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Teacher Claims Fingerprinting Is 'Mark of the Beast'
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crackpots, kooks & tinfoil
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Link #148348
submitted by Mac
on Nov 6, 2009 10:11am.
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http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2009/11/mark-of-the-beast
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A 22-year veteran kindergarten teacher in the Texas Bible Belt could lose her job for refusing, on religious grounds, to give fingerprints under a state law requiring them.
The evangelical Christian, Pam McLaurin, is fighting a looming suspension, claiming that fingerprinting amounts to the 'Mark of the Beast,' and hence is a violation of her First Amendment right to practice her religion. Her case is similar to a lawsuit by a group of Michigan farmers, some of them Amish, challenging rules requiring the tagging of livestock with RFID chips, saying the devices are also the devil's mark.
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Warren Buffett's big railroad buy is also a huge bet on coal
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the biz
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Link #148344
submitted by johnny2000
on Nov 6, 2009 06:15am.
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http://www.dailyfinance.com/2009/11/04/warren-buffetts-big-railroad...
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If the Sage of Omaha is truly an oracle of future returns and a leading indicator for where the market is going, it's hard not to think that U.S. carbon emissions will continue to grow apace and that the budding green revolution will be more bang than bucks.
Why? On Tuesday, Buffett paid a hefty 25 percent premium to acquire the remaining 77 percent interest in railroad giant Burlington Northern Santa Fe (BNI) that his company, Berkshire Hathaway (BRK.A), did not already own. The fate of Burlington Northern is closely tied to shipments of coal.
In third-quarter 2009, coal shipments accounted for roughly 25 percent of Burlington Northern's total revenue, according to Marketwatch. It shipped 604,000 carloads of coal in the quarter, more than any other single category. And Burlington Northern hauled 297 million tons of coal last year, enough to supply roughly 10 percent of the country's electrical needs.
That means Buffett's bet could be viewed in one of two ways. Either he's doubling down on coal and saying to hell with global warming concerns. Or he believes that coal will continue to prosper even under the yoke of new government regulations on carbon emissions that will mandate expensive clean-up steps for smokestack emissions of utilities and other big coal-burning industries. Oh, and by the way. Berkshire also owns MidAmerican, one of the country's biggest coal-burning utilities.
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Think Again: Asia's Rise
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government
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Link #148343
submitted by johnny2000
on Nov 6, 2009 05:20am.
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http://www.foreignpolicy.com/articles/2009/06/22/think_again_asias_...
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Asia is nowhere near closing its economic and military gap with the West. The region produces roughly 30 percent of global economic output, but because of its huge population, its per capita gdp is only $5,800, compared with $48,000 in the United States. Asian countries are furiously upgrading their militaries, but their combined military spending in 2008 was still only a third that of the United States. Even at current torrid rates of growth, it will take the average Asian 77 years to reach the income of the average American. The Chinese need 47 years. For Indians, the figure is 123 years. And Asia's combined military budget won't equal that of the United States for 72 years.
In any case, it is meaningless to talk about Asia as a single entity of power, now or in the future. Far more likely is that the fast ascent of one regional player will be greeted with alarm by its closest neighbors. Asian history is replete with examples of competition for power and even military conflict among its big players. China and Japan have fought repeatedly over Korea; the Soviet Union teamed up with India and Vietnam to check China, while China supported Pakistan to counterbalance India. Already, China's recent rise has pushed Japan and India closer together. If Asia is becoming the world's center of geopolitical gravity, it's a murky middle indeed.
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The ultimate jam session
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it's the arts
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Link #148341
submitted by johnny2000
on Nov 6, 2009 04:49am.
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http://www.spectator.co.uk/arts-and-culture/all/5503883/the-ultimat...
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As so often, our story begins with Mickey Mouse and a child’s pliant mind. The child in this case was Amos Vogel, growing up in 1930s Vienna. His father had bought him a small hand-cranked film projector, and the kid Vogel used to sit there, winding the handle and watching Mickey, Krazy Kat and other cartoon characters dance across the walls. Only there was frequently something odd, something perverse, about their movements. You see, Vogel used to enjoy running the projector in reverse — making the films, and the characters, go backwards.
The experience must have tripped some wires in the young boy’s head. It surely can’t be an accident that he became one of the world’s most provocative, devoted and influential proponents of experimental cinema. And, 50 years ago, he proved it beyond doubt by arranging a landmark film screening which catalysed a change in how film lovers, artists and studio chiefs saw the medium.
dedicated to my ex-coworker and long time discussion partner on all things musical and movie buff extraordinaire Willie
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The Affluent Of Manhattan
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the "other" pile
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Link #148337
submitted by pneum0nic
on Nov 5, 2009 04:55pm.
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http://live.gothamgazette.com/article/demographics/20030611/5/421
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The top fifth of Manhattan households received more than 50 times as much income in 1999 as the bottom fifth, according to analyses based upon Census 2000 data. Those in the top 20 percent averaged $366,000, those in the bottom 20 percent, $7,054. Those in the top group saw their average income increase $140,000, while those in the bottom group moved up only seven dollars. Manhattan is now the U.S. county with the highest disparity of income, surpassing the only county ahead of it in 1989, a former leper colony in Hawaii.
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