A peace that is neither partial nor punitive
Some fish communicate through the bubbles they release from their bodies, according to marine research.
Dr Bob Batty, a British scientist who studied at Nottingham Trent University, is spearheading the research into how herring communicate.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/nottinghamshire/4350745.stm
The patient, who is married and has two children, told doctors he had a one night stand with another woman.
He couldn't say how the ring got onto his penis but suspected the mistress wanted to embarrass him because he fell asleep during sex.
http://www.ananova.com/news/story/sm_1313805.html?menu=news.quirkies.sexlife
[Meanwhile the people in our Congress can hardly be bothered to show up for work, let alone actually debate anything.]
"The Great Terrorism Debate of 2005" has already become the stuff of legend: how the government steamrollered opposition in the Commons only to see the proposals rejected by the Lords four times in 24 hours; how members struggled to sleep in all available spaces around Westminster as both houses dug in and sat through the night; and how they stuck resolutely to their positions until the final breakthrough," observed the Scotland on Sunday newspaper.
http://www.thenation.com/thebeat/index.mhtml?bid=1&pid=2260
[The messiah arrived 2,000 years ago. There is not a whole bunch of them like there are people who dress up as Sanata Claus in every department store at Christmas.]
Several rabbinic authorities have issued orders barring Jews from entering certain parts of the Temple Mount, saying the areas are considered too holy to visit until the third Temple is rebuilt upon the arrival of the Jewish messiah. Some have restricted the entire Mount area.
http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=43321
[Over $300 BILLION to go kill people in some foreign country. How about some money to fill in some pot holes back ehre at home? Or some money to plug up the giant illegal immigration hole down south. Or maybe some money so we don’t all drop dead from bird flu or whatever else comes down the line in the way of diseases. Maybe some money so kids can go to to school or eat food or something like that.
There’s always money for war. There’s never money for anything else.
Hear the words of President Eisenhower, a Republican from before the days when the Republican Party was taken over by the Communists:
Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies, in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed.
This world in arms in not spending money alone.
It is spending the sweat of its laborers, the genius of its scientists, the hopes of its children.
The cost of one modern heavy bomber is this: a modern brick school in more than 30 cities.
It is two electric power plants, each serving a town of 60,000 population.
It is two fine, fully equipped hospitals.
It is some 50 miles of concrete highway.
We pay for a single fighter with a half million bushels of wheat.
We pay for a single destroyer with new homes that could have housed more than 8,000 people.
This, I repeat, is the best way of life to be found on the road the world has been taking.
This is not a way of life at all, in any true sense. Under the cloud of threatening war, it is humanity hanging from a cross of iron.
These plain and cruel truths define the peril and point the hope that come with this spring of 1953.
This is one of those times in the affairs of nations when the gravest choices must be made, if there is to be a turning toward a just and lasting peace.
It is a moment that calls upon the governments of the world to speak their intentions with simplicity and with honest.
It calls upon them to answer the questions that stirs the hearts of all sane men: is there no other way the world may live?
...
This we do know: a world that begins to witness the rebirth of trust among nations can find its way to a peace that is neither partial nor punitive.
https://ideotrope.org/index.pl?node_id=23495]
President Bush (news - web sites) got most of the money he wanted for wars in Iraq (news - web sites) and Afghanistan (news - web sites) as the House approved a $81.4 billion measure Wednesday, pushing the total cost for fighting terrorism over $300 billion.
http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/ap/20050316/ap_on_go_co/us_iraq_spending
At least 26 prisoners have died in U.S. custody in Iraq and Afghanistan since 2002 in what Army and Navy investigators have concluded or suspect were acts of criminal homicide, according to military officials.
The number of confirmed or suspected cases is much higher than any accounting the military has previously reported. A Pentagon report sent to Congress last week cited only six prisoner deaths caused by abuse, but that partial tally was limited to what the author, Vice Adm. Albert T. Church III of the Navy, called "closed, substantiated abuse cases" as of September.
http://www.indystar.com/articles/1/229557-1701-010.html
Bird Flu 'Oddities
http://www.legitgov.org/flu_oddities.html
In the past four years, the number of immigrants into the US, legal and illegal, has closely matched the number of new jobs. That suggests newcomers have, in effect, snapped up all of the new jobs.
"There has been no net job gain for natives," says Andrew Sum, an economist at Northeastern University.
...
They come for jobs, of course. And the Bush administration makes barely any effort to enforce current law. In 2003, a total of 13 employers were fined for hiring undocumented employees.
http://www.rense.com/general63/whyy.htm
[Beware, beware.]
The main problem with about half of them is that they are boys. Such children are obviously made of snips and snails and puppy dog tails. On the farm there is a solution for that: a procedure for turning boy lambs into non-ram lambs. After a quick little operation, they act like peaceful little lambs instead of aggressive, disruptive rams.
We don't do surgery like that on little boys, of course, but we do have our methods: such as behavioral therapy and chemicals.
There are those who argue with some passion that society has to do something. Bad, disruptive, antisocial or depressed little kids make lots of trouble for parents and schoolteachers. Worse, they can grow up into dysfunctional, unhappy or troublemaking adults. That snotty little boy might become a dissenting, nonconformist or even a rebellious man, who could throw a monkey wrench into our smoothly functioning society. We have to catch them early -- for their own good.
...
In fact, parents ought to be asking some very serious questions before the government experts interview the first child:
What are the credentials of the screeners? Most importantly, how many children have they raised to adulthood, and with what outcome?
What are the criteria for possible abnormality? What is the scientific validation? How often do different observers agree? Have any long-term studies shown a solid correlation with adult performance in life? Do today's oddball children fail, or might they turn into our greatest achievers?
Will you be allowed to get a second opinion? Can you see the record and enter corrections if indicated? Will the record at any point be destroyed, or will the stigma of a diagnosis such as "personality disorder" follow the child throughout life?
What will happen if your child fails the screen? What sort of treatment will be given? Who will supervise it? What if you don't approve of it?
What's the very worst thing that the program will have the power to do to you or your child, say if your worst enemy was to gain control of it?
Who might profit from the program (perhaps discoverable by asking who lobbied for it)? Do drug companies expect to have a large number of new consumers of their psychoactive drugs?
What are the results of studies of long-term use of drugs like Ritalin, which has effects on the brain similar to those of cocaine? Have there even been any such studies?
Can you refuse to participate in the program? If you do refuse, what are the repercussions?
What is the evidence that the program, at best, will be anything other than a waste of millions of dollars? Miraculously, throughout human history most of those crazy children have become stable, productive adults without federally mandated psychiatric treatment. Still more amazingly, their parents have managed also.
Psychiatry in the hands of government, instead of independent physicians who are working for patients, reeks of Orwell's "1984" or the Soviet era. The very need to ask the questions should tell us the right answer for this program: It's crazy.
http://www.rense.com/general63/crazy.htm
Benji described the illness as a hemorrhagic fever but said the symptoms were not comparable to those of the deadly Ebola virus, which is found in Congo.
Dick Thompson, an official at the World Health Organization in Geneva, said the U.N. health agency has a team in Uige investigating the outbreak.
The team was taking samples but had not yet diagnosed the illness, Thompson said by phone.
http://abcnews.go.com/Health/wireStory?id=586089
{my problem was that in the past I would occassionally read something like this, and say “no way”, but then kind of forget about it. Then later on I would read someting else of a similar nature and again say “no way”, but then kind of forget about it again.
But when I started to actually note this stuff down it is like practically every day you read something like this.]
Walter Storch, editor of the Barnes Review News reported three weeks ago that "Karl Rove was seen by one of my people entering a private homosexual orgy at a five-star Washington hotel over the Mid-Atlantic Leather (MAL) weekend last year." [2004]
A Barnes reporter told Storch that "Karl greatly enjoyed the supervision of a certain hairy 350-lb. Leather Dominator who had won the Miss Virginia Daddy Bear title at the MAL festivities."
http://www.rense.com/general63/rove.htm
[Although I read a lot of stuff from day to day, I hardly ever come across references to hemmoragic fever. And yet today I have come across two already. That is a bit odd.]
My guess is that when the bird flu hits, it will have a hemorrhagic stage. It will be extremely contagious and some will have (a clandestine) vaccine to protect against it. This could be a real depopulation vehicle and baby boomers may take the brunt. Social Security will be happy about this one.
http://www.rense.com/general63/dder.htm
[This sounds similar to the mortgage scam link I had in a previous entry on this thing.]
But Congress actually created an incentive (or at least no disincentive) for the opposite – banks can lose your information, and then use their own negligence as an opportunity to bleed you dry with higher interest rates, late fees, and all the other horrible things that are heaped upon citizens as they accrue debt.
http://www.davidsirota.com/2005/03/us-senate-supports-identity-theft.html
In this half-hour production featuring 14 students, only six present firsthand complaints; standing accused are professors Joseph Massad, George Saliba, and Hamid Dabashi. Complaints range from random flyering incidents having nothing to do with professors, to general ideological disagreements with what professors have written, to statements they allegedly made in person. No evidence is presented for any of the charges. Columbia student Adam Sacarny wrote in the school's newspaper upon seeing the film: "Much like the electoral campaigns, it uses talking points in place of pesky verifiable facts," adding, "The film's case is so shoddy that I fail to see how any critical viewer could leave the theater convinced that [the department] has violated academic integrity standards." (9) Even the generally sympathetic Israeli daily Haaretz admits, "The movie fuses few solid examples of intimidation - only some of which involved professors and the students they were teaching - with generalized complaints of anti-Israel and anti-Semitic statements and behavior on campus." (10) And despite these students' claims of being "silenced," "intimidated," and "denied"(their own words), not one of them say their grades were affected. (11)
http://mparent7777.blog-city.com/read/1131984.htm
[I read somewhere once that the Cubans have this program where if some poor country wants to have rurals doctors they can get in touch with the Cubans and the Cubans will send a doctor to whatever village is sending a medical student to Cuba, and the Cuban doctor will work there until the local student gets done with medical school. And then the pay back is the new doctor has to go back and take the place of the Cuban guy. I don’t know if they still do that or not.]
For a long time there was only one country in Latin America offering free health care to all its citizens. Now there are two. The governments of both countries regard health care as a basic human right. So Cuba, rich in health care, and Venezuela, rich in oil, have arranged a barter deal for the benefit of each population. This would seem to be a major historical example of beneficial free trade. Who could possibly object?
Well, Condoleezza Rice for one, who seems quite disturbed by this alliance. During an interview last October with the editorial board of The Pittsburgh Tribune-Review, then National Security Advisor Rice called President Hugo Chavez "a real problem." She said, "He will continue his contacts with Fidel Castro, maybe giving Castro one last fling to try to affect he politics of Latin America." Why is she so alarmed?
http://www.rense.com/general63/venn.htm
[You see, the USG doesn’t want to support legality or help strugglign countries to be less corrupt.]
The US plans to wreck a British initiative to commit the G8 states to combatting illegal logging in the world's threatened rainforests, a leaked memorandum revealed last night.
The development secretary, Hilary Benn, wants G8 environment and development ministers meeting in Derby tomorrow and on Friday to insist that all timber bought by official bodies in rich nations comes from properly managed forests.
The British initiative was prompted by Indonesia, which said corruption there was so rampant that the authorities did not have the power to tackle the supply of timber by criminal gangs. Indonesian government ministers urged rich nations to reduce demand for illegal supplies by requiring proper certificates showing wood had come from properly managed forests.
But industry lobbyists in the US have resisted moves to certify timber. A US state department memo leaked to the BBC's Newsnight shows that the US will refuse to sign up to the Benn initiative.
http://www.rense.com/general63/prese.htm
The family of Rachel Corrie, a pro-Palestinian activist killed by an Israel Defense Forces bulldozer in Rafah two years ago, sued the State of Israel and the IDF for damages in the Haifa District Court on Tuesday.
http://www.rense.com/general63/rachel.htm
Government biological warfare documents speak of incapacitating agents as being the most effective at disabling a nation. When a population is infected with a lethal agent, it is very obvious that measures need to be taken such as quarantine, antibiotics, etc. This helps to curb and abort the epidemic.
A much more discreet, diabolical and effective method of disabling a country would be to employ a moderately infectious organism or combination (Russian Doll Cocktails) which would pass slowly through the population unnoticed. Some of the criteria for effective disabling agents are:
http://www.rense.com/general63/lyme.htm
[I bet this is a trial balloon for a scheme to get more physical gold into the market, while also cutting back on the demand for physical gold.
This group basically claims that some of the biggest banks in the world and some central banks have been deliberately selling gold to depress its value to engage in certain profit making schemes which I will not bother to go into here, but in part they say that the big banks went to far. They sold off too much gold and now they can’t cover their obligations with the amount of gold left on the market. So they are supposedly scheme-ing to scam their way out of their hole.
This Indian notion strikes me as something of the kind they might do to get out of their problems. Just an idea.]
The Indian government is placing a long-range wager that an increasingly prosperous population can be coaxed to part -- at least physically -- with its boundless hoards of gold.
A policy floated recently would allow Indians to buy virtual or "paper" gold in denominations as low as $2, instead of investing in necklaces, bangles, and coins. It is a step, analysts say, toward bringing millions of poor Indians into the banking system and unlocking the untapped investment potential of more than $200 billion worth of privately held gold in India.
Indians are the world's biggest gold consumers, with more than half the country's savings tied up in physical assets. Particularly among the very poorest, Indians are prone to spending much of their income to acquire the metal, locking up their assets in the resulting hoards.
...
"What is the reason I'm buying gold?" said Pinank Mehta, an asset manager. "The reason for my purchase is a lack of trust in the present institutions. Now why would I buy physical gold and give it back to the same guys who are the cause of my not trusting the present system?"
http://www.rense.com/general63/gold.htm
The first USDA docket on this request (full text on USDA web site) states: ©¯These transgenic plants have been modified to express the human (Homo sapiens) glycoprotein lactoferrin.©˜ The second docket refers to the ©¯field-testing of rice, Oryza sativa, genetically engineered to express human lysozyme.©˜ Please go to the USDA/APHIS web site and make comments.
http://www.organicconsumers.org/ge/humanrice031505.cfm
[They say squids have taken over the oceans owing to the virtual anhillation of the world whale populations.]
The Pentagon is working to develop a suborbital space capsule within the next five years that would be launched from the United States and could deliver conventional weapons anywhere in the world within two hours, defense officials said.
This year, the Falcon program will test a launcher for its Common Aero Vehicle (CAV), an unmanned maneuverable spacecraft that would travel at five times the speed of sound and could carry 1,000 pounds of munitions, intelligence sensors or other payloads. Among the system's strengths is that commanders could order a CAV -- an unpowered glide vehicle -- not to release its payload if they decided not to follow through with an attack.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp-dyn/A38272-2005Mar15?language=printer
They are Dosidicus gigas or Humboldt Squid, the fiercest of all the cephalopods, and for reasons unknown to science, they are appearing in huge numbers along the West Coast, from the Gulf of Mexico to Southeast Alaska, including a sizable population right here in the Monterey Bay.
http://www.montereycountyweekly.com/cover/
The Minute Man Project now encompasses all fifty states and over 1000 volunteers for the biggest event protesting against our president and Congress doing absolutely nothing to stop illegal aliens invading our country. This will be known in history as the 21st century's Boston Tea Party. It features its own air force, com center, web site and dedicated men and women from 21 to 81. They will make a statement on the Arizona border that will be heard around the country.
http://www.rense.com/general63/mm.htm
"How do you measure and quantify a loss of this type? What happens if there's an impairment to the satellite's systems that diminishes its value? These are some of the questions we had to ask ourselves."
From its geostationary Earth orbit of 36,000 km, the solar-powered Inmarsat-4 will significantly increase the available bandwidth for global mobile data transmission via satellite.
According to Inmarsat experts, the I- 4 is different from a conventional commercial communications satellite because it can focus power through very narrow beams to a small area on the Earth, and the beams can be dynamically repositioned according to requirements.
http://www.spacedaily.com/news/satellite-biz-05zi.html
[China always has these freaky, science fiction-y problems like this.
It doesn’t say here what the Falungong people were broadcasting, but in the past it has been smuggled videos of Falungong people in slave labor camps and denunciations of government oppression.]
Falungong, banned as an "evil cult" in China, sabotaged TV broadcasts throughout the country this week by tampering with signals transmitted via the AsiaSat satellite, state media said Wednesday.
http://www.spacedaily.com/2005/050316050611.y0nakwah.html
The Cassini spacecraft's two close flybys of Saturn's icy moon Enceladus have revealed that the moon has a significant atmosphere.
http://www.spacedaily.com/news/cassini-05zg.html
[To me this indicates they have a real program, because if they didn’t they could agree to give it up in return for $300M like the Libyans did.
I am surprised more countries don’t give up non-existent programs so we Americans can heap money on them.]
Iran's President Mohammad Khatami asserted Wednesday that no incentives would be enough to convince the Islamic republic to renounce its nuclear programme, but pledged the country would make "every effort" to convince the world it was not seeking atomic weapons.
http://www.spacewar.com/2005/050316180835.gyocqugo.html
Internet Protocol over Satellite or IpoS, the most widely deployed satellite broadband standard, has now become the first global standard for the industry.
http://www.spacedaily.com/news/internet-05v.html
[ I will tell you something I think about Rutan. I think he is a genius. But he stands virtually alone in the field of aviation today. I think there are and have been a lot more Rutan type people, but they have either been sucked up the government to work on boondoggle projects or else they have been frozen out by the way the government taxes the little guy back to the stone age and lavishes billions on its favored cronies.
It is a miracle that Rutan is able to operate in this country a private company profitably in the field he is in.]
Meanwhile, Rutan's company, Scaled Composites, in Mojave, business is booming. In addition to its aviation work, the company is developing a fleet of commercial sub-orbital vessels for Virgin Atlantic Airways.
Scaled is looking at buying a 65,000-square-foot hangar this year and adding about 70 employees, bringing its total staff up to about 200, company vice president Kevin Mickey said in an interview with the Los Angeles Daily News.
http://www.spacedaily.com/news/spacetravel-05p.html
Dr Bob Batty, a British scientist who studied at Nottingham Trent University, is spearheading the research into how herring communicate.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/nottinghamshire/4350745.stm
The patient, who is married and has two children, told doctors he had a one night stand with another woman.
He couldn't say how the ring got onto his penis but suspected the mistress wanted to embarrass him because he fell asleep during sex.
http://www.ananova.com/news/story/sm_1313805.html?menu=news.quirkies.sexlife
[Meanwhile the people in our Congress can hardly be bothered to show up for work, let alone actually debate anything.]
"The Great Terrorism Debate of 2005" has already become the stuff of legend: how the government steamrollered opposition in the Commons only to see the proposals rejected by the Lords four times in 24 hours; how members struggled to sleep in all available spaces around Westminster as both houses dug in and sat through the night; and how they stuck resolutely to their positions until the final breakthrough," observed the Scotland on Sunday newspaper.
http://www.thenation.com/thebeat/index.mhtml?bid=1&pid=2260
[The messiah arrived 2,000 years ago. There is not a whole bunch of them like there are people who dress up as Sanata Claus in every department store at Christmas.]
Several rabbinic authorities have issued orders barring Jews from entering certain parts of the Temple Mount, saying the areas are considered too holy to visit until the third Temple is rebuilt upon the arrival of the Jewish messiah. Some have restricted the entire Mount area.
http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=43321
[Over $300 BILLION to go kill people in some foreign country. How about some money to fill in some pot holes back ehre at home? Or some money to plug up the giant illegal immigration hole down south. Or maybe some money so we don’t all drop dead from bird flu or whatever else comes down the line in the way of diseases. Maybe some money so kids can go to to school or eat food or something like that.
There’s always money for war. There’s never money for anything else.
Hear the words of President Eisenhower, a Republican from before the days when the Republican Party was taken over by the Communists:
Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies, in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed.
This world in arms in not spending money alone.
It is spending the sweat of its laborers, the genius of its scientists, the hopes of its children.
The cost of one modern heavy bomber is this: a modern brick school in more than 30 cities.
It is two electric power plants, each serving a town of 60,000 population.
It is two fine, fully equipped hospitals.
It is some 50 miles of concrete highway.
We pay for a single fighter with a half million bushels of wheat.
We pay for a single destroyer with new homes that could have housed more than 8,000 people.
This, I repeat, is the best way of life to be found on the road the world has been taking.
This is not a way of life at all, in any true sense. Under the cloud of threatening war, it is humanity hanging from a cross of iron.
These plain and cruel truths define the peril and point the hope that come with this spring of 1953.
This is one of those times in the affairs of nations when the gravest choices must be made, if there is to be a turning toward a just and lasting peace.
It is a moment that calls upon the governments of the world to speak their intentions with simplicity and with honest.
It calls upon them to answer the questions that stirs the hearts of all sane men: is there no other way the world may live?
...
This we do know: a world that begins to witness the rebirth of trust among nations can find its way to a peace that is neither partial nor punitive.
https://ideotrope.org/index.pl?node_id=23495]
President Bush (news - web sites) got most of the money he wanted for wars in Iraq (news - web sites) and Afghanistan (news - web sites) as the House approved a $81.4 billion measure Wednesday, pushing the total cost for fighting terrorism over $300 billion.
http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/ap/20050316/ap_on_go_co/us_iraq_spending
At least 26 prisoners have died in U.S. custody in Iraq and Afghanistan since 2002 in what Army and Navy investigators have concluded or suspect were acts of criminal homicide, according to military officials.
The number of confirmed or suspected cases is much higher than any accounting the military has previously reported. A Pentagon report sent to Congress last week cited only six prisoner deaths caused by abuse, but that partial tally was limited to what the author, Vice Adm. Albert T. Church III of the Navy, called "closed, substantiated abuse cases" as of September.
http://www.indystar.com/articles/1/229557-1701-010.html
Bird Flu 'Oddities
http://www.legitgov.org/flu_oddities.html
In the past four years, the number of immigrants into the US, legal and illegal, has closely matched the number of new jobs. That suggests newcomers have, in effect, snapped up all of the new jobs.
"There has been no net job gain for natives," says Andrew Sum, an economist at Northeastern University.
...
They come for jobs, of course. And the Bush administration makes barely any effort to enforce current law. In 2003, a total of 13 employers were fined for hiring undocumented employees.
http://www.rense.com/general63/whyy.htm
[Beware, beware.]
The main problem with about half of them is that they are boys. Such children are obviously made of snips and snails and puppy dog tails. On the farm there is a solution for that: a procedure for turning boy lambs into non-ram lambs. After a quick little operation, they act like peaceful little lambs instead of aggressive, disruptive rams.
We don't do surgery like that on little boys, of course, but we do have our methods: such as behavioral therapy and chemicals.
There are those who argue with some passion that society has to do something. Bad, disruptive, antisocial or depressed little kids make lots of trouble for parents and schoolteachers. Worse, they can grow up into dysfunctional, unhappy or troublemaking adults. That snotty little boy might become a dissenting, nonconformist or even a rebellious man, who could throw a monkey wrench into our smoothly functioning society. We have to catch them early -- for their own good.
...
In fact, parents ought to be asking some very serious questions before the government experts interview the first child:
What are the credentials of the screeners? Most importantly, how many children have they raised to adulthood, and with what outcome?
What are the criteria for possible abnormality? What is the scientific validation? How often do different observers agree? Have any long-term studies shown a solid correlation with adult performance in life? Do today's oddball children fail, or might they turn into our greatest achievers?
Will you be allowed to get a second opinion? Can you see the record and enter corrections if indicated? Will the record at any point be destroyed, or will the stigma of a diagnosis such as "personality disorder" follow the child throughout life?
What will happen if your child fails the screen? What sort of treatment will be given? Who will supervise it? What if you don't approve of it?
What's the very worst thing that the program will have the power to do to you or your child, say if your worst enemy was to gain control of it?
Who might profit from the program (perhaps discoverable by asking who lobbied for it)? Do drug companies expect to have a large number of new consumers of their psychoactive drugs?
What are the results of studies of long-term use of drugs like Ritalin, which has effects on the brain similar to those of cocaine? Have there even been any such studies?
Can you refuse to participate in the program? If you do refuse, what are the repercussions?
What is the evidence that the program, at best, will be anything other than a waste of millions of dollars? Miraculously, throughout human history most of those crazy children have become stable, productive adults without federally mandated psychiatric treatment. Still more amazingly, their parents have managed also.
Psychiatry in the hands of government, instead of independent physicians who are working for patients, reeks of Orwell's "1984" or the Soviet era. The very need to ask the questions should tell us the right answer for this program: It's crazy.
http://www.rense.com/general63/crazy.htm
Benji described the illness as a hemorrhagic fever but said the symptoms were not comparable to those of the deadly Ebola virus, which is found in Congo.
Dick Thompson, an official at the World Health Organization in Geneva, said the U.N. health agency has a team in Uige investigating the outbreak.
The team was taking samples but had not yet diagnosed the illness, Thompson said by phone.
http://abcnews.go.com/Health/wireStory?id=586089
{my problem was that in the past I would occassionally read something like this, and say “no way”, but then kind of forget about it. Then later on I would read someting else of a similar nature and again say “no way”, but then kind of forget about it again.
But when I started to actually note this stuff down it is like practically every day you read something like this.]
Walter Storch, editor of the Barnes Review News reported three weeks ago that "Karl Rove was seen by one of my people entering a private homosexual orgy at a five-star Washington hotel over the Mid-Atlantic Leather (MAL) weekend last year." [2004]
A Barnes reporter told Storch that "Karl greatly enjoyed the supervision of a certain hairy 350-lb. Leather Dominator who had won the Miss Virginia Daddy Bear title at the MAL festivities."
http://www.rense.com/general63/rove.htm
[Although I read a lot of stuff from day to day, I hardly ever come across references to hemmoragic fever. And yet today I have come across two already. That is a bit odd.]
My guess is that when the bird flu hits, it will have a hemorrhagic stage. It will be extremely contagious and some will have (a clandestine) vaccine to protect against it. This could be a real depopulation vehicle and baby boomers may take the brunt. Social Security will be happy about this one.
http://www.rense.com/general63/dder.htm
[This sounds similar to the mortgage scam link I had in a previous entry on this thing.]
But Congress actually created an incentive (or at least no disincentive) for the opposite – banks can lose your information, and then use their own negligence as an opportunity to bleed you dry with higher interest rates, late fees, and all the other horrible things that are heaped upon citizens as they accrue debt.
http://www.davidsirota.com/2005/03/us-senate-supports-identity-theft.html
In this half-hour production featuring 14 students, only six present firsthand complaints; standing accused are professors Joseph Massad, George Saliba, and Hamid Dabashi. Complaints range from random flyering incidents having nothing to do with professors, to general ideological disagreements with what professors have written, to statements they allegedly made in person. No evidence is presented for any of the charges. Columbia student Adam Sacarny wrote in the school's newspaper upon seeing the film: "Much like the electoral campaigns, it uses talking points in place of pesky verifiable facts," adding, "The film's case is so shoddy that I fail to see how any critical viewer could leave the theater convinced that [the department] has violated academic integrity standards." (9) Even the generally sympathetic Israeli daily Haaretz admits, "The movie fuses few solid examples of intimidation - only some of which involved professors and the students they were teaching - with generalized complaints of anti-Israel and anti-Semitic statements and behavior on campus." (10) And despite these students' claims of being "silenced," "intimidated," and "denied"(their own words), not one of them say their grades were affected. (11)
http://mparent7777.blog-city.com/read/1131984.htm
[I read somewhere once that the Cubans have this program where if some poor country wants to have rurals doctors they can get in touch with the Cubans and the Cubans will send a doctor to whatever village is sending a medical student to Cuba, and the Cuban doctor will work there until the local student gets done with medical school. And then the pay back is the new doctor has to go back and take the place of the Cuban guy. I don’t know if they still do that or not.]
For a long time there was only one country in Latin America offering free health care to all its citizens. Now there are two. The governments of both countries regard health care as a basic human right. So Cuba, rich in health care, and Venezuela, rich in oil, have arranged a barter deal for the benefit of each population. This would seem to be a major historical example of beneficial free trade. Who could possibly object?
Well, Condoleezza Rice for one, who seems quite disturbed by this alliance. During an interview last October with the editorial board of The Pittsburgh Tribune-Review, then National Security Advisor Rice called President Hugo Chavez "a real problem." She said, "He will continue his contacts with Fidel Castro, maybe giving Castro one last fling to try to affect he politics of Latin America." Why is she so alarmed?
http://www.rense.com/general63/venn.htm
[You see, the USG doesn’t want to support legality or help strugglign countries to be less corrupt.]
The US plans to wreck a British initiative to commit the G8 states to combatting illegal logging in the world's threatened rainforests, a leaked memorandum revealed last night.
The development secretary, Hilary Benn, wants G8 environment and development ministers meeting in Derby tomorrow and on Friday to insist that all timber bought by official bodies in rich nations comes from properly managed forests.
The British initiative was prompted by Indonesia, which said corruption there was so rampant that the authorities did not have the power to tackle the supply of timber by criminal gangs. Indonesian government ministers urged rich nations to reduce demand for illegal supplies by requiring proper certificates showing wood had come from properly managed forests.
But industry lobbyists in the US have resisted moves to certify timber. A US state department memo leaked to the BBC's Newsnight shows that the US will refuse to sign up to the Benn initiative.
http://www.rense.com/general63/prese.htm
The family of Rachel Corrie, a pro-Palestinian activist killed by an Israel Defense Forces bulldozer in Rafah two years ago, sued the State of Israel and the IDF for damages in the Haifa District Court on Tuesday.
http://www.rense.com/general63/rachel.htm
Government biological warfare documents speak of incapacitating agents as being the most effective at disabling a nation. When a population is infected with a lethal agent, it is very obvious that measures need to be taken such as quarantine, antibiotics, etc. This helps to curb and abort the epidemic.
A much more discreet, diabolical and effective method of disabling a country would be to employ a moderately infectious organism or combination (Russian Doll Cocktails) which would pass slowly through the population unnoticed. Some of the criteria for effective disabling agents are:
http://www.rense.com/general63/lyme.htm
[I bet this is a trial balloon for a scheme to get more physical gold into the market, while also cutting back on the demand for physical gold.
This group basically claims that some of the biggest banks in the world and some central banks have been deliberately selling gold to depress its value to engage in certain profit making schemes which I will not bother to go into here, but in part they say that the big banks went to far. They sold off too much gold and now they can’t cover their obligations with the amount of gold left on the market. So they are supposedly scheme-ing to scam their way out of their hole.
This Indian notion strikes me as something of the kind they might do to get out of their problems. Just an idea.]
The Indian government is placing a long-range wager that an increasingly prosperous population can be coaxed to part -- at least physically -- with its boundless hoards of gold.
A policy floated recently would allow Indians to buy virtual or "paper" gold in denominations as low as $2, instead of investing in necklaces, bangles, and coins. It is a step, analysts say, toward bringing millions of poor Indians into the banking system and unlocking the untapped investment potential of more than $200 billion worth of privately held gold in India.
Indians are the world's biggest gold consumers, with more than half the country's savings tied up in physical assets. Particularly among the very poorest, Indians are prone to spending much of their income to acquire the metal, locking up their assets in the resulting hoards.
...
"What is the reason I'm buying gold?" said Pinank Mehta, an asset manager. "The reason for my purchase is a lack of trust in the present institutions. Now why would I buy physical gold and give it back to the same guys who are the cause of my not trusting the present system?"
http://www.rense.com/general63/gold.htm
The first USDA docket on this request (full text on USDA web site) states: ©¯These transgenic plants have been modified to express the human (Homo sapiens) glycoprotein lactoferrin.©˜ The second docket refers to the ©¯field-testing of rice, Oryza sativa, genetically engineered to express human lysozyme.©˜ Please go to the USDA/APHIS web site and make comments.
http://www.organicconsumers.org/ge/humanrice031505.cfm
[They say squids have taken over the oceans owing to the virtual anhillation of the world whale populations.]
The Pentagon is working to develop a suborbital space capsule within the next five years that would be launched from the United States and could deliver conventional weapons anywhere in the world within two hours, defense officials said.
This year, the Falcon program will test a launcher for its Common Aero Vehicle (CAV), an unmanned maneuverable spacecraft that would travel at five times the speed of sound and could carry 1,000 pounds of munitions, intelligence sensors or other payloads. Among the system's strengths is that commanders could order a CAV -- an unpowered glide vehicle -- not to release its payload if they decided not to follow through with an attack.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp-dyn/A38272-2005Mar15?language=printer
They are Dosidicus gigas or Humboldt Squid, the fiercest of all the cephalopods, and for reasons unknown to science, they are appearing in huge numbers along the West Coast, from the Gulf of Mexico to Southeast Alaska, including a sizable population right here in the Monterey Bay.
http://www.montereycountyweekly.com/cover/
The Minute Man Project now encompasses all fifty states and over 1000 volunteers for the biggest event protesting against our president and Congress doing absolutely nothing to stop illegal aliens invading our country. This will be known in history as the 21st century's Boston Tea Party. It features its own air force, com center, web site and dedicated men and women from 21 to 81. They will make a statement on the Arizona border that will be heard around the country.
http://www.rense.com/general63/mm.htm
"How do you measure and quantify a loss of this type? What happens if there's an impairment to the satellite's systems that diminishes its value? These are some of the questions we had to ask ourselves."
From its geostationary Earth orbit of 36,000 km, the solar-powered Inmarsat-4 will significantly increase the available bandwidth for global mobile data transmission via satellite.
According to Inmarsat experts, the I- 4 is different from a conventional commercial communications satellite because it can focus power through very narrow beams to a small area on the Earth, and the beams can be dynamically repositioned according to requirements.
http://www.spacedaily.com/news/satellite-biz-05zi.html
[China always has these freaky, science fiction-y problems like this.
It doesn’t say here what the Falungong people were broadcasting, but in the past it has been smuggled videos of Falungong people in slave labor camps and denunciations of government oppression.]
Falungong, banned as an "evil cult" in China, sabotaged TV broadcasts throughout the country this week by tampering with signals transmitted via the AsiaSat satellite, state media said Wednesday.
http://www.spacedaily.com/2005/050316050611.y0nakwah.html
The Cassini spacecraft's two close flybys of Saturn's icy moon Enceladus have revealed that the moon has a significant atmosphere.
http://www.spacedaily.com/news/cassini-05zg.html
[To me this indicates they have a real program, because if they didn’t they could agree to give it up in return for $300M like the Libyans did.
I am surprised more countries don’t give up non-existent programs so we Americans can heap money on them.]
Iran's President Mohammad Khatami asserted Wednesday that no incentives would be enough to convince the Islamic republic to renounce its nuclear programme, but pledged the country would make "every effort" to convince the world it was not seeking atomic weapons.
http://www.spacewar.com/2005/050316180835.gyocqugo.html
Internet Protocol over Satellite or IpoS, the most widely deployed satellite broadband standard, has now become the first global standard for the industry.
http://www.spacedaily.com/news/internet-05v.html
[ I will tell you something I think about Rutan. I think he is a genius. But he stands virtually alone in the field of aviation today. I think there are and have been a lot more Rutan type people, but they have either been sucked up the government to work on boondoggle projects or else they have been frozen out by the way the government taxes the little guy back to the stone age and lavishes billions on its favored cronies.
It is a miracle that Rutan is able to operate in this country a private company profitably in the field he is in.]
Meanwhile, Rutan's company, Scaled Composites, in Mojave, business is booming. In addition to its aviation work, the company is developing a fleet of commercial sub-orbital vessels for Virgin Atlantic Airways.
Scaled is looking at buying a 65,000-square-foot hangar this year and adding about 70 employees, bringing its total staff up to about 200, company vice president Kevin Mickey said in an interview with the Los Angeles Daily News.
http://www.spacedaily.com/news/spacetravel-05p.html
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