Wednesday, January 12, 2005
Cop charged with stealing, killing bomb-sniffing dog
By Raquel C. Bagnol

FOR allegedly stealing, killing and eating a bomb-sniffing dog owned by another police officer at the Police Regional Office (PRO) 11 compound last year, a policeman has been slapped with two criminal cases before the City Prosecutor's Office (CPO).

The complaint was filed by Goldie Delvo, wife of Major Alden Delvo of the same office.

In her affidavit, Delvo alleged that SPO2 Remberto Orencia stole, killed and ate her four-year-old Labrador named Kobe.

Delvo said that her Labrador, which cost her P15,000 had undergone a six-month training course with the Special Anti-Terrorist Unit (Satu) for bomb sniffing prior to its death.

She said Kobe even participated in various police operations to discover hidden bombs and other explosives.

Delvo said her neighbors informed her that Orencia allegedly hit Kobe with a piece of wood and slashed its neck with a knife.

She was also informed that Orencia allegedly cooked the dog and ate it afterwards.

Delvo said that when her husband confronted Orencia, the later reasoned out that he killed the dog in compliance with the order of the PRO head to kill all stray dogs in the vicinity.

bush_ruelz

Name: John Doe
Gender: Male

 i want 2 talk about the faggest state.  MASSACHEWSETS!!!!  u want 2 kno who was from massachewsets????

JOHN KERRY!!!  yes, the FAG who ran aganst BUSH!!!!
JOHN KENEDY!!!  yes, the FAG who got asasinated by my hero!  he was a hipie and he was the wurst prez eva!!!
EE CUMMINGS!!!!!  he is a poet who is a dumass fag becuz he doesnt know how 2 spell and punctate and captalize letters!!!  he is a PASIFIST witchmeans he loves "peace" witch makes him a HIPIE FAGGOT!!!!  he also is a "individalist" witch meens he thinks the goverment should b theyre to help the ppl.  wel he is RONG becuz EVERY1 KNOS THE PPL R HERE 2 MAKE SURE THE GOVERMENT (BUSH!!!) gets enuf money and is hapy!!!
BENGAMIN FRANKLIN!!!!  he was a FAG becuz he didnt like slavery.  black ppl r all bad ppl and criminals becuz they hurt ppl.  if they were SLAVES they wouldnt b able 2 hurt ppl and republikans.  every1 knos all black ppl live in MASSACHEWSETS, THE FAG STATE!!!!
SAMUAL ADAMS!!!  he made beer witch god sez is the evil drink and drink of satan!!!!  he made the boston tea party witch is a party were all the fags in boston drank tea like fags from ENGLAND!!!  all ENGLISHMEN ARE FAGS!!!!

some massachewsets faggots sed that bush sr was from massachewsets but they r LIARS becuz he is from TEXAS, were every1 is NOT A FAG!!!!  these FAGGOTS just want 2 look good!!!!

bsides, GAY FAGGOTS CAN MARRY IN MASSACHEWSETS!!!!  bush is trying 2 save them becuz he is a grashus person and my hero but they dont want 2 and they just want 2 be gay and fags and marry each other!!!  massachewsets is the ONLY state were fags can marry, and becuz GOD HATES FAGS, GOD HATES MASSACHEWSETS!!!!

From bush_ruelz

Fashion is something barbarous, for it produces innovation without reason and imitation without benefit.

George Santayana
    --The Life of Reason

 Ecstasy Effect on Terminal Cancer Patients to be Tested 1/7/05
http://stopthedrugwar.org/chronicle/369/estudy.shtml

The Food and Drug Administration has approved a pilot study to examine whether MDMA, better known as Ecstasy, can help terminal cancer patients come to grips with end-of-life anxiety and depression. The study, led by Harvard Medical School researcher Dr. John Halpern, is set to begin this spring with 12 cancer patients in the Boston area.

After a virtual ban on psychedelic research dating back to another Harvard researcher, Timothy Leary, the Harvard study marks the second time in a few months that the FDA has approved research into the use of Ecstasy for therapeutic purposes. Last year, the agency gave final approval to a South Carolina study of Ecstasy's efficacy in treating patients with post-traumatic stress disorder. Other studies testing the efficacy of psilocybin, the active ingredient in psychedelic mushrooms, for people with anxiety and obsessive-compulsive disorders are also underway.

According to Dr. Halpern, Ecstasy is an "empathogen," a substance that can reduce stress and increase empathy. Unlike LSD, said Halpern, Ecstasy is "ego friendly," and unlike many pain medications, it does not make people groggy or over-sedated. Instead, according to anecdotal reports, people with terminal illnesses who have taken the drug found it easier to talk to friends and families about death and other uncomfortable subjects. "End of life issues are very important and are getting more and more attention, and yet there are very few options for patients who are facing death," he said.

	The MAPS Bulletin

The discoverer of LSD, Dr. Albert Hoffman, who turns 99 this month, referred to the substance as "my problem child." But Hoffman remains convinced that psychedelics like LSD can have positive therapeutic effects.

Dr. Charles Grob, a psychiatrist at the Harbor-UCLA Medical Center in Los Angeles who is leading an FDA-approved study of the efficacy of psilocybin in helping terminal cancer patients deal with end-of-life emotional and spiritual issues, told the Washington Post that, if used in a therapeutic setting, psychedelics can yield impressive results.

Grob's patients, who take "modest" doses of synthetic psilocybin and then spend the next few hours in a comfortable setting with a psychiatrist, are doing well, he said. "So far they have had impressive results in terms of amelioration of anxiety, improvement of mood, increased rapport with family and friends and, interestingly, significant and lasting reductions in pain. These are extraordinary compounds that seem to have an uncanny ability to reliably induce spiritual or religious experiences."

 Dr. Halpern, who will lead the Boston study, told the Post psychedelics "may be helpful" for many facing death. "For a lot of people, the anxiety about death is so tremendous there is no way to get their arms around the problems that were ongoing in their families. This could be a substantial contribution to the range of palliative care strategies we're trying to develop for people facing death."

10 January 2005

Four soldiers from the Royal Regiment of Fusiliers are charged with assault and indecent assault for alleged incidents at a warehouse in Iraq.

Staff at a photographic store in Staffordshire tipped off police after they were disturbed by so-called "trophy snaps" a soldier had asked them to develop.

The 25 pictures are reported to show one soldier standing on an Iraqi prisoner who appears to be lying in a pool of blood. Another allegedly shows a gagged Iraqi hanging from the arms of a fork-lift truck controlled by a grinning British soldier. The prisoner is cut down and shown falling heavily. Others are reported to show a soldier preparing to kick the head of an Iraqi lying on the ground. Others are alleged to show Iraqis being forced to perform sexual acts with each other and on a soldier.

The Attorney General that 75 investigations had been launched into allegations of soldiers' mistreatment of Iraqis. Thirty-six cases involved the deaths of prisoners. They include the cases of Baha Mousa, a hotel receptionist who died of injuries after being arrested by soldiers from the Queen's Lancashire Regiment and that of Abd al-Jubba Mousa, 53, a head teacher in Basra who died after he was allegedly beaten with rifle butts by Black Watch soldiers in May 2003.

A Red Cross investigation at the same time showed there had been "systematic abuse" of prisoners and revealed that British soldiers had stamped on the neck of a man who died in their custody.

Witness: CIA and SEALs beat prisoners during interrogation

By SETH HETTENA, Associated Press Writer
Last Updated 6:45 pm PST Monday, January 10, 2005

SAN DIEGO (AP) - Navy SEALs and CIA officials kicked, punched, choked and eye-gouged detainees, a former SEAL testified Monday.

The witness said, he watched for 10 minutes as SEALs punched, choked and poked their fingers in the eye of Iraqi Manadel al-Jamadi, who also was punched by a CIA official when he didn't answer questions.

Al-Jamadi died while being interrogated by CIA personnel in the shower room of the Abu Ghraib prison.

The hearing was for a Navy SEAL lieutenant who is accused of assault, maltreatment and conduct unbecoming an officer for his handling of detainees. He is not charged with al-Jamadi's death.

Details of al-Jamadi's death, such as what position he was in when he died, were deemed classified by the CIA.

A Swiss motorist who stopped after hitting a dog found he had actually hit a man dressed in a dog costume.

The 35-year-old driver told police he thought he had hit a real dog.

But when he stopped he discovered it was a drunk stag party reveller wearing a dog costume.

Police believe the man had laid down in the middle of the road as he made his way home.

A German professor who went on a dream holiday to Costa Rica woke up in an airport departure lounge to find his leg had been amputated.

The professor said he had gone to see a doctor at a hospital in San Jose because his left foot was swollen.

"When I got to the hospital they put me on a bed and I heard the word amputate. I tried to protest, but before I knew it they had given me drugs to black me out, and when I woke up I was at the departure lounge."

"My suitcases were by my side - and then I realised my leg was missing. I couldn't move, and when I checked my wallet I found that £200 had been taken out and replaced with a receipt for the amputation."

Mum's plot to kill kids

THREE little boys escaped being murdered by their mum when she sliced her fingers off starting a petrol mower she planned to gas them with.

The mother was involved in a bitter custody dispute with the father of the youngsters aged ten, five and four, a court was told yesterday.

She put the lawnmower in the back of the family car to kill the kids, of Denbigh, North Wales, with the fumes.

But as she started the machine she sliced off two fingers, a Mold Crown Court judge heard.

IRAQ ELECTIONS

Sunni Arabs are going to boycott elections. It's not about religion or fatwas or any of that so much as the principle of holding elections while you are under occupation. People don't really sense that this is the first stepping stone to democracy as western media is implying. Many people sense that this is just the final act of a really bad play. It's the tying of the ribbon on the "democracy parcel" we've been handed. It's being stuck with an occupation government that has been labeled 'legitimate' through elections.

We're being bombarded with cute Iraqi commercials of happy Iraqi families preparing to vote. Signs and billboards remind us that the elections are getting closer...

Can you just imagine what our history books are going to look like 20 years from now?

"The first democratic elections were held in Iraq on January 29, 2005 under the ever-watchful collective eye of the occupation forces, headed by the United States of America. Troops in tanks watched as swarms of warm, fuzzy Iraqis headed for the ballot boxes to select one of the American-approved candidates..."

There are several problems. The first is the fact that, technically, we don't know the candidates. They aren't making the lists public because they are afraid the candidates will be assassinated.

Another problem is the selling of ballots. Many, many, many people are not going to vote. Some of those people are selling their voting cards for up to $400. The word on the street is that these ballots are being bought by people coming in from Iran.

Yet another issue is the fact that on all the voting cards, the gender of the voter, regardless of sex, is labeled "male."

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