Saturday, January 03, 2004
Your dollars on the move
From you to the pirates.
As well as a huge debt and dangerous interest rates the present U.S. administration still could not introduce liquidity into the economy. So they have allowed, in fact pushed, the dollar to record lows against foreign currencies (today €1.24). This in order to boost manufacturing and exports, basically to preserve jobs. To suck in all the available liquid from foreigners. In turn they have stuck it to their own importers, brutally damaged those whose `profit` comes in dollars, but crucially dampening the effect of the price rise in oil (today it is at $29.40, beyond the $24-$28 benchmark set by OPEC: futures contracts for January are at $31.95).
As well as all these measures designed to prop up an economy that shows no sign of `creating` its own wealth there are also the protectionist measures this administration has created. Firstly steel tariffs. Illegal under any kind of international rules or regulations. The sanctions were created with the full knowledge that it would take many months to sort them out. Thus keeping some of that precious liquid until the WTO could slowly grind to a decision. But by then it was too late, this U.S. administration had already slapped more illegal tariffs on other countries. Notably China.
Then of course there is the war in Iraq. Providing huge subsidies from the U.S. taxpayer straight to elite industries, financial, military and energy related. This knocks though into different 'markets' creating further 'growth'. As we all realise now, this kind of 'growth' is nothing more than book-cooking of the highest order. That money has been taken from ordinary American's savings, or has been leant to ordinary Americans at interest by the banks. A double winner. Then that 'spend' is counted as forming 'growth'. Along the way of course those elite industries are 'skimming', taking a slice. Halliburton are the most extreme, charging the U.S. taxpayer way over the odds for petrol imports for the U.S. Army from the UAE. Halliburton charge $2.64 per gallon, the general going rate is 74c. Now that's what we call wealth creation! Joe Schmo fights and dies, has his legs blown off, his flesh ripped, shoots a few kids, has his Mum pay the bill, gets charged a 400% surcharge for petrol by the skimmers and when he gets home will find that his President has cut army benefits, to save money. But surely an increase in army benefits would be 'economic growth'? It would create extra liquidity? Hey, who cares when you make it up as you go along? Pay and die.
...The thing about loans is that they only work because the person who loans the money makes cash when he takes it back. Or even better when he can grab assets. Now, either the Republican administration will reap the reward it desires after it wins the next election, crushing a further tranche of the American public into the mire. Or, on the outside chance that a Democrat wins, then they will have to return the money the Republicans snorted up their collective schnozzles. A Democrat administration will have to fix the huge deficits, just as Clinton did. Either way ordinary Americans are going to get it in the neck.
Slice by slice, quietly but efficiently, the American public are being herded onto poverty trains and are being sent straight to the ghetto, never to emerge.
...To paraphrase an incarcerated black man, Gil Scott Heron, this recession will not be televised. This recession will happen slowly, they will not jump from the trading floor windows, they will not know who to blame, they will not riot when black men are beaten to death, or shot whilst handcuffed, they will not care that Afghan children are vaporised, because they don't even know enough about their own situation at the bank to save themselves. This recession will go on for years, chip, chip chipping, until there is some kind of political will to embark upon the democratic revolutions the world needs now. That revolution, the democratic revolution, will be televised. But by the time the fear filled Americans switch on their sets and realise they have been duped, the American poor will be so very very angry. article
Let them eat cake.
....but hey, do what you want....you will anyway.
As well as a huge debt and dangerous interest rates the present U.S. administration still could not introduce liquidity into the economy. So they have allowed, in fact pushed, the dollar to record lows against foreign currencies (today €1.24). This in order to boost manufacturing and exports, basically to preserve jobs. To suck in all the available liquid from foreigners. In turn they have stuck it to their own importers, brutally damaged those whose `profit` comes in dollars, but crucially dampening the effect of the price rise in oil (today it is at $29.40, beyond the $24-$28 benchmark set by OPEC: futures contracts for January are at $31.95).
As well as all these measures designed to prop up an economy that shows no sign of `creating` its own wealth there are also the protectionist measures this administration has created. Firstly steel tariffs. Illegal under any kind of international rules or regulations. The sanctions were created with the full knowledge that it would take many months to sort them out. Thus keeping some of that precious liquid until the WTO could slowly grind to a decision. But by then it was too late, this U.S. administration had already slapped more illegal tariffs on other countries. Notably China.
Then of course there is the war in Iraq. Providing huge subsidies from the U.S. taxpayer straight to elite industries, financial, military and energy related. This knocks though into different 'markets' creating further 'growth'. As we all realise now, this kind of 'growth' is nothing more than book-cooking of the highest order. That money has been taken from ordinary American's savings, or has been leant to ordinary Americans at interest by the banks. A double winner. Then that 'spend' is counted as forming 'growth'. Along the way of course those elite industries are 'skimming', taking a slice. Halliburton are the most extreme, charging the U.S. taxpayer way over the odds for petrol imports for the U.S. Army from the UAE. Halliburton charge $2.64 per gallon, the general going rate is 74c. Now that's what we call wealth creation! Joe Schmo fights and dies, has his legs blown off, his flesh ripped, shoots a few kids, has his Mum pay the bill, gets charged a 400% surcharge for petrol by the skimmers and when he gets home will find that his President has cut army benefits, to save money. But surely an increase in army benefits would be 'economic growth'? It would create extra liquidity? Hey, who cares when you make it up as you go along? Pay and die.
...The thing about loans is that they only work because the person who loans the money makes cash when he takes it back. Or even better when he can grab assets. Now, either the Republican administration will reap the reward it desires after it wins the next election, crushing a further tranche of the American public into the mire. Or, on the outside chance that a Democrat wins, then they will have to return the money the Republicans snorted up their collective schnozzles. A Democrat administration will have to fix the huge deficits, just as Clinton did. Either way ordinary Americans are going to get it in the neck.
Slice by slice, quietly but efficiently, the American public are being herded onto poverty trains and are being sent straight to the ghetto, never to emerge.
...To paraphrase an incarcerated black man, Gil Scott Heron, this recession will not be televised. This recession will happen slowly, they will not jump from the trading floor windows, they will not know who to blame, they will not riot when black men are beaten to death, or shot whilst handcuffed, they will not care that Afghan children are vaporised, because they don't even know enough about their own situation at the bank to save themselves. This recession will go on for years, chip, chip chipping, until there is some kind of political will to embark upon the democratic revolutions the world needs now. That revolution, the democratic revolution, will be televised. But by the time the fear filled Americans switch on their sets and realise they have been duped, the American poor will be so very very angry. article
Let them eat cake.
....but hey, do what you want....you will anyway.
Meanwhile, in Baghdad
It makes me wonder what people in America would do under similar circumstances: Having to wait 6-10 hours in a line to fill up their SUV; gas prices that had risen 1,000% in less than a year; flickering, unreliable electricity in their homes for months on end; a foreign (Muslim) military storming the homes of their neighbors; the daily threat of being blown up by a roadside bomb or shot by a trigger-happy soldier at a military checkpoint; sixty percent unemployment and rising... article
We could find out before it's over. Although that military storming our homes would look like Floridastorm state troopers and U.S. National Guardsmen.
We could find out before it's over. Although that military storming our homes would look like Florida
An interesting claim - update
At the time I posted this article about the woman who says the U.S. prevented her father and others from overthrowing Saddam in 1993, I said I didn't have any other verification of the claim.
Today, I have this Noam Chomsky interview for you (which you should really read in its entirety, as there's lots more information offered on our spreading of democracy around the globe), where he comments:
Up until the day of the invasion of Kuwait, Saddam Hussein was a fine guy. It wasn't secret. The U.S. and Britain were providing him with aid, they explained the reasons, it wasn't a secret. This was well after his worst atrocities, the Halabjah gassing and so on. It was long after the war with Iran and had nothing to do with Iran. The reasons were officially explained: We were providing Saddam with aid including technology for development of weapons of mass destruction out of responsibility to U.S. exporters, and supporting Saddam will improve the condition of human rights and stability in the region.
And that went on virtually up until the invasion of Kuwait, and then he became a bad guy all of a sudden, once he disobeyed orders. Then after the invasion, the U.S. is in total control and there is an uprising led by rebelling Iraqi generals, who didn't ask the U.S. for help. They asked for access to captured Iraqi equipment and wanted the U.S. to prevent helicopters and so on from destroying them. The U.S. just backed off and effectively authorized Saddam to destroy the rebellion.
The rebellion may have overthrown him, in which case Iraq would have been run by Iraqis and that's not tolerable. It's to be run by either a client or by us. And there were explanations which were public but people are very careful not to report them. Take for example, Thomas Friedman of The New York Times. He now explains in his columns that he was in favor of this invasion because it was a moral obligation, and what drew him to it was discovering the mass graves from the repression after the uprising. He is careful not to tell and others are polite enough not to report what he said at the time when he knew all about the mass graves. The atrocities were perfectly clear to everyone. The rebellion was crushed with U.S. authorization for reasons which he said were good reasons... 'The best of all worlds for the United States would be an iron-fisted military junta ruling Iraq the same way Saddam did' [NYT, July 7, 1991] and much to satisfaction of the U.S. allies in the region, and of course, the bosses in Washington. But we couldn't find another iron-fisted military junta so we had to settle for this one.
The New York Times Middle East correspondent explained at the time that as much as it pains us to see all killings and the bloodshed, there is nevertheless an overwhelming consensus that Saddam offers more hope for the stability in the region than those who are trying to overthrow him. Stability is a code word that means obedience.
Today, I have this Noam Chomsky interview for you (which you should really read in its entirety, as there's lots more information offered on our spreading of democracy around the globe), where he comments:
Up until the day of the invasion of Kuwait, Saddam Hussein was a fine guy. It wasn't secret. The U.S. and Britain were providing him with aid, they explained the reasons, it wasn't a secret. This was well after his worst atrocities, the Halabjah gassing and so on. It was long after the war with Iran and had nothing to do with Iran. The reasons were officially explained: We were providing Saddam with aid including technology for development of weapons of mass destruction out of responsibility to U.S. exporters, and supporting Saddam will improve the condition of human rights and stability in the region.
And that went on virtually up until the invasion of Kuwait, and then he became a bad guy all of a sudden, once he disobeyed orders. Then after the invasion, the U.S. is in total control and there is an uprising led by rebelling Iraqi generals, who didn't ask the U.S. for help. They asked for access to captured Iraqi equipment and wanted the U.S. to prevent helicopters and so on from destroying them. The U.S. just backed off and effectively authorized Saddam to destroy the rebellion.
The rebellion may have overthrown him, in which case Iraq would have been run by Iraqis and that's not tolerable. It's to be run by either a client or by us. And there were explanations which were public but people are very careful not to report them. Take for example, Thomas Friedman of The New York Times. He now explains in his columns that he was in favor of this invasion because it was a moral obligation, and what drew him to it was discovering the mass graves from the repression after the uprising. He is careful not to tell and others are polite enough not to report what he said at the time when he knew all about the mass graves. The atrocities were perfectly clear to everyone. The rebellion was crushed with U.S. authorization for reasons which he said were good reasons... 'The best of all worlds for the United States would be an iron-fisted military junta ruling Iraq the same way Saddam did' [NYT, July 7, 1991] and much to satisfaction of the U.S. allies in the region, and of course, the bosses in Washington. But we couldn't find another iron-fisted military junta so we had to settle for this one.
The New York Times Middle East correspondent explained at the time that as much as it pains us to see all killings and the bloodshed, there is nevertheless an overwhelming consensus that Saddam offers more hope for the stability in the region than those who are trying to overthrow him. Stability is a code word that means obedience.
The Disappeared
Only third world tyrants do that, don't they? "Disappear" people?
Left I is keeping watch on some of the "disappeared" and who's making them disappear.
Left I is keeping watch on some of the "disappeared" and who's making them disappear.
If you can't get what you need, switch parties?
A Texan, to be sure, but still....can you believe this?
"This is the first time, I've just been zeroed out," he said in a telephone interview. "I've always said that if being a Democrat hurt my district, I'd either resign, retire or switch parties."
"And it hurt my district this time," Hall said of his requests for road projects and about $13 million in funds for the University of Texas at Tyler.
House Appropriations Committee Chairman Ralph Regula "wouldn't give me what I was entitled to simply because I was a Democrat," he said.
...Regula, an Ohio Republican, "wasn't giving any of the Democrats anything," he said, referring to spending in their districts.
Other Democrats have also complained that Regula said he would kill funds for projects in their districts if they opposed him on bills he was pushing. article
Well, there you go. Don't change things so that being a Democrat doesn't keep you from getting what you're "entitled to" - just become one of the ones who doesn't give people what they're entitled to.
President Bush welcomed Hall, a long-time friend of the Bush family, to the Republican Party.
Well, of course he did. God, what a stinking pile of sh!t the Repugs have become. And Mr. Hall, you stink, too.
"He is a well-respected leader of the highest integrity, and a tireless advocate for the people of Texas," the president said...
That's what the Oaf calls integrity? Well, now I see the problem.
"This is the first time, I've just been zeroed out," he said in a telephone interview. "I've always said that if being a Democrat hurt my district, I'd either resign, retire or switch parties."
"And it hurt my district this time," Hall said of his requests for road projects and about $13 million in funds for the University of Texas at Tyler.
House Appropriations Committee Chairman Ralph Regula "wouldn't give me what I was entitled to simply because I was a Democrat," he said.
...Regula, an Ohio Republican, "wasn't giving any of the Democrats anything," he said, referring to spending in their districts.
Other Democrats have also complained that Regula said he would kill funds for projects in their districts if they opposed him on bills he was pushing. article
Well, there you go. Don't change things so that being a Democrat doesn't keep you from getting what you're "entitled to" - just become one of the ones who doesn't give people what they're entitled to.
President Bush welcomed Hall, a long-time friend of the Bush family, to the Republican Party.
Well, of course he did. God, what a stinking pile of sh!t the Repugs have become. And Mr. Hall, you stink, too.
"He is a well-respected leader of the highest integrity, and a tireless advocate for the people of Texas," the president said...
That's what the Oaf calls integrity? Well, now I see the problem.
Journalists not welcome
American soldiers on Friday detained three Iraqis working for Reuters as they covered the aftermath of a U.S. helicopter crash near the volatile town of Falluja.
A Reuters driver who was working with the three said they had earlier been fired on by U.S. troops as they filmed a checkpoint close to the site where a Kiowa observation helicopter was shot down by guerrillas. article
And that is not an isolated incident. Journalists have been harrassed, detained, and shot on a regular basis. Doesn't make the news much, does it? You'd almost think journalists weren't reporting the news in this country. You might be right.
Of course, troops say Iraqis pretending to be journalists are firing on them, so they just can't be too careful. Fire first, find out who you're firing at later. Shoot before you get shot at.
Now why is it that they are harrassing and detaining journalists and confiscating their equipment?
At least they haven't killed any lately, have they? I guess that was a little too hard to get away with for very long.
Scroll down on this page for a list of those who weren't so lucky to simply be harrassed and detained.
....but hey, do what you want....you will anyway.
Update 7:51 am: I just checked POAC, and the journalist issue is headlined there. And, I guess they were warned. Some more of that fair warning.
A Reuters driver who was working with the three said they had earlier been fired on by U.S. troops as they filmed a checkpoint close to the site where a Kiowa observation helicopter was shot down by guerrillas. article
And that is not an isolated incident. Journalists have been harrassed, detained, and shot on a regular basis. Doesn't make the news much, does it? You'd almost think journalists weren't reporting the news in this country. You might be right.
Of course, troops say Iraqis pretending to be journalists are firing on them, so they just can't be too careful. Fire first, find out who you're firing at later. Shoot before you get shot at.
Now why is it that they are harrassing and detaining journalists and confiscating their equipment?
At least they haven't killed any lately, have they? I guess that was a little too hard to get away with for very long.
Scroll down on this page for a list of those who weren't so lucky to simply be harrassed and detained.
....but hey, do what you want....you will anyway.
Update 7:51 am: I just checked POAC, and the journalist issue is headlined there. And, I guess they were warned. Some more of that fair warning.
Refusing the Dole
Iran doesn't want Elizabeth Dole to come and oversee earthquake relief - at least not right now. Word is that both Iran and the U.S. are saying this is merely a matter of logistics at this time when the situation has yet to be completely assessed.
I might add that it could also be that Iran is not keen to be accepting even the perception of strings from the U.S., on whose "axis of evil" list it still sits. If it can tend to and fund the relief effort with help from other countries, then it might be well worth the avoidance of handing the U.S. a piece of humanitarian propaganda.
Just a thought.
I might add that it could also be that Iran is not keen to be accepting even the perception of strings from the U.S., on whose "axis of evil" list it still sits. If it can tend to and fund the relief effort with help from other countries, then it might be well worth the avoidance of handing the U.S. a piece of humanitarian propaganda.
Just a thought.
Will they sign? Will it make any difference?
[S]everal aides to President Bush whose names have come up in interviews with FBI agents will be asked to sign a one-page form giving permission for journalists to describe any such conversations to investigators, even if the journalists promised not to reveal the source.
Bush has said he wants his aides to cooperate fully, and the official said that will result in tremendous pressure on them to sign a form. But the official said that even some of the investigators on the case do not expect the document to prompt journalists to break their pledges of confidentiality. article
....but hey, do what you want....you will anyway.
Bush has said he wants his aides to cooperate fully, and the official said that will result in tremendous pressure on them to sign a form. But the official said that even some of the investigators on the case do not expect the document to prompt journalists to break their pledges of confidentiality. article
....but hey, do what you want....you will anyway.
Friday, January 02, 2004
Letter bombs? Did you hear anything about letter bombs?
Well, it was there. I don't know what I was doing that was so exciting I missed it.
Four letter bombs have been sent to various European Union dignitaries throughout the Europe in the last week, all of them, according to government officials, originating from the Italian city of Bologna. A group calling itself the Informal Anarchist Front ("F.A.I.") has claimed responsibility in a letter printed by an Italian newspaper. Although no known Italian anarchist groups have ever heard of this association, the acronym matches exactly that of another above-ground, revolutionary organization in Bologna: the Italian Anarchist Federation (F.A.I.) The F.A.I. has denounced these attacks, and consider the Informal Anarchist Front "imaginary," invented to justify the repression of anarchists in Bologna and throughout Italy.
...The Commission for the Correspondence with the Italian Anarchist Federation has issued a communique in which they suggest that, far from promoting revolutionary consciousness, "letterbombs are more useful for provokation and the criminalization of dissent." The arsenal of the F.A.I., on the other hand, includes the weapons of social organizing, local autonomy, trade unions, opposition to state terrorism and the creation of a new and free society.
...This suspicion harkens back to similar incidents in the recent past, such as 1997 in Milan when a series of letterbombs were used as a justification to raid squats, social centers, and make sweeping arrests. Anti-globalization activists may also recall the letter bomb scare in the days leading up to the 2001 G8 summit in Genoa, Italy. In fact, the use of such a tactic by fascist forces in Italy has been historically documented. During the 1970's, when electoral support for communists was at an all time high, Fascists engaged in a deadly bombing campagin they described as part of a "strategy of tension." By blaming the bombings on the communists, the Fascists hoped to incite a breakdown of public order to justify the imposition of military rule. article
A group pretending to be an opposition group? Never! It doesn't happen. A government campaign to lay blame on an activist group? Never! Doesn't happen.
Well, maybe in Europe. But it would never happen here! No anthrax letters. No federal building bombings. No airplane bombs. No way. No faction of our government would do anything like that. Don't even suggest it. Why do you even think it? Why do you hate America?
The history of Fascism in Italy has demonstrated that the "strategy of tension" is served equally well by the brash actions of "useful idiots," whether their ideology is purported to come from the extreme Left or the extreme Right.
The strategy of tension.
Works for fascists everywhere, not just Italy (which is, by the way, counted amongst our "New Europe" friends, isn't it?).
....but hey, do what you want....you will anyway.
Four letter bombs have been sent to various European Union dignitaries throughout the Europe in the last week, all of them, according to government officials, originating from the Italian city of Bologna. A group calling itself the Informal Anarchist Front ("F.A.I.") has claimed responsibility in a letter printed by an Italian newspaper. Although no known Italian anarchist groups have ever heard of this association, the acronym matches exactly that of another above-ground, revolutionary organization in Bologna: the Italian Anarchist Federation (F.A.I.) The F.A.I. has denounced these attacks, and consider the Informal Anarchist Front "imaginary," invented to justify the repression of anarchists in Bologna and throughout Italy.
...The Commission for the Correspondence with the Italian Anarchist Federation has issued a communique in which they suggest that, far from promoting revolutionary consciousness, "letterbombs are more useful for provokation and the criminalization of dissent." The arsenal of the F.A.I., on the other hand, includes the weapons of social organizing, local autonomy, trade unions, opposition to state terrorism and the creation of a new and free society.
...This suspicion harkens back to similar incidents in the recent past, such as 1997 in Milan when a series of letterbombs were used as a justification to raid squats, social centers, and make sweeping arrests. Anti-globalization activists may also recall the letter bomb scare in the days leading up to the 2001 G8 summit in Genoa, Italy. In fact, the use of such a tactic by fascist forces in Italy has been historically documented. During the 1970's, when electoral support for communists was at an all time high, Fascists engaged in a deadly bombing campagin they described as part of a "strategy of tension." By blaming the bombings on the communists, the Fascists hoped to incite a breakdown of public order to justify the imposition of military rule. article
A group pretending to be an opposition group? Never! It doesn't happen. A government campaign to lay blame on an activist group? Never! Doesn't happen.
Well, maybe in Europe. But it would never happen here! No anthrax letters. No federal building bombings. No airplane bombs. No way. No faction of our government would do anything like that. Don't even suggest it. Why do you even think it? Why do you hate America?
The history of Fascism in Italy has demonstrated that the "strategy of tension" is served equally well by the brash actions of "useful idiots," whether their ideology is purported to come from the extreme Left or the extreme Right.
The strategy of tension.
Works for fascists everywhere, not just Italy (which is, by the way, counted amongst our "New Europe" friends, isn't it?).
....but hey, do what you want....you will anyway.
The third herd
Yep. Maaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaad Cow.
The herd put under quarantine in the last day or two is at a dairy farm in Mattawa, near Yakima, where investigators traced one of 80 cows that entered the United States with the diseased Holstein in late 2001.
Another nine cows and a calf born last month to the sick cow are on the Mabton, Wash., dairy farm that was the Holstein's final home. Another calf is on a farm at Sunnyside, Wash., also near Yakima, that raises bull calves.
Investigators are trying to find cows from the same herd because the most likely source of infection was contaminated feed that the Holstein ate as a calf, DeHaven said. article
All right. Let's talk about this a minute. That contaminated feed wasn't fed to just one Holstein, folks. You do not give one bag of feed to each calf. And, you do not process one bag per batch of feed.
Yes, that's what I'm saying. There are many diseased animals out there. Ninety-to-nothing there are a number of human deaths caused from eating diseased beef that have been attributed to some other cause.
It's time to stop feeding cows what we know cows should not be eating. But that would cut into beef industry profits.
American officials have stressed that the diseased cow's age and the date of the feed ban suggest the infection occurred in Canada. This idea, if proven, would underline the effectiveness of the ban and, what is more important, would allow U.S. authorities to place the root of the problem north of the border, in Canada.
Absolutely. The most important thing is to blame Canada. Because we don't have any problem with our system here.
Including the stricken Holstein, 81 animals were believed shipped across the border from the same Alberta farm in 2001.
That still doesn't account for the other bags of feed from that contaminated batch and the other cows that were fed those bags. Were any of them shipped across the border?
....but hey, do what you want....you will anyway.
The herd put under quarantine in the last day or two is at a dairy farm in Mattawa, near Yakima, where investigators traced one of 80 cows that entered the United States with the diseased Holstein in late 2001.
Another nine cows and a calf born last month to the sick cow are on the Mabton, Wash., dairy farm that was the Holstein's final home. Another calf is on a farm at Sunnyside, Wash., also near Yakima, that raises bull calves.
Investigators are trying to find cows from the same herd because the most likely source of infection was contaminated feed that the Holstein ate as a calf, DeHaven said. article
All right. Let's talk about this a minute. That contaminated feed wasn't fed to just one Holstein, folks. You do not give one bag of feed to each calf. And, you do not process one bag per batch of feed.
Yes, that's what I'm saying. There are many diseased animals out there. Ninety-to-nothing there are a number of human deaths caused from eating diseased beef that have been attributed to some other cause.
It's time to stop feeding cows what we know cows should not be eating. But that would cut into beef industry profits.
American officials have stressed that the diseased cow's age and the date of the feed ban suggest the infection occurred in Canada. This idea, if proven, would underline the effectiveness of the ban and, what is more important, would allow U.S. authorities to place the root of the problem north of the border, in Canada.
Absolutely. The most important thing is to blame Canada. Because we don't have any problem with our system here.
Including the stricken Holstein, 81 animals were believed shipped across the border from the same Alberta farm in 2001.
That still doesn't account for the other bags of feed from that contaminated batch and the other cows that were fed those bags. Were any of them shipped across the border?
....but hey, do what you want....you will anyway.
Back on schedule
Experts agree that the rate at which the Earth travels through space has slowed ever so slightly for millennia. To make the world's official time agree with where the Earth actually is in space, scientists in 1972 started adding an extra "leap second" on the last day of the year. For 28 years, scientists repeated the procedure. But in 1999, they discovered the Earth was no longer lagging behind. article
Now you know, it wasn't just you.
Now you know, it wasn't just you.
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