Thursday, May 29, 2008




Afghanistan, Berlusconi: "Decisione entro giugno"
Il premier: «Possibile revisione delle modalità operative d’impiego
dei militari impegnati nella missione Isaf» . Nato: «Un esempio positivo»

... e' interessante il porsi una domanda ...
... su quale possa essere l'interesse occidentale ...
... nella prima economia mondiale produttrice di oppiacei ...
... forse hanno scoperto il petrolio ? ...
... o magari nessuno ci ha parlato ...
... di nuovi motori ibridi oppio-elettrici ? ...

... all' inizio si poteva avere il dubbio ...
... che fosse reinstaurata nel paese la legittima autorita' monarchica ...
... ma nulla si e' sentito a proposito ...
... un mistero che e' quasi pronto a divenire ...
... simile agli otto anni di invasione sovietica ...
... che durera' sino a quando ...
... qualcuno degli illuminati a washington ...
... venga "illuminato" dalla stessa luce ...
... che a mosca ispiro' i russi a tornarsene a casa ...


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# posted by intcoex : 1:53 AM




Braccio robotico controllato
dal pensiero

PITTSBURGH
Un braccio robotico controllato dagli impulsi nervosi cerebrali: l’esperimento
è stato compiuto con successo dalla statunitense Pittsburgh University, che ha utilizzato due scimmie collegate mediante degli elettrodi a un computer. Come riporta il quotidiano britannico the Independent, si tratta di un progresso molto importante perché apre la strada alla possibilità di impiegare delle protesi elettroniche in molte malattie e degenerazioni cerebrali che lascino i pazienti impossibilitati a muoversi. «Adesso stiamo iniziando a capire come funziona il cervello utilizzando una tecnologia di interfaccia fra uomo e macchina», spiega Andrew Schwartz: «L’obbiettivo immediato è quello di costruire degli apparecchi prostetici per le persone affette da paralisi totale; la meta ultima è quella di comprendere meglio la complessità cerebrale».

... L'inferno è lastricato di buone intenzioni (George Bernard Shaw) ...
... sicuramente i vari regimi politici ...
... chiese e teocrazie ...
... presto useranno questa tecnologia ...
... per azionare fucili automatici ...
... per sparare ai dissidenti ....
... quando "pensano" in modo "non gradito" ...


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# posted by intcoex : 1:45 AM

Wednesday, May 28, 2008




26/5/2008 (14:13)
Alemanno: "Intitolare strade
a Craxi, Almirante e Berlinguer"

... adesso capisco cosa possano aver provato ...
... quelli che vissero certi tempi ...
... e successivamente ebbero a vedere ...
... strade e piazze intitolate a tali soggetti ...
... suggerirei di sostituire lenin ...
... con gorbatschoff o brezhnev ...
... berlinguer con dario fo' ...
... craxi con saragat ...
... ed almirante con guglielmo giannini ...
... e giovannino guareschi ...
... a pari merito ...

... sicuramente gioverebbe al credito dell' italia ...
... su scala planetaria ...
... talvolta potremmo non rendercene conto ...
... ma oggi quel che si scrive e si dice ...
... ha impatto su scala mondiale ...


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# posted by intcoex : 7:16 AM

Tuesday, May 27, 2008

... don't know if anybody is already doing this ...
... but seems pretty reasonable ...
... with the right equipment ...

... programmable laser cutter, can execute a "batch" of different items ...
... "on demand" ...
... and cut/brand the bar coding on the part ...
... production model "by island" ...
... each one of the parts follows downhill logic for assembly ...
... and gets routed trough the unique coding ...
... the proper way trough the islands ...
... and only the islands ...
... working on that specific assembly ...

... basically a programmable batch based production chain ...
... asynchronous, fits well productions of prototypes ...
... for third parties or internal ...
... may also fit well a continuous improvement process ...
... where the different parts are changed ...
... "during" production ...
... based on "continuous feedback" ...

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# posted by intcoex : 8:36 PM

Sunday, May 25, 2008




Buffett Sees 'Long, Deep' Recession
Posted: 2008-05-25 07:07:28
Filed Under: Business News, Nation News
BERLIN (May 24) - The United States is already in a recession and it will be longer as well as deeper than many people expect, U.S. investor Warren Buffett said in an interview published in German magazine Der Spiegel on Saturday.

He said the United States was "already in recession" and added: "Perhaps not in the sense that economists would define it" with two consecutive quarters of negative growth.

"But the people are already feeling the effects," said Buffett, the world's richest man. "It will be deeper and last longer than many think."

But he said that won't stop him from investing in selected companies and said he remained interested in well-managed German family-owned companies.

"If the world were falling apart I'd still invest in companies," he said.

Buffett also renewed his criticism of derivatives trading.

"It's not right that hundreds of thousands of jobs are being eliminated, that entire industrial sectors in the real economy are being wiped out by financial bets even though the sectors are actually in good health."

Buffett complained about the lack of effective controls.

"That's the problem," he said. "You can't steer it, you can't regulate it anymore. You can't get the genie back in the bottle."

... there you are ...



# posted by intcoex : 4:29 PM

Saturday, May 24, 2008




Could a Recession Wipe Out 7 Million Jobs?
24-7 Wall St. Logo

It should not come as a surprise to economists that the weakest parts of the economy last month were construction, manufacturing, and retail.

... there you are ...


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# posted by intcoex : 4:35 AM

Friday, May 23, 2008




"Unfortunately for Toyota, the government realized how unrealistic their EPA tests were....[The new tests] dropped the Prius’s EPA down by 25 percent to an average of 45mpg. This now puts the Toyota within spitting distance of cars like the Chevy Aveo, which costs less then half what the Prius costs.

... well, driving "solely" by the instruments ...
... I could average 66mpg in town ...
... you have to ignore completelly your "feelings" ...
... driving by "feelings" gets you exactly 44-45mpg ...
... but hey, I used to like recovering from spins on instruments ...
... so I guess each one of us has his style of driving ...
... regardless how you drive a chevy aveo ...
... you wont get 66mpg ...
... well, maybe if you just drive downhill ...


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# posted by intcoex : 4:30 AM




Q. -- I want to go back to the statement you made about the two economies in America. You've got the very rich, you've got a nation that's increasingly very rich and very poor. What is the long-term consequence of that? Is our increasing poverty going to negate economic growth or permanent stability?

A. -- I would hope the long-term effect of it would be a much sharper recognition of the fact. The two answers are each indispensable. One is something that could well be afforded, a basic income for all people, enough to keep all people out of poverty. We talk a great deal about freedom. Nothing so denies a person freedom as a total absence of money. This is one of the most repressive things that there is. And I am an advocate, and I've long been an advocate, of a basic income, which, as I say, we can well afford, and I would, needless to say, like to see it coupled with the associated public services, namely education, health care, and housing. Going along with that, we should have continued and strong use of the progressive income tax. Nothing so measures progress as a few screams of anguish from the very rich. One of the great developments of the last 100 years came from a Republican president, President Taft, namely the progressive income tax. I would like to see you all advocate, in your country or in the United States, the enormous effect of the progressive income tax on individual enterprise. Nothing stirs people to effort so much as the need to protect their after-tax income. Make that point editorially, constantly, consistently.

... the only hope of amerika ...
... to stay out of the fall ...
... is exorcising the greed ...


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# posted by intcoex : 1:26 AM




The 1929 Crash and Recession to Depression: Did we Forget?
May 20th, 2008 - Last Update: May 20, 2008
Features, Macroeconomics
Are we there yet, you ask, when is this financial crisis thing going to end? We may be close some say, but that’s been said before! Perhaps not unlike early 1929 when the then Harvard Economic Society declared that a recession was eminent, only to later shift to the firm position of a positive forecast and that a depression was outside the range of probability.
The depression that began shortly after lasted a decade.




... here go buy this book ...
... read it ...
... then your own conclusions ...




Kenneth Galbraith, ‘The Great Crash’, 1954


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# posted by intcoex : 12:56 AM




US Economy: More Bad News
March 8th, 2008 - Last Update: March 8, 2008
More job losses in US pointing to further weakness in economic outlook. U.S. employers unexpectedly cut jobs in February at the steepest rate in nearly five years, a second straight month of employment losses that heightened fears the world’s largest economy has skidded into recession.

... I love to have to go read this news in Australia ...
... standing to the amerikan sources ...
... there seems to be no recession ...
... except that in fact, there are no jobs ...
... so the australian news must be right ...


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# posted by intcoex : 12:50 AM

Thursday, May 22, 2008




MARCEGAGLIA: "SCENARIO NUOVO E IRRIPETIBILE"
dall'aprire una nuova stagione di relazioni industriali, al varo una nuova politica energetica, riaprendo al nucleare e togliendo voce a minoranze che ostacolano l'ammodernamento.

-ok, vediamo un po', mi sembra si chiami "peak"
-rimangono venti anni di petrolio
-e venti anni di nucleare a basso costo
-senza contare il gas che serve per estrarre il petrolio
-e senza contare il petrolio che serve per estrarre l'uranio
-e l'acqua, tanta tanta acqua, sempre piu' scarsa
-e poi che si fa' in 20 anni ?
-non avrebbe piu' senso essere dal lato "sostenibile" ?

...

E poi, finalmente, un fisco meno pesante e più equo, con le imprese ma anche coi cittadini.

-per questo ci vuole meno stato, cioe' solo difesa/giustizia/sanita' ed energia
-meno stato inutile e' uguale a meno tasse
-inoltre, due anni di servizio di leva per tutti, nei settori di cui sopra, a scaglioni del 25% per settore, possono ridurre ulteriormente la spesa pubblica
-oh, dimenticavo le sanguisughe ecclesiastiche, un' altra palla appesa al basso ventre dell' economia italiana

-poi una cosa e' certa, invece di scimiottare gli americani in campo sanitario
-proviamo a ricordare la lezione storica di Atahualpha
-che l'asse delle americhe vuole ignorare per convenienza economica
-la guerra genetico-batteriologica e' una realta'
-medicina e ricerca biogenetica sono fattori "strategici"
-ignorare la realta' e' demenziale

...


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# posted by intcoex : 9:02 PM




McCain and Obama battle over military service
By Steve Holland 1 hour, 7 minutes ago
UNION CITY, California (Reuters) - Republican John McCain took aim at presidential rival Barack Obama's lack of military service on Thursday, drawing a rebuke from the Democratic front-runner for his "endless diatribes and schoolyard taunts."

... this is a non-problem ...
... take the universities "inside" ...
... the military bases ...
... and possibly it will be ten times cheaper ...
... another issue similar to the "contractors" one ...


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# posted by intcoex : 7:33 PM

Wednesday, May 21, 2008




They're wrong about oil, by George
Rip up your textbooks, the doubling of oil prices has little to do with China's appetite
Anatole Kaletsky

Just as the credit crunch seemed to be passing, at least in the US, another and much more ominous financial crisis has broken out. The escalation of oil prices, which this week reached a previously unthinkable $130 a barrel (with predictions of $150 and $200 soon to come), threatens to do far more damage to the world economy than the credit crunch.

... they are the same thing ...
... the ameri-tanic is sinking ...
... media are just "pretending" there are no bad permanent news ...
... and feeding bitter reality one spoon at the time ...

... go thank wall street ...
... their allied arrogant churches ...
... and their puppets in dc ...
... their vision of the world ...
... is now clearly self-explanatory ...

... they artificially put the entire economy of the planet ...
... in a deep recession ...
... to steal whatever they can ...
... before the big crunch ...
... "the kleptokratic skeme", or should we say skim ...
... is the new world order ...

... their plan ...
... a new amerikkka of 299 millions bum ...
... ruled by 20 families ...
... go pray the god-petroleum to fix it ...
... praise the lord-petroleum ...
... while the ameri-tanic is sinking ...


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# posted by intcoex : 5:23 PM




RISING ENERGY PRICES
Are Pension Funds Fueling High Oil?
By Moira Herbst
A Senate hearing weighs charges that speculation by big investors and sovereign wealth funds is behind the rise in commodities and energy prices.



... bulls ...
... we are running down on oil ...
... and pursuing wars ...
... this is what is making oil go up ...
... so all the oil companies can speculate ...

... surely enough when hitler invaded poland ...
... pension funds had a very important effect ...
... on the world economy ...
:)

... the klepto-petroleum intellighentia ...
... of wall street ...
... does not give a damn ...
... of killing 7 millions of amerikans ...
... of famine like in 1929 ...
... all they care is their dirty scums ...
... praise the lord-petroleum ...




... watch this movie ...
... is very educative ...


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# posted by intcoex : 6:42 AM




Creationists in the American classroom
Category: Creationism
Posted on: May 20, 2008 12:50 PM, by PZ Myers
Here's the most depressing thing I've seen all week (and I'm grading genetics exams): it's the result of a national survey of high school biology teachers.

... got an idea ...
... won't we substitute the creationists in biology ...
... with the exorcists in psychiatry ...


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# posted by intcoex : 4:37 AM




Bashers Beware
By INVESTOR'S BUSINESS DAILY | Posted Monday, May 19, 2008 4:20 PM PT
The Presidency: It takes little courage — or brains — to join the mob vilifying President Bush. But the Democrats (and Republicans, too) depicting him as villain will one day regret it.

...

This is the supposed albatross Republicans are so intent on distancing themselves from and which Democrats believe to be the key to victory in November. The facts of the last seven years tell a different story.


... we hope this "beware" is not to be interpreted as: ...
... "beware, you all not part of the trilateral klan" ...
... "are going to be locked up" ...
... "in haliburton koncentration kamps" ...


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# posted by intcoex : 12:58 AM

Tuesday, May 20, 2008




In July 2007 and again last August, Representative Peter DeFazio, a Democrat from Oregon and a senior member of the House Homeland Security Committee, sought access to the "classified annexes" of the Bush administration's Continuity of Government program. DeFazio's interest was prompted by Homeland Security Presidential Directive 20 (also known as NSPD-51), issued in May 2007, which reserves for the executive branch the sole authority to decide what constitutes a national emergency and to determine when the emergency is over. DeFazio found this unnerving.

But he and other leaders of the Homeland Security Committee, including Chairman Bennie Thompson, a Mississippi Democrat, were denied a review of the Continuity of Government classified annexes. To this day, their calls for disclosure have been ignored by the White House. In a press release issued last August, DeFazio went public with his concerns that the NSPD-51 Continuity of Government plans are "extra-constitutional or unconstitutional." Around the same time, he told the Oregonian: "Maybe the people who think there's a conspiracy out there are right."


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# posted by intcoex : 11:48 PM




States debate whether to dip into their rainy day funds

... I would not ...
... maybe time to use the funds ...
... to replace strategic depleted stores ...
... I would not bet a button ...
... to be out of this recession before 2020 ...
... just because I hate to lose the button ...
... and I'm sure transport in 2020 will look ...
... a lot different ...

... states should start analyzing ...
... how to cut costs without cutting employment ...
... actually how to cut costs and increase employment ...
... with solutions like longer life cycles of commodities ...
... prioritized elimination of high maintainance cost real estate ...
... elimination of costs paid for licensing ...
... elimination of costs of utilities with modern technologies ...
... energy efficiency ...
... telecommuting ...
... direct medical care ...
... and how to cut interest on public debt ...
... like for instance, reinstating "usury laws" ...
... and regulating "financial fees" to amounts established by law ...
... so that reduced interests ...
... would permit them and their employees reduced expenses ...
... and in turn reduction of wages ...
... states should ask economists what is a "negative accelerator" ...
... and why, reducing levels of employment ...
... they will lead their states, counties, cities and people ...
... to an expanding and unstoppable spiral of bankruptcies ...


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# posted by intcoex : 12:49 AM

Monday, May 19, 2008




Fresnel Lens used to heat water to power a steam engine

... thanks to Archimedes and the British ...
... the americans could provide an astro-tracker :) ...
... to chase the sun ...


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# posted by intcoex : 8:29 PM




As hideous as all this seems, Cecil Woodham-Smith tells us that the Blight was only one factor in the disaster that overtook the Irish. More insidious was the attitude of the British administration which largely stayed hardset in its laissez-faire attitude, refusing to step in and feed the Irish, refusing to interfere with the free market economy of the day, and worst of all, refusing to grasp that the market economy only works when people have money or skills to trade for products and services. In 1845, Ireland was still a pre-capitalist economy, and the mercantile approach of the British simply could not be applied there; still, the British tried, and blamed their own failure to address the Famine on their convenient perceptions of Irish intransigence and laziness.

...

Woodham-Smith's tales of people living in bogs, of coffinless mass funerals, of fever patients being abandoned by their terrified relations, of Ireland starving to death, cannot help but touch the reader. The British are presented as less calculating than more stupid, unable to adjust their thought processes to meet the crisis. Conditions were so awful that when the Irish left Ireland (on rotten-bottomed Coffin Ships, like as not), their arrival in American and Canadian ports can be summed up shortly: NO IRISH NEED APPLY.

More than just a history of the Potato Famine, THE GREAT HUNGER is an indictment of the too-common human propensities of blaming the victim, making gestures instead of taking action, and that of ultimately doing nothing. The truth behind every human tragedy can be found in the pages of THE GREAT HUNGER.


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# posted by intcoex : 3:14 PM




It’s pretty well known that politicians lie, but this guy really believes this stuff. The world, as well as the US, is in deep trouble should John McCain win the election. All will breathe a deep sigh of relief when the regime of George Bush and his reign of terror comes to an end next January, barring any unforeseen circumstances.

... he actually may win ...
... as Joseph Stalin said ...
... "the power is not on the ones that cast the votes" ...
... "but in the ones that 'count' the votes" ...
... obviously national-socialism is obsolete ...
... so the GOP has invented the new age kristian-stalinism ...
... with the benediction of wall street bankkkers ...
... the amerikan joseph-torquemada-tutankamon-rasputin administration ...
... may go home ...
... but their legacy on legal changes ...
... and the damages they made ...
... are unfixable ...
... the world reputation of amerika ...
... has probably never been so low in history ...


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# posted by intcoex : 2:10 PM




Famine killed 7 million people in USA
Front page / World / Americas
19.05.2008 Source: Pravda.Ru

Another online scandal has been gathering pace recently. Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia, deleted an article by a Russian researcher, who wrote about the USA’s losses in the Great Depression of 1932-1933. Indignant bloggers began to actively distribute the article on the Russian part of a popular blog service known as Livejournal. The above-mentioned article triggered a heated debate.

Famine killed 7 million people in USA

The researcher touched upon quite a hot topic in the article – the estimation of the number of victims of the Great Depression in the USA. The material presented in the article apparently made Wikipedia’s moderators delete the piece from the database of the online encyclopedia.

The researcher, Boris Borisov, in his article titled “The American Famine” estimated the victims of the financial crisis in the US at over seven million people. The researcher also directly compared the US events of 1932-1933 with Holodomor, or Famine, in the USSR during 1932-1933.

In the article, Borisov used the official data of the US Census Bureau. Having revised the number of the US population, birth and date rates, immigration and emigration, the researcher came to conclusion that the United States lost over seven million people during the famine of 1932-1933.

“According to the US statistics, the US lost not less than 8 million 553 thousand people from 1931 to 1940. Afterwards, population growth indices change twice instantly exactly between 1930-1931: the indices drop and stay on the same level for ten years. There can no explanation to this phenomenon found in the extensive text of the report by the US Department of Commerce “Statistical Abstract of the United States,” the author wrote.

The researcher points out the movement of population at this point: “A lot more people left the country than arrived during the 1930s – the difference is estimated at 93,309 people, whereas 2.960,782 people arrived in the country a decade earlier. Well, let’s correct the number of total demographic losses in the USA during the 1930s by 3,054 people.”

Analyzing the period of the Great Depression in the USA, the author notes a remarkable similarity with events taking place in the USSR during the 1930s. He even introduced a new term for the USA – defarming – an analogue to dispossession of wealthy farmers in the Soviet Union. “Few people know about five million American farmers (about a million families) whom banks ousted from them lands because of debts. The US government did not provide them with land, work, social aid, pension – nothing,” the article says.

“Every sixth American farmer was affected by famine. People were forced to leave their homes and go to nowhere without any money and any property. They found themselves in the middle of nowhere enveloped in massive unemployment, famine and gangsterism.”

... now, go delete it from pravda ...


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# posted by intcoex : 1:55 PM




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# posted by intcoex : 6:20 AM




Though atheists are quick to point out that the United States was founded as a secular nation -- there is no mention of God in the constitution -- they see religion seeping into national policy. A recent example: President Bush's recent initiative to give federal money to religious charities. A not-so- recent example: former President Bush's comment during a 1988 presidential campaign stop in Chicago that "I don't know that atheists should be considered as citizens, nor should they be considered as patriots. This is one nation under God."


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# posted by intcoex : 6:16 AM




Should I lie about being an atheist in order to get a job?
May 8, 2006 7:26 AM RSS feed for this thread Subscribe
Should I lie about being an atheist in order to get a job?

Is it okay to lie about your religion for the purpose of getting a job? I suspect it might be, in the same way I suspect that it is acceptable to lie about your sexual orientation when you know you will face discrimination. But I'm wondering if anyone has a good argument against "the religious closet." I'm particularly interested in: a. possible consequences if discovered, and b. strategies for justifying the lie to myself. In other words, will I open myself to a lawsuit of some sort, and am I going to be able to live with my lie?

... what progress we are making ...
... now we have the atheists in the closet ...
... about 15% of amerika hiding away ...
... from the 85% of fanatics ...
... amerikkka is officially a theocracy ...


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# posted by intcoex : 6:08 AM

Sunday, May 18, 2008




The air threat to the United States now and in the future is real.

* Current Russian fighters are already on par with America’s best fighter, the F-15. Europe's and Russia's newest class of fighters will surpass the F-15; they are set to roll off production lines by 2005

* At least three foreign aircraft threaten to surpass the F-15’s performance in the near future: the French Rafale, the Eurofighter 2000 and the Russian Su-35. Some foreign aircraft are already at parity with the F-15

... I see ...
... what about a new western joint fighter ...
... stealth, thrust-vectoring, flight by light ...
... vacuum technology air to air missiles ...
... maybe time for a "retrofit" ...


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# posted by intcoex : 11:39 PM




GRESHAM, Ore. - Hours before being greeted by the biggest crowd of his campaign, Democrat Barack Obama quietly told a small group of seniors Sunday that Republican John McCain would threaten the Social Security they depend on because he supports privatizing the program.

... logical ...
... anybody on social security ...
... would be shooting himself in the foot ...
... voting or supporting republicans ...
... AND democrats in name only ...

... there is more to it ...
... like for instance social security money ...
... should only be used ...
... for a public (social) medical system ...
... and for a public (social) retirement/disability system ...

... social security founds ...
... should not be allowed to be diverted in budget ...
... to finance ANY OTHER government expenditures ...
... but this would be probably asking too much ...
... to a country ran by usury fond bankers and bigots ...
... all concerned about their holy duties ...

... you pay forcibly your social security contributions ...
... and they use your money to keep churches ...
... arrogant, fat and tax exempt ...


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# posted by intcoex : 7:31 PM




LO SCRIVE IL Der Spiegel: grandi quasi 20 centimetri, si spostano in gruppi
L'invasione dei ragni giganti
Allerta in Germania, Austria e Svizzera

BERLINO - Sono neri, sono grandi quasi 20 centimetri



# posted by intcoex : 2:15 AM

Saturday, May 17, 2008




I can guarantee if trade were equal, Japan didn't subsidize their automotive companies and the Big 3 were putting out great designed cars there would be no problems right now.

Why is it that everyone is blaming the worker? It's easier then doing research I guess. Hate what your jealous of and don't have is that it?

... the worker has very little fault, if he is doing his job ...
... the worker has no decision possibility ...
... the criminals that manage the american car industry do ...

... the problem is that the "american propaganda" ...
... blames the worker to hide away ...
... the scandal of the income of corporate management ...
... the amount of fraud in the corporate financing ...
... the "maximum profitability" design ...
... the "maximized" fuel revenues ...
... and so forth ...

Guess what (omissis), Toyota line workers make the same amount of money that Big 3 line workers make. Quality of Japanese and American automakers are the same, despite what the CNN article says. A small amount of research would confirm that, hell just look through my blog and you can find out that information.

... except that their government contributions ...
... are for building reasonable cars ...
... instead than "gas friendly" hummers ...
... and honestly, some like honda and toyota ...
... do build better cars ...
... lowest LCC and lowest TCO ...
... look at the tables of "residual values" ...
... the ones from banks, not from the manifacturers ...
... that explains you everything ...

Health care is the biggest chunk. GM , for instance spends $1,635 per vehicle on health care for active and retired workers in the U.S. Toyota pays nothing for retired workers - it has very few - and only $215 for active ones.

... yup, because japan, as any other western civilized country ...
... except the us ...
... has a "public" medical system ...
... the american system does not want public medical ...
... because that would cut the political contributions ...
... to all those folks in dc ...
... that need desperatelly that money ...
... for their pharaos elections campaigns ...
... is known that in dc they are all pharaos ...

So you show that Toyota are cheap bastards. You work for them all your life and they screw you when you retire, if you make it that far. Do you know that Toyota doesn't exactly follow OSHA rules and doesn't care about Ergonomics. Talk to any Toyota Line employee and they will tell you how many people have gotten canned after getting hurt while at work.

... again, that is in america ...
... probably the only thing unions can still do here ...
... but in any non-union shop ...
... that is the AMERICAN reality ...
... american businesses are the (omissis) ...
... that "screw" anybody they can ...
... also, this people would not get fired ...
... in japan or europe ...
... they do here ...
... because of lack of PUBLIC MEDICAL SYSTEM ...

On the revenue side, it is easier to apportion blame. The lack of pricing power by American producers, brought on by poor quality

Again, a little research would show you that American quality is just as good or even better then Japaense quality. But you won't read it in the media, because the media is hoping the American industry fails. You didn't read about the nearly 10 MILLION vehicles that Japaense companies have recalled just in the past month did you? But when an American company has a recall, no matter how small, you will read it in big assed letters on the front page.

... it could be ...
... if they just were able to design products ...
... "appealing" to the people that buy foreign ...
... and if instead than counting on short term miopic marketing ...
... they would count on long term customer retention ...

So before you go spouting off that it's the Unions fault for the state of the American Auto Industry maybe you should do a little research first. Also take a look at the perks and salaries of the management that have run the companies in the ground before solely blaming the Unions.

... the fault is in the washington politicians ...
... and the fault is in the detroit management ...
... that is omnipotent and omniscient like god ...
... they know everything ...
... so the results from the end of the second war ...
... to our times ...
... are there, and self explanatory ...


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# posted by intcoex : 5:59 PM




The presumptive Republican nominee stressed that gas powered wind turbines are much more efficient at creating wind than the coal fired wind turbines. In his speech on global warming yesterday McCain stressed the importance of a cap and trade, the reduction of greenhouse gases, and the link between stalling climate change and protecting America's national security.


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# posted by intcoex : 2:40 PM




In 30 anni decimate un terzo delle specie selvatiche

... so many christians, so little lions ...


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# posted by intcoex : 9:31 AM




... requiem (hopefully eternum) ...


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# posted by intcoex : 12:15 AM

Friday, May 16, 2008




"Although we are still working through housing and capital markets issues, and expect to be doing so for some time, we also expect to see a faster pace of economic growth before the end of the year," he said. Paulson said that both the ability to obtain loans and investor confidence are gradually improving, raising hopes that the financial market crisis which hit last August was beginning to recede. "We are seeing signs of progress as capital markets and credit markets stabilize," Paulson said. "The markets are considerably calmer now than they were in March."

... i guess the higher they get in the food scale ...
... and the lower their contact with reality is ...
... assuming good faith ...

... who is going to give consolidation loans ? ...
... and who is going to give a job ? ...
... to all this people with defaults ? ...
... the federal government, directly ? ...

... seems to me the calm that precedes the storm ...


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# posted by intcoex : 4:47 PM

Wednesday, May 14, 2008




'Crazy' Ants Swarm Over Houston Area

Worse, they, like some other species of ants, are attracted to electrical equipment, for reasons that are not well understood by scientists.

They have ruined pumps at sewage pumping stations, fouled computers and at least one homeowner's gas meter, and caused fire alarms to malfunction. They have been spotted at NASA's Johnson Space Center and close to Hobby Airport, though they haven't caused any major problems there yet.


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... the patent madness ...
... may lead to what amerikan fundamentalists ...
... have always wanted ...
... isolationism ...
... and possibly may make advanced technology ...
... leave amerika forever ...


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# posted by intcoex : 3:15 PM

Monday, May 12, 2008





Are GM Crops Killing Bees?


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# posted by intcoex : 11:13 PM

Saturday, May 10, 2008




Is It Time to Invade Burma?
... sure, why not montecarlo too ...

... don't think so ...
... is time to get the UN to authorize ...
... aids from the whole planet ...
... in a hurry ...
... regardless of burma diplo-clearances ...
... is time to air-drop food and medications ...
... with excort fighters ...
... is time to give the thai and the indonesians ...
... a dozen of c130 each ...
... and is time to remember ...
... that metric tons pallets kill more people that they save ...
... as already "experimented" ...
... one cubic feet packages ...
... there is a need of a zillion of them ...


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# posted by intcoex : 1:49 PM

Wednesday, May 07, 2008




Garante Privacy: "Internet è uno strumento pericoloso"

... e cosa ci sarebbe di cosi' pericoloso ? ...
... certo dati di natura "riservata" come codice fiscale ...
... data e luogo di nascita, numeri di conti, targhe, ...
... codici che identificano numeri catastali di specifica proprieta' ...
... devono essere protetti, ovviamente, per evitare frodi ...
... e furto di identita' ...
... ma nome ed indirizzo della gente sono sull' elenco telefonico ...
... ed i redditi in quanto numeri sono semplicemente dati ...
... uguali a quelli che si leggono sui giornali ...
... da almeno trenta anni a questa parte ...
... non c'e' nulla di pericoloso su internet ...
... a meno che non si voglia come in paesi dittatoriali ...
... censurare la libera informazione ...


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# posted by intcoex : 11:52 PM

Monday, May 05, 2008




... crop rotation ...
... fractional ownership of advanced equipment ...
... run 24 hours a day ...



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