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U.S. Government Sought Customer Book Purchasing Records from Amazon.com
Post Date: 2008-06-09 23:22:43 by A K A Stone
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(NaturalNews) Recently unsealed court records shed more light on the federal government's attempts to secure the online book purchase records of 24,000 Amazon.com customers. In 2006, federal prosecutors investigating Robert D'Angelo, a Madison, WI official accused of fraud and tax evasion, subpoenaed online book retailer Amazon.com for transaction records on anyone who had purchased books from him through Amazon Marketplace since 1999. Prosecutors said they were hoping to find witnesses to testify against D'Angelo. Amazon agreed to tell prosecutors what books D'Angelo had sold, but refused to turn over information on the buyers, citing its customers' First Amendment ...
D.C. Police State: Is Philadelphia Next?
Post Date: 2008-06-09 23:13:10 by A K A Stone
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For Philadelphia Mayor Michael Nutter, “stop and frisk” without probable cause is not enough. He apparently hankers to turn the “City of Brotherly Love” into a police state, based on the District of Criminals model. “During his primary campaign, Mayor Michael Nutter called for a crime emergency which would have banned hanging out on street corners in certain neighborhoods and limit traffic,” reports Metro. “After similar tactics were enacted by Washington, D.C. police this weekend in a violent neighborhood there — including checkpoints where drivers had to show police ID or otherwise prove they belonged in the neighborhood — a Philadelphia ...
An Open Letter To Congress on the Need for Strategic Grain Reserves
Post Date: 2008-06-09 22:29:18 by A K A Stone
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Dear Member of Congress: All around the globe, food riots have shaken countries from Haiti to Egypt to India to Uzebekistan while rising rice prices cause grief in many Asian countries. A global food crisis threatens to impoverish millions around the world. Here at home, livestock and dairy producers, bakers and food processors have expressed their fears over skyrocketing commodity prices while higher food prices are eating into many family budgets. News reports nervously highlight that U.S. and world grain stocks are at all-time lows since World War II. For more than a decade, and particularly during Farm Bill negotiations of the past year, we have been sounding alarms over the ...
Senate To Push Carbon Tax Enslavement Bill
Post Date: 2008-05-31 07:54:42 by A K A Stone
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The establishment is getting ready to push forward with Joe Lieberman’s proposed carbon credit enslavement bill. The bill otherwise known as America’s Climate Security Act of 2007 or S 2191 will give the Environmental Protection Agency draconian powers to implement a carbon credit system here in the United States. Read my full analysis of the bill here. This is nothing more than a carbon tax and the bill intends to reduce the amount of available carbon credits on a year to year basis starting in the year 2012. This will effectively make it more difficult for small and medium sized businesses to compete with the large multinational corporations who will have the resources to deal ...
Making Renewable, Carbon-Neutral Oil — From Algae
Post Date: 2008-05-30 23:19:01 by A K A Stone
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A San Diego start-up says it is using algae to make oil that can be refined into gasoline and other fuels that are both renewable and carbon-neutral, and it plans to produce 10,000 barrels a day within five years. That's a fraction of the 20 million or so barrels of petroleum the United States consumes each day, but Sapphire Energy says "green crude" production could ramp up to a level sufficient to ease our dependence on foreign oil, if not end it altogether. Company CEO Jason Pyle says the algal oil is chemically identical to light sweet crude and compatible with America's $1.5 trillion petroleum infrastructure, making it a direct replacement for oil. Although the ...
Breaking the Nuremberg Code: The US Military's Human-Testing Program Returns
Post Date: 2008-05-30 23:15:31 by A K A Stone
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The Pentagon is slated to release a suspected toxicant in Crystal City, Virginia this week, ostensibly to test air sensors. The operation is just the latest example of the Defense Department's long history of using service members and civilians as human test subjects, often without their consent or awareness. Gas chambers in Maryland Wray C. Forrest learned about the US military's human-testing program the hard way. In 1973, the Army sent then 23-year-old Forrest to its Edgewood Arsenal chemical-research center in Maryland, promising patriotic service and a four-day work week. Instead, he became one of roughly 6,720 soldiers used as Edgewood Arsenal test subjects between 1950 ...
Gingrich: Bush Should Have Allowed Terror Attacks
Post Date: 2008-05-29 17:23:36 by A K A Stone
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During an appearance at a Long Island bookstore last month, former Speaker of the House Newt Gingrich was asked by a member of the audience why the United States has not been hit again since 9/11. "I honestly don't know," Gingrich replied. "I would have expected another attack. I was very, very worried ... when we had the sniper attacks, because the sniper attacks were psychologically so frightening. ... I was amazed that the bad guys didn't figure out how to send ten or twelve sniper teams." "This is ... one of the great tragedies of the Bush administration," Gingrich continued. "The more successful they've been at intercepting and stopping ...
Wal-Mart puts the squeeze on food costs
Post Date: 2008-05-29 17:01:00 by A K A Stone
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(Fortune Magazine) -- With gas, grain, and dairy prices exploding, you'd think the biggest seller of corn flakes and Cocoa Puffs would be getting hit by rising food costs. But Wal-Mart has temporarily rolled back prices on hundreds of food items by as much as 30% this year. How? By pressuring vendors to take costs out of the supply chain. "When our grocery suppliers bring price increases, we don't just accept them," says Pamela Kohn, Wal-Mart's general merchandise manager for perishables. To be sure, Wal-Mart (WMT, Fortune 500) isn't the only retailer working to cut fat from the food chain, but as the largest grocer - Wal-Mart's food and consumables revenue is ...
McClellan whacks Bush, White House
Post Date: 2008-05-27 22:42:55 by A K A Stone
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ormer White House Press Secretary Scott McClellan writes in a surprisingly scathing memoir to be published next week that President Bush “veered terribly off course,” was not “open and forthright on Iraq,” and took a “permanent campaign approach” to governing at the expense of candor and competence. Among the most explosive revelations in the 341-page book, titled “What Happened: Inside the Bush White House and Washington’s Culture of Deception” (Public Affairs, $27.95): • McClellan charges that Bush relied on “propaganda” to sell the war. • He says the White House press corps was too easy on the administration during the ...
Ubiquitous Computing May Build Ultimate Surveillance Society
Post Date: 2008-05-26 22:40:26 by A K A Stone
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“…just by walking down the street you could be subject to a personal biometric system, you could be scanned by the gateway of the transit system, there could be something embedded in the street or in the flooring beneath you… you could be touching other tangible interfaces in the environment around you… the lamp posts and the other features of the streetscape could have informational services… and last but not least there’s the surveillance element, there’s a UAV, a robotic helicopter which is also surveying the cityscape and communicating with all of these devices… This is really what I mean by a transformation of the relationship between user and ...
Bacteria Into Oil? How Farting Cows May Have Solved America’s Energy Woes
Post Date: 2008-05-26 10:37:55 by A K A Stone
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Could bacteria end our oil woes? A farmer in Georgia thinks so, and the Pentagon is paying attention. And it can’t happen a moment too soon. Last week, House Democrats ridiculously voted to sue OPEC for high oil prices (with the support of my useless Republican congressman, Vern Ehlers). Meanwhile, global warming types propose gas and carbon taxes of $300 billion a year or more, and want to turn over regulatory control of American industry to the United Nations. These activists scoff when President Bush insists that the answers to these issues will come from new technologies. But one of the most potentially impactful new technologies may be coming sooner than anyone realizes. ...
Teen Decomposes Plastic Bag in Three Months
Post Date: 2008-05-23 22:44:42 by A K A Stone
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Plastic takes thousands of years to decompose -- but 16-year-old science fair contestant Daniel Burd made it happen in just three months. The Waterloo, Ontario high school junior figured that something must make plastic degrade, even if it does take a millennia, and that something was probably bacteria. (Hey, at between one-half and 90 percent of Earth's biomass, bacteria's a pretty safe bet for any biological mystery.) The Record reports that Burd mixed landfill dirt with yeast and tap water, then added ground plastic and let it stew. The plastic indeed decomposed more quickly than it would in nature; after experimenting with different temperatures and configurations, Burd ...
How to rule the world after Bush
Post Date: 2008-05-23 22:13:29 by A K A Stone
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Picture January 20, 2009, the day George W Bush has to vacate the Oval Office. It's easy enough to imagine a party marking this fine occasion, with antiwar protesters, civil libertarians, community leaders, environmentalists, health-care advocates and trade unionists clinking glasses to toast the end of an unfortunate era. Even Americans not normally inclined to political life might be tempted to join the festivities, bringing their own bottles of bubbly to the party. Given that presidential job approval ratings have rarely broken 40% for two years and now remain obdurately around or below 30% - historic lows - it would not be surprising if this were a sizeable celebration. More ...
Another Stimulus Package for the Pentagon
Post Date: 2008-05-23 21:55:19 by A K A Stone
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The US Senate has voted $165 billion to fund Bush’s wars of aggression against Afghanistan and Iraq through next spring. As the US is broke and deep in debt, every one of the $165 billion dollars will have to be borrowed. American consumers are also broke and deep in debt. Their zero saving rate means every one of the $165 billion dollars will have to be borrowed from foreigners. The “world’s only superpower” is so broke it can’t even finance its own wars. Each additional dollar that the irresponsible Bush Regime has to solicit from foreigners puts more downward pressure on the dollar’s value. During the eight wasted and extravagant years of the Bush Regime, ...
High gas prices drive farmer to switch to mules
Post Date: 2008-05-22 07:02:46 by A K A Stone
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MCMINNVILLE, Tenn. (AP) - High gas prices have driven a Warren County farmer and his sons to hitch a tractor rake to a pair of mules to gather hay from their fields. T.R. Raymond bought Dolly and Molly at the Dixon mule sale last year. Son Danny Raymond trained them and also modified the tractor rake so the mules could pull it. T.R. Raymond says the mules are slower than a petroleum-powered tractor, but there are benefits. "This fuel's so high, you can't afford it," he said. "We can feed these mules cheaper than we can buy fuel. That's the truth." And Danny Raymond says he just likes using the mules around the farm. "We've been using them quite a ...
Money shocker! Hillary Clinton's campaign debt soars to $31 million
Post Date: 2008-05-21 08:20:58 by A K A Stone
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No wonder Sen. Hillary Clinton was so late filing her required campaign financial reports Tuesday night. Her political team didn't want the shocking news in it to overshadow her lopsided thumping of Sen. Barack Obama in Kentucky.I owe how much!? Hillary Clinton's Democratic presidential campaign discloses she is now nearly $31 million in debt But here's the morning after, pay-up time. Clinton's campaign debt has now soared to nearly $31 million, according to numbers crunched early this morning by The Times' campaign finance guru, Dan Morain. She added another $9.5 million in unpaid bills to vendors this past month alone, pushing her total debt to vendors and herself ...
Breaking News: McCain sees Iraq combat over, U.S. troops home before 2013
Post Date: 2008-05-15 07:40:05 by A K A Stone
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In a speech he's about to give shortly at the Greater Columbus Convention Center in Ohio, Sen. John McCain, the presumptive Republican presidential nominee, will for the first time talk about a specific date for when he envisions direct American military involvement to be over in Iraq. It's January, 2013. By then, he says, American combat involvement will be over and most U.S. troops back home. In a major speech and change in policy regarding the Iraq war, Arizona Senator and presumptive Republican presidential nominee John McCain describes all U.S. combat involvement over by January 2013 and almost all troops back home A staunch defender of the war in Iraq and an ardent ...
Sect Mother of Newborn NOT A MINOR Texas Concedes
Post Date: 2008-05-14 11:03:13 by A K A Stone
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SAN ANTONIO (AP) - Texas child welfare officials conceded Tuesday that a newborn's mother, held in foster care as a minor after being removed from a polygamous sect's ranch, is an adult. A Child Protective Services attorney told state District Judge Barbara Walther that the mother of a boy born April 29 is not a minor, as CPS had claimed as justification for holding her. The woman had been held along with more than 400 children taken last month from a west Texas ranch run by the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints. State officials say the children were endangered by underage and polygamous spiritual marriages. "We were presented with credible evidence ...
BUSH SAYS NEW ATTACK ON USA HIS WORST WORRY
Post Date: 2008-05-13 20:34:39 by A K A Stone
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WASHINGTON - President Bush said Tuesday he was disappointed in "flawed intelligence" before the Iraq war and was concerned that if a Democrat wins the presidency in November and withdrew troops prematurely it could "eventually lead to another attack on the United States." ADVERTISEMENT In an interview with Politico magazine and Yahoo News, Bush also said he gave up golf in 2003 out of respect for U.S. soldiers killed in the war, which has now lasted more than five years. "I didn't want some mom whose son may have recently died to see the commander in chief playing golf," he said. "I feel I owe it to the families to be in solidarity as best as I can ...
States Seize Citizens' Property to Balance Their Budgets
Post Date: 2008-05-12 16:19:37 by A K A Stone
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The 50 U.S. states are holding more than $32 billion worth of unclaimed property that they're supposed to safeguard for their citizens. But a "Good Morning America" investigation found some states aggressively seize property that isn't really unclaimed and then use the money -- your money -- to balance their budgets. Unclaimed property consists of things like forgotten apartment security deposits, uncashed dividend checks and safe-deposit boxes abandoned when an elderly relative dies. Banks and other businesses are required to turn that property over to the state for safekeeping. The problem is that the states return less than a quarter of unclaimed property to the ...
Make Fuel at Home With Portable DIY Refinery
Post Date: 2008-05-09 10:56:40 by A K A Stone
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People were making ethanol at home long before there were cars. They called it moonshine. With gas prices going through the roof and everyone worried about global warming, a California company is betting people will jump at the chance to use the same technology to turn sugar into fuel for less than a buck a gallon.
E-Fuel Corporation has unveiled its EFuel 100 MicroFueler, a device about the size of a stacking washer-dryer that uses sugar, yeast and water to make 100 percent ethanol at the push of a button.
"You just open it like a washing machine and dump in your sugar, close the door and push one button," company founder Tom Quinn told us. "A few days later, you've got ...
Hillary vs. the coffee maker
Post Date: 2008-04-30 19:00:29 by A K A Stone
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Obama's pre mad arrangement
Post Date: 2008-04-30 16:52:16 by master_of_disaster
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Let me get this straight beforehand,Barack Obama had an arrangement before his campaign had really taken off with Rev. Wright that he would probably have to publicly dissown him. That he made such harsh remarks with his busom buddy shows me that he will publicly throw anyone under the bus to make himself look better. His statements are teflon strong,and thats about how strong the other world's leaders look at him. Im not too crazy about either Clinton or McCain ,but at least they seem to be able to take the tough questions. If it is Obama it will be because the Liberal media built him into this savior that most rational people fail to see him as.I will leave on this statement,the media ...
Officials: 31 of 53 girls [14 to 17] from sect ranch have been pregnant
Post Date: 2008-04-29 10:39:54 by _Jim
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Officials: 31 of 53 girls from sect ranch have been pregnant Apr 28 03:45 PM US/Eastern By MICHELLE ROBERTS Associated Press Writer SAN ANTONIO (AP) - Texas child welfare officials say more than half the teen girls swept into state custody from a polygamist sect's ranch have been pregnant. Child Protective Services spokesman Darrell Azar says 53 girls between the ages of 14 and 17 were living on the ranch in Eldorado. Of that group, 31 already have children or are pregnant. State officials took custody of all 463 children at the Yearning For Zion Ranch more than three weeks ago after a raid prompted by calls to a domestic violence hotline. Child welfare officials say there was a ...
More teenage mothers emerge in Texas polygamy probe
Post Date: 2008-04-29 10:25:10 by _Jim
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More teenage mothers emerge in Texas polygamy probe Fri Apr 25, 2008 10:06am EDT By Jessica Rinaldi and Ed Stoddard SAN ANGELO, Texas (Reuters) - Texas authorities said on Thursday they identified 25 more mothers below age 18 among those removed from a polygamist compound, raising to about 460 the number of minors at the heart of a huge abuse probe. An apparent phone tip earlier this month led to a raid on the ranch in a remote part of west Texas and the removal of the children. The compound is linked to a breakaway Mormon sect and is run by followers of jailed polygamist leader Warren Jeffs. Texas welfare and law enforcement officials say they have uncovered evidence of widespread ...
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