the United States, may be forced instead to serve under the military command of a foreign power.
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Monday, January 09, 2006
PHOTOS
Dandridge and Gray
PHILADELPHIA — Two men charged with conspiracy in the killings of seven people were sent back to Virginia Monday to face murder conspiracy charges.
Ray Joseph Dandridge and Ricky Gray, both 28, were captured Saturday in Philadelphia on charges stemming from the killings of members of two Richmond, Va., families.
Police said they found evidence linking Dandridge and Gray to all seven murders. The victims, including two children, were all bound with tape and their throats were cut, police spokeswoman Cynthia Price said.
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Has anyone seen a photo of these two criminals? I can't find any online... post a link in the comments if you find one!
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Suspects in Slaying of Virginia Family May Have Committed Similar Crimes, Police Say
Sunday, January 08, 2006
Virginia Family Reportedly Found in Burning Home With Hands Bound, Throats Slashed
RICHMOND, Va. — Investigators are looking into whether two men arrested for the robbery and killings of seven people in their Richmond homes were involved in similar crimes elsewhere, a police spokeswoman said Sunday.
Ray Joseph Dandridge and Ricky Gray, both 28, were captured Saturday in Philadelphia on charges stemming from the killings of members of two families, including two children, who were discovered bound with tape. The home of one family was set on fire and the other was ransacked.
Authorities said police found evidence linking the pair to all seven murders.
After the arrests, the investigation widened.
"There's other law enforcement agencies that are looking into any similarities with these cases," said Cynthia Price, a spokeswoman for Richmond police. "We know there was a home invasion in Chesterfield and they have been charged with that one."
Police in suburban Chesterfield County did not immediately respond to phone calls seeking comment Sunday about charges in the Jan. 3 home invasion, in which no one was injured.
Dandridge had been released from a state prison in November after serving 10 years for robbery.
"We all make mistakes and what don't kill will only make us stronger," Dandridge wrote on a Web site from prison. "I believe in treating others as I want to be treated and respected in life."
A SWAT team found Dandridge and Gray on Saturday and used pepper spray to subdue one of the men, who resisted arrest, said Philadelphia police Capt. Benjamin Naish.
The men remained in custody Sunday in Philadelphia, Naish said. An extradition hearing could be held as early as Monday.
Police said they were led to the suspects by a green Chevrolet Blazer taken from the site of a triple homicide discovered Friday.
The bodies of Percyell Tucker, 55; his wife, Mary Tucker, 47, and her daughter, Ashley Baskerville, 21, were found in their ransacked home. The causes of death have not been disclosed.
Price would not comment on media reports that the suspects knew one of the victims in the Tucker home.
Mary Tucker worked at a laundry and regularly attended Fifth Baptist Church, said Rosa Tillar, a friend and co-worker. "She was a nice, quiet person. She stayed to herself mostly."
The murders in the Tucker home came less than a week after the slayings of members of a family well-known in music and business circles. Bryan Harvey, 49; his wife, Kathryn, 39, and their daughters, Stella, 9, and Ruby, 4, were found with their throats cut on New Year's Day. Their house was set on fire.
Price said it appeared that the Harveys were random victims of a robbery.
Bryan Harvey was a guitarist and singer who played in several rock bands, most notably the duo House of Freaks, which released five albums on three labels from 1987 to 1995.
Kathryn Harvey co-owned a toy and novelty store in Carytown, a 12-block stretch of trendy boutiques, cafes and coffee shops just west of downtown Richmond. She was the half-sister of actor Steven Culp, who played Rex Van De Kamp on "Desperate Housewives."
Appeasement NEVER works!
The libs SHOULD read this
(Quote: "They know this very well and for this they haven't gone further than a verbal or psychological war,") and realize that pacifying these psychopaths doesn't work... but they won't. They'll say, oh, if only we were a bit nicer, everything will come up roses! What they can't believe that it won't be coming up roses; we'll all be pushing up daisies.
Read the articles below, tell me what you think.
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IRAN: TEHRAN ISSUES NEW THREAT TO EUROPE
Tehran, 4 Jan. (AKI) - The head of Iran's Supreme National Security Council, Ali Larijani, who is also the man behind Iran's foreign policy, has warned Europeans "not to force the Islamic Republic to cut short the dialogue process and to opt for another scenario". Speaking on Tuesday night on state television he said: "We are for a strategy based on dialogue, but if the counterparty Europe plays dirty, then we will pass onto another plan that we have worked out and then there will be problems for the Europeans."
Without specifying the nature of the other plan and the other scenario, Larijani has compared the talks on Iran's nuclear programme to a chess game. "In this game, we are for a result that will be satisfactory to both Iran and Europe," said Larijani adding that "if we lose, the same will also happen to the other party (Europe) and they will have to prepare themselves to live in a hell." But Larijani used even stronger words for the United States. "A small error on the part of USA or the Zionists will be enough to induce us to unleash hell," said Larijani. "They know this very well and for this they haven't gone further than a verbal or psychological war," he said. Larijani also reiterated how Tehran "does not have any intension of renouncing its cycle of producing nuclear fuel."
"For our requirements we do not intend to trust even our friends," he said, stressing Iran's right to "advance the research in all the areas of the nuclear sector."
"To start the research and study, does not always signify establishing an atomic programme," said Larijani.
Referring to the Russian proposal to conduct the necessary uranium enrichment in Russian nuclear plants for the purposes of Iranian use, Larijani called the proposal "unsatisfactory".
"We are not disposed to imposing someone else's [proposal], but to find a neutral and constructive proposal," he said.
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Iran a No-Show for Meeting With U.N. Thursday January 5, 2006 4:02 PM
By
GEORGE JAHNAssociated Press Writer
VIENNA, Austria (AP) - A defiant Iran did not turn up for a promised meeting Thursday with the head of the U.N. nuclear watchdog agency to discuss the country's suspect nuclear program, agency officials said.
A high-ranking Iranian delegation was supposed to meet International Atomic Energy Agency head Mohamed ElBaradei on Thursday to provide him with details of its plans to move closer to uranium enrichment, a process which can produce both fuel for nuclear energy or nuclear weapons.
``The meeting never took place,'' said IAEA spokeswoman Melissa Fleming. She said ElBaradei was ``still seeking clarification'' of what Tehran would do Monday, when it says it will resume some work related to enrichment.
Iran told the IAEA on Tuesday it planned to resume nuclear fuel research after a 2-year hiatus, posing a fresh challenge to Western nations concerned that Tehran is trying to build an atomic weapon.
A diplomat accredited to the IAEA said the agency appeared resigned to not getting the details it had asked for before the Iranians resume the enrichment work. He cited ElBaradei as saying he did not expect the Iranian delegation to ask for a new appointment before flying back to Tehran.
Iranian representatives already rebuffed ElBaradei on Wednesday when he asked for clarification of their plans. But they said then they would be more forthcoming Thursday on what they describe as the resumption of research and development of uranium enrichment.
The United States has warned Iran against pursuing new nuclear research. Washington said the international community will have to consider additional measures to constrain Iran's nuclear ambitions if the country takes any further steps related to uranium enrichment. That appeared to be an allusion to having Tehran referred to the U.N. Security Council.
The path for such a move was cleared late last year, when the IAEA's 35-nation board found Iran in noncompliance of the Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty for keeping its uranium enrichment program secret for decades and conducting other work that could be used for a nuclear weapons program.
The European Union, with U.S. backing, then decided to give diplomacy another try in efforts to gain more international support for their stance.
Iran says it is interested in enrichment to make nuclear fuel, but the United States and an increasing number of other nations suspect Tehran wants the technology to make weapons-grade uranium for nuclear warheads.
Tehran says it will not actually begin enrichment Monday. But even the restarting of equipment testing would be viewed as the latest in a series of steps toward fully reviving the program in violation of Tehran's pledge for a full freeze on all of its aspects.
A diplomat close to the agency said that the Iranians appeared taken aback by the firmness of ElBaradei's demands Wednesday for more cooperation in his agency's probe of Tehran's nuclear activities. The diplomats who spoke to The Associated Press asked for anonymity because the meeting was private.
ElBaradei's demands and clear criticism of Iran's plans to move closer to enrichment was what apparently led the Iranians to not show for Thursday's meeting, the diplomat said.
Iran has come under heavy international pressure to abandon its program to produce fuel for its Russian-built nuclear reactor that is due to come online this year and for its future nuclear power plants.
But it has vowed never to give up the right to enrichment, which it says it has a right to under international law.
While refusing to permanently renounce uranium enrichment, Iran suspended many aspects of its nuclear fuel program in 2003 as a goodwill gesture during negotiations with the big three European powers - Britain, France and Germany.
The talks collapsed in August after Iran resumed uranium reprocessing activities, a step before enrichment, at its Uranium Conversion Facility in Isfahan, central Iran.
While the two sides resumed dialogue last month, talks have so far failed to resolve the dispute. More talks are scheduled for later this month.
from
www.foxnews.com Thursday, December 29, 2005
By Steven MilloyIt’s that time of year again when we at JunkScience.com reflect on all the dubious achievements and irresponsible claims made by the junk science community throughout the year.
These “lowlights” have a lot in common — namely exaggeration and hidden agendas — but they cover a diverse range of scientific themes, from child development to embryonic stem cell research to everyday radiation exposure to trying to lay blame for hurricanes.
Although virtually the entire “Top 10” could easily consist of global warming items — climate hysteria being the most important junk science issue of our time — in the interest of diversity, JunkScience.com’s Top 10 for 2005 are:
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