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'bizarre mix of mammal, bird and reptile, with very complex sexuality'

Thu, 08 May 2008 15:15:04 GMT

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clipper's remarks: The fact that the animal has five X and five Y chromosomes is "the weirdest thing about a very weird animal," said Ewan Birney, a co-author on the paper, based at the European Bioinformatics Institute, near Cambridge. "In theory it means there are 25 possible sexes, though in practice that doesn't happen."

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A DNA study found the creatures to be a mix of mammal, bird and reptile with, even more strangely, 10 sex chromosomes

Platypus proves even odder than scientists thought

At first dismissed as a prank, and later cited as proof that God has a sense of humour, the duck-billed platypus has finally given up its evolutionary secrets

The creature, considered one of the strangest mammals in the world, has become the latest to have its genetic code sequenced, revealing it to be a bizarre mix of mammal, bird and reptile, with very complex sexuality. While humans have two sex chromosomes, the X and Y, the platypus has 10, with five of each kind

An international team of scientists extracted DNA from a female platypus, named Glennie, reading all 2.2bn pairs of her genetic "letters". Thought to have begun to diverge from other mammals 170m years ago, the platypus has been regarded as the nearest thing biologists have to a missing link between the earliest reptiles and mammals

'Silence must be broken in SEXUAL ABUSE of Children'

Sat, 12 Apr 2008 21:41:57 GMT

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clipper's remarks: "We must call on the rabbis to tell their population to be more open about what is going on. It is not lashon hora [the sin of gossip and other harmful speech]," added Kadman. "People who keep quiet are partners in the abuse."

Asked whether the case in Beit Shemesh and the one two weeks ago of a US immigrant family accused of severely abusing their six children indicated a rise in abuse within the haredi community, both Slutzky and Kadman concurred that it was more a case of increased awareness and reporting.

Kadman noted that child abuse cases have gone up in recent years, but that this was the case in all of society, not particularly in the Haredi community.
...JPost

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silence must be broken in abuse cases'

The code of silence that exists in ultra-Orthodox communities regarding physical and sexual abuse against children must be broken, and ordinary citizens as well as professionals should be prosecuted for not reporting such cases to the authorities, Welfare and Social Services Ministry officials and child activists

In light of at least two cases of extreme child abuse and incest exposed in the last two weeks - both of which took place in ultra-Orthodox families - those working with children told the Post that there must have been signs these atrocities were being committed, but neighbors, extended family, educational professionals and rabbis did nothing to alert the authorities

"I don't believe that no one knew what was going on in these families,"

accused of brutal physical abuse, including whippings with belts and electric cables, as well as allowing sexual activity to take place among her 12 children

"There is a lot of abuse in the haredi communit

Tags: sex, abuse, israel, childre, religion, society

NATO Supplying Taliban with Weapons by 'Copter???

Mon, 14 Apr 2008 13:37:35 GMT

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Clip Source: www.globalresearch.ca

NATO Forces in Afghanistan Supply the Taliban with Weapons

Amrullah Saleh, the head of Afghanistan's intelligence service, told a parliament security committee "coalition forces" intended to place weapons, ammunition and food at a police checkpoint in a remote section of the southern province of Zabul in late March

"By mistake it was dropped somewhere far from the checkpoint. Later the Taliban came and they picked it up," Saleh later told reporters

It was not clear whose helicopter left the supplies.

Hamidullah Tukhi, a lawmaker from Zabul, told the security commission the weapons were placed 100 meters (300 feet) from the home of a Taliban commander named Mullah Mohammad Alam. He said the supply drop contained heavy machine guns, AK-47s, rockets and food

"I think Gen. McNeill himself said that it was a mistake, but I don't believe it," Tukhi said

Coalition helicopter drops weapons into Taliban hands, Afghan officials say

The Associated Press

Sunday, April 13, 2008

Tags: nato, afghanistan, weapons, war. taliban

and China is Worse than this?

Mon, 14 Apr 2008 16:03:47 GMT

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clipper's remarks: What a perversion of justice. And all for ONE trial with a 9 month sentence so far. Out of nearly 700 POWs there may be only 80 cases after all the torture that they will even bring to their kangaroo court show trail.

What a system. What an advert for American 'democracy'. Were the Nazis as unjust as this never mind China. I know one thing for absolute certainty; one country is moving forward while the other is racing backwards.

Most countries make at least a pretence at dispensing justice to its foes while Bush appears to intend to deliberately offend normal basic standards and to goad even more terrorism to justify his misnomer 'War on Terror'.

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U.S. May Not Release Guantanamo Prisoners: Even If Found Innocent of Charges Against Them

on grounds he might return to the battlefield, according to an article in the April 14th issue of The New Yorker

Brig. General Thomas Hartmann, legal adviser to the Pentagon’s Office of Military Commissions, as saying, “What’s unusual about what we’re doing is that we’re having the commissions before the end of the war. The Nuremberg trials (of accused Nazi war criminals) were after World War Two, so there was no possibility of the defendants going back to the battlefield.”

Rumsfeld as “the worst of a very bad lot”

have already been released

This raises the suspicion they were innocent victims of dragnet arrests or sold to the U.S. by Afghan bounty hunters to enlarge the picture of thousands of Islamist

“even those Guantanamo detainees who are acquitted of the charges against them are analogous to Nazi war criminals.”

hundreds of Guantanamo prisoners

Only one prisoner

has been actually brought to trial.

Tags: guantanamo, usa, prisoners, torture

Feel It In The Air Tonight

Wed, 19 Sep 2007 00:02:47 GMT

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clipper's remarks: One of the best versions of this song I have ever heard and one thing worth mentioning is that it was sung on the train... Awesome guys!!!

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Tags: train version