Archive through January 07, 2003
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Archive through January 07, 2003
Babyruth | Monday, December 30, 2002 - 03:40 pm     Scary, ain't it? I had a much tougher time coming thru NB into Maine at midnight one summer 3 years ago while on vacation. |
Mygetaway | Monday, December 30, 2002 - 06:11 pm     There was a guy on KIRO news here that said he was on a bus with one of the guys that came over from the BC area of Canada, into Washington.. http://www.seattleinsider.com/partners/kirotv/news/2002/12/30/fbi_wanted.html |
Crossfire | Monday, December 30, 2002 - 06:15 pm     Interesting. The article mentions that the fellow this guy identifies as one matching one of the photo's was taken off the bus by uniformed officers. Makes me wonder why they need us to find someone they apparently already had. |
Mygetaway | Monday, December 30, 2002 - 06:21 pm     Crossfire.. On the news they mentioned that the officers didn't think it was the same guy. The man on the bus swears it was him. He had tried to reach the FBI, but the FBI didn't get back with him until today. |
Crossfire | Monday, December 30, 2002 - 06:28 pm     Yeah, I guess that is the only logical explanation. |
Flint | Thursday, January 02, 2003 - 03:02 pm     From Canoe.ca cnews South Korea pushes diplomacy with U.S., tells North to stop sabre-rattling SEOUL (AP) - South Korea rejected a proposal from the communist North to work together against the United States and told Pyongyang to stop sabre-rattling. Later Thursday, U.S. President George W. Bush sharply rebuked North Korean leader Kim Jong Il, telling reporters in Texas that he has "no heart for somebody who starves his folks." But Bush said he remains confident in a peaceful solution to the nuclear standoff. In Seoul, South Korea Unification Minister Jeong Se-hyun said the North's leadership "should not attempt to test the limit of the patience of the international community." Jeong, whose ministry handles inter-Korean affairs, said his government will use inter-Korean cabinet-level talks later this month to urge North Korea to stop efforts to restart its nuclear facilities. The meetings, which are the highest channels of dialogue between the two sides, will provide the first opportunity for South Korea to raise the nuclear issue directly with the North. "The nuclear issue is a matter that affects the destiny of our people," Jeong said. "Therefore, we should actively search for a solution that can make all parties - South and North Korea and related countries - the winner." Also Thursday, South Korea claimed critical Chinese support in its drive to speed diplomacy to end the crisis. Lee Tae-sik, South Korea's deputy foreign minister, and Wang Yi, China's vice foreign minister, agreed in Beijing that their countries would try "to resolve North Korea's nuclear issue peacefully through dialogue," a senior South Korean Foreign Ministry official said. "The two sides will work to prevent the situation from further aggravating," said Shin Jung-seung, director of the ministry's Asia-Pacific affairs section. At the United Nations, diplomats said Beijing wanted to deal privately with the situation through diplomatic channels rather than bringing it to the Security Council where Chinese diplomats could wind up - because of the long-standing alliance with the North - publicly defending Pyongyang. Seoul has also acknowledged the desire of South Koreans for their government to assume a larger role in determining the outcome of the dangerous standoff and vowed to lead the campaign to damp down the confrontation with the isolated, Stalinist North. "We must mobilize all our diplomatic resources to find a peaceful solution to the problem that is directly connected to our nation's stability and prosperity," said South Korean Foreign Minister Choi Sung-hong. In early December, North Korea alarmed the world by deciding to reactivate its plutonium-based nuclear program. It since has removed monitoring seals and cameras from its nuclear facilities at Yongbyon, expelled UN inspectors who visually monitored those facilities and signalled it may quit the global nuclear arms control treaty. The inspectors work for the Vienna-based UN International Atomic Energy Agency, which plans to hold an emergency board meeting Monday to decide whether to refer the North Korean actions to the UN Security Council. While Washington has vowed to use diplomacy, the North suspects Washington eventually will use military force. And North Korea's state media said the country would not bend to U.S. pressure. "If the U.S. tries to settle the issue with (North Korea) by force, (North Korea) has no idea of avoiding it," said the North's government newspaper, Minju Joson, in a report carried on the North's foreign news outlet, Korean Central News Agency. It said the North's army was strong and ready to fight. The North, sensing opportunity in widespread anti-American sentiment in South Korea, also urged the South on Wednesday to back its confrontation with the United States. This emphasis on "co-operation" with South Korea comes at a time when Seoul is criticizing a possible U.S. plan to use economic sanctions to force North Korea to abandon its suspected nuclear weapons program. North Korea's overtures also are driven by economic needs, experts said. South Korea, under President Kim Dae-jung's "sunshine" policy of engaging the North, has launched a series of unfinished inter-Korean projects, including a cross-border rail link and tourist and industrial parks, that would bring the impoverished North badly needed investment. North Korea, which can hardly feed its 22 million people without outside relief, risks losing key sources of aid with its actions in recent weeks. |
Goddessatlaw | Friday, January 03, 2003 - 08:54 am     David Westerfield, murderer of 7-year-old Danielle Van Damm, has been sentenced to death. |
Cyn | Friday, January 03, 2003 - 08:56 am     see everything has a purpose! i do not find this destressing news, but am relieved that little Danielle's loved ones have found justice. i hope that they can move beyond their grieving and assist society in creating laws or something that help protect our most vulnerable - our youth. |
Cyn | Friday, January 03, 2003 - 09:23 am     oh, i just want to add for the record that i am not a proponent of the death penalty due to the program of institutionalized subtle corruption of our consciousness from crap that our elders fed us and we swallowed. We are only beginning to really see the depths of how it corrupted us. Combine this with the training classes for our law enforcement agencies and lack of representation for the poor in our courts today, and it prevents me, unfortunately, from actually signing off to saying that the death penalty needs be a viable option, because it can't be with the glitches that exist within the system at present. but, I'm glad that will no longer be on the planet that I'm on. |
Conejo | Friday, January 03, 2003 - 09:24 am     Now I just wonder how many Millions of dollars will be drained out of taxpayers pockets to pay for all the appeals. (Not saying that I'm for or against the death penalty) |
Cyn | Friday, January 03, 2003 - 09:30 am     the execution day itself costs well over a million. |
Weenerlobo | Friday, January 03, 2003 - 09:38 am     I know I'm a bit late for the 19 Man Terror Team discussion, but when I heard that they had most likely come into the US from Canada I instantly thought of them coming through either Detroit or Port Huron. Michigan, more specifically Wayne County, has the highest number of middle eastern peoples living outside of the Middle East. And Babyruth is so right - tunnel or bridge at Detroit/Windsor is sketchy. At times I still hear of one to two hour back-ups, but that is mostly for commercial traffic. I really do think that some of these guys are hanging around here. |
Rissa | Friday, January 03, 2003 - 12:51 pm     EDMONTON -- Anthrax was confirmed last night in an initial test of a suspicious package addressed to the Canada's firearms registry at a Canada Post facility, say authorities. But officials say more testing would have to be done before it would know for sure what the substance actually was. Rest of story..... Anthrax Found in Edmonton Editting to add: LOL, that was fast!!!!! More testing showed errors in original results. Anthrax Found....NOT |
Twiggyish | Friday, January 03, 2003 - 12:55 pm     Oh I hope not!! |
Cyn | Saturday, January 04, 2003 - 09:07 pm     Many Childhood Dreams Shattered The family of Roy Wallace, 84, of Humboldt, California, announced that he passed on. His family has now come forward to the press with the Big Foot constume that Roy's wife wore and the molds of the feet that he used to fake the Big Foot sightings for decades. His family came forward after his death. They never made any money on it, only lots of laughs. |
Zachsmom | Saturday, January 04, 2003 - 09:08 pm     ROTFLMBO Cyn!! That's great!!! LOL.. |
Spygirl | Sunday, January 05, 2003 - 07:50 am     There is a news report on CNN about a plane circling around the city of Frankfurt Germany. The man flying the plane is asking to speak to news stations and U.S. citizen Charles Resnick. There were helicopters trying to coax down the plane and now there are F-16's trying to coax the plane down -- or take the plane down before he crashes it into one of the skyscrapers. They are showing pictures of the plane for the first time now. It is a small single engine plane. |
Max | Sunday, January 05, 2003 - 03:20 pm     CNN follow-up: Frankfurt crash threat ends safely "A plane of this type would have caused only minimal damage to the skyscraper," said Reinhard Ries, Frankfurt fire chief. The bigger concern was that the pilot would try to land on a crowded street, he said. About 5 p.m. (11 a.m. ET), the plane veered away from downtown Frankfurt and headed to the airport where it landed safely about 10 minutes later, officials said. The man demanded that a TV crew be at the airport, they said. |
Cyn | Monday, January 06, 2003 - 08:36 pm     NYC to Host 2004 GOP Convention NYC was selected unanimously Mayor Bloomberg said. The Mayor said, "Official ratification by the full RNC next month is a foregone conclusion." This is the first time that Manahattan has hosted a Republican Convention. |
Max | Monday, January 06, 2003 - 10:15 pm     FBI sources: Informant's story about U.S. infiltrators is false http://www.cnn.com/2003/LAW/01/06/hamdani.extradition/index.html WASHINGTON (CNN) -- Some FBI officials now believe an account of five men infiltrating the United States from Canada -- leading to a nationwide manhunt for the men for questioning -- was fabricated, sources inside the FBI said Monday. |
Zachsmom | Monday, January 06, 2003 - 10:21 pm     newspeak at it's best max.. |
Car54 | Tuesday, January 07, 2003 - 12:38 am     can you say Denny's? |
Rissa | Tuesday, January 07, 2003 - 07:20 am     Anyone here from NY? We just got a newsflash (Cdn news channel) that a building in Brooklyn has been 'heavily damaged' and they are awaiting emergency vehicles. They will update as soon as they have more...... I have checked CNN, Yahoo, Reuters, etc., but they have not caught this yet. The news I saw didn't have much info., but they did insert it as a newsflash so it seemed serious. Anyone else hear anything? Just showing photos now, looks like a 5 story building..... one side is collapsed. They are saying it seems no-one was injured. |
Grooch | Tuesday, January 07, 2003 - 07:24 am     Thanks for the info, Max. Amazing that I haven't seen that in any newspaper. Rissa, I hope everything is ok in NY. |
Rissa | Tuesday, January 07, 2003 - 07:39 am     Oh for &$^!*#& !! LOL I can't see that anyone is even mentioning this besides our Cdn. National News Channel (CTV in case anyone else wants to check). They mention it every 15 minutes or so, and show the film but now the tone of voice is much more casual. Maybe the dang thing just fell down on it's own of old age? LOL I will keep looking for a link to ANY details. So far they are not saying a thing about possible causes, just showing what looks like a 5 story building completely collapsed on one end from top to bottom and saying that there are no reports of injury. |
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