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

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
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?
Yeti Hair Defies DNA Analysis ok, I admit I believe this one.

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
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.
WTO rules U.S. export tax credit illegal capitalist domestic dispute

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?

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."

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

Taiwan Test-Fires Patriot Missiles War with China coming? Unprecedented casualties?
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

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."

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?
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?"
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?
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

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.
California Appellate Justice Conflicted in Oil Class Action owned both stock and bonds in defendant Exxon while the case was pending
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.''
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

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

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.

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.
Human Factor Was at Core Of Vote FiascoGore won; the Republicans rigged it

Friday, June 01, 2001