4.03.2009
Blogger claims police search of home was a threat
Police officers accused of drunken driving. A female officer's alleged promiscuity and infidelity. A commander whose critics labeled his son a child molester.
Jeff Pataky said he uses negative complaints and anonymous tips to fuel his blogging crusade against Phoenix police. A headline on his Web site suggests rewards would be provided for "dirt" on police indiscretions.
Police officials said Wednesday that a Phoenix detective prompted the investigation after complaining about harassment, though they declined further comment.
Pataky said he felt the investigation was a response to a lawsuit he filed on Monday in U.S. District Court saying he was maliciously prosecuted by police in 2007 after his ex-wife accused him of harassment, a case later dropped. In his lawsuit he's asking for an unspecified amount for damages. City officials declined to comment on pending litigation.
Pataky's blog is known in law-enforcement circles for its off-color language that, according to the blogger, is aimed at Phoenix Police Chief Jack Harris, Maricopa County Andrew Thomas and other public officials.
[The blog in question is: http://badphoenixcops.blogspot.com/.....From INPhobe, we salute you. Keep it up!!!]
I.B.M. Reportedly Will Buy Rival Sun for $7 Billion
I.B.M. appears on the verge of acquiring Sun Microsystems, a longtime rival in the computer server and software markets, for nearly $7 billion.
The two companies have been negotiating for weeks, ironing out terms of an agreement that would turn I.B.M. into the dominant supplier of high-profit Unix servers and related technology.
I.B.M. is offering $9.50 a share, down from a bid of $10 a share, said people familiar with the discussions who were not authorized to speak publicly. The new agreement would restrict I.B.M.’s ability to walk away from the deal, these people said.
Even at $9.50 a share, the deal would value Sun, based in Santa Clara, Calif., at close to $7 billion. It is close to a 100 percent premium based on Sun’s value before rumors of an acquisition spread last month.
[This is the real Monopoly: I. B.uy M.any!]
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Europeans seek to organize space junk
DARMSTADT, Germany — Researchers concerned about an increasing amount of debris orbiting the earth are calling for the active removal of space junk, saying it will ensure a safe environment around the planet.
More than 300 scientists and other experts who met for four days at the European Space Agency said Thursday that sharing information is a crucial first step in preventing collisions and predicting with more accuracy where derelict satellites may fall to earth.
"We need to share more data," said Thomas Schildknecht of the Aeronautical Institute of the University of Bern. "We consider this the most important and challenging part for the immediate future."
Various international agencies track the refuse in space. The U.S. Strategic Command, which monitors space debris, keeps track of 13,943 orbiting objects 4 inches (10 centimeters) or larger orbiting the earth, and there are thousands more piece that that are even smaller.
But Heiner Klinkrad, of ESA, emphasized that, in the long term, the removal of derelict satellites and other unused spacecraft was essential if collisions are to be prevented.
A masterclass in bribery: pay your school kids
[This is capitalism at its best.....]
If you get to the end of this article, I'll give you £5. Actually, I won't give just anyone £5 - only if you're poor and uneducated, because I think you lot need a bribe to do something worthy.
Insulting? Yes. Effective? Maybe. A radical approach to poverty that is sweeping American primary schools and health clinics? Yes. A missed trick for Britain? Certainly.
This week the scores of England's primary schools were revealed, showing that a quarter of children leave them without mastering the basics in English and maths - mostly those from poorer families. No one is quite sure what to do about it. More than a decade of laudable investment in teachers, and endless fiddling with the curriculum hasn't helped those kids, who now have little hope of catching up.
The most pioneering American economists would take one look and offer a simple solution: pay kids for doing well. At least seven major pilot schemes have started in the past two years, on thousands of young children in the poorest parts of Washington, New York, Chicago, and Dallas. In another big pilot study in New York, the Mayor, Michael Bloomberg, is paying thousands of poor women to be better mothers.
[But this came out on MSNBC in April 2007...]
Parents Buying Off Kids For Good Behavior.
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/18140247/
Experts caution against bribery, urge rewards that make sense. [So, who's right?]
El G-20 anuncia un nuevo orden mundial en la cumbre de Londres
Los organismos multilaterales recibirán un billón de dólares para impulsar la reactivación económica.
[Ja, ja, ja.....y ja!!! Que viva el circo de la política!]
Los líderes mundiales, reunidos en la cumbre del G-20, dieron ayer el paso necesario para abordar las reformas que implican la profunda transformación del actual orden financiero internacional. Acordaron iniciar la limpieza del sistema financiero e inyectar un billón de dólares más a la economía mundial. Después de las tensiones en días previos, la cumbre de Londres finalizó en medio de un ambiente de satisfacción general, que se reflejó en la euforia de las bolsas internacionales.
"Una cumbre histórica", señaló el presidente de Estados Unidos Barack Obama. "El día en que el mundo se une para luchar contra la recesión, no con palabras sino con plan global de recuperación y de reforma", afirmó el primer ministro británico Gordon Brown anfitrión del encuentro. "Un compromiso histórico para una crisis excepcional", fue el comentario de la canciller alemana Angela Merkel. "Lo acordado va más allá de lo que podíamos imaginar", declaró el presidente francés, Nicolas Sarkozy, que dijo sentirse "feliz" con los resultados obtenidos.
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World Bank President Admits Agenda For Global Government
Bilderberg elitist Zoellick calls for IMF, WTO & World Bank to regulate national policy.
World Bank President and Bilderberg elitist Robert Zoellick openly admitted the plan to eliminate national sovereignty and impose a global government during a speech on the eve of the G20 summit.
Speaking about the agenda to increase not just funding but power for international organizations on the back of the financial crisis, Zoellick stated, “If leaders are serious about creating new global responsibilities or governance, let them start by modernising multilateralism to empower the WTO, the IMF, and the World Bank Group to monitor national policies.”
In other words, give global institutions the power to regulate national policy as part of the creation of global government.
What Zoellick is outlining is essentially the end of national sovereignty and the reclassification of national governments as mere subordinates to a global authority that is completely unaccountable to the voting public of any country.
The more cynical amongst us would call this a global dictatorship. Zoellick couches the plan in flowery rhetoric of helping the poor and alleviating poverty, but as we have documented for years, the global elite’s goal of world government has little to do with saving the planet and everything to do with creating a global fascist state.