MJ
n the Americas both mammoths and mastodons died out. Europe and Asia once had species similar to modern Asian elephants as well as wooly mammoths. European and northern Asian proboscidean populations lasted until fairly recently because humans did not venture into the high latitudes where mammoths made their homes. Similarly, elephants survive in sub-Saharan Africa today partly because humans have never settled in large numbers there.
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=96&e=6&u=/space/prehistorichumanswipedoutelephants
Tsunami photos
http://www.kohjumonline.com/anders.html
Seattle police launched an investigation on Friday to determine how a patient undergoing emergency heart surgery caught on fire at a local hospital in 2003.
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=573&ncid=757&e=1&u=/nm/20050418/od_nm/life_patient_fire_dc
[Thank good ness I got that 3% raise.]
"For the past 12 months, wholesale inflation has risen by 4.9%, the fastest 12-month pace since a gain of 5% in the 12 months ending last November," a Journal roundup reveals.
http://rawstory.com/news/2005/Wall_Street_Journal_to_reveal_new_economic_worries_Wednesday_04_19_2005_0250pm.html
[I’m sure all those laid off workers will find new jobs at McDonald’s or somewhere.]
General Motors Corp. must close plants, cut jobs, contain health care costs and eliminate at least one brand to stanch its bottom-line bleeding, some leading financial analysts say.
The automaker, which reported steep first-quarter losses today, is under severe pressure to prove to investors that it can fix its operations. GM's market value has plunged 35 percent this year and its credit rating is hovering one notch above junk-bond status.
In a bearish report Friday, Deutsche Bank analysts Rod Lache and Michael Heifler said GM likely will be forced to undertake a major restructuring that could mean the closure of four assembly plants and the elimination of 20,000 to 30,000 jobs in North America.
http://www.detnews.com/2005/autosinsider/0504/19/A01-155271.htm
[I am not sure about this so-called housing bubble. In a way I almost want it to be a bubble. But we have millions of illegal immigrants pouring into the country every year, and they all need a place to live. And everyone else does too, so it seems to me that there actually is a pretty strong demand for housing.]
The news was bad: Housing starts plunged 17.6 percent in March, marking their steepest drop in more than 14 years, a Commerce Department report showed Tuesday.
But analysts weren't ready to use that indicator to call an end to the housing boom just yet.
"You have to realize that [starts] declined from a level in February that was a 20-year high," David Joy, capital markets strategist for American Express Financial Advisors. "If you look at the average for the first quarter, it is still the highest rate in over 20 years."
http://money.cnn.com/2005/04/19/news/economy/housing.reut/index.htm?cnn=yes
In the 1950s Sayyed Qutb, an Egyptian civil servant was sent to the U.S. to learn about its public education system. As he traveled around the county, Qutb became increasingly disgusted by what he felt was the selfish and materialistic nature of American life.
http://www.cbc.ca/passionateeye/powerofnightmares/one.html
[Has anyone else noticed that the “G*” has turned back into the “G7”? It seems Russia is being edged out.]
Zhou Xiaochuan, the governor of the People's Bank of China, said last month that China would not revalue its currency in order to rectify bilateral trade imbalances. John Snow, the US Treasury secretary, said after the weekend G7 meeting that China had had long enough to prepare its financial system after more than two years of talks with group members on currency reform. However, the decision not to mention China by name in the communiqué is likely to be seen as a sign of lack of will to back up the demand for action with of punitive action
http://news.ft.com/cms/s/d653a6aa-b062-11d9-ab98-00000e2511c8.html
Siddig said the ABCO consortium -- in which Swiss company Cliveden owns a 37 percent share -- owned the rights to the field.
Work on the first oil well, southwest of El-Fasher in North Darfur State, is underway.
http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/L18708185.htm
[The headline makes this sound like a 50/50 proposition, but if you actually erad the sotry you will find that the rabbi picked a fight with the other guy.]
A rabbi wearing a yarmulke and a man wearing swastikas got into a fight at Kansas City International Airport Sunday evening.
http://www.thepittsburghchannel.com/news/4392605/detail.html
[Supporting the terrorists.]
What opponents of the Iranian regime like about the Mujahedin-e-Khalq (MEK) is its terrorism. According to the State Department, the MEK conducted near-simultaneous attacks on Iranian Embassies and installations in 13 countries in April 1992, demonstrating the group's ability to mount large-scale operations overseas. Then, in 1999 the group assassinated the deputy chief of Iran's Armed Forces General Staff. In April 2000, they attempted to assassinate the commander of the Iranian government organization responsible for coordinating policies on Iraq. In 2000 and 2001, the State Department reports, the MEK was involved regularly in mortar attacks and hit-and-run raids on Iranian military and law-enforcement units and government buildings near the Iran-Iraq border.
Some lawmakers on Capital Hill say that's just the thing the U.S. government should support.
"I don't believe they should belong on the terrorist list," says Republican Ileana Ros-Lehtinen of Miami, who is one of the group's biggest supporters in Congress. "I believe a new look should be placed upon them and we'll see that they are not anti-U.S."
http://www.antiwar.com/glantz/?articleid=5602
[There’s nothing in the constitution about what you can and can’t drink.]
The Supreme Court agreed yesterday to consider whether a church in New Mexico can continue using hallucinogenic tea in its religious services.
At issue is whether use of the tea, which contains a drug banned under the federal Controlled Substances Act, is protected under freedom-of-religion laws. The Bush administration contends the tea is illegal and potentially dangerous.
Justices will review a lower-court ruling that allowed the Brazil-based church — O Centro Espírita Beneficiente União do Vegetal — to import and use the hoasca tea while the case was appealed. Arguments will be heard in the court's next term beginning in October.
http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/nationworld/2002245623_scotus19.html
That America's campaign for "democracy" in Kyrgyzstan is spearheaded by a well-known local witch doctor ought to come as no surprise. The very idea of somehow transforming distant countries into living petri dishes, where we can experiment on the local population in our continuing effort to build "democracies" abroad, is not science but an alchemist's fantasy. What's weird, however, is how closely Nazaraliev's hypnotic technique, as described by the Spectator, approximates the means employed by U.S. policymakers:
http://www.antiwar.com/justin/?articleid=5586
[America is about to be sent back to the benches.]
But there are also fears that the authorities cannot put the nationalist genie they have conjured up back into its bottle. Through the People's Daily, the official Communist newspaper, party leaders stressed the importance of "social stability", heralding a possible parallel crackdown on peasant protests against corruption and land clearances.
The immediate cause of the anti-Japanese outrage is the re-issuing of a Japanese textbook which glosses over wartime atrocities, such as the deaths of hundreds of thousands in the Nanjing massacre.
http://www.rense.com/general64/sdh.htm
"It is a very strange type of disease, which locals call animal plague," Hassan told Reuters in Faizabad, the provincial capital of Badakhshan.
http://www.rense.com/general64/aagf.htm
The largest local union of Border Patrol agents in the country has declared its support for the Minuteman Project in Arizona, while at the same time slamming both the American Civil Liberties Union and President Bush.
According to its website, the U.S. Border Patrol Local 2544, which covers the Tucson sector of the agency, the volunteers involved in the border-monitoring Minuteman Project have been nothing but supportive.
"We want to make it clear ñ because we've had a lot of questions about this ñ we have not had one single complaint from a rank-and-file agent in this sector about the Minutemen," says a statement on the site. "Every report we've received indicates these people are very supportive of the rank-and-file agents; they're courteous. Many of them are retired firefighters, cops, and other professionals, and they're not causing us any problems whatsoever."
The group blames the ACLU for setting off ground sensors in the area of the Minutemen activities:
"Reports of [Minutemen] causing 'ground sensors' to go off are exaggerated because most of those are being set off by the ACLU sneaking around trying to find the Minutemen doing something wrong."
http://www.rense.com/general64/bord.htm
[I was listening to this “debate” on some radio station the other day between pro-illegal immigration types and anti-illegal immigration types. the pro woman’s arguments were that “Americans dont like to work outside and they don’t like to do manual labor.” I just remembered it was this Ron Ansana show. I would like to officialy brand that woman a racist and bigot.
I happened to be out today and I saw a bunch of white, obviously not foreign men working doing landscaping. they looked like they were enjoying their jobs more than the peons inside at Walmart. I talk to a lot of people who work outside in the course of my job. they all seem to like it. I myself have even had jobs like that. If I could have made aliving at any of them I might still be with them.
This notion, which I have heard from GWB’s own lips, that Americans are essentially too lazy to do the jobs the illegals are taking, is bullshit.]
Why are Republicans ignoring their political base and putting our nation at risk? Some suggest that this is a payback to their fat cat supporters who prefer to use cheap or slave labor rather than to give living wages to Americans. Others suggest they follow the political strategy of Karl Rove and other advisors who have convinced them they must court the Hispanic vote to retain control of the government.
"I believe the President follows a different agenda," Nelson said. "He is intent on creating a borderless, hemispheric, free trade zone from the tip of South America to the North Pole. He is trying to emulate the European model, but unlike Europe, where most of the member nations are all First World economies, the Americas model has the richest and most advanced nation living next door to a banana republic, complete with corrupt politicians and oppressed, impoverished and illiterate people."
http://www.rense.com/general64/mne.htm
This scenario had already been envisaged by former DHS Secretary Tom Ridge in a CBS News Interview back in December 2003:
"If we simply go to red ... it basically shuts down the country,"
meaning that civilian government bodies would be closed down and taken over by an Emergency Administration
http://globalresearch.ca/articles/CHO504B.html
[Let me let you in on a little secret. Cows under 30 months could appear perfectly healthy and still be infected with mad cow. If anything they should be expanding the rules for what doesn’t get into the food supply.]
The Bush administration said on Friday it may allow some injured cattle to be slaughtered for human food, easing a regulation that the Agriculture Department (USDA) adopted 15 months ago after the nation's 1st case of mad cow disease.
Consumer groups said they oppose any changes in regulations aimed at keeping the deadly disease out of the food supply. The USDA prohibited all so-called downer cattle -- those too sick or injured to walk -- from being slaughtered for human food, soon after a Washington State dairy cow was diagnosed with bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE) in December 2003. The ban was part of a package of tighter USDA regulations to prevent mad cow disease, whose symptoms can include an inability to walk.
Agriculture Secretary Mike Johanns suggested that the ban on downer cattle may be eased after the USDA completes an enhanced surveillance program of US cattle later this year [2005]. "There is a compelling argument: If you've got an animal that's clearly under 30 months that broke a leg in transit, there is no threat of BSE whatsoever," Johanns told reporters after addressing the National Cattlemen's Beef Association.
http://www.rense.com/general64/ease.htm
German Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger, the strict defender of Catholic orthodoxy for the past 23 years, was elected Pope on Tuesday despite a widespread assumption he was too old and divisive to win election.
He took the name Benedict XVI, a cardinal announced to crowds in St. Peter's Square after white smoke from the Vatican's Sistine Chapel chimney and the pealing of bells from St. Peter's Basilica announced that a new pope had been chosen.
Roman Catholic cardinals elected Ratzinger on just the second day of secret conclave to find a successor to Pope John Paul II.
http://www.reuters.com/newsArticle.jhtml?type=topNews&storyID=8228428
Scituate Mass?
http://www.rense.com/general64/foe.htm
Nazarliev
http://www.antiwar.com/spectator2/spec622.html
Cochise County may fine Miracle Valley Bible College up to $750 a day for housing Minuteman Project civilian patrol volunteers without a permit.
http://www.tucsoncitizen.com/index.php?page=local&story_id=041605a9_minuteman
[ACLU on marijuana?]
Minuteman spokesman charges group with criminal activity
Also, here is an excerpt of an eyewitness report from one of the Minuteman Project volunteers who has seen some of the ACLU's activities here:
The ACLU is getting desperate to get something on the Minutemen and are trying to provoke incidents now. They pushed one of the Minutemen the other night trying to get him to push back. Didn’t work. Then last night they walked up and shined a spotlight right in a Minuteman’s face from six inches or so away. Didn’t work that time either. We immediately report these types of contacts with them to the Sheriff to counter any claims they try to make against us. They should be called the UCLU (Un-American Civil Lawsuit Union)
They give us the middle finger every chance they get to try to get us to react. We are still trying to figure out if that is their age or IQ.
http://disc.server.com/discussion.cgi?disc=149495;article=81375;title=APFN
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=96&e=6&u=/space/prehistorichumanswipedoutelephants
Tsunami photos
http://www.kohjumonline.com/anders.html
Seattle police launched an investigation on Friday to determine how a patient undergoing emergency heart surgery caught on fire at a local hospital in 2003.
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=573&ncid=757&e=1&u=/nm/20050418/od_nm/life_patient_fire_dc
[Thank good ness I got that 3% raise.]
"For the past 12 months, wholesale inflation has risen by 4.9%, the fastest 12-month pace since a gain of 5% in the 12 months ending last November," a Journal roundup reveals.
http://rawstory.com/news/2005/Wall_Street_Journal_to_reveal_new_economic_worries_Wednesday_04_19_2005_0250pm.html
[I’m sure all those laid off workers will find new jobs at McDonald’s or somewhere.]
General Motors Corp. must close plants, cut jobs, contain health care costs and eliminate at least one brand to stanch its bottom-line bleeding, some leading financial analysts say.
The automaker, which reported steep first-quarter losses today, is under severe pressure to prove to investors that it can fix its operations. GM's market value has plunged 35 percent this year and its credit rating is hovering one notch above junk-bond status.
In a bearish report Friday, Deutsche Bank analysts Rod Lache and Michael Heifler said GM likely will be forced to undertake a major restructuring that could mean the closure of four assembly plants and the elimination of 20,000 to 30,000 jobs in North America.
http://www.detnews.com/2005/autosinsider/0504/19/A01-155271.htm
[I am not sure about this so-called housing bubble. In a way I almost want it to be a bubble. But we have millions of illegal immigrants pouring into the country every year, and they all need a place to live. And everyone else does too, so it seems to me that there actually is a pretty strong demand for housing.]
The news was bad: Housing starts plunged 17.6 percent in March, marking their steepest drop in more than 14 years, a Commerce Department report showed Tuesday.
But analysts weren't ready to use that indicator to call an end to the housing boom just yet.
"You have to realize that [starts] declined from a level in February that was a 20-year high," David Joy, capital markets strategist for American Express Financial Advisors. "If you look at the average for the first quarter, it is still the highest rate in over 20 years."
http://money.cnn.com/2005/04/19/news/economy/housing.reut/index.htm?cnn=yes
In the 1950s Sayyed Qutb, an Egyptian civil servant was sent to the U.S. to learn about its public education system. As he traveled around the county, Qutb became increasingly disgusted by what he felt was the selfish and materialistic nature of American life.
http://www.cbc.ca/passionateeye/powerofnightmares/one.html
[Has anyone else noticed that the “G*” has turned back into the “G7”? It seems Russia is being edged out.]
Zhou Xiaochuan, the governor of the People's Bank of China, said last month that China would not revalue its currency in order to rectify bilateral trade imbalances. John Snow, the US Treasury secretary, said after the weekend G7 meeting that China had had long enough to prepare its financial system after more than two years of talks with group members on currency reform. However, the decision not to mention China by name in the communiqué is likely to be seen as a sign of lack of will to back up the demand for action with of punitive action
http://news.ft.com/cms/s/d653a6aa-b062-11d9-ab98-00000e2511c8.html
Siddig said the ABCO consortium -- in which Swiss company Cliveden owns a 37 percent share -- owned the rights to the field.
Work on the first oil well, southwest of El-Fasher in North Darfur State, is underway.
http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/L18708185.htm
[The headline makes this sound like a 50/50 proposition, but if you actually erad the sotry you will find that the rabbi picked a fight with the other guy.]
A rabbi wearing a yarmulke and a man wearing swastikas got into a fight at Kansas City International Airport Sunday evening.
http://www.thepittsburghchannel.com/news/4392605/detail.html
[Supporting the terrorists.]
What opponents of the Iranian regime like about the Mujahedin-e-Khalq (MEK) is its terrorism. According to the State Department, the MEK conducted near-simultaneous attacks on Iranian Embassies and installations in 13 countries in April 1992, demonstrating the group's ability to mount large-scale operations overseas. Then, in 1999 the group assassinated the deputy chief of Iran's Armed Forces General Staff. In April 2000, they attempted to assassinate the commander of the Iranian government organization responsible for coordinating policies on Iraq. In 2000 and 2001, the State Department reports, the MEK was involved regularly in mortar attacks and hit-and-run raids on Iranian military and law-enforcement units and government buildings near the Iran-Iraq border.
Some lawmakers on Capital Hill say that's just the thing the U.S. government should support.
"I don't believe they should belong on the terrorist list," says Republican Ileana Ros-Lehtinen of Miami, who is one of the group's biggest supporters in Congress. "I believe a new look should be placed upon them and we'll see that they are not anti-U.S."
http://www.antiwar.com/glantz/?articleid=5602
[There’s nothing in the constitution about what you can and can’t drink.]
The Supreme Court agreed yesterday to consider whether a church in New Mexico can continue using hallucinogenic tea in its religious services.
At issue is whether use of the tea, which contains a drug banned under the federal Controlled Substances Act, is protected under freedom-of-religion laws. The Bush administration contends the tea is illegal and potentially dangerous.
Justices will review a lower-court ruling that allowed the Brazil-based church — O Centro Espírita Beneficiente União do Vegetal — to import and use the hoasca tea while the case was appealed. Arguments will be heard in the court's next term beginning in October.
http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/nationworld/2002245623_scotus19.html
That America's campaign for "democracy" in Kyrgyzstan is spearheaded by a well-known local witch doctor ought to come as no surprise. The very idea of somehow transforming distant countries into living petri dishes, where we can experiment on the local population in our continuing effort to build "democracies" abroad, is not science but an alchemist's fantasy. What's weird, however, is how closely Nazaraliev's hypnotic technique, as described by the Spectator, approximates the means employed by U.S. policymakers:
http://www.antiwar.com/justin/?articleid=5586
[America is about to be sent back to the benches.]
But there are also fears that the authorities cannot put the nationalist genie they have conjured up back into its bottle. Through the People's Daily, the official Communist newspaper, party leaders stressed the importance of "social stability", heralding a possible parallel crackdown on peasant protests against corruption and land clearances.
The immediate cause of the anti-Japanese outrage is the re-issuing of a Japanese textbook which glosses over wartime atrocities, such as the deaths of hundreds of thousands in the Nanjing massacre.
http://www.rense.com/general64/sdh.htm
"It is a very strange type of disease, which locals call animal plague," Hassan told Reuters in Faizabad, the provincial capital of Badakhshan.
http://www.rense.com/general64/aagf.htm
The largest local union of Border Patrol agents in the country has declared its support for the Minuteman Project in Arizona, while at the same time slamming both the American Civil Liberties Union and President Bush.
According to its website, the U.S. Border Patrol Local 2544, which covers the Tucson sector of the agency, the volunteers involved in the border-monitoring Minuteman Project have been nothing but supportive.
"We want to make it clear ñ because we've had a lot of questions about this ñ we have not had one single complaint from a rank-and-file agent in this sector about the Minutemen," says a statement on the site. "Every report we've received indicates these people are very supportive of the rank-and-file agents; they're courteous. Many of them are retired firefighters, cops, and other professionals, and they're not causing us any problems whatsoever."
The group blames the ACLU for setting off ground sensors in the area of the Minutemen activities:
"Reports of [Minutemen] causing 'ground sensors' to go off are exaggerated because most of those are being set off by the ACLU sneaking around trying to find the Minutemen doing something wrong."
http://www.rense.com/general64/bord.htm
[I was listening to this “debate” on some radio station the other day between pro-illegal immigration types and anti-illegal immigration types. the pro woman’s arguments were that “Americans dont like to work outside and they don’t like to do manual labor.” I just remembered it was this Ron Ansana show. I would like to officialy brand that woman a racist and bigot.
I happened to be out today and I saw a bunch of white, obviously not foreign men working doing landscaping. they looked like they were enjoying their jobs more than the peons inside at Walmart. I talk to a lot of people who work outside in the course of my job. they all seem to like it. I myself have even had jobs like that. If I could have made aliving at any of them I might still be with them.
This notion, which I have heard from GWB’s own lips, that Americans are essentially too lazy to do the jobs the illegals are taking, is bullshit.]
Why are Republicans ignoring their political base and putting our nation at risk? Some suggest that this is a payback to their fat cat supporters who prefer to use cheap or slave labor rather than to give living wages to Americans. Others suggest they follow the political strategy of Karl Rove and other advisors who have convinced them they must court the Hispanic vote to retain control of the government.
"I believe the President follows a different agenda," Nelson said. "He is intent on creating a borderless, hemispheric, free trade zone from the tip of South America to the North Pole. He is trying to emulate the European model, but unlike Europe, where most of the member nations are all First World economies, the Americas model has the richest and most advanced nation living next door to a banana republic, complete with corrupt politicians and oppressed, impoverished and illiterate people."
http://www.rense.com/general64/mne.htm
This scenario had already been envisaged by former DHS Secretary Tom Ridge in a CBS News Interview back in December 2003:
"If we simply go to red ... it basically shuts down the country,"
meaning that civilian government bodies would be closed down and taken over by an Emergency Administration
http://globalresearch.ca/articles/CHO504B.html
[Let me let you in on a little secret. Cows under 30 months could appear perfectly healthy and still be infected with mad cow. If anything they should be expanding the rules for what doesn’t get into the food supply.]
The Bush administration said on Friday it may allow some injured cattle to be slaughtered for human food, easing a regulation that the Agriculture Department (USDA) adopted 15 months ago after the nation's 1st case of mad cow disease.
Consumer groups said they oppose any changes in regulations aimed at keeping the deadly disease out of the food supply. The USDA prohibited all so-called downer cattle -- those too sick or injured to walk -- from being slaughtered for human food, soon after a Washington State dairy cow was diagnosed with bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE) in December 2003. The ban was part of a package of tighter USDA regulations to prevent mad cow disease, whose symptoms can include an inability to walk.
Agriculture Secretary Mike Johanns suggested that the ban on downer cattle may be eased after the USDA completes an enhanced surveillance program of US cattle later this year [2005]. "There is a compelling argument: If you've got an animal that's clearly under 30 months that broke a leg in transit, there is no threat of BSE whatsoever," Johanns told reporters after addressing the National Cattlemen's Beef Association.
http://www.rense.com/general64/ease.htm
German Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger, the strict defender of Catholic orthodoxy for the past 23 years, was elected Pope on Tuesday despite a widespread assumption he was too old and divisive to win election.
He took the name Benedict XVI, a cardinal announced to crowds in St. Peter's Square after white smoke from the Vatican's Sistine Chapel chimney and the pealing of bells from St. Peter's Basilica announced that a new pope had been chosen.
Roman Catholic cardinals elected Ratzinger on just the second day of secret conclave to find a successor to Pope John Paul II.
http://www.reuters.com/newsArticle.jhtml?type=topNews&storyID=8228428
Scituate Mass?
http://www.rense.com/general64/foe.htm
Nazarliev
http://www.antiwar.com/spectator2/spec622.html
Cochise County may fine Miracle Valley Bible College up to $750 a day for housing Minuteman Project civilian patrol volunteers without a permit.
http://www.tucsoncitizen.com/index.php?page=local&story_id=041605a9_minuteman
[ACLU on marijuana?]
Minuteman spokesman charges group with criminal activity
Also, here is an excerpt of an eyewitness report from one of the Minuteman Project volunteers who has seen some of the ACLU's activities here:
The ACLU is getting desperate to get something on the Minutemen and are trying to provoke incidents now. They pushed one of the Minutemen the other night trying to get him to push back. Didn’t work. Then last night they walked up and shined a spotlight right in a Minuteman’s face from six inches or so away. Didn’t work that time either. We immediately report these types of contacts with them to the Sheriff to counter any claims they try to make against us. They should be called the UCLU (Un-American Civil Lawsuit Union)
They give us the middle finger every chance they get to try to get us to react. We are still trying to figure out if that is their age or IQ.
http://disc.server.com/discussion.cgi?disc=149495;article=81375;title=APFN
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