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Given President Bush's recent speech to the Knesset comparing remarks made by Sen. Obama to Nazi appeasement this article published in 2004 seems appropos. Ben Aris and Duncan Campbell write in the Guardian:
George Bush's grandfather, the late US senator Prescott Bush, was a director and shareholder of companies that profited from their involvement with the financial backers of Nazi Germany. His business dealings, which continued until his company's assets were seized in 1942 under the Trading with the Enemy Act, has led more than 60 years later to a civil action for damages being brought in Germany against the Bush family by two former slave laborers at Auschwitz.
There has been a steady internet chatter about the "Bush/Nazi" connection, much of it inaccurate and unfair. But new documents, many of which were only declassified [in 2003], show that even after America had entered the war and when there was already significant information about the Nazis' plans and policies, he worked for and profited from companies closely involved with the very German businesses that financed Hitler's rise to power. It has also been suggested that the money he made from these dealings helped to establish the Bush family fortune and set up its political dynasty. read more
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Don't say you haven't been warned: In their book Who's Watching You?: The Chilling Truth about the State, Surveillance, and Personal Freedom, Mick Farren and John Gibb warn of the dangers of RFID chips and how the government and its corporate shills will try to sell them to you on the basis of increased convenience. Well here they come:
The State Department will soon begin production of an electronic passport card that security specialists and members of Congress fear will be vulnerable to alteration or counterfeiting.
The agency has contracted with L-1 Identity Solutions Inc. to produce electronic-passport cards as a substitute for booklet passports for use by Americans who travel frequently by road or sea to Canada, Mexico and the Caribbean.
About the size of a credit card, the electronic-passport card displays a photo of the user and a radio frequency identification (RFID) chip containing data about the user. The State Department announced recently that it will begin producing the cards next month and issue the first ones in July. read more
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Do chemicals in our household products contribute to autism?
New Scientist writes that according to a new study (one of the first large-scale ones to look at environmental factors and their interactions with genes in regards to autism), “mothers of children with an autism spectrum disorder (ASD) were twice as likely to have reported using pet shampoos containing a class of insecticide called pyrethrins as those of healthy children.” read more
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The image below isn’t a rejected Rage Against the Machine album cover, but rather an ad campaign for a leading Brazilian business newspaper, Gazeta Mercantil. Designed by illustrator Pedro Izique for the São Paulo office of ad agency JWT, the print ad redesigns the Dollar, Euro and Yen with images of “some of the most important events of the last century.”
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A California nanotechnology research lab says it has created the first 3D material able to bend light in the opposite direction to natural materials. Such a material should "make it possible to create invisibility cloaks that hide an object by steering light around it." One can only imagine what sort of hijinks will ensue when these hit stores. read more
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Let's let Mr. Olbermann handle this one ... Countdown’s Keith Olbermann gives a Special Comment on President Bush’s recent Politico interview. The current Resident-In-Chief suggests that electing a Democrat as president means “another attack on the United States.” He also shows his empathy for the death of U.S. soldiers … by giving up golf.
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CATHERINE RAMPELL writes in The Chronicle of Higher Education:
To catch college students trading copyrighted songs online, the Recording Industry Association of America uses the same file-sharing software that online pirates love, an RIAA representative said during a private demonstration of how it catches alleged music pirates.
The demonstration was given by an RIAA employee who would speak only on condition of anonymity because of concern that he would receive hate e-mail. The official explained that one way the RIAA identifies pirates is by using LimeWire, a popular peer-to-peer file-sharing program that is free online and used by many college students.
Here's how the process works: The RIAA maintains a list of songs whose distribution rights are owned by the RIAA's member organizations. It has given that list to Media Sentry, a company it hired to search for online pirates. That company runs copies of the LimeWire program and performs searches for those copyrighted song titles, one by one, to see if any are being offered by people whose computers are connected to the LimeWire network... read more
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