The discovery of human footprints, preserved by volcanic ash, have put back the likely date that the American continent was colonised by Man by almost 30,000 years, British scientists say. The prints, found by the scientists at the edge of a lake in Mexico, are thought to be about 40,000 years old. Their discovery upsets the widely accepted theory that Man first reached America across a land bridge, now covered by the Bering Sea, 11,500 years ago. Casts of the footprints reveal that a community of Homo sapiens lived in the Valsequillo Basin, near Puebla in central Mexico. Their feet ranged in size from those of small children, aged about 5 or 6, to adults who would have fitted size eight shoes.
The prints were found at the bottom of an abandoned quarry and were preserved in volcanic rock. From the size of the prints, researchers from Liverpool John Moores University and Bournemouth University estimated that the adults ranged in height from 3ft 9ins to 6ft. Almost 270 prints were found at the site, two thirds of them human and the rest from animals including mammoths, an extinct species of camel, prehistoric cow and deer. The Liverpool and Bournemouth team discovered the footprints in September 2003 but have only recently had confirmation of their age from scientists at Oxford University. Dating techniques included radiocarbon dating and optical stimulated luminescence.
Until now it was widely believed that Clovis Man was the first human to set foot on the continent at the end of the last Ice Age. Previous academic research has suggested, however, that human occupation of the American continents may have begun several thousand years earlier. The footprints are the first evidence of earlier colonisations and would suggest that the first settlers reached the West Coast from Japan or other Pacific Ocean communities.
I've always figured the rafters got here first
Professor Matthew Bennett, of Bournemouth University, said yesterday: âOur evidence of humans in America 40,000 years ago is irrefutable.â He accepted that there would be resistance to the theory that the original migration was not over the Bering Sea: âIt is quite controversial. They are not very happy in North America. They are very wedded to the idea of colonisation 11,500 years ago.â
They'll be opening their veins with Clovis points seeing years of studied research papers go down the toilet
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Are we sure it wasn't just mammoths with fake human feet like in the Wile E. Coyote cartoons?
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There has actually been quite a few sites that suggest a human presence in the America's from 50,000BC on. They all get dismissed as "we're not sure,the data looks right,but we'll have to wait and see." Very tough to get orthodox thought changed in the Universities.(One reason why they are still full of Marxists,etc.)
BTW,there have been several occasions when the Siberia-Alaska corridor was passable,including @ 50,000,30,000 and 20,000 yrs ago.
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Now that we've got it sorted, who gets the real estate for the casino and "cultural" museum?
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I'd say these footprints were made by a BigFoot at the time trying to prove the existence of mythical nearly-hairless biped creatures with little feet.....
Gonna be lots of Native American activists popping Tums tonight.
This needs to be forwarded to McCain's office; maybe he'll back away from his "bury the bones" bill to change NAGPRA so the tribes can destroy all evidence of the people they replaced.
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BTW,there have been several occasions when the Siberia-Alaska corridor was passable,including @ 50,000,30,000 and 20,000 yrs ago.
Actually, it's not all that clear there ever WAS an ice-free land corridor. Coastal routes are infinitely more likely.
Of course, even the most up-to-date museums still peddle the Clovis-first carp.
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Probably just some nitwit kid walking in the wet concrete. Or maybe an early version of the walk of the holywood stars where they put their handprints in wet concrete.
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There has been proof for years that the Clovis people were not first, and there is even proof that the Clovis people exterminated the people that were here before them. Of course, all of this has been surpressed by Indian activists and their lawyers, claiming that the white man stole their land and now is trying to steal their history.
Never mind the facts and the science, move along, nothing to see here.
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Don't forget that 9,000 y.o. Kennewick Man showed no substantial genetic relations to any of the four tribes that claimed him as an ancestor, especially ironic given his caucasoid features, hmm?
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Hell hath no fury like an archeological theory spurned.
From Auntie Beeb....not the Darwin Awards (yet)
The American magazine Time has recommended the little-known sport of yak skiing in India as one of the 10 best ways in Asia to relax the mind. "Yoga is SO 2003!"
The magazine's Asian edition says this "implausible extreme sport" involves going at rocket speed uphill attached by rope to a yak charging downhill. The skier attracts the yak from up high by shaking a bucket of nuts, which must be put down fast before the fun begins.
"The sport may be a barmy injunction to even barmier tourists," Time says.
According to the article, yak skiing is carried out in the Indian hill resort of Manali, where it is run by a Tibetan man, Peter Dorje. It says that in winter, he takes up to five skiers and his herd of yaks to the hills above town, making an overnight camp. In the morning, Mr Dorje heads to a high slope with his beasts, trailing out a rope behind him. The yak skier waits nervously below, wearing skis and holding a bucket of pony nuts.
No word on how the pony feels about this
When Mr Dorje reaches the top, he ties a large pulley to a tree, loops the rope through it and attaches the cord to a stamping, snorting yak. Then it is all down to the skier, who is tied to the other end of the rope.
They shake the bucket of nuts to attract the yak - and put it down fast as the beast charges down the mountain, pulling the skier upwards at terrifying speed. "If you forget yourself in the excitement and shake the bucket too soon, you'll be flattened by two hairy tons of behemoth," the magazine says. Mr Dorje's advice is: "Never shake the bucket of nuts before you're tied to the yak rope."
Sometimes you feel like a nut....
The magazine says it whole-heartedly recommends yak skiing in its annual guide to the finest tourist facilities of Asia. Notice how the article doesn't say a damn thing about how you stop at the top.....hmmm....
A Lincolnshire man who allegedly used a pair of "electric underpants" to fake the symptoms of a heart attack has had his £300,000 damages claim against electric iron manufacturer Morphy Richards unplugged by a judge. Curses! Foiled again!
According to the Guardian, 41-year-old Marcus Danquah had pursued Morphy Richards since 1999 after his wife found him sparko in the kitchen apparently as a result of a blast from a 42400 Comfi Grip iron. Danquah claimed he had been floored by the wrongly-wired iron, although later evidence suggested the alarm engineer had tampered with the iron so that it gave anyone who touched it an electric shock. Bzzzzzt! Who's a clever monkey, then?
The claimant's alleged electric shenanigans did not end there, however. Judge Hamilton explained: "The claimant was taken to Lincoln hospital and was put on an electrocardiogram which might have suggested that he suffered a heart attack." "might have"? There is no try, Padawan.
The judge continued that Morphy Richards claimed Danquah interfered with the electrocardiogram readings by deploying a pair of "electric underpants"®. Although technical details of the hi-tech underwear are not recorded, the judge noted: "The defence included evidence from an eminent cardiologist who said that the results in the hospital were produced as a result of interference. Some numerous other experts and factual witnesses have said that the entire claim is a sham." I'm Shocked, shocked!...
Danquah was not in court to hear the verdict due to a last-minute admission to hospital for depression and chest pains. The judge was unimpressed, noting that the late submission of documents relating to Danquah's sudden hospitalisation "suggests to me that Mr Danquah is not unwell". "You're a loony. Next case!"
Accordingly, judge Hamilton dismissed Danquah's claim, and ordered him to pay "substantial" costs. The failed claimant has already spent £18,000 in legal fees and faces losing his home.
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Hey! Now I have an idea what to do with the terrorists at the "secret locations' the ACLU, Amnesty International, and the UN is talking about...once all useful information is extracted.
Lets pay our respects to Uncle Habab. His remains can be found in rows 3, 4, 7, and 9 of the Tomato patch on Slater Avenue in Fountain Valley...
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Liken that Rd! ima steel that an include it in my next blog, which will focus tightly on worms and premium quality salty snack. ima looking for more corporate backing at the moment.
People living along the coast of Louisiana have been warned that tropical storm Cindy could hit land by Tuesday night. The storm system is not expected to strengthen into a hurricane, the U.S. National Hurricane Center said.
As of 5 a.m. EDT Tuesday, Cindy's winds were measured at 65 kilometres per hour. The storm was located about 400 kilometres south-southwest of where the Mississippi River empties into the Gulf of Mexico.
Forecasters were also keeping an eye on a tropical depression in the southern Caribbean that could develop into the fourth named weather system of the 2005 Atlantic season. Located about 650 kilometres south of Puerto Rico, the storm will be called Dennis if it strengthens as predicted Tuesday evening.
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At least it's not Cynthia McKinney and Dennis Kucinich.
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Worse. Dan Rather got his big start as a tropical weather reporter, and everytime it looks like New Orleans is going to get blown off the face up the earth, he shows back up like a multi-resistant STD.
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I've always wondered how history mighta been different if gunga Dan had been left tied to that palm in Galveston(?).
Better pay attention, she's a Russian astrologer. The mimes must be on vacation.
MOSCOW - NASA's mission that sent a space probe smashing into a comet raised more than cosmic dust â it also brought a lawsuit from a Russian astrologer.
Marina Bai has sued the U.S. space agency, claiming the Deep Impact probe that punched a crater into the comet Tempel 1 late Sunday "ruins the natural balance of forces in the universe," the newspaper Izvestia reported Tuesday. A Moscow court has postponed hearings on the case until late July, the paper said. If I sneeze, does it ruin the natural balance of forces in the universe? Guess I better stay away from this chick.
The probe's comet crash sent up a cloud of debris that scientists hope to examine to learn how the solar system was formed. Bai is seeking damages totaling 8.7 billion rubles ($300 million) â the approximate equivalent of the mission's cost â for her "moral sufferings," Izvestia said, citing her lawyer Alexander Molokhov. She earlier told the paper that the experiment would "deform her horoscope." I'd wait a little while before I'd go out and price the new Mercedes, counselor.
NASA representatives in Russia could not immediately be reached for comment. I'm sure the media is camped outside his house waiting.
Scientists say the crash did not significantly alter the comet's orbit around the sun and said the experiment does not pose any danger to Earth. Yeah,... that's just what they want you to think.
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Muck - That guy "left with" the Hale-Bopp comet of '97 not Temple I of '05.
"Bo" (the person in your link picture) drank Vodka, took Barbiturates, and put a sack over his head so as to be swept up in the UFO hiding in the comet Hale-Bopp's tail.... He took about 40 others with him. A mini-Jonestown near San Diego, California...
tookn this test(clik em link an try it all yoo gaya hatin an lovin luvers of suvees!) an itn say ifn evryones live like ima live itn take 4 an a haff planets suport teh populashen.
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final skore 20. notise tho itn chanje if yore chanje yore cuntree. whys taht? wunder watn chainey skored.
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Footprint: 54 acres, 12.1 planets. And I don't give a fat rat's ass, either.
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Everytime I see something like this, it makes me start to wonder what hippies taste like. I mean, assuming you washed them once or twice. Seems like we could cut down on the acreage needed by processing this whackos for their meat.
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WooHoo! 100 acres, 22.6 planets. I gotta get out and do more mudding. Now if they only had a more realistic selection for air travel. Only 100 hours a year? Pshaw.
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34 and 7.6 planets. And I'm not done yet.
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33 and 7.5 damn! AOS beats me again!
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Guess I'm average (scored a 23, the U.S. average is 24)! Man, I need to strive more too! I don't like being average!
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I got a 19 and use 4.3 planets worth o' stuff. How did I, who eats meat for every meal, score lower than mucky the vegetarian? What're you driving, mucky? An Escalade?
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BH, 19 and 4.3 for me and Connie the Short Bus Lady, too. There were no questions about how many and what kind of animals a person has. Horses take a lot of land. We actually have 11.3 acres at the Deacon Blues Pork Palace, Potables Parlour, and Home for Wayward Animals and Women. I would also like to know how electricity consumption was factored in.
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3.1 Planets.
Walking to works seems to be a big factor. I still say we need more planets.
There were no questions on beer consumption. If factored in I'm sure I'd need double that acreage for barley and hop production. Another 9 planets for the nectar of the God? Sounds about right.
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I just love it when they denote certain fields as optional (zip and e-mail) and when you decline to fill them in they say they are required. They can kiss my ass.
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I forgot exactly what my "score" was, but I was just below the so-called average. But if everybody was as smart as me, we'd have 4.8 more planets! And that makes just about as much sense as "if everyone used as much (fill-in-the-blank) as you do..."
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This quiz is biased against billionaire senators; it was designed merely to embarass me in front of my tree-hugging voters. Karl Rove created this quiz. When I was in Vietnam, I never had to worry about this sort of thing. Really! Don't they know who I am?
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"Dave D. and ed: I'm not worthy to compete against you (I only got a 6). I'm surely in the presence of greatness."
Thanks, Xbalanke; that brought tears to my eyes.
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60, 13.4 planets. You guys gotta start eating more meat.
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But everybody doesn't live like me, and if they try to I'll nuke 'em. Natural selection at work.
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Way cool! 5.5 planets!
NASA better get busy and develop an FTL drive so we can start colonizing! Let's start with the Moon, Mars, Titan, Europa, Iapetus (no, wait, according to Hoagland that's a spaceship), heck, let's throw a colony out to Pluto and another one on Mercury for unique property metals of opposite temperature ranges!
Gods, these people are stupid, naive, and intransigent in their views that WE'RE ALL GONNA' DIE AND IT'S ALL BUSH'S FAULT!!!
At least two people were hospitalised Monday after a herd of dairy cattle went on a rampage in an Alpine meadow during a family reunion near the German-Austrian border. Ten members of a Bavarian family had finished a picnic on the slopes above Salzburg Sunday afternoon and were crossing a meadow to go home when a child tried to stroke a calf, police said. The mother cow charged the group and other cattle came to her assistance. Within seconds, the herd of about 40 head were butting and chasing the family members across the meadow. One elderly relative suffered a heart attack and a seven-year-old child was critically injured during the attack. Others escaped with what were termed minor cuts and bruises.
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The wife and I went to a super-fancy restaurant for Valentine's Day, and on the menu they had special ravioli made with "high-altitude cheese." I asked about it and they explained it came from Alpine cows, and the high altitudes made for better cheese. Whatever else it does, the altitude seems to make cows crazier than a shithouse rat, because cows at my altitude don't freak out like these ones did.
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Tonight on Nightline - "Cows - Why do they hate us?" and our special guest, Morgan Spurlock and his new show, "30 days. Utterly Moooving, understanding from the bovine view."
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Lucky for them they weren't cows of the variety who in Spain (1), produces bulls for bullfights. They are a lot more agressive and much, much faster than those bavarian cows.
(1) In some Spanish villages they are released in the streets. They use cows instead of bulls because a) they are a lot cheaper and b) it is easier to make obstacles to keep them in the danger zone than with the much stronger bulls. From time to time people are seriously wounded or killed but that is part of the fun. Of course, their horns are unblunted or unprotected: this is Spain not France.
Anglo-French tensions heightened last night after Jacques Chirac delivered a series of insults to Britain as London and Paris fought to secure the 2012 Olympic Games and faced fresh disagreement at the G8 summit. The president, chatting to the German and Russian leaders in a Russian cafe, said: "The only thing [the British] have ever given European farming is mad cow." Then, like generations of French people before him, he also poked fun at British cuisine. "You can't trust people who cook as badly as that," he said. "After Finland, it's the country with the worst food." "But what about hamburgers?" said Vladimir Putin, the Russian president, referring to America. "Oh no, hamburgers are nothing in comparison," Mr Chirac said.
Mr Putin and Gerhard Schröder, the German chancellor, laughed. Mr Chirac then recalled how George Robertson, the former Nato secretary general and a former defence secretary in Tony Blair's Cabinet, had once made him try an "unappetising" Scottish dish, apparently meaning haggis. "That's where our problems with Nato come from," he said. Mr Schröder and Mr Putin laughed again.
When I think of great British food, I ..........well, I draw a blank, really. Oh sure, there's your bangers and mash, shepherds pie and, er....
Unfortunately for the leaders, all of whom will be guests of Britain at the G8 summit opening at Gleneagles tomorrow, the remarks were recorded by a journalist without their knowledge and published in the French newspaper Liberation. No 10 reacted with disbelief, saying it would not respond to such undiplomatic comments. British officials were particularly angered by the mad cow remark, saying that France had exacerbated the BSE crisis by refusing to accept British beef after it had been declared safe. Mr Chirac, Mr Schröder and Mr Putin were meeting to prepare for the G8 summit and celebrate the 750th anniversary of Kaliningrad, formerly Königsberg, which was annexed by Russia in 1945. Lorraine Millot, the Liberation reporter who overheard them, said Mr Chirac spoke in French and his counterparts in German. At least three interpreters were present. Miss Millot said she also heard Mr Chirac say it was not his fault that he had been half an hour late for the Queen at a royal banquet to mark the centenary of the entente cordiale in November. He said "the British did not respect protocol".
The Prime Minister, in Singapore to push London's bid for the Olympics against the favourite, Paris, was said to be furious when told of the comments. But officials said that, as the holder of the G8 and EU presidencies, he was determined to retain the moral high ground. "There are some things that are just not responded to," his official spokesman said. Fight's on: Shoppers are reported to be boycotting French produce following reported criticisms of the British and their grub from French President Jacques Chirac. Supermarket chain Somerfield has reported a drop in sales of French apples, wine, brie and Beaujolais. A spokesman said: "We have seen a dip this morning in sales of French products like cheeses, apples and even wine as shoppers make their frustrations felt at the supermarket checkout."
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Wonder if he'll look back at it longingly in about 5 years when he compares it to French prison food?
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I loved eating breakfast in England, and having a cream tea with all those little cakes in the afternoon when I felt extra self-indulgent. british food has always been the stick-to-your-ribs stuff of the middle classes, while the aristos ate the food of their stay-at-home French cousins. And while the French perfected their recipes, the Brits conquered the world. Was that Chiraq's clever point?
The U.S. ambassador to Haiti said continuing political violence against civilians in the Caribbean country amounts to "terrorism." U.S. Ambassador James Foley, in a speech delivered Sunday and distributed Monday, criticized recent kidnappings, killings and a June 1 attack on a marketplace that left seven dead, but he stopped short of blaming any particular group. "Today in Haiti they are burning houses, they are burning stores, they are attacking means of transportation and communication links. They are kidnapping people of all social classes. They are assassinating, torturing and raping," Foley said in the Independence Day speech, delivered at the U.S. Embassy. "All of this has a name: The use of violence against civilians for political purposes is the very definition of terrorism."
Foley added that in Haiti, "There are certainly criminal and shadowy elements who have aligned with the political masterminds and whose participation only makes the political aims all the more illegitimate. But, for the most part, we know what is involved and who is involved." He did not elaborate. Most of the violence in Haiti is blamed on well-armed street gangs loyal to ousted president Jean-Bertrand Aristide, who fled the country amid a February 2004 revolt. Aristide supporters allege their members have been the victims of killings and other atrocities at the hands of Haiti's police. More than 700 people have been killed since September, when Aristide supporters stepped up calls for his return from exile in South Africa.
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I wonder who Foley pissed off to get stuck with this gig?
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BERLIN - Workers on Tuesday began removing a field of crosses at Berlin's former Checkpoint Charlie after a privately run museum lost a court battle to keep the memorial to people killed at the East German border during the Cold War. That sounds like a good thing to remember.
Workers in blue overalls began unscrewing the 1,067 crosses after covering the plaques with the victims' names and carrying them away.
"No, no, you have to listen to me," said museum director Alexandra Hildebrandt, imploring the court bailiff without effect as workers arrived at the site and began work.
Several hundred protesters jeered and whistled derisively in the rain at the former crossing point between East and West Berlin. "Remember, Don't Forget" read one sign. Several people shouted "Betrayers of the fatherland!"
The privately run museum had been given until Tuesday to raise $43 million to purchase the land where it erected the memorial in October. It didn't reach that goal. This is my favorite part.
Germany, divided into East and West during the Cold War, was reunited in 1990 with the collapse of communism. What newsfeed has readers so stupid that they don't know.... oh, hold on, it's Yahoo News.
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The colapse of communism? It's the neo communists who carried out this act. They don't want to be reminded of all the fellow germans they murdered trying to keep them "free" on the east side of the wall for their Soviet masters.
SEVERAL thousand people were evacuated from six camping grounds on the French Riviera overnight as an intense forest fire driven by high winds advanced on their tents and caravans. Emergency services said it appeared the fire had started in three different locations around the village of Puget sur Argens, near the chic coastal town of Saint Raphael, and was raging through dry woodland.
More than 400 firefighters, backed by dozens of vehicles and 11 aircraft, were battling the flames, trying to stop them before they spread to the many homes built in the forested area.
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Emergency services said it appeared the fire had started in three different locations
Huh. Wonder how that happened.
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UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) - Cultural differences were to blame for a food fight between Finland and Italy and Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi may have overestimated his charms, according to Finnish President Tarja Halonen.
Halonen said Finland was still "a bit astonished" over comments last week by Italian Prime Minister Berlusconi who told Italians he'd had to "endure" Finnish food and then added insult to injury by boasting he'd used "playboy tactics" to talk Halonen into ceding a new European food agency to Italy.
"Of course, we were a bit astonished concerning this speech of Mr Berlusconi and we have tried to find out what the facts were," Halonen told reporters on Thursday after addressing the U.N. Economic and Social Council.
"We have different kinds of cultures. I think Finnish food is very good," she said.
Berlusconi also may have given his powers of persuasion more credit than they deserve for the transfer of the food agency, Halonen said.
In what she called "a gentleman's agreement," she said the two nations broke a deadlock over where the food office should go by locating the European Chemical Agency in Helsinki.
"As a lady I am used to working with different men and I don't always notice their charm. But I am very much a woman of equality," she said.
But while Halonen answered questions about the flap with a smile, Finns were not amused by Berlusconi's comments.
Finland's union of agricultural producers (MTK) said members would avoid products such as Italian olive oil and wine, and the Italian ambassador was summoned by the Finnish government to express its surprise at Berlusconi's comments. It's pretty sad when these great icons of European leadership don't have anything better to do than criticize each others cuisine.
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Sunday, July 3, 2005 10:19 a.m. EDT
Canada's Ambassador Declares War on Fox News
Canada's ambassador to the United States has launched an all-out war on Fox News Channel.
Ambassador Frank McKenna has undertaken a public relations effort to reach the more than 1 million Canadians living in the United States, a group he calls the "Canadian diaspora."
Diaspora - Refugees dispersed because people have died waiting for what some weasely bureaucrat determined was "elective" surgery which wasn't so elective...
McKenna says the effort is to boost support for Canada here, and to counter what he says is the "Fox factor," referring to the Fox News Channel, America's most popular cable news network, and its most highly rated show, "The O'Reilly Factor."
That devil's tool, that O'reilly!
McKenna told the Toronto Star that he wants to arm Canadians with facts that will enable them to debate Americans and to lobby when Washington makes decisions that can hurt Canadians.
Lets debate pacifist socialist leanings which are naive about the threat of Muslim extremists, and Canadians attempts to pacify them by political correctness
But most importantly, he says, Canadians in the U.S. should counteract Fox News, alleging that the network often spreads disinformation and creates a false picture of his homeland.
Spreads 'disinformation' - This means those Fox guys are onto the Canadian Liberal Party, and talk about it.
"We know we're a bit of prey for the Fox News type of shows," he told the Star.
The vultures are circling!
The ambassador said he has sent out 6,000 pieces of literature to Canadians in his battle with Fox, and plans to mail to some 100,000 Canadians in the weeks ahead.
Canadian tax dollars at work!
McKenna said he launched this campaign because "having dinner every month or two with some interesting people is not enough to move" Washington.
The ambassador hopes that his new network of Canadians "will be in the millions."
And they told two friends, and so on, and so on...
"Then all of a sudden we've multiplied our efforts exponentially and we have a lot more people out there armed with information," he said.
Armed with information? That is all Canadians can do as guns are all but banned, except for criminals.
Calling on Canadians wintering in Florida, retirees in Arizona, Hollywood comedians and actors, investment bankers in New York and professors and students at universities across the United States, McKenna said they should carry these messages to Americans:
Usual suspects ; Dan Aykroyd sez - boycott FOX NEWS?
Canada is the largest source of imported crude oil in the U.S., bigger than Saudi Arabia or the yet untested reserves of Iraq.
Yes, oil mostly from Alberta, one of the few Canadian provinces who has a voting populace who is not completely airheaded... And Albertans who are holing up other parts of the great Socialist north.
Canada has rotated 13,500 troops in the war on terror, has committed $300 million to rebuilding Iraq and is about to deploy a reconstruction team to Afghanistan.
Thank you for Afghanistan. I really mean it. But your Francophyllic attitude towards Iraq is really uncalled for... Committ money at profit?
None of the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorists entered the U.S. from Canada.
I guess you were just lucky...
Canada-U.S. trade supports more than 5 million American jobs.
Said McKenna: "We have to be very careful about overblown rhetoric. We don't get a lot of attention here, but we can get attention here for the wrong reasons.
Yes. It is called foot-in-mouth disease.
"We have to be careful that we're not sanctimonious. We have to recognize the United States has assumed a different role in the world than us and it's a role we're not prepared to play.
Sanctimonious? You don't think you guys are sanctimonious. What planet were you born on?
"So we shouldn't be so judgmental about a country that has chosen to play that role."
But as far as Fox News is concerned, that seems to be a different story.
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Oh great pick a fight with O'Reilly! He will chew him up and spit him out. The Candian just let FNC on their Cable networks which means Austrailia, Asia, South America, and I think Africa got FNC before Canada did. Heard that once it was available it really took off. Must really hurt to have a News program that the Goverment can't control, why you never know what they might say!
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If you have ever watched the CBC you know this pinhead is full of crap, Propaganda at it's finest raving, leftist, moonbat pitch. He is afraid that Canadian folk in teh US will get the "truth" from FOX in between breaks in the latest missing, murdered or on trial non-stop coverage.
Go easy one Canadians about their firearms, they own more per capita than we do, they know how to safely use them and hide them. Despite a massive amount of money spent to do so most are un-registered and un-accounted for and will remain that way. The RCMP has no more stomach for getting shot trying to grab guns than most rural US Sheriffs do (meaning they won't even try.)
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Just out of curiosity, does the ambassador realize that it is against US law for his millions of Canadians living in the US to lobby Congress unless they are citizens. Congress reacts only to US voters (which hopefully the Canadians aren't) and dollars (which they are not allowed to accept from foreigners). With twits like this in the Foreign Service, no wonder no one pays any attention to Canada.
A free association exercise: Think of a Washington Nationals baseball cap. What's the next thing that pops into your head? Some people think of the old Senators, whose caps inspired the new team's logo. Some think of the first-place team they now root for, or of hometown pride. For some buyers, choosing a Nationals cap isn't simply a matter of aesthetics. It's a political decision.
It's Washington fergawdsake. Everything's a political decision.
Then there are those steeped in the kind of partisan perspective that forced the french fry to decide whether it was with us or against us.
Ow. That left a mark.
They can't get past the "W," as in the president's trademark middle initial.
The President trademarked his middle initial? Groovy... George W⢠Bush.
That can be good: "My immediate reaction was, 'W! Perfect!,' " said Dan Mintz, 57, of Bethesda. "Not only do I get to root for Washington, but I get to root for George." Or it can be bad: "I just couldn't get myself to wear the red hat with the 'W' on it," said Jerry Stewart, 41, of Sterling, who bought a replica of the cap the Nationals wear for away games. Those hats are Democrat blue; the home caps are Republican red.
Heh. Who sez MLB doesn't have a sense of humor?
Among the thousands of nonpartisan Nationals hats bobbing around the city, there are some whose owners intend for them to have political meaning. "It's a little bit of a thing," said Paul Strauss (D), one of the District's shadow senators in Congress. He bought one of the Nationals' alternate caps, which features "DC" instead of the W. This is not, of course, the first time that a Washington baseball team has had "W" on its caps. The practice goes back to at least 1908. When Major League Baseball officials were designing the uniforms for the new Washington franchise last winter, they tried to copy the loose, cursive "W" logo used by the city's last team, the 1971 Senators. During the design process, a baseball spokeswoman said, nobody made the connection to a certain political figure, for whom the same 23rd letter of the alphabet is a down-home nickname. "The political part of it never came up," said Kathleen Fineout, baseball's director of marketing communications. Right, because the hats were designed for baseball...
So far, news of the political subtext still hasn't filtered up to the Nationals' front office, said David Cope, the team's vice president for sales and marketing. "Never heard of it," he said. "It's 'W' for Washington." But in the lower concourses of Robert F. Kennedy Memorial Stadium, the issue is obvious to souvenir vendors. "They say, 'W? Does that stand for Bush?' " said Gary Berned, speaking of fans that visit his kiosk. Those fans must be incredibly dense. Or just stupid. Vendor Mike Aman said baseball fans who aren't fans of the president often choose the caps with the "DC" logo, even after he tells them that the team doesn't wear that model during games. Neither the White House nor either of the national political parties appears to have tapped into the hat's symbolic value. When President Bush threw out the first pitch at the Nationals' home opener in April, he didn't even wear a cap.
Yup. I had to get my Dad a "DC" cap for Father's Day. He's a September 10, "Bush is a fascist" kinda guy...
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Regards the title's assertion, I'd say, "at least".
I've worked with several people who were very bright and inventive, but had such poor writing skills they dared not put forward their ideas for fear of revealing this weakness. I even found myself asked by the managers of people who had survived this discovery to "proofread" (read: edit or rewrite) their written work. This usually required me to "interview" them as I painstakingly tried to make sense of the hash they had produced. Two people to do a simple one-man job. Oh yeah, that's productive. One curiously consistent fact was that each and every one of these people was younger, usually a full generation so. They were valued employees for their technical expertise, but inept and terrified of written work. Sometimes management covered this up by calling it "mentoring"... I was a mentor many times over and I'll wager several (at least) here at RB know precisely what I mean.
Per the Opinion piece on Page 4, today, I'd say that standard English courses in the US education system are, apparently at all levels, nearly worthless - and have been for a long, long time. Diagram a sentence? Lol - these people had difficulty even developing a simple overview (Can you say "Executive Summary"? Lol.) or logical outline - the simple 90,000 ft view. Sad.
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Along the same lines, I had some similar experiences while working for Becton/Dickinson down here in SC. (They make those weird little blood sample tubes with the goop in the bottom). About 2/3rds of the workforce is black and had come up through the Bad Old Days of a segregated school system. The result was that many of them my age or older simply cannot read or write much beyond a 1st or 2nd grade level, but they can do their jobs in their sleep. I often found myself helping more than a few of my fellow employees, especially when they put in a computerized materiel tracking system here ( I could tell you some funny/sad stories about people who literally had no idea what a PC or a keyboard or a mouse was when I tried to train them on the program)
The company - always eager to cut jobs - knew this, and implemented a series of tests intended to 'streamline' productivity. The folks I mentioned, of course, couldn't pass the tests to save their lives, and are now being slowly eased out of their jobs - before retirement, of course.
The point of all this is that from my perspective, anyways, the companies have zero interest in bringing these people up to speed, and are eagerly looking for ways to 86 them. The cost to the taxpayer is only going to go up, and to a great extent thanks to the employer.
Mike
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"The commission is calling for more Congressional funding for the National Writing Project, a professional development program for teachers, and what Kerrey says are proven methods for improving writing instruction in classrooms."
Or -- let's address this by providing funding to the education industry for yet another bureaucratic empire building exercise.
"But the biggest boost to writing instruction may come from the decision by the College Board, under Caperton, to add a written essay to the SAT college entrance exam. The essay, which debuted in March, is expected to cause many high school English teachers to put more emphasis on composition. Critics, however, say the essay is formulaic, coachable, and a poor way to test the kind of writing skills students need in college."
Or - another attack by 'critics' againt any measure to evaluate the true state of education in our country. Wasn't it 'critics' of the SATs who insisted that a writing sample be included -- to add a subjective element since the objective elements of the SAT were showing a continual decline in student knowledge and ability?
And, lastly, I too was asked by a boss to 'mentor' a co-worker by assiting her in her written output. What he really wanted was for me to proof and edit her incomprehensible writing. Our relationship suffered when I pointed out that he was her supervisor and I wasn't and that her performance was his responsibilty, not mine.
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Mike - Need a good laugh? Well the first time I went to Saoodi my first assigned taskI was to correct a massively stupid mistake: add disk drives to a shitload of diskless PC's. In those days networks simply could not handle the load of all server-based applications. For the first 25 or 30, every time I popped the cover on a box to add the disk and lay down the OS, it would draw a crowd of Saoodis. Like the Noob I was, I presumed they were checking out the gear, the interface cards, etc. Nope. They had never seen the innards of a PC before. Turns out they had never seen the innards of any electronic devices, before. They had precisely zero idea how it worked, and most agreed the fan must be the most important part - because it was the only thing they could see actually doing anything. I was new, so not aware of their total ignorance, but it turned out they knew nothing of electricity to speak of, much less solid-state circuitry. They were all, every one of them, graduates of some university. Most from KFUPM, King Fahd Univ of Petroleum and Mining, but some from US & UK schools. Think they were held to the usual rigorous standards? Lol. This was the creme de la creme of Saoodi technical expertise. It was, um, novel - and enlightening, lol! Being a die-hard romantic when I went over the first time, I didn't become cynical or utterly disillusioned for, oh, at least a month, lol.
JAKARTA, Indonesia (AP) - A strong earthquake rocked a large swath of Indonesia's Sumatra Island on Tuesday, shaking buildings and causing panic, witnesses and a meteorological official said. There were no immediate reports of injuries or damage. The U.S. Geological Survey issued a preliminary report saying the quake measured 6.8.
It struck off the west coast of the island at 8:52 a.m. local time and was ``strongly felt,'' across west Sumatra and outlying islands, said Budi Waluyu, from the government's geophysical and meteorological agency. Callers to el-Shinta radio station from Medan, a large city on Sumatra, said tall buildings shook and some residents ran from their homes.
Earthquakes have struck the region regularly since a monster 9.1 magnitude earthquake on Dec. 26.
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6.8? nise, but no biggie for us natife sf bay areans. dont asker me an try em 9 tho.
Last week's U.S. Supreme Court ruling approving a Connecticut city's plan to take private land by eminent domain may seem far away. Coming to a corrupt city government near you!
But to John Revelli, whose family has operated a tire shop near downtown Oakland for decades, the implications hit home on Friday.
A team of contractors hired by the city of Oakland packed the contents of his small auto shop in a moving van and evicted Revelli from the property his family has owned since 1949. So long, and thanks for all the tax dollars!
"I have the perfect location; my customers who work downtown can drop off their cars and walk back here," said Revelli, 65, pointing at the nearby high- rises. "The city is taking it all away from me to give someone else. It's not fair." No, it isn't. Get used to it.
The city of Oakland, using eminent domain, seized Revelli Tire and the adjacent property, owner-operated Autohouse, on 20th Street between Telegraph and San Pablo avenues on Friday and evicted the longtime property owners, who have refused to sell to clear the way for a large housing development.
"The city thinks I cause 'economic blight' because I don't produce enough tax revenue,'' Revelli said. "We thought we'd win, but the Supreme Court took away my last chance." and there is only one way to change that.
The two properties, which total 6,500 square feet, were being forced to move or sell because their businesses are on a larger section of land that is slated for the City Council pocket stuffing Uptown Project, a city-subsidized real estate development that is expected to include nearly 1,200 apartments and condominiums.
Both Revelli Tire and Autohouse, owned and operated by Tony Fung, are on the northern edge of the project in the 400 block of 20th Street, which is also called Thomas L. Berkley Way.
The eviction came as no surprise to Revelli and Fung. The city has designated their block as a redevelopment area for about 20 years. Before approving the Uptown Project last year, the city considered putting in a shopping mall, then an arena for the Golden State Warriors and later a ballpark for the Oakland Athletics. Another thing we need more of in this world, sports arenas...
The decision to build market-rate housing on the site, subsidized by $61 million in city redevelopment funds, is the keystone in Mayor Jerry Brown's plan to revitalize downtown Oakland by putting in homes for 10,000 new residents there.
"This is the part of redevelopment everyone hates," said Hamid Gami, who is coordinating the relocation for Oakland's Community and Economic Development Agency.
"It's tough. They're rat bastard hold outs good people. We've offered them not quite what the property is worth fair compensation, and we hope to come to an agreement. But this is a really important new development. The city has been trying to do this for years. It's good for all of Oakland. It's going to be a great money making for me project."
Gami said he hopes to work out a settlement with Revelli and Fung. News flash Mr. Mayor, tossing them out on the street is NOT a settlement.
The business owners said they clung to hopes that the eminent domain decision might be overturned in court or that they could persuade the city to build the project and leave them alone.
"All those new residents will need someone to work on their cars," said Revelli, who has been working in the shop since he was in third grade helping his dad and uncle. "I don't want their money. I don't want to move. I just want to work right here." Welcome to the Socialist States of Amerikka
Most of the other businesses closed their doors and left in the past two years. The only other holdout, Chef Edward's Barbeque, is expected to reopen about a block and a half away.
Fung and Revelli said the money offered by the city, about $100 per square foot plus relocation costs, was insufficient, saying the real estate boom has priced them out of nearby properties. They own their properties outright and have operated with low overhead.
"John works alone; I have one technician working with me -- that's it, '' said Fung, who bought his 2,500-square-foot shop in 1993. "The cost of buying or leasing a new site is prohibitive. The money the city offered me does not cover it."
Revelli, who has worked alone for the past 35 years, said no other location is as good as what he is losing.
"My customers are mainly women who work in the offices downtown. They can take BART if they have to leave their cars overnight," Revelli said. "There's really no equivalent location around here."
Both men said Friday that losing their businesses was like losing a piece of themselves.
"I've worked here full time since 1959, and I looked forward to coming to work every day," Revelli said. "I'm not ready to retire, but the city forced me into this. I don't have many options."
Fung, who is in his late 40s and raising his children, said retirement is not an option.
"I'm an immigrant from China, and this has been the fulfillment of my American dream," Fung said. "I worked hard. I played by the rules. But now it's all gone. I've got to start all over." That is the problem. The rules you played by were 100 years old and changed to profit the wealthy and powerful. I am a capitalist, but people shouldn't be screwed out of their livelyhood. Lots more stories like this in the future, mark my words. Especially since a lot of city government leaders are also developers. Google the Forest City Residential West, Inc. and you can see that Albert B. Ratner, who is the co-chairman, gave thousands more to the the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee. He also donated to....Nancy Pelosi, the minority leader who thought the SCOTUS Kelo desision was wonderful. A sad, sad day for freedom in the US.
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I did some read up on the situation here in Germany.
The German Basic Law stipulates that expropriations are only possible when it's done for the "public good" (Gemeinwohl).
While this seems to be a rather broad brush, it is practically nearly impossible for private businesses to get an expropriation of private property.
If the project serves the "public good" or "public welfare", this has to be defined by law.
Generating more taxes or creating jobs will not do. Typically almost all expropriations happen to realize public works: mainly streets, water supply etc.
A private housing development? Quite impossible. If you want it, buy it. And if the owner want 3 times of the market value, you pay it. Some got lucky this way.
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The nmost worrisome thing in that respect is that in the US, corrupt city officials can make deals that would be impossibe in Germany. Expropriations that favor a private company would be extremely time consuming and face steep legal hurdles.
I remember that there was a case in a smaller Bavarian town. The mayor conspired with a private construction company to expropriate a private owner with dubious methods. When all recourse seem to have failed the owner had an idea. He "donated" small parts of his property to famous persons, including the Dalai Lama, the Pope and... heh... Mikhail Gorbachev.
The city found that it would be a lot of trouble and time to "expropriate" the Pope...
The guy still has his property...
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$100/sq ft is theft! I had some contractor quote me that $225/sq ft is a good estimate for new residential construction here in CA and that DOESN'T INCLUDE THE UNDERLYING LAND.
KINSHASA, Congo (AP) -- Using special forces troops and attack helicopters, U.N. peacekeepers have launched an operation to rid eastern Congo of armed militia, a United Nations spokesman said Tuesday.
Operation Falcon Sweep began Monday in the forest-covered mountains of South Kivu province, a dense region controlled by several militia accused of raping, killing and kidnapping hundreds of residents every month, said U.N. military spokesman Thierry Provendier. "The aim is to secure the civilian population in this area," said Provendier. "If these armed groups refuse to leave, we will use force to chase them out." Provendier declined to estimate how long it would take peacekeepers to drive out the militia.
What, no timetable? It's a quagmire!
Small units of Guatemalan special forces and Congolese troops are meeting with militia commanders, telling them to relinquish control of the area and leave, said Provendier. Provendier said any militia holdouts would face elite soldiers and attack helicopters. Operation Falcon Sweep will continue until all armed groups are out of the area, Provendier said.
Last month, the U.N. general in charge of peacekeepers in eastern Congo said the operation had been planned for months, with Pakistani and Guatemalan peacekeepers carefully training and planning how to maneuver in the dense forests, where ambushes by militia are expected. Much of the mountainous region is controlled by about Rwandan Hutu rebels from the group Democratic Liberation Forces of Rwanda, who fled into eastern Congo after the 1994 genocide in neighboring Rwanda. Elements of Mayi-Mayi and Rasta militias are also being targeted by peacekeepers. In May, Rasta militiamen killed and mutilated 18 people. In March, Hutu rebel leader Ignace Murwanashyaka said his 8,000 troops -- many of whom admit killing in Rwanda's genocide -- were ready to disarm and return to Rwanda after a decade living in the bush.
The United Nations has volunteered to help lead the repatriation, but the process has been slow. Rebels say they fear being imprisoned or killed upon returning, and Rwandan President Paul Kagame has been reluctant to give guarantees of amnesty. Rwandan Hutu rebels have been a massive stumbling block in the path of peace in Congo. Rwanda invaded Congo twice, in 1996 and 1998, to drive out the rebels, who they claim were planning another slaughter across the border in Rwanda. The 1998 invasion sparked a five-year war that killed nearly 4 million people, mostly from starvation and disease, aid groups say.
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A goat rodeo in the making.
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In May, Rasta militiamen killed and mutilated 18 people.
These guys need some medical marijuana to help with their "issues." That, or a 9mm headache.
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The UN gets Spec Forces and equipment from contributing governments.
For example, the attack helicoters used in the congo are Indian Air Force Mi-35 Hind Gunships. The Indian brigade there has artillery as well.
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I agree with Steve: No timetable = Quagmire. Why hadn't the un planned to have the correct amount of troops on the ground to prevent armed militia from gaining strength? Was the unsc (sic) consulted BEFORE the operation? Did Phrance send advisor on how to surrender? What is the reaction on the African street? Why do the militia hate the un? Can I start my Kofi=Nazi chant?
For those of you who visit Protest Warrior, I received this e-mail today about their hack war with a group of lefties/thieves:
In January 2005, Jeremy Hammond and the hacker group collectively known as the "Internet Liberation Front" gained illegal access to the ProtestWarrior server. Thousands of customer credit card numbers were then stolen for the purpose of making millions of dollars in donations to various leftwing organizations. In early February, ProtestWarrior discovered the illegal breach and the identity of the criminals responsible.
Using the hacker recruiting ground www.hackthissite.org, Jeremy Hammond put together and led a team of politically motivated "hacktivists" to probe the ProtestWarrior server for months until an exploit was found. When an obscure vulnerability was discovered in the PW server's newsletter subscription code, they managed to upload malicious files that gave them the ability to execute commands on the server.
Upon discovering the hack, we immediately began collecting information on the breach and managed to penetrate Jeremy's inner circle. We then collected evidence that more than 5,000 credit card numbers had been stolen by Jeremy and the "Internet Liberation Front" and that they were planning on doing the following:
*charge hundreds of dollars per stolen credit card number as donations to various left-wing organizations by using an automated donation submission script
*send the entire ProtestWarrior HQ database (complete with usernames, passwords, and operation details) to left-wing groups hostile to ProtestWarrior (including the entire contents of our mail server)
*upload all credit card numbers and other sensitive customer information to hundreds of anarchist and left-wing sites (specifically Indymedia) as a downloadable zip file
*anonymously send press releases and material to thousands of media contacts to boast of the malicious hack and the millions of dollars defrauded, and to publish any and all sensitive information regarding the ProtestWarrior organization
*erase the entire PW server
*launch simultaneous attacks on other conservative sites
Upon discovering their plans, we contacted the FBI and the Secret Service, who immediately began investigating the case. We were able to provide them with a tremendous amount of evidence regarding the breach, the criminals responsible, and their plans to commit massive credit card fraud. We also reported the incident to all credit card companies involved to make sure that ProtestWarrior's customers were protected. With
our help, the FBI was able to thwart Jeremy and his army of "hacktivists".
After contacting the FBI, we immediately hired a security consultant and removed all sensitive information from the server. We eventually moved the server to a new box, where we blocked off the system and data files from the web server and changed the online store software to a super-secure system that stores zero sensitive customer information. In addition, we hired an internet security firm to run a series of vigorous vulnerability tests on our server, which our server all passed.
The reason we haven't made this announcement earlier is that our customers were already protected and we didn't want to jeopardize the ongoing FBI investigation of Jeremy and his "hacktivist" army.
The reason we're posting this now is that Jeremy, in a desperate move, is publicly appealing to the internet community regarding his pending FBI investigation. Using his site, he is trying to solicit donations for his defense fund and generate public sympathy while spreading slanderous disinformation regarding ProtestWarrior and the events leading up to the FBI investigation.
We will soon be releasing much more information and details regarding the incident and the ongoing FBI investigation. Rest assured, justice will be served.
-Kfir and Alan
www.protestwarrior.com Their website also blurbs this news.
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Hmmmmm. I posted the article. Don't know how I transmuted into Greger Spack9143. LOL. I can't remember if I gave Protest Warrior my credit card number. Better check my bills.
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One more guilty LLL trying to portray themselves as the victem.
FUCK YOU JEREMY HAMMOND! We don't buy your crybaby, looser bullshit anymore! The time is rapidly coming where the debts to society and freedom that you have racked up will be collected. And it will be collected in your blood.
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I hope you like anal rape you TRANZI, MoFo, usless, steaming pile of pig feces, Jeremy Hammond. The left crows about how it "owns the internet" which means they are bragging about their criminal leftist life style. I hope Jeremy Hammond rats out his coconspiritors. I expect to read about his plight and need of donation on /. now.
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He conspired to defraud with those CC#s. That all by it's self is time at Leavnworth. Say good bye to your computer mister Pig Feces. You won't be using one for years after you are out on parole. Forget voting, felons can vote.
Howl like the little piggy you are Mister Moonbat.
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I'm not up on Internet security laws, but I assume PW didn't violate any laws in getting the dirt on Jeremy? I'd hate to see this work produce blowback.
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Just thinking out loud here...d'ya suppose PayPal really wants to collect funds on behalf of a punk who hacked a server with the express intention of stealing and selling credit card info?
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Heh. Just called PayPal. They didn't sound too happy about collecting funds for "Hacktivists." It's off to the fraud file for further investigation...
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I'm not up on Internet security laws, but I assume PW didn't violate any laws in getting the dirt on Jeremy?
Hard to see how he could have. Server logs would have had the addresses of the script kiddies, and DNS (and maybe some cooperative people running other sites) would have figured out the host. And any reputable ISP will help you figure out who was on dial-up if you've been hacked.
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Now that's just mean Sefarious. Don't you understand how whiny and crazy these Lefties get when you actually apply the LAW to them. They are above the law...laws are for peons. But, Jeremy doesn't need to worry, he's not a peon. Nope.
"They can kill the revolutionary but they cannot kill the revolution."
You're not a "revolutionary": you're a common, ordinary thief. Enjoy your prison term, scumbag.
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"laws are for peons"
So true. We here at the Internet Liberation Front have something more important: we have a cause. This trumps everything. Law, good will, fair play, honesty, common sense - the lot.
As we say here at ILF, having a cause means never having to say you're sorry.
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Ain't she cute? Wouldn't you like to be Mom & Dad back at home, watching the game on TV, and have that image featured full screen (with chuckling voiceover from the announcers) for 10 or 15 seconds? And you know the cameraman and director would make sure to pan over that spot several more times - just in case she got stars in her eyes and decided to flash the camera. All those years working, scrimping, saving for tuition so your Little Princess can attend UK - only to see that image. I'm thinking it would exceed the "heartbreak of psoriasis". Yes, indeed, a shot sure to warm your heart. Sigh.
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BTW, mentioning K-Y Jelly reminds me. Helpful Household Tip #237: don't ever, ever keep your K-Y Jelly on the same shelf in the medicine cabinet as the Zostrix ointment. Mistake the latter for the former some night in a heated rush, and... *SHUDDER*
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The system that enriched them could enrich Africa. But capitalism's the one cause the poseurs never speak up for. The rockers demand we give our fokkin' money to African dictators to manage, while they give their fokkin' money to [tax attorneys] Winthrop Stimson Putnam & Roberts to manage. Which of those models makes more sense?
Capitalism rocks indeed... and these guys know it, even if they never actually stand up and say so. Must be afraid of being seen as "The Man" or "Bogus" or something.
Opposition newspapers in Ivory Coast are full of speculation about the death of a senior army officer. Colonel Bakassa Traore died on Sunday, just four days after being questioned by the army hierarchy. He was called in, along with two colleagues, after having dinner at the French ambassador's residence. One of the other men was badly beaten. Ivory Coast's relationship with France is extremely tense, with claims that France backs the New Forces rebels.
Sources in the army and independent witnesses, none of whom were prepared to let their name be used, say that recently fired armed forces spokesman Colonel Jules Yao Yao was severely assaulted.
Talking to the wrong people, I guess
An army communique spoke of a regrettable incident, without giving further details.
"I can say no more."
The communique then accused the officers of visiting representatives of a foreign power, France, without demanding permission. The three soldiers were released after several hours in custody. Four days later, Colonel Traore was dead.
An editorial in the opposition Le Patriote newspaper claims the death was not natural, but was the result of a beating. It is a theme taken up in several of the papers close to the opposition. Le Nouveau Reveil headlines "After the Meal Plot, they killed Colonel Bakassa."
Having a nice meal, discussing the weather, the latest sports news, possibility of a coup.
On Sunday night the head of the Ivorian army, Brigadier General Phillipe Mangou, appeared on state television to deny accusations that were already surfacing. General Mangou said Colonel Traore had told him he had not been touched when he was called in for questioning by the army.
"I swear, he wasn't touched. We didn't leave a mark on....say, is this mike on?"
He added that Colonel Traore had said he was already ill, and needed to be treated. The head of the army did not divulge what illness Colonel Traore had died of.
"We're still trying to decide on a cause of death."
General Mangou said he and the army regretted the death, and would organise worthy funerals. Colonel Traore leaves behind a wife, four children, and a whiff of mystery over the exact causes of his death.
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No Doubt hollywierd blames it on 'those meddeling kids' who copy and share movies.
Not that their movies simply SUCK ROCKS and are mostly badly made rehashes of old movies ("War of the Worlds", "Bewitched', "Herbie", "Longest Yard", "Land of the Dead", ...).
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To paraphrase a witty comment on another site (which blog it was escapes me!)on the topic of the continuing Hollywood slump.... "There is intelligent life in the universe... but when they saw what was playing at the multiplex, they barfed, and left!"
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Speasking for mwe just the fact that Tim Robbins is in War of the Worlds is enough for me to not want to see it. I wonder if they yet realize that a lot of people just don't plain like them because of their sedition to this country.
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It's been years since I've been in a theatre. And no, I don't download, buy, or rent movies at home, either.
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FWIW, I went to an electrical shop on Friday. A few minutes later a guy walks in with a ton of DVD's, with War of The Worlds right on top of the stack. I'd think box office receipts would get killed with pirated copies coming out within mere days of the film itself.
People have less time and are less inclined to go through the hassle to drive to a theater to pay $8 a ticket and get gouged for popcorn. The real money is in DVD sales, pay per view and premium channels where costs are low and most othe dollar spent is pure profit. I get concerned (NOT) when star's salaries drop below $20 million per movie.
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What more needs to be said? Hollywood gets the rights to the real life story of a former supermodel turned lesbian bounty hunter.... and they still screw it up. They are doomed.
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The real question is: why are the studios paying $20 mil salaries to the likes of Tom Cruise? War of the Worlds didn't need a "box office draw", so why not hire a good, moderately unknown actor for the job? Or 20, for $20 mil. That way the audience can concentrate on story, and not on Tom.
#10
What we need are new classics in the vein of "3000 Miles to Graceland", "Waterworld", "For the Love of the Game", "Message in a Bottle"... great films like that. All available on DVD by the way. Do me a favor and pick one up. You wouldn't believe how much that wedding to my latest tootsie put me in hock. Well...maybe you would.
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07/05/2005 14:49 Comments ||
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#11
...and "The Postman". How could I forget "The Postman"!
Posted by: Kevin Costner ||
07/05/2005 14:53 Comments ||
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#12
... uh, did I mention Dances with Wolves! ... man, a really meaningful film with a timely message or something like that ... bored audiences to tears in 6 continents and told the trew story of wild west.
Here's one reason their income is down: No only haven't I gone to a movie in years, I've stopped by the video store several times in the past few months and couldn't even find a video/dvd worth renting.
Hollyweird is losing because their products SUCK.
Posted by: Barbara Skolaut ||
07/05/2005 16:08 Comments ||
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#14
Tom Cruise is a certified nut, er, Scientologist bigwig. He is doing for that moonbat cult what Pelosi and Reid are doing for the Democrats. I will not pay to see his movies.
#17
True, Ship, and "The War of the Worlds" was pretty good, too. I haven't been to the theatre since "The Green Mile". I thought it was a pretty good movie. I will go see "The Work and the Glory II and III" when they come out because I know a bit about the people involved. Eric Johnson, Johnathon Scarfe, Brenda Strong, and most of the others were really interested in all us "little people" and were actually fairly well informed about current events. Eric Johnson and Johnathon Scarfe are both Canadian. I had some interesting talks with them. The quality of Hollywood movies is certainly way down with movies with ecological agendas based on bad science and movies with political agendas based on propaganda are not my idea of intertainment. Give me verasimilitude.
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Barbara,
Get the movie IRON & SILK, if you haven't seen it. It just came out on DVD and it is a wonderful film with real values and an anti-Commie pro-responsibility message! Be sure to watch the end credits.
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07/05/2005 20:41 Comments ||
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I wonder how well Bollywood films are doing. Maybe the focus has shifted there.
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A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
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At least two people were hospitalised Monday after a herd of dairy cattle went on a rampage in an Alpine meadow during a family reunion near the German-Austrian border. Ten members of a Bavarian family had finished a picnic on the slopes above Salzburg Sunday afternoon and were crossing a meadow to go home when a child tried to stroke a calf, police said. The mother cow charged the group and other cattle came to her assistance. Within seconds, the herd of about 40 head were butting and chasing the family members across the meadow. One elderly relative suffered a heart attack and a seven-year-old child was critically injured during the attack. Others escaped with what were termed minor cuts and bruises.
The U.S. ambassador to Haiti said continuing political violence against civilians in the Caribbean country amounts to "terrorism." U.S. Ambassador James Foley, in a speech delivered Sunday and distributed Monday, criticized recent kidnappings, killings and a June 1 attack on a marketplace that left seven dead, but he stopped short of blaming any particular group. "Today in Haiti they are burning houses, they are burning stores, they are attacking means of transportation and communication links. They are kidnapping people of all social classes. They are assassinating, torturing and raping," Foley said in the Independence Day speech, delivered at the U.S. Embassy. "All of this has a name: The use of violence against civilians for political purposes is the very definition of terrorism."
