Yeah? How?
[People are always mooing over supposed intelligent species off in outer space somewhere. It seems this very planet we are standing on right now is over-run with intelligent species and we can’t wipe them all out fast enough. What is the point of looking for aliens? Given our current track record, all we will do if we find them is kill them all off. Why not just stay home?]
The project began when Dr Joyce Poole of the Amboseli Trust for Elephants in Nairobi took recording equipment to investigate "the very strange sounds" made by Mlaika, an orphaned 10-year-old female living in Tsavo, Kenya.
Mlaika's night time stockade was less than two miles from the Nairobi-Mombasa highway and Dr Poole discovered that the elephant could imitate the sound of the lorries rumbling in the distance.
Mlaika appears to have picked up on the rumbles and copied them, Dr Poole and her colleagues report today in the journal Nature. "I do think it is another sign that elephants are intelligent," she said.
http://www.rense.com/general63/trunk.htm
[So Bush wants to further loosen immigration law. In other words, if you are already a citizen you will have to jump through ever more hoops just to move aorund your own country. But if you want to come here form some other country you can come right in.
You think “How much more can he loosen immigration? Is he going to bus them in himself?”
Yes, I think that is very much in the vein of what he has in mind.]
President Bush yesterday said he opposes a civilian project to monitor illegal aliens crossing the border, characterizing them as "vigilantes."
He said he would pressure Congress to further loosen immigration law.
More than 1,000 people - including 30 pilots and their private planes ó have volunteered for the Minuteman Project, beginning next month along the Arizona-Mexico border. Civilians will monitor the movement of illegal aliens for the month of April and report them to the Border Patrol.
Mr. Bush said after yesterday's continental summit, with Mexican President Vicente Fox and Canadian Prime Minister Paul Martin at Baylor University, that he finds such actions unacceptable.
http://www.rense.com/general63/decries.htm
This country is becoming more unrecognizable with each passing day. The
government, we've learned recently, now packages the news. It provides
television stations with hundreds of video news releases made up to resemble
actual news reports that give us predigested, Orwellian information designed to
convince the public that everything in the nation is being well-managed.
Alongside this propaganda circus comes the added revelation that the
presidential hops George W. Bush is taking around the country to peddle his case
for dismantling Social Security are not conversations with local citizens -- as
they are billed -- but carefully arranged events before prescreened audiences
who hear presentations from panelists who've been, by the recent admission of
one of them, repeatedly rehearsed on what to say.
http://www.commondreams.org/views05/0325-26.htm
In December, many people in Washington, D.C. paused to absorb the meaning in the
lighting of the National Christmas Tree, at the White House Ellipse. At that
event, President George W. Bush reflected that the ìlove and giftsî of Christmas
were ìsigns and symbols of even a greater love and gift that came on a holy
night.î
But these signs werenít the only ones on display. Perhaps it was not surprising
that the illumination was sponsored by MCI, which, as MCI WorldCom, committed
one of the largest corporate frauds in history. Such public displays of
commercialism have become commonplace in the United States.
http://www.commondreams.org/views05/0325-33.htm
No-one knows how people with 'no detectable brain' are able to function at all,
let alone to graduate in mathematics, but there are a couple theories. One idea
is that there is such a high level of redundancy of function in the normal brain
that what little remains is able to learn to deputise for the missing
hemispheres.
http://www.rense.com/general63/brain.htm
On 04-01-05, this unholy meeting between very different people will be joined,
and what will flow from that meeting will not be good for anyone involved,
because this is not a schoolyard exercise in civics - this will be where the
politics of the street and the theories of the classroom will come face to face:
at the border which has become increasingly fraught with death. As news of this
event has spread so too has word of new participants, almost daily.
Representatives of many stripes will attend, each with their own issues to be
resolved, and all with something to prove or disprove in the hostile desert
between the border and the town.
http://www.rense.com/general63/return.htm
Reactors in many UK nuclear power stations are in danger of developing cracks in
their graphite cores. This could force some plants to close down earlier than
expected, dealing a blow to the idea that nuclear power can become a
"green" option in the fight against global warming.
http://www.rense.com/general63/shutd.htm
Well, thatís fine for you to say,î you retort. ìBut how am I supposed to separate fictional email forwards from actual forwarded warnings, smarty-pants?î
The answer to that is actually so simple that it may shock you. Consequently, I urge you to sit down first.
Rule #1: If you receive any email forward at all, it isnít true.
Rule #2: You are the stupidest person alive.
Perhaps you'd better shut off the Hotmail altogether and put those credit cards away, Lex Luthor. You should conserve your super-genius for your battles against the forces of good.
...
The best urban legends, in other words, must get the same reaction from everyone who hears them. To do this, a good urban legend must A) horrify you with the belief that it could happen to you; B) confirm your worst fears that anyone you donít know is a cackling psychopath actively plotting your death; and if possible, C) be punishingly, punishingly stupid.
In all three of these categories the ìBackseat Killerî Legend excels. Its uplifting message that all women should live in continuous unthinking terror of men is as possible as it is implausible, painting as it does the picture of a nightmare world where every stranger is simply a friend who hasnít murdered you yet, leaving your carcass in a park to be pecked at by crows.
http://www.pointlesswasteoftime.com/myths/myths1.html
N.C. Senate bill 976, filed by Sen. Hugh Webster, RAlamance, would require state or local agencies providing public assistance to verify a person’s citizenship status before they could receive Medicaid benefits and other public assistance.
http://www.alipac.us/modules.php?name=News&file=article&sid=291
RailPower Technologies, developer of the Green Goat, believes the hybrid locomotive is an ideal way to reduce fuel costs and air pollution in switching yards, said Simon Clarke, executive vice president of the Canadian company. RailPower says the Green Goat uses 40 percent to 60 percent less fuel and emits 80 percent to 90 percent fewer pollutants than conventional train engines.
http://wired.com/news/planet/0,2782,66998,00.html?tw=wn_tophead_6
[Frankl,y I would rather have the smog than the radiation.]
Energy ministers and officials from 74 countries were in Paris for the two-day meeting on the future of nuclear energy, as concerns about global warming and fossil fuel supplies renew governments’ interest in atomic power
http://msnbc.msn.com/id/7259205/
The reality is that an ignorant and blundering Bush administration has created a Shi'ite crescent from Iran to Lebanon that is revolutionizing the Middle East. The reality will not penetrate the Bush administration. Reality contradicts Bush fantasy and is "against us." Facts that don't support Bush fantasy are "liberal" and "anti-American." Truth is dismissed as anti-Bush propaganda.
http://www.rense.com/general63/somanation.htm
Between 3,000 and 5,000 women have been smuggled into Israel and sold into prostitution over the past four years, according to a Knesset committee investigative report examining the status of the sex trade in Israel. The trafficking in women amounts to around a billion dollars every year.
http://www.rense.com/general63/trade.htm
Jeff Weise had "a good relationship" with the grandfather he shot and killed on Monday as prelude to his deadly assault on students and others at Red Lake High School, according to relatives who are struggling to understand what might have pushed the teenager from sometimes bizarre behavior to mass murder and suicide.
They have sifted through the traumas of his childhood: his father's suicide, the car accident that left his mother with reduced mental capacity, the shuttling between the Red Lake Reservation and the Twin Cities, and the taunts of peers over his appearance, size and outsider behavior.
They wondered, too, about medication he was supposedly taking for depression, and a recent increase in his prescribed dosage.
http://www.rense.com/general63/prozz.htm
[I think the japanese depression was THE MOST under-reported story of the past ten years, and continues to be.
I was always mad at NPR when I used to listen to them, because they actually get a grant form some foundation to promote reporting from/about Japan. Well what could be better than a multi-part in-depth look at the Japanese depression- where it came from, what the effects have been, how they are combatting it, what lessons can be learned, etc etc.
Instead they invariably used that grant money to do stupid things like chronicle the ups and downs of the Japanese bath towel manufacturing industry.]
I think it's safe to say that this mania in real estate cannot get too much crazier. Yet, it's not possible to say how much longer it will last. What is 100% knowable: Given all the speculation financed by borrowed money, this will end in tears, and the ramifications will be far-reaching.
In case you're wondering what it might look like, there is a group of islands where there isn't enough real estate for everyone -- and where real-estate prices have declined for 10 years now. It's also home to the world's second-largest economy. It's called Japan.
http://moneycentral.msn.com/content/P108402.asp
So, what does last Wednesday's break in GM mean? I believe it's the start of billiard balls moving around the financial system in a way that will seriously add to the corrosive forces already at work. When the real estate market finally breaks, we are going to experience an economic period very similar to what Japan has endured for the last 10 years.
One reason why Japan's bust has been as bad as it has is that Japan has had to endure a sizable real-estate bust and a stock-market bust at the same time. Originally, the United States was only dealing with an equity-market bust. But with the Fed trying to bail that bust out with a housing bubble, we, like Japan, will now experience a housing bust and a market bust at the same time.
To top it all off, the Japanese save about 11% of household income; we save less than 2%. Japan has a current-account surplus. We have a massive current-account deficit (which last week was reported to be $188 billion for the fourth quarter of 2004, roughly 6.3% of GDP). So, there is every reason to think that as we encounter the twin busts, we will experience a period like Japan did, only worse.
http://moneycentral.msn.com/content/P111845.asp
Head of the Ukrainian parliament's commission on organized crime Yury Karmazin has dismissed the theory that former Ukrainian interior minister Yury Kravchenko committed suicide and instead called it "a cold blooded murder."
"The suicide version is complete nonsense, this could not have been a suicide," Karmazin said in an interview with the Gazeta po-Kyivsky newspaper published on Thursday.
http://www2.interfax.ru/eng/news/politics/050310/90949/story.html
Despite the setbacks in Iraq, the green neocons believe they can convince Congress and the White House to adopt their program. May, the head of the Foundation for the Defense of Democracies, predicts that House Majority Leader Tom DeLay will be "open to arguments that we can increase and enhance national security for a reasonable price." Gaffney won't name names, but he too is confident, saying, "We continue to enjoy access to and friendships with people who are key policymakers."
If they can convince Congress and the White House to enact meaningful legislation on energy efficiency and conservation—issues that have been marginalized since the Carter administration—then perhaps the neocons will finally have a success story that they can brag about. Better still, it won't require the services of the 82nd Airborne Division.
http://www.energybulletin.net/4251.html
Miami police say they arrested a member of a violent street gang as he pushed a shopping cart carrying two .22-caliber rifles and a shotgun.
Police arrested Edwin Reyes, 23, a citizen of Honduras, in downtown Miami Tuesday. They said he is a member of MS-13 (Mara Salvatrucha 13).
http://www.local10.com/news/4312440/detail.html?subid=22100404&qs=1;bp=t
[I guess I am not the only one who thinks Krygyzistan looks a little funny.]
The idea that the people of Kyrgyzstan have risen up, all on their own, to establish "democracy" and the "rule of law" in a land that has never known either, is the sort of fairy tale that even the most naïve will probably greet with a considerable degree of skepticism. This is especially true if we look at the sort of characters who are coming forward as the new "democratic" leaders of this poor isolated country of some 5 million:
http://www.antiwar.com/justin/?articleid=5331
http://www.antiwar.com/justin/?articleid=5301
Mr. Bush said at a joint press conference. "I'm for enforcing the law
in a rational way."
Yeah? How? By breaking his pledge to beef up border security
personnel and refusing to fully fund increases in the Border Patrol,
detention space, and interior enforcement?
By agreeing to a "totalization" arrangement with Mexico that may
siphon off Social Security funds to illegal aliens at a cost to
overburdened U.S. taxpayers of an estimated $345 billion over the
next 20 years?
By forgetting his pledge to a slain deputy's wife to hunt down a
fugitive illegal alien killer harbored by Mexico and allowing
countless other fugitive criminals to escape extradition?
http://www.alipac.us/modules.php?name=News
The project began when Dr Joyce Poole of the Amboseli Trust for Elephants in Nairobi took recording equipment to investigate "the very strange sounds" made by Mlaika, an orphaned 10-year-old female living in Tsavo, Kenya.
Mlaika's night time stockade was less than two miles from the Nairobi-Mombasa highway and Dr Poole discovered that the elephant could imitate the sound of the lorries rumbling in the distance.
Mlaika appears to have picked up on the rumbles and copied them, Dr Poole and her colleagues report today in the journal Nature. "I do think it is another sign that elephants are intelligent," she said.
http://www.rense.com/general63/trunk.htm
[So Bush wants to further loosen immigration law. In other words, if you are already a citizen you will have to jump through ever more hoops just to move aorund your own country. But if you want to come here form some other country you can come right in.
You think “How much more can he loosen immigration? Is he going to bus them in himself?”
Yes, I think that is very much in the vein of what he has in mind.]
President Bush yesterday said he opposes a civilian project to monitor illegal aliens crossing the border, characterizing them as "vigilantes."
He said he would pressure Congress to further loosen immigration law.
More than 1,000 people - including 30 pilots and their private planes ó have volunteered for the Minuteman Project, beginning next month along the Arizona-Mexico border. Civilians will monitor the movement of illegal aliens for the month of April and report them to the Border Patrol.
Mr. Bush said after yesterday's continental summit, with Mexican President Vicente Fox and Canadian Prime Minister Paul Martin at Baylor University, that he finds such actions unacceptable.
http://www.rense.com/general63/decries.htm
This country is becoming more unrecognizable with each passing day. The
government, we've learned recently, now packages the news. It provides
television stations with hundreds of video news releases made up to resemble
actual news reports that give us predigested, Orwellian information designed to
convince the public that everything in the nation is being well-managed.
Alongside this propaganda circus comes the added revelation that the
presidential hops George W. Bush is taking around the country to peddle his case
for dismantling Social Security are not conversations with local citizens -- as
they are billed -- but carefully arranged events before prescreened audiences
who hear presentations from panelists who've been, by the recent admission of
one of them, repeatedly rehearsed on what to say.
http://www.commondreams.org/views05/0325-26.htm
In December, many people in Washington, D.C. paused to absorb the meaning in the
lighting of the National Christmas Tree, at the White House Ellipse. At that
event, President George W. Bush reflected that the ìlove and giftsî of Christmas
were ìsigns and symbols of even a greater love and gift that came on a holy
night.î
But these signs werenít the only ones on display. Perhaps it was not surprising
that the illumination was sponsored by MCI, which, as MCI WorldCom, committed
one of the largest corporate frauds in history. Such public displays of
commercialism have become commonplace in the United States.
http://www.commondreams.org/views05/0325-33.htm
No-one knows how people with 'no detectable brain' are able to function at all,
let alone to graduate in mathematics, but there are a couple theories. One idea
is that there is such a high level of redundancy of function in the normal brain
that what little remains is able to learn to deputise for the missing
hemispheres.
http://www.rense.com/general63/brain.htm
On 04-01-05, this unholy meeting between very different people will be joined,
and what will flow from that meeting will not be good for anyone involved,
because this is not a schoolyard exercise in civics - this will be where the
politics of the street and the theories of the classroom will come face to face:
at the border which has become increasingly fraught with death. As news of this
event has spread so too has word of new participants, almost daily.
Representatives of many stripes will attend, each with their own issues to be
resolved, and all with something to prove or disprove in the hostile desert
between the border and the town.
http://www.rense.com/general63/return.htm
Reactors in many UK nuclear power stations are in danger of developing cracks in
their graphite cores. This could force some plants to close down earlier than
expected, dealing a blow to the idea that nuclear power can become a
"green" option in the fight against global warming.
http://www.rense.com/general63/shutd.htm
Well, thatís fine for you to say,î you retort. ìBut how am I supposed to separate fictional email forwards from actual forwarded warnings, smarty-pants?î
The answer to that is actually so simple that it may shock you. Consequently, I urge you to sit down first.
Rule #1: If you receive any email forward at all, it isnít true.
Rule #2: You are the stupidest person alive.
Perhaps you'd better shut off the Hotmail altogether and put those credit cards away, Lex Luthor. You should conserve your super-genius for your battles against the forces of good.
...
The best urban legends, in other words, must get the same reaction from everyone who hears them. To do this, a good urban legend must A) horrify you with the belief that it could happen to you; B) confirm your worst fears that anyone you donít know is a cackling psychopath actively plotting your death; and if possible, C) be punishingly, punishingly stupid.
In all three of these categories the ìBackseat Killerî Legend excels. Its uplifting message that all women should live in continuous unthinking terror of men is as possible as it is implausible, painting as it does the picture of a nightmare world where every stranger is simply a friend who hasnít murdered you yet, leaving your carcass in a park to be pecked at by crows.
http://www.pointlesswasteoftime.com/myths/myths1.html
N.C. Senate bill 976, filed by Sen. Hugh Webster, RAlamance, would require state or local agencies providing public assistance to verify a person’s citizenship status before they could receive Medicaid benefits and other public assistance.
http://www.alipac.us/modules.php?name=News&file=article&sid=291
RailPower Technologies, developer of the Green Goat, believes the hybrid locomotive is an ideal way to reduce fuel costs and air pollution in switching yards, said Simon Clarke, executive vice president of the Canadian company. RailPower says the Green Goat uses 40 percent to 60 percent less fuel and emits 80 percent to 90 percent fewer pollutants than conventional train engines.
http://wired.com/news/planet/0,2782,66998,00.html?tw=wn_tophead_6
[Frankl,y I would rather have the smog than the radiation.]
Energy ministers and officials from 74 countries were in Paris for the two-day meeting on the future of nuclear energy, as concerns about global warming and fossil fuel supplies renew governments’ interest in atomic power
http://msnbc.msn.com/id/7259205/
The reality is that an ignorant and blundering Bush administration has created a Shi'ite crescent from Iran to Lebanon that is revolutionizing the Middle East. The reality will not penetrate the Bush administration. Reality contradicts Bush fantasy and is "against us." Facts that don't support Bush fantasy are "liberal" and "anti-American." Truth is dismissed as anti-Bush propaganda.
Between 3,000 and 5,000 women have been smuggled into Israel and sold into prostitution over the past four years, according to a Knesset committee investigative report examining the status of the sex trade in Israel. The trafficking in women amounts to around a billion dollars every year.
http://www.rense.com/general63/trade.htm
Jeff Weise had "a good relationship" with the grandfather he shot and killed on Monday as prelude to his deadly assault on students and others at Red Lake High School, according to relatives who are struggling to understand what might have pushed the teenager from sometimes bizarre behavior to mass murder and suicide.
They have sifted through the traumas of his childhood: his father's suicide, the car accident that left his mother with reduced mental capacity, the shuttling between the Red Lake Reservation and the Twin Cities, and the taunts of peers over his appearance, size and outsider behavior.
They wondered, too, about medication he was supposedly taking for depression, and a recent increase in his prescribed dosage.
http://www.rense.com/general63/prozz.htm
[I think the japanese depression was THE MOST under-reported story of the past ten years, and continues to be.
I was always mad at NPR when I used to listen to them, because they actually get a grant form some foundation to promote reporting from/about Japan. Well what could be better than a multi-part in-depth look at the Japanese depression- where it came from, what the effects have been, how they are combatting it, what lessons can be learned, etc etc.
Instead they invariably used that grant money to do stupid things like chronicle the ups and downs of the Japanese bath towel manufacturing industry.]
I think it's safe to say that this mania in real estate cannot get too much crazier. Yet, it's not possible to say how much longer it will last. What is 100% knowable: Given all the speculation financed by borrowed money, this will end in tears, and the ramifications will be far-reaching.
In case you're wondering what it might look like, there is a group of islands where there isn't enough real estate for everyone -- and where real-estate prices have declined for 10 years now. It's also home to the world's second-largest economy. It's called Japan.
http://moneycentral.msn.com/content/P108402.asp
So, what does last Wednesday's break in GM mean? I believe it's the start of billiard balls moving around the financial system in a way that will seriously add to the corrosive forces already at work. When the real estate market finally breaks, we are going to experience an economic period very similar to what Japan has endured for the last 10 years.
One reason why Japan's bust has been as bad as it has is that Japan has had to endure a sizable real-estate bust and a stock-market bust at the same time. Originally, the United States was only dealing with an equity-market bust. But with the Fed trying to bail that bust out with a housing bubble, we, like Japan, will now experience a housing bust and a market bust at the same time.
To top it all off, the Japanese save about 11% of household income; we save less than 2%. Japan has a current-account surplus. We have a massive current-account deficit (which last week was reported to be $188 billion for the fourth quarter of 2004, roughly 6.3% of GDP). So, there is every reason to think that as we encounter the twin busts, we will experience a period like Japan did, only worse.
http://moneycentral.msn.com/content/P111845.asp
Head of the Ukrainian parliament's commission on organized crime Yury Karmazin has dismissed the theory that former Ukrainian interior minister Yury Kravchenko committed suicide and instead called it "a cold blooded murder."
"The suicide version is complete nonsense, this could not have been a suicide," Karmazin said in an interview with the Gazeta po-Kyivsky newspaper published on Thursday.
http://www2.interfax.ru/eng/news/politics/050310/90949/story.html
Despite the setbacks in Iraq, the green neocons believe they can convince Congress and the White House to adopt their program. May, the head of the Foundation for the Defense of Democracies, predicts that House Majority Leader Tom DeLay will be "open to arguments that we can increase and enhance national security for a reasonable price." Gaffney won't name names, but he too is confident, saying, "We continue to enjoy access to and friendships with people who are key policymakers."
If they can convince Congress and the White House to enact meaningful legislation on energy efficiency and conservation—issues that have been marginalized since the Carter administration—then perhaps the neocons will finally have a success story that they can brag about. Better still, it won't require the services of the 82nd Airborne Division.
http://www.energybulletin.net/4251.html
Miami police say they arrested a member of a violent street gang as he pushed a shopping cart carrying two .22-caliber rifles and a shotgun.
Police arrested Edwin Reyes, 23, a citizen of Honduras, in downtown Miami Tuesday. They said he is a member of MS-13 (Mara Salvatrucha 13).
http://www.local10.com/news/4312440/detail.html?subid=22100404&qs=1;bp=t
[I guess I am not the only one who thinks Krygyzistan looks a little funny.]
The idea that the people of Kyrgyzstan have risen up, all on their own, to establish "democracy" and the "rule of law" in a land that has never known either, is the sort of fairy tale that even the most naïve will probably greet with a considerable degree of skepticism. This is especially true if we look at the sort of characters who are coming forward as the new "democratic" leaders of this poor isolated country of some 5 million:
http://www.antiwar.com/justin/?articleid=5331
http://www.antiwar.com/justin/?articleid=5301
Mr. Bush said at a joint press conference. "I'm for enforcing the law
in a rational way."
Yeah? How? By breaking his pledge to beef up border security
personnel and refusing to fully fund increases in the Border Patrol,
detention space, and interior enforcement?
By agreeing to a "totalization" arrangement with Mexico that may
siphon off Social Security funds to illegal aliens at a cost to
overburdened U.S. taxpayers of an estimated $345 billion over the
next 20 years?
By forgetting his pledge to a slain deputy's wife to hunt down a
fugitive illegal alien killer harbored by Mexico and allowing
countless other fugitive criminals to escape extradition?
http://www.alipac.us/modules.php?name=News
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