Show Us Your (Hen's) Papers

Across the country, every person with even one horse, cow, chicken, pig, goat, sheep, exotic animal or virtually any other livestock animal on their premises will be required to register their homes and property into a database and subject their property and animals to government surveillance.



Given that NAIS will do little or nothing to address disease problems, one has to look for the true reasons for this program. In searching for the truth, it is helpful to look at who is advocating the program.

Iran test-fires long-range missile

Iran conducted a test launch Tuesday night of the Shihab-3 intermediate-range ballistic missile, which is capable of reaching Israel and US targets in the region, Israel Radio reported. The test came hours before Prime Minister Ehud Olmert met with US President George W Bush in Washington to discuss the Iranian threat.

ATT Spy Rooms

ATT secret room records internet traffic for government.

Another Cut-In and Test Procedure document dated January 24, 2003, provides diagrams of how AT&T Core Network circuits were to be run through the "splitter" cabinet. One page lists the circuit IDs of key Peering Links which were "cut-in" in February 2003, including ConXion, Verio, XO, Genuity, Qwest, PAIX, Allegiance, AboveNet, Global Crossing, C&W, UUNET, Level 3, Sprint, Telia, PSINet and Mae West. By the way, Mae West is one of two key internet nodal points in the United States (the other, Mae East, is in Vienna, Virginia). It's not just WorldNet customers who are being spied on -- it's the entire internet.

Iran Asks President Bush To Convert

I understand the Koran teaches that an offer to convert to Muslim is a precondition for attacking a person/country.

Translation of the letter La lettre de Mahmoud Ahmadinejad à George W. Bush to President Bush.

"Will you not accept this invitation? That is, a genuine return to the teachings of prophets, to monotheism and justice, to preserve human dignity and obedience to the Almighty and His prophets?"

Buddhist Economics

Life planners remind clients that they are free to increase their money supply, decrease their demand, find a way to enjoy making money--or all three.

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I tell my college students that all they need to be wealthy is to save $1 a day from age 20 to age 70--a daily sacrifice of a cup of coffee or a candy bar. If they invest this $365 a year in the broader market, they will have invested $18,250 over 50 years. I ask them what this investment will be worth when they retire and they usually guess rather small amounts. The reality is they lost a $2 million plus nest egg by frittering away $1 a day. That's a good lesson for college students and for clients alike.

NSA has massive database of Americans' phone calls

By Leslie Cauley, USA TODAY

The National Security Agency has been secretly collecting the phone call records of tens of millions of Americans, using data provided by AT&T, Verizon and BellSouth, people with direct knowledge of the arrangement told USA TODAY.

Stockholm Syndrome Robber Applies For Pension

"When I came to the police on Tuesday, there was cop who said, 'Take off Janne. You're wanted,'" Olsson said, according to Dagens Nyheter's website.

No charges will be filed against Olsson, who travelled from Thailand to turn himself in. While in town, Olsson also visited the Swedish tax authorities, where he ordered a new passport and set up an account to receive his pension.

"I turn 65 this year", Olsson said.

FBI buys illegally acquired phone records for investigations

A congressional investigation into the distribution of illegally obtained mobile phone records has revealed that government law enforcement agencies purchased private phone data from web-based vendors.

European Pyramid

A pyramid has been found outside Sarajevo.

Osmanagic said Wednesday's discovery significantly bolsters his theory that the 2,120-foot hill rising above the small town of Visoko is actually a step pyramid — the first found in Europe.