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To: Kenneth E. Phillipps who wrote (673995)	3/3/2005 10:33:28 PM
From: Wayners	Respond to of 769670

Who is going to fine the beligerant volcanoes?

To: Kenneth E. Phillipps who wrote (673995)	3/4/2005 9:36:58 AM
From: Hope Praytochange	Respond to of 769670

kennyboy: jobless recovery ? markets ? U.S. Economy Added 262,000 Jobs in February By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Filed at 8:39 a.m. ET WASHINGTON (AP) --America's employers added a sizable 262,000 jobs in February -- the most in four months. The new hiring, however, wasn't sufficiently brisk to accommodate a wave of job-seekers, and the overall unemployment rate rose to 5.4 percent. The latest snapshot of the country's employment climate, released by the Labor Department on Friday, showed job gains across a range of industries -- from manufacturing and construction to retail and business services. The gain of 262,000 jobs in February was stronger than the increase of 225,000 positions that economists were forecasting before the release of the employment report. Payroll growth in February was up from January's sluggish gain of 132,000, which was less than the 146,000 increase initally reported. The rise in the overall civilian unemployment rate to 5.4 percent in February was up from 5.2 percent in January. The increase last month came in part as more jobseekers streamed back into the market. The unemployment rate is calculated from a separate statistical survey than the payroll figures. Thus, they can offer somewhat different pictures of what is happening in the labor market.

To: Kenneth E. Phillipps who wrote (673995)	3/4/2005 10:10:57 AM
From: Hope Praytochange	Respond to of 769670

kennyboy : where is the market today - Dont bite your tongue ? let it out as a dog on hot summer day !!!

To: Kenneth E. Phillipps who wrote (673995)	3/4/2005 11:28:04 AM
From: DizzyG	Respond to of 769670

Global warming hotheads would burn sceptics at the stake February 04, 2005 Notebook by Mick Hume NEVER MIND the posters of Michael Howard as a flying pig, or the advertisements that expose our children to the stunted genitals of that Crazy Frog from the mobile ringtone. The most shocking advert today is the one about the apocalyptic dangers of climate change from the government-funded Carbon Trust. Unlike the other two ads it has not provoked public controversy, but to my mind its message is as crude as a Tory pig or an amphibian flasher. The Carbon Trust advert on television begins with an actor playing Robert Oppenheimer, “father of the A-bomb”. The portentous voiceover tells us: “One man has been where we all are today. When he saw what he had done, he said, ‘I am become the destroyer of worlds’ (cue shot of atomic explosion). Now we all have to face up to what we’ve done. Our climate is changing . . . ” To make us feel guilty about “what we have done”, we are shown cities, electricity pylons, personal computers and cars, followed by violent storms, huge waves and flooded towns. The message is that we are destroying the world through climate change, which has been brought about by modern industry and technology. So we must change the way we live and work in order to repent of our sins — or as they put it now, “reduce our emissions”. Others predicting doom via man-made global warming are becoming similarly heated; one international body suggests we might be just ten years from catastrophe. What we ignorant laymen are rarely told is that there remain serious uncertainties about the extent and causes of climate change — as even some scientists working with the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change will quietly concede. Yet woe betide any expert who tries to raise such questions in public. When it comes to climate change, “sceptic” is a dirty word. Scientists who dissent from the strict orthodoxy on man-made global warming have been shouted down, labelled dupes of the US oil industry, even branded “climate change deniers” — a label with obvious historical connotations. Instead of taking up the sceptics’ case, the accepted response of our illiberal age is to yell: “You can’t say that!” But is not scepticism crucial to scientific inquiry? Timothy Ball, a leading climatologist, says that those trying to test the theory of anthropogenic climate change — “a normal course of action in any real scientific endeavour” — are now being “chastised for not being in agreement with some sort of scientific consensus, as if a worldwide poll of climate experts had been taken, and as if such a consensus would represent scientific fact. Nothing could be farther from the truth; science advances by questioning, probing and re-examining existing beliefs.” We need to separate the science from the politics. Let the experts thrash out the evidence. But let them do so free from the pressures of a political climate in which human intervention is always seen as the problem rather than the solution, precaution is always privileged over risk, and the worst possible outcome is always assumed to be the best bet. Perhaps those commanding us to “face up to what we have done” to the world might first face up to the dangers of reducing complex scientific issues to a simplistic political message, and presenting moralistic sermons as scientific laws. Whatever the true impact on the environment of burning fossil fuels, there seems a real risk of damaging the atmosphere of scientific inquiry by burning sceptics at the stake. timesonline.co.uk

To: Kenneth E. Phillipps who wrote (673995)	3/4/2005 11:35:08 AM
From: DizzyG	Respond to of 769670

BTW, Kenneth...when are you going to stop that volcano of yours from belching out nearly 250 tons a day of sulfur dioxide? :) Diz-

To: Kenneth E. Phillipps who wrote (673995)	3/4/2005 12:59:51 PM
From: Proud_Infidel	Respond to of 769670

Poll: Major Change of Public Opinion in Muslim World Friday March 4, 12:01 am ET biz.yahoo.com WASHINGTON, March 4 /PRNewswire/ -- In the first substantial shift of public opinion in the Muslim world since the beginning of the United States' global war on terrorism, more people in the world's largest Muslim country now favor American efforts against terrorism than oppose them. This is just one of many dramatic findings of a new nationwide poll in Indonesia released today. "In a stunning turnaround of public opinion, support for Bin Laden and terrorism in the world's most populous Muslim nation has dropped significantly, while favorable views of the United States have increased," said Kenneth Ballen, President of Terror Free Tomorrow, which commissioned the poll. "The poll shows that the reason for this positive change is the American response to the tsunami," Ballen added. Key Findings of the Poll: * For the first time ever in a major Muslim nation, more people favor US- led efforts to fight terrorism than oppose them (40% to 36%). Importantly, those who oppose US efforts against terrorism have declined by half, from 72% in 2003 to just 36% today. * For the first time ever in a Muslim nation since 9/11, support for Osama Bin Laden has dropped significantly (58% favorable to just 23%). * 65% of Indonesians now are more favorable to the United States because of the American response to the tsunami, with the highest percentage among people under 30. * Indeed, 71% of the people who express confidence in Bin Laden are now more favorable to the United States because of American aid to tsunami victims. The Terror Free Tomorrow poll was conducted in February by the leading Indonesian pollster, Lembaga Survei Indonesia, and surveyed 1,200 adults nationwide with a margin of error of ± 2.9 percentage points. Complete poll results and graphics are available at terrorfreetomorrow.org. About Terror Free Tomorrow Terror Free Tomorrow is a not-for-profit organization whose mission is to promote a new strategic framework to defeat global terrorists by undermining the support base that empowers them. For more information, please see terrorfreetomorrow.org. Terror Free Tomorrow has received endorsements from Senator John McCain, 9/11 Commission Chairs Thomas Kean and Lee Hamilton, and other prominent national security leaders. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Source: Terror Free Tomorrow