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Politics : Bush Administration's Media Manipulation--MediaGate? -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: 10K a day who wrote (5439)	10/30/2005 1:47:47 PM
From: Proud_Infidel	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 9838

And still more from the so-called religion of peace: Extremists behead three Christian students in Indonesia Bangkok Post ^ \| 29 October 2005 \| Bangkok Post Jakarta (dpa) - Three Christian students were beheaded and three others wounded in the eastern Indonesian province of Central Sulawesi Saturday, following a new violence in the region torn by sectarian conflict. The bodies of the Christian students, who lived at the same village in Poso district town, were found at different places, with their heads taken as far as 25 kilometres away, the state-run Antara news agency reported. The three students were killed while they were on their way to school, about nine kilometres from their homes. Another three students had suffered serious stab wounds in the attack, Antara said. Local police authorities were investigating the murders, the latest incident in a series of violence in Central Sulawesi in recent months. Meanwhile, Central Sulawesi police pursued a suspect believed to have detonated a bomb in a minibus in the nearby district of Parigi on Thursday. One person had been seriously in jured in the blast. Investigations had shown that the bomb was a low-explosive home- made device using black powder - a mixture of sodium nitrate, charcoal and sulphur - and ball bearings, police said. Detonators, a fuse and nine-volt battery had also been found inside the van. In late May, two powerful blasts had ripped an open market in Tentena sub-district of Poso regency, killing at least 22 people and injuring more than 50 others. Poso and its nearby regions have been wracked by communal clashes between Moslem and Christian communities, leaving more than 1,000 dead in 2000 and 2001. Indonesia is the world's most populous Moslem nation, but Central Sulawesi has roughly equal numbers of Moslems and Christians.

To: 10K a day who wrote (5439)	10/31/2005 4:03:45 PM
From: Skywatcher	Respond to of 9838

Samuel Alito’s America This morning President Bush nominated 3rd Circuit Appeals Court Judge Samuel Alito for the U.S. Supreme Court.” Who is Samuel Alito? ThinkProgress has the facts: ALITO WOULD OVERTURN ROE V. WADE: In his dissenting opinion in Planned Parenthood v. Casey, Alito concurred with the majority in supporting the restrictive abortion-related measures passed by the Pennsylvania legislature in the late 1980’s. Alito went further, however, saying the majority was wrong to strike down a requirement that women notify their spouses before having an abortion. The Supreme Court later rejected Alito’s view, voting to reaffirm Roe v. Wade. [Planned Parenthood of Southeastern Pennsylvania v. Casey, 1991] U.S. President George W. Bush (L) announces the nomination of U.S. Appeals Court Justice Samuel Alito (R) for Associate Justice of the Supreme Court at the White House in Washington, D.C., October 31, 2005. Bush nominated Alito to the Supreme Court on Monday in a move likely to set off a partisan battle with Democrats as he tries to right his struggling presidency. REUTERS/Kevin Lamarque ALITO WOULD ALLOW RACE-BASED DISCRIMINATION: Alito dissented from a decision in favor of a Marriott Hotel manager who said she had been discriminated against on the basis of race. The majority explained that Alito would have protected racist employers by “immuniz[ing] an employer from the reach of Title VII if the employer’s belief that it had selected the ‘best’ candidate was the result of conscious racial bias.” [Bray v. Marriott Hotels, 1997] ALITO WOULD ALLOW DISABILITY-BASED DISCRIMINATION: In Nathanson v. Medical College of Pennsylvania, the majority said the standard for proving disability-based discrimination articulated in Alito’s dissent was so restrictive that “few if any…cases would survive summary judgment.” [Nathanson v. Medical College of Pennsylvania, 1991] ALITO WOULD STRIKE DOWN THE FAMILY AND MEDICAL LEAVE ACT: The Family and Medical Leave Act (FMLA) “guarantees most workers up to 12 weeks of unpaid leave to care for a loved one.” The 2003 Supreme Court ruling upholding FMLA [Nevada v. Hibbs, 2003] essentially reversed a 2000 decision by Alito which found that Congress exceeded its power in passing the law. [Chittister v. Department of Community and Economic Development, 2000] ALITO SUPPORTS UNAUTHORIZED STRIP SEARCHES: In Doe v. Groody, Alito agued that police officers had not violated constitutional rights when they strip searched a mother and her ten-year-old daughter while carrying out a search warrant that authorized only the search of a man and his home. [Doe v. Groody, 2004] ALITO HOSTILE TOWARD IMMIGRANTS: In two cases involving the deportation of immigrants, the majority twice noted Alito’s disregard of settled law. In Dia v. Ashcroft, the majority opinion states that Alito’s dissent “guts the statutory standard” and “ignores our precedent.” In Ki Se Lee v. Ashcroft, the majority stated Alito’s opinion contradicted “well-recognized rules of statutory construction.” [Dia v. Ashcroft, 2003; Ki Se Lee v. Ashcroft, 2004]