In response to a 5 year old Freedom of Information Act lawsuit filed by the ACLU, today the US Department of Justice released four memos generated during the Bush years by US DOJ Office of Legal Counsel (OLC) attorneys. The OLC is a component of the Justice Department created to provide “objective” legal advice to the AG and to resolve legal disputes among federal agencies. Each of these memos was directed to the attention of John A. Rizzo, Senior Deputy General Counsel, Central Intelligence Age...

http://www.tobacco.org/Documents/dd/dd.html [if you go to the url above the document summaries below have links to the originals] Ann Landman's Daily Documents Anne Landman's Secret Document emails at Smokescreen. Unformatted, but you can reach older items here.  Anne Landman's Tobacco Document Discoveries Excellent presentations of Anne's earlier "secret" documents. 01/03/12 'Sue the bastards!' (EPA) PM, 1993 This memo from Thomas Humber of the giant PR firm Burson-Marstellar (B-M) to Ellen Mer...

On Sat, 30 May 2009 13:40:12 -0700 (PDT), Last Post <last_post@primus.ca It is clear that, with the deep roots of the global warming scare, it is not about to go away. It has the added advantage of not being able to be proven false in our lifetime. In the meantime, the sanest course for us would be to gain what limited perspective we can and proceed cautiously. MANKIND HAS AN INSIGNIFICANT IMPACT ON THE CLIMATE OF PLANET EARTH By Jay Leh...

All the posts about the swine flu I thought you might like to read about a real pandemic The Spanish Influenza Spanish Influenza Outbreak, 1918 by Sarah Cummings I had a little bird. Its name was Enza. I opened the window, And in-flu-enza* Children's Rhyme In the midst of perfect health, in a circumscribed community... the first case of influenza would occur, and then within the next few hours or days a large proportion- and occasionally every single individual of that community- would be strick...

Some insane person read this boring stuff in case we need the info later. June 7, 2009 ICCC Three Brings Climate Reality To Washington DC By Marc Sheppard A mere twelve weeks had passed since he gaveled the close of the second International Conference on Climate Change in NYC. Yet last Tuesday found Joseph Bast already delivering the opening speech to its follow-up event, again featuring an elite group of scientists, economists and politicians gathered to discuss climate science and policy. But...

On Mon, 22 Jun 2009 23:26:50 +0000, Roy Schestowitz <newsgroups@schestowitz.com -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Bilski, Software Patents and Business Method Patents ,----[ Quote ] | Since the Bilski patent application has never been published, it is hard to | determine from the claims if its commodity hedging scheme requires a computer | for any practical use. If the hedging scheme requires a computer for any | practical use of the invention, then denying the patent jus...