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To: mishedlo who wrote (59964)	5/1/2006 5:21:21 AM
From: shades	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 110194

Government subsidy of consumption is pretty much a given. You mean they will continue to pay my friends to NOT GROW CORN? And that the price mechanism on GAS won't be able to work like it is supposed too in a free market and bring on other technologies? Who benefits from stopping Mr. Fusion? I saw a couple movies about this - one was the Water Engine with William Macy imdb.com and the other was Chain Reacton with Keanu Reeves - Excellent! imdb.com Now Tesla and JP Morgan had arguements about wireless energy - but from what I have read Morgan didn't like that idea and many say Tesla was a crazy nut - A lot of our grid power is lost in transmission losses eh? teslatech.info Furthermore, the power loss experienced by Tesla’s pulsed, electrostatic discharge mode of propagation was less than 5% over 25,000 miles. Dr. Van Voorhies states, “...path losses are 0.25 dB/Mm at 10 Hz,” which often is difficult for engineers to believe, who are used to transverse waves, a resistive medium, and line-of-sight propagation modes that can dissipate 10 dB/km at 5 MHz.20 ....After returning from his experiments at Colorado Springs in 1900, Nikola Tesla stated: If we use fuel to get our power, we are living on our capital and exhausting it rapidly. This method is barbarous and wantonly wasteful and will have to be stopped in the interest of coming generations. 24 In view of our present fossil-fuel-caused global warming, Tesla seems very prophetic from his vantage point of a century ago. Just as the government pays people to mortgage their homes and have children, the government will pay people to use more gas than they need to. Mish China has 1.4 billion - India 1 billion - we have 300 million and we can only open the border to so many immigrants eh? At the end of the day it comes down to a numbers game and we have to increase our population no? Where I live is about 3000 per square mile - many places in the USA haven't reached that density yet - we have to fill it up eh? POTUS last week asked Congress to give him sole authority to simularly "reform" passenger car fuel economy standards Damn the free market - I wanted an electric car - but not enough parts break down in an electric car and the gubbment has to keep full employment right? How many jobs would be lost if we all had a car that never needed fixin and new parts except for maybe tires? I know a lot of mechanics that like those good ole FUEL engines with fuel pumps and such - they don't like the idea of hundreds of millions of electric cars that only need battery cells changed - any idiot could do that - then how could they charge 100 per hour labor? The US government as presently constituted will not price control gas, it will not ration gas and the government will not nationalize the oil industry. Just the opposite. At the direction of the oil companies, the government will increase gas consumption by forcing more fuel efficent vehicles off the road and paying people to consume. Jim Rogers said the same thing this weekend - he doesn't understand why you and him aren't picking up guns and stopping this?!? Schwarzanegger says everyone needs to get a hummer for when the civil war between the blacks and latinos start!!

To: mishedlo who wrote (59964)	5/1/2006 5:24:54 AM
From: shades	Respond to of 110194

Fashion Cos Hire US Law Firm To Curb China Fakes-Report . BEIJING (AP)--Louis Vuitton, Chanel (CNL.YY) and Adidas (ADS.XE) are among 21 name brands that have hired a U.S. law firm to take legal action against knockoffs of their goods in mainland China, a state-run newspaper said Monday. "As of now, 21 brand names have endorsed the action and entrusted us in the fight," Luo Zhenghong, senior consultant at Baker & McKenzie, was quoted as saying in the China Daily. Other brands include Gucci, Calvin Klein (CKI.XX) and Puma (PUM.XE), it said. The newspaper said the Chicago-based law firm will spend a year inspecting markets in Beijing, Shanghai, Guangzhou and Shenzhen for fake goods before taking legal action, but did not elaborate on what that would be. Baker & McKenzie didn't immediately respond to an e-mail seeking comment. Luo said inspectors will focus on major markets, calling the checking of small retailers "mission impossible," China Daily said. It said Beijing's famed Silk Street, known for its collection of fakes, will be a major target. Luo also called on the government to require retailers to sign shop rental contracts that ban them from selling counterfeit products. China is widely regarded as the world's top source of illegal copies of music, movies, software, designer clothes, medicines and other products. Such pirated products are still widely available despite repeated government crackdowns. (END) Dow Jones Newswires May 01, 2006 03:25 ET (07:25 GMT) Copyright (c) 2006 Dow Jones & Company, Inc.- - 03 25 AM EDT 05-01-06

To: mishedlo who wrote (59964)	5/1/2006 5:28:58 AM
From: shades	Respond to of 110194

Japan's Domestic Auto Sales Fall 7.8% On Year In April-2- (look at those trucks go up Mish) . Vehicles Change On Year Overall 242,596 -7.8% Passenger cars 201,222 -10.8% standard-size 78,472 -8.5% small-size 122,750 -12.2% Trucks 40,056 +11.3% Buses 1,318 -4.1% (Standard-size cars are those with an engine capacity of more than 2,000 cubic centimeters or a body width of more than 1.7 meters.) By Brand Vehicles Change On Year Toyota Motor Corp. 117,638 -7.5% Lexus 2,029 N/A Nissan Motor Co. 34,681 -27.0% Honda Motor Co 28,674 -8.4% Mazda Motor Corp. 13,685 -6.8% Mitsubishi Motors Corp. 4,221 -8.1% Subaru (Fuji Heavy Industries Ltd.) 4,123 -18.4% Mitsubishi Fuso Truck & Bus Corp. 4,952 +42.7% Isuzu Motors Ltd. 5,460 +24.9% Suzuki Motor Corp. 5,825 +23.3% Hino Motors Ltd. 3,206 +25.0% Nissan Diesel Motor Co. 841 +18.1% Daihatsu Motor Co. 1,458 +56.8% Imported Cars 16,645 -2.5% (END) Dow Jones Newswires May 01, 2006 03:55 ET (07:55 GMT) Copyright (c) 2006 Dow Jones & Company, Inc.- - 03 55 AM EDT 05-01-06

To: mishedlo who wrote (59964)	5/1/2006 5:30:59 AM
From: shades	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 110194

Israeli Troops Kill Palestinian Woman In Raid (talk about Nazi Gestapo Tactics - I guess they learned well - they did say something about never forgetting eh?) (Updates with added information). TULKAREM, West Bank (AP)--Israeli soldiers shot and killed a Palestinian woman and wounded her two daughters on Monday when they fired on a West Bank house that an Islamic Jihad militant was hiding in, Palestinian officials and the army said. The army said it had opened an investigation into the incident in the West Bank town of Tulkarem and was sorry for any injury caused to innocent civilians. The troops spent more than an hour trying to convince the fugitive to surrender, the army said. When the fugitive refused to surrender, soldiers fired warning shots in the air, and a bulldozer began demolishing the house. the army said. A suspicious movement in the house led the troops to fire at the structure, the army said. Palestinian officials identified the woman killed as Etaf Zalat, 41. They said her two daughters were also wounded in the incident and were being treated in the hospital. Five fugitives from the West Bank city of Hebron and from Gaza were arrested in the raid, Palestinian police said. Manal Ghanem, 22, Zalat's daughter who was wounded during the raid, said the militants were not related to the family. Palestinian police initially said the Islamic Jihad fugitive was Zalat's son-in-law. But Ghanem said the family rented the five men an apartment unit in their home. (END) Dow Jones Newswires May 01, 2006 00:59 ET (04:59 GMT) Copyright (c) 2006 Dow Jones & Company, Inc.- - 12 59 AM EDT 05-01-06