paperless touch-screen machines
Scandal shocks business world
Police say private investigators used spy software for business espionage; affair involves some of Israel leading companies. Police arrest senior executives, some may have fled country
http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3091900,00.html
[There is a book about how IBM helped the Nazis organize their genocide. I predict in several decades there will be a similar book about HP. Even their commercials show them like grabbing people off the street for the government.]
May 27, 2005--HP (NYSE:HPQ - News; Nasdaq:HPQ - News) today announced the availability of the HP National Identity System (NIS) solution on the Microsoft® .NET platform.
Source: HP
· View multimedia news release
The HP NIS solution allows governments to build and quickly deploy at an affordable price a complete, standards-based and technologically agile infrastructure that meets their changing needs for security and identity management.
http://biz.yahoo.com/bw/050527/275136.html?.v=1
Tobacco companies chemically altered their cigarettes in a deliberate bid to make them more female-friendly and increase smoking rates among women and young girls.
New documents reveal that cigarette giants even looked at adding appetite suppressants to their brands to promote smoking as a form of weight control.
Published this week in the science journal Addiction, the papers show that tobacco firms spent more than 20 years, from the 1970s to 1990s, carrying out gender-based research to get women addicted to cigarettes.
http://www.rense.com/general65/letget.htm
[Turning a rainforest into a desert? Sounds like the work of an economic hitman.]
Fr McAuley said the privatisation of the rainforest was part of a scheme demanded by the World Bank and other financial institutions of the Peruvian President, Alejandro Toledo, a former World Bank employee, as a condition for loans. Though he succeeded the enormously corrupt Western-backed autocrat, Alberto Fujimori, in 2001 on a wave of popular enthusiasm, Mr Toledo has himself been tainted by reports of widespread government corruption.
http://www.rense.com/general65/amazo.htm
Let us ask ourselves: if the Confederate states had won their war of independence, and New England followed them out of the Union, and British troops were now stationed in both breakaway nations—to insure their independence from Washington—how would patriotic Americans have responded in 1865?
Putin's Russia has suffered a strategic disaster like that of Germany at Versailles. Germany, too, was dismembered, divided, stripped of colonies, bankrupted by war reparations, forced to confess full moral guilt for the war. Allied refusal to rectify these injustices led to the fall of the Weimar Republic and the rise of Hitler.
http://amconmag.com/2005_06_06/buchanan.html
[That’s a sure sign of poor thinking.]
It's surely possible that Pat is trying to 'rehabilitate' himself in the eyes of the Republican Party.
http://www.rense.com/general65/buch.htm
THE RAF and US aircraft doubled the rate at which they were dropping bombs on Iraq in 2002 in an attempt to provoke Saddam Hussein into giving the allies an excuse for war, new evidence has shown.
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,2087-1632566,00.html
When life is not lived morally, there's no difference between Jews and Amorites, between Israelis and Canaanites, Romans or Crusaders.
Every time the land tries to vomit us out, it's incumbent upon us to figure out what have we violated in the covenant.
http://www.rense.com/general65/beek.htm
[Watch them bring this back without change and have the French vote on it again.]
France has resoundingly rejected the proposed European Union constitution, plunging the EU into crisis and French politics into confusion.
The result of the referendum was a massive 56 per cent for the "no", against 44 per cent for the "yes", according to Dominique de Villepin, the Interior Minister. An unusually high turnout of 70 per cent of the 42 million voters had briefly raised hopes that the great legion of "undecided" might still tip the outcome to the "yes".
http://www.rense.com/general65/france.htm
Today The Observer publishes several letters from the former cigar-smoking Deputy Prime Minister handwritten from Camp Cropper prison in Baghdad. Aziz scribbled these notes on pages from his lawyer's diary who was with him when he was questioned recently by the CIA and US politicians.
Two are in Arabic, the other three in English and addressed to: 'The world public opinion.' Aziz pleads for international help to end his 'dire situation'. He claims he is innocent and is being held unjustly without being allowed contact with his family. One letter reveals questions he had been asked about which politicians benefited from the controversial UN oil-for-food programme.
Although Aziz supporters claim he is a 'political prisoner' who did his best to restrain Saddam, his opponents have little sympathy. They describe him as the dictator's henchman who also bears personal responsibility for crimes committed by the Baathist regime, such as the gassing of Kurds at Halabja.
Aziz's letters are another remarkable snapshot into how Iraqi's former political elite are being held. This month the Sun published photographs of Saddam in his underpants in his Camp Cropper cell and The Observer revealed how prisoners are kept mostly in solitary confinement in tiny cells with no natural daylight.
...
In a note scribbled on his lawyer's diary, Aziz says: 'I was asked if I had recommended giving money or oil to President Chirac [of France], or Petros Gali [former UN general secretary Boutros Boutros-Ghali], Ekius [UN weapons inspector Rolf Ekeus]. My answer is NO. The same to President Megawati [Sukarnoputri of Indonesia]. NO.'
http://www.rense.com/general65/extro.htm
Meet America's
New Pioneer Breed
Towns on the Great Plains Offer Free
Land To Stem Long Decline
http://www.rense.com/general65/meet.htm
Earthquake Pushes Up 10
New Islands Near Sumatra
http://www.rense.com/general65/earhe.htm
The flat gray Shadow gets propelled skyward on a nitrogen-pressurized rail; when Clark is ready to land, a hand-sized antenna dish on the side of the runway will guide the plane to the ground by transmitting coordinates a lot like GPS. Sitting in a Humvee, Clark flies the Hunter by using a mouse to point and click pixelated dials and sliders modeled after the ones in a physical cockpit. Alternatively he can just click a route on a map, or program a destination and let the plane figure it out. Clark doesn't have a throttle, and he can't see out the front of the plane. In fact, there is a camera, but the soldier sitting to Clark's left is working the joystick to take the pictures that make the whole mission worthwhile. Clark is just driving the bus
http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/13.06/drones.html?tw=wn_tophead_1
Not any more. In their decisive biography, Mao: the Unknown Story, Jung Chang and Jon Halliday leave Mao for dead. By that I mean that Mao's reputation as a "great man," unless one includes Hitler and Stalin too, is finished.
Chang's previous book, Wild Swans, which is said to be the biggest-selling non-fiction paperback ever, and worth every penny, showed the effects of Maoism on her family and herself. Halliday, her husband, is a specialist on Soviet archives. His best-known book, written with Bruce Cumings, is Korea: the Unknown War, which was turned into a vivid television series. Chang and Halliday use the word "unknown" again in their new book.
...
For several years Mao oversaw the growing of opium poppies and the extremely lucrative sale of "the black product" in areas outside his control. He told Premier Chou En-lai that the business was worth six times the official Yanan budget. The Russians, whose sources on Mao's career are Halliday's most significant contribution to the biography, estimated sales then at $60m "or some $640m (£350m) today," a humiliating admission for a patriotic movement that based its hatred of imperialism on the British export of opium into China in the 19th century.
http://www.rense.com/general65/mao.htm
[The dangers of chronic low level exposure to different substances has been criminally over-looked for years. Maybe studies like this will change that? Probably not.]
The compound involved is called bisphenol-A or BPA. It is used in plastic food containers, cans and dental sealants and other research suggests it leaches from products and is absorbed in low concentrations by the human body,
http://www.rense.com/general65/pksa.htm
Britain's first major electricity plant to be fuelled by grass will begin construction later this year.
The £6.5m power station in Staffordshire will be burn locally cultivated elephant grass and will be able to supply 2,000 homes with electricity.
http://www.rense.com/general65/grass.htm
FDA doesn't have far to look. Change in sexual function is listed on the FDA report of 92 symptoms by aspartame. Vision loss and blindness is so commonly triggered by aspartame its #6 on the list. http://www.dorway.com
You don't have to be a rocket scientist to understand when you put a drug on the market (masquerading as an additive) that liberates free methyl alcohol it inevitably affects vision. In aspartame the methanol converts to formaldehyde and formic acid in the retina of the eye and destroys the optic nerve. Remember how many thousands went blind and died during prohibition because of the use of wood alcohol/methanol. So many went blind on aspartame and had seizures that in l986 the Community Nutrition Institute in l986 petitioned the FDA to ban aspartame. The FDA, handmaiden of the drug/chemical industry, refused.
http://www.rense.com/general65/aspar.htm
The U.S. Justice Department is expected to file indictments against two former senior American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC) staffers - Steve Rosen and Keith Weissman - and, according to sources familiar with the affair, the charges will be subsumed under the Espionage Act.
A Virginia grand jury is now examining the evidence in the case, which involved receipt of classified defense information from Larry Franklin, a Pentagon official, and its transfer to the representative of a foreign country, Naor Gilon, of the Israeli embassy in Washington.
...
The fact that Rosen and Weissman, as American citizens, handed information to an official representative of a foreign power while knowing it was classified is incriminating under the 1917 Espionage Act, which defines as a crime receipt of classified information for the purpose of helping any foreign entity.
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/581817.html
In 2000, the Philadelphia sheriff auctioned 300 to 400 foreclosed properties a month; now he handles more than 1,000 a month. Allegheny County, which includes Pittsburgh, had record auctions of foreclosed homes, and officials speak of a "Depression-era" problem. The foreclosures fall particularly hard on black and Latino families.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/05/29/AR2005052900972.html
[This is weird. This town will give you free land to build a house, but look at the house you have to build. What if you don’t need a two car garage?]
http://www.washingtonks.net/Free%20Lots%20Program.htm#Residential
[Surprised? You’re not paying attention.]
Consultants are creaming off a staggering $20 billion from hard-won global aid budgets. The $20bn total is 40 per cent of the international communities' overseas development pot of $50bn - money that is meant to relieve poverty in developing countries.
The World Bank has confirmed the figure for the first time: this weekend it admitted that money spent on 'technical assistance' and consultants had increased by $2bn on last year's $18bn total. A spokesman conceded that ballooning consultants' fees 'need to be addressed'.
http://observer.guardian.co.uk/business/story/0,6903,1494543,00.html
[These things don’t work right anyway. One I come in contact with frequently works probably half the time.]
Using mathematical models, Wein, along with Manas Baveja, a doctoral student at the Institute for Computational and Mathematical Engineering and a science fellow at the Center for International Security and Cooperation, has specifically determined that when image quality is poor, accuracy drops to 53 percent. "About 5 percent of the general public and 10 percent of those on the watch list have bad quality fingerprints due either to genetics or hard labor," Wein says. It's those small percentages that can evade the system--with potentially huge consequences. "We assume that terrorist organizations will eventually defeat the US-VISIT program by employing a majority of people whose fingerprint quality is either naturally bad or deliberately made so," he says.
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2005/05/050516192544.htm
Closed military bases could become repositories for nuclear waste under a little-noticed section of a spending bill that was passed by the House this week, exacerbating the fears of local lawmakers who are fighting the scheduled closure of four of New England's biggest bases.
The energy and water bill from the House Appropriations Committee includes $15.5 million for reprocessing of nuclear waste from power plants and construction of an interim nuclear waste dump. The legislation does not specify where that dump would be. But the Appropriations Committee report, which explains the bill, suggests that mothballed military bases be considered as potential sites for the waste
http://www.boston.com/news/nation/washington/articles/2005/05/28/shut_bases_could_get_nuclear_waste/
I registered a Google Alert for "Transportation Security Administration" several months ago and have also conducted "Yahoo" searches for "backscatter + airports," so I have a fairly comprehensive view of the stories the media runs on this topic. You might think that forcing an entire nation to strip, whether grandparents, nuns, expectant mothers, adolescents, clergy, or honeymooning couples, would merit discussion at the very least. Some attendant horror, perhaps even an attempt to treat this as a sick joke with calls for restraint and reconsideration, would be nice as well. But aside from a matter-of-fact report in USA Today, a mildly disapproving one in the New York Times, and a few articles in technical magazines on the ways and means, this newest assault on passengers has gone unremarked. The media doesn’t care because Sean and Sharon don’t care. That a self-proclaimed Christian regime is pulling off a stunt beyond the dreams of the most daring pornographer, that it will require millions of genuine Christians, Orthodox Jews, and devout Muslims to exhibit themselves before government agents, apparently bothers only the odd prude here and there.
http://www.lewrockwell.com/orig6/akers3.html
You see, the United States Political Senior Class joyfully joined, 60 years later, the German Nazis of World War II in the decision to use genocide as an official government policy (OGP.) This was not done by mistake. No, these modern day butchers knew exactly what they were doing.
http://www.onlinejournal.com/Media/052705Nichols/052705nichols.html
Ive never fully accepted that view. But looking at the housing market, I'm starting to reconsider.
In July 2001, Paul McCulley, an economist at Pimco, the giant bond fund, predicted that the Federal Reserve would simply replace one bubble with another. "There is room," he wrote, "for the Fed to create a bubble in housing prices, if necessary, to sustain American hedonism. And I think the Fed has the will to do so, even though political correctness would demand that Mr. Greenspan deny any such thing."
As Mr. McCulley predicted, interest rate cuts led to soaring home prices, which led in turn not just to a construction boom but to high consumer spending, because homeowners used mortgage refinancing to go deeper into debt. All of this created jobs to make up for those lost when the stock bubble burst.
http://www.nytimes.com/2005/05/27/opinion/27krugman.html
[Tihs is hardly even anarticle, and I don’t know if it is true. It just caught my eye because the other day there was an unexpected cross burning in NC, and everyone couldn’t understand it apparently. They thought it wsa the work of the KK, but was it Muslims protesting the descreation of the Qur’an? Hmmm...]
http://www.neildoyle.com/index.php?name=PNphpBB2&file=viewtopic&t=174
The maiden flight of Falcon I, carrying the Defense Department's TacSat-1 satellite, is scheduled to follow the launch of the last Titan IV from Vandenberg in late summer.
http://www.spacedaily.com/news/launchers-05zzc.html
China, Indonesia and a number of Middle Eastern and Mediterranean countries have reportedly expressed interest in the project.
http://www.spacedaily.com/news/nuclear-civil-05r.html
reland's Prime Minister Bertie Ahern opened the country's first offshore wind farm Thursday, off the east coast.
The 25-megawatts Arklow Bank Offshore Wind Park was located on a sandbank about 10 kilometres off County Wicklow in the Irish Sea, just south of the capital Dublin
http://www.spacedaily.com/news/energy-tech-05zs.html
[real estate investors may want to start buying up Sahara desert plots now, get in on the ground floor.]
The models examined by Hurrell and Hoerling show this trend intensifying in future decades. They project that the Sahel monsoon will be some 20% to 30% wetter by 2049 compared to the 1950-99 average.
The warming of Indian Ocean waters is well beyond the range expected from natural processes. This strengthens the case that greenhouse gases are involved, says Hurrell.
http://www.spacedaily.com/news/climate-05zzj.html
For the last decade or so, however, kids have been raised in an atmosphere of wild and enthusiastic intellectual turmoil. They can choose from hundreds of cable stations, talk radio and the vast variety of the Internet to seek answers to questions about any subject from many viewpoints.
In other words, they have been raised knowing there is no such thing as accepted wisdom. Though they might hear an issue or idea argued from one perspective, they know they can quickly ferret out another that might be perhaps even more persuasive.
Possessed with such a complex world view, it should not be surprising if today's enterprisers are far more willing to attempt to design, build and sell a new range of products - from headlamps to low-cost rockets
http://www.spacedaily.com/news/spacetravel-05zn.html
Wristbands purchased by British charities as part of the Make Poverty History campaign have been manufactured in conditions that breach international ethical standards, it emerged yesterday.
Chinese companies responsible for wristbands worn by thousand of charity supporters, celebrities and politicians, including Tony Blair, have been accused of indulging in forced labor and of paying less than the official minimum wage. An audit also discovered breaches of health and safety regulations.
http://www.commondreams.org/headlines05/0530-05.htm
I will be pro-death penalty and anti-abortion, pro-child but anti-child care, for education but against funding of public schools. As a Republican, I'll have a better chance of getting to spout my opinions in the media, which for some reason seems convinced that since Bush was re-elected with the smallest electoral margin of any sitting president in history, liberals are passe.
http://www.commondreams.org/views05/0529-30.htm
Miami-Dade County's elections chief has strongly recommended that its ATM-style voting devices be ditched for optical scan ones that use paper ballots, another black mark for the machines that were billed as a way to avoid a repeat of the 2000 presidential-election fiasco.
Elections supervisor Lester Sola said in a memo Friday that he reached his conclusion based on declining voter confidence in the paperless touch-screen machines and election-day labor costs that have quadrupled with them.
Elections supervisor Lester Sola said in a memo Friday that he reached his conclusion based on declining voter confifidence in the paperless touch-screen machines and election-day labor costs that have quadrupled with them.
http://www.commondreams.org/headlines05/0529-05.htm
Police say private investigators used spy software for business espionage; affair involves some of Israel leading companies. Police arrest senior executives, some may have fled country
http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3091900,00.html
[There is a book about how IBM helped the Nazis organize their genocide. I predict in several decades there will be a similar book about HP. Even their commercials show them like grabbing people off the street for the government.]
May 27, 2005--HP (NYSE:HPQ - News; Nasdaq:HPQ - News) today announced the availability of the HP National Identity System (NIS) solution on the Microsoft® .NET platform.
Source: HP
· View multimedia news release
The HP NIS solution allows governments to build and quickly deploy at an affordable price a complete, standards-based and technologically agile infrastructure that meets their changing needs for security and identity management.
http://biz.yahoo.com/bw/050527/275136.html?.v=1
Tobacco companies chemically altered their cigarettes in a deliberate bid to make them more female-friendly and increase smoking rates among women and young girls.
New documents reveal that cigarette giants even looked at adding appetite suppressants to their brands to promote smoking as a form of weight control.
Published this week in the science journal Addiction, the papers show that tobacco firms spent more than 20 years, from the 1970s to 1990s, carrying out gender-based research to get women addicted to cigarettes.
http://www.rense.com/general65/letget.htm
[Turning a rainforest into a desert? Sounds like the work of an economic hitman.]
Fr McAuley said the privatisation of the rainforest was part of a scheme demanded by the World Bank and other financial institutions of the Peruvian President, Alejandro Toledo, a former World Bank employee, as a condition for loans. Though he succeeded the enormously corrupt Western-backed autocrat, Alberto Fujimori, in 2001 on a wave of popular enthusiasm, Mr Toledo has himself been tainted by reports of widespread government corruption.
http://www.rense.com/general65/amazo.htm
Let us ask ourselves: if the Confederate states had won their war of independence, and New England followed them out of the Union, and British troops were now stationed in both breakaway nations—to insure their independence from Washington—how would patriotic Americans have responded in 1865?
Putin's Russia has suffered a strategic disaster like that of Germany at Versailles. Germany, too, was dismembered, divided, stripped of colonies, bankrupted by war reparations, forced to confess full moral guilt for the war. Allied refusal to rectify these injustices led to the fall of the Weimar Republic and the rise of Hitler.
http://amconmag.com/2005_06_06/buchanan.html
[That’s a sure sign of poor thinking.]
It's surely possible that Pat is trying to 'rehabilitate' himself in the eyes of the Republican Party.
http://www.rense.com/general65/buch.htm
THE RAF and US aircraft doubled the rate at which they were dropping bombs on Iraq in 2002 in an attempt to provoke Saddam Hussein into giving the allies an excuse for war, new evidence has shown.
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,2087-1632566,00.html
When life is not lived morally, there's no difference between Jews and Amorites, between Israelis and Canaanites, Romans or Crusaders.
Every time the land tries to vomit us out, it's incumbent upon us to figure out what have we violated in the covenant.
http://www.rense.com/general65/beek.htm
[Watch them bring this back without change and have the French vote on it again.]
France has resoundingly rejected the proposed European Union constitution, plunging the EU into crisis and French politics into confusion.
The result of the referendum was a massive 56 per cent for the "no", against 44 per cent for the "yes", according to Dominique de Villepin, the Interior Minister. An unusually high turnout of 70 per cent of the 42 million voters had briefly raised hopes that the great legion of "undecided" might still tip the outcome to the "yes".
http://www.rense.com/general65/france.htm
Today The Observer publishes several letters from the former cigar-smoking Deputy Prime Minister handwritten from Camp Cropper prison in Baghdad. Aziz scribbled these notes on pages from his lawyer's diary who was with him when he was questioned recently by the CIA and US politicians.
Two are in Arabic, the other three in English and addressed to: 'The world public opinion.' Aziz pleads for international help to end his 'dire situation'. He claims he is innocent and is being held unjustly without being allowed contact with his family. One letter reveals questions he had been asked about which politicians benefited from the controversial UN oil-for-food programme.
Although Aziz supporters claim he is a 'political prisoner' who did his best to restrain Saddam, his opponents have little sympathy. They describe him as the dictator's henchman who also bears personal responsibility for crimes committed by the Baathist regime, such as the gassing of Kurds at Halabja.
Aziz's letters are another remarkable snapshot into how Iraqi's former political elite are being held. This month the Sun published photographs of Saddam in his underpants in his Camp Cropper cell and The Observer revealed how prisoners are kept mostly in solitary confinement in tiny cells with no natural daylight.
...
In a note scribbled on his lawyer's diary, Aziz says: 'I was asked if I had recommended giving money or oil to President Chirac [of France], or Petros Gali [former UN general secretary Boutros Boutros-Ghali], Ekius [UN weapons inspector Rolf Ekeus]. My answer is NO. The same to President Megawati [Sukarnoputri of Indonesia]. NO.'
http://www.rense.com/general65/extro.htm
Meet America's
New Pioneer Breed
Towns on the Great Plains Offer Free
Land To Stem Long Decline
http://www.rense.com/general65/meet.htm
Earthquake Pushes Up 10
New Islands Near Sumatra
http://www.rense.com/general65/earhe.htm
The flat gray Shadow gets propelled skyward on a nitrogen-pressurized rail; when Clark is ready to land, a hand-sized antenna dish on the side of the runway will guide the plane to the ground by transmitting coordinates a lot like GPS. Sitting in a Humvee, Clark flies the Hunter by using a mouse to point and click pixelated dials and sliders modeled after the ones in a physical cockpit. Alternatively he can just click a route on a map, or program a destination and let the plane figure it out. Clark doesn't have a throttle, and he can't see out the front of the plane. In fact, there is a camera, but the soldier sitting to Clark's left is working the joystick to take the pictures that make the whole mission worthwhile. Clark is just driving the bus
http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/13.06/drones.html?tw=wn_tophead_1
Not any more. In their decisive biography, Mao: the Unknown Story, Jung Chang and Jon Halliday leave Mao for dead. By that I mean that Mao's reputation as a "great man," unless one includes Hitler and Stalin too, is finished.
Chang's previous book, Wild Swans, which is said to be the biggest-selling non-fiction paperback ever, and worth every penny, showed the effects of Maoism on her family and herself. Halliday, her husband, is a specialist on Soviet archives. His best-known book, written with Bruce Cumings, is Korea: the Unknown War, which was turned into a vivid television series. Chang and Halliday use the word "unknown" again in their new book.
...
For several years Mao oversaw the growing of opium poppies and the extremely lucrative sale of "the black product" in areas outside his control. He told Premier Chou En-lai that the business was worth six times the official Yanan budget. The Russians, whose sources on Mao's career are Halliday's most significant contribution to the biography, estimated sales then at $60m "or some $640m (£350m) today," a humiliating admission for a patriotic movement that based its hatred of imperialism on the British export of opium into China in the 19th century.
http://www.rense.com/general65/mao.htm
[The dangers of chronic low level exposure to different substances has been criminally over-looked for years. Maybe studies like this will change that? Probably not.]
The compound involved is called bisphenol-A or BPA. It is used in plastic food containers, cans and dental sealants and other research suggests it leaches from products and is absorbed in low concentrations by the human body,
http://www.rense.com/general65/pksa.htm
Britain's first major electricity plant to be fuelled by grass will begin construction later this year.
The £6.5m power station in Staffordshire will be burn locally cultivated elephant grass and will be able to supply 2,000 homes with electricity.
http://www.rense.com/general65/grass.htm
FDA doesn't have far to look. Change in sexual function is listed on the FDA report of 92 symptoms by aspartame. Vision loss and blindness is so commonly triggered by aspartame its #6 on the list. http://www.dorway.com
You don't have to be a rocket scientist to understand when you put a drug on the market (masquerading as an additive) that liberates free methyl alcohol it inevitably affects vision. In aspartame the methanol converts to formaldehyde and formic acid in the retina of the eye and destroys the optic nerve. Remember how many thousands went blind and died during prohibition because of the use of wood alcohol/methanol. So many went blind on aspartame and had seizures that in l986 the Community Nutrition Institute in l986 petitioned the FDA to ban aspartame. The FDA, handmaiden of the drug/chemical industry, refused.
http://www.rense.com/general65/aspar.htm
The U.S. Justice Department is expected to file indictments against two former senior American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC) staffers - Steve Rosen and Keith Weissman - and, according to sources familiar with the affair, the charges will be subsumed under the Espionage Act.
A Virginia grand jury is now examining the evidence in the case, which involved receipt of classified defense information from Larry Franklin, a Pentagon official, and its transfer to the representative of a foreign country, Naor Gilon, of the Israeli embassy in Washington.
...
The fact that Rosen and Weissman, as American citizens, handed information to an official representative of a foreign power while knowing it was classified is incriminating under the 1917 Espionage Act, which defines as a crime receipt of classified information for the purpose of helping any foreign entity.
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/581817.html
In 2000, the Philadelphia sheriff auctioned 300 to 400 foreclosed properties a month; now he handles more than 1,000 a month. Allegheny County, which includes Pittsburgh, had record auctions of foreclosed homes, and officials speak of a "Depression-era" problem. The foreclosures fall particularly hard on black and Latino families.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/05/29/AR2005052900972.html
[This is weird. This town will give you free land to build a house, but look at the house you have to build. What if you don’t need a two car garage?]
http://www.washingtonks.net/Free%20Lots%20Program.htm#Residential
[Surprised? You’re not paying attention.]
Consultants are creaming off a staggering $20 billion from hard-won global aid budgets. The $20bn total is 40 per cent of the international communities' overseas development pot of $50bn - money that is meant to relieve poverty in developing countries.
The World Bank has confirmed the figure for the first time: this weekend it admitted that money spent on 'technical assistance' and consultants had increased by $2bn on last year's $18bn total. A spokesman conceded that ballooning consultants' fees 'need to be addressed'.
http://observer.guardian.co.uk/business/story/0,6903,1494543,00.html
[These things don’t work right anyway. One I come in contact with frequently works probably half the time.]
Using mathematical models, Wein, along with Manas Baveja, a doctoral student at the Institute for Computational and Mathematical Engineering and a science fellow at the Center for International Security and Cooperation, has specifically determined that when image quality is poor, accuracy drops to 53 percent. "About 5 percent of the general public and 10 percent of those on the watch list have bad quality fingerprints due either to genetics or hard labor," Wein says. It's those small percentages that can evade the system--with potentially huge consequences. "We assume that terrorist organizations will eventually defeat the US-VISIT program by employing a majority of people whose fingerprint quality is either naturally bad or deliberately made so," he says.
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2005/05/050516192544.htm
Closed military bases could become repositories for nuclear waste under a little-noticed section of a spending bill that was passed by the House this week, exacerbating the fears of local lawmakers who are fighting the scheduled closure of four of New England's biggest bases.
The energy and water bill from the House Appropriations Committee includes $15.5 million for reprocessing of nuclear waste from power plants and construction of an interim nuclear waste dump. The legislation does not specify where that dump would be. But the Appropriations Committee report, which explains the bill, suggests that mothballed military bases be considered as potential sites for the waste
http://www.boston.com/news/nation/washington/articles/2005/05/28/shut_bases_could_get_nuclear_waste/
I registered a Google Alert for "Transportation Security Administration" several months ago and have also conducted "Yahoo" searches for "backscatter + airports," so I have a fairly comprehensive view of the stories the media runs on this topic. You might think that forcing an entire nation to strip, whether grandparents, nuns, expectant mothers, adolescents, clergy, or honeymooning couples, would merit discussion at the very least. Some attendant horror, perhaps even an attempt to treat this as a sick joke with calls for restraint and reconsideration, would be nice as well. But aside from a matter-of-fact report in USA Today, a mildly disapproving one in the New York Times, and a few articles in technical magazines on the ways and means, this newest assault on passengers has gone unremarked. The media doesn’t care because Sean and Sharon don’t care. That a self-proclaimed Christian regime is pulling off a stunt beyond the dreams of the most daring pornographer, that it will require millions of genuine Christians, Orthodox Jews, and devout Muslims to exhibit themselves before government agents, apparently bothers only the odd prude here and there.
http://www.lewrockwell.com/orig6/akers3.html
You see, the United States Political Senior Class joyfully joined, 60 years later, the German Nazis of World War II in the decision to use genocide as an official government policy (OGP.) This was not done by mistake. No, these modern day butchers knew exactly what they were doing.
http://www.onlinejournal.com/Media/052705Nichols/052705nichols.html
Ive never fully accepted that view. But looking at the housing market, I'm starting to reconsider.
In July 2001, Paul McCulley, an economist at Pimco, the giant bond fund, predicted that the Federal Reserve would simply replace one bubble with another. "There is room," he wrote, "for the Fed to create a bubble in housing prices, if necessary, to sustain American hedonism. And I think the Fed has the will to do so, even though political correctness would demand that Mr. Greenspan deny any such thing."
As Mr. McCulley predicted, interest rate cuts led to soaring home prices, which led in turn not just to a construction boom but to high consumer spending, because homeowners used mortgage refinancing to go deeper into debt. All of this created jobs to make up for those lost when the stock bubble burst.
http://www.nytimes.com/2005/05/27/opinion/27krugman.html
[Tihs is hardly even anarticle, and I don’t know if it is true. It just caught my eye because the other day there was an unexpected cross burning in NC, and everyone couldn’t understand it apparently. They thought it wsa the work of the KK, but was it Muslims protesting the descreation of the Qur’an? Hmmm...]
http://www.neildoyle.com/index.php?name=PNphpBB2&file=viewtopic&t=174
The maiden flight of Falcon I, carrying the Defense Department's TacSat-1 satellite, is scheduled to follow the launch of the last Titan IV from Vandenberg in late summer.
http://www.spacedaily.com/news/launchers-05zzc.html
China, Indonesia and a number of Middle Eastern and Mediterranean countries have reportedly expressed interest in the project.
http://www.spacedaily.com/news/nuclear-civil-05r.html
reland's Prime Minister Bertie Ahern opened the country's first offshore wind farm Thursday, off the east coast.
The 25-megawatts Arklow Bank Offshore Wind Park was located on a sandbank about 10 kilometres off County Wicklow in the Irish Sea, just south of the capital Dublin
http://www.spacedaily.com/news/energy-tech-05zs.html
[real estate investors may want to start buying up Sahara desert plots now, get in on the ground floor.]
The models examined by Hurrell and Hoerling show this trend intensifying in future decades. They project that the Sahel monsoon will be some 20% to 30% wetter by 2049 compared to the 1950-99 average.
The warming of Indian Ocean waters is well beyond the range expected from natural processes. This strengthens the case that greenhouse gases are involved, says Hurrell.
http://www.spacedaily.com/news/climate-05zzj.html
For the last decade or so, however, kids have been raised in an atmosphere of wild and enthusiastic intellectual turmoil. They can choose from hundreds of cable stations, talk radio and the vast variety of the Internet to seek answers to questions about any subject from many viewpoints.
In other words, they have been raised knowing there is no such thing as accepted wisdom. Though they might hear an issue or idea argued from one perspective, they know they can quickly ferret out another that might be perhaps even more persuasive.
Possessed with such a complex world view, it should not be surprising if today's enterprisers are far more willing to attempt to design, build and sell a new range of products - from headlamps to low-cost rockets
http://www.spacedaily.com/news/spacetravel-05zn.html
Wristbands purchased by British charities as part of the Make Poverty History campaign have been manufactured in conditions that breach international ethical standards, it emerged yesterday.
Chinese companies responsible for wristbands worn by thousand of charity supporters, celebrities and politicians, including Tony Blair, have been accused of indulging in forced labor and of paying less than the official minimum wage. An audit also discovered breaches of health and safety regulations.
http://www.commondreams.org/headlines05/0530-05.htm
I will be pro-death penalty and anti-abortion, pro-child but anti-child care, for education but against funding of public schools. As a Republican, I'll have a better chance of getting to spout my opinions in the media, which for some reason seems convinced that since Bush was re-elected with the smallest electoral margin of any sitting president in history, liberals are passe.
http://www.commondreams.org/views05/0529-30.htm
Miami-Dade County's elections chief has strongly recommended that its ATM-style voting devices be ditched for optical scan ones that use paper ballots, another black mark for the machines that were billed as a way to avoid a repeat of the 2000 presidential-election fiasco.
Elections supervisor Lester Sola said in a memo Friday that he reached his conclusion based on declining voter confidence in the paperless touch-screen machines and election-day labor costs that have quadrupled with them.
Elections supervisor Lester Sola said in a memo Friday that he reached his conclusion based on declining voter confifidence in the paperless touch-screen machines and election-day labor costs that have quadrupled with them.
http://www.commondreams.org/headlines05/0529-05.htm
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