July 12, 2006
New StudyA South American scientist from Argentina , after a lengthy study, has discovered that people with insufficient brain activity read their e-mail with their hand on the mouse.
Don't bother taking it off now, it's too late!
Police arrest cement soccer ball pranksters
7-5-2006 BERLIN - Police in Berlin said on Wednesday they had arrested two men on suspicion of placing cement-filled soccer balls around the city and inviting people to kick them. At least two people injured themselves by kicking the balls, which were chained to lampposts and trees alongside the spray-painted message: "Can you kick it?"
Police said they had identified a 26-year-old and a 29-year-old and had found a workshop in their apartment where they made the balls. The two are accused of causing serious physical injury, dangerous obstruction of traffic and causing injury through negligence, police said. http://reuters.excite.com/article/20060705/2006-07-05T180917Z_01_L04727574_RTRIDST_0_ODD-GERMANY-BALLS-DC.html
Why Worry? (Oil Prices)
Forbes ^ July 24, 2006 Daniel Fisher
...Even with oil's startling surge, from $10 a barrel in 1999 to the $70 range lately, the resulting rise in gasoline prices has had nowhere near the impact of the last oil crisis, back in the early 1980s. Gas was at 7.2% of consumer spending 20 years ago--but it is at only half that rate today (3.7%). As a slice of the U.S. GDP, gasoline is down by a third, to 3%...
...Nor is growth a problem. Industrial production in May was up 4.3% over a year ago, and capacity utilization is at 82%, above the historical average. Corporate profits keep growing despite the oil inflation that was supposed to roil business. Companies in the S&P 500 have racked up a record four years of up earnings and look to increase profits another 12% this year...
One key: This time around oil prices have risen at a slower and more stable pace, says Hillard Huntington, director of the Energy Modeling Forum at Stanford University . In the Arab oil embargo in 1973 prices more than doubled in three months. That spread economic mayhem because makers had to seek new efficiencies even as sales slumped.
"The unexpectedness and the inability of people to adjust quickly caused problems," says Huntington . "And I don't see that happening in this economy."
entire article at http://www.forbes.com/business/forbes/2006/0724/052.html?_requestid=871
WHY BIN LADEN WANTS HOME DELIVERY OF THE NEW YORK TIMES
http://www.deletehillary.com/nytosama.html
http://www.deletehillary.com/hcnytnew.html
I guess Abraham was on to something...
Circumcision may stop millions of HIV deaths-study
Jul 10, 2006 WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Circumcising men routinely across Africa could prevent millions of deaths from AIDS, World Health Organization researchers and colleagues reported on Monday.
They analyzed data from trials that showed men who had been circumcised had a significantly lower risk of infection with the AIDS virus, and calculated that if all men were circumcised over the next 10 years, some two million new infections and around 300,000 deaths could be avoided.
Researchers believe circumcision helps cut infection risk because the foreskin is covered in cells the virus seems able to easily infect. The virus may also survive better in a warm, wet environment like that found beneath a foreskin...
http://today.reuters.com/news/newsarticle.aspx?type=healthNews&storyid=2006-07-11T000623Z_01_N10391567_RTRUKOC_0_US-AIDS-CIRCUMCISION.xml&src=rss&rpc=22
Studies show that rockfish thrive with offshore platforms as their home base (UCSB Professor)
June 29, 2006
( Santa Barbara , Calif. ) While some observers consider offshore oil and gas platforms to be an eyesore on the horizon, new data shows they are performing a critical function for marine life.
For the first time, scientists have documented the importance of oil and gas platforms as critical nursery habitat for some species of rockfishes on the California coast. Two articles documenting the importance of the platforms are published in the current issue of Fisheries Bulletin, with lead authors from the University of California , Santa Barbara . Available on-line at http://fishbull.noaa.gov/, Fisheries Bulletin is a quarterly publication of the U.S. government that is sent out worldwide.
The rockfish species called bocaccio (Sebastes paucipinis), which can live up to 50 years, was, until recently, an economically important rockfish species along the West Coast of North America and was abundant from Oregon to northern Baja California. Overfishing has reduced the stock to less than one-tenth of its former population, according to Milton S. Love, a marine biologist with UCSB's Marine Science Institute (MSI). However, the platforms are helping to restore this species...
...The results showed that, on average, about three-quarters of the young bocaccio settling around Platform Irene would not survive in the absence of the platform...http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2006-06/uoc--sst062806.php
12 Year Old Points Gun at (Armed) Burglars; Group Takes Off (SC)
Fox21 ^ July 10, 2006
An accused group of thugs-- thwarted by a 12-year old with a gun. It happened in Greenville when police say five masked men stormed into a house and started beating up the child's father.
FOX Carolina's Jamie Guirola reports, Try and picture it. A 12 year old walks into the living room, sees his mother frantically protecting the baby, and several strangers attacking his father. The 12 year old rushes out of the living room-- but comes back pointing a gun at the five suspects. As of Monday night-- all but one are in jail.
These are the alleged home invaders without their masks. The youngest barely seventeen, the oldest just 20. George Dickert didn't have time to think about their ages when he tells us they broke into his home and tried to rob his family.
George Dickert/Victim: "F*$# you! That's what I was thinking."
Sunday night, George says, one of the suspects in the group followed him into his house after he smoked a cigarette. He tells us the man pulled out a gun, threatening him. When George reached for a different gun in self-defense a fight broke out.
George: "I work five days a week and my wife works six days a week. We're an honest couple. We do what we have to do to make a living and some idiot decided he wanted what I had."
When the struggle started, police say, two other men came into the house and started beating on George. That's when George's 12 year old made the move credited with scaring the accused thugs out of the house-- and stopping the burglary-- without even firing the gun.'
George: "He did what he had to do to protect his family last night. And a 12 year old child should never have to go through that. Even if he does know what to do, he should not have to do that."
Police later found these four near George's home sweating and breathing heavily. Something George hopes they'll do again if they're convicted and sentenced to the max.
George: "...And I will press and push and do whatever it takes to make sure every individual in it gets it."
Police aren't releasing details about the fifth person they're looking for. George says he has five guns in the house. His taught his son how to use each of them.http://www.fox21.com/Global/story.asp?S=5134073&nav=2KPp2Qjt
87-year-old woman fatally shoots man in her home (IL)
St. Louis Post-Dispatch February 7, 2006 An 87-year-old East St. Louis woman fatally shot a man early this morning as he was trying to break into her house.
Police said they found the man, Larry D. Tillman, 49, of East St. Louis on the enclosed front porch of the woman’s house in the 2100 block of Gaty Avenue . He had pulled the telephone wires from the side of the house, then removed security bars from a porch window.
As the man was breaking through a storm door that leads into the house itself, the woman fired several shots through her front door, striking Tillman once in the chest.http://www.stltoday.com/stltoday/news/stories.nsf/metroeast/story/9DB79EBF400323848625710E006F5E3A?OpenDocument
Madeleine Albright: Now and Then
1. Albright says Iraq war biggest mistake in US history
Arabic News quoting Frankfurter Rundschau ^ 7/5/2006
Former US Secretary of State Madeleine Albright today harshly criticized the Iraq war, calling it the "biggest mistake in US history."
...She called it "fatal" that the Iraq war is seen in the Arab states as an example of a western crusade against Islam....
http://www.arabicnews.com/ansub/Daily/Day/060705/2006070505.html
2. Town Hall Meeting on Iraq at Ohio State University
Madeleine Albright, President Clinton's Secretary of State February 18, 1998
"Iraq is a long way from Ohio, but what happens there matters a great deal here. For the risks that the leaders of a rogue state will use nuclear, chemical or biological weapons against us or our allies is the greatest security threat we face." http://www.fas.org/news/iraq/1998/02/20/98022006_tpo.html
3. The U.S. Will Stand Firm on Iraq , No Matter What
By MADELEINE K. ALBRIGHT President Clinton's Secretary of State
August 17, 1998
...Our assessment will include Saddam's capacity to reconstitute, use or threaten to use weapons of mass destruction. In considering our response, we have ruled nothing out, including the use of force. We have reconfigured our forces in the gulf so that we can react swifly and forcefully when necessary.
In the meantime, Saddam's decision to suspend cooperation with the International Atomic Energy Agency and U.N. special commission violates the agreement he reached with Secretary General Kofi Annan less than six months ago and represents a direct challenge to Security Council authority. This is a confrontation between Iraq and the United Nations. It is therefore up to Mr. Annan and the Security Council to make sure that Saddam reverses course and cooperates with Unscom. And if they fail to persuade him to back down, we will have laid the foundation for taking our own decisive action.
Supporting Unscom is at the heart of our efforts to prevent Saddam Hussein from threatening his neighborhood, and the United States has always been its strongest backer. Because the U.N. special commission has been so effective in disarming Iraq , despite Iraq 's elaborate efforts to hide and lie about its weapons of mass destruction programs, Saddam has sought to discredit the organization. Unfortunately, while this is patently untrue, some in the Security Council have lent support to this effort.
...Unscom has in fact been very effective. It has carried out a range of inspection activities, some of which turned up very serious evidence that Saddam has still not accounted for many undeclared chemical warheads. Other evidence demonstrated that Iraq had weaponized deadly VX gas, directly contradicting Foreign Minister Tariq Aziz's claims to have fully disclosed Iraq 's weapons-of-mass-destruction programs.
...Our purpose now is to get the Security Council to face up to its responsibilities to the U.N. special commission and the International Atomic Energy Agency. These organizations have been clearly mandated by the Council to carry out the necessary measures to disarm Iraq of its weapons of mass destruction and missile delivery systems. If the Council fails to persuade Saddam to resume cooperation, then we will have a free hand to use other means to support Unscom's mandate.
Let's be clear: what Saddam Hussein really wants is to have sanctions lifted while retaining his residual weapons-of-mass-destruction capabilities. We will not allow him to achieve these objectives....
This denies Saddam one of his most urgent objectives: to regain control of Iraq 's revenues so he can reconstitute his ability to threaten his neighbors...
Madeleine K. Albright is the Secretary of State.
http://www.usembassy-amman.org.jo/Alb-York.html
Ronald Reagan was right; we need anti-ballistic missile defense
By Phyllis SchlaflyMonday, July 10, 2006
...This North Korean threat dramatically confirms the need for the anti-missile defense system that President Ronald Reagan called for in his famous nationally televised address of March 23, 1983. At the time Reagan made that landmark speech, our national strategy for dealing with the Soviet nuclear threat was called Mutual Assured Destruction, known by its acronym MAD. ..
...Reagan and most conservatives believed it was, indeed, MAD to continue with a plan that simply threatened the Russians that if they bombed the United States , we would bomb them back and kill millions of Russians. We had no Plan B. Reagan exposed the fallacy in MAD when he posed the crucial question, "Would it not be better to save lives than to avenge them?"
...Sen. Edward M . Kennedy, D-Mass., and the anti-defense claque ridiculed Reagan's plan as Star Wars, but Reagan's vision was accurate and his goal was and is essential. That was the start of our anti-ballistic missile defense, known as the Strategic Defense Initiative, or SDI. We now know that Reagan's determination to build a U.S. anti-missile system, which he staunchly defended at summits in Geneva and Reykjavik , was the fundamental reason he won the Cold War without firing a shot. Mikhail Gorbachev realized the Soviets could not compete with the United States , and that started the collapse of the Soviet empire...
...A functioning ABM system might be even more necessary in the post-Sept. 11 world than in Reagan's world. In 1983, the terrible nukes could be built only by superpowers with a sophisticated technological base, Today we are in an era of rogue nations with irrational dictators and poor man's missiles that can be built and launched relatively inexpensively, and might even be bought from cash-hungry Russians...
http://www.townhall.com/columnists/PhyllisSchlafly/2006/07/10/ronald_reagan_was_right;_we_need_anti-ballistic_missile_defense
David Bennett <><
http://freewill-predestination.com
http://www.knology.net/~lonesomedove
Don't bother taking it off now, it's too late!
Police arrest cement soccer ball pranksters
7-5-2006 BERLIN - Police in Berlin said on Wednesday they had arrested two men on suspicion of placing cement-filled soccer balls around the city and inviting people to kick them. At least two people injured themselves by kicking the balls, which were chained to lampposts and trees alongside the spray-painted message: "Can you kick it?"
Police said they had identified a 26-year-old and a 29-year-old and had found a workshop in their apartment where they made the balls. The two are accused of causing serious physical injury, dangerous obstruction of traffic and causing injury through negligence, police said. http://reuters.excite.com/article/20060705/2006-07-05T180917Z_01_L04727574_RTRIDST_0_ODD-GERMANY-BALLS-DC.html
Why Worry? (Oil Prices)
Forbes ^ July 24, 2006 Daniel Fisher
...Even with oil's startling surge, from $10 a barrel in 1999 to the $70 range lately, the resulting rise in gasoline prices has had nowhere near the impact of the last oil crisis, back in the early 1980s. Gas was at 7.2% of consumer spending 20 years ago--but it is at only half that rate today (3.7%). As a slice of the U.S. GDP, gasoline is down by a third, to 3%...
...Nor is growth a problem. Industrial production in May was up 4.3% over a year ago, and capacity utilization is at 82%, above the historical average. Corporate profits keep growing despite the oil inflation that was supposed to roil business. Companies in the S&P 500 have racked up a record four years of up earnings and look to increase profits another 12% this year...
One key: This time around oil prices have risen at a slower and more stable pace, says Hillard Huntington, director of the Energy Modeling Forum at Stanford University . In the Arab oil embargo in 1973 prices more than doubled in three months. That spread economic mayhem because makers had to seek new efficiencies even as sales slumped.
"The unexpectedness and the inability of people to adjust quickly caused problems," says Huntington . "And I don't see that happening in this economy."
entire article at http://www.forbes.com/business/forbes/2006/0724/052.html?_requestid=871
WHY BIN LADEN WANTS HOME DELIVERY OF THE NEW YORK TIMES
http://www.deletehillary.com/nytosama.html
http://www.deletehillary.com/hcnytnew.html
I guess Abraham was on to something...
Circumcision may stop millions of HIV deaths-study
Jul 10, 2006 WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Circumcising men routinely across Africa could prevent millions of deaths from AIDS, World Health Organization researchers and colleagues reported on Monday.
They analyzed data from trials that showed men who had been circumcised had a significantly lower risk of infection with the AIDS virus, and calculated that if all men were circumcised over the next 10 years, some two million new infections and around 300,000 deaths could be avoided.
Researchers believe circumcision helps cut infection risk because the foreskin is covered in cells the virus seems able to easily infect. The virus may also survive better in a warm, wet environment like that found beneath a foreskin...
http://today.reuters.com/news/newsarticle.aspx?type=healthNews&storyid=2006-07-11T000623Z_01_N10391567_RTRUKOC_0_US-AIDS-CIRCUMCISION.xml&src=rss&rpc=22
Studies show that rockfish thrive with offshore platforms as their home base (UCSB Professor)
June 29, 2006
( Santa Barbara , Calif. ) While some observers consider offshore oil and gas platforms to be an eyesore on the horizon, new data shows they are performing a critical function for marine life.
For the first time, scientists have documented the importance of oil and gas platforms as critical nursery habitat for some species of rockfishes on the California coast. Two articles documenting the importance of the platforms are published in the current issue of Fisheries Bulletin, with lead authors from the University of California , Santa Barbara . Available on-line at http://fishbull.noaa.gov/, Fisheries Bulletin is a quarterly publication of the U.S. government that is sent out worldwide.
The rockfish species called bocaccio (Sebastes paucipinis), which can live up to 50 years, was, until recently, an economically important rockfish species along the West Coast of North America and was abundant from Oregon to northern Baja California. Overfishing has reduced the stock to less than one-tenth of its former population, according to Milton S. Love, a marine biologist with UCSB's Marine Science Institute (MSI). However, the platforms are helping to restore this species...
...The results showed that, on average, about three-quarters of the young bocaccio settling around Platform Irene would not survive in the absence of the platform...http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2006-06/uoc--sst062806.php
12 Year Old Points Gun at (Armed) Burglars; Group Takes Off (SC)
Fox21 ^ July 10, 2006
An accused group of thugs-- thwarted by a 12-year old with a gun. It happened in Greenville when police say five masked men stormed into a house and started beating up the child's father.
FOX Carolina's Jamie Guirola reports, Try and picture it. A 12 year old walks into the living room, sees his mother frantically protecting the baby, and several strangers attacking his father. The 12 year old rushes out of the living room-- but comes back pointing a gun at the five suspects. As of Monday night-- all but one are in jail.
These are the alleged home invaders without their masks. The youngest barely seventeen, the oldest just 20. George Dickert didn't have time to think about their ages when he tells us they broke into his home and tried to rob his family.
George Dickert/Victim: "F*$# you! That's what I was thinking."
Sunday night, George says, one of the suspects in the group followed him into his house after he smoked a cigarette. He tells us the man pulled out a gun, threatening him. When George reached for a different gun in self-defense a fight broke out.
George: "I work five days a week and my wife works six days a week. We're an honest couple. We do what we have to do to make a living and some idiot decided he wanted what I had."
When the struggle started, police say, two other men came into the house and started beating on George. That's when George's 12 year old made the move credited with scaring the accused thugs out of the house-- and stopping the burglary-- without even firing the gun.'
George: "He did what he had to do to protect his family last night. And a 12 year old child should never have to go through that. Even if he does know what to do, he should not have to do that."
Police later found these four near George's home sweating and breathing heavily. Something George hopes they'll do again if they're convicted and sentenced to the max.
George: "...And I will press and push and do whatever it takes to make sure every individual in it gets it."
Police aren't releasing details about the fifth person they're looking for. George says he has five guns in the house. His taught his son how to use each of them.http://www.fox21.com/Global/story.asp?S=5134073&nav=2KPp2Qjt
87-year-old woman fatally shoots man in her home (IL)
St. Louis Post-Dispatch February 7, 2006 An 87-year-old East St. Louis woman fatally shot a man early this morning as he was trying to break into her house.
Police said they found the man, Larry D. Tillman, 49, of East St. Louis on the enclosed front porch of the woman’s house in the 2100 block of Gaty Avenue . He had pulled the telephone wires from the side of the house, then removed security bars from a porch window.
As the man was breaking through a storm door that leads into the house itself, the woman fired several shots through her front door, striking Tillman once in the chest.http://www.stltoday.com/stltoday/news/stories.nsf/metroeast/story/9DB79EBF400323848625710E006F5E3A?OpenDocument
Madeleine Albright: Now and Then
1. Albright says Iraq war biggest mistake in US history
Arabic News quoting Frankfurter Rundschau ^ 7/5/2006
Former US Secretary of State Madeleine Albright today harshly criticized the Iraq war, calling it the "biggest mistake in US history."
...She called it "fatal" that the Iraq war is seen in the Arab states as an example of a western crusade against Islam....
http://www.arabicnews.com/ansub/Daily/Day/060705/2006070505.html
2. Town Hall Meeting on Iraq at Ohio State University
Madeleine Albright, President Clinton's Secretary of State February 18, 1998
"Iraq is a long way from Ohio, but what happens there matters a great deal here. For the risks that the leaders of a rogue state will use nuclear, chemical or biological weapons against us or our allies is the greatest security threat we face." http://www.fas.org/news/iraq/1998/02/20/98022006_tpo.html
3. The U.S. Will Stand Firm on Iraq , No Matter What
By MADELEINE K. ALBRIGHT President Clinton's Secretary of State
August 17, 1998
...Our assessment will include Saddam's capacity to reconstitute, use or threaten to use weapons of mass destruction. In considering our response, we have ruled nothing out, including the use of force. We have reconfigured our forces in the gulf so that we can react swifly and forcefully when necessary.
In the meantime, Saddam's decision to suspend cooperation with the International Atomic Energy Agency and U.N. special commission violates the agreement he reached with Secretary General Kofi Annan less than six months ago and represents a direct challenge to Security Council authority. This is a confrontation between Iraq and the United Nations. It is therefore up to Mr. Annan and the Security Council to make sure that Saddam reverses course and cooperates with Unscom. And if they fail to persuade him to back down, we will have laid the foundation for taking our own decisive action.
Supporting Unscom is at the heart of our efforts to prevent Saddam Hussein from threatening his neighborhood, and the United States has always been its strongest backer. Because the U.N. special commission has been so effective in disarming Iraq , despite Iraq 's elaborate efforts to hide and lie about its weapons of mass destruction programs, Saddam has sought to discredit the organization. Unfortunately, while this is patently untrue, some in the Security Council have lent support to this effort.
...Unscom has in fact been very effective. It has carried out a range of inspection activities, some of which turned up very serious evidence that Saddam has still not accounted for many undeclared chemical warheads. Other evidence demonstrated that Iraq had weaponized deadly VX gas, directly contradicting Foreign Minister Tariq Aziz's claims to have fully disclosed Iraq 's weapons-of-mass-destruction programs.
...Our purpose now is to get the Security Council to face up to its responsibilities to the U.N. special commission and the International Atomic Energy Agency. These organizations have been clearly mandated by the Council to carry out the necessary measures to disarm Iraq of its weapons of mass destruction and missile delivery systems. If the Council fails to persuade Saddam to resume cooperation, then we will have a free hand to use other means to support Unscom's mandate.
Let's be clear: what Saddam Hussein really wants is to have sanctions lifted while retaining his residual weapons-of-mass-destruction capabilities. We will not allow him to achieve these objectives....
This denies Saddam one of his most urgent objectives: to regain control of Iraq 's revenues so he can reconstitute his ability to threaten his neighbors...
Madeleine K. Albright is the Secretary of State.
http://www.usembassy-amman.org.jo/Alb-York.html
Ronald Reagan was right; we need anti-ballistic missile defense
By Phyllis SchlaflyMonday, July 10, 2006
...This North Korean threat dramatically confirms the need for the anti-missile defense system that President Ronald Reagan called for in his famous nationally televised address of March 23, 1983. At the time Reagan made that landmark speech, our national strategy for dealing with the Soviet nuclear threat was called Mutual Assured Destruction, known by its acronym MAD. ..
...Reagan and most conservatives believed it was, indeed, MAD to continue with a plan that simply threatened the Russians that if they bombed the United States , we would bomb them back and kill millions of Russians. We had no Plan B. Reagan exposed the fallacy in MAD when he posed the crucial question, "Would it not be better to save lives than to avenge them?"
...Sen. Edward M . Kennedy, D-Mass., and the anti-defense claque ridiculed Reagan's plan as Star Wars, but Reagan's vision was accurate and his goal was and is essential. That was the start of our anti-ballistic missile defense, known as the Strategic Defense Initiative, or SDI. We now know that Reagan's determination to build a U.S. anti-missile system, which he staunchly defended at summits in Geneva and Reykjavik , was the fundamental reason he won the Cold War without firing a shot. Mikhail Gorbachev realized the Soviets could not compete with the United States , and that started the collapse of the Soviet empire...
...A functioning ABM system might be even more necessary in the post-Sept. 11 world than in Reagan's world. In 1983, the terrible nukes could be built only by superpowers with a sophisticated technological base, Today we are in an era of rogue nations with irrational dictators and poor man's missiles that can be built and launched relatively inexpensively, and might even be bought from cash-hungry Russians...
http://www.townhall.com/columnists/PhyllisSchlafly/2006/07/10/ronald_reagan_was_right;_we_need_anti-ballistic_missile_defense
David Bennett <><
http://freewill-predestination.com
http://www.knology.net/~lonesomedove
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