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To: Neeka who wrote (311)	4/12/2006 3:44:27 PM
From: paret	Respond to of 908

5 1/2 Tons of Cocaine Found on Venezuela Plane Apr 11 2006 breitbart.com MEXICO CITY Mexican soldiers seized 5 1/2 tons of cocaine from a commercial plane arriving from Venezuela, Mexico's Defense Department announced Tuesday. The army was waiting for the plane on Monday at the airport of Cuidad de Carmen, 550 miles east of Mexico City, after receiving information from Venezuelan and U.S. authorities, Gen. Carlos Gaytan told a news conference. Soldiers arrested Colombian Miguel Vazquez, 47, who was the plane's co-pilot, but the pilot escaped, Gaytan said. There were no passengers. U.S. and Mexican officials say that cocaine and heroin is increasingly passing from Colombia through Venezuela to Mexico where it is smuggled into the United States. While drug traffickers used planes to smuggle large quantities of drugs in the 1990s, most Mexican traffickers now use land and sea routes. A U.S. State Department report released in March said that Venezuela has become a key transit point for drugs because of "rampant corruption at the highest levels of law enforcement and a weak judicial system." Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez suspended cooperation with the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration in August, accusing its agents of spying.

To: Neeka who wrote (311)	4/12/2006 4:13:27 PM
From: paret	Respond to of 908

Neeka, that has been true for decades. There is hatred between the groups. Was very noticeable for years in fan reaction in boxing. I was in a movie theatre years ago where the movie had either Robert deNiro or Al Pacino playing the central character, a Hispanic . When he died at the end the blacks in the theatre pointedly and loudly talked to each other to ruin the ending for anyone else and to demonstrate they disliked the Hispanic character. A couple years ago I had to get a new refrigerator. I got a knock on my door and there was a man about 65 leaning with one hand against the wall looking like he was about to have a heart attack--and a skinny teenage kid--both Hispanic. They were the refrigerator movers! I told them to get out of the way and moved the refrig in myself. They followed me into the kitchen, where the older one leaned against the wall and gasped some more before handing me some papers to sign. Refrigerator moving requires real strength, and neither of those two was the type to do such a job. But the jobs of that type in the area where I live have ALL gone to Hispanics.

To: Neeka who wrote (311)	4/12/2006 5:03:30 PM
From: paret	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 908

Here's your girl Cynthia Officer Considers Lawsuit Against McKinney WSBTV ^ WASHINGTON -- The top police union official in the U.S. was in Washington today, urging the police officer who was involved in a run-in with Rep. Cynthia McKinney D-Ga. to file a lawsuit against the congresswoman. McKinney is accused of striking a Capitol Police officer, after the officer failed to recognize her and stopped her at a security checkpoint. Channel 2 Action News learned exclusively that the president of the largest police union in the U.S. met with the unidentified officer this morning to talk over a possible lawsuit. “We're going to make sure the officer won't be harassed. We want the officer to be able talk to experts, who can look at his legal recourses, if he needed to," says Chuck Canterbury, national president of the Fraternal Order of Police. The F.O.P. has more than 320,000 members. Union officials are also looking into the run-in between one of the congresswoman's employees and Channel 2 Action News reporter Scott MacFarlane. They're looking into the background of the man who claimed on-camera to be a police officer. The union says he should be prosecuted for impersonating a police officer. Rep. McKinney's office says the man is her driver, not a police officer. “We rail against people who use police authority when they don't have it,” says Canterbury. “It's dangerous for police officers. It's dangerous for the public. Imitating police is not a good thing,” he added. Rep. McKinney’s case remains in the hands of the U.S. attorney in Washington. A grand jury is hearing testimony.

To: Neeka who wrote (311)	4/12/2006 5:13:37 PM
From: Cage Rattler	Read Replies (4) \| Respond to of 908

On the surface that seems totally out of line. In central Tuscaloosa County, Alabama, some construction supervisors have stated that the Hispanic employees are more knowledgeable, reliable, and willing to learn and to work than many other unemployed job applicants. This is not simply a Black-Hispanic issue; although the Afro-American are affected. Could it be that an increasing number of Americans, of all races and gender, would rather live on welfare or unemployment than fill a demanding job-position. Continued unemployment benefits, food stamps, etc., in some locales at least, may be contingent upon a recipient actively seeking employment. An employer’s signature on a job-search routing slip implies an active effort to seek employment. Personally, I have interviewed individuals applying for work that have cursed during an interview, been physically filthy, obnoxious, and have stated that all they wanted was a signature on a form and not a job. Could this explain why some alleged motivated workers are turned away. Construction projects are visible. Do you really think it would be a wise move to pay sub-standard wages to illegal aliens while turn away qualified, willing legal workers? One might argue that hiring any employee is more a matter of a worker’s productivity, attitude, knowledge, and work ethics. Perhaps you are right about race riots -- but let’s not identify job-market dynamics as the cause. The “gangsta” mentality arising from non-working bums, and racial hate groups that project blame for their lack of achievement, are far more probable, and proximal etiologies for the riots you foresee.

To: Neeka who wrote (311)	4/14/2006 8:24:22 PM
From: paret	Respond to of 908

Nearly 300 More Bone Fragments Found Atop WTC Skyscraper The AP via WNBC 4 New York ^ \| April 13, 2006 NEW YORK -- Nearly 300 more human bone fragments were recovered in the past four days from the roof of a skyscraper badly damaged by the Sept. 11, 2001, collapse of the World Trade Center, officials said Thursday. Workers have been going through the former Deutsche Bank building to remove toxic chemicals and trade center dust before they begin dismantling it floor by floor. They found 10 bone fragments on the rooftop when the cleanup began last fall and had found more than 80 in recent weeks. Two fire department battalion chiefs and retired firefighters joined in the search for remains this week after some Sept. 11 family members complained that recovery experts should help the construction workers. The bone fragments, most less than 1/16 of an inch long, were found in gravel that had been raked to the sides of the roof of the 41-story skyscraper, said Ellen Borakove, spokeswoman for the city medical examiner's office. The work on the roof is expected to take another week to complete. Part of the trade center's 110-story south tower tore through 15 stories of the Deutsche Bank building when it collapsed. The bank building, covered in black netting, has remained vacant, contaminated with asbestos, trade center dust and other chemicals. Lower Manhattan Development Corp., which bought the building for $90 million and is paying to tear it down, has added an archaeologist and an investigator from the medical examiner's office to oversee the work. The new procedures "have and will continue to yield findings of potential human remains, which will be treated with the utmost care, respect and dignity," LMDC spokesman John Gallagher said. Diane Horning, who lost her son in the Sept. 11 attack, said she believed the efforts were producing results. "As far as I understand it, I am satisfied, but I've noticed that there are families who are not," she said. "As far as I understand it, the firefighters that they've called in are the hands and knees people." The recovered remains are taken to a DNA lab for testing. Those that are identified are turned over to family members. Those that can't be identified will be stored at the World Trade Center memorial, where they will be available for possible future testing with better technology, the medical examiner's office spokeswoman said. Fire and police officials have not been able to say in recent weeks when the Deutsche Bank building was last searched for remains or whether other buildings around the trade center site have ever been looked at. The LMDC hopes to complete the search for remains and clean the building of toxins by June, when it wants to dismantle it. But federal environmental officials this week expressed concerns about the state rebuilding agency's plans and warned that they wouldn't approve the deconstruction without more information. The dismantling won't begin "until such time as the regulatory team has agreed that LMDC has provided them with an acceptable plan for such work," Pat Evangelista, the World Trade Center site coordinator for the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, wrote on Tuesday. The EPA questioned a plan to use a concrete chute and other equipment that would pour debris down the side of the building, saying the agency never got approval for it. Said Gallagher: "LMDC will expeditiously provide any further information, clarifications, enhancements or modifications to the plan that EPA requests."