Bash a Bolt

We do admire the writers at the Politico-Technical "Bleeding Edge".

We particularly like the way they 'Bash the Bolt". We couldn't do it better.

Use of BIS in Lethal Injection

The State of South Carolina has responded to the US District Court's ruling that a sufficiently medically trained person is present at execution by lethal injection to ensure that the prisoner is unconscious at the time of administration of the lethal doses of pancuronium and potassium, by adding BIS monitoring to its execution protocol.

In April this year, the state argued that "the BIS monitor can be employed and operated and values obtained, recorded, and interpreted by any health care providers experienced in using electrocardiogram (ECG) monitors, such as registered nurses, paramedics, and emergency medical technicians".

No Saddam, Terror links

The ABC reports that a US senate report has found no evidence for a link between Saddam Hussein and Al Qaeda operatives in Iraq before the US-led invasion in 2003.

The report said that Saddam had frequently rejected requests for meetings by representatives from Al Qaeda.

Alleged terror links were one of the reasons, along with the purported presence of WMD, that the 'coalition of the willing' launched their air and ground invasion on Iraq.

The Iraqi dictator was captured in December 2003 and is appearing before an Iraqi court in Baghdad on charges of crimes-against-humanity.

Twin Anniversaries

This weekend marks the twin anniversaries of Pauline Hanson's maiden speech in the Australian Parliament (1996) and the terrorist attacks on the USA (2001).
By creating a new sense of fear, intolerance and xenophobia in Australia, there are no more significant events in the success of the Howard government, as Emma Dawson argues.