About one in every 37 U.S. adults was either imprisoned at the end of 2001 or had been incarcerated at one time, the government reported Sunday. The 5.6 million people with "prison experience" represented about 2.7 percent of the adult population of 210 million as of Dec. 31, 2001
Almost 5 percent of men in 2001 had done prison time, compared with less than 1 percent of women.
Almost 17 percent of black men in 2001 had prison experience, compared with 7.7 percent of Hispanic men and 2.6 percent of white men.
No matter their ethnic origin, people between ages 35 and 44 in 2001 had the highest rates of lifetime incarceration — 6.5 percent for men

Dana's death brought to 18 the number of journalists or their assistants who have died in Iraq since the war began on March 20. Reuters cameraman Taras Protsyuk, a Ukrainian based in Warsaw, died on April 8 when a U.S. tank fired a shell at the Palestine Hotel, the base for many foreign media in Baghdad.

A government campaign to promote patriotism in education and attempts by teachers to resist it have been blamed for the deaths in Hiroshima of Kauhiro Keitoko, the headmaster, and Shokichi Yamaoka, his deputy.

It's no wonder a recent ACNeilson survey found that job security topped the list of issues Australians are most concerned about today, well ahead of terrorism, health and economic decline.

Bush declares flatly that any "judicial process" launched against these protected entities "shall be deemed null and void." And how to guarantee that his partners and patrons won't be troubled by some rogue nation that still clings to the outmoded principle of law and order? Simple: One of the agencies authorized to "employ all powers" necessary "to carry out the purposes of this order" is our old friend, the Defense Department.

Looking over the internet, I am quite surprised at the lack of crazed conspiracy theories concerning the blackout. Are we actually starting to believe all the lies that we are being told, no matter how implausible they may be? The Official Story, which involves unlikely Bushian omniscience about terrorism, implausible official inability to immediately pinpoint the problem, the Canadian Minister of Defence spouting oddly specific nonsense, and simultaneous multinational failures of a system across widely-spaced geographical areas, is difficult to believe

A Times reporter has confirmed to E&P that personnel in the paper's Baghdad bureau were upset over Miller's earlier stories because she seemed to keep arriving at "the same conclusions" even when there seemed to be "no evidence for them." Miller reported not to the bureau, but to editors in New York.


Lay all Judith Miller's New York Times stories end to end, from late 2001 to June 2003 and you get a desolate picture of a reporter with an agenda, both manipulating and being manipulated by US government officials, Iraqi exiles and defectors, an entire Noah's Ark of scam-artists.

Mihir Bose of The Telegraph recalled how Lakhani had helped the police crack a fraud on Indian and Middle Eastern banks in the early 1980s, and how he had been the source of his stories on the subject.
A spokesman said: "The BBC has not received any complaint from any US authority regarding the story."

"The BBC has not received any complaint from any US authority regarding Tom Mangold's story. All the interested parties were alerted to the report before transmission and at no time registered their concerns," said a spokeswoman.
The BBC said that Mangold was working on the story since last week - it was broken on Wednesday.

Speaking before the National Association of Black Journalists, condi's latest outrage is accusing critics of the President's war policy of "racism."
"We and our allies must make a generational commitment to helping the people of the Middle East transform their region."


as Madison put it, that "war is in fact the true nurse of executive aggrandizement," which is why they gave to Congress, alone, the exclusive power to declare war – a power that has been usurped by the executive branch on account our foreign policy of global intervention..