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- Militarizing the border
- *permanent headline* More die in Iraq
- Libya is normal again
- Rove "optimistic"
- Catholics have no sense of irony
- Merapi ready to go *boom*
- BellSouth avoids while Verizon is
slapped with mega-suit
- Ethanol becoming a reality
- FBI uses reporters' phone records to
spy on them
- Comet 73P is making a show
- 9/11 email
- Purity Balls (a must-read!)
- Gang wars in Brazil
- Saudis warn oil producers that high-
priced oil could doom their industry
- Playstation does more flops than
almost all computers on Earth
why I have been not able to update the page. I go back to Seattle for the Summer on Sunday. Yay, again!
to protect us from janitors, housekeepers, fry cooks and day laborers...
Either that, or he plans on invading Mexico should they try and legalize
drugs again. *shrug*
Excerpt:
President George W. Bush faced strong criticism yesterday over a plan to deploy National
Guard troops to patrol the US border with Mexico.
The move, which Mr Bush was expected to announce in a nationally televised address late last
night, is aimed at appeasing critics who say the administration has done too little to stem the
flow of illegal immigrants into the US.
It comes as the Senate is set to make a renewed push this week to pass wide-ranging
legislation to reform US immigration laws.
Arnold Schwarzenegger, the Republican California governor who presides over a border state
in which illegal immigration is a top issue, suggested at the weekend that National Guard troops
were already overstretched by the war in Iraq. Guard troops should be sent home after serving
in Iraq, instead of being sent to the border, he said.
Bill Richardson, the governor of New Mexico and chairman of the Democratic Governor's
Association, said the administration had not consulted the states directly before making the
decision on deployment.
Another dumbass decision from our dumbass president. I am agreeing with Arnold, there is no way our
National Guard is going to be able to do this and retain soldiers. This is just another manufactured "crisis"
that does not need further militarization.
What we need to focus on is making Mexico an economic power so that we can have an open border from
Canada to Mexico just like the EU has. We need to legalize drugs and use the funds we spend on
enforcement and use them instead on treatment of addicts and improving infrastructure South of the
border. The Drug War should not force millions of out neighbors to live in poverty. We need to get with
the program and try something else because the status quo just isn't working.
spread democray
Excerpt:
The Bush administration announced Monday that it would re-establish full diplomatic ties with
Libya because Libya had abandoned its nuclear and other unconventional weapons programs
and helped in the campaign against terrorism.
The decision ends more than 25 years of hostility while sending a strong signal to Iran and
North Korea to follow suit.
Along with the normalization of relations and the announced intention to open a new embassy
in Tripoli, the administration removed Libya from the list of nations that are state sponsors of
terrorism. The United States had reaffirmed Libya's place on that list as recently as March.
The announcements were a result of Libya's surprise decision in 2003 to renounce terrorism. At
the time, senior American officials said they believed that Col. Muammar el-Qaddafi, the Libyan
leader, had taken that step because he was chastened by the American invasion of Iraq. Since
then, Libya has also destroyed its chemical weapons stockpiles and dismantled a secret
nuclear weapons program.
"Libya is an important model as nations around the world press for changes in behavior by the
Iranian and North Korean regimes," Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice said. Hers was just
one of several similar statements on Monday from senior officials who worked hard to turn
Libya's change in behavior into a lesson for Iran as a resolution on Iran's nuclear development
program remains stalled in the United Nations Security Council.
So far, however, Iran has ridiculed Libya for its reconciliation with the West. But on Monday,
Libya accepted the news enthusiastically and even promised to cooperate with the United
States in at least one area in which it is ill equipped to offer help.
"We encourage America on the path of cooperation and we hope we will cooperate together
through cultural debate to spread democracy around the world together," said Mustapha Zaidi,
who leads Libya's Revolutionary Committees — an apparatus of Colonel Qaddafi's iron-fisted
control of the country.
Groovy, now where is that oil of theirs? When are they going to have elections? Do they get an official
"Coalition of the Willing" designation? I need to make a trip to Northern Africa and the Middle East just so I
can see first hand what these places are like. I hear Tunisia is great for tourists... Beats me.
Do you think this will last and is genuine or do you think Qaddafi has something up his sleeve?
is upbeat about Republican chances in the mid term elections
Excerpt:
Karl Rove, the president's chief political strategist, gave a hint of his strategy for the midterm
elections yesterday when he charged the Democrats with obstructionism on judicial
nominations and national security and predicted Republicans would be "just fine".
In a rare public speech at the American Enterprise Institute, Mr Rove, who last month was
stripped of his oversight of policy to focus on politics and the November election, conceded
there had been corrosive impact on US optimism owing to the Iraq war.
However, he said Republicans would win because they stood for strong national defence,
victory in the "war on terror", tax cuts and fiscal restraint. "Ultimately, the American people are
a centre-right country who, presented with a centre-right party with centre-right candidates,
will vote centre-right."
Yeah, we are sure center right... Karl, the President sits at 29%, congress is at 18%, center-right has
screwed us over. Our economy stinks, we are embroiled in two wars and soon to be a third, the president
is miltarizing the border, the NSA is spying on every single American, Katrina response was a mess, we
have Plamegate, Porter Goss and hookers, Cunningham and hookers and bribes, Frist and AIDS
foundation embezzlement, Jack Abramoff... The list is fifty pages long, Karl. If the American people truly
are center-right and re-elect these people then America truly is a lost cause because our empire has failed.
At least when Rome fell they had lead plumbing to blame it on...
has commercial success in mind
Here.
Excerpt:
An influential cardinal said Monday that The Da Vinci Code was a challenge to the heart of the
Catholic faith and that its commercial success was an indication of hatred in the world.
Cardinal Camillo Ruini, a close papal adviser and president of the Italian bishops' conference,
issued a direct denunciation of "The Da Vinci Code" a few days before the film based on the
best-selling Dan Brown novel is released around the world.
Ruini told the bishops' conference general assembly that The Da Vinci Code had as its primary
goal commercial success. But he said it also constituted a "radical and completely unfounded
challenge to the heart itself of our faith, beginning with the cross of the Lord."
"It is difficult to escape the sensation that the great success of works like The Da Vinci Code
have more to do with that hatred, or that failure of love for oneself ... that is insinuated in our
civilisation," he said.
Nevertheless, he said, the film's release offered the church the opportunity to teach the truth
about Jesus and the origins of Catholicism, and distinguish the truth from the "fantasy and
falsifications" presented in the book.
So a fictional book written about a fiction-based religion is bad because all they want to do is make money,
but said fiction-based church, a church that has for centuries required indulgences and seemed to exist for
nothing more than to make money is good?
The only books written by people who claimed to have known Jesus were left out of the Bible of the
Catholic Church leaving only those books written by people a hundred years after his supposed death are
what you base your religion on, Mr. Cardinal. If you ignore the Apocrypha in your teachings then you have
no right in pointing fingers at Dan Brown.
leave flanks of erupting Mt. Merapi in Indonesia
superheated steam that kills faster than you can take a
breath and razor-sharp glass particles travelling some 700 or
so MPH. You want to evacuate. Harry Truman refused to
acknowledge that St. Helens was a threat and he's now a
quarter mile under the surface. (Remember, geology is one
of my fields of study)
Excerpt:
Mount Merapi erupted violently Monday, sending searing gas clouds and burning rocks down
its scorched flanks and threatening villagers who refused to leave because of ancient mystical
beliefs.
The activity triggered renewed panic and fresh evacuations of some closest to the crater, but
others ignored urgent warnings to leave.
The volcano in the heart of densely populated Java Island had been rumbling for weeks,
spewing ash high into the air and pushing lava to the surface, where it has formed a large
unstable dome.
On Saturday, authorities declared the highest danger alert, triggering mandatory evacuations
for some 4,500 residents.
A sharp increase in activity Monday saw near hourly surges of clouds containing volcanic gas,
rock fragments and other debris that tumbled as far as 2.5 miles down the mountain's western
slopes — twice as far as a day earlier, volcanologists said.
That mountain has the potential to make a fatality zone perhaps 100+ square miles in size. I would
assume that a zone at least 12 to 15 miles in radius be cleared. Those refusing to leave that are still on
the slopes are as good as dead.
spy on the America people
Excerpt:
BellSouth Corp. said Monday its "thorough review" found no indication it gave telephone
records to the National Security Agency as part of a federal anti-terrorism surveillance program.
A report last week by USA Today identified BellSouth, along with AT&T Inc. and Verizon
Communications Inc., as companies that had complied with an NSA request to turn over tens of
millions of customer phone records after the 2001 terror attacks.
"Based on our review to date, we have confirmed no such contract exists and we have not
provided bulk customer calling records to the NSA," the Atlanta-based regional Bell said in a
statement.
They say this because...
customer information to NSA for the purpose of monitoring US citizens
Excerpt:
A lawsuit is asking a federal court to order President Bush, the National Security Agency and
Verizon to end a secret snooping program, and Verizon's stock took a hit on the news Monday.
Verizon (down $0.36 to $31.43, Research) stock fell more than 1 percent on the New York Stock
Exchange early Monday.
The suit, filed Friday by two New Jersey lawyers on behalf of all Verizon subscribers, contends
the phone records collection - first reported by USA Today on Thursday - violates the
Constitutional right to privacy and federal law.
As a part of the snooping program, the government reportedly collects information every time a
call is made on a Verizon phone line.
"The Telecommunications Act of 1934 is as clear as clear can be," plaintiff Carl Mayer said. "You
can't turn over the records of your customers and if you do so it's $1,000 per violation. The
Constitution is very clear. The Supreme Court has consistently held that the Fourth Amendment
prevents unlawful searches and seizures which we believe this to be."
At $1,000 for each of Verizon's 50 million customers, the company and government could be
made to pay $50 billion dollars in a class action suit, Mayer said. Verizon Communications said
Friday that it could not confirm or deny whether it has provided phone records to the National
Security Agency, but the company insisted it protects customer privacy and would never
participate in a government "fishing expedition."
Thursday, USA Today reported that Verizon, AT&T (Research) and BellSouth (Research) have
provided the NSA with records of billions of domestic phone calls since shortly after the Sept.
11, 2001, terrorist attacks.
Can you blame BellSouth for not wanting in on a lawsuit that is worth tens of billions of dollars? I wonder if
myself and my roommates are eligible for our $1,000?
example and become a leader in ethanol production, consumption
Excerpt:
Congress and U.S. sugar producers, eyeing Brazil's success in making sugar-cane ethanol its
main source of auto fuel, are looking hard at the possibility of ramping up production here.
"Why would American sugar cane and beets not be as usable for Americans as Brazilian sugar
has been?" Sen. Richard Lugar, R-Ind., asked Wednesday at a Senate Agriculture Committee
hearing on U.S. sugar policy.
Senators from both parties followed the lead of the panel's chairman, Sen. Saxby Chambliss,
R-Ga., in using the hearing to express interest in investigating sugar ethanol programs.
Chambliss said a look at producing ethanol will be a key part of any future sugar policy. "This is
going to be a critical part of the farm bill next year," he said.
Congress members from Florida, the top cane-growing state, have long been active in
promoting the idea of ethanol from sugar.
Sen. Bill Nelson, D-Fla., noted during the debate on last year's energy bill that "sugar cane
stalks... produce almost twice as much ethanol per acre as corn." He tried but failed to get the
Senate to require 100 million gallons of sugar-based ethanol as part of the overall ethanol
motor vehicle program.
Already, sugar producers in Hawaii say they are so certain that they can make a profit producing
ethanol that they are moving ahead with plans to build the nation's first plant for making
ethanol from sugar cane. Hawaii, along with leading sugar beet producers Montana and
Minnesota, already has followed Brazil's lead by mandating that an ethanol fuel blend be
available at every fuel station in the state.
It is very realistic that Hawaii could be 100% ethanol dependent in 10 years. Hawaii was once the largest
producer of sugar in the world. We have hundreds of thousands of acres of sugarcane that isn't being
used for anything. The last sugar mill on the Big Island shut down in 1997 and Hilo still has 25%
unemployment and the worst meth addicts in America as a result of it.
Anything to take Hawaii off of petroleum while getting people back to work has my vote. Hawaii could also
become a major ethanol exporter as a result of this. I need to get some cash together so I can buy up all
this cheap-ass farmland that is going to waste. Ethanol, clear gold, baby!
their sources are
Excerpt:
The FBI acknowledged late Monday that it is increasingly seeking reporters' phone records in
leak investigations.
"It used to be very hard and complicated to do this, but it no longer is in the Bush
administration," said a senior federal official.
The acknowledgement followed our blotter item that ABC News reporters had been warned by a
federal source that the government knew who we were calling.
The official said our blotter item was wrong to suggest that ABC News phone calls were being
"tracked."
"Think of it more as backtracking," said a senior federal official.
But FBI officials did not deny that phone records of ABC News, the New York Times and the
Washington Post had been sought as part of a investigation of leaks at the CIA.
In a statement, the FBI press office said its leak investigations begin with the examination of
government phone records.
"The FBI will take logical investigative steps to determine if a criminal act was committed by a
government employee by the unauthorized release of classified information," the statement
said.
Good thing the government has to get court orders before acquiring phone records... Oh wait, never
mind. We're screwed.
73P/Schwassmann-Wachmann 3 juxtaposed against M57,
the Ring Nebula. Pretty, ain't it?
Excerpt:
Comet 73P is continuing its glorious disintegration as it flies by Earth – the comet is now in at
least 58 visible pieces.
Between 14 May and 17 May, the closest piece of the comet will fly to within 12 million
kilometres of Earth. This is closer than any comet has come to the planet in 20 years.
Amateur observers should be able to see the brightest sections of the comet – full name Comet
73P/Schwassmann-Wachmann 3 – near the constellation Cygnus with a small telescope or a pair
of binoculars.
The Subaru Telescope in Hawaii observed at least 13 pieces that had broken off the large piece
known as Fragment B. Those mini-comets were only tens of kilometres across and astronomers
expect them to disappear from sight quickly.
The nucleus of the comet broke into three large pieces in 1995 as it passed near the Sun. At the
time, astronomers saw the comet brighten by 1000 times. Although astronomers are not certain
what happened, the outer crust of the comet may have broken under the heat from the Sun.
This crack may have allowed the comet to fragment and ice from the interior to sublimate
brightly.
Earth will pass through the fringes of the comet's trail, producing a very small meteor shower
from 19 May to 19 June. The celestial show may be better in 2022, when Earth is expected to
make a more direct pass through the debris trail.
Coooooooool!
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same time. Thank you.
“I mean, how did a guy like Bush and his cronies pull off something like that and yet have
bungled every other challenge or decision that has come along. If they were so smart and
meticulous Iraq, Afghanistan and Katrina wouldn't have been the complete fuck-ups that they
are.”
The trouble is, Bush and his cronies didn’t pull it off. Only a fear-flummoxed media could
persuade itself and the nation that what happened on 911 in New York was anything other than
the controlled demolition of three buildings, and at the Pentagon anything other than a radio-
controlled craft hitting the building. Very few people elsewhere in the world are so easily
fooled. The Achilles heel to this Wag the Dog? There are two of them: the collapse of WTC 7,
and the impounding of videos of whatever went into the Pentagon. Regarding the former, it will
only take another generation of engineers to question what happened and think the
unthinkable. As for the Pentagon, the cover story won’t survive one more generation of
appachiks there. Good luck holding onto the picture you have of things!
Luv –
Mark
Mark, sorry it has been so long since you wrote for me to respond, school just hasn't been so time-
permitting for me of late. I would have to again deny that explosives were placed inside the structures of
any of the WTC buildings on account that it would be entirely too redundant as well as strategically
improbably.
I don't know how much of my 9/11 related pages you have read but I have this little equation I like to throw
out there for those that are convinced explosives were used in the towers as well as building 7:
If a 3 billion Joule collision of a passenger jet combined with a 500 billion Joule explosion of fuel from the jet
can't get one of the floors of the WTC towers to collapse how are explosives supposed to do it? You are
going to need more than a 500 billion Joule explosion to get it done then, right? Double it, say a trillion
Joules? One Trillion Joules = about 1 kiloton of TNT. Is that good enough for you?
"Loose Change", a popular film among the conspiracy theorists, claims that there were explosions evenly
spaced every ten floors throughout both buildings. OK, lets put 1 kiloton of TNT every ten floors
throughout both buildings from the 70th floor on down...
70 floors x 2 buildings = 140 floors
140 floors / 10 floor increments = 14 bombs
14 bombs = 14 kilotons of TNT
14 kilotons of TNT = 14000 tons
14000 tons= 14000 x 2000lbs(1 ton) = 28 million pounds of TNT.
How the hell do you get 14 million pounds of TNT into a building without anyone noticing?!? Especially
that of the bomb-sniffing dogs that had been a permanent fixture of the WTC since the 1993 terrorist
attack?
You do realize that 14 kilotons is about the same power as the Little Boy, the atom bomb that was dropped
on Hiroshima?
The noise from such explosions would deafen people for miles and yet none of any such explosions can
be heard in any video and audio recordings of the event,
Building 7 had been heavilly damaged by debris from the collapse of the two towers and burned
uncontrolled for 7 or so hours. Fire fighters on the scene even said the building was going to go as the
entire South-side of the building was beginning to bulge from loss of vertical supports.
As far as the Pentagon is concerned; how anyone can deny that a passenger jet slammed into that
structure is beyond me. There is ample evidence as well as accounts from thousands of eye witnesses
that confirm this. Because a few people claimed they heard "missiles", not saw, heard, this means that a
jet wasn't involved? Missiles have exactly the same engines as used on a passenger airliner so how would
it sound any different?
I cannot offer anything concerning the "seized" videos but I wouldn't doubt if any such videos were seized
that they re lying in wait like the Flight 93 voice recorder was.
Well, all of this lets me bring up my big announcement. I am soon to have 911physics.houstonwade.com
finished soon. There will be links to articles, and my own math and physics analysis of the events of 9/11
there for anyone to reference. The goal is to produce enough information to claim my $1 million from
these jackasses. I will probably have it all done in a month or so. I will see you there.
thinner
Excerpt:
A man taking a break from painting burned down his house after trying to snuff out a cigarette
in a bowl of paint thinner.
Stevie Spencer had put the bowl on his coffee table before taking a smoke break about 10 p.m.
Saturday.
"I forgot paint thinner was in the bowl," Spencer said. "I thought it was water."
The fire from the paint thinner ignited some papers, Spencer said. He got his wife out of the
house, then tried to extinguish the flames with a hose. Spencer suffered minor injuries.
Fire Chief Jay Flynn said the house was too far gone to save it when firefighters arrived.
eating it in front of spectators at zoo
Excerpt:
Bears killed and ate a monkey in a Dutch zoo in front of horrified visitors, witnesses and the
zoo said Monday.
In the incident Sunday at the Beekse Bergen Safari Park, several Sloth bears chased the
Barbary macaque into an electric fence, where it was stunned. It recovered and fled onto a
wooden structure, where one bear pursued and mauled it to death.
The park confirmed the killing in a statement, saying: "In an area where Sloth bears, great apes
and Barbary macaques have coexisted peacefully for a long time, the harmony was temporarily
disturbed during opening hours on Sunday.
Wow, that is the coolest PR response I have ever read. When I later rule the world that guy is going to be
my spokesman.
Purity Balls
are using phone records of reporters to track down leakers...
Hopefully he didn't do this over the phone.
Excerpt:
A senior federal law enforcement official tells ABC News the government is tracking the phone
numbers we (Brian Ross and Richard Esposito) call in an effort to root out confidential sources.
"It's time for you to get some new cell phones, quick," the source told us in an in-person
conversation.
ABC News does not know how the government determined who we are calling, or whether our
phone records were provided to the government as part of the recently-disclosed NSA
collection of domestic phone calls.
Other sources have told us that phone calls and contacts by reporters for ABC News, along
with the New York Times and the Washington Post, are being examined as part of a widespread
CIA leak investigation.
It's official we now live in East Germany. When do we start slipping steroids into the water of the women's
swim team?
Excerpt:
Four days of unprecedented gang attacks has left 81 people dead in 184 attacks in South
America's largest city.
''We're at war with them, there will be more casualties, but we won't back down,'' state military
police Chief Colonel Elizeu Teixeira Borges said.
Twenty-one new killings were reported Monday, the state government of Sao Paulo said,
putting the death toll at 81: 39 police officers and prison guards, 38 suspected gang members.
The Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva offered to send 4,000 elite troops to restore
order, but Sao Paulo state Gov. Claudio Lembo insisted the help wasn't needed.
Meanwhile, the chaos prompted the stock market to cancel late trading and a city that never
sleeps was eerily quiet at the start of the work week in Brazil's financial and industrial heart.
Brazil is the only industrialized nation that has more murders than the good ol' US of A. Looks like they are
trying to keep it that way.
force industrialized nations to look elsewhere for energy needs
(basically, "we need to make it cheap and fast")
Excerpt:
Saudi Arabia's oil minister is warning Arab producers not to expect continued growth in prices
and demand for oil.
Ali al-Naimi, speaking in Jordan, said prices could plummet if an economic crisis drives
industrialized nations to find other sources of energy.
He cited the 1980s, when oil prices dropped by 80 percent, and the Asian economic crisis of the
late '90s when oil prices fell by 50 percent.
The minister spoke of concerns over "economic protectionism" and "economic nationalism."
Crude futures dipped toward $72 a barrel Friday, but still prices are about 48 percent higher
than a year ago.
Well, duh. Exxon and others are going to price themselves out of business if they don't watch out. If the
US does switch to ethanol what the hell is big-oil going to do? Sure they might still have India and China
but the US has the money to pay for 25% of the total consumption of resources, they may never be able to
claim such a thing.
Here.
Excerpt:
One staggering example of what the future might have in store for us all is the sheer power of
the PlayStation 3 console, which is scheduled for release in November, about a year after its
biggest competitor, Microsoft's Xbox 360, was launched. The PlayStation 3 will be able to
support incredibly sophisticated graphics thanks to its Cell processor.
The Cell chip can reach a processing-performance level of 16 teraflops, or 16 trillion
calculations per second. In contrast, a general-purpose PC typically has a rating of only a few
billion operations per second.
The PlayStation's Cell is not a general-purpose processor because it is specifically optimized
for graphics, which means it cannot be compared directly to, say, Intel's Pentium. But if the
teraflop rating were the only measure of system performance, the Cell chip would place the
PlayStation 3 in the ranks of the top 100 fastest supercomputers on the planet.
I hear that Pepperdine was building a super computer with something like 9,000 Cell chips in it. Does
anyone know if I have the right school?
on the 911physics page for a while though.
Thank You.