BELIEVE
Afraid Microsoft's anti-spyware will muck up your hard drive, erasing your digital photos, music collection and work files?
Don't worry, you've got a $5 rebate coming your way in this worst-case scenario
http://news.zdnet.com/2100-1009_22-5590042.html
[How about a raise?]
Corporate America is generating cash at near record levels, but the lessons of past investments turned sour are prompting companies to adopt a more conservative approach with spending.
Some economists are even calling the cash buildup a "cash bubble" and, while share buybacks and dividends are returning some of the cash back to shareholders, many companies just don't know what to spend their money on.
"Nobody has a really good idea on how to deploy capital," Gail Fosler, the Conference Board's chief economist, said at the Business Council meeting in Boca Raton, Florida.
"At the end of the 1990s, we had excess investment and now we've got excess cash flow."
http://www.reuters.com/newsArticle.jhtml?type=reutersEdge&storyID=7743119
THE US is heading for a surge in bankruptcies and a dramatic increase in corporate debt default as the number of companies with bonds rated at the lowest end of the junk bond scale reaches record levels.
More than 45 per cent of newly issued junk bonds are rated CCC, according to bond market analysts at Standard & Poor’s (S&P), a dramatic increase since 2003 when 30 per cent of the junk bond market was made up of companies that were a notch away from default.
http://business.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,16849-1497723,00.html
[I have never actually read an explanation of HOW this is a threat to the international community of nations.]
Jewish activists Friday hailed a court ruling that allows Canada to deport German Holocaust denier Ernst Zundel to face prosecution at home.
Zundel, author of ``The Hitler We Loved and Why,'' has been held in a Toronto jail for two years while authorities determined whether he posed a security risk to Canadian society.
Federal Court Justice Pierre Blais said Zundel's activities were not only a threat to national security, ``but also a threat to the international community of nations.''
Zundel, a leading proponent of white supremacy, claims the Holocaust never happened.
http://cbs4.com/worldnews/Canada-HolocaustDenie-ai/resources_news_html
[I notice politicans and otehr people trying to get you to do things that are questinable spend a lot of time working over this word “believe”. They “believe” they’re doing the right thing, we “believe” they have weapons of mass destruction, you should “believe” in the fairness and accuracy of the voting process. We don’t “believe” these industrial chemicals in your blood are harmful.
How about some hard evidence for something? Anything at this point.]
Mr Kunhardt apologised this week. "It was never my intention to demean or insult anyone. I never meant for the words of my students to hurt any of our troops," he said.
Pte Jacobs's father accepted the apology on his son's behalf.
Michael Bloomberg, New York's mayor, said: "We have freedom of speech and you certainly cannot go around censoring what people want to write. I think most of [the soldiers overseas] believe that the freedoms we have ... are protected by them putting their lives at risk."
http://www.guardian.co.uk/usa/story/0,12271,1424024,00.html
[Funny how the Palestinians foolishly decided to shatter that informal truce just when the Israeli government looked like it was getting serious about pulling back some of the illegal settlements.
Also notice the “Fox talk” here- “homicide bomber” instead of “suicide bomber”.]
A Palestinian homicide bomber blew himself up in a crowd of young Israelis waiting outside a nightclub near Tel Aviv's beachfront promenade just before midnight Friday, killing at least four other people, wounding dozens and shattering an informal Mideast truce.
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,148782,00.html
Coming in the wake of the shocking allegations of torture by recently released Australian Guantanamo Bay detainee Mamdouh Habib, who detailed how he was interrogated in the presence an Australian official, Barton’s “Four Corners” interview is a body blow to the Howard government. To buy time for Hill to concoct a story to counter Barton’s claims, Howard last week point-blank refused to answer questions in parliament on the issues raised, declaring that they should be directed to Hill in the Senate. The Senate was not in session at the time.
http://www.wsws.org/articles/2005/feb2005/bart-f25.shtml
[They’re not just checking for terrorists. They’re also looking for subversives, pinkos, attractive women, Democrats, and foreigners.]
Halsey said that the passenger names would, as at present, be checked by the directorate's National Targeting Center against the United States' consolidated terrorist watchlist -- which contains the names and aliases of thousands individuals thought linked to terrorism -- and against several other law-enforcement databases.
"We're not just looking for terrorists," she said.
http://www.upi.com/view.cfm?StoryID=20050224-105943-7064r
[Sounds like someone is getting cold feet. Watch for this prime minister to be thrown out in favor of someone more compliant.]
Prime Minister Paul Martin said Canada must be consulted before the U.S. decides to fire on missiles that enter Canadian airspace, despite Ottawa's refusal to participate in America's missile defence program.
...
Martin also rejected claims by U.S. ambassador to Canada Paul Cellucci that Canada has given up its sovereignty by saying no to the missile plan.
http://www.cbc.ca/story/canada/national/2005/02/25/martin-missile.html
[This sounds like a threat to me. “We will control decisions to fire. We will deploy.” If you don’t like it too bad for you.
This is like something out of 1984. You have to do what we say our else you will not be “sovereign”, but to be sovereign is to be free from the necessity to follow other people’s orders.
I would like to think this is just Paul Celucci not knowing what the words he uses mean, but I think it is more than that.]
From now on, the U.S. government will control any decision to fire at incoming missiles over Canadian territory, declared the top U.S. envoy to Canada.
"We will deploy. We will defend North America," said Paul Cellucci, the U.S. ambassador to Canada.
"We simply cannot understand why Canada would in effect give up its sovereignty - its seat at the table - to decide what to do about a missile that might be coming towards Canada."
...
The warning was no slip of the tongue: Cellucci repeated several times that Canada's decision had in effect handed over some of its sovereignty to the United States.
http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/cpress/20050224/ca_pr_on_na/missile_defence_4
[Forklift+plastic wrap does not equal “seal in biohazards”]
In the case of a natural disaster or terrorist attack, some emergency officials in Western Washington plan to be prepared with a large, shrink wrap machine.
The Thurston County Coroner's Office recently won approval to purchase a machine able to shrink-wrap human remains. The process would make it easier to transport a large number of bodies.
...
The shrink-wrapped bodies could be moved with forklifts, and the extra plastic covering would seal in biohazards such as anthrax in the case of bioterrorism.
http://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory?id=514058
The share of the working-age population working or actively seeking a job -- known as the participation rate -- fell to 65.8 percent in January, the lowest reading in 17 years, according to numbers collected by the Labor Department.
[I didn’t see this, but I saw promo clips for it. It showed the reporter guy asking this guy something like do you agree with the Muslim Brotherhood or something like that. Now there has been a “Muslim Bortherhood” of one kind or another for almost 100 years. It means different things in different countries, and even today there is not just one organization “The Muslim Brotherhood”.]
Yousef Abou-Allaban, chairman of the Islamic Society of Boston filed a defamation lawsuit Wednesday against WFXT-TV (local Channel 25), in which he describes an investigative report identifying him as a member of a terrorist group as part of a pattern of anti-Muslim bias in the media.
http://www.baou.com/newswire/main.php?action=recent&rid=20074
[insert your own comments here.]
A prominent Jewish spokesman who defrauded an Edmonton non-profit organization says she was depressed because her parents were Holocaust survivors.
...
That's pretty hard to eat for me," said Davies yesterday. "That to me is a real cop-out," he said.
"I find it hard to believe that she would blame her crime on being the child of Holocaust survivors."
...
The cheques were made out to cash and the money went into her personal bank account, said Blaine.
As well, Szlachter made numerous long-distance calls on the office phone, bought furniture from Office Depot which she used in her home, and billed the council for a water cooler in her home as well as delivered water.
http://www.canoe.ca/NewsStand/EdmontonSun/News/2005/02/25/942033-sun.html
[I’m sure this will get the negotiations right back on track.
Also get this part “believed still in North Korean hands.” This is how bad our so-called “intelligence” community is. I saw a travelogue about some guy who went to North Korea, this boat is a little museum commemorating the NK victory of the American imperialist pigs. For 50 cents you could go see the boat for yourself. Or you can just “believe” it is in North Korean without knowing for sure one way or the other.]
As diplomatic efforts to end a nuclear standoff between Washington and Pyongyang make little headway, a resolution has been introduced in the US Senate demanding North Korea (news - web sites) return an American intelligence ship seized by the hardline communist state 37 years ago.
...
The Senate resolution demands the return of the vessel, believed still in North Korean hands.
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=1521&ncid=1278&e=1&u=/afp/20050224/pl_afp/usnkoreanavy
[Imagine the jow people must feel when they learn that Washington DC political hacks are intent on altering their religion. All their other efforts have been so moral and so successful.]
Pipes is also working with Stephen Schwartz on a new Center for Islamic Pluralism (CIP) whose aims are to "promote moderate Islam in the U.S. and globally" and "to oppose the influence of militant Islam, and, in particular, the Saudi-funded Wahhabi sect of Islam, among American Muslims, in the America media, in American education … and with U.S. governmental bodies.
...
Schwartz, a former Trotskyite militant who became a Sufi Muslim in 1997, has received seed money from MEF, which is also accepting contributions on CIP's behalf until the government gives it tax-exempt legal status, according to another grant proposal obtained by IPS.
http://www.antiwar.com/lobe/?articleid=4963
[If you criticized Zimbabwe would this be reason to prohibit you from being part of a teacher training program?
What about Colombia? Or Bolivia? Or Kazakhstan? Or China? Or Tunisia? Or France? Or Belgium? Or East Timor? Or Mongolia?
Which other country would it be equally inappropriate to criticize?]
The New York City Department of Education will prohibit a professor of Arab studies at Columbia University from appearing in an occasional training program for secondary-school teachers, citing the professor's criticism of Israel.
http://www.campus-watch.org/article/id/1667
A woman who had suffered a massive heart attack died after hospital personnel moved her out of a trauma room to accommodate a flu-stricken Michael Jackson, the patient's family said.
Jury selection in Jackson's child molestation child had to be temporarily postponed Feb. 15 when the pop star was taken to Marian Medical Center in Santa Maria, Calif., complaining of flu-like symptoms. Manuela Gomez Ruiz, a 74-year-old grandmother, was moved from the primary trauma room and taken off the machine ventilator, with her breathing instead assisted manually by hand pump, until she was relocated to a smaller room nearby, her family told ABC News.
http://abcnews.go.com/GMA/MichaelJackson/story?id=529513
An Italian prosecutor investigating the apparent kidnapping of a suspected Islamic militant in the streets of Milan served military authorities this week with a demand for records of flights into and out of a joint U.S.-Italian air base in northern Italy.
Italian newspapers have reported that the prosecutor, Armando Spataro, is investigating the possible role of the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency in the disappearance of Osama Nasr Mostafa Hassan, better known as Abu Omar, a popular figure in Milan's Islamic community who vanished Feb. 17, 2003.
http://www.sanluisobispo.com/mld/sanluisobispo/news/politics/10984603.htm
Unemployed since 2001, Diane Ziebarth doesn't pay much money in taxes but she wants to make sure the little she does contribute doesn't help push more Americans out of work.
http://www.usatoday.com/tech/news/techpolicy/2005-02-23-colo-outsource-bill_x.htm
In its drive to stop Iran gaining any ability to make nuclear weapons, the United States is ready to give European allies only until June to cajole Tehran before Washington seeks U.N. sanctions, U.S. diplomatic documents show.
http://www.boston.com/news/world/europe/articles/2005/02/25/us_may_give_eu_till_june_to_coax_iran_on_nukes/
[Note that this article appeared 4 days before the above article.]
Scott Ritter Says US Attack
On Iran Set For June
By Mark Jensen
United for Peace of Pierce County (WA)
2-21-5
On Friday evening in Olympia, former UNSCOM weapons inspector Scott Ritter appeared with journalist Dahr Jamail. -- Ritter made two shocking claims: George W. Bush has "signed off" on plans to bomb Iran in June 2005
http://www.rense.com/general63/IRAN.HTM
The UN has protested against a series of IAF flights over parts of Lebanon in the past few days that it said were a violation of Lebanese airspace.
http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?pagename=JPost/JPArticle/ShowFull&cid=1109215386403
To head off this threat of a Shi'ite clergy-driven religious movement, the US has, according to Asia Times Online investigations, resolved to arm small militias backed by US troops and entrenched in the population to "nip the evil in the bud".
http://www.atimes.com/atimes/Middle_East/GB15Ak02.html
As noted above, the sequences are being independently confirmed. Confirmation
will eliminate the lab error story. However, the route of the sequences from lab
to swine remains open, as does the possibility of bioterrorism. The inability to
resolve the existence of the sequence after being in the public domain for
almost 3 months also raises serious bioterrorism preparedness issues.
http://www.re
nse.com/general63/swine.htm
Slobodan Milosevic has taken the offensive against his Hague prosecutors who
have accused him of masterminding atrocities in Croatia, Bosnia and Kosovo in
the 1990s. He denounced his trial as political and condemned the 78-day bombing
of Yugoslavia by NATO in 1999.
http://www.ren
se.com/general63/miol.htm
[A lot of those "suicide bombers" have backpack type things on.]
Researchers at SUNY Downstate Medical Center, Brooklyn N.Y., have developed
technology that allows them to control a rat's actions from up to 600 yards away
with implants placed in its brain.
Rats can be made to run, jump or climb, following instructions they receive by
radio from a laptop computer. Clacking keys on a computer send these
"ratbots" climbing trees, winding through mazes, or searching through
building rubble.
The remote control rats look like school children, wearing small backpacks that
house microprocessor-based remote-controlled stimulators. Wires connect the
backpack to tiny probes that have been placed into areas of the rat's brain that
are responsible for reward and areas that process signals from their whiskers.
The rats are controlled by manipulating these two areas of the brain.
Remote-control rats are weird enough. But even stranger is the possibility that
the technology could eventually find its way into humans.
...
"What if some future implant, billed as a medical miracle, was also
secretly encoded to direct thought, getting a person to think like Big Brother,
or to work harder for managers at corporate control, or to follow the orders of
Mephistopheles?" asked The Boston Globe in a recent editorial. "What
if Madison Avenue got a piece of the supposed beneficial chip to direct the
consumer to buy the expensive spread or the new cereal?"
http://www.r
ense.com/general63/ratbot.htm
[I read this whole article and I don't know what the hell they are talking
about.]
A man who portrayed the Vulcan King for this year's Winter Carnival is charged
with sexual assault.
http://www
.kstp.com/article/stories/S6160.html?cat=64
[I read one time some kind of Islamic jurisprudence faced a slightly similar
issue. Some guy had sex with his wife, and then the wife turned around and had
sex with her female servant and the servant got pregnant from the husband
indirectly. They ruled the guy was still liable for the child even though he had
not really had anything to do with it's conception.]
A woman accused of using her lover's sperm to impregnate herself without his
knowledge can be held liable for the unwitting father's emotional pain, the
Illinois Appellate Court has ruled.
...
Phillips alleges that he and Irons, who practices internal medicine, never had
intercourse during their four-month affair, although they did have oral sex
three times.
http://cbs2chicago.com/cooler/local_story_055110537.html
Online payroll service provider PayMaxx shuttered its automated W-2 site on
Wednesday after a researcher claimed that two security holes had exposed data on
more than 25,000 people.
A description of the problem posted on Think Computer's Web site by Aaron
Greenspan, president of the software start-up, said the security issues could
allow anyone to view the W-2 forms generated for employees of PayMaxx's clients
for the last five years.
,ahref="http://news.com.com/Payroll+site+closes+on+security+worries/2100-10
29_3-5587859.html?tag=cd.hed">http://news.com.com/Payroll+site+closes+on
+security+worries/2100-1029_3-5587859.html?tag=cd.hed
[So Visa claims to be able to make a secure RFID card just for a credit card,
and yet the State Department can't even be bothered to try to make up a secure
RFID system for your __passport__, a document substantially more sensitive and
important.]
Visa and its rivals have some obstacles to overcome before the technology
becomes more mainstream, Gillespie said. Not only must they convince merchants
to buy new readers, they must assure consumers that the new-fangled cards are
every bit as secure as the old ones in an age of identity theft and high-tech
hacking.
"Security is a question," Gillespie said. "How easy is it for
someone to interact with a wireless communication and pick up a number?"
Visa designed its system to be highly secure, with multiple layers of encryption
and fraud detection, Gauthier said. Each transmission between card and reader
has a unique code that cannot be reused even if it is intercepted, a key
security feature, he said. In addition, consumers have no liability for
fraudulent charges with the new cards as with the old ones, Gauthier added.
http://news.zdnet.com/2100-9588_22-5589512.html?tag=zdfd.newsfeed
The unemployment rate is 30 percent higher than it was in 2000. About one out of
six Americans has no health insurance, and half of all bankruptcies are
illness-related. One out of eight Americans lives below the meager official
poverty line -- and many more can't make ends meet above it.
...
Total federal tax revenues, says the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities,
"are a smaller share of the economy than in any year since 1959, a time
when Medicare, Medicaid, most federal aid to education, most child care and
environmental programs, and anti-poverty programs such as food stamps did not
exist."
http:/
/www.commondreams.org/views05/0225-28.htm
The World Bank, an international development institution that says it has no
political agenda, may be preparing to fund Israeli security checkpoints around a
controversial separation wall under construction on occupied Palestinian
territories
ht
tp://www.commondreams.org/headlines05/0225-08.htm
The Kansas attorney general, as part of a criminal investigation into child rape
and late-term abortions, is demanding that two health centers hand over the
medical records of about 90 female patients, including minors.
The investigation was disclosed in a filing to the Kansas Supreme Court by two
unidentified clinics, which had been ordered by a district court judge to
disclose the patients' names, as well as their medical histories, birth control,
sexual practices and other personal details.
...
The clinics, which described the attorney general's subpoena as a "fishing
expedition," said that they would be willing to release the records as long
as specific identifying information ó such as names ó was blocked out.
Otherwise, Kline would "learn the names and other identifying information
of these women, and many intimate details of their lives Ö none of which are
likely relevant to the inquisition."
ht
tp://www.commondreams.org/headlines05/0225-07.htm
Why am I not surprised that ChoicePoint, the consumer data-mining company that
was recently conned into sharing 145,000 consumer credit profiles with identity
thieves, is the same company that helped Florida "purge" its voter
rolls of felons and other undesirable voters during the 2000 election?
When you're on such an undemocratic roll, why stop at helping to hijack an
election in plain sight when you can earn millions selling the identities of
every person gullible enough to have a credit history to shadowy front
companies, organized crime syndicates and enterprising con artists?
http:/
/www.commondreams.org/views05/0225-24.htm
Ten of the 32 government drug advisers who last week endorsed continued
marketing of the huge-selling pain pills Celebrex, Bextra and Vioxx have
consulted in recent years for the drugs' makers, according to disclosures in
medical journals and other public records.
ht
tp://www.commondreams.org/headlines05/0225-03.htm
Global policymakers scheduled to hold special U.N. talks starting next week must
boost women's share of resources and political standing in the developing world
if they hope to make a significant dent in world poverty, researchers say.
The Washington, D.C.-based International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI)
on Wednesday urged policy makers ''to take action in three critical areas to
advance women's status in developing countries: increase resources in the hands
of women; reduce discrimination against women; and place women's issues at the
forefront of policy action.''
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tp://www.commondreams.org/headlines05/0225-04.htm
Don't worry, you've got a $5 rebate coming your way in this worst-case scenario
http://news.zdnet.com/2100-1009_22-5590042.html
[How about a raise?]
Corporate America is generating cash at near record levels, but the lessons of past investments turned sour are prompting companies to adopt a more conservative approach with spending.
Some economists are even calling the cash buildup a "cash bubble" and, while share buybacks and dividends are returning some of the cash back to shareholders, many companies just don't know what to spend their money on.
"Nobody has a really good idea on how to deploy capital," Gail Fosler, the Conference Board's chief economist, said at the Business Council meeting in Boca Raton, Florida.
"At the end of the 1990s, we had excess investment and now we've got excess cash flow."
http://www.reuters.com/newsArticle.jhtml?type=reutersEdge&storyID=7743119
THE US is heading for a surge in bankruptcies and a dramatic increase in corporate debt default as the number of companies with bonds rated at the lowest end of the junk bond scale reaches record levels.
More than 45 per cent of newly issued junk bonds are rated CCC, according to bond market analysts at Standard & Poor’s (S&P), a dramatic increase since 2003 when 30 per cent of the junk bond market was made up of companies that were a notch away from default.
http://business.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,16849-1497723,00.html
[I have never actually read an explanation of HOW this is a threat to the international community of nations.]
Jewish activists Friday hailed a court ruling that allows Canada to deport German Holocaust denier Ernst Zundel to face prosecution at home.
Zundel, author of ``The Hitler We Loved and Why,'' has been held in a Toronto jail for two years while authorities determined whether he posed a security risk to Canadian society.
Federal Court Justice Pierre Blais said Zundel's activities were not only a threat to national security, ``but also a threat to the international community of nations.''
Zundel, a leading proponent of white supremacy, claims the Holocaust never happened.
http://cbs4.com/worldnews/Canada-HolocaustDenie-ai/resources_news_html
[I notice politicans and otehr people trying to get you to do things that are questinable spend a lot of time working over this word “believe”. They “believe” they’re doing the right thing, we “believe” they have weapons of mass destruction, you should “believe” in the fairness and accuracy of the voting process. We don’t “believe” these industrial chemicals in your blood are harmful.
How about some hard evidence for something? Anything at this point.]
Mr Kunhardt apologised this week. "It was never my intention to demean or insult anyone. I never meant for the words of my students to hurt any of our troops," he said.
Pte Jacobs's father accepted the apology on his son's behalf.
Michael Bloomberg, New York's mayor, said: "We have freedom of speech and you certainly cannot go around censoring what people want to write. I think most of [the soldiers overseas] believe that the freedoms we have ... are protected by them putting their lives at risk."
http://www.guardian.co.uk/usa/story/0,12271,1424024,00.html
[Funny how the Palestinians foolishly decided to shatter that informal truce just when the Israeli government looked like it was getting serious about pulling back some of the illegal settlements.
Also notice the “Fox talk” here- “homicide bomber” instead of “suicide bomber”.]
A Palestinian homicide bomber blew himself up in a crowd of young Israelis waiting outside a nightclub near Tel Aviv's beachfront promenade just before midnight Friday, killing at least four other people, wounding dozens and shattering an informal Mideast truce.
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,148782,00.html
Coming in the wake of the shocking allegations of torture by recently released Australian Guantanamo Bay detainee Mamdouh Habib, who detailed how he was interrogated in the presence an Australian official, Barton’s “Four Corners” interview is a body blow to the Howard government. To buy time for Hill to concoct a story to counter Barton’s claims, Howard last week point-blank refused to answer questions in parliament on the issues raised, declaring that they should be directed to Hill in the Senate. The Senate was not in session at the time.
http://www.wsws.org/articles/2005/feb2005/bart-f25.shtml
[They’re not just checking for terrorists. They’re also looking for subversives, pinkos, attractive women, Democrats, and foreigners.]
Halsey said that the passenger names would, as at present, be checked by the directorate's National Targeting Center against the United States' consolidated terrorist watchlist -- which contains the names and aliases of thousands individuals thought linked to terrorism -- and against several other law-enforcement databases.
"We're not just looking for terrorists," she said.
http://www.upi.com/view.cfm?StoryID=20050224-105943-7064r
[Sounds like someone is getting cold feet. Watch for this prime minister to be thrown out in favor of someone more compliant.]
Prime Minister Paul Martin said Canada must be consulted before the U.S. decides to fire on missiles that enter Canadian airspace, despite Ottawa's refusal to participate in America's missile defence program.
...
Martin also rejected claims by U.S. ambassador to Canada Paul Cellucci that Canada has given up its sovereignty by saying no to the missile plan.
http://www.cbc.ca/story/canada/national/2005/02/25/martin-missile.html
[This sounds like a threat to me. “We will control decisions to fire. We will deploy.” If you don’t like it too bad for you.
This is like something out of 1984. You have to do what we say our else you will not be “sovereign”, but to be sovereign is to be free from the necessity to follow other people’s orders.
I would like to think this is just Paul Celucci not knowing what the words he uses mean, but I think it is more than that.]
From now on, the U.S. government will control any decision to fire at incoming missiles over Canadian territory, declared the top U.S. envoy to Canada.
"We will deploy. We will defend North America," said Paul Cellucci, the U.S. ambassador to Canada.
"We simply cannot understand why Canada would in effect give up its sovereignty - its seat at the table - to decide what to do about a missile that might be coming towards Canada."
...
The warning was no slip of the tongue: Cellucci repeated several times that Canada's decision had in effect handed over some of its sovereignty to the United States.
http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/cpress/20050224/ca_pr_on_na/missile_defence_4
[Forklift+plastic wrap does not equal “seal in biohazards”]
In the case of a natural disaster or terrorist attack, some emergency officials in Western Washington plan to be prepared with a large, shrink wrap machine.
The Thurston County Coroner's Office recently won approval to purchase a machine able to shrink-wrap human remains. The process would make it easier to transport a large number of bodies.
...
The shrink-wrapped bodies could be moved with forklifts, and the extra plastic covering would seal in biohazards such as anthrax in the case of bioterrorism.
http://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory?id=514058
The share of the working-age population working or actively seeking a job -- known as the participation rate -- fell to 65.8 percent in January, the lowest reading in 17 years, according to numbers collected by the Labor Department.
[I didn’t see this, but I saw promo clips for it. It showed the reporter guy asking this guy something like do you agree with the Muslim Brotherhood or something like that. Now there has been a “Muslim Bortherhood” of one kind or another for almost 100 years. It means different things in different countries, and even today there is not just one organization “The Muslim Brotherhood”.]
Yousef Abou-Allaban, chairman of the Islamic Society of Boston filed a defamation lawsuit Wednesday against WFXT-TV (local Channel 25), in which he describes an investigative report identifying him as a member of a terrorist group as part of a pattern of anti-Muslim bias in the media.
http://www.baou.com/newswire/main.php?action=recent&rid=20074
[insert your own comments here.]
A prominent Jewish spokesman who defrauded an Edmonton non-profit organization says she was depressed because her parents were Holocaust survivors.
...
That's pretty hard to eat for me," said Davies yesterday. "That to me is a real cop-out," he said.
"I find it hard to believe that she would blame her crime on being the child of Holocaust survivors."
...
The cheques were made out to cash and the money went into her personal bank account, said Blaine.
As well, Szlachter made numerous long-distance calls on the office phone, bought furniture from Office Depot which she used in her home, and billed the council for a water cooler in her home as well as delivered water.
http://www.canoe.ca/NewsStand/EdmontonSun/News/2005/02/25/942033-sun.html
[I’m sure this will get the negotiations right back on track.
Also get this part “believed still in North Korean hands.” This is how bad our so-called “intelligence” community is. I saw a travelogue about some guy who went to North Korea, this boat is a little museum commemorating the NK victory of the American imperialist pigs. For 50 cents you could go see the boat for yourself. Or you can just “believe” it is in North Korean without knowing for sure one way or the other.]
As diplomatic efforts to end a nuclear standoff between Washington and Pyongyang make little headway, a resolution has been introduced in the US Senate demanding North Korea (news - web sites) return an American intelligence ship seized by the hardline communist state 37 years ago.
...
The Senate resolution demands the return of the vessel, believed still in North Korean hands.
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=1521&ncid=1278&e=1&u=/afp/20050224/pl_afp/usnkoreanavy
[Imagine the jow people must feel when they learn that Washington DC political hacks are intent on altering their religion. All their other efforts have been so moral and so successful.]
Pipes is also working with Stephen Schwartz on a new Center for Islamic Pluralism (CIP) whose aims are to "promote moderate Islam in the U.S. and globally" and "to oppose the influence of militant Islam, and, in particular, the Saudi-funded Wahhabi sect of Islam, among American Muslims, in the America media, in American education … and with U.S. governmental bodies.
...
Schwartz, a former Trotskyite militant who became a Sufi Muslim in 1997, has received seed money from MEF, which is also accepting contributions on CIP's behalf until the government gives it tax-exempt legal status, according to another grant proposal obtained by IPS.
http://www.antiwar.com/lobe/?articleid=4963
[If you criticized Zimbabwe would this be reason to prohibit you from being part of a teacher training program?
What about Colombia? Or Bolivia? Or Kazakhstan? Or China? Or Tunisia? Or France? Or Belgium? Or East Timor? Or Mongolia?
Which other country would it be equally inappropriate to criticize?]
The New York City Department of Education will prohibit a professor of Arab studies at Columbia University from appearing in an occasional training program for secondary-school teachers, citing the professor's criticism of Israel.
http://www.campus-watch.org/article/id/1667
A woman who had suffered a massive heart attack died after hospital personnel moved her out of a trauma room to accommodate a flu-stricken Michael Jackson, the patient's family said.
Jury selection in Jackson's child molestation child had to be temporarily postponed Feb. 15 when the pop star was taken to Marian Medical Center in Santa Maria, Calif., complaining of flu-like symptoms. Manuela Gomez Ruiz, a 74-year-old grandmother, was moved from the primary trauma room and taken off the machine ventilator, with her breathing instead assisted manually by hand pump, until she was relocated to a smaller room nearby, her family told ABC News.
http://abcnews.go.com/GMA/MichaelJackson/story?id=529513
An Italian prosecutor investigating the apparent kidnapping of a suspected Islamic militant in the streets of Milan served military authorities this week with a demand for records of flights into and out of a joint U.S.-Italian air base in northern Italy.
Italian newspapers have reported that the prosecutor, Armando Spataro, is investigating the possible role of the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency in the disappearance of Osama Nasr Mostafa Hassan, better known as Abu Omar, a popular figure in Milan's Islamic community who vanished Feb. 17, 2003.
http://www.sanluisobispo.com/mld/sanluisobispo/news/politics/10984603.htm
Unemployed since 2001, Diane Ziebarth doesn't pay much money in taxes but she wants to make sure the little she does contribute doesn't help push more Americans out of work.
http://www.usatoday.com/tech/news/techpolicy/2005-02-23-colo-outsource-bill_x.htm
In its drive to stop Iran gaining any ability to make nuclear weapons, the United States is ready to give European allies only until June to cajole Tehran before Washington seeks U.N. sanctions, U.S. diplomatic documents show.
http://www.boston.com/news/world/europe/articles/2005/02/25/us_may_give_eu_till_june_to_coax_iran_on_nukes/
[Note that this article appeared 4 days before the above article.]
Scott Ritter Says US Attack
On Iran Set For June
By Mark Jensen
United for Peace of Pierce County (WA)
2-21-5
On Friday evening in Olympia, former UNSCOM weapons inspector Scott Ritter appeared with journalist Dahr Jamail. -- Ritter made two shocking claims: George W. Bush has "signed off" on plans to bomb Iran in June 2005
http://www.rense.com/general63/IRAN.HTM
The UN has protested against a series of IAF flights over parts of Lebanon in the past few days that it said were a violation of Lebanese airspace.
http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?pagename=JPost/JPArticle/ShowFull&cid=1109215386403
To head off this threat of a Shi'ite clergy-driven religious movement, the US has, according to Asia Times Online investigations, resolved to arm small militias backed by US troops and entrenched in the population to "nip the evil in the bud".
http://www.atimes.com/atimes/Middle_East/GB15Ak02.html
As noted above, the sequences are being independently confirmed. Confirmation
will eliminate the lab error story. However, the route of the sequences from lab
to swine remains open, as does the possibility of bioterrorism. The inability to
resolve the existence of the sequence after being in the public domain for
almost 3 months also raises serious bioterrorism preparedness issues.
http://www.re
nse.com/general63/swine.htm
Slobodan Milosevic has taken the offensive against his Hague prosecutors who
have accused him of masterminding atrocities in Croatia, Bosnia and Kosovo in
the 1990s. He denounced his trial as political and condemned the 78-day bombing
of Yugoslavia by NATO in 1999.
http://www.ren
se.com/general63/miol.htm
[A lot of those "suicide bombers" have backpack type things on.]
Researchers at SUNY Downstate Medical Center, Brooklyn N.Y., have developed
technology that allows them to control a rat's actions from up to 600 yards away
with implants placed in its brain.
Rats can be made to run, jump or climb, following instructions they receive by
radio from a laptop computer. Clacking keys on a computer send these
"ratbots" climbing trees, winding through mazes, or searching through
building rubble.
The remote control rats look like school children, wearing small backpacks that
house microprocessor-based remote-controlled stimulators. Wires connect the
backpack to tiny probes that have been placed into areas of the rat's brain that
are responsible for reward and areas that process signals from their whiskers.
The rats are controlled by manipulating these two areas of the brain.
Remote-control rats are weird enough. But even stranger is the possibility that
the technology could eventually find its way into humans.
...
"What if some future implant, billed as a medical miracle, was also
secretly encoded to direct thought, getting a person to think like Big Brother,
or to work harder for managers at corporate control, or to follow the orders of
Mephistopheles?" asked The Boston Globe in a recent editorial. "What
if Madison Avenue got a piece of the supposed beneficial chip to direct the
consumer to buy the expensive spread or the new cereal?"
http://www.r
ense.com/general63/ratbot.htm
[I read this whole article and I don't know what the hell they are talking
about.]
A man who portrayed the Vulcan King for this year's Winter Carnival is charged
with sexual assault.
http://www
.kstp.com/article/stories/S6160.html?cat=64
[I read one time some kind of Islamic jurisprudence faced a slightly similar
issue. Some guy had sex with his wife, and then the wife turned around and had
sex with her female servant and the servant got pregnant from the husband
indirectly. They ruled the guy was still liable for the child even though he had
not really had anything to do with it's conception.]
A woman accused of using her lover's sperm to impregnate herself without his
knowledge can be held liable for the unwitting father's emotional pain, the
Illinois Appellate Court has ruled.
...
Phillips alleges that he and Irons, who practices internal medicine, never had
intercourse during their four-month affair, although they did have oral sex
three times.
http://cbs2chicago.com/cooler/local_story_055110537.html
Online payroll service provider PayMaxx shuttered its automated W-2 site on
Wednesday after a researcher claimed that two security holes had exposed data on
more than 25,000 people.
A description of the problem posted on Think Computer's Web site by Aaron
Greenspan, president of the software start-up, said the security issues could
allow anyone to view the W-2 forms generated for employees of PayMaxx's clients
for the last five years.
,ahref="http://news.com.com/Payroll+site+closes+on+security+worries/2100-10
29_3-5587859.html?tag=cd.hed">http://news.com.com/Payroll+site+closes+on
+security+worries/2100-1029_3-5587859.html?tag=cd.hed
[So Visa claims to be able to make a secure RFID card just for a credit card,
and yet the State Department can't even be bothered to try to make up a secure
RFID system for your __passport__, a document substantially more sensitive and
important.]
Visa and its rivals have some obstacles to overcome before the technology
becomes more mainstream, Gillespie said. Not only must they convince merchants
to buy new readers, they must assure consumers that the new-fangled cards are
every bit as secure as the old ones in an age of identity theft and high-tech
hacking.
"Security is a question," Gillespie said. "How easy is it for
someone to interact with a wireless communication and pick up a number?"
Visa designed its system to be highly secure, with multiple layers of encryption
and fraud detection, Gauthier said. Each transmission between card and reader
has a unique code that cannot be reused even if it is intercepted, a key
security feature, he said. In addition, consumers have no liability for
fraudulent charges with the new cards as with the old ones, Gauthier added.
http://news.zdnet.com/2100-9588_22-5589512.html?tag=zdfd.newsfeed
The unemployment rate is 30 percent higher than it was in 2000. About one out of
six Americans has no health insurance, and half of all bankruptcies are
illness-related. One out of eight Americans lives below the meager official
poverty line -- and many more can't make ends meet above it.
...
Total federal tax revenues, says the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities,
"are a smaller share of the economy than in any year since 1959, a time
when Medicare, Medicaid, most federal aid to education, most child care and
environmental programs, and anti-poverty programs such as food stamps did not
exist."
http:/
/www.commondreams.org/views05/0225-28.htm
The World Bank, an international development institution that says it has no
political agenda, may be preparing to fund Israeli security checkpoints around a
controversial separation wall under construction on occupied Palestinian
territories
ht
tp://www.commondreams.org/headlines05/0225-08.htm
The Kansas attorney general, as part of a criminal investigation into child rape
and late-term abortions, is demanding that two health centers hand over the
medical records of about 90 female patients, including minors.
The investigation was disclosed in a filing to the Kansas Supreme Court by two
unidentified clinics, which had been ordered by a district court judge to
disclose the patients' names, as well as their medical histories, birth control,
sexual practices and other personal details.
...
The clinics, which described the attorney general's subpoena as a "fishing
expedition," said that they would be willing to release the records as long
as specific identifying information ó such as names ó was blocked out.
Otherwise, Kline would "learn the names and other identifying information
of these women, and many intimate details of their lives Ö none of which are
likely relevant to the inquisition."
ht
tp://www.commondreams.org/headlines05/0225-07.htm
Why am I not surprised that ChoicePoint, the consumer data-mining company that
was recently conned into sharing 145,000 consumer credit profiles with identity
thieves, is the same company that helped Florida "purge" its voter
rolls of felons and other undesirable voters during the 2000 election?
When you're on such an undemocratic roll, why stop at helping to hijack an
election in plain sight when you can earn millions selling the identities of
every person gullible enough to have a credit history to shadowy front
companies, organized crime syndicates and enterprising con artists?
http:/
/www.commondreams.org/views05/0225-24.htm
Ten of the 32 government drug advisers who last week endorsed continued
marketing of the huge-selling pain pills Celebrex, Bextra and Vioxx have
consulted in recent years for the drugs' makers, according to disclosures in
medical journals and other public records.
ht
tp://www.commondreams.org/headlines05/0225-03.htm
Global policymakers scheduled to hold special U.N. talks starting next week must
boost women's share of resources and political standing in the developing world
if they hope to make a significant dent in world poverty, researchers say.
The Washington, D.C.-based International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI)
on Wednesday urged policy makers ''to take action in three critical areas to
advance women's status in developing countries: increase resources in the hands
of women; reduce discrimination against women; and place women's issues at the
forefront of policy action.''
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tp://www.commondreams.org/headlines05/0225-04.htm
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