Thursday, Dec. 8, 2005 "WELL, well, well. How about that?" I take the liberty of quoting Aunt Josie, because that's what I keep thinking. British Law Lords, the highest judicial officers in the United Kingdom, have said it's the law of the kingdom that evidence obtained by torture cannot be admitted in court -- no matter what country it was taken in, and no matter what government was involved. This occurs at the same time that reports of 800 "transfer" flights by the CIA are now top stories in Europe; the flights were apparently used to facilitate torture of terrorism suspects. Condi Rice is facing questions and a real degree of embarrassment over this issue as she visits European capitals. Her comment today was laughable -- torture is against our policy and bad for democracy, but nobody is perfect. Earlier today, Andy Gotovina, one of the most most wanted Croatian war criminals, has been apprehended and is on his way to The Hague to the special War Crimes Tribunal that has been awaiting for him; he will be charged with crimes against humanity for ethnic cleansing and murder. On the run for 10 years, there have been allegations reported on BBC World that he was being sheltered in a Catholic monastery. Two important events to mark the 25th anniversary of the murder of John Lennon. But the world is still in quite a state. More than 100 people -- most of them journalists, many of them prominent ones -- have died in a plane crash in Iran. The aircraft was known to have had technical problems and was delayed six hours for this reason before taking off. It's been an incredibly violent week in Iraq, where an illegal, immoral war based on lies rages on. And as Hurricane Katrina and the loss of New Orleans passes the 90 day mark, stories of the horrid conditions and treatment of victims of that disaster are emerging -- one of many since the winter solstice of 2004, and all remain disaster zones. ------ A new edition of Astrology Secrets Revealed has been prepared for Thursday night -- focusing on the Galactic Core. Steve Bergstein is doing a series of tributes to the late John Lennon in his Psychsound blog, which you can link to from our main home page. My December 2000 article on the 20th anniversary of John's murder is at the link below. I don't have anything new to add, really. Whatever Gets You To The Light http://www.planetwaves.net/Whatever.html Updates to Political Waves continue, and thanks to Eileen for doing an excellent job standing in. More news updates at PlanetWaves.info: http://planetwaves.info/info.php Thanks for tuning in. -- Eric Francis