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And here's the Tie!
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And there you have it. UTC's newest top poster
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I'll just do a few more to get the roundness
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Yep
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Well, that was a fun little run there
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tiremonkey2000
01-25-2007, 07:28 PM
Congrates MM
BakedDon
01-25-2007, 08:03 PM
New Invisible Tattoos to Track Cows and ... Soldiers!
This RFID is cheaper and improved
A new finding seems to come away from the science fiction, where the unknowing characters bear tracking tags.
The Saint Louis based Somark Innovations have recently developed biocompatible RFID (Radio Frequency Identification) ink, which was already been tested to tattoo cattle and labora ..http://news.softpedia.com/news/New-Invisible-Tattoos-to-Track-Cows-and--Soldiers-44958.shtml
BakedDon
01-25-2007, 08:05 PM
Bulky gold is valued for millennia for its inertness, which makes it precious in electronics, dentistry, jewelry and art.
But at the nano scale - grouped in a small number of atoms - this metal acts very differently, exhibiting chemical reactivity that makes it a potent catalyst.
Scientists have been interested in determining what were the most stable configurations of gold clusters, because this determines their properties, important for their use as nanocatalysts or in certain medical applications.
Different experiments were carried out by two independent research groups in collaboration with a team from the Center for Computational Materials Science (CCMS) at the Georgia Institute of Technology.
The Georgia Tech team had already found in 2002 that negatively charged gold nanoclusters, up to 13 atoms in size, would present two-dimensional, flat structures that are unique to gold. "We wanted to know, what happens after 13 atoms," said Uzi Landman, director of CCMS. "What happens when these clusters become three-dimensional and what is their structural motif?"
One investigation was a collaboration with the University of Freiburg and the Fraunhofer Institute for Mechanics of Materials, both in Germany. The researchers performed photoemission experiments, in which a laser is shot at the gas-phase cluster causing it to eject an electron.
Lasers of different wavelengths assessed the energy profiles of the emitted electrons, informing about the occupied electronic energy levels in the clusters, linked to the specific geometric arrangement of the atoms. The other investigation was carried out together with a team from the Rowland Institute at Harvard University. This time, the electron diffraction was employed: a beam of electrons is fired at the clusters, causing the electrons to scatter. The intensity of the scattered electrons and the difference in momenta of the electrons caused by their collisions with the atoms of the clusters gave clues about the spatial arrangements of the atoms in the clusters. "It turns out that close to all the stable structures that were found through our theoretical analysis of the photoemission measurements were the same as those that emerged from analysis of the electron scattering experiments," said Landman.
"In our analysis we have used first-principles electronic structure calculations based on density-functional theory, in conjunction with structural optimization techniques. This is likely the first time that two separate and independent experimental tools, in conjunction with a common theoretical analysis, have shown such a high degree of agreement in the challenging area of structural determination of nano clusters."
The research teams discovered that the two-dimensional till 13 or 14 atoms clusters turned to three-dimensional hollow cages from about 16 atoms, and grouped in a face-centered-cubic tetrahedral structure at 20 atoms, resembling the bulk gold crystalline structure. But at 24 atoms, the clusters get an unexpected capped tubular cigar shape. "These results assist us not only in determining the structures of the clusters, but also provide insight into the factors that underlie their self-assembly," said Landman.
"In some ways, we are determining the 'structural grammar' of these gold nanoclusters and by understanding that, we may better understand what motifs appear as we continue to search for the structures of clusters larger than 24 atoms.”
http://news.softpedia.com/news/The-Structure-of-Gold-Nanoclusters-Decoded-44660.shtml
BakedDon
01-25-2007, 08:07 PM
Hybrid Human-Animal Clones to Be Done
Three British Teams Are Interested
Monster mutants, half animals, half humans may no longer belong just to SF literature and movies or cartoons.
Three British research teams have already launched the proposal of making embryos by merging human and animal material. Cow or rabbit eggs would be used as a short cut to produce cloned embryos which could yield human embryonic stem cells.
The idea remains on hold for the moment, as the UK regulator of embryo research decided on Thursday. Under intense pressure from the scientists, the Human Fertilization and Embryology Authority decided to consult the public opinion about this, as many see it unethical and think that it should be forbidden. Stem cells are vital for the scientific research
into major hereditary diseases, such as Parkinson’s disease and many brain degenerating diseases – like haemophilia - just to name a few.
The cells created would be the same as the patient's ones, carrying the defects that trigger the conditions, and investigating these cells would show off the causes of the disease or new drugs could be discovered.
As opinions are so diverse and the technique was not checked by now, the HFEA does not rush into allowing the research to go ahead. But the HFEA also found this research to be legal in the UK under the existing regulations.
This disagrees with the UK government’s argument, published in December 2006, that creation of human-animal chimeras or hybrids should not be allowed. “After careful consideration, the authority has ruled that, under current legislation, these sorts of research would potentially fall within the remit of the HFEA to regulate and license, and would not be prohibited by the legislation”, said Angela McNab, chief executive of the HFEA.
“One good outcome is that the HFEA has not buckled under pressure from the government on this issue,” said Stephen Minger of King’s College London, UK, and head of one of the three teams which would produce the embryos. “Although we are naturally disappointed that the HFEA has not recommended that our research applications go to the licensing committee, we are happy with their decision to consult both public and scientific opinion regarding cloning of human cells using non-human eggs,” he added.
“They have not supported an outright ban of our work and, moreover, the possibility of a further public consultation exercise gives us the opportunity to explain why the science is so very important for Britain and humanity in general”, said Lyle Armstrong, head of another of the three teams, at the University of Newcastle-upon-Tyne, UK
BakedDon
01-25-2007, 09:12 PM
http://jackblood.netfirms.com/home/headline.html
WE WON! Section 220 taken out of S.1
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We won! Late last night the Senate voted 55 to 43 to strip the grassroots regulations out of S.1. This is a major victory for the 1st Amendment, for Downsize DC, for our coalition partners, and for small grassroots groups all across the political spectrum. It is a major victory for YOU! As little as three days ago this stunning success seemed impossible. So what happened? We proved a concept. Actually, we proved a couple of concepts. We proved that mere citizens can change the minds and votes of members of Congress. The Senate was deluged with phone calls and Internet messages supporting Amendment 20 to S.1. This had a huge impact . . . Senators got nervous. Senators got enlightenment. Many Senators learned for the first time the true nature of the legislation they were being asked to pass. Senators changed their minds and their votes. And we won!
BakedDon
01-25-2007, 09:14 PM
Hey MM if you dont mind... who is that looking at us from your banner ???
mathmission
01-26-2007, 10:00 AM
Just adding to the flow!
mathmission
01-26-2007, 10:01 AM
Hey MM if you dont mind... who is that looking at us from your banner ???
Let me see if I can't find the name. I'm at work, so I certainly won't be able to find the name, but let me see if I can't find the full picture for you...
mathmission
01-26-2007, 05:28 PM
QUOTE: "A beautiful vacuum filled with wealthy
monogamists, all powerful and members of the
best families all drinking themselves to death."
HINT:Was an American novelist and short story writer
whose works, drawn from his wide range of experiences
in World War I, the Spanish Civil War, and World War II.
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01-26-2007, 05:28 PM
Sound travels five times faster in water than in air.
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The average depth of the ocean is more than 2.5 miles.
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The bluefin tuna can reach sustained speeds up to 55 mph.
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Types of Boats
* Banana boat * Bangca * Bateau * Barge * Cabin Cruiser
* Canoe * Catamaran * Cape Islander * Catboat * Coble
* Coracle * Cruiser * Cutter (pulling) * Cutter (sailing)
* Dhow * Dinghy * Dory * Durham Boat * Dutch Barge
* Felucca * Ferry * Folding boat * Go-fast boat * Gondola
* Houseboat * Inflatable boat * Jetboat, Jetski
* Jonsboat * Junk * Kayak * Ketch * Lifeboat * Log boat
* Longboat * Luxemotor * Motorboat * Narrowboat
* Norfolk wherry * Outrigger canoe * Padded V-hull
* Pinnace * Pirogue * Powerboat * Punt * Raft
* Rigid-hulled inflatable boat (RIB) * Rowboat, rowing boat
* Sailboat, sailing boat * Sampan * Schooner * Scow
* Sharpie * Skiff * Sloop * Submarine * Surf boat
* Swift boat * Tjalk * Trimaran * Tugboat * U-boat
* Water taxi * Whaleboat * Yacht * Yawl
mathmission
01-26-2007, 05:29 PM
You measure length overall from one end (stern or bow)
of the hull to the other end along the center line of the
hull. You need to know the length of your boat so you know
what class your boat is. That is how you determine what
equipment you must carry onboard when underway.
mathmission
01-26-2007, 05:29 PM
The highest tides in the world are at the Bay of Fundy,
which separates New Brunswick from Nova Scotia. At some
times of the year the difference between high and low
tide is 53 feet.
mathmission
01-26-2007, 05:29 PM
QUOTE: "A beautiful vacuum filled with wealthy
monogamists, all powerful and members of the
best families all drinking themselves to death."
ANSWER: Ernest Hemingway
BakedDon
01-26-2007, 07:53 PM
I say we give her a hot name for now... Something sexy.. hmmmm.
BakedDon
01-26-2007, 07:54 PM
Military C-130 sees BOTH Flight 93 and 77 crash! What odds?
Body: The continuing fairy tale of UA Flight 93 goes something like this:
Pan Man's note...If you are a serious 9/11 detective, you might want to start saving this to notepad because there is a LOT more to come and it just keeps getting curiouser and curiouser!!!
At 9:46 the Command Center updated FAA headquarters that United 93 was
now "twenty-nine minutes out of Washington, D.C."
At 9:49, 13 minutes after Cleveland Center had asked about getting
military help, the Command Center suggested that someone at
headquarters should decide whether to request military assistance:
FAA Headquarters: They're pulling Jeff away to go talk about United 93.
Command Center: Uh, do we want to think, uh, about scrambling aircraft?
FAA Headquarters: Oh, God, I don't know.
Command Center: Uh, that's a decision somebody's gonna have to make
probably in the next ten minutes.
FAA Headquarters: Uh, ya know everybody just left the room.
At 9:53, FAA headquarters informed the Command Center that the deputy
director for air traffic services was talking to Monte Belger about
scrambling aircraft. Then the Command Center informed headquarters that
controllers had lost track of United 93 over the Pittsburgh area.
Within seconds, the Command Center received a visual report from
another aircraft, and informed headquarters that the aircraft was 20
miles northwest of Johnstown. United 93 was spotted by another
aircraft, and, at 10:01, the Command Center advised FAA headquarters
that one of the aircraft had seen United 93 "waving his wings." The
aircraft had witnessed the hijackers' efforts to defeat the passengers'
counterattack.
United 93 crashed in Pennsylvania at 10:03:11, 125 miles from
Washington, D.C. The precise crash time has been the subject of some
dispute. The 10:03:11 impact time is supported by previous National
Transportation Safety Board analysis and by evidence from the
Commission staff's analysis of radar, the flight data recorder, the
cockpit voice recorder, infrared satellite data, and air traffic
control transmissions.
Pan Man's note:
For future reference, the 93 crash at 10:03 and the Flight 93 that lands at Cleveland Hopkins at 10:45
just happen to be 42 minutes apart...the time it takes to fly from
Shanksville to Cleveland. Remember....there were two "Flight 93's on radar, one north of Pittsburgh and one south. Both were flying parallel and headed east southeast.
Five minutes later, the Command Center forwarded this update to headquarters:
Command Center: O.K. Uh, there is now on that United 93.
FAA Headquarters: Yes.
Command Center: There is a report of black smoke in the last position I
gave you, fifteen miles south of Johnstown.
FAA Headquarters: From the airplane or from the ground?
Command Center: Uh, they're speculating it's from the aircraft.
FAA Headquarters: Okay.
Command Center: Uh, who, it hit the ground. That's what they're
speculating, that's speculation only.
The aircraft that spotted the "black smoke" was the same unarmed Air
National Guard cargo plane that had seen American 77 crash into the
Pentagon 27 minutes earlier. It had resumed its flight to Minnesota and
saw the smoke from the crash of United 93, less than two minutes after
the plane went down. At 10:17, the Command Center advised headquarters of its conclusion that United 93 had indeed crashed.
Military C-130 that sees 77 crash at Pentagon at 9:37 somehow manages to also see 93 crash at Shanksville at 10:03....who writes this bullshit?????
Concerns over the safety of other aircraft began to mount. A manager at
the Herndon Command Center asked FAA headquarters if they wanted to
order a "nationwide ground stop." While this was being discussed by
executives at FAA headquarters, the Command Center ordered one at 9:25.
The Command Center kept looking for American 77. At 9:21, it advised
the Dulles terminal control facility, and Dulles urged its controllers
to look for primary targets. At 9:32, they found one. Several of the
Dulles controllers "observed a primary radar target tracking eastbound
at a high rate of speed" and notified Reagan National Airport. FAA
personnel at both Reagan National and Dulles airports notified the
Secret Service. The aircraft's identity or type was unknown.
Reagan National controllers then vectored an unarmed National Guard
C130H cargo aircraft, which had just taken off en route to Minnesota,
to identify and follow the suspicious aircraft. The C-130H pilot
spotted it, identified it as a Boeing 757, attempted to follow its
path, and at 9:38, seconds after impact, reported to the control tower:
"looks like that aircraft crashed into the Pentagon sir."
BakedDon
01-26-2007, 08:22 PM
I dont think I have every let you guys know about a friend Jack Herer author of the book The Emperor Wears No Clothes. The book is online for free at his site. Google his name or the title. Or should I say Scroogle so they cant see ya searched for it. You dont have to be all that smart to follow the money. Follow the money to the true owners of our sweat and blood. The emperors have thier balls out and a swinging. You will see... The controllers want you to be isolated, alone, cut off, dumbed down slaves, talking about meaningless bobbles, acting cool and sheepish. YOu have the right to exist and be free... Welcome to humanity.. Science has proven you are not just some meat suit to be broken open and devoured by the will of others. Your intentions go out into the field that we call reality and affect it. As you sit there now I wonder what you are thinking about. If you are in propetual want.. then that is what you are practicing at being good at and drawing things to want into your life.. But is that what you want? What if you were to practice being content and at peace with the moment right now? Then maybe you would begin to draw more situations where you could feel those good feelings again and again. Building upon frame work your putting in place now that already has a strong foundation. You are here for a reason. Matter is constantly perfecting itself... Life is everywhere here.. We live in an amazing time my friends. It is always darkest before light. What we see now is merely the passing of want and greed, soon things will change and maybe one day we will find that the jewels we seek are not out there but within. But then what do I know. I'm just a guy who was sick of the bs... then came the net with real knowledge and power for the people. You can cast a spell for the whole world to see and change... the spell will probably be written in HTML or PHP or C++ but it is a spell none the less.
BakedDon
01-26-2007, 08:28 PM
The world is not my home
I'm just a passin thru
Come on up to the house
BakedDon
01-26-2007, 08:29 PM
Any suggestions for saving this whole thread to disk????
BakedDon
01-26-2007, 08:30 PM
Still need 32 gigs to fill the hard drive... 200 gigs $99.00..
BakedDon
01-26-2007, 08:36 PM
Hey MM 10427 more and Ill be caught up with ya
BakedDon
01-26-2007, 08:37 PM
Here is the official info about these "hijackers". Many of the real identities are still alive. The FBI ignored these facts during 2001-2002 and never updated their suspect list. Apparently, they were given very special treatment since none of their names appear on any of the passenger lists. That's a really good trick for a profiled passenger traveling with several other profiled passengers on the same flights. How'd they do that? It also appears that at least 7 of them used their super human abilities to survive all of the crashes, thereby forgoing the instant gratification of possessing 72 virgins in Paradise. The FBI is still trying to decide whether or not to remove the still living "terrorists" from the passenger lists they apparently were never on. Who writes this crap? Here's a list of the super men:
"Official Pilots":
1) Waleed Alshehri, AA11, North Tower WTC. Name not on passenger list. Believed to be a pilot, though first reports said, his brother might have been a pilot, too. CNN reported (-> Hijackers, alive) on him: Possible confused identity with the son of a Saudi Arabian diplomat
Father Mohammad Alsheri said in a "20-20"- interview, Waleed had no flying experience. Then he left for the first time in his live his town for a trip to Medina. His father said, he had a strong sense of humour, was live loving, in contact with his father and called him in January 2001, 8 months before 911, he would be "on his way home". He never called back. His father never got an official visit by the FBI and learned from his son's death from the news and local newspapers. Saudi Authrities told him, that they had no hard evidence, that his son was involved in the hijack.
2) Mohammad Atta, AA 11, North Tower WTC Name not on passenger list. Believed to be the pilot of that plane. Instead of thinking about committing suicide only, he officially applied for a student visa, together with Marwan Al-Shehhi. These visas arrived after a "bureaucratic backlog" in March 2001 at Al-Shehhis flight school Huffmann Aviation by Rudi Dekkers. Author Daniel Hopsinker linked Huffmann Aviation to the CIA connected company For odd reasons an AP story said, "On the form, filled out by a Huffman assistant, Atta's name is spelled "Mohomed." Due to local reports Dekkers assistant who filled these visas out, Nicole Antini, was just then being sexually harassed by Rudi Dekkers, her beefy middle-aged boss, according to a lawsuit for sexual harassment which Dekker's was forced to settle recently for an undisclosed sum. In 2001, the Mossad observed various muslim students, who trained at military flight schools, including Mohammad Atta and warned the CIA twice of a possible terrorist attack. Leaked to the european press in late 2002, early 2003, it came out, that Mohammad Atta was even observed since 1998 by german intelligence, regarding his contacts (See Mamoun Darkanzali). This fits with other articles on Darkanzali, who was in contact with some spanish suspects, which telephone had been tapped. In another article it was reported, that the CIA tried to hire Darkanzali as an informant.
3) Hani Hanjour, AA77, Pentagon Name not on passenger list. Believed to be the pilot of that plane. It was said, he held a commercial pilot's license that expired in October, 1999. It was stated, that Lotfi Raissi was his flying teacher. But Raissi,who was arrested in September 2001 in United Kingdom, was plead unguilty in February 2002 and is free again. 4) Marwan Al-Shehhi, UA 175, South Tower WTC. Name not on passenger list. Believed to be the pilot of that plane. Instead of thinking about committing suicide only, he officially applied for a student visa. These visas arrived after a "bureaucratic backlog" in March 2001 at Al-Shehhis flight school Huffmann Aviation. Author Daniel Hopsicker linked Huffmann Aviation (->) to a CIA connected company
The super accomplices:
5) Saeed Alghamdi, UA93, Pennsylvannia Name not on passenger list. CNN reported (-> Hijackers, alive) on him: "Identity is disputed" The real Saeed Alghamdi said to newspaper Asharq Al Awsat, he is still alive and pilot for Saudi Airlines. Saudi Airlines said once it was considering legal action against the FBI for seriously damaging its reputation and that of its pilots.
6) Ahmad Ibrahim A. Al Haznawi, UA93, Pennsylvannia Name not on passenger list.
7) Ahmed Alnami UA93, Pennsylvannia Name not on passenger list. Father Abdullah Alnami said to "20/20" (Barbara Walters) his son left home for the first time in his life -- six months before the attacks, and believes, he is innocent. Another Abdullah Alnami said (before the photos had been released!), he is administrative supervisor with Saudi Arabian Airlines and was in Riyadh when the terrorists struck.
8) Ziad Samir Jarrah, UA93, Pennsylvannia Name not on passenger list. Believed to be the pilot of that plane.
9) Fayez Rashid Ahmed Hassan Al Qadi Banihammad, UA 175, South Tower WTC. Name not on passenger list.
10) Wail M. Alshehri, , AA11, North Tower WTC. Name not on passenger list. CNN reported (-> Hijackers, alive) on him: Possible confused identity with the son of a Saudi Arabian diplomat Father thinks, he and his brother are innocent.
11) Satam M.A. Al Suqami, AA11, North Tower WTC Name not on passenger list.
12) Abdulaziz Alomari, AA11, North Tower WTC Name not on passenger list. CNN reported (-> Hijackers, alive) on Alomari: "Identity is in dispute" The real Abdulaziz Alomari is alive and an engineer with Saudi Telecoms and claims, his passport was once stolen in Denver. Another Abdulaziz Al Omari is pilot for Saudi Arabian Airlines.
13) Khalid Almihdhar, AA77, Pentagon Name not on passenger list. CNN reported (-> Hijackers, alive) on him: "May be an assumed name; there are reports he is still alive" The real Khalid Al Midhar in fact said, he is alive.
14) Majed Moqed, AA77, Pentagon Name not on passenger list.
15) Nawaf Alhazmi,AA77, Pentagon Name not on passenger list.
16) Salem Alhazmi, AA77, Pentagon Name not on passenger list. CNN reported (-> Hijackers, alive) on him: "May be a a stolen identity"
The real Al-Hamzi is 26. In September 2001 he had just returned to work at a petrochemical complex in the industrial eastern city of Yanbou.
17) Ahmed Alghamdi, UA 175, South Tower WTC. Name not on passenger list. CNN reported (-> Hijackers, alive) on him: "Lost his driver's license in 1995 for failing to pay a traffic fine, ...Bought plane ticket on August 29 through the Internet using a Mailboxes Etc. address"
18) Hamza Alghamdi, UA 175, South Tower WTC. Name not on passenger list.
19) Mohand Alshehri, UA 175, South Tower WTC. Name not on passenger list. CNN reported (-> Hijackers, alive) on Alsheri: "Saudi Embassy has named Alshehri as a victim of mistaken identity" It is claimed, that he communicated with other hijack plotters. He once asked to use the Internet at a public library in Delray Beach, Florida.
BakedDon
01-26-2007, 08:39 PM
Take a listen...this is very interesting!
Aaron Russo Unplugged (http://video.google.com/googleplayer.swf?docId=8944348317320163203&hl=en)
http://video.google.com/googleplayer.swf?docId=8944348317320163203&hl=en
BakedDon
01-26-2007, 08:42 PM
My tea bag says;; When ego is lost, Limit is lost.
BakedDon
01-28-2007, 01:17 PM
Stevie Wonder Big Brother Lyrics
Your name is big brother
You say that you're watching me on the tele,
Seeing me go nowhere,
Your name is big brother,
You say that you're tired of me protesting,
Children dying everyday,
My name is nobody
But I can't wait to see your face inside my door.
Your name is big brother
You say that you got me all in your notebook,
Writing it down everyday,
Your name is I'll see ya,
I'll change if you vote me in as the pres,
The President of your soul
I live in the ghetto,
You just come to visit me 'round election time.
I live in the ghetto,
Someday I will move on my feet to the other side,
My name is secluded, we live in a house the size of a matchbox,
Roaches live with us wall to wall,
You've killed all our leaders,
I don't even have to do nothin' to you,
You'll cause your own country to fall.
BakedDon
01-28-2007, 01:21 PM
Maine revolts against digital U.S. ID card
Reuters | January 26, 2007
Jason Szep
Maine lawmakers on Thursday became the first in the nation to demand repeal of a federal law tightening identification requirements for drivers' licenses, a post-September 11 security measure that states say will cost them billions of dollars to administer.
Maine lawmakers passed a resolution urging repeal of the Real ID Act, which would create a national digital identification system by 2008. The lawmakers said it would cost Maine about $185 million, fail to boost security and put people at greater risk of identity theft.
Maine's resolution is the strongest stand yet by a state against the law, which Congress passed in May 2004 and gave states three years to implement. Similar repeal measures are pending in eight other states.
"We cannot be spending millions of state dollars on an initiative that does more harm to our state than good," said Maine's House Majority leader Hannah Pingree, a Democrat, in a statement that called it a "massive unfunded federal mandate."
The ID act sets national standards for licenses which will have to include a digital photo, anti-counterfeiting features and machine-readable technology.
States will have to verify documents presented with license applications such as birth certificates, Social Security cards and utility bills, and will have to link their license databases so they can all be accessed as a single network.
States also will have to verify that a person applying for a license is in the country legally. States will be able to issue separate credentials to illegal aliens so that they will still be able to drive.
The National Governors Association, the National Conference of State Legislatures and the American Association of Motor Vehicle Administrators said in a September report that the law would cost states more than $11 billion over five years and take at least another seven years to implement.
"It's a national ID card on steroids," said Barry Steinhardt, director of the American Civil Liberties Union's Technology and Liberty Project. "This will indeed be a real nightmare.
But backers say the driver's license -- a primary means of identification in the United States -- is fundamentally insecure because of widespread identity theft.
Some 227 million people hold drivers' licenses or identity cards given out by states, which issue or renew about 70 million each year.
BakedDon
01-28-2007, 06:46 PM
http://video.google.com/googleplayer.swf?docId=3979568779414136481&hl=en
BakedDon
01-28-2007, 06:47 PM
http://video.google.com/googleplayer.swf?docId=3979568779414136481&hl=en
The cover up
BakedDon
01-28-2007, 07:03 PM
http://video.google.com/googleplayer.swf?docId=3979568779414136481&hl=en
Dont be a heartless robot
Support the victims families and thier Press for Truth
411 days to start an investigation
You may be in denial
but that doesnt make it go away
I guess most people wont really care until some major wrong is done to them by the system
Until thier family member is killed.
mathmission
01-29-2007, 10:20 AM
Just adding to the thread
mathmission
01-29-2007, 03:55 PM
QUOTE: "Humor is everywhere, in that there's irony in
just about anything a human does."
HINT: US TV host and Science Guy
mathmission
01-29-2007, 03:56 PM
There are approximately 22 million hearing-impaired
persons in the U.S.
mathmission
01-29-2007, 03:56 PM
The man who invented shorthand, John Gregg, was deaf.
mathmission
01-29-2007, 03:56 PM
A deaf center-fielder for the Cincinnati Reds, William
Hoy, invented the hand signals for strikes and balls in
baseball.
mathmission
01-29-2007, 03:57 PM
Approx. 1 in 17,000 people have one of the types of albinism.
People with albinism have little or no pigment in the
eyes, skin, and hair (or in some cases in the eyes alone).
They have inherited from their parents an altered copy of
a genes that does not work correctly. The altered gene
does not allow the body to make the usual amounts of a
pigment called melanin.
mathmission
01-29-2007, 04:01 PM
An older mother is more likely than a younger one to have a
baby with Down syndrome.
Of the total population, older mothers have fewer babies;
about 75% of babies with Down syndrome are born to younger
women because more younger women than older women have
babies. Only about nine percent of total pregnancies occur
in women 35 years or older each year, but about 25% of
babies with Down syndrome are born to women in this age group.
mathmission
01-29-2007, 04:02 PM
Spina Bifida Occulta or Meningocele or Myelomeningocele
Approximately 40% of all Americans may have spina bifida
occulta, but because they experience little or no symptoms,
very few of them ever know that they have it. The other
two types of spina bifida, meningocele and myelomeningocele,
are known collectively as "spina bifida manifesta," and
occur in approximately one out of every thousand births. Of
these infants born with "spina bifida manifesta," about 4%
have the meningocele form, while about 96% have myelomen-
ingocele form.
mathmission
01-29-2007, 04:03 PM
QUOTE: "Humor is everywhere, in that there's irony in
just about anything a human does."
ANSWER: Bill Nye
BakedDon
01-29-2007, 07:10 PM
http://www.youtube.com/v/rb4nr9ndYrA
The War on Drugs is Fake
wins film festival
BakedDon
01-29-2007, 07:13 PM
Media Wants Waco-Style Massacre
American Free Press | January 28, 2007 (http://www.americanfreepress.net/html/waco-style_massacre.html)
Mark Anderson
The circumstances surrounding the Browns, a New Hampshire couple convicted of federal income tax evasion, could turn on a dime.
Recently AFP interviewed Ed Brown, a Plainfield home owner who grew up in the Roxbury slums of Boston. He and Mrs. Brown, who is a dentist, are self-made people who worked hard for their lot in life, only to see it swept away by a government that takes in gargantuan sums of money via taxes on the domestic populace to pay enormous interest on the national debt (which cannot be repaid), much of which is due to America‚s endless military conflicts.
When AFP contacted Brown recently, he was living everyday life as best he can at the house he built on their 110 acres. His wife, who he said is in a state of arrest wearing an electronic ankle bracelet—is staying with a son in a neighboring state.
“The dental business died a week ago Tuesday,” Brown told AFP. “My wife's a prisoner—like she's a flight risk!”
The two are supposed to be sentenced April 24, having each been convicted Jan. 18 in federal court in Concord for not paying income taxes since 1996. The government claims the Browns owe some $625,000.
“Everybody should say, ‘show me the law and I'll pay the tax,' ” Brown told AFP. That is what he told federal authorities who can't seem to produce a copy of a law requiring payment of the federal income tax.
Filmmaker Aaron Russo's America: From Freedom to Fascism documentary interviews a number of former IRS agents and other authoritative people who say that the powers that be, when asked to provide a copy of the law, such as an enabling statute, that requires U.S. workers to pay federal income tax on their wages, come up empty-handed.
Russo concluded that if the federal income tax applies to anyone or anything, it applies to corporate capital gains, not the incomes of individuals, and that the IRS doesn't even define income.
The proverbial “tax man” came down on the Browns just as they had considered selling their home and acreage so they could live in a warmer climate. Notably, their property is across the road from 500 acres owned by Supreme Court Justice Steven Breyer.
But making the best of the winter weather, individuals and families with children have been over to Brown's place lately for sledding and skating—before and since the tax trouble began. Life still seems more or less normal, though Brown suspects that federal agents may eventually storm the house and arrest him, perhaps after the publicity on his and his wife's plight calms down.
As of Jan. 25, he said the publicity was still significant, with TV news crews continuing to pay attention. He also told AFP that while he has always paid the 54 other kinds of taxes levied on Americans—with property taxes hitting $14,000 a year on their home and $18,000 a year on their office building for the former dental business—he won't budge on the federal income tax.
For one thing, as already noted, no one can produce a copy of the law that requires payment of an unapportioned tax on the labor of Americans. Moreover, there are due-process issues whereby U.S. District Court Judge Steven McAuliffe apparently disallowed the Browns from bringing forth any evidence or witnesses they needed for defending themselves in court. Also, the issue of federal jurisdiction, or the lack thereof, comes into play, Brown pointed out.
Addressing some conventional media reports that characterized his home as a virtual fortress, or “compound” with a “lookout tower,” Brown replied, “It's a deck, for crying out loud—an octagon-shaped compass deck.”
Just below the elevated deck on the large, well-built house—which has solar-power capability and was off the grid from 1990 to 2003—is a reading room.
“We're very mainstream, middle-class people,” said Brown, who noted that media reports suggesting he's “holed up” in his house are off base.
Some areas of the house have been boarded up to keep out blowing snow, so he is not “barricading” himself in the house, he explained.
The Union Leader seems also to have played the “antigovernment” card, even though many American patriots make a careful distinction by saying they are anti-corruption of government, not anti-government.
Notably, the Associated Press article in The Union Leader couldn't resist the highly charged word “compound,” which conceivably could create a bunker mentality in the minds of readers and may quell public outrage if federal agents ever decide to forcibly enter Brown's home to arrest him. As the article claimed:
“A jury decided that the Browns plotted to hide their income and avoid taxes on Elaine Brown's income of $1.9 million between 1996 and 2003. Over 10 years, they also used $215,890 of postal money orders broken into increments just below the reporting threshold to pay for their hilltop compound and for Elaine Brown's dental offices.”
U.S. marshals said on a couple occasions they had no plans to forcibly enter Brown's property and arrest him, though national media sources quoted marshals as saying that they “have to decide how to seize the Browns' assets, possibly including their home.”
Citing a new twist in this case, a recent issue of The Boston Globe noted that federal agents “seized more than 30 weapons from the Brown house in May.”
Brown commented by telling AFP, “They stole $15,000 worth of my guns and turned them over to a gun shop.”
Brown was still at home on Jan. 25, preferring only to comment off the record about the situation.
BakedDon
01-29-2007, 07:16 PM
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kiauOMiFFoI&eurl=
Big Business Buys Silence of Toll Road Critical Newspapers
Foreign corporation in desperate lunge to quell massive popular dissent against Trans Texas Corridor & North American Union
Prison Planet | January 29, 2007
Paul Joseph Watson & Alex Jones
A foreign toll road corporation has agreed to buy dozens of newspapers in Texas and Oklahoma that have up until now been harsh critics of the Trans Texas Corridor superhighway, a clear example of racketeering and a desperate lunge to silence dissent against the sellout of American infrastructure and the North American Union.
"Australian toll road giant Macquarie agreed Wednesday to purchase forty local newspapers, primarily in Texas and Oklahoma, for $80 million. Macquarie Bank is Australia's largest capital raising firm and has invested billions in purchasing roads in the US, Canada and UK. Most recently the company joined with Cintra Concesiones of Spain in a controversial 75-year lease of the 157-mile Indiana Toll Road," reports The Newspaper.com .
The Bush administration has embarked on a policy of selling off key U.S. infrastructure to the highest bidder - in most cases foreign owned corporations. The Indiana Toll Road, Virginia's Pocahontas Parkway, a Texas toll road from Austin to Sequin and The Chicago Skyway have all been siphoned off to foreign companies who will all enjoy billions in profits from American citizens forced to pay the tolls, while others will be thrown off their land and have their property revoked without just compensation following the trend of recent eminent domain rulings.
The framework on which the American Union is being pegged is the NAFTA Super Highway (pictured) , a four football-fields-wide leviathan that stretches from southern Mexico through the US up to Montreal Canada. Its construction has already begun in Texas with no congressional oversight whatsoever. The Trans-Texas Corridor is being overseen by The Texas Department of Transportation (TxDOT) and the contract is owned by the Cintra corporation which in turn is owned by the King of Spain Juan Carlos. The project is being financed by the implementation of a toll that will be collected by means of GPS tracking devices installed in all vehicles and also envelops many connecting roads to the highway.
US citizens will be forced to adopt a de-facto national identification card and have their freedom of mobility defined by behavioral fealty to the government under proposals set to derive from NAFTA superhighway toll road systems and the implementation of the North American Union.
Sal Costello, founder of TexasTollParty.com , an organization committed to fighting the implementation of the international toll roads, joined Alex Jones on his nationally syndicated KLBJ show Sunday to discuss Macquarie's buyout of toll road critical newspapers.
"This issue is about a foreign corporation coming in and it's about editorial independence, it's buying these newspapers, dozens of them, and they've had hundreds of stories over the past couple of years slamming the Trans Texas Corridor," said Costello.
"They've been very vocal in educating their communities all over Texas - so you have these newspapers saying there's something wrong here it stinks," said Costello, characterizing the newspaper buyout as an act of desperation on behalf of Macquarie.
"These newspapers have been very vocal and this one corporation comes in and buys them up, buys the whole news group, which is dozens of them, and basically this kills editorial independence."
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Host Alex Jones wondered aloud that if foreign corporations out of Spain and Australia can just wade in and buy up large swathes of newspapers then what would stop a notoriously censorship happy nation like Communist China doing the same? He cited former World Bank economist and Nobel Prize winner Joseph Stiglitz, who stated that the process of foreign corporations buying up U.S. infrastructure and media was part of the globalization endgame, where the America literally goes into receivership to other countries.
"Set aside the fact that they're foreign, that makes it worse, but let's say that they weren't foreign, let's say that the newspapers were trashing for example Kodak for some horrible thing they're doing and Kodak comes in and buys up all the papers, it's still wrong," said Costello, characterizing the process as criminal racketeering.
"It shows how dirty these special interests are but the folks that really pay for this in the long run is us because what they're really doing is they're after our land, they're after our roads and they're after our water."
Costello said that the only reason major newspapers are starting to report on the toll roads and highlighting the extortion tactics being employed to purchase them was because of the noise being made by the smaller media outlets, a chorus of dissent that will now be silenced once Macquarie's purchase is completed.
Jones said that the behavior of the foreign corporations involved was "off the charts" in buying the newspapers when one considers the vast public opposition to international and existing toll roads, which in some polls runs as high as 97 per cent.
He elaborated in saying that the international toll roads were the funding mechanism for the globalization, the North American Union and the destruction of U.S. sovereignty and issued a rallying call for the entire program to be defeated.
"Huge numbers of Texans will have to be moved off their homes, off their farms, off their ranches so that this foreign corporation can come in and profit," remarked Costello.
Visit TexasTollParty.com and find out how you can help oppose the Bush administration's agenda to destroy U.S. sovereignty.
BakedDon
01-29-2007, 07:23 PM
Don't be a poor dumbed down slave...
A sad Hollow existence is sad and Hollow..
BakedDon
01-29-2007, 07:40 PM
Read
BakedDon
01-29-2007, 07:40 PM
Try the 9/11 Commision Report
mathmission
01-30-2007, 09:19 AM
And here we go, start of the next day!
mathmission
01-30-2007, 04:08 PM
QUOTE: "One need only think of the weather, in which case
the prediction even for a few days ahead is impossible."
HINT: Was a German-American theoretical physicist of
Jewish descent.
mathmission
01-30-2007, 04:08 PM
Gumby debuted on 'The Howdy Doody Show' in 1956.
mathmission
01-30-2007, 04:09 PM
The world's deepest subterranean vertical drop is in
Croatia.
mathmission
01-30-2007, 04:09 PM
Guy Fawkes Day is the annual English celebration of a
failed terrorist attack.
mathmission
01-30-2007, 04:09 PM
The saxaphone was first used by symphony orchestras as
early as 1844. Composers such as Debussy, Berlioz,
Strauss, and Bizet created serious classical compositions
for it.
mathmission
01-30-2007, 04:10 PM
On 29 million tons of solid waste generated in 2001, 35.7%
was paper, 12.2% was yard trimmings, 11.4% was food scraps
and 11.1% was plastic.
mathmission
01-30-2007, 04:10 PM
The French math pordigy Evariste Galois wrote down his
polynomial theories the night before he was killed in a
duel, or else the world would never have known about them.
mathmission
01-30-2007, 04:10 PM
QUOTE: "One need only think of the weather, in which case
the prediction even for a few days ahead is impossible."
ANSWER: Albert Einstein
BakedDon
01-30-2007, 06:52 PM
http://video.google.com/googleplayer.swf?docId=209842906347732903&hl=en
They Want Your Soul
BakedDon
01-30-2007, 06:54 PM
FBI turns to broad new wiretap method
By Declan McCullagh, CNET News.com
Published on ZDNet News: January 30, 2007, 4:00 AM PT
The FBI appears to have adopted an invasive Internet surveillance technique that collects far more data on innocent Americans than previously has been disclosed.
Instead of recording only what a particular suspect is doing, agents conducting investigations appear to be assembling the activities of thousands of Internet users at a time into massive databases, according to current and former officials. That database can subsequently be queried for names, e-mail addresses or keywords.
Such a technique is broader and potentially more intrusive than the FBI's Carnivore surveillance system, later renamed DCS1000. It raises concerns similar to those stirred by widespread Internet monitoring that the National Security Agency is said to have done, according to documents that have surfaced in one federal lawsuit, and may stretch the bounds of what's legally permissible.
Call it the vacuum-cleaner approach. It's employed when police have obtained a court order and an Internet service provider can't "isolate the particular person or IP address" because of technical constraints, says Paul Ohm, a former trial attorney at the Justice Department's Computer Crime and Intellectual Property Section. (An Internet Protocol address is a series of digits that can identify an individual computer.)
That kind of full-pipe surveillance can record all Internet traffic, including Web browsing--or, optionally, only certain subsets such as all e-mail messages flowing through the network. Interception typically takes place inside an Internet provider's network at the junction point of a router or network switch.
The technique came to light at the Search & Seizure in the Digital Age symposium held at Stanford University's law school on Friday. Ohm, who is now a law professor at the University of Colorado at Boulder, and Richard Downing, a CCIPS assistant deputy chief, discussed it during the symposium.
In a telephone conversation afterward, Ohm said that full-pipe recording has become federal agents' default method for Internet surveillance. "You collect wherever you can on the (network) segment," he said. "If it happens to be the segment that has a lot of IP addresses, you don't throw away the other IP addresses. You do that after the fact."
"You intercept first and you use whatever filtering, data mining to get at the information about the person you're trying to monitor," he added.
On Monday, a Justice Department representative would not immediately answer questions about this kind of surveillance technique.
"What they're doing is even worse than Carnivore," said Kevin Bankston, a staff attorney at the Electronic Frontier Foundation who attended the Stanford event. "What they're doing is intercepting everyone and then choosing their targets."
BakedDon
01-30-2007, 06:56 PM
NY Times: Bush signs landmark executive order increasing power over federal agencies
Raw Story | January 30, 2007
President George W. Bush has given his administration a boost in how the government regulates key issues such as civil rights and the environment, RAW STORY has learned The New York Times will report on its Tuesday front page.
The President "signed a directive that gives the White House much greater control over the rules that the federal government develops to regulate public health, safety," privacy and other issues, writes Robert Pear for the Times.
Pear reports that "in an executive order published last week in the Federal Register, Bush said that each federal agency must have a regulatory policy office run by a political appointee" who will monitor the creation of process and procedures and the associated documentation.
"The White House will thus have a gatekeeper in each agency," Pear writes, "to analyze the costs and benefits of new rules and to make sure they carry out the president's priorities."
Excerpts from the Times article follow...
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This strengthens the hand of the White House in shaping rules that have, in the past, often been generated by civil servants and scientific experts. It suggests that the administration still has ways to exert its power after the takeover of Congress by the Democrats.
The White House said the executive order was not meant to rein in any one agency. But business executives and consumer advocates said the administration was particularly concerned about rules and guidance issued by the Environmental Protection Agency and the Occupational Safety and Health Administration.
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Business groups welcomed the executive order, saying it had the potential to reduce what they saw as the burden of federal regulations. This burden is of great concern to many groups, including small businesses, that have given strong political and financial backing to Bush.
Consumer, labor and environmental groups denounced the executive order, saying it gave too much control to the White House and would hinder agencies' efforts to protect the public.
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Bush Directive Increases Sway on Regulation
New York Times | January 30, 2007
ROBERT PEAR
WASHINGTON, Jan. 29 — President Bush has signed a directive that gives the White House much greater control over the rules and policy statements that the government develops to protect public health, safety, the environment, civil rights and privacy.
In an executive order published last week in the Federal Register, Mr. Bush said that each agency must have a regulatory policy office run by a political appointee, to supervise the development of rules and documents providing guidance to regulated industries. The White House will thus have a gatekeeper in each agency to analyze the costs and the benefits of new rules and to make sure the agencies carry out the president's priorities.
This strengthens the hand of the White House in shaping rules that have, in the past, often been generated by civil servants and scientific experts. It suggests that the administration still has ways to exert its power after the takeover of Congress by the Democrats.
The White House said the executive order was not meant to rein in any one agency. But business executives and consumer advocates said the administration was particularly concerned about rules and guidance issued by the Environmental Protection Agency and the Occupational Safety and Health Administration .
In an interview on Monday, Jeffrey A. Rosen, general counsel at the White House Office of Management and Budget , said, “This is a classic good-government measure that will make federal agencies more open and accountable.”
Business groups welcomed the executive order, saying it had the potential to reduce what they saw as the burden of federal regulations. This burden is of great concern to many groups, including small businesses, that have given strong political and financial backing to Mr. Bush.
Consumer, labor and environmental groups denounced the executive order, saying it gave too much control to the White House and would hinder agencies' efforts to protect the public.
Typically, agencies issue regulations under authority granted to them in laws enacted by Congress. In many cases, the statute does not say precisely what agencies should do, giving them considerable latitude in interpreting the law and developing regulations.
The directive issued by Mr. Bush says that, in deciding whether to issue regulations, federal agencies must identify “the specific market failure” or problem that justifies government intervention.
Besides placing political appointees in charge of rule making, Mr. Bush said agencies must give the White House an opportunity to review “any significant guidance documents” before they are issued.
The Office of Management and Budget already has an elaborate process for the review of proposed rules. But in recent years, many agencies have circumvented this process by issuing guidance documents, which explain how they will enforce federal laws and contractual requirements.
Peter L. Strauss, a professor at Columbia Law School, said the executive order “achieves a major increase in White House control over domestic government.”
“Having lost control of Congress,” Mr. Strauss said, “the president is doing what he can to increase his control of the executive branch.”
Representative Henry A. Waxman , Democrat of California and chairman of the Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, said: “The executive order allows the political staff at the White House to dictate decisions on health and safety issues, even if the government's own impartial experts disagree. This is a terrible way to govern, but great news for special interests.”
Business groups hailed the initiative.
“This is the most serious attempt by any chief executive to get control over the regulatory process, which spews out thousands of regulations a year,” said William L. Kovacs, a vice president of the United States Chamber of Commerce. “Because of the executive order, regulations will be less onerous and more reasonable. Federal officials will have to pay more attention to the costs imposed on business, state and local governments, and society.”
Under the executive order, each federal agency must estimate “the combined aggregate costs and benefits of all its regulations” each year. Until now, agencies often tallied the costs and the benefits of major rules one by one, without measuring the cumulative effects.
BakedDon
01-30-2007, 06:57 PM
Gary D. Bass, executive director of O.M.B. Watch, a liberal-leaning consumer group that monitors the Office of Management and Budget, criticized Mr. Bush's order, saying, “It will result in more delay and more White House control over the day-to-day work of federal agencies.”
“By requiring agencies to show a ‘market failure,' ” Dr. Bass said, “President Bush has created another hurdle for agencies to clear before they can issue rules protecting public health and safety.”
Wesley P. Warren, program director at the Natural Resources Defense Council , who worked at the White House for seven years under President Bill Clinton , said, “The executive order is a backdoor attempt to prevent E.P.A. from being able to enforce environmental safeguards that keep cancer-causing chemicals and other pollutants out of the air and water.”
Business groups have complained about the proliferation of guidance documents. David W. Beier, a senior vice president of Amgen, the biotechnology company, said Medicare officials had issued such documents “with little or no public input.”
Hugh M. O'Neill, a vice president of the pharmaceutical company Sanofi-Aventis, said guidance documents sometimes undermined or negated the effects of formal regulations.
In theory, guidance documents do not have the force of law. But the White House said the documents needed closer scrutiny because they “can have coercive effects” and “can impose significant costs” on the public. Many guidance documents are made available to regulated industries but not to the public.
Paul R. Noe, who worked on regulatory policy at the White House from 2001 to 2006, said such aberrations would soon end. “In the past, guidance documents were often issued in the dark,” Mr. Noe said. “The executive order will ensure they are issued in the sunshine, with more opportunity for public comment.”
Under the new White House policy, any guidance document expected to have an economic effect of $100 million a year or more must be posted on the Internet, and agencies must invite public comment, except in emergencies in which the White House grants an exemption.
The White House told agencies that in writing guidance documents, they could not impose new legal obligations on anyone and could not use “mandatory language such as ‘shall,' ‘must,' ‘required' or ‘requirement.' ”
The executive order was issued as White House aides were preparing for a battle over the nomination of Susan E. Dudley to be administrator of the Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs at the Office of Management and Budget.
President Bush first nominated Ms. Dudley last August. The nomination died in the Senate, under a barrage of criticism from environmental and consumer groups, which said she had been hostile to government regulation. Mr. Bush nominated her again on Jan. 9.
With Democrats in control, the Senate appears unlikely to confirm Ms. Dudley. But under the Constitution, the president could appoint her while the Senate is in recess, allowing her to serve through next year.
Some of Ms. Dudley's views are reflected in the executive order. In a primer on regulation written in 2005, while she was at the Mercatus Center of George Mason University in Northern Virginia, Ms. Dudley said that government regulation was generally not warranted “in the absence of a significant market failure.”
She did not return calls seeking comment on Monday.
BakedDon
01-30-2007, 06:57 PM
Smoking Is Healthier Than Fascism
Smoking Ban Is About Government Control; Believe it or not, the state really doesn't care about your health
Prison Planet | January 30, 2007
Paul Joseph Watson
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The regulation of the personal habit of smoking, including new legislative moves in San Francisco to ban cigarettes in private homes, and its enforcement by an eager cadre of state snoops and snitches, represents nothing more than a move on behalf of big brother towards the complete subjugation and shackling of the individual. To this end, smoking is healthier than fascism.
Two new developments today have once again brought this issue into focus and the true agenda behind it needs to be exposed.
In France, a nation once noted as being rich in tobacco connoisseurs, 175,000 "cigarette police" have been given the task of randomly snooping around offices, schools, factories and any other "public spaces" in order to sniff out flouters of a new total ban on smoking.
In San Francisco California, a city ordinance described as "the most stringent tobacco regulation in America" would ban smoking everywhere, including private homes and apartments, sparing only large detached family homes - and if they squeeze this one through expect those homes to be targeted next.
This is not a debate about the dangers of passive smoking, we all know smoking is bad for us and those around us. On an individual level, freedom includes the right to do dumb things and whether others should be subject to our vices comes down to two questions, is fascism more unhealthy for a society than passive smoking and does the government really care about your health?
Dare I suggest that western governments raining down depleted uranium in all corners of the world, spraying chemtrails in our skies, playing Dr. Frankenstein with our food, drugging us into oblivion with psychotropic poison pills, shooting x-rays to expose our naked bodies, and injecting us with toxic vaccines really care about our physical well-being?
Do an elite that openly advocate culling the majority of the world's population really want to put a stop to cancer?
The answer is no, so why the transatlantic obsession to have us stub out our cigarettes?
It's all about control, it's all about letting you know who the bosses are. If the government can regulate personal habits and behavior, what's next? If the state is so concerned about our good health as they would have you believe, why not use the latest scientific advancements to remove that nasty aggressive gene that causes so much unhappiness? Well, you're causing those around you distress and harming their health so why not? Are your political opinions a mental illness? Are they harming society? Perhaps we should ban certain types of "free" speech that is offensive to others.
BakedDon
01-30-2007, 07:01 PM
Italy seeks to indict CIA kidnappers
Raw Story
Tuesday, January 30, 2007
According to a new CNN report, a hearing in Milan, Italy today could determine whether a group of CIA agents are indicted for secretly kidnapping a terror suspect from the country and transferring him to Egypt for more aggressive interrogation.
"The kidnapping of Abu Omar was not only a totally illegal act that violated gravely Italian sovereignty, but it also was a damaging and counterproductive act in the fight against terrorism," said one of the prosecutors.
The video can be watched below:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sBZ2H5IkBqw&eurl=
BakedDon
01-30-2007, 07:05 PM
Find out what P20G (http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=p2og&btnG=Google+Search)is and whats being done in the name of freedom
The Proactive Preemptive Operations Group
P2OG would launch secret operations aimed at "stimulating reactions" among
among terrorists and states possessing weapons of mass destruction, meaning it would prod terrorist cells into action,
BakedDon
01-30-2007, 07:06 PM
I have rep power sweet
tiremonkey2000
01-30-2007, 08:36 PM
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Red Hot Chilli Peppers - Dani California
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01-30-2007, 08:40 PM
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