Mass hysteria
Two new viruses from the same family as HIV have been discovered in central Africans who hunt non-human primates.
Researchers say their work proves it is not unusual for potentially dangerous viruses to jump from primates to man.
They say it is important to monitor disease in bushmeat hunters closely, as any virus they contract from animals may spread to the community at large
http://www.rense.com/general65/hiv.htm
Good news: Credit card companies are doubling their minimum payments.
Bad news: Credit card companies are doubling their minimum payments.
Huh?
So far, MBNA, Citibank and Bank of America have announced they are doubling minimum monthly payments on credit card balances from 2% to 4%. Others are expected to follow suit quickly. To some cardholders, that could be seen as a good thing. To others it could be devastating.
If you can handle the increased payment it's good. Let's face it, if you pay only a 2% minimum each month, your debt would probably last longer than most marriages. Doubling your minimum might put you back on the financial straight and narrow. Ostensibly designed to help consumers get out of debt faster, the increased minimums will force cardholders to pay off fees, interest and at least a portion of the principal each month.
Find a loan that's
right for you at the
Loan Center
But if you simply can't make that doubled minimum month after month, it could put you and many other debtors in over your head
http://moneycentral.msn.com/content/Banking/creditcardsmarts/P117014.asp
Currently, the big thing in the Chaldean community is temporary work given to Chaldeans who get paid a handsome salary to go to a U.S. military base for a few weeks and act as demonstrators with U.S. troops trying to control them. This is supposed to get the troops ready for the real thing in Iraq.
Now, my friend's father was not remiss in thinking he could make money off this. He charges each participant $400 as an agent's fee. He also tells them that if they don't pay this amount, they will not get work. Of course, this is a scam.
http://www.rense.com/general65/cchal.htm
Tenet's successor Porter Goss, then a congressman, in 1999 sponsored a House resolution demanding Pollard be kept behind bars, saying: "The amount of information he sold is immense, the American lives he has put at risk are irreplaceable and the damage he did to our national security is incalculable."
Israeli Foreign Minister Silvan Shalom told reporters last week that he and Sharon had decided "concrete action" was needed on Pollard. "Twenty years in jail is a long time," Shalom said.
http://www.rense.com/general65/hope.htm
[Lucky for him the Congress is all spineless stooges.]
MP George Galloway angrily rejected charges on Tuesday by the U.S. Congress that he profited from the Iraq oil-for-food program as "utterly preposterous" and blasted it for treating him unfairly.
Far from showing the usual deference of witnesses before Congress, the Scotsman defiantly told a Senate committee its evidence against him was false, condemned its investigation and demanded to know why it had not checked with him first before making its allegations.
Galloway bluntly confronted the Republican chairman of the committee, Sen. Norm Coleman of Minnesota, and challenged the attorney to back up claims the MP profited handsomely from the now defunct oil-for-food program. Some of his harshest remarks concerned Coleman's support for the U.S.-led invasion of Iraq.
"Now I know that standards have slipped over the last few years in Washington, but for a lawyer, you are remarkably cavalier with any idea of justice," Galloway said.
Galloway later told reporter he felt Coleman had failed in his cross-examination. "He's not much of a lyncher," he said.
http://www.rense.com/general65/gllo.htm
But surely the most arresting recent case is James E. West, the powerful Republican mayor of Spokane, Wash., whose double life has just been exposed by the local paper, The Spokesman-Review. Mr. West's long, successful political career has been distinguished by his attempts to ban gay men and lesbians from schools and day care centers, to fire gay state employees, to deny City Hall benefits to domestic partners and to stifle AIDS-prevention education. The Spokesman-Review caught him trolling gay Web sites for young men and trying to lure them with gifts and favors. (He has denied accusations of abusing boys when he was a Boy Scout leader some 25 years ago.) Not unlike the Roy Cohn of "Angels in America" - who describes himself as "a heterosexual man" who has sex "with guys" - Mr. West has said he had "relations with adult men" but doesn't "characterize" himself as gay. This is more than hypocrisy - it's pathology.
http://www.nytimes.com/2005/05/15/opinion/15rich.html?ex=1116907200&en=5888d97c10bbfc99&ei=5070
No one could have been more surprised than the doctors themselves. They were just hoping to relieve the symptoms of a deadly blood disorder - and ended up treating the disease itself. In nearly half of the people who took the experimental drug, the cancer became undetectable.
Specialists said Revlimid now looks like a breakthrough and the first effective treatment for many people with myelodysplastic syndrome, or MDS, which is even more common than leukemia.
''It may be, if not eradicating the disease, putting it into what I would call deep remission,'' said Dr. David Johnson, a cancer specialist at Vanderbilt-Ingram Cancer Center who is familiar with but had no role in the research.
Revlimid ''is not yet on the market but almost certainly will be'' because of these findings, he said.
http://www.rense.com/general65/drig.htm
Standing in the shade outside his small RV Sunday morning, Puckett said he spent 28 days along the Naco line during April's Minuteman Project in an attempt to squelch illegal immigration from Mexico.
So when Minuteman Project organizer Chris Simcox asked for volunteers for "Operation May Surprise," Puckett didn't hesitate.
"A lot of the old-timers came back," Puckett said. "Some flew in and rented cars ... We're going to be vigilant."
http://www.svherald.com/articles/2005/05/16/local_news/news1.txt
Victorian Emergency Services Commissioner Bruce Esplin says mass hysteria is a diagnosis that is far more easily made after the event and the emergency services have got a responsibility to protect public safety.
"Look, I think people seeing people collapsing, fainting, probably vomiting, seeing emergency services in protective clothing would make anybody nervous and encourage them to seek reassurance," he said.
http://www.abc.net.au/news/newsitems/200504/s1353989.htm
Researchers say their work proves it is not unusual for potentially dangerous viruses to jump from primates to man.
They say it is important to monitor disease in bushmeat hunters closely, as any virus they contract from animals may spread to the community at large
http://www.rense.com/general65/hiv.htm
Good news: Credit card companies are doubling their minimum payments.
Bad news: Credit card companies are doubling their minimum payments.
Huh?
So far, MBNA, Citibank and Bank of America have announced they are doubling minimum monthly payments on credit card balances from 2% to 4%. Others are expected to follow suit quickly. To some cardholders, that could be seen as a good thing. To others it could be devastating.
If you can handle the increased payment it's good. Let's face it, if you pay only a 2% minimum each month, your debt would probably last longer than most marriages. Doubling your minimum might put you back on the financial straight and narrow. Ostensibly designed to help consumers get out of debt faster, the increased minimums will force cardholders to pay off fees, interest and at least a portion of the principal each month.
Find a loan that's
right for you at the
Loan Center
But if you simply can't make that doubled minimum month after month, it could put you and many other debtors in over your head
http://moneycentral.msn.com/content/Banking/creditcardsmarts/P117014.asp
Currently, the big thing in the Chaldean community is temporary work given to Chaldeans who get paid a handsome salary to go to a U.S. military base for a few weeks and act as demonstrators with U.S. troops trying to control them. This is supposed to get the troops ready for the real thing in Iraq.
Now, my friend's father was not remiss in thinking he could make money off this. He charges each participant $400 as an agent's fee. He also tells them that if they don't pay this amount, they will not get work. Of course, this is a scam.
http://www.rense.com/general65/cchal.htm
Tenet's successor Porter Goss, then a congressman, in 1999 sponsored a House resolution demanding Pollard be kept behind bars, saying: "The amount of information he sold is immense, the American lives he has put at risk are irreplaceable and the damage he did to our national security is incalculable."
Israeli Foreign Minister Silvan Shalom told reporters last week that he and Sharon had decided "concrete action" was needed on Pollard. "Twenty years in jail is a long time," Shalom said.
http://www.rense.com/general65/hope.htm
[Lucky for him the Congress is all spineless stooges.]
MP George Galloway angrily rejected charges on Tuesday by the U.S. Congress that he profited from the Iraq oil-for-food program as "utterly preposterous" and blasted it for treating him unfairly.
Far from showing the usual deference of witnesses before Congress, the Scotsman defiantly told a Senate committee its evidence against him was false, condemned its investigation and demanded to know why it had not checked with him first before making its allegations.
Galloway bluntly confronted the Republican chairman of the committee, Sen. Norm Coleman of Minnesota, and challenged the attorney to back up claims the MP profited handsomely from the now defunct oil-for-food program. Some of his harshest remarks concerned Coleman's support for the U.S.-led invasion of Iraq.
"Now I know that standards have slipped over the last few years in Washington, but for a lawyer, you are remarkably cavalier with any idea of justice," Galloway said.
Galloway later told reporter he felt Coleman had failed in his cross-examination. "He's not much of a lyncher," he said.
http://www.rense.com/general65/gllo.htm
But surely the most arresting recent case is James E. West, the powerful Republican mayor of Spokane, Wash., whose double life has just been exposed by the local paper, The Spokesman-Review. Mr. West's long, successful political career has been distinguished by his attempts to ban gay men and lesbians from schools and day care centers, to fire gay state employees, to deny City Hall benefits to domestic partners and to stifle AIDS-prevention education. The Spokesman-Review caught him trolling gay Web sites for young men and trying to lure them with gifts and favors. (He has denied accusations of abusing boys when he was a Boy Scout leader some 25 years ago.) Not unlike the Roy Cohn of "Angels in America" - who describes himself as "a heterosexual man" who has sex "with guys" - Mr. West has said he had "relations with adult men" but doesn't "characterize" himself as gay. This is more than hypocrisy - it's pathology.
http://www.nytimes.com/2005/05/15/opinion/15rich.html?ex=1116907200&en=5888d97c10bbfc99&ei=5070
No one could have been more surprised than the doctors themselves. They were just hoping to relieve the symptoms of a deadly blood disorder - and ended up treating the disease itself. In nearly half of the people who took the experimental drug, the cancer became undetectable.
Specialists said Revlimid now looks like a breakthrough and the first effective treatment for many people with myelodysplastic syndrome, or MDS, which is even more common than leukemia.
''It may be, if not eradicating the disease, putting it into what I would call deep remission,'' said Dr. David Johnson, a cancer specialist at Vanderbilt-Ingram Cancer Center who is familiar with but had no role in the research.
Revlimid ''is not yet on the market but almost certainly will be'' because of these findings, he said.
http://www.rense.com/general65/drig.htm
Standing in the shade outside his small RV Sunday morning, Puckett said he spent 28 days along the Naco line during April's Minuteman Project in an attempt to squelch illegal immigration from Mexico.
So when Minuteman Project organizer Chris Simcox asked for volunteers for "Operation May Surprise," Puckett didn't hesitate.
"A lot of the old-timers came back," Puckett said. "Some flew in and rented cars ... We're going to be vigilant."
http://www.svherald.com/articles/2005/05/16/local_news/news1.txt
Victorian Emergency Services Commissioner Bruce Esplin says mass hysteria is a diagnosis that is far more easily made after the event and the emergency services have got a responsibility to protect public safety.
"Look, I think people seeing people collapsing, fainting, probably vomiting, seeing emergency services in protective clothing would make anybody nervous and encourage them to seek reassurance," he said.
http://www.abc.net.au/news/newsitems/200504/s1353989.htm
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