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WMDs found......!!!!! Multiple Tests Confirming Iraq WMD Send (..slimy liberal..) Media Into Deep Spin
Sunday, Jan. 11, 2004 1:31 p.m. EST
Mulitple tests conducted in Iraq by Danish and British experts indicate that Saddam Hussein's weapons of mass destruction have finally been discovered, but mainstream news editors either ignored the story Sunday morning or are furiously spinning the news as inconsequential.
More than 12 hours after the Fox News Channel, Reuters and the Associated Press carried reports that preliminary tests showed Iraqi mortar shells discovered near Basra contain a deadly liquid blister agent, the New York Times had yet to report the bombshell find on the main page of its Web site – or anywhere in its Sunday morning print edition.
The Washington Post's Web site also chose not to cover the blockbuster news, which ABC News military analyst Tony Cordesman said Saturday would be "the first real confirmation that Iraq actually had deployed chemical weapons and was prepared to use them" if tests confirmed the find.
Saturday night the Fox News Channel revealed that initial tests had indeed confirmed the blockbuster discovery.
"Danish troops are in charge of that area around the village of Al Quarnah, and they have found what they believe are, according to this official, two hundred shells," reported FNC's Greg Palkot.
Palkot said the Danish official told him: "They've run four different tests on that liquid inside those shells. And all those tests do indicate that there is blister gas – that's a deadly chemical weapon - inside of those shells."
The AP said that a statement released by Danish officials cited British experts, who had also confirmed that the shells contained "blister gas."
Before the war the Bush administration had alleged that Baghdad was stockpiling blister gas in liquid form.
Both reports noted that the find had yet to be confirmed by the U.S. team in Iraq assigned to search for weapons of mass destruction.
But according to the London Sunday Telegraph, Ali Nimir, a former colonel in an Iraqi Republican Guard artillery unit, had also confirmed the find.
"I remember seeing boxes of these kinds of armaments in our base two years ago," Nimir said. "We were told that they were chemical weapons."
"They were removed from our bases and distributed to secret hiding places about a year before the war," he explained. "I never saw them again."
Still, despite the staggering political consequences of the bombshell discovery – news that could mean total vindication for President Bush against Democrat charges that he "lied" about Iraq's WMDs – mainstream reports consistently downplayed the story.
The New York Daily News, for instance, covered the news on page 24 of its Sunday edition, and then only under a headline that obscured the potential impact of the story: "Old Iraqi Gas Shells."
New York's Newsday echoed the same theme with its page 20 headline, "Weapons Found, but Likely Old" – as if the vintage of Saddam's WMDs somehow mitigated genuine proof of their existence after months of media claims to the contrary.
The only news outlet to refer to weapons of mass destruction in its headline was the New York Post, which labeled its page 2 report: "WMD Gas Shells Dug Up in Iraq."
News of the WMD find was not discussed on the Sunday morning news shows.
http://www.newsmax.com/archives/ic/2004/1/11/141836.shtml
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HEC - HEC Costa Rica compensation news - January 11, 2004 12:17am San Jose, Jan 10 (EFE).- Costa Rica is willing to negotiate paying U.S. company Harken Costa Rica Holdings between $3 million and $11 million as compensation for having canceled its oil-drilling contract.
Costa Rica's Environmental Secretariat, or Setena, rejected an environmental impact statement submitted by the company in March 2002 on the grounds that it lacked guarantees that the environment would not be damaged.
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Note: HEC seems to have a lot of upside
HEC - HEC Costa Rica compensation news - January 11, 2004 12:17am San Jose, Jan 10 (EFE).- Costa Rica is willing to negotiate paying U.S. company Harken Costa Rica Holdings between $3 million and $11 million as compensation for having canceled its oil-drilling contract.
Costa Rica's Environmental Secretariat, or Setena, rejected an environmental impact statement submitted by the company in March 2002 on the grounds that it lacked guarantees that the environment would not be damaged.
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HEC Costa Rica compensation news - January 11, 2004 12:17am San Jose, Jan 10 (EFE).- Costa Rica is willing to negotiate paying U.S. company Harken Costa Rica Holdings between $3 million and $11 million as compensation for having canceled its oil-drilling contract.
Costa Rica's Environmental Secretariat, or Setena, rejected an environmental impact statement submitted by the company in March 2002 on the grounds that it lacked guarantees that the environment would not be damaged.
In response, the U.S. company announced it would sue Costa Rica for $57 billion in the Washington-based International Centre for Settlement of Investment Disputes (ICSID).
Environment and Energy Minister Carlos Manuel Rodriguez told La Nacion newspaper that he was willing to negotiate with Harken the amount necessary to reimburse it for the expense of prospecting for for oil in the Caribbean - $11 million according to the company and $3 million according to the Costa Rican government.
The official said the government preferred to seek an out-of-court settlement that get involved in expensive international litigation.
Costa Rica will discuss compensation with the company's representative, former U.S. Sen. Robert Torricelli, when he arrives in the country next week.
Environmental protection groups and tourism-related businesses adamantly opposed Harken's oil drilling, on grounds that it would seriously damage ecotourism, which is well developed along Costa Rica's Caribbean coast. EFE
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http://www.hoovers.com/harken-energy/--ID__10705,ArticleID__NR20040111530.1.2_4a200003781643c0--/fre....
Hi,
Thanks for the comparative input.
Perhaps you should start a JRSE board. I'll give you some help with that if you want; "...BOARDZ iz my t-h-a-n-g.....
John
When these yayhoo's come clutter up my back yard with their left-wing liberal BS, or attack the troops in Iraq, I'll comment as I see fit - when I'm the one taking time to provide the news........
Respectfully,
John
LONDON — An Islamic terrorist suspect linked to Al Qaeda (search) has been arrested after apparently preparing himself for a homicide attack in Britain.
The man, an Algerian asylum seeker, had left suicide notes to his mother and sister warning them that he planned to "martyr" himself. When he was strip-searched, police discovered he had shaved off all his body hair — a religious obligation often observed by would-be homicide bombers so that they are "clean" before entering heaven.
Documents found in the suitcase of Mohammed Atta (search), the ringleader of the Sept. 11 attacks, appeared to instruct all 19 of his hijackers to shave their body hair.
The man, in his late twenties, was arrested during a series of raids by police who were investigating a network of terrorists loosely connected to Usama Bin Laden's (search) Al Qaeda movement.
It is understood he has been charged with unrelated terrorist offences. In notes to his sister and mother the man wrote: "I hope you treat me as a hero and a martyr." The documents were recovered during a raid on his home, said to be in the north of England. The documents triggered a nationwide hunt for explosives that the man was believed to be planning to use. A target has not been identified but there are growing fears of a homicide bomb attack at Heathrow or another London airport, shopping centers or railway stations in the London and M25 area (a district in the outskirts of London).
Police passed the man's details to M15, which says there is insufficient evidence to provide definitive proof of a specific plot. One official said, "There are rituals that different ethnic groups have used in connection with martyrdom operations. Shaving your body hair is an indication, but it is not the only indication." The discovery of the suicide notes before Christmas helps explain the growing concern of British authorities over the prospect of a homicide attack in Britain.
America last week lowered its terror status from "elevated" to "high risk." Tom Ridge (search), the secretary for homeland security, said conditions had changed. However, Eliza Manningham-Buller, the director of M15, told ministers last week that she was not prepared to lower the threat level in Britain. She has told ministers of "chilling" new evidence that Al Qaeda may be planning a homicide attack at Heathrow airport.
One intelligence source said, "Al Qaeda is very definitely air-oriented. An attack at Heathrow is considered to be a real threat." The source said M15 feared an attack on a crowded terminal or against a fully loaded plane waiting on a taxiway. An in-flight bombing is also considered to be a possibility.
Last month the FBI issued a warning that homicide terrorists were planning to hijack transatlantic aircraft by smuggling bomb kits past airport security and assembling them in toilets during a flight. The bombs would be used to blow up the plane or threaten the crew to gain control of the aircraft. The warning was one reason why the American government last week instructed all airlines flying into America to ban passengers from queuing up at toilets when planes enter America airspace. The move was greeted with incredulity by airlines and the British pilots' union Balpa.
Senior British law enforcement officials said last week that they want to obtain bulk passenger lists so that they can start checking names well before possible suspects check in at airports. Air passengers on key European routes also face new disruption under government moves to block bogus asylum seekers.
David Blunkett (search) will announce this week that travelers will have their passports photocopied before they board planes. Seven out of 10 false claimants destroy their identity papers during their journey and then tell British immigration officers they are fleeing from a brutal regime.
The home secretary had to leave the plan out of the Queen's speech in November after cabinet allies of Gordon Brown blocked the move, claiming it would delay passengers for hours and be "costly and cumbersome." He has now won the backing of Tony Blair for the move.
Seven of the nine British subjects held by the U.S. in Guautanamo Bay, Cuba, may be freed within weeks. They are likely to be classified as "medium risk" and allowed to return home, but will be kept under surveillance by the police.
As with the idiot students at Kent State (VietNam era), throwing things at soldiers who are carrying automatic weapons comes under the heading of "...terminally stupid..."!!!
Demonstrators shot dead in southern Iraq
The British military in Iraq says order has been restored in the south of the country,
where at least five protesters were killed.
Iraqi police and British troops in the city of Amara shot at demonstrators when their protest about job shortages turned violent.
Also in southern Iraq, the discovery of dozens of suspected chemical shells has been played down by the United States.
The 36 mortar rounds were found by Danish troops buried in plastic bags.
Initial tests suggest they contain a chemical blister agent, but that still has to be confirmed.
The senior coalition spokesman in Baghdad, General Mark Kimmitt, says the weapons had been hidden for years.
"We've secured the area," he said, adding: "We suspect that this is ordinance that may have been left over from the Iran-Iraq war in the early 80s."
11/01/2004 22:54:02 / ABC Radio Australia News
As with the idiot students at Kent State (VietNam era), throwing things at soldiers who are carrying automatic weapons comes under the heading of "...terminally stupid..."!!!
Demonstrators shot dead in southern Iraq
The British military in Iraq says order has been restored in the south of the country,
where at least five protesters were killed.
Iraqi police and British troops in the city of Amara shot at demonstrators when their protest about job shortages turned violent.
Also in southern Iraq, the discovery of dozens of suspected chemical shells has been played down by the United States.
The 36 mortar rounds were found by Danish troops buried in plastic bags.
Initial tests suggest they contain a chemical blister agent, but that still has to be confirmed.
The senior coalition spokesman in Baghdad, General Mark Kimmitt, says the weapons had been hidden for years.
"We've secured the area," he said, adding: "We suspect that this is ordinance that may have been left over from the Iran-Iraq war in the early 80s."
11/01/2004 22:54:02 / ABC Radio Australia News
Rover unfolds on Mars like poetry in motion
Experts see hurdles on way to fully manned
-- possibly fully funded -- mission to Red Planet
By Diedtra Henderson
DENVER POST
Scientists view President Bush's plans to send humans to the moon and to Mars as the tonic to cure much of what ails NASA.
Even more exciting, Bush will back the promise of human space exploration with dollars to make it happen.
Bush pledges to pump up NASA's annual budget of about $15 billion by $800 million this year and will tack on 5 percent increases each year for the next five years, in a budget heading to Congress.
Meanwhile, NASA's Spirit rover has fully unfolded itself and stretched up to its full 4-foot, 11-inch height, making it ready to drive off the lander that delivered it to Mars, the space agency said Saturday.
The rover could reach the Martian surface as early as Wednesday morning.
"It now stands at full height and all six wheels are in their final position," mission manager Jennifer Trosper said during a news conference at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena. **There's a lot of buzz and a lot of smiling faces here, even though we've heard nothing officially,** said Mike Coats, a former shuttle astronaut and vice president of advanced space transportation at Lockheed Martin Space Systems near Denver, speaking of Bush's expected announcement later this week.>
But the scientists, mathematicians and engineers on whose shoulders the Mars and moon missions would rest know many hurdles have to be overcome to turn Bush's dream into reality.
The Challenger and Columbia disasters are seared into the nation's soul. Even if the lunar and Mars spacecraft successfully slip into space, health risks for crews include cancer in the near term, cataracts and neurological disorders in the long term, as well as damaged DNA that could pass genetic defects to future generations of the astronauts' families.
Even simply floating weightless saps bone strength and makes fractures more likely, complicating tasks astronauts will be expected to complete to return to Earth.
Coats tells local schoolchildren that someone their age could be the first to explore Mars. But he weighs those inspirational words with sobering what ifs.
"Man, we don't want to get them back as jellyfish," Coats said.
The highest health risks accompany sending humans to Mars.
The fourth planet from the sun lies at least six months' travel distance from Earth.
The current NASA strategy is to launch every two years when the two planets' orbits draw them closer together, reducing flight time. That makes a manned Mars mission a three-year proposition for astronauts.
For much of that time, they would have to be shielded from potentially deadly doses of radiation. The Van Allen belts that surround Earth trap charged particles delivered by solar wind and cosmic rays, protecting humans from their harmful effects. Outside of Earth's protective cocoon, astronauts and their craft would be buffeted by heavy ions able to penetrate spacecraft or human skin. While the charged particles create the eerie Northern Lights on Earth, astronauts on Mars would be ducking for cover. Pulses of energy unleashed by solar flares pack enough punch to cause radiation sickness or death for unprotected astronauts.
What risk is acceptable?
"That's a fundamental issue," said Jeffrey Sutton, director of the National Space Biomedical Research Institute in Houston. "We cannot be entirely risk-averse. Exploration in harsh environments involves risk."
But cancer risks for astronauts headed to Mars may be too high for politicians, American voters and astronauts themselves to stomach.
The Associated Press contributed to this report.
The researchers have turned to history -- studying the health of Japanese atomic bomb survivors -- and have devised research projects to gauge hazards for astronauts zapped by radiation doses unlike those humans receive on Earth.
"We do not know if the cancer risk is too high or morally or legally acceptable because the error bars ... are too wide at this time," said Francis Cucinotta, radiation safety officer at NASA's Johnson Space Center.
After a 1,000-day Mars mission, a 40-year-old male astronaut would experience a 3.4 percent increase in his risk of developing life-ending cancer, researchers estimated in a 2001 study. But researchers said they were only 95 percent sure increases to that astronaut's risk would fall below 18.5 percent.
Change the gender and the odds get worse. The chances a female astronaut of the same age would suffer from a deadly form of cancer after a Mars mission rise by 5.7 percent. But the worst-case scenario could increase her risk by 30.8 percent.
Those risk estimates are important when engineers design shielding for spacecraft, which increases mission cost and weight.
The toll of weightlessness on the human body is a bit easier to gauge, thanks to lengthy missions, including the 75.2 million miles Shannon Lucid traveled during her 188-day Mir Space Station mission.
By studying the health of astronauts and cosmonauts, patients on bed rest and animals, researchers know that depriving the body of gravity's effects can sap 1 percent to 1.5 percent of bone mineral density per month.
The progressive osteoporosis-like changes to bone lessen when astronauts return to Earth. Mars has just 40 percent of Earth's gravity.
"Is that enough to really slow down the rate of bone loss in humans? The answer to that is we don't know," Sutton said.
Researchers don't even know if astronaut bones return to normal on Earth.
Planners would have to account for the likelihood that bone fractures and motion sickness that accompany returning to a gravity-driven world would hinder the crew from completing mission-critical tasks.
And since space crews are older than in Gemini and Apollo days, planners will have to sort out how to conduct space medicine on the fly. International Space Station crews know if they can't quickly stem a mysterious air leak, they can hop into a Soyuz capsule and return. Mars astronauts would need six months to return.
"These are not barriers to us moving forward," Sutton said. "They are challenges that can be met and can be solved."
Scientists shrug when asked about the technical difficulty of returning to the moon for the first time since 1972. Been there, done that 30 years ago, they chorus about the three-day trip.
"Let me put it differently: The challenges are political and financial," said Bruce Jakosky, director of the Center for Astrobiology at the University of Colorado's Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space Physics.
"Is this something we want to take on, given the increased cost and the risks? Personally I'm not convinced, as a country, we're willing to put astronauts' lives at risk," Jakosky said.
Still, there are benefits that could accompany the return of humans to the Moon, including sparking more interest in space science as a career.
"That's something I've always hoped would happen," said Bill Farrand, a geologist at the Boulder-based Space Science Institute among the Mars Exploration Rover science team. "When I was just 7 and 8 is when the Apollo missions were going on. Those were a great inspiration to me."
Saturday's unfolding of the Spirit rover was one of the most complex deployments ever performed by a robotic spacecraft, mechanical systems engineer Chris Voorhees said. NASA had to fold up the 384-pound rover to make it fit inside the lander, which opened up like a four-petal flower.
When Spirit does leave the lander, it will take a different route than scientists had hoped. Air bags used to cushion the rover's landing are now blocking the ramp NASA had planned to use. Instead, Spirit will turn 120 degrees to its right and take a second, more risky ramp to the ground, mission manager Matt Wallace said.
Even though it remains on its lander, 16 inches above the martian surface, Spirit already has found traces of minerals that could have formed in what might have been an ancient lake at the landing site.
That geologic observation could support theories that liquid water persisted on the surface of the planet during Mars' ancient past and provided an environment conducive to life.
However, scientists stressed that finding the minerals, called carbonates, does not immediately prove the lake theory. The carbonate dust also could have formed by reactions with the tiny amounts of water vapor found in the martian atmosphere.
"We've got a bunch of ideas and we don't know which one is right yet," said Steven Squyres of Cornell University, the mission's main scientist. A previous NASA spacecraft detected carbonates from orbit.
Spirit also was measuring the temperature and makeup of the rocks and soil around it with its thermal emission spectrometer.
The instrument sees infrared radiation -- heat -- emitted by objects, including rocks and soil. Variations in the radiation indicate differences in mineralogical composition. That's crucial information for scientists eager to learn what sort of rocks lie strewn around Spirit and which of them are most worth analyzing.
Photographs taken by Spirit of its surroundings have also been trickling in, deputy project scientist Albert Haldemann said.
The $820 million Mars Exploration Rover project includes a second, identical rover, named Opportunity, which is scheduled to land on Jan. 24.
NASA sent the two robotic geologists to prospect for evidence that Mars may once have been a wet world conducive to life.
Rover unfolds on Mars like poetry in motion
Experts see hurdles on way to fully manned
-- possibly fully funded -- mission to Red Planet
By Diedtra Henderson
DENVER POST
Scientists view President Bush's plans to send humans to the moon and to Mars as the tonic to cure much of what ails NASA.
Even more exciting, Bush will back the promise of human space exploration with dollars to make it happen.
Bush pledges to pump up NASA's annual budget of about $15 billion by $800 million this year and will tack on 5 percent increases each year for the next five years, in a budget heading to Congress.
Meanwhile, NASA's Spirit rover has fully unfolded itself and stretched up to its full 4-foot, 11-inch height, making it ready to drive off the lander that delivered it to Mars, the space agency said Saturday.
The rover could reach the Martian surface as early as Wednesday morning.
"It now stands at full height and all six wheels are in their final position," mission manager Jennifer Trosper said during a news conference at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena. **There's a lot of buzz and a lot of smiling faces here, even though we've heard nothing officially,** said Mike Coats, a former shuttle astronaut and vice president of advanced space transportation at Lockheed Martin Space Systems near Denver, speaking of Bush's expected announcement later this week.>
But the scientists, mathematicians and engineers on whose shoulders the Mars and moon missions would rest know many hurdles have to be overcome to turn Bush's dream into reality.
The Challenger and Columbia disasters are seared into the nation's soul. Even if the lunar and Mars spacecraft successfully slip into space, health risks for crews include cancer in the near term, cataracts and neurological disorders in the long term, as well as damaged DNA that could pass genetic defects to future generations of the astronauts' families.
Even simply floating weightless saps bone strength and makes fractures more likely, complicating tasks astronauts will be expected to complete to return to Earth.
Coats tells local schoolchildren that someone their age could be the first to explore Mars. But he weighs those inspirational words with sobering what ifs.
"Man, we don't want to get them back as jellyfish," Coats said.
The highest health risks accompany sending humans to Mars.
The fourth planet from the sun lies at least six months' travel distance from Earth.
The current NASA strategy is to launch every two years when the two planets' orbits draw them closer together, reducing flight time. That makes a manned Mars mission a three-year proposition for astronauts.
For much of that time, they would have to be shielded from potentially deadly doses of radiation. The Van Allen belts that surround Earth trap charged particles delivered by solar wind and cosmic rays, protecting humans from their harmful effects. Outside of Earth's protective cocoon, astronauts and their craft would be buffeted by heavy ions able to penetrate spacecraft or human skin. While the charged particles create the eerie Northern Lights on Earth, astronauts on Mars would be ducking for cover. Pulses of energy unleashed by solar flares pack enough punch to cause radiation sickness or death for unprotected astronauts.
What risk is acceptable?
"That's a fundamental issue," said Jeffrey Sutton, director of the National Space Biomedical Research Institute in Houston. "We cannot be entirely risk-averse. Exploration in harsh environments involves risk."
But cancer risks for astronauts headed to Mars may be too high for politicians, American voters and astronauts themselves to stomach.
The Associated Press contributed to this report.
The researchers have turned to history -- studying the health of Japanese atomic bomb survivors -- and have devised research projects to gauge hazards for astronauts zapped by radiation doses unlike those humans receive on Earth.
"We do not know if the cancer risk is too high or morally or legally acceptable because the error bars ... are too wide at this time," said Francis Cucinotta, radiation safety officer at NASA's Johnson Space Center.
After a 1,000-day Mars mission, a 40-year-old male astronaut would experience a 3.4 percent increase in his risk of developing life-ending cancer, researchers estimated in a 2001 study. But researchers said they were only 95 percent sure increases to that astronaut's risk would fall below 18.5 percent.
Change the gender and the odds get worse. The chances a female astronaut of the same age would suffer from a deadly form of cancer after a Mars mission rise by 5.7 percent. But the worst-case scenario could increase her risk by 30.8 percent.
Those risk estimates are important when engineers design shielding for spacecraft, which increases mission cost and weight.
The toll of weightlessness on the human body is a bit easier to gauge, thanks to lengthy missions, including the 75.2 million miles Shannon Lucid traveled during her 188-day Mir Space Station mission.
By studying the health of astronauts and cosmonauts, patients on bed rest and animals, researchers know that depriving the body of gravity's effects can sap 1 percent to 1.5 percent of bone mineral density per month.
The progressive osteoporosis-like changes to bone lessen when astronauts return to Earth. Mars has just 40 percent of Earth's gravity.
"Is that enough to really slow down the rate of bone loss in humans? The answer to that is we don't know," Sutton said.
Researchers don't even know if astronaut bones return to normal on Earth.
Planners would have to account for the likelihood that bone fractures and motion sickness that accompany returning to a gravity-driven world would hinder the crew from completing mission-critical tasks.
And since space crews are older than in Gemini and Apollo days, planners will have to sort out how to conduct space medicine on the fly. International Space Station crews know if they can't quickly stem a mysterious air leak, they can hop into a Soyuz capsule and return. Mars astronauts would need six months to return.
"These are not barriers to us moving forward," Sutton said. "They are challenges that can be met and can be solved."
Scientists shrug when asked about the technical difficulty of returning to the moon for the first time since 1972. Been there, done that 30 years ago, they chorus about the three-day trip.
"Let me put it differently: The challenges are political and financial," said Bruce Jakosky, director of the Center for Astrobiology at the University of Colorado's Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space Physics.
"Is this something we want to take on, given the increased cost and the risks? Personally I'm not convinced, as a country, we're willing to put astronauts' lives at risk," Jakosky said.
Still, there are benefits that could accompany the return of humans to the Moon, including sparking more interest in space science as a career.
"That's something I've always hoped would happen," said Bill Farrand, a geologist at the Boulder-based Space Science Institute among the Mars Exploration Rover science team. "When I was just 7 and 8 is when the Apollo missions were going on. Those were a great inspiration to me."
Saturday's unfolding of the Spirit rover was one of the most complex deployments ever performed by a robotic spacecraft, mechanical systems engineer Chris Voorhees said. NASA had to fold up the 384-pound rover to make it fit inside the lander, which opened up like a four-petal flower.
When Spirit does leave the lander, it will take a different route than scientists had hoped. Air bags used to cushion the rover's landing are now blocking the ramp NASA had planned to use. Instead, Spirit will turn 120 degrees to its right and take a second, more risky ramp to the ground, mission manager Matt Wallace said.
Even though it remains on its lander, 16 inches above the martian surface, Spirit already has found traces of minerals that could have formed in what might have been an ancient lake at the landing site.
That geologic observation could support theories that liquid water persisted on the surface of the planet during Mars' ancient past and provided an environment conducive to life.
However, scientists stressed that finding the minerals, called carbonates, does not immediately prove the lake theory. The carbonate dust also could have formed by reactions with the tiny amounts of water vapor found in the martian atmosphere.
"We've got a bunch of ideas and we don't know which one is right yet," said Steven Squyres of Cornell University, the mission's main scientist. A previous NASA spacecraft detected carbonates from orbit.
Spirit also was measuring the temperature and makeup of the rocks and soil around it with its thermal emission spectrometer.
The instrument sees infrared radiation -- heat -- emitted by objects, including rocks and soil. Variations in the radiation indicate differences in mineralogical composition. That's crucial information for scientists eager to learn what sort of rocks lie strewn around Spirit and which of them are most worth analyzing.
Photographs taken by Spirit of its surroundings have also been trickling in, deputy project scientist Albert Haldemann said.
The $820 million Mars Exploration Rover project includes a second, identical rover, named Opportunity, which is scheduled to land on Jan. 24.
NASA sent the two robotic geologists to prospect for evidence that Mars may once have been a wet world conducive to life.
Oh me....!!! The "..Doom-n'-craps.." have cluttered up the Corn Patch for the time being...!!! If you're driving through, please watch out for ice on the bridges where their copious explusions of hot air tends to condense on the cold concrete....!!! http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A6715-2004Jan10.html
Democrats Flood Iowa With Ground Troops
Mobilization Will Be Key To Winning Caucuses
By Dan Balz
Washington Post Staff Writer
Sunday, January 11, 2004; Page A01
DES MOINES, Jan. 10 -- Iowans have never seen a political battle like the one that has begun to unfold here, a massive voter mobilization operation that will decide the outcome of the Jan. 19 Democratic caucuses and demonstrate whether Howard Dean's grass-roots movement translates into superior strength at the ballot box................
ps: the '..Washington Pokes..' reporter (..who has never been out of town before..) has obviously never seen a good healthy dicussion regarding prize hogs at the Iowa State Fair. Same stench, with a lot more noise.........!!!
HMB,
Would you like to be an Assistant on this Board..??
I'm going to be a little busy for the forseeable future, so we could probably use another "..ear tweaker.." to keep this Board cleaned up.
TIA,
John
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Meanwhile, back at the ranch............. While Randy "..Vaporman.." Sulhoff seems to want to hide behind Sarbanes-Oxley with his thumb up his arse.
At least Freddie Schwab will communicate with stockholders by email.
"...Wait and see!..."
Freddy Schwab
AVHC Intl.
Bismarckstr.77
46047 Oberhausen
Phone: +492088823268
Fax: +492088823267
e-medical-europe@t-online.de
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Von: *
Gesendet: Freitag, 9. Januar 2004 00:48
An: Freddie Schwab (E-mail)
Betreff: FW:
Wichtigkeit: Hoch
"...This makes your company and AVHC look bad...."
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From: *
Sent: Thursday, January 08, 2004 4:59 PM
To: Randy Sulhoff (E-mail); Randy Sulhoff (E-mail 2); Freddie Schwab
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RB post: http://ragingbull.lycos.com/mboard/boards.cgi?board=AVHC&read=426
"....By: tsi
08 Jan 2004, 01:51 AM EST
Msg. 426 of 430
(This msg. is a reply to 423 by bestbydesign.)
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give it up Randall Sulhoff
I have tried to call and email this guy multiple time and guess what -
no
reply
Wonder why?
Well, checkout their SEC filings and you'll see that Mr. Sulhoff (the
God
fearing Christian that he is) has opted to sell almost a million shares
of
AVHC at par value.
Listen folks, Mr. Sulhoff wants all of us to believe that he's building
a
great company. IMO - he's building a nice savings account for his
friends
and family at your (and my) expense.
By the way - the "New and Improved" http://www.nutratek.com website has
nothing but smoke and mirror marketing tied to it.
Perhaps Randy is using his recent winnings to fund the enhancements of
nutratek.com for his own benefit? - JMHO..."
******************************
John
MYIQ - Edulink, Inc. Announces Agreement to Acquire Bloomen, a Leading Educational Company in China With Projected Revenue for 2004 of Over $10 Million
SANTA MONICA, Calif., Jan 8, 2004 (BUSINESS WIRE) -- Charlie Guy, CEO of Edulink, Inc., (OTCBB:MYIQ), announced today the signing of a definitive agreement with BonAirGroup Limited, the sole shareholder of Bloomen Limited d/b/a ICUrls.com, operating in China and formerly called OnLine Education Network, a Division of HRDQ, China, relating to Edulink's acquisition of 100% of the stock of Bloomen in return for shares of Edulink's common stock. The number of shares of Edulink's common stock to be issued is conditioned upon various factors which include, among other things, the market price during the five business days prior to closing the transaction and the revenue generated by Bloomen during 2004. The closing is scheduled for January 31, 2004 and is conditioned upon the approval of Edulink's Board of Directors after reviewing and approving additional due diligence materials now being provided by Bloomen, including audited financial statements, material agreements and patent documentation.
Bloomen is a leading online learning platform and provider of technology and services to educational markets in China. Bloomen currently has a customer base which includes in excess of 2,000 schools, 2 million students, 1 million parents, 45,000 teachers and 840 enterprises. Bloomen has generated revenue in 2003 of $1,800,000 (unaudited), and projects revenue in 2004 of over $10 Million.
The acquisition agreement follows a Memorandum of Understanding which was concluded in November, 2003. It is intended that following the closing of the acquisition, ICUrls.com will operate as a subsidiary of Edulink, with Bloomen's current management to remain in place.
Michael Rosenfeld, Chairman of Edulink, stated: "Our second stage due diligence activities over the last six weeks only reinforced our view that with the integration of our eKnowledgeXchange System and Bloomen's Platform, the existing Bloomen penetration into the ever growing education and corporate training markets in China should increase in a manner which well exceeds current expectations, meaning corresponding increases in pre-acquisition projected revenue and profits."
Charlie Guy reiterated his prior statement that, "This acquisition would be consistent with our goal in moving to penetrate education markets outside of the US. In this particular case, the acquisition would immediately provide significant net profits to Edulink and thus great value for our shareholders. Moreover, the integration of portions of the technology applications included within the Bloomen Platform, when integrated into our System, should serve to reduce the development costs we had anticipated expending for purposes of exploiting our System in other vertical markets."
About Bloomen
Bloomen is a leading online learning platform and provider of technology and services to educational markets in China. The Company designs, builds and supports some of the most successful, fully online degree, certificate and corporate training development programs in the China. Bloomen's customers include public and private universities, school districts, community colleges, and government agencies of education. The Company was founded in 2001 and is headquartered in Guangzhou, China. For more information, visit www.ICUrls.com. Bloomen's online platform content management system has established a process for institutions to manage create, edit, approve and publish content to ensure quality control and productivity, and allows a content object to exist across multiple courses, departments and schools, yet be updated in one central location, so teachers can easily reuse content throughout their programs. The platform enables course authors to retrieve previous versions so they can track and review the history of changes made to the content object to confirm quality and accuracy. The platform gives administrators permission to easily see where content is being used across the campus so they can verify standardization and ensure quality. It provides a framework for professional and consistent content delivery, so teachers can efficiently facilitate more advanced course authoring.
Bloomen, through IC China network, links educational and training services to local communities across China.
About Edulink
Edulink's current business focus is on the near and long term opportunities to implement a series of revenue generating products and services built upon our knowledge sharing system's core technologies known as the eKnowledgeXchange. The Company's focus is not limited to the US K-12 market, but includes implementation in the international education marketplace as well as the utilization of these same core technologies to deploy revenue-generating models outside of the education market.
Edulink's core technology system, developed by its technology integration partner SAIC, and market tested over the last several years, is based on the integration of the three core foundations for digital asset or eKnowledge management: Storage & Retrieval, Repurposing, and Distribution. The eKnowledgeXchange will allow for the personalized, secure and managed delivery of enhanced digitized assets or eknowledge utilizing one of our four proprietary delivery systems: the Internet, CD-ROM/DVD, Traditional Print, or e-Print on Demand. EKnowledge is knowledge, as it exists in a profoundly networked world. It is not just a digitized collection of knowledge. eKnowledge consists of knowledge objects and knowledge flows that combine content, context, and insights on application. The new Web site is located at www.eKnowledgeExchange.com.
SOURCE: Edulink, Inc.
Edulink, Inc.
Stuart Smith, 760-643-1946
info@smallcapvoice.com
Edulink, Inc. Announces Agreement to Acquire Bloomen, a Leading Educational Company in China With Projected Revenue for 2004 of Over $10 Million
SANTA MONICA, Calif., Jan 8, 2004 (BUSINESS WIRE) -- Charlie Guy, CEO of Edulink, Inc., (OTCBB:MYIQ), announced today the signing of a definitive agreement with BonAirGroup Limited, the sole shareholder of Bloomen Limited d/b/a ICUrls.com, operating in China and formerly called OnLine Education Network, a Division of HRDQ, China, relating to Edulink's acquisition of 100% of the stock of Bloomen in return for shares of Edulink's common stock. The number of shares of Edulink's common stock to be issued is conditioned upon various factors which include, among other things, the market price during the five business days prior to closing the transaction and the revenue generated by Bloomen during 2004. The closing is scheduled for January 31, 2004 and is conditioned upon the approval of Edulink's Board of Directors after reviewing and approving additional due diligence materials now being provided by Bloomen, including audited financial statements, material agreements and patent documentation.
Bloomen is a leading online learning platform and provider of technology and services to educational markets in China. Bloomen currently has a customer base which includes in excess of 2,000 schools, 2 million students, 1 million parents, 45,000 teachers and 840 enterprises. Bloomen has generated revenue in 2003 of $1,800,000 (unaudited), and projects revenue in 2004 of over $10 Million.
The acquisition agreement follows a Memorandum of Understanding which was concluded in November, 2003. It is intended that following the closing of the acquisition, ICUrls.com will operate as a subsidiary of Edulink, with Bloomen's current management to remain in place.
Michael Rosenfeld, Chairman of Edulink, stated: "Our second stage due diligence activities over the last six weeks only reinforced our view that with the integration of our eKnowledgeXchange System and Bloomen's Platform, the existing Bloomen penetration into the ever growing education and corporate training markets in China should increase in a manner which well exceeds current expectations, meaning corresponding increases in pre-acquisition projected revenue and profits."
Charlie Guy reiterated his prior statement that, "This acquisition would be consistent with our goal in moving to penetrate education markets outside of the US. In this particular case, the acquisition would immediately provide significant net profits to Edulink and thus great value for our shareholders. Moreover, the integration of portions of the technology applications included within the Bloomen Platform, when integrated into our System, should serve to reduce the development costs we had anticipated expending for purposes of exploiting our System in other vertical markets."
About Bloomen
Bloomen is a leading online learning platform and provider of technology and services to educational markets in China. The Company designs, builds and supports some of the most successful, fully online degree, certificate and corporate training development programs in the China. Bloomen's customers include public and private universities, school districts, community colleges, and government agencies of education. The Company was founded in 2001 and is headquartered in Guangzhou, China. For more information, visit www.ICUrls.com. Bloomen's online platform content management system has established a process for institutions to manage create, edit, approve and publish content to ensure quality control and productivity, and allows a content object to exist across multiple courses, departments and schools, yet be updated in one central location, so teachers can easily reuse content throughout their programs. The platform enables course authors to retrieve previous versions so they can track and review the history of changes made to the content object to confirm quality and accuracy. The platform gives administrators permission to easily see where content is being used across the campus so they can verify standardization and ensure quality. It provides a framework for professional and consistent content delivery, so teachers can efficiently facilitate more advanced course authoring.
Bloomen, through IC China network, links educational and training services to local communities across China.
About Edulink
Edulink's current business focus is on the near and long term opportunities to implement a series of revenue generating products and services built upon our knowledge sharing system's core technologies known as the eKnowledgeXchange. The Company's focus is not limited to the US K-12 market, but includes implementation in the international education marketplace as well as the utilization of these same core technologies to deploy revenue-generating models outside of the education market.
Edulink's core technology system, developed by its technology integration partner SAIC, and market tested over the last several years, is based on the integration of the three core foundations for digital asset or eKnowledge management: Storage & Retrieval, Repurposing, and Distribution. The eKnowledgeXchange will allow for the personalized, secure and managed delivery of enhanced digitized assets or eknowledge utilizing one of our four proprietary delivery systems: the Internet, CD-ROM/DVD, Traditional Print, or e-Print on Demand. EKnowledge is knowledge, as it exists in a profoundly networked world. It is not just a digitized collection of knowledge. eKnowledge consists of knowledge objects and knowledge flows that combine content, context, and insights on application. The new Web site is located at www.eKnowledgeExchange.com.
SOURCE: Edulink, Inc.
Edulink, Inc.
Stuart Smith, 760-643-1946
info@smallcapvoice.com
You have apparently contracted Terminal QBID Symdrome...... Not every company operates in 100% BS Mode like that totally bogus 'El Limpo' outfit.
Check the iBox for the new weblink.
John
AVHC 0.06 0.01 (20.00) 0.05 0.06 320,200
Building up some volume today..............
We were all waiting for you to call the company and report back..........
Looking forward to your input.
John
Samll Cap Stock Expo:
http://www.smallcapexpo.com/
John
ps: AVHC starting to make small rumblings...........
Samll Cap Stock Expo:
http://www.smallcapexpo.com/
John
ps: AVHC starting to make small rumblings...........
Samll Cap Stock Expo:
http://www.smallcapexpo.com/
John
Samll Cap Stock Expo:
http://www.smallcapexpo.com/
John
AVHC 0.055 +0.005 (+10.00%) 0.05 0.06 220,200
It will be nice if this is the start of a trend.............
John
You didn't put "AON" in your order did you, that's a deal killer a lot of the time.
They also do Markets before they do Limits.
John
Why don't you point that out to Dave when you call him.
I agree. Tell him I said "..Hey...".
John
It's been a long time since I dug into that issue.
As I recall, they do. You should call Dave Johnson and ask for patent number refereences, etc. The injector/spark plug was their idea as I recall. The "..batter process.." for the guts of the CATs is also patented to the best of my recollection.
John
Magnum Acquires New Porphyry-Copper/Gold Property in South-Eastern Mongolia
TORONTO, Jan 6, 2004 (BUSINESS WIRE) -- Mr. Reno CALABRIGO, President - Magnum d'Or Resources Inc.(OTCBB:MAGR) a junior resource exploration Company is pleased to announce that Magnum has acquired an option to earn a 100% interest in the Khol Morit porphyry-copper gold property located west of Ivanhoe Mine's (TSX:IVN)(Nasdaq:HUGO) Turquoise Hill Project in south-eastern Mongolia. Under the terms of the option agreement, Magnum has an exclusive right to earn a 100% interest in the property within a 9-month period through share issuance, a small cash consideration, and an exploratory work program to take place within 9 months.
The Khol Morit property hosts a porphyry copper system with alteration covering 2 square kilometers. In a recent report on the property, it was suggested that due to the effects of surface oxidation and leaching, copper mineralization may be more extensive at depth than at the surface.
GEOLOGY:
On the Khul Morit, a broad zone of quartz-tourmaline breccias roughly 1.4 kilometers long and 500 meters wide overlaps the granodiorite-volcanic intrusive contact. Individual breccia bodies measure up to 500 meters long and 100 meters wide. The breccias contain strongly silicified and sericitized angular clasts of volcanic and plutonic rocks set in a vein matrix of quartz, tourmaline, iron oxides (dominantly hematite), and occasional chrysocolla. A few areas of quartz-FeOx-chrysocolla/malachite veins and stockworks with strong phyllic alteration have been observed near the breccia bodies.
Linear zones of silification with pyrite (oxidized), and quartz veins with and without iron oxides occur south of most quartz-tourmaline breccias and visible surface copper minerals. This alteration is in turn surrounded by a broad 2-km long and 1-km-wide envelope of sericitic and/or argillic alteration. Iron oxide staining, predominantly hematite, is widespread throughout the altered area.
Other areas of copper mineralization and colour anomalies (iron oxides) have been observed in the region surrounding Khol Morit and are to be investigated in the spring.
RESULTS -- ROCK SAMPLES:
Thirty out of 45 grab samples taken at Khol Morit were submitted for analysis to Chemex Labs in Vancouver. Many of the trace elements normally associated with porphyry copper deposits proved to be highly anomalous in the Khol Morit rocks. Out of the 19 samples analyzed for trace elements, copper concentrations ranged up to 1790 ppm (0.18 %), arsenic up to 1990 ppm, and molybdenum up to 48 ppm. Antimony, lead, and zinc were also anomalous, with values of up to 74, 34, and 62 ppm respectively. Gold values were in the 5 to 10 ppb range, or less, one sample analyzed by Dunn yielded 80 ppb.
Copper and arsenic values were highest within quartz-tourmaline breccias: 9 such samples averaged 325 ppm Cu and 425 ppm As. The relatively high As/Cu ratio may be a product of oxidation and leaching during weathering. Little carbonate would be available in the altered rhyolitic host rocks to fix copper in carbonate minerals at the surface (most of the surface copper was in chrysocolla). A sulfide enrichment zone of copper could be expected below the surface.
In addition to the work being carried out on the North Zone and East Zone properties, the Company has been actively pursuing other potential acquisitions in Mongolia. The purchase of the Khol Morit license is the fourth mineral license acquisition for Magnum in the last 10 months, and represents the Company's commitment to enhancing shareholder value through the acquisition of properties that exhibit the potential to hold economic mineralization. The Company will be conducting aggressive work programs on both the north zone/east zone, and Khul Morit properties in the New Year.
SOURCE: MAGNUM d'Or RESOURCES INC.
MAGNUM d'Or RESOURCES INC.
Reno J. Calabrigo, 416-386-0044
info@magnumexploration.com
www.magnumexploration.com
Better late than never, I was posting on the Breaking News board - since DNAP was up.
Figured I might as well cover the bases here, too.
John
Hi,
o/t: I watched MRAY for a while a couple of years ago, but they have never made any notable progress. http://biz.yahoo.com/e/030317/mray.ob10-q.html
ARMR and AENG are somewhat similar designs but driven by people who actucally seem to be making progress.
Here is another REAL company that is developing some kick-tush engine technology: http://www.coatesengine.com/news.htm Working with Porsche as I recall.
And then, there's also the Orenda V8 engine conversion for piston-engine aircraft: http://www.epi-eng.com/ET-V8-Details.htm
John
DNAP - News: (..moving up..) Danger - Convertible Debenture
DNAPrint(TM) genomics, Inc. Secures Up To $8 Million In Financing From La Jolla Cove Investors
SARASOTA, Fla., Dec 03, 2003 /PRNewswire-FirstCall via Comtex/ -- DNAPrint(TM)
genomics, Inc. (OTC Bulletin Board: DNAP) has secured a commitment from La Jolla
Cove Investors, Inc. to invest up to $8 million in the company over
approximately the next two years. The transaction involves a debenture
convertible into common stock and warrants to purchase common stock, resulting
in a commitment of $400,000 per month over a twenty month period. The purchase
price is based on the trading price of the company's stock, and the funding will
begin after the company registers the common stock that the company will issue
in the transaction. DNAPrint(TM) anticipates that the transaction will provide
it with equity to build the business.
"We are extremely excited about the prospects for DNAPrint(TM) now that we have
established a reliable source of capital for the foreseeable future," said
Richard Gabriel, CEO and President of DNAPrint(TM). "This financing, once the
registration process at the SEC is completed, should allow management to build
shareholder value. We expect to be able to increase our revenues by hiring
personnel, expanding operations and aggressively pursuing business opportunities
in the forensics, pharmacogenomics and consumer products arena," said Mr.
Gabriel.
"This investment starts a new phase of development for the company that will
include the expansion of our Clinical Pharmacogenomics Program. DNAPrint(TM) is
now poised to make a significant contribution to the upcoming era of
personalized medicine," said Hector J. Gomez, MD, PhD, and Chairman of the
Company's Board.
Athena Capital Partners, Inc. in Tampa, Florida was the private merchant bank
that brought La Jolla Cove Investors and DNAPrint(TM) together. "This is the
kind of deal that really helps a company like DNAPrint(TM) grow," said Kevin
Cimino, Managing Director and Principal at Athena.
"We are very pleased with the outcome of our arrangement with Athena Capital,
and we look forward to our new relationship with La Jolla Cove. This transaction
recognizes the value of companies like DNAPrint -- companies that are not afraid
to take scientific risks, companies that develop technologies that are neglected
or unforeseen by others and companies that devote their efforts to rapidly
commercializing products for underserved markets," said Tony Frudakis, Founder
and CSO.
Monica Tamborini, CFO and COO of DNAPrint(TM), commented, "We believe
DNAPrint(TM) has a bright future, and this important step will help the
management achieve its objectives. Our goal and our mission are to increase
shareholder value through real growth."
About DNAPrint(TM) genomics, Inc.
DNAPrint genomics, Inc. was founded by a team of scientists with research and
commercial experience in high-level mathematical modeling, programming and
molecular genetics. Two products currently marketed by DNAPrint(TM),
DNAWitness(TM) and the ANCESTRYbyDNA(TM), are a direct result of focused
research by the DNAPrint(TM) research and development team.
In addition to the currently marketed products, DNAPrint(TM) is using
proprietary human genome research methods to develop pharma-predictive tests for
matching patients with drugs based on their genetic constitution, and to
discover disease genes for the development of new drugs. DNAPrint(TM) will
continue to develop new forensic genomics and consumer genomics testing
products. The Company is traded on the Nasdaq OTC Bulletin Board under the
ticker symbol DNAP. For more information about the company, please visit
www.dnaprint.com.
For more information on our genealogical DNA derived test, ANCESTRYbyDNA(TM)
2.0, visit us on line at www.ancestrybydna.com, helping everyone to understand
their genetic heritage.
http://quotes.freerealtime.com/rt/frt/N?symbol=DNAP&art=C2003120300337p0507&SA=Latest%20News
This mosaic image taken by the navigation camera on the Mars Exploration Rover, 'Spirit' represents an overhead view of the rover on the surface of Mars
Mars Rover Accomplishes Precise Landing
Jessica Berman
Washington
04 Jan 2004, 20:13 UTC
U.S. space agency officials say the Mars space rover should return it's first color pictures of the surface of the Red Planet Monday after the space probe landed precisely where they had hoped.
NASA officials continue to be amazed and delighted with the landing of the Mars Rover. Steven Squyres is principal scientific investigator for the Mars mission. "Boy, I'd say we nailed it," he said.
At NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory outside Los Angeles, engineers and scientists cheered as the rover, named Spirit, touched down on Mars after a seven-month, 483 million kilometer trek. Photos show the Martian surface is covered with small rocks.
Mr. Squyres, an astronomer at Cornell University, said of the first images of the Martian surface, "to me, to my eye, remarkably devoid of big boulders, at least in our immediate vicinity. And that's just glorious news, because big boulders are something we have trouble driving over."
Mr. Squyres says wind storms blasted away dirt and debris from the small rocks so that's one less thing the rover has to do to keep from getting stuck.
Officials say the rover will stay put for nine days to make sure all of the equipment is working as it's supposed to before it moves to other locations. The vehicle will collect rocks and analyze them for evidence of water, an essential ingredient for life.
The mission is scheduled to last at least ninety days.
http://www.voanews.com/article.cfm?objectID=BF33E167-01FD-46FA-96FBF2699A91E0AA
A dollar to a donut, it will be darn close....!!! The Saudi's, Babylonians and the Taliban are well known for their public use of the old scimitar...!!!
35 years of torture, murdering and raping people's relatives has probably garnered the MOFO Hitler/Stalin-loving POS SOB quite a following of "..volunteer executioners.."!!!
If it is a public event, and I have the time, I make well schedule my first Mediterranean sight-seeing voyage to include that bit of entertainment - as I would the gassing of Charlie Manson.
John
ps: OBTW, those should have been "__.22 Short Hollow-points kept in their shirt pockest..". It was late, I was on a roll, and the "..I ain't driving anywhere tonight.." single-malt scotch was pretty good.... ( tee hee ).
Obewan,
I think the trial of Saddass Hussein will be a real trip. I envision it going something like this....:
Chief Judge: "...Are you <iSaddass Hussein..."?
Saddass: "...Yes...".
Chief Judge: "...How do you plead to the charges made against you..."?
Saddass: "...Per my supreme hero, Charlie Manson, I declare that you have no authority over me...".
Chief Judge: "...We'll take that as a "Not Guilty by reason of Supreme Arsehole-ism". Will the attorneys for the State and the Defense please proceed".
Resident Courtroom Gnomes: "...Blah blah blah blah. Bluster bluster bluster bluster. Mumbo mumbo mumbo. Jumbo jumbo jumbo. Many photographs of trenches full of dead people and babies, and warehouses and tunnels full of banned weapons. Hundreds of heartbroken witnesses. Blah blah blah blah. Bluster bluster bluster bluster. Mumbo mumbo. Jumbo jumbo. Mumbo..!! Jummmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmbo..."!!!.
Chief Judge: "...Finding you guilty on all charges, you are condemmed to public execution by firing squad. On the following morning at dawn, you will be tied - nude - to a stake in the public square in Baghdad while standing in a bushel basket full of fire ants. Whereupon, 10 novice members under the age of 11 of the new Iraqi National NRA will attempt to shoot you in the face with .22 bolt-action single-shot rifles - using high-velocity hollow-points from 150 yards - until you are declared dead by a deaf-dumb-&-blind Mullah flown in from Iran ..."!!! "...May Allah have mercy on your carcass - a good pair of nose plugs...".
Cue: Gavel whack.
Exit stage left...........................
John
ps: I hope I can get a front row seat for my rocking chair. I plan to wear my officialy black Johnnie Cash outfit & duster, and bring my knitting and video camera........ "...Vive l'France...".
pps: Free vidoe tapes will be forwarded to Al Jazira, Osama Lama DingDong and that pan-banging, tin-pot, jerk-wang dictator in North Korea.
"...Ruhhhh Rohhhhhhhhh...", the liberals won't like hearing about "..recovery.." from ol' Alum-baby...!!! (..direct from the New York Slimes - even..)
SAN DIEGO, Jan. 3 — Alan Greenspan, the chairman of the Federal Reserve, claimed victory on Saturday in the Fed's three-year battle to limit the damage from the 1990's stock market bubble.
Speaking to an annual conference of economists here, Mr. Greenspan suggested that the current economic recovery had vindicated the Fed's decision not to try to prevent the bubble but rather to react to its aftermath.
"There appears to be enough evidence, at least tentatively, to conclude that our strategy of addressing the bubble's consequences, rather than the bubble itself, has been successful," Mr. Greenspan told the American Economic Association's annual meeting.
"Despite the stock market plunge," he said, "terrorist attacks, corporate scandals and wars in Afghanistan and Iraq, we experienced an exceptionally mild recession, even milder than that of a decade earlier."
The remarks served as further evidence that many Fed officials believe that the economy is stronger than it has been at any point since it fell into recession in early 2001.
Although the economy has grown rapidly in recent months, the Fed's benchmark short-term interest rate remains at an an almost 50-year low of 1 percent, but analysts expect it to rise this year.
Though economists widely praise the Fed's aggressive cutting of the rate since January 2001, Mr. Greenspan's sunny views are not universally held.
Some economists note that while the recent recession caused only a slight decline in economic output, the loss of jobs was the worst in 20 years. These economists say that even without raising the benchmark rate more than the Fed did in the late 1990's, Mr. Greenspan might have been able to restrain the bubble and its painful aftermath by speaking about it more forcefully or by tightening borrowing requirements for investors.
The Fed's rate directly affects the rates on many credit cards as well as small business and other loans and indirectly changes mortgage rates. By reducing its rate, the Fed makes borrowing less expensive and encourages spending by households and businesses. It raises the rate when officials worry that the economy is growing rapidly enough to cause inflation to accelerate.
In his remarks, which reviewed the Fed's monetary policy since the 1980's, Mr. Greenspan acknowledged that the Fed had not been infallible in recent years.
Some Fed officials had argued for even quicker rate cuts than Mr. Greenspan had wanted in 2002 and early last year. Those officials said that the economic excesses of the 1990's were still weighing on the economy.
The setting of interest rates is "an especially humbling activity," Mr. Greenspan said. "Uncertainty characterized virtually every meeting of the Fed's policy committee."
He added that from time to time, the committee "made decisions, some to move, some not to move, that we came to regret."
http://www.nytimes.com/2004/01/04/national/04GREE.html
Manufacturing Surges Ahead In December
Economists Predict Rise In Hiring at Factories
By Jonathan Krim
Washington Post Staff Writer
Saturday, January 3, 2004; Page E01
The country's manufacturing sector grew at a scorching pace for a second straight month, breaking decades-old records and exceeding expectations of economists who have been cautious about the relative strength of the recent economic turnaround.
Numbers released yesterday by the Institute for Supply Management showed new factory orders, production and employment all rising significantly last month. With the pace of new orders reaching a level not seen since July 1950, some economists are hopeful that manufacturers will begin a serious run at replacing the 2.6 million factory jobs lost over the past three years.
Others say that with the long-depressed manufacturing sector finally joining the recovery, 2004 could rival rapid growth years in 1984 and 1997 that followed economic downturns.
"We did [the recovery in] 2003 without the manufacturing sector," said James Paulsen, chief investment strategist at Wells Capital Management. "Now we're starting to dump fuel on a fire that was already burning pretty good. It's huge. . . . It starts to look like it could be one of those huge blowoff years."
The overall manufacturing index has grown for six straight months.
Still, not all the recent economic news has been positive. Last month's orders for durable goods were down. Housing sales and consumer confidence figures fell below expectations, leading to concerns that the recent economic strength might be temporary and more the result of short-term stimulus measures such as tax cuts.
But Paulsen and others think those fears are rapidly evaporating in the face of numbers such as those released yesterday.
Overall, the supply institute's purchasing managers' index hit 66.2 percent, the highest since late 1983. A number above 50 percent indicates that the manufacturing economy is growing, while less than 50 percent shows contraction. The figure rose by 3.4 percentage points over November, confounding a consensus estimate that it would fall back to 61.
Matthew Martin, senior economist at Economy.com, said the most important sign of continuing recovery is the level of new orders, which for the third consecutive month outpaced factory production.
That means that if factories want to keep pace, they will likely have to start hiring anew, or at the very least increase the hours that employees work. Moreover, the growing number of back orders and the still-low inventories mean that even if the pace of new orders slackens, manufacturers will need to operate full bore, Martin said.
Magnum Receives Compelling Preliminary IP Results
TORONTO, Dec 19, 2003 (BUSINESS WIRE) -- Mr. Reno J. Calabrigo, President of Magnum d'Or Resources Inc. (OTCBB:MAGR), a junior resource development Company is pleased to announce that the Company has received preliminary IP results. The preliminary plan view of the Resistivity Inversion shows a 600m long x 100m wide conductive zone at a depth of 150 meters. This zone is trending north south to southeast and remains open. A coincident conductive magnetic body is evident and is represented by a resistivity low. There is high magnetic susceptibility coincident with the conductive zone, which points towards mineral concentration.
The balance of the geophysics is still being processed and should be available shortly. These preliminary results will confirm additional drill targets on the East or Magnetite Zone and the newly discovered Copper Zone.
Mr. Calabrigo along with the Board and management are very encouraged by the results of the preliminary IP results. Mr. Calabrigo further stated, "Plans are underway to proceed with an aggressive drill program in the spring of 2004."
Mr. Calabrigo also stated that all those interested parties sign up on the Company's website http://www.magnumexploration.com/ to receive corporate updates.
A number of statements contained in this press release are forward-looking statements that are made pursuant to the Safe Harbor provisions of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. These forward-looking statements involve a number of risks and uncertainties including but not limited to: competitive market conditions, successful integration of acquisitions, and the ability to secure additional sources of financing. The actual results that Magnum may achieve could differ materially from any forward-looking statements due to such risks and uncertainties.
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SOURCE: Magnum d'Or Resources Inc.
Magnum d'Or Resources Inc.
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