Bartcop Entertainment - Wednesday, 17 September, 2003

Wednesday

17 September, 2003

big hammer - bigger hammer

(Updated Daily)

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'TBH Politoons'

Thanks, again, Tim!

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Special Belated 9/11 Issue

Disinfotainment Today

By Michael Dare

Don't Take My Word For It

"The attack will be spectacular and designed to inflict mass casualties against U.S. facilities or interests. Attack preparations have been made. Attack will occur with little or no warning."

- CIA Intelligence Report for Dubya : July, 2001 -

"You don't need to work for the CIA or the FBI to have had foreknowledge of the events of Sept. 11. Historians of the elite conspiracy have been predicting them for years. Terrorist attacks and assassinations are almost always planned by intelligence agencies. Asking "what did the CIA know and when?" is like asking the fox when it knew it was going to raid the hen house. The inner circle of the CIA and all the world's intelligence agencies do not owe their allegiance to the nations that finance them."

- Henry Makow Ph.D.: How's this for 9/11 Foreknowledge? -

"The al-Qaida terrorist network is stronger than before the Sept. 11 attacks, and the U.S.-led war on terror has so far been a failure, a British academic concludes in a study published Tuesday."

- Jill Lawless: AP writer, al-Qaida Stronger Than Pre-9/11 -

"The United States intelligence community was told in 1998 that Arab terrorists were planning to fly a bomb-laden aircraft into the World Trade Center, but the FBI and the Federal Aviation Administration did not take the threat seriously, a congressional investigation into the September 11 attacks has found."

- Dana Priest and Dan Eggen: WTC attack known by 1998 -

"I don't think anybody could have predicted that these people would take an airplane and slam it into the World Trade Center, take another one and slam it into the Pentagon, that they would try to use an airplane as a missile, a hijacked airplane as a missile."

- National Security Advisor Condoleeza Rice: May 16, 2002 press conference, Washington DC -

"Conspiracy theories on the September 11 attacks are gaining ground in Germany two years on, with books claiming that the US government was behind the atrocities climbing bestseller lists. Thanks to a handful of new "non-fiction" works in bookstores, wild accusations have gradually become part of public debate amid a sizable minority in Germany, home to the so-called Hamburg cell that in 2001 produced three of the suicide hijackers. Although each book has a different take on the events of that day, they share the premise that the government of US President George W. Bush planned the kamikaze jet attacks or allowed them to happen to advance a radical foreign policy agenda."

- Ralf Isermann: 9/11 conspiracy theories gaining ground -

"A U.S. Air Force officer in California recently accused President Bush of deliberately allowing the September 11 terror attacks to take place. The officer has been relieved of his command and faces further discipline. The controversy surrounding Lt. Col. Steve Butler's letter to the editor, in which he affirmed that Bush did nothing to warn the American people because he 'needed this war on terrorism,' received scant coverage in the media. Universally ignored by the press, however, was that the officer was not merely expressing a personal opinion. He was in a position to have direct knowledge of contacts between the U.S. military and some of the hijackers in the period before the terrorist attacks that destroyed the World Trade Center and damaged the Pentagon."

- Jerry Isaacs: Air Force Officer Delivers Blistering Excoriation Of Bush -

"[H]aving just been told the country was under attack the commander in chief appeared uninterested in further details. He never asked if there had been any additional threats, where the attacks were coming from, how to best protect the country from further attacks, or what the current status of NORAD or the Federal Emergency Management Agency. Nor did he call for an immediate return to Washington. Instead, in the middle of a modern-day Pearl Harbor, he simply turned back to the matter at hand; the day's photo op. Precious minutes were ticking by, and many more lives were at risk. 'Really good readers, whew!' he told the class as the electronic flashes once again began to blink and the video cameras rolled. 'These must be sixth graders.'"

- James Bamford: Body of Secrets -

"The most important thing is for us to find Osama bin Laden. It is our Number one priority and we will not rest until we find him!"

- Dubya: September 13, 2001 -

"I don't know where bin Laden is. I have no idea and I really don't care. It's not that important. It's not our priority."

- Dubya:, March 13, 2002 -

"You may not be able to change the world, but at least you can embarrass the guilty."
- Jessica Mitford -

"In the two years since the nation began giving law enforcement agencies fresh powers to help them track down and punish terrorists, police and prosecutors have increasingly turned the force of the new laws not on al-Qaida cells, but on people charged with common crimes."

- Anti-terror laws increasingly used against common criminals -

"I asked Pentagon officials: 'How many Iraqis have been killed in this war?' The answers were given 'on background' -- meaning that the Pentagon spokesmen requested anonymity. The spokesmen were honest. They clearly were following orders from the policymakers when they replied that the Iraqi fatality toll was simply not our concern."

- Helen Thomas: Who's Counting the Dead in Iraq? -

"NEVER in 70,000 years has there been a more opportune time to start a massive long drawn out WAR, than now."

- Black Magic and the War on Terror (an astrological guide to the occult reasons for the war) -

"...there's growing evidence that some ordinary Iraqis are joining the enemy, motivated not by nostalgia for Saddam or hunger for holy war but by Iraqi and Arab nationalism, resentment of foreign invaders, suspicion of America's motives and the continuing lack of electricity, public safety and other necessities."

- John Walcott: Bush faces criticism on shifting rationale for war in Iraq -

"If you give a man the correct information for seven years, he may believe the incorrect information on the first day of the eighth year when it is necessary, from your point of view, that he should do so. Your first job is to build the credibility and the authenticity of your propaganda, and persuade the enemy to trust you although you are his enemy."

- A Psychological Warfare Casebook, Operations Research Office, Johns Hopkins University Baltimore (1958) -

"Members of the Order [Skull and Bones] take an oath that absolves them from any allegiance to any nation or king or government or constitution, and that includes the negating of any subsequent oath which they may be required to take. They swear allegiance only to the Order and its goal of a New World Order...according to the oath Bush took when he was initiated into Skull and Bones, his oath of office as President of the United States means nothing."

- William Cooper: Behold A Pale Horse, p. 81-82 -

"If this Atta was the decisive man in the operation, it's really strange that he took such a risk of taking a plane that would reach Boston such a short time before the connecting flight. Had his flight been a few minutes late, he would not have been in the plane that was hijacked. Why should a sophisticated terrorist do this? One can, by the way, read on CNN (Internet) that none of these names were on the official passenger lists. None of them had gone through the check-in procedures. And why did none of the threatened pilots give the agreed-upon code 7700 over the [Steuerknueppel: STEERING NOB?] to the ground station? In addition: The black boxes which are fire and shock proof, as well as the voice recordings, contain no valuable data.

"For 60 decisive minutes, the military and intelligence agencies let the fighter planes stay on the ground, 48 hours later, however, the FBI presented a list of suicide attackers. Within ten days, it emerged that seven of them were still alive. And why did the FBI chief take no position regarding contradictions? Where the list came from, why it was false? If I were the chief investigator (state attorney) in such a case, I would regularly go to the public, and give information on which leads are valid and which not. But a government which goes to war, must first establish who the attacker, the enemy, is. It has a duty to provide evidence. According to its own admission, it has not been able to present any evidence that would hold up in court.

"And what about the obscure stock transactions? In the week prior to the attacks, the amount of transactions in stocks in American Airlines, United Airlines, and insurance companies, increased 1,200%. It was for a value of $15 billion. Some people must have known something. Who? With the help of the horrifying attacks, the Western mass democracies were subjected to brainwashing. The enemy image of anti-communism doesn't work any more; it is to be replaced by peoples of Islamic belief. They are accused of having given birth to suicidal terrorism.

"Whoever wants to understand the CIA's methods, has to deal with its main tasks, [covert operations]: below the level of war, and outside international law, foreign states are to be influenced, by organizing insurrections, terrorist attacks, usually combined with drugs and weapons trade, and money laundering. This is essentially very simple: One arms violent people with weapons. Since, however, it must not under any circumstances come out, that there is an intelligence agency behind it, all traces are erased, with tremendous deployment of resources. I have the impression that this kind of intelligence agency spends 90% of its time this way: creating false leads. So that, if anyone suspects the collaboration of the agencies, he is accused of the sickness of conspiracy madness. The truth often comes out only years later. CIA chief Allen Dulles once said: In case of doubt, I would even lie to the Congress!"

- Andreas Von Buelow: former German Defense Minister in an interview in the German daily Tagesspiegel on Jan. 13, 2002 -

"There is a chance for the President of the United States to use this disaster to carry out what his father....a phrase his father used .. I think only once.. and hasn't been used since.. and that is a New World Order"

- Gary Hart: Co-Chair of the CFR, Former Senator of Colorado (D), speaking at the CFR meeting on CSpan after September 11th -

"I immigrated to the United States in December 1998 from China. I began my working career as a seamstress in a garment factory because I did not speak English and the garment manufacturing industry was one of the few employment opportunities available to me. I typically worked 10 hours a day, six days a week, at a backbreaking pace. Most garment bosses know that new immigrants have few choices when it comes to work and so they take advantage by paying workers less than the minimum wage with no overtime pay. In my case, the boss refused to pay me until I had worked in the factory for two months, and when he did pay I only got one month's worth of wages."

- Feiyi Chen: Sweatshops On Our Shores -

"FACT: Most of the World Trade Center changed hands in a $3.2 billion, 99-year lease deal that was concluded only seven weeks before the attack; with a sweetheart tax deal and new insurance covering buildings and rents -payable to new beneficiaries. Are you getting the picture?"

- William Cooper: Veritas News Service - September 15, 2001 -

"We were the first ones in the second tower after the plane struck. I was taking firefighters up in the elevator to the 24th floor to get in position to evacuate workers. On the last trip up a bomb went off. We think there was bombs set in the building. I had just asked another firefighter to stay with me, which was a good thing because we were trapped inside the elevator and he had the tools to get out."

- Louie Cacchioli: a firefighter assigned to Engine 47 in Harlem -

"The devastation of 9/11 was a continuation of an earlier devastation. The Twin Towers became targets because they had been symbols of America's greatness. But they were never symbols for me of America's greatness. I see America's greatness very differently. For me, the symbols of American greatness were those little shops in 1960, owned by little people who were pursuing their own dreams. The Port Authority stuck a gun in their bellies and said, 'Get off our land.'"

- Gary North: Eminent Remains: The Buried Legacy of the Original Ground Zero -

"'Americans will become increasingly vulnerable to hostile attack on our homeland, and our military superiority will not entirely protect us. Americans will likely die on American soil, possibly in large numbers.' This was the first conclusion of our Commission after almost one year of investigation of what we called the 'New World Coming', which we described in our first public report. That conclusion was delivered on September 15, 1999, almost exactly two years to the day before our prediction came true."

- Gary Hart -

The burning ruins of the World Trade Center spewed toxic gases "like a chemical factory" for at least six weeks after the September 11, 2001, attacks despite government assurances the air was safe, according to this study .

In Memory of Salvador Allende and all the Other Victims of the Fascist, U.S. Sponsored Coup September 11, 2003.

So what's with the strange flash of light that's missing from the original footage of the North Tower Crash?

And what the hell's this thing on the underside of the Boeing?

And, of course, you can't miss this five-minute video of Shrub just sitting there after being told about the terrorist attack. Big version . Small version .

disinfotainment@earthlink.net

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from Mark

Another Bumpersticker

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Weekly Review

HARPER'S WEEKLY REVIEW

September 16, 2003

A British parliamentary report concluded that the Blair government did not intentionally lie in its controversial dossier on Iraq's military threat; the report did criticize the government, however, and said that its false claim that Iraq was capable of launching weapons of mass destruction in 45 minutes was "unhelpful," and that the dossier should have made clear that Iraq was not, in the opinion of the intelligence services, an imminent threat to Great Britain.

A new poll found that 70 percent of Americans believe, contrary to all evidence, that Saddam Hussein was involved in the September 11 attacks.

Resident Bush took advantage of the September 11 anniversary to call for more surveillance and detention powers.

Pentagon officials testified before a congressional hearing that the military was having a hard time in Iraq. Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld disagreed and said that a new Security Council resolution would be helpful, because it would allow other countries to pretend that the Iraqi occupation was a multinational operation, which would justify sending more money.

Rumsfeld said that tourism will soon be a major industry in Iraq.

The White House reopened for tourism.

Continued at www.harpers.org/weekly-review

--Roger D. Hodge

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Part III

Hurricane Isabel Blog

The Big Fissile or the Big Surprise?

I really don't have anything other than a vanity post tonight. Actually I was in a class today that I've looked forward to for two months - insanely expensive but totally appropriate to my job. Yes there was hurricane hysteria there today because one of my teammates (in these IT courses they always make you work in teams, it's good practice) - lives in Raleigh, NC and she phoned home today to remind her 22 year old daughter of all the things that needed to be done. These inland North Carolinians are experts at hurricanes. She was wondering if we would have classes on Thursday and Friday, and I didn't take her to be a person who panicked needlessly. Hey the company running the classes will probably run them unless the entire D.C. area is in ruin. If necessary I could walk (or swim) the 1/2 mile to the hotel where the course is held, but without power the 15th story conference room and all those pretty overheads will be moot.

You know, it might even be a better class for that, the professor (who I think is very smart) would have to depend on his wits in that case.

Nancy

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In The Chaos Household

Last Night

Weather is great.

The kid goes to the science camp/school next Monday. He's quite excited.

Still need to pick up a new sleeping bag (among other things) for the occasion.

Tonight, Wednesday, CBS begins the night with '60 Minutes II', followed by a FRESH 'Big Brother 4', then '48 Hours'.
On a RERUN Dave are Gen. Tommy Franks and Rodney Crowell.  (RERUNs all week)
Scheduled on a FRESH Craiggers are Gary Sinise, Jon Cryer, and Leona Naess.

NBC starts the evening with a RERUN 'Ed', followed by a RERUN 'West Wing', then a RERUN 'Law & Order'.
Scheduled on a FRESH Jay are Beyonce Knowles and Eddie Izzard.
Scheduled on a FRESH Conan are Michael Rapaport, Christina Ricci, and the Folksmen.
Scheduled on a FRESH Carson Daly are Eve, Paul Sorvino, and Bill Burr.

ABC opens the evening with a 1-hour RERUN 'My Wife & Kids', followed by a RERUN 'George Lopez', then another RERUN 'George Lopez', followed by 'ABC Bloopers'.
Scheduled on a FRESH Jimmy Kimmel are Sara Rue, Sharon Osbourne, and Craig Robinson, with this week's guest co-host Mick Foley aka "Mankind".

The WB offers a RERUN 'Smallville', followed by another RERUN 'Smallville'.

Faux has a RERUN 'That 70's Show', followed by a RERUN 'Simpsons', then a FRESH 'Parasite Hotel'.

UPN has a FRESH 'Enterprise', followed by a FRESH 'Jake 2.0'.

A&E has 'Biography' (Sharon Stone), 'American Justice', and 'Take This Job...'.

AMC offers the movie 'Wild At Heart', followed by the movie 'Highlander', then a 'special' - 'Fang Vs. Fiction: The Real Underworld Of Vampires and Werewolves'.

BBC -    [6pm] 'BBC World News';    [6:30pm] 'Parkinson' - Goldie Hawn;    [7pm] 'Ground Force' - Back To Its Roots;    [7:30pm] 'Changing Rooms' - Winchester;    [8pm] 'Homefront in the Garden' - Hemel Hempstead;    [8:30pm] 'Homefront in the Garden' - South Woodford;    [9pm] 'My Hero' - Episode 4;    [9:40pm] 'Keeping Up Appearances' - Episode 3;    [10:20pm] 'Keeping Up Appearances' - Episode 4;    [11pm] 'So Graham Norton' - Ivana Trump, Sonia Fitzpatrick;    [11:30pm] 'So Graham Norton' - Sandra Bernhard;    [12am] 'My Hero' - Episode 4;    [12:40am] 'Keeping Up Appearances' - Episode 3;    [1:20am] 'Keeping Up Appearances' - Episode 4;    [2am] 'Homefront in the Garden' - Hemel Hempstead;    [2:30am] 'Homefront in the Garden' - South Woodford;    [3am] 'So Graham Norton' - Ivana Trump, Sonia Fitzpatrick;    [3:30am] 'So Graham Norton' - Sandra Bernhard;    [4am] 'My Hero' - Episode 4;    [4:40am] 'Keeping Up Appearances' - Episode 3;    [5:20am] 'Keeping Up Appearances' - Episode 4;  and [6am] 'BBC World News'.    (ALL TIMES EDT)

Bravo has 'The West Wing', followed by the movie 'The Man In The Moon', then 'West Wing', and another 'West Wing'.

Scheduled on a FRESH Jon Stewart is Charlie Sheen.

History has 'Perfect Crimes?', 'Miracles & Medicine', 'Modern Marvels', and another 'Modern Marvels'.

SciFi has 'Beyond Belief', 'Tracker', and the movie 'The People Under The Stairs'.

TCM  -   [6am] 'Shine On Harvest Moon' (1944);    [8am] 'In The Good Old Summertime' (1949);    [10am] 'Easy To Love' (1953);    [12pm] 'The French Line' (1954);    [2pm] 'Kismet' (1955);    [4pm] 'The Girl Most Likely' (1957);    [6pm] 'Silk Stockings' (1957);    [8pm] 'Georgy Girl' (1966);    [10pm] 'The Story Of Three Loves' (1953);    [12:15am] 'The Prisoner Of Zenda' (1952);    [2am] 'Madame Bovary' (1949);  and [4am] 'Going Home' (1971).    (ALL TIMES EDT)

Thursday - 9/18

TCM - [6am] 'Designing Woman' (1957); [8am] 'Please Don't Eat The Daisies' (1960); [10am] 'The Long, Long Trailer' (1954); [12pm] 'The Reluctant Debutante' (1958); [2pm] 'Bundle Of Joy' (1956); [4pm] 'The Tender Trap' (1955); [6pm] 'The Mating Game' (1959); [8pm] 'Battle Of Britain' (1969); [10:30pm] 'Operation Crossbow' (1965); [12:30am] 'Reunion In France' (1942); [2:30am] 'Flying Fortress' (1942); and [3:45am] 'Dive Bomber' (1941). (ALL TIMES EDT)

Anyone have any opinions?

Or reviews?

(See below for addresses)

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U.N. Goodwill Ambassador actress Angelina Jolie chats with Uruguyan troops on Friday, Sept. 12, 2003 in Bunia in northeastern Congo during a visit to camps for people displaced by fighting in the volatile region. The Uruguayans are part of the U.N. mission to Congo, or MONUC, that is attempting to stabilize the region. The sea of tents in the background house thousands of people displaced by recent fighting.

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The Information One-Stop

Moose & Squirrel

Moose & Squirrel Information One-Stop

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Spars With Chimpy

Bono

Irish rock star Bono pressed resident Bush on Tuesday to set aside more cash for AIDS initiatives but came away disappointed after a face-to-face talk with the resident at the White House.

"We had a good old row," Bono said of his meeting with Bush. "What I just can't agree with him on is the numbers."

"I'm not here peddling a cause," Bono said at a news conference at the St. John's Episcopal Church across from the White House. "Seven thousand people dying a day is not a cause. It's an emergency."

Bush has held back his support for the full $3 billion for 2004 because of a concern that a system is not yet in place to use the money effectively, White House officials have said.

Bono

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New Media Rules Roll Back

Senate Votes

The Senate approved a resolution Tuesday to roll back new media ownership rules that have brought heavy criticism from a broad range of advocacy groups, shifting the fight to the House where Republican leaders pledged to kill the measure.

A White House veto threat also looms over the resolution, which the Senate approved with a 55-40 vote. The resolution seeks to undo changes to Federal Communications Commission regulations governing ownership of newspapers and television and radio stations.

The White House also has threatened to veto any final bill containing language that would roll back the national TV cap. Republicans who support the new rules hope that threat will help them strip the provision from a final House-Senate compromise bill.

Senate Votes

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Chairman of the British Film Institute Anthony Minghella stands in front of a giant sculptural head of the British film director Alfred Hitchcock in the central square at the newly refurbished Gainsborough Studios in London September 16, 2003. The sculpture, entitled 'Master of Suspense,' aims to convey the scale and drama of cinema.
Photo by Kieran Doherty

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Movie Music Album

Barbra Streisand

Barbra Streisand's 60th album, due Oct. 14 from Columbia Records, finds the chanteuse covering 12 songs made popular in movies from 1935-1988.

"The Movie Album" comprises all-new recordings personally selected by Streisand and recorded with a full band and a 75-piece orchestra.

Streisand produced the new album as well, with co-producers Robbie Buchanan ("Moon River," "How Do You Keep the Music Playing?" and "Calling You") and Johnny Mandel ("Emily"). Mandel and Buchanan provided orchestral arrangements, as did Jeremy Lubbock and Jorge Calandrelli.

Barbra Streisand

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Continuing as Family Tragedy

'8 Simple Rules'

ABC said on Tuesday it was reshaping its hit comedy show "8 Simple Rules for Dating My Teenage Daughter" following the sudden death of main star John Ritter, and taking the TV family through the loss of a beloved father.

Saying it was entering "uncharted waters" for prime-time network television, ABC executives said all those associated with the show, including Ritter's widow Amy Yasbeck, wanted to continue.

ABC executives said they would go ahead on Sept. 23. as scheduled with airing the three new episodes of "8 Simple Rules," and then air repeats while the writers and cast worked on the comedy show's sudden transformation into tragedy.

ABC said it had not yet figured out how Ritter's TV character would die, nor many other details of how what started as a laugh-a-minute sitcom would continue to win ratings as a large as life tragedy.

'8 Simple Rules'

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In The Kitchen With BartCop & Friends

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Reuniting in January

Destiny's Child

Singer Beyonce Knowles says she and Destiny's Child cohorts Kelly Rowland and Michelle Williams will reunite in the studio early next year to begin work on their first album of new material together in more than two years.

The last studio record by the Grammy-winning rhythm and blues trio was "Survivor" in 2001.

Destiny's Child, which began more than a decade ago as a foursome in Houston, emerged as a reconstituted trio following the acrimonious departure of two co-founding members of the group in 1999.

Destiny's Child

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Artists dressed as Chinese ghost bride and bridegroom at the Hong Kong Ocean Park September 16, 2003 in preparation for the largest Halloween event in Hong Kong and Southeast Asia to be held in October. Artists from different cultures will act as ghosts and spirits of the underworld.
Photo by Bobby Yip

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Birthplace Made a Landmark

Ginger Rogers

The Independence (Mo) City Council voted unanimously Monday to make the home where Ginger Rogers was born a local landmark, qualifying it for historic preservation.

Rogers, best known as Fred Astaire's dance partner in 10 popular films beginning with "Flying Down to Rio" in 1933, was born in the home on July 16, 1911, as Virginia Katherine McMath. She began performing on the theater circuit after winning a state Charleston championship in Texas when she was 14, eventually making it to Broadway and then Hollywood, where she'd made 19 films before co-starring with Astaire.

The entertainer, who died in 1995, had returned to visit the home several times after she became famous.

Ginger Rogers

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Wedding News

Princess Stephanie

Princess Stephanie of Monaco remarried last week in Switzerland, tying the knot with a Portuguese circus acrobat, a palace source said, confirming reports from several European media outlets.

Stephanie, 38, is nearly 10 years older than her new husband, 29-year-old Adans Lopez Peres, who works for the Swiss circus Knie, according to media reports. Before meeting him, Stephanie was linked to its boss Franco Knie.

German celebrity magazine Die Aktuelle reported that Rainier had been opposed to the union but consented when he learned his daughter was pregnant.

Princess Stephanie

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Formerly 'The Vidiot'

pissed

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Cigar Maker Sues

Sean 'P. Diddy' Combs

A boutique cigar maker claims a cameraman trespassed at its Miami factory and filmed its "secret process" in June, and the footage wound up in Sean 'P. Diddy' Combs' music video for the movie "Bad Boys II," starring Will Smith and Martin Lawrence.

The lawsuit, which Moore & Bode Cigars filed earlier this month in Miami-Dade Circuit Court, seeks at least $15,000 in damages from the rapper-producer, Bad Boys Entertainment Inc. and the unknown camera operator.

The lawsuit claims the company's "unique method of rolling the cigars" was taped for the "Shake Ya Tailfeather" video while the owners were out, after the cameraman was told to leave and without company permission.

Sean 'P. Diddy' Combs

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A bag, shown at the Los Angeles Zoo, Thursday, Sept. 11, 2003, in Los Angeles, contains items recovered from a ailing 4-month-old California condor chick, including an electrical clip, bits of plastic, glass and bark, a leaf, three pop-tops from cans and a shotgun wad. Biologists snatched an ailing 4-month-old California condor chick from its nest in Los Padres National Forest and flew it by helicopter to the Los Angeles Zoo for treatment, possibly saving the rare bird's life, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service officials said. The chick was taken from its cave nest on Sept. 9 after biologists discovered it was underweight, undersize and had various objects lodged in its crop.

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Going on Display

Historic Documents

The original Constitution, Bill of Rights and Declaration of Independence, locked away for two years for treatment to ensure their longevity, are going back on display in state-of-the-art cases.

And for the first time, all four pages of the Constitution will be on permanent display. Previously, just the first and last pages had been on exhibit at the National Archives.

The documents, displayed at the Archives since 1952, were shielded from the public when the building's enormous marble and limestone rotunda was closed to tourists on July 5, 2001, for renovations. The documents were then given a careful review, the first close examination of the three pieces of history in half a century.

Historic Documents

National Archives

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Banned In Los Angeles

Lap Dancing

You can look, but you can't touch or even get close any more.

That's the order that went out to patrons of strip clubs on Tuesday when Los Angeles City Council passed a measure requiring dancers to stay at least 6 feet away from customers, thus ending lap dancing in the city.

The ordinance, passed unanimously despite stiff opposition from strippers and adult club owners who fear for their livelihood, banned lap dancing and any other kind of bodily contact between dancers and customers in strip clubs, bikini bars and adult bookstores.

The new law, which must be signed by Los Angeles Mayor James Hahn before going into effect, requires state-licensed security guards to be on duty at all times. Violators face up to six months in jail and as much as $2,500 in fines.

Lap Dancing

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Puts Art Collection on Display

Andrew Lloyd Webber

Displaying his life-long passion for Victorian art, composer Andrew Lloyd Webber on Tuesday put his multi-million-dollar art collection on public display for the first time.

The composer, who once said he only wrote musicals so he could buy Pre-Raphaelite paintings, said, "I hope you get as much pleasure out of them as I do at home."

The 55-year-old composer, who started collecting when he was just 15, won the undying gratitude of the Royal Academy when he stepped in to offer his private collection for display after a major exhibition of Egyptian antiquities fell through at the last moment.

Andrew Lloyd Webber

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Nominees

AMA Nominations

Veteran performers, including Fleetwood Mac, Celine Dion and Cher, mixed with youngsters Beyonce and Avril Lavigne on the list of nominees for the 31st annual American Music Awards.

The 20 awards will be presented during a ceremony at the Shrine Auditorium in Los Angeles on Nov. 16, aired on ABC. Talk show host Jimmy Kimmel is the emcee.

The nominations are based on sales figures and radio play. Winners are selected by a survey of about 20,000 listeners. The nominees:

Pop-Rock:
_Male Artist: Clay Aiken, Kid Rock, John Mayer, Justin Timberlake.
_Female Artist: Celine Dion, Avril Lavigne, Jennifer Lopez.
_Band, Duo or Group: Fleetwood Mac, matchbox twenty, 3 Doors Down.
_Album: "Fallen," Evanescence; "Come Away With Me," Norah Jones; "Cocky," Kid Rock; "Justified," Justin Timberlake.

Soul-R&B:
_Male Artist: Ginuwine, Jaheim, R. Kelly, Luther Vandross.
_Female Artist: Aaliyah, Ashanti, Beyonce.
_Band, Duo or Group: B2K, Dru Hill, The Isley Brothers.
_Album: "Chapter II," Ashanti; "Dangerously In Love," Beyonce; "Chocolate Factory," R. Kelly; "Dance With My Father," Luther Vandross.

Country:
_Male Artist: Kenny Chesney, Alan Jackson, Toby Keith, Tim McGraw.
_Female Artist: Faith Hill, Martina McBride, Shania Twain. _Band, Duo or Group: Alabama, Brooks & Dunn, Dixie Chicks.
_Album: "Unleashed," Toby Keith; "Tim McGraw & The Dancehall Doctors," Tim McGraw; "Melt," Rascal Flatts; "Up!" Shania Twain.

Rap-Hip Hop:
_Male Artist: Eminem, 50 Cent, Nelly, Sean Paul.
_Female Artist: Missy Elliott, Eve, Lil' Kim.
_Band, Duo or Group: Black Eyed Peas, Bone Crusher, Lil Jon & The East Side Boyz.
_Album: "Under Construction," Missy Elliott; "Get Rich Or Die Tryin,'" 50 Cent; "Dutty Rock," Sean Paul; "8 Mile," Soundtrack.

Adult Contemporary:
_Artist: Cher, Celine Dion, Norah Jones.

Latin Music:
_Artist: Kumbia Kings, Ricky Martin, Luis Miguel.

Alternative Music:
_Artist: Coldplay, Linkin Park, Metallica.

Contemporary Inspirational:
_Artist: Steven Curtis Chapman, MercyMe, Third Day.

AMA Nominations

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Suspended Jail Term

Guillaume Depardieu

Guillaume Depardieu, actor son of French star Gerard Depardieu, was given a nine month suspended prison sentence after being convicted of firing a gun at a fan who accosted him in the street last month.

The 32-year-old actor, who had a leg amputated in June, was also told to pay 8,000 euros (8,980 dollars) in a fine and damages, and to undergo a course of psychological counselling.

At last Tuesday's hearing the court heard Depardieu was with friends in the northern resort of Trouville-sur-Mer when he was approached by an admirer who wished to congratulate the actor for his charity work on behalf of people who contract illnesses while in hospital.

Guillaume Depardieu

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In Memory

Mabie "Neva" Eggsman

Mabie "Neva" Eggsman, a Modoc Indian who helped preserve the Klamath language, has died. She was 95.

Eggsman was born at Whiskey Creek, a Modoc Indian settlement near Beatty.

Eggsman survived the flu epidemic of 1918, witnessed the end of tribal status for the Klamath Indians in 1954, and saw the tribe's federal recognition restored in 1986.

She later worked for the Klamath Tribes as a master language instructor, developing a Klamath language phrase book. She was the last living elder who had been involved in creating the Klamath language program.

Eggsman also was a member of a committee, working under the Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act, that helps return Indian remains and cultural items to tribes.

Mabie "Neva" Eggsman

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A man holds a tentacle of a 'Arcciteuthis Dux' squid on La Isla beach, in northern Spain, September 15, 2003. Scientists are trying to find out what caused two enormous squids, one of them 40 ft long, to wash up dead on Spain's northern coast this week. 'It's not a natural death and it's not the Prestige,' Luis Laria, president of marine protection agency CEPESMA said, referring to a massive oil spill from the Prestige tanker late last year. He declined to speculate on the cause.
Photo by Alonso Gonzales

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Who served?

The Chickenhawk Database

Congressional Members with Military Service

Who Died and Made You President? :: The Bean Magazine

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100 Most Banned Books

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