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Controversial Nobel Winner Resigns

October 25, 2007 - From: www.cnn.com

(CNN) -- The Nobel prize-winning biologist who caused a furor with comments about the intelligence of black people resigned Thursday from his longtime post at a renowned research lab.

In a statement announcing his departure from the Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory on New York's Long Island, Dr James Watson did not mention the comments but instead cited "events" which led to his decision.

"The circumstances in which the transfer is occurring," he wrote, "are not those which I could ever have anticipated or desired."

The lab's board had already suspended him pending a review of his remarks, for which Watson apologized last week.

The controversy began with an interview with Watson published October 14 in Britain's Sunday Times.

Watson was quoted as saying he was "inherently gloomy about the prospect of Africa" because "all our social policies are based on the fact that their intelligence is the same as ours, whereas all the testing says not really."

He also asserted there was no reason to believe different races separated by geography should have evolved identically, and that while he hoped everyone was equal, "people who have to deal with black employees find this is not true."

Watson had been on a tour of the United Kingdom to promote his new book, and the comments led several venues to cancel his planned appearances.

The 79-year-old biologist apologized "unreservedly" last week and said he did not understand how he could have made the quoted remarks.  The paper stood by its interview.

Watson won the 1962 Nobel prize for his role in discovering the double-helix structure of DNA.  He had been chancellor of the lab and served on its board for 43 years, but he said it was now time to retire.

"Closer now to 80 than 79, the passing on of my remaining vestiges of leadership is more than overdue," he wrote.

Watson said he was proud of the laboratory's legacy and reputation as one of the world's leading sites for biological research and education.  Specifically, Watson mentioned cancer research as one of the lab's achievements.

Eduardo Mestre, chairman of the lab's board, said Watson had made "immeasurable contributions" to the lab's research and that the board respected his decision to retire.

The lab's director, Bruce Stillman, credited Watson with raising the lab's profile.

"Jim's legacy will not only include CSHL and the double helix, but his pioneering efforts that led to the sequencing of the human genome and his innovations in science writing and education."

Watson had made controversial remarks in the past.  In 1997, Britain's Sunday Telegraph quoted Watson as saying that if a gene for homosexuality were isolated, women who find that their unborn child has the gene should be allowed to have an abortion.

During a lecture tour in 2000, he suggested there might be links between skin color and sexual prowess, and between a person's weight and their level of ambition.

And in a British TV documentary that aired in 2003, Watson suggested that stupidity was a genetic disease that should be treated.


The U.N.'s oil-for-food program was the largest humanitarian aid scandel in history.  Why don't you hear anything about it?

Russian Spy Says Government Stole $500 Million From U.N.'s Oil-For-Food Program in Iraq

January 26, 2008 - From: www.foxnews.com

A former Russian top spy says his agents helped the Russian government steal nearly $500 million from the U.N.'s oil-for-food program in Iraq before the fall of Saddam Hussein in 2003.

Sergei Tretyakov, who defected to the United States in 2000 as a double agent, says he oversaw an operation that helped Saddam's regime manipulate the price of Iraqi oil sold under the program -- and allow Russia to skim profits.

Tretyakov, former deputy head of intelligence at Russia's U.N. mission from 1995 to 2000, names some names, but sticks mainly to code names.  Among the spies he says he recruited for Russia were a Canadian nuclear weapons expert who became a U.N. nuclear verification expert in Vienna, a senior Russian official in the oil-for-food program and a former Soviet bloc ambassador.  He describes a Russian businessman who got hold of a nuclear bomb, and kept it stored in a shed at his dacha outside Moscow.

The 51-year-old Tretyakov had never spoken out about his spying before this week, when he granted his first news media interviews to publicize a book published Thursday.  Written by former Washington Post journalist Pete Earley, the book is titled "Comrade J.: The Untold Secrets of Russia's Master Spy in America after the End of the Cold War."

"It's an international spy nest," Tretyakov said of the U.N., during an interview this week with The Associated Press.  "Inside the U.N., we were fishing for knowledgeable diplomats who could give us first of all anti-American information."

His defection was first reported by the AP in 2001.  Shortly after, the New York Times broke the news that he was not a diplomat, but a top Russian spy who was extensively debriefed by the CIA and the FBI.

Some of the people named or referenced by a code name in the book have denied Tretyakov's claims.  The Russian mission to the U.N. said Friday it would have no immediate comment.

Stephane Dujarric, a spokesman for U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon, described Tretyakov's allegations as potentially serious violations of law and U.N. rules.

But Dujarric said it would be up to others to prosecute if the allegations are substantiated: "Since the U.N. can't prosecute, it is now up to national governments to prosecute."

An 18-month investigation into the oil-for-food corruption, led by former Federal Reserve chairman Paul Volcker, culminated in an October 2005 report accusing more than 2,200 companies from some 40 countries of colluding with Saddam's regime to bilk the humanitarian program in Iraq of $1.8 billion.

The program was aimed at easing Iraqi suffering under U.N. sanctions imposed after Saddam's 1990 invasion of Kuwait.  It allowed Iraq to sell oil provided the bulk of the proceeds were used to buy food, medicine and other humanitarian goods and to pay war reparations.  Volcker's reports blamed shoddy U.N. management and the world's most powerful nations for allowing corruption in the $64 billion program to go on for years.

Tretyakov defected to the United States with his wife and daughter in 2000, after serving as a double agent passing along secrets to the U.S. government.  He calls his defection "the major failure of Russian intelligence in the United States" and warns that Russia, despite the end of the Cold War, harbors bad intentions toward the United States.

The decision to defect, he said, was made only after his mother died in 1997, and he had no other close relatives alive in Russia who could be used to blackmail him.  The Tretyakovs now live in retirement in an undisclosed location.

"I got extremely disgusted with the Russian government, and I don't see any light at the end of the tunnel.  I'm not very emotional.  I'm not a Boy Scout," said Tretyakov, who was accompanied during the interview by his wife, Helen, and Earley.  "Knowing people who are running Russia, I started feeling that it's immoral to help them.  And finally in my life, when I defected, I did something good in my life.  Because I want to help United States."






Help protect scientific facts.  It takes a mother and a father to make and raise a child.

Don't Say Mum and Dad... Teachers Told Not to Assume Pupils Have Heterosexual Parents

January 30, 2008 - From: www.dailymail.co.uk

By Laura Clark

Teachers should not assume that their pupils have a "mum and dad" under guidance aimed at tackling anti-gay bullying in schools.

It says primary pupils as young as four should be familiarised with the idea of same-sex couples to help combat homophobic attitudes.

Teachers should attempt to avoid assumptions that pupils will have a conventional family background, it urges.

It goes on to suggest the word "parents" may be more appropriate than "mum and dad", particularly in letters and emails to the child's home.

When discussing marriage with secondary pupils, teachers should also educate pupils about civil partnerships and gay adoption rights.

The guidance - produced for the Government by gay rights group Stonewall - will be formally launched today by Schools Secretary Ed Balls.

It states that children who call classmates "gay" should be treated the same as racists as part of a "zero tolerance" crackdown on the use of the word as an insult.

Teachers should avoid telling boys to "be a man" or accuse them of behaving like a "bunch of women."

This sort of rebuke "leads to bullying of those who do not conform to fixed ideas about gender", the guidance states.

At the same time, schools should encourage gay role models among staff, parents and governors.  Homosexual staff should be able to discuss their private lives after the consultation with the head teacher.

In advice to gay staff, it states: "School culture and ethos determines how open staff are about their private lives, and you should therefore seek advice and guidance from your head."

The Department for Children, Schools and Families commissioned Stonewall to write the guidance jointly with lobby group Education Action Challenging Homophobia.

It says that pupils aged four to seven should "understand that not all pupils have a mum and a dad" and learn about different family structures.

Advice to teachers of 11 to 14-year-olds states: "Schools should make efforts to talk inclusively about same-sex parents, for example, avoid assuming all pupils will have a "mum and dad."


"When schools discuss marriage, they may also discuss civil partnership and adoption rights for gay people."

In a section on engaging with parents, it asks schools: "Do you talk about 'parents' instead of assuming all pupils have 'mum or a dad'?"

The advice goes on to urge teachers to challenge every derogatory use of the word gay to avert homophobic attitudes.

Examples include "those trainers are so gay", "that pencil case is so gay" or "you're such a gay boy".

One primary teacher quoted in the guidance said: "We hear 'gay' as a term of abuse every single day.  The children may not know exactly what it means, but they know they are using it as an insult.  That's why we need to tackle it at this stage."

Controversy over the semantics of the word erupted two years ago when the BBC ruled that Radio One DJ Chris Moyles was not being offensive to homosexuals by using the word "gay" to mean "rubbish."

The advice says: "It is important for all staff to challenge pupils explaining the consequences of using 'gay' in a derogatory way.

"It might be time-consuming at first, but a consistent 'zero-tolerance' approach to such language is central to achieving progress and an environment in which being gay is not thought of as being inferior."

It adds: "Schools need to make it clear to pupils that homophobic comments are as serious as racist comments, and homophobic incidents are as serious as other forms of bullying."

Teachers should use every curriculum subject to nip discriminatory attitudes in the bud.

English lessons for teenagers, for example, could focus on the emotions of the gay Italian soldier Carlo in Captain Corelli's Mandolin.

The guidance is being published five years after the repeal of Section 28 - the law which banned the promotion of homosexuality in schools.

Ministers promised the move would make no difference to the teaching of homosexual matters but some critics have claimed the gay lobby is having a growing influence on pupils.

Next month is Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender History Month, where pupils learn about apparently gay figures from history including Leonardo da Vinci, Oscar Wilde and James Dean.

Mr Balls, who will launch the anti-bullying guidance at a Stonewall conference today, said: "I am proud the Government and the department are being robust about this.

"It is our view that every school should have a clear policy on tackling all forms of bullying, including homophobic bullying."


Eric Corley is a gay faggot child molesting moron!

Mexishits are flooding the country with their shit.  Mexico is a rich oil-producing country, yet they need US to pay for everything!  Murder ALL Mexicans!

Strategy Decision Still Months Away

January 23, 2008 - From: www.signonsandiego.com

By Mike Lee

A lawyer for federal wastewater officials said yesterday that they are pressing ahead on two options to improve the treatment of sewage flowing from Tijuana into San Diego County.

However, a final decision on which strategy they will use remains at least three months away, according to the International Boundary and Water Commission.

Commission officials joined state regulators, environmentalists and representatives from the company Bajagua LLC in U.S. District Court to review progress on the two main upgrade proposals: enhancing the commission's existing sewage facility in San Ysidro or building a new plant in Tijuana with the help of Bajagua.

"After years of uncertainty, we can now see a light at the end of the tunnel," said Stephen Samuels, the Justice Department lawyer who represented the U.S. section of the boundary commission.

California and the environmental group Surfrider sued the commission to stop ongoing pollution at the San Ysidro plant.  That facility handles about 25 million gallons of wastewater a day from Tijuana, but it hasn't met U.S. Clean Water Act standards since it started in the late 1990s.

In December, Congress agreed to spend up to $66 million on the problem, though it didn't settle the decade-old question of how best to do that.  At yesterday's hearing, the parties could not agree on who is supposed to make that call - the boundary commission or Congress.

Expanding the current facility has been pegged at roughly $100 million.  About a third of that money may come from Mexico, though no one in court yesterday expressed confidence that Mexico will contribute tens of millions of dollars.

If a major wastewater plant was built in Tijuana, it would further treat sewage handled by the current facility and sewage from othe sources.  That strategy is promoted by Bajagua, a San Marcos company that has spent years lobbying for the project.

Bajagua officials have said their plant would treat some 59 million gallons of wastewater a day.  The company would finance the construction costs upfront, but U.S. taxpayers ultimately would pay for the facility and its operation over two decades.  The bill is estimated at $600 million.

The Government Accountability Office, the investigative arm of Congress, is comparing the projects and is expected to report its findings by late April.

In the meantime, boundary commission leaders said in court papers that they have hired an engineering firm to update old designs for the San Ysidro upgrades and refine cost estimates.  They also are looking at how to increase the treatment capacity of the existing plant to 100 million gallons a day.

At the same time, the commission has resumed negotiations with Bajagua, beginning with a three-hour meeting earlier this month.

Judge Barry Ted Moskowitz ordered the parties to keep working and report back in late March, although no final decision on the winning project is expected by then.

"Everybody has to go along in good faith with both options so that when one is chosen . . . it will be successful," he said.


Trees Growing in Rotting Paper  (Detroit Public Schools Book Depository)

Celebrate black leadership!  More photos and blog notes here: http://www.sweet-juniper.com/2007/11/it-will-rise-from-ashes.html



From http://www.time.com/time/photogallery/0,29307,1706384_1522984,00.html

Note the sunlight coming in through the curtains and the cracks by the door.

Remember:  There is NO liberal bias in the media!!!













The Philadelphia Police Department Proudly Celebrates Black History Month!