Filaments
A senior U.S. official, briefing reporters on Monday, quoted Bush as saying the United States "views NATO as the principle forum for transatlantic cooperation, transatlantic action and transatlantic discussion.”
http://www.rense.com/general63/chirac.htm
The soldier's habit of urinating into the street from the top of his Bradley armoured vehicle had angered Sunni Muslim inhabitants of the tree-lined suburb he patrolled. It was not the urinating as such that offended them; it was the way he exposed himself regardless of whether any women were around.
Ramadi's insurgents twice tried to take out the Bradley, first with a rocket-propelled grenade and then with a Russian C5K missile. They missed both times - and that was when they sent for Abu Othman.
http://www.rense.com/general63/shrp.htm
I did daily labor while waiting for a position at Kodak to open up. To get that job I hounded the personnel department EVERY day for months. No such thing as sitting around with a "resume on file" as people do today. I was the proverbial pebble in their shoe. Fortunately, a few months later it paid off and I was offered a job at Kodak. I earned $140.00 a week AFTER taxes for the straight 40 hour job. And here people are today, more than 30 years later earning the same amount while everything costs 7 to 10 times as much as it did back in the early 70's.
...
STOP SUPPORT OF ANYTHING THAT HURTS AMERICA
Don't support the shark store chains like chinamart that destroys families, lives and towns with cheap offshore manufactured RFID tagged junk. Years ago when Sam Walton died, many of us knew this his legacy. And when the greedy types took control of WalMart, it would turn its back on America companies. The MBA types came in like butchers, decimating Sam Walton's legacy lifetime of work.
...
China has weakened the western world, simply because people around the world want products dirt cheap and don't care where they come from. A considerable part China's profits are now being used to build up their military, with a long term goal to ultimately invade America. "Preposterous" you may say? Why is it? Consider this - if you stood in Manhattan on a street corner on Sept. 10th, 2001 and told someone that a plane would hit one of those towers and it would all be on the ground in 10 seconds, they would probably laugh. But say that on a street corner today, and you can assured that if you're not arrested on the spot, someone will be pounding on your door. Today a chinese invasion will result in their victory, as we have insufficient forces here at home to protect America.
http://www.rense.com/general63/couch.htm
[even if bush were otherwise the greatest guy in the history of the universe. if he pulled this kind of foolishness on me i would be up in arms over it. obviously he does not want to make friends or have good relations with anyone in the world.
Also note JFK stood in Berlin, which was surrounded by Communist East Germany and was cerrtainly full of communist agents, and yet he was able to mix freely with the crowd that had come to see him. GWB on the other hand can’t even stop in town unless people a mile away have their garages bolted shut.]
In advance of Wednesday, February 23, a virtual state of emergency is being imposed in the Rhine-Main area, one of the most heavily populated regions of Germany.
Four motorways are being completely closed, rail travel restricted, navigation of the rivers Rhine and Main halted, schools and local offices closed down. The historical centre of the city of Mainz will be totally blocked off. Helicopters will fly overhead, while the city is besieged by police units and snipers.
The rerouting of traffic and closure of the main routes between Frankfurt airport and Mainz will force tens of thousands of employees in the region, including workers at the huge Opel auto works at Rüsselsheim, to change shifts or take a day’s holiday.
Air space over Frankfurt airport is to be closed for nearly an hour. All private airplanes within a radius of 60 kilometres from Mainz are to be grounded for the entire day. For the first time ever, fighter planes of the German Air Force will be on standby to take off and attack in the event of any disturbance of air space.
...
City residents have been expressly forbidden from going onto their balconies or looking out an open window. They have been banned from parking their cars either in the street or in their own garages. Many garages have been sealed. The police have warned that they will break into and tow away all vehicles found in the restricted area beginning early Tuesday morning.
...
No other American president has required comparable measures. In 1963, when John F. Kennedy spoke in front of the Schöneberg City Hall in West Berlin, he was cheered by an enthusiastic audience and then openly mixed with the crowd. During his last official visit to Berlin, decades later, then-President Bill Clinton made a surprise stop at a Berlin restaurant in the company of Chancellor Schröder and a few bodyguards.
http://www.wsws.org/articles/2005/feb2005/bush-f21.shtml
[we all know that western vegans eat nothing but corn and beans, so this study was of course 100% applicable to the doctor’s statements.]
However, the British Dietetic Association said the study looked at impoverished, rural children with a poor background diet low in essential nutrients such as zinc, B12 and iron, and its findings were not applicable to vegan children in the developed world.
...
The African study involved 544 children in Kenya, typically aged around seven, whose diet mainly consisted of starchy, low-nutrition corn and bean staples lacking these micronutrients. Over a period of two years, one group of the children was given a daily supplement of two ounces of meat - equivalent to roughly two spoonfuls of mince.
http://www.rense.com/general63/srub.htm
President Bush once asked, "Is our children learning?" No -- they isn't. A more appropriate question might be, "Is our teachers teaching?" In four years, you can teach a gorilla sign language. Is it too much to ask that in the same amount of time a kid be taught what those crazy hippies who founded this country had in mind?
http://www.rense.com/general63/isouor.htm
The World Council of Churches (WCC) on February 21 urged its members to consider economic measures to oppose Israeli occupation of Palestinian territory and praised the action of a U.S. denomination that has started a process of selective divestment from companies linked to the occupation.
http://www.episcopalchurch.org/3577_58769_ENG_HTM.htm
Fatal familial insomnia is a prion disease that interferes with sleep, leading to deterioration of mental function.
http://www.rense.com/general63/fatal.htm
The CDC chief said her agency is getting ready for a possible pandemic next
year.
http://www.rense.com/general63/threat.htm
"The forests went out. The fungi proliferated, and the Earth became a giant
compost pile. An enormous number of spores were released," said Dr. Arturo
Casadevall, an infectious disease researcher who proposed last month that air
thick with fungal spores after the meteor hit could have overwhelmed animals'
immune systems, causing sickness and death. If he's right, the large numbers of
warm-blooded mammals and birds that survived the mass extinction might have had
a natural advantage -- body temperatures too hot for fungal infections to take
hold.
...
Fungal infections are now emerging as an important force in nature again: Fungal
diseases also may be contributing to the worldwide decline of the coral reefs,
and appear to play a poorly understood role in the steady decline of
amphibians.
http://www.boston.com/news/globe/health_science/articles/2005/02/22/were_the_din
osaurs_done_in_by_fungus/
"NASA does not have any observational data from any current Mars missions
that supports this claim. The work by the scientists mentioned in the reports
cannot be used to directly infer anything about life on Mars, but may help
formulate the strategy for how to search for Martian life.
http://dsc.discovery.com/news/briefs/20050214/marswater.html
[Public opinion in the us? No one in the us even knows who putin is or what country he is in charge of. I heard Woolsey on the radio one time on a call-in show. Someone called in and said something bad about Bush, you would have thought Woolsey's own head was going to explode over the outrage of such a thing happening.]
Woolsey is convinced that at the forthcoming summit in Bratislava the U.S.
president will no longer be able to ignore public opinion in the U.S. At any
rate, Bushís smile should be less warm when he speaks to his Russian
counterpart, Woolsey said.
http://www.prisonplanet.com/articles/february2005/220205comparesrussia.htm
Whatever it was, Yeakey was upset. He called his wife that morning crying, ìItís
not true. Itís not what they are saying. It didnít happen that way.î
Yeakey ran back and forth into that concrete mess of bricks and mortar all day
long and continued beyond exhaustion, far into the night.
In a cadre of heroes that day, Yeakeyís performance was outstanding. On May 11,
the following year he was scheduled to receive the Medal of Valor from the
Oklahoma City Police Department (OCPD). He never got it. He was murdered on May
8, 1996, in the country, two and a half miles west of the El Reno Penitentiary.
His body was found a mile from his blood-soaked car.
http://www.americanfreepress.net/html/federal_murder.html
[I thought these drugs were supposed to be bad.]
First we found out that the Army was planning to ply G.I.s with the raver
favorite Ketamine, or "Special K," as a morphine substitute. Now comes
word that "American soldiers traumatized by fighting in Iraq and
Afghanistan are to be offered the drug ecstasy to help free them of flashbacks
and recurring nightmares," the Guardian reports.First we found out that the
Army was planning to ply G.I.s with the raver favorite Ketamine, or
"Special K," as a morphine substitute. Now comes word that
"American soldiers traumatized by fighting in Iraq and Afghanistan are to
be offered the drug ecstasy to help free them of flashbacks and recurring
nightmares," the Guardian reports.
..
Several studies in the US are planned or are under way to investigate whether
MDMA, LSD and psilocybin, the active ingredient in magic mushrooms, can treat
conditions ranging from obsessive compulsive disorder to anxiety in terminal
cancer patients.
http://www.defensetech.org/archives/001398.html
DOGS in the Northern Territory are getting "high" on cane toads.
Dogs were licking the backs of the warty pests and becoming addicted to the
hallucinogenic poison, a NT vet said yesterday.
Megan Pickering, a vet in Katherine, said she had treated a number of dogs
affected by the deadly toad poison.
http://www.news.com.au/story/0,10117,12300929-13762,00.html
"The male will choose the sex pheromone over food, even though he may die
on the way." The study found that when a minuscule quantity of the
artificial pheromone was placed in one branch of a forked plexiglass tube, 60
per cent of a sample of cockroaches chose that branch and made their way to the
sample in less than 10 seconds.
http://www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/news/story.jsp?story=613322
Australian scientists have cloned the world's first cow using a new research
method called serial nuclear transfer (SNT), Xinhua reports.
http://www.webindia123.com/news/showdetails.asp?id=67379&cat=Science
[better hurry up before we "reform" class action lawsuits.]
A Georgia woman has sued Hewlett-Packard Co. (NYSE:HPQ - news), claiming the ink
cartridges for their printers are secretly programed to expire on a certain
date, in some cases rendering them useless before they are even installed in a
printer
...
The suit, which seeks class-action status, asks for restitution, damages and
other compensation.
h_hp_printers_dc”>http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=581&e=1&u=/nm/20050222/tc_nm/tec
h_hp_printers_dc
[slamming the door on democracy. what if people WANT municipal broadband? When I was studying international trade agreements, they taught one of the specific selling points of them was to reduce the freedom of action of the governments that signed on. For democratic countries this meant taking more and more aspects of life out of democratic control and putting them under the control of these trade courts and tribunals. I think this is part of the same overall pattern. The telecom companies want to get these laws in before people catch on to this municipal idea and then later they can say "Sorry, that's illegal."
With the Patriot Act advocating for changes in government policy can now be considered "terrorism" in certain circumstances. Watch for that provision to be expanded as companies get more of the legislation they want in place. Once it is all in, they will want to freeze the system like that. ]
Faced with the expanding digital divide, many local officials have set out to
directly provide high-speed broadband service through municipal networks.
Whether building a wireless system, installing fiber directly to homes, or
exploring broadband over power lines ñ or some combination of these options ñ
local communities are finding they can get better service for less money if they
do it themselves.
Big telecom and cable companies have responded by furiously working to slam the
door on community wireless.
http://www.freepress.net/communityinternet/=munibroad
The Top 100 Gadgets of All Time
http://www.mobilepcmag.com/features/2005_03/top100gadgets.html
Nearly two years after the U.S.-led invasion of Iraq, women there are no better
off than under the rule of ousted dictator Saddam Hussein, the human rights
group Amnesty International said on Tuesday.
http://www.commondreams.org/headlines05/0222-08.htm
[Yet more evidence for putting -"so-called"- in front of "war on terrorism".]
The campaign against Social Security is going so badly that longtime critics of
President Bush, accustomed to seeing their efforts to point out flaws in
administration initiatives brushed aside, are pinching themselves. But they
shouldn't relax: if the past is any guide, the Bush administration will soon
change the subject back to national security.
..
Just days after 9/11, many analysts identified sites that store toxic chemicals
as a major terror risk, and called for new safety rules. But as The New York
Times reported last fall, "after the oil and chemical industries met with
Karl Rove ... the White House quietly blocked those efforts."
Nearly three and a half years after 9/11, those chemical plants are still
unprotected.
...
An audit of the Homeland Security Department's (greatly inadequate) program to
protect ports found that much of the money went to unlikely locations, including
six sites in landlocked Arkansas, where the department's recently resigned chief
of border and transportation security is reported to be considering a run for
governor.
http://www.commondreams.org/views05/0222-26.htm
Ailments previously unknown in human beings are appearing, such as the Nipah
virus, which until recently was found normally in Asian fruit bats, according to
the report.
http://www.commondreams.org/headlines05/0222-02.htm
[This is freaky. I am sure it must be the same disease from an earlier email I sent.]
The majority of individuals reporting symptoms of Morgellons Disease reside in California, Texas, and Florida. Several distinct "cluster" areas of this disease have been noted (in order of cluster density) near Los Angeles, San Francisco, Houston, Dallas, and Austin, Texas.
Physicians treating patients with this disease believe that it involves a novel organism. This organism has been difficult to identify, but appears to infect individuals whose immune systems have been altered by Lyme Disease, also known as Lyme Borreliosis. This foundation is working to identify this novel organism and determine the source of the disturbing crawling, stinging, and biting sensations experienced by people with this disease.
Most individuals with this disease report non-healing skin lesions, which are associated with highly unusual structures. These structures can be described as fiber-like or filamentous, and are the most striking features of this disease. In addition, many people consistently report finding objects described as black specks, and granules associated with their skin and skin lesions. The granules have also been described as sand or seeds, but are often seen to have fibers emerging from one end. The elongated fibers are often twisted into balls or what appear to be bundles of fibers, as they grow within the skin.
http://www.morgellons.org/
[notice in the following quote it talks about defending the rights of
individuals ***and corporations***. corporations are not people, as anyone can
plainly see, and were never meant to be regarded as people under the law. if the
founding fathers knew corporations were claiming to be people today they would
have a fit and drop dead all over again. this is why this is a so-called
"conservative" bugaboo. not to help actual people. it is to help out
corporations. if this issue was only facing regular people they wouldn't touch
it with a ten foot pole.]
But in recent years, conservatives have taken issue with that interpretation.
The clause, in the view of University of Chicago Law School professor Richard
Epstein and some of his judicial and academic colleagues, has been
misinterpreted to justify virtually any governmental "interference"
with the owner's right to possess, use and dispose of property. Epstein and his
colleagues say that, on the contrary, the clause is meant to protect property
owners and should be used to strike down regulations that interfere with the
profit of an individual or corporation.
http://www.commondreams.org/views05/0221-26.htm
American and Iraqi government forces have surrounded the city of Ramadi in
preparation for an expected full-scale attack on the city, which has in effect
slipped into the hands of insurgents.
http://www.commondreams.org/headlines05/0221-22.htm
A strip club in Boise, Idaho has found an artful way to prance past a city law that prohibits full nudity.
On what it calls Art Club Nights, the Erotic City strip club charges customers $15 for a sketch pad, pencil, and a chance to see completely naked women dancers.
“>http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=583&e=4&u=/nm/20050218/od_nm/odd_nudity_dc
Either aliens are visiting Manitoban airspace more frequently, or the smoking ban has forced people to spend more time staring at the sky. Whatever the reason, a report released yesterday by Ufology Research of Manitoba states that there were 112 UFO sightings in Manitoba last year, which more than doubles the previous record for sightings and is more than four times as many as in 2003.
http://www.canoe.ca/NewsStand/WinnipegSun/News/2005/02/21/937545-sun.html
http://www.rense.com/general63/chirac.htm
The soldier's habit of urinating into the street from the top of his Bradley armoured vehicle had angered Sunni Muslim inhabitants of the tree-lined suburb he patrolled. It was not the urinating as such that offended them; it was the way he exposed himself regardless of whether any women were around.
Ramadi's insurgents twice tried to take out the Bradley, first with a rocket-propelled grenade and then with a Russian C5K missile. They missed both times - and that was when they sent for Abu Othman.
http://www.rense.com/general63/shrp.htm
I did daily labor while waiting for a position at Kodak to open up. To get that job I hounded the personnel department EVERY day for months. No such thing as sitting around with a "resume on file" as people do today. I was the proverbial pebble in their shoe. Fortunately, a few months later it paid off and I was offered a job at Kodak. I earned $140.00 a week AFTER taxes for the straight 40 hour job. And here people are today, more than 30 years later earning the same amount while everything costs 7 to 10 times as much as it did back in the early 70's.
...
STOP SUPPORT OF ANYTHING THAT HURTS AMERICA
Don't support the shark store chains like chinamart that destroys families, lives and towns with cheap offshore manufactured RFID tagged junk. Years ago when Sam Walton died, many of us knew this his legacy. And when the greedy types took control of WalMart, it would turn its back on America companies. The MBA types came in like butchers, decimating Sam Walton's legacy lifetime of work.
...
China has weakened the western world, simply because people around the world want products dirt cheap and don't care where they come from. A considerable part China's profits are now being used to build up their military, with a long term goal to ultimately invade America. "Preposterous" you may say? Why is it? Consider this - if you stood in Manhattan on a street corner on Sept. 10th, 2001 and told someone that a plane would hit one of those towers and it would all be on the ground in 10 seconds, they would probably laugh. But say that on a street corner today, and you can assured that if you're not arrested on the spot, someone will be pounding on your door. Today a chinese invasion will result in their victory, as we have insufficient forces here at home to protect America.
http://www.rense.com/general63/couch.htm
[even if bush were otherwise the greatest guy in the history of the universe. if he pulled this kind of foolishness on me i would be up in arms over it. obviously he does not want to make friends or have good relations with anyone in the world.
Also note JFK stood in Berlin, which was surrounded by Communist East Germany and was cerrtainly full of communist agents, and yet he was able to mix freely with the crowd that had come to see him. GWB on the other hand can’t even stop in town unless people a mile away have their garages bolted shut.]
In advance of Wednesday, February 23, a virtual state of emergency is being imposed in the Rhine-Main area, one of the most heavily populated regions of Germany.
Four motorways are being completely closed, rail travel restricted, navigation of the rivers Rhine and Main halted, schools and local offices closed down. The historical centre of the city of Mainz will be totally blocked off. Helicopters will fly overhead, while the city is besieged by police units and snipers.
The rerouting of traffic and closure of the main routes between Frankfurt airport and Mainz will force tens of thousands of employees in the region, including workers at the huge Opel auto works at Rüsselsheim, to change shifts or take a day’s holiday.
Air space over Frankfurt airport is to be closed for nearly an hour. All private airplanes within a radius of 60 kilometres from Mainz are to be grounded for the entire day. For the first time ever, fighter planes of the German Air Force will be on standby to take off and attack in the event of any disturbance of air space.
...
City residents have been expressly forbidden from going onto their balconies or looking out an open window. They have been banned from parking their cars either in the street or in their own garages. Many garages have been sealed. The police have warned that they will break into and tow away all vehicles found in the restricted area beginning early Tuesday morning.
...
No other American president has required comparable measures. In 1963, when John F. Kennedy spoke in front of the Schöneberg City Hall in West Berlin, he was cheered by an enthusiastic audience and then openly mixed with the crowd. During his last official visit to Berlin, decades later, then-President Bill Clinton made a surprise stop at a Berlin restaurant in the company of Chancellor Schröder and a few bodyguards.
http://www.wsws.org/articles/2005/feb2005/bush-f21.shtml
[we all know that western vegans eat nothing but corn and beans, so this study was of course 100% applicable to the doctor’s statements.]
However, the British Dietetic Association said the study looked at impoverished, rural children with a poor background diet low in essential nutrients such as zinc, B12 and iron, and its findings were not applicable to vegan children in the developed world.
...
The African study involved 544 children in Kenya, typically aged around seven, whose diet mainly consisted of starchy, low-nutrition corn and bean staples lacking these micronutrients. Over a period of two years, one group of the children was given a daily supplement of two ounces of meat - equivalent to roughly two spoonfuls of mince.
http://www.rense.com/general63/srub.htm
President Bush once asked, "Is our children learning?" No -- they isn't. A more appropriate question might be, "Is our teachers teaching?" In four years, you can teach a gorilla sign language. Is it too much to ask that in the same amount of time a kid be taught what those crazy hippies who founded this country had in mind?
http://www.rense.com/general63/isouor.htm
The World Council of Churches (WCC) on February 21 urged its members to consider economic measures to oppose Israeli occupation of Palestinian territory and praised the action of a U.S. denomination that has started a process of selective divestment from companies linked to the occupation.
http://www.episcopalchurch.org/3577_58769_ENG_HTM.htm
Fatal familial insomnia is a prion disease that interferes with sleep, leading to deterioration of mental function.
http://www.rense.com/general63/fatal.htm
The CDC chief said her agency is getting ready for a possible pandemic next
year.
http://www.rense.com/general63/threat.htm
"The forests went out. The fungi proliferated, and the Earth became a giant
compost pile. An enormous number of spores were released," said Dr. Arturo
Casadevall, an infectious disease researcher who proposed last month that air
thick with fungal spores after the meteor hit could have overwhelmed animals'
immune systems, causing sickness and death. If he's right, the large numbers of
warm-blooded mammals and birds that survived the mass extinction might have had
a natural advantage -- body temperatures too hot for fungal infections to take
hold.
...
Fungal infections are now emerging as an important force in nature again: Fungal
diseases also may be contributing to the worldwide decline of the coral reefs,
and appear to play a poorly understood role in the steady decline of
amphibians.
http://www.boston.com/news/globe/health_science/articles/2005/02/22/were_the_din
osaurs_done_in_by_fungus/
"NASA does not have any observational data from any current Mars missions
that supports this claim. The work by the scientists mentioned in the reports
cannot be used to directly infer anything about life on Mars, but may help
formulate the strategy for how to search for Martian life.
http://dsc.discovery.com/news/briefs/20050214/marswater.html
[Public opinion in the us? No one in the us even knows who putin is or what country he is in charge of. I heard Woolsey on the radio one time on a call-in show. Someone called in and said something bad about Bush, you would have thought Woolsey's own head was going to explode over the outrage of such a thing happening.]
Woolsey is convinced that at the forthcoming summit in Bratislava the U.S.
president will no longer be able to ignore public opinion in the U.S. At any
rate, Bushís smile should be less warm when he speaks to his Russian
counterpart, Woolsey said.
http://www.prisonplanet.com/articles/february2005/220205comparesrussia.htm
Whatever it was, Yeakey was upset. He called his wife that morning crying, ìItís
not true. Itís not what they are saying. It didnít happen that way.î
Yeakey ran back and forth into that concrete mess of bricks and mortar all day
long and continued beyond exhaustion, far into the night.
In a cadre of heroes that day, Yeakeyís performance was outstanding. On May 11,
the following year he was scheduled to receive the Medal of Valor from the
Oklahoma City Police Department (OCPD). He never got it. He was murdered on May
8, 1996, in the country, two and a half miles west of the El Reno Penitentiary.
His body was found a mile from his blood-soaked car.
http://www.americanfreepress.net/html/federal_murder.html
[I thought these drugs were supposed to be bad.]
First we found out that the Army was planning to ply G.I.s with the raver
favorite Ketamine, or "Special K," as a morphine substitute. Now comes
word that "American soldiers traumatized by fighting in Iraq and
Afghanistan are to be offered the drug ecstasy to help free them of flashbacks
and recurring nightmares," the Guardian reports.First we found out that the
Army was planning to ply G.I.s with the raver favorite Ketamine, or
"Special K," as a morphine substitute. Now comes word that
"American soldiers traumatized by fighting in Iraq and Afghanistan are to
be offered the drug ecstasy to help free them of flashbacks and recurring
nightmares," the Guardian reports.
..
Several studies in the US are planned or are under way to investigate whether
MDMA, LSD and psilocybin, the active ingredient in magic mushrooms, can treat
conditions ranging from obsessive compulsive disorder to anxiety in terminal
cancer patients.
http://www.defensetech.org/archives/001398.html
DOGS in the Northern Territory are getting "high" on cane toads.
Dogs were licking the backs of the warty pests and becoming addicted to the
hallucinogenic poison, a NT vet said yesterday.
Megan Pickering, a vet in Katherine, said she had treated a number of dogs
affected by the deadly toad poison.
http://www.news.com.au/story/0,10117,12300929-13762,00.html
"The male will choose the sex pheromone over food, even though he may die
on the way." The study found that when a minuscule quantity of the
artificial pheromone was placed in one branch of a forked plexiglass tube, 60
per cent of a sample of cockroaches chose that branch and made their way to the
sample in less than 10 seconds.
http://www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/news/story.jsp?story=613322
Australian scientists have cloned the world's first cow using a new research
method called serial nuclear transfer (SNT), Xinhua reports.
http://www.webindia123.com/news/showdetails.asp?id=67379&cat=Science
[better hurry up before we "reform" class action lawsuits.]
A Georgia woman has sued Hewlett-Packard Co. (NYSE:HPQ - news), claiming the ink
cartridges for their printers are secretly programed to expire on a certain
date, in some cases rendering them useless before they are even installed in a
printer
...
The suit, which seeks class-action status, asks for restitution, damages and
other compensation.
h_hp_printers_dc”>http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=581&e=1&u=/nm/20050222/tc_nm/tec
h_hp_printers_dc
[slamming the door on democracy. what if people WANT municipal broadband? When I was studying international trade agreements, they taught one of the specific selling points of them was to reduce the freedom of action of the governments that signed on. For democratic countries this meant taking more and more aspects of life out of democratic control and putting them under the control of these trade courts and tribunals. I think this is part of the same overall pattern. The telecom companies want to get these laws in before people catch on to this municipal idea and then later they can say "Sorry, that's illegal."
With the Patriot Act advocating for changes in government policy can now be considered "terrorism" in certain circumstances. Watch for that provision to be expanded as companies get more of the legislation they want in place. Once it is all in, they will want to freeze the system like that. ]
Faced with the expanding digital divide, many local officials have set out to
directly provide high-speed broadband service through municipal networks.
Whether building a wireless system, installing fiber directly to homes, or
exploring broadband over power lines ñ or some combination of these options ñ
local communities are finding they can get better service for less money if they
do it themselves.
Big telecom and cable companies have responded by furiously working to slam the
door on community wireless.
http://www.freepress.net/communityinternet/=munibroad
The Top 100 Gadgets of All Time
http://www.mobilepcmag.com/features/2005_03/top100gadgets.html
Nearly two years after the U.S.-led invasion of Iraq, women there are no better
off than under the rule of ousted dictator Saddam Hussein, the human rights
group Amnesty International said on Tuesday.
http://www.commondreams.org/headlines05/0222-08.htm
[Yet more evidence for putting -"so-called"- in front of "war on terrorism".]
The campaign against Social Security is going so badly that longtime critics of
President Bush, accustomed to seeing their efforts to point out flaws in
administration initiatives brushed aside, are pinching themselves. But they
shouldn't relax: if the past is any guide, the Bush administration will soon
change the subject back to national security.
..
Just days after 9/11, many analysts identified sites that store toxic chemicals
as a major terror risk, and called for new safety rules. But as The New York
Times reported last fall, "after the oil and chemical industries met with
Karl Rove ... the White House quietly blocked those efforts."
Nearly three and a half years after 9/11, those chemical plants are still
unprotected.
...
An audit of the Homeland Security Department's (greatly inadequate) program to
protect ports found that much of the money went to unlikely locations, including
six sites in landlocked Arkansas, where the department's recently resigned chief
of border and transportation security is reported to be considering a run for
governor.
http://www.commondreams.org/views05/0222-26.htm
Ailments previously unknown in human beings are appearing, such as the Nipah
virus, which until recently was found normally in Asian fruit bats, according to
the report.
http://www.commondreams.org/headlines05/0222-02.htm
[This is freaky. I am sure it must be the same disease from an earlier email I sent.]
The majority of individuals reporting symptoms of Morgellons Disease reside in California, Texas, and Florida. Several distinct "cluster" areas of this disease have been noted (in order of cluster density) near Los Angeles, San Francisco, Houston, Dallas, and Austin, Texas.
Physicians treating patients with this disease believe that it involves a novel organism. This organism has been difficult to identify, but appears to infect individuals whose immune systems have been altered by Lyme Disease, also known as Lyme Borreliosis. This foundation is working to identify this novel organism and determine the source of the disturbing crawling, stinging, and biting sensations experienced by people with this disease.
Most individuals with this disease report non-healing skin lesions, which are associated with highly unusual structures. These structures can be described as fiber-like or filamentous, and are the most striking features of this disease. In addition, many people consistently report finding objects described as black specks, and granules associated with their skin and skin lesions. The granules have also been described as sand or seeds, but are often seen to have fibers emerging from one end. The elongated fibers are often twisted into balls or what appear to be bundles of fibers, as they grow within the skin.
http://www.morgellons.org/
[notice in the following quote it talks about defending the rights of
individuals ***and corporations***. corporations are not people, as anyone can
plainly see, and were never meant to be regarded as people under the law. if the
founding fathers knew corporations were claiming to be people today they would
have a fit and drop dead all over again. this is why this is a so-called
"conservative" bugaboo. not to help actual people. it is to help out
corporations. if this issue was only facing regular people they wouldn't touch
it with a ten foot pole.]
But in recent years, conservatives have taken issue with that interpretation.
The clause, in the view of University of Chicago Law School professor Richard
Epstein and some of his judicial and academic colleagues, has been
misinterpreted to justify virtually any governmental "interference"
with the owner's right to possess, use and dispose of property. Epstein and his
colleagues say that, on the contrary, the clause is meant to protect property
owners and should be used to strike down regulations that interfere with the
profit of an individual or corporation.
http://www.commondreams.org/views05/0221-26.htm
American and Iraqi government forces have surrounded the city of Ramadi in
preparation for an expected full-scale attack on the city, which has in effect
slipped into the hands of insurgents.
http://www.commondreams.org/headlines05/0221-22.htm
A strip club in Boise, Idaho has found an artful way to prance past a city law that prohibits full nudity.
On what it calls Art Club Nights, the Erotic City strip club charges customers $15 for a sketch pad, pencil, and a chance to see completely naked women dancers.
“>http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=583&e=4&u=/nm/20050218/od_nm/odd_nudity_dc
Either aliens are visiting Manitoban airspace more frequently, or the smoking ban has forced people to spend more time staring at the sky. Whatever the reason, a report released yesterday by Ufology Research of Manitoba states that there were 112 UFO sightings in Manitoba last year, which more than doubles the previous record for sightings and is more than four times as many as in 2003.
http://www.canoe.ca/NewsStand/WinnipegSun/News/2005/02/21/937545-sun.html
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