Saturday, June 30, 2001
US consumers remain unfazed by flagging economy maybe because you keep telling them that prosperity is just around the corner
Judge's Media Interviews Crossed Line, Court Says if the capitalist defendent is caught red handed, blow the case by talking to the press
9 in 10 children have a mobile phone set your microwave to child
Current changes could cool UK if the gulf stream reroutes or disappears, cool is an understatement
Climate treaty gulf yawns wide now theyre aiming for 5 percent below 1990 levels. get a steel umbrella
Friday, June 29, 2001
Prudential, CSFB Tell What Their Analysts Own if only senators did
Thursday, June 28, 2001
One big happy channel? free speech?
Big pay-offs to executives have irritated shareholders. layoffs for workers, payoffs for executives
Missile defense major winner in Pentagon budget: We want to see what works, what doesn't work well fine, just spend all my money without asking me. at least you sold it to the europeans.
China, N. Korea hit with sanctions -- The Washington Times The right wing moonie paper moves the right wing mind another step towards war with China
Wednesday, June 27, 2001
Energy stocks' momentum slowing because their price fixing scams are busted
Bush has given the cream of his administration's jobs mostly to middle-aged, married, white males with government backgrounds you'd never know it looking at whose around him every time he gets on camera
Energy stocks' momentum slowing because their price fixing plot is busted
Cheney Refuses Order for Energy Plan Secrets More of the right wing returning "integrity" to the federal government.
Harris slams civil rights report The right wing bias of this moonie owned paper doesn't even attempt subtlety
Tuesday, June 26, 2001
Merrill Shortfall Signals Slow Wall Street Recovery Assuming a recovery as they always do. Can't say they didn't warn you.
Cheney Refuses Order for Energy Plan Secrets I ask you. Did Clinton/Gore ever rise to this level of "integrity" in 8 years? These pigs haven't been in for a year yet. So far it's Cheney, Rove and O'Neill. Whose next? Will anybody ever get to Bush's SEC violations?
NAFTA Has Hurt Farmers: "If you reduce world trade barriers by a third, the world economy will grow by $600 billion," said Jim Dyke, spokesman for Commerce Secretary Donald Evans. But there's room in the Swiss bank accounts of 600 capitalists.
Yeti Hair Defies DNA Analysis ok, I admit I believe this one.
Bush Could Intervene in Labor Talks gee, on which side?
Monday, June 25, 2001
New TWA 800 Video Leaves Pilots In 'Stunned Horror' details, particularly from angry TWA pilots, about the money trail and the inexplicable Pentagon visits of then TWA CEO Jeff Erickson. Said one TWA pilot. "90 percent of us believe there was a government cover-up."
Spymaster Montesinos captured, returned to Peru I guess he wrapped up his laundering business
A deadly batch of contaminated drugs circulating at an all-night rave yesterday killed a teenager and left two others critically ill. but if you have to contaminate it to make people sick, why is it illegal?
Us Cows: Sacred Or Mad? With 100 million head of cattle--and
the highest per-capita consumption of beef outside of Argentina--America could soon be revealed as the planet's biggest mad-cow sanctuary.
the highest per-capita consumption of beef outside of Argentina--America could soon be revealed as the planet's biggest mad-cow sanctuary.
WTO rules U.S. export tax credit illegal capitalist domestic dispute
Paper Says Cheney's Firm Had Greater Iraq Dealings Than He Admitted You don't mean he exaGorated?
Sunday, June 24, 2001
Pacific Remains Locked in Three-Year-Old Pattern The ten year oscillation meets the periodic el nino, but is it a normal cyclic pattern, or an unprecedented climate change?
Saturday, June 23, 2001
House rebuffs White House on Fla. drilling I'll believe it when I see it
U.S. May Demand More SUV Miles Per Gallon I'll believe it when I see it
E.P.A. to Issue Air Rules to Protect Park Vistas I'll believe it when I see it
Senator attacks 'protectionist' EU over GE deal while they protect their steel industry
Three say company purposely cut power aint these capitalists clever?
Miami knowingly lied to investors that it was operating under a balanced budget for 1995. City officials also lied in telling investors there had been no significant change in Miami's fiscal health since its last financial reports in 1994. looks like ballots aint the only thing they cant count in florida
Friday, June 22, 2001
Sara Lee pleads guilty in tainted meat case when a corporation kills fifteen people it's a misdemeanor
Another Microsoft trial? they're concerned about Microsoft's plans for its Windows XP operating system as well as its new Internet-centric business strategy, which they described as "troubling."
Genetically modified canola becoming a weed that didn't take long
Thursday, June 21, 2001
Rambus guilty of fraud - May 9, 2001 company failed to disclose that it had applied for patents on certain memory-chip design elements even while it was participating in drafting a standard that employed them
US Senators lash out at EU while they protect their own steel industry, they bitch about European protectionism
Wednesday, June 20, 2001
Japan Puts Pressure On Brussels To Keep BSE Warning Under Wraps What you don't know will hurt you.
May Was Worst Month in at Least Two Decades May was the worst revenue month for major airlines in at least two decades Great. This should drive the Dow Jones up a few percent.
Taiwan Test-Fires Patriot Missiles War with China coming? Unprecedented casualties?
Walt Disney Studios chairman Peter Schneider stepped down today after a year and a half in the post. The move follows the poorer than expected performance of the company's two summer tentpole movies, Pearl Harbor, which has grossed $162.7 million to date, and Atlantis, which opened wide Friday to $20.3 million Has America finally found its crap movie limit?
Blackout Forecasts' Dark Side A new report by the United Seniors Assn. predicts that more than half a million elderly Californians could need hospitalization for heat-related ailments this summer.
Rand Report Warns Of Conflict With China Karl says that the only way they can get out of the coming global depression is war, and China is looking ripe for invasion. There's already a couple of hundred million people there with insufficient water and the north is turning into a desert. The global market can't sustain this kind of situation.
Tuesday, June 19, 2001
Fewer companies are controlling more information, dictating an ever-increasing amount of what the world reads, hears, and sees more from "mercedes divide" powell
Ford Motor Co. is replacing Firestone tires with other brands that fail more often those capitalists are always thinking
Companies charged in Internet pyramid scheme the nasdaq pyramid?
Cheney Spurns GAO Request Ah voted publican to restore integritee to the govment
Scientists urge large test of storing carbon dioxide in ocean Dissolved carbon dioxide could slightly increase the acidity of the water, they found, and an experiment would show whether that injured fish and other life forms.
US Now Says 203 Deaths Linked To Firestone Tires the explorer buzzes past mcveigh and is gaining on aliwali
Norton tabs Pearce, Toohey "This is a love fest for the oil industry...Clearly (Norton's) main priority is to help the oil industry."
the plum legal jobs in the Bush administration are going to attorneys who pursued scandal allegations against the Clinton administration or served on the GOP legal team in the Florida recount did they start counting their new salaries before or after counting ballots?
Monday, June 18, 2001
Lott wants GOP to "fix" patients' bill of rights like they fixed welfare; like they're gonna fix public education; like I fixed my cat
Bush confident in Rove's ethics Where's the televised hearings?
Bush Energy Foe Sen. Boxer Invested In Cheney's Company You can't serve two masters
US Army Operated Secretly in Congo Surprise!
American Taxpayers Alliance TV Ads to Attack Calif. Gov. Davis on Energy hundreds of corporations have contributed money to the anti-Davis effort, including Reliant Energy, the Houston-based company Davis singled out for criticism last month for alleged price-gouging. Why do corporations have to hide themselves under the title "American Taxpayers?"
The SEC is investigating whether four companies misled investors about alternative presentations that make profits look better by excluding some costs Let's hope they do a better job than they did on Bush
Tulsa Co. Made SoCal Energy Plants Cut Output - Result: $1 Billion In Profits Thank God capitalism still lives in America
FCC Chairman Michael Powell Is Making Waves When asked about the digital divide he said: "I think there's a Mercedes divide. I'd like one, but I can't afford it." Oh can't he?
ScienceDaily Magazine -- Global Warming Natural, May End Within 20 Years, Says Ohio State University Researcher "viewpoint" article in the current issue of the journal Chemical Innovation, published by the American Chemical Society.
Sunday, June 17, 2001
Saturday, June 16, 2001
US 'planned nuclear first strike on Russia' Maybe the Russians have a reason to be suspicious
Ethics of Key Bush Officials Targeted Will Republican ethics ever be as well known as Monica?
Friday, June 15, 2001
Thursday, June 14, 2001
More And More Strep Infections Resistant To Drugs With the exception of what happened with staphylococcus aureus and penicillin resistance in the early 1940s, what's happened with antibiotic resistance to S. pneumoniae in the US in the last decade is without precedent
Did Karl Rove violate ethics laws? more republicans restoring integrity to the government
Several hundred demonstrators gathered outside the gates to jeer and wave placards proclaiming “Save the Climate, Stop Star Wars” and “Death Penalty Equals Murder” and he's not even their president. he has to sell them missile defense when they aren't the ones who have to buy it
Wednesday, June 13, 2001
Energy Execs Gain Millions in Stock Sales What's the difference between profiteering and capitalism anyway?
Traders in the cash and futures markets expect the Federal Reserve will lower its target interest rate to 3.5 percent by August, a level not seen since April 1994 be nice to the rates you meet on the way up
FERC Likely to Expand Power Price Controls time to close the barn door
More Bush admin conflicts of interests If this were the Clinton administration and it was somebody who worked for Hillary or Bill, then Karl Rove himself would be denouncing it in the loudest terms possible
'Ali' Extras Feel Sucker-Punched 100 million dollar movie promised money to Mozambiquan extras which was not forthcoming
What about retarded criminals? If they're dumber than the jury, they're still smarter than the president
Top tech salaries down for first time since 1985 37%. Academia don't look quite so bad anymore.
Working poor won't get tax rebate checks More breaking news about the tax plan
GOP weighs creating House seat for North -- The Washington Times This paper, now owned by the Moonies, refers to North as a hero to many and seems unaware of any legal problems he may have had.
Tuesday, June 12, 2001
US economy faces hard landing congratulations
Monday, June 11, 2001
Holes found in foster care files we shall leave no child behind (if we can find their records)
The Works feature he watched as $4m was wiped off the value of his share options when the share price of his fledgling company, that sells software for managing customer relationships, fell from $100 to around $2. Even his 401K, the private retirement vehicle that has largely replaced company pensions, lost some 40 per cent of its value.
Mines near Grand Canyon? Some say it's likely if Bush gets his way you think it's grand now?
California Appellate Justice Conflicted in Oil Class Action owned both stock and bonds in defendant Exxon while the case was pending
The two online ventures were launched in April to sell music downloads from the internet to customers. MusicNet involves AOL Time Warner, Bertelsmann and EMI, with technology provided by RealNetworks, the US software group. Duet combines Vivendi Universal with Sony to offer music through Yahoo!, the leading web portal. The Commission said it was investigating whether the deals involved anti-competitive agreements between the companies. The same pig corporations pissing and moaning about Napster
California Paying Hundreds of Millions Over Market for Power Williams hires expert traders and ``has made a significant investmentin technology and modeling,'' company spokeswoman Paula Hall-Collins said. ``If the state doesn't have those types of investments, it's unlikely they would be able to trade as effectively.''
The world’s largest mobile telephone manufacturers have been patenting devices to reduce the risk of brain tumours among users while rejecting claims of any health hazards. I'd like to microwave your brain but I can't get close enough. You mind holding this?
Turner Blasts Bush on Environment Another rich guy surprised at capitalism
Bush expands global warming research We're going to study the issue as soon as we bail out the Houston labs
The plague abettors As a result of the obstruction of testing, reporting, contact tracing and infection-site closing by gay leaders and their allies in the Democratic Parties that controlled these cities, public health officials could not warn communities in the path of the epidemic -- in fact, were not able to find out what that path was. As a result by the end of the first decade of AIDS, Hispanics were 14 percent of those infected and blacks were 26 percent. A decade later Hispanics were 19 percent of those infected and blacks an astounding 45 percent.
Recovering Earth Book says ecosystem is recovering, but 1)admits global warming 2)says "only" 15% of rain forest gone (how long until 50%?) 3)says acid rain did not destroy forests as predicted in the 80's, but does kill lake life. I guess we'll see.
Sunday, June 10, 2001
More Rain Forecast for Flooded Texas "It's bad, it is a disaster," Brown said late Saturday after touring the city by helicopter. "We do have a real problem."
Saturday, June 09, 2001
In a Shift, White House Cites Global Warming as a Problem but gave little clue as to what it intended to do about it.
Friday, June 08, 2001
1,000 Due Pink Slips at Disneym...i...c ya!
Honeywell International Inc. shares fell 4.6 percent, the largest drop in two months, on concern demands from European antitrust regulators may derail the company's takeover by General Electric Co. Silly Europeans still think mammoth transnational monopolies are dangerous
Panel rejects Bush plan on endangered species: House Republicans shot down a proposal restricting the ability of environmental groups to get plants and animals added to the endangered species list. Nothing strange here. Republicans always support protection measures.
Sony reprimands two ad execs for bogus blurbs reprimand for fraud?
Thursday, June 07, 2001
Wednesday, June 06, 2001
House Democrats urge Dan Burton to investigate Dick Cheney's energy task force which met privately with major Republican donors in formulating the Bush administration's energy policy
House Dems attack campaign reform measure Farr is not happy with McCain-Feingold. Raising the hard money limit to $2,000 and providing millionaires’ loopholes are all unreform actions and not reform.
Doctors Flee Zimbabwe As AIDS Crisis Widens Doctors in government service typically earn $550 to $1,100 a month in Zimbabwe, and nurses from $350 to $500
Tuesday, June 05, 2001
Oil firms: Excessive profits? They probably don't think so
NY Birds Dying By The Hundreds - But NOT From West Nilepost- mortems on up to 250 birds a day have uncovered a surprise: More birds are dying of pesticides, herbicides and lead.
Monday, June 04, 2001
Indochina likely to be first in primate extinction Guess who's last?
Sunoco expects to beat 2Q estimates but ask them why their gas costs $2 a gallon and they'll point you to the greedy environmentalists
Argentina swaps $29bn in bonds Essentially, the deal amounts to an enormous bet. If Argentina is able to restart its economy, it will be viewed in years to come as a price worth paying; if not it will be seen as an extremely expensive way to postpone the inevitable.
Sunday, June 03, 2001
Mugabe's Men On The Run From Witchcraft We fear the hand of Lucifer is at work
The Reviewer Who Wasn’t There
David Manning of The Ridgefield Press
is one of Columbia Pictures’ most reliable
reviewers, praising Heath Ledger of “A Knight’s
Tale” as “this year’s hottest new star!” and
saluting “The Animal” as “another winner!” The
studio plastered Manning’s raves over at least
four different movie advertisements, including
“Hollow Man” and “Vertical Limit.” But
Manning’s own life story should be called
“Charade,” because he doesn’t exist.
David Manning of The Ridgefield Press
is one of Columbia Pictures’ most reliable
reviewers, praising Heath Ledger of “A Knight’s
Tale” as “this year’s hottest new star!” and
saluting “The Animal” as “another winner!” The
studio plastered Manning’s raves over at least
four different movie advertisements, including
“Hollow Man” and “Vertical Limit.” But
Manning’s own life story should be called
“Charade,” because he doesn’t exist.
Saturday, June 02, 2001
You are being watchedBritain, which now has more than 1.5 million closed-circuit television cameras in
its streets, parks and buildings is the most-watched country on Earth, although Germany and the US are catching up fast.
its streets, parks and buildings is the most-watched country on Earth, although Germany and the US are catching up fast.
Human Factor Was at Core Of Vote FiascoGore won; the Republicans rigged it
Sen. John Breaux inserted a provision in the huge tax-cut bill Congress approved last week that could mean millions of dollars in tax savings for a multimillionaire New Jersey commodities broker with long-standing ties to the Louisiana Democrat and to the national partyLet's hear it for the two party system