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Minneapolis / St. Paul Business Journal: Minneapolis / St. Paul Business Pulse Surveys

SURVEY QUESTION:

Should Minneapolis get tougher on panhandlers?

Minneapolis / St. Paul Business Journal: Minneapolis / St. Paul Business Pulse Surveys: "So, in other words, the only place they can panhandle is in front of the upmarket shops and restaurants of Nicollet Mall where my 6 block walk home is interupted 17 times each way by filthy, stinking panhandlers. You should pass an ordinance that makes the panhandlers sit in the gallery for every City Council meeting, no absentees! They'll find a job in a New York minute then. "

McMillan Weekly

Usually, a top is formed in a rounding manner. That is, the market flattens out and takes some time to roll over and head south. That didn't really happen this time -- mostly because so many longs were sitting on hair-trigger sell orders, which flooded into the market at the first sign of danger. We now expect that the market will decline for several weeks, if not longer.

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Thomson and Reuters Confirm Their Deal
As reported by Information Today, the rumors of a merger between two of the three major providers of financial data, news, and trading systems have become reality. The consolidation will position the new Thomson-Reuters just ahead of arch-rival Bloomberg. Although Reuters is best known as the world’s largest international multimedia news agency, more than 90 percent of its revenues derive from its financial services business. The company’s core strengths lie in providing the content, analytics, trading, and collaboration tools needed by financial professionals—estimated to be some 370,000 around the world. The Thomson Corp, formally based in Toronto but with operational headquarters in Stamford, Conn., provides electronic workflow solutions to business and professional customers, and value-added information, software tools, and applications to professionals in the fields of law, tax and accounting, financial services, scientific research, and healthcare.

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French Viewpoint

Amazon.com: Anti-Americanism: Books: Jean-Francois Revel: "52 of 59 people found the following review helpful:
Exposing a mental disease with French flair!, January 26, 2004
By Joburgpete 'irridium' (Johannesburg)
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This review is from: Anti-Americanism (Hardcover)

One of the most naïve delusions held by the American Left is that the current administration's foreign policy has made the USA an object of hatred. As a South African, I have news for them: The hatred directed against your president now is really hatred of your country. I first became aware of this loathing of America amongst Marxists and Fascists in the 1980s. By the nineties it had spread into the mainstream media and was much in evidence at the time of Clinton's intervention in Yugoslavia at the end of that decade. Yet these hysterical critics could provide no alternative way to stop Milosevich's ethnic cleansing. They have always hated America for what it is, rather than for what it does.

In the chapter Contradictions Revel examines the inherently contradictory character of the diatribes against America, pointing out how European elites that criticise the USA conveniently forget that their own continent made the 20th century the most murderous in history with their two world wars, their criminal ideologies like communism and nazism an . . ."

HillBillary

: "HILLARY CLINTON DEFENDS USE OF CORPORATE JET FOR FAMILY VACATIONS
By DICK MORRIS & EILEEN MCGANN
Published on FoxNews.com on June 1, 2007.

On Wednesday, Hillary Clinton was challenged by the press about the Clinton family�s acceptance of more than $900,000 in free private travel from Infousa, a company linked to scamming the elderly.

Her reply? She said that she had complied with all Senate ethics rules and reimbursed the company for the amount of a first class air ticket � usually about 1 percent of the cost of the luxurious private jet travel. According to Hillary, �Those were the rules. You�ll have to ask someone else if it�s good policy.�

In other words, get lost.

Is there anyone out there who would say it's good policy for a U.S. senator and presidential candidate to accept apparently tax-free gifts of almost a million dollars from a corporation � especially a corporation involved in providing lists of vulnerable elderly people to scam artists?

And it's not like the Clintons couldn't afford to buy an air ticket � the family income since 2001 has been more than $63 million! So why do they have to freeload from rich friends?

Well, evidently Hillary . . ."

The New Criterion — A footnote on Ward Churchill

A footnote on Ward Churchill

The New Criterion — A footnote on Ward Churchill: "Notes & Comments

Who can forget Ward “little Eichmanns” Churchill, the “ethnic studies” professor at the University of Colorado whose odious remark comparing the victims of 9/11 to Nazi bureaucrats sparked a firestorm of eminently deserved criticism? The closer one looked into the case of Ward Churchill, the worse it got. This tenured radical had been battening on the public purse for decades—and for what? A congeries of radical political diatribes masquerading as scholarship in a bogus discipline. Much of what Churchill published was simply fabricated. Much else turned out to have been plagiarized. A university committee went to work to investigate it all and to recommend disciplinary action. On May 16, the Associated Press reported on the committee’s findings. Yes, Churchill “committed multiple acts of plagiarism, fabrication, and falsification” and his work was “below minimum standards of professional integrity.” Nevertheless, the committee recommended that he be suspended for a year, not fired. Why? Because although his case “shows misbehavior,” it does not show “the worst possible misbehavior.” Yes, that’s right: you can be mad, bad, and dangerous to know—you can lie, fabricate research, plagiarize, and turn your college classroom into a center for anti-American propaganda: all that’s just fine. So long as you are not the worst, your tenure at the University of Colorado is inviolable. Or so the committee’s report suggests. But wait: what would count as “the worst”? According to the AP story, the report mentions fabricating data for grant money or endangering people’s lives by not following appropriate research protocols. But surely that betrays a stunning lack of imagination. What about arson, mass murder, or widespread mayhem? Most people would agree such activities are worse than fabricating data to get a grant, which by definition means that such fabrication is not the worst possible behavior. Sancta simplissima! Has it come to this at the University of Colorado?

By the time you read this, Hank Brown, the university’s president, will have decide whether to accept the committee’s recommendations. He might decide to fire Churchill anyway. He might decided to do nothing. If he recommends any punishment, Churchill’s lawyer has warned, Churchill will file a civil rights lawsuit. Our advice? Fire Ward Churchill and let him sue. So what if he wins? You will have done the right thing.
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Fred Thompson

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-United States senator from Tennessee, 1994-2003 (chairman, Senate Committee on Governmental Affairs, 1997-2001)
-Member, Tennessee Appellate Court Nominating Commission, 1985-1987
-Special counsel, Senate Committee on Intelligence, 1982
-Special counsel, Senate Committee on Foreign Relations, 1980-1981
-Special counsel to Lamar Alexander, governor of Tennessee, 1980
-Minority counsel, Senate Select Committee on Presidential Campaign Activities ('Watergate Committee”), 1973-1974
-Assistant U.S. attorney, 1969-1972
-Practiced law, 1967-1969
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The 13 Most Overlooked Tax Deductions - Kiplinger.com: "three deductions that are all-too-easy to miss because they are invisible on the tax forms. Congress failed to okay them for 2006 returns until after the IRS sent the forms to the printer.

1. State sales taxes. As part of the last-minute tax package last December, Congress resurrected the chance for taxpayers to deduct state and local sales taxes. Although all taxpayers have a shot at this write-off, it makes sense primarily for those who live in states that do not impose an income tax. You must choose between deducting state income taxes or state sales taxes and, for most citizens of income-tax states, the income-tax deduction is a better deal. You won't find this break mentioned on the tax forms, but here's how to claim this deduction: Enter your write-off on line 5 of Schedule A and write 'ST' on the dotted line to the left of that line. IRS even has a calculator on its Web site to help you figure the deduction, which varies by your state and income level.

2. $250 educators' expenses. This break, too, lost its place on the tax forms because it expired at the end of 2005 and wasn't reinstated until the 2006 forms were set. Still, teachers and their aides can deduct up to $250 they spent in 2006 for books and classroom supplies. If you qualify, put your deduction on line 23 of the Form 1"

Jim Cramer's Waffling

Who Does Jim Cramer Think He Is? -- New York Magazine: "Slap me and I’ll change my mind like Faye Dunaway in Chinatown. "

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2-Period RSI Below 2: These are stocks that have a 2-period RSI reading below 2 and are trading above their 200-day moving average. Our research shows that stocks trading above their 200-day moving with a 2-period RSI reading below 2 have shown positive returns, on average, 1-day, 2-days and 1-week later. Historically, these stocks have provided traders with a significant edge.

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By Brendan Carlin, Political Correspondent
Last Updated: 2:20am BST 24/05/2007

More than three million households in Britain have rubbish bins equipped with "waste stealth tax" technology, it was claimed last night.

Rubbish bins: Microchips in bins spy on 3m homes
The microchips could be used to charge households for the amount of non-recyclable waste produced

Ahead of today's publication of the Government's national waste strategy, a survey revealed that 68 town halls have spent millions of pounds buying bins with microchips.

The figure is double previous estimates and will fuel fears that Labour has been moving secretly towards a European-style "bin tax".

The microchips, together with reading equipment which could be installed in refuse lorries, would allow councils to weigh each household's rubbish. The system could eventually be used to charge households for the amount of non-recyclable waste they produce, which currently has to be buried in landfill sites.

Britain is the only major European country not to have separate charges for refuse collection. But there are fears that any new system could cost an average of £20 a month for each home.
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An opinion poll for the Channel 4 Despatches programme to be shown tonight, reveals that almost two in three people - 62 per cent - oppose the idea of a "pay as you throw" rubbish tax. . . .

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In the Northwest Airlines (NWACQ) bankruptcy, hedge funds such as Owl Creek Asset Management have bought Northwest equity and shorted the bonds, a reversal of the common assumption that equity holders are the losers in bankruptcy cases. Owl Creek is betting that Northwest, which filed for bankruptcy protection in 2005, will be acquired, giving it another shot at life and boosting the value of its stock. The shares, which now trade over-the-counter, once traded above $50. Last week, they hit a low of 8¢, and finished at 16¢ on May 7. Owl Creek declined comment.

Parental Alienation Syndrome

Parental Alienation Syndrome - What The Legal Profession Should Know

L.F. Lowenstein
Medico-Legal Journal (1999) Vol.66 Part 4, 151-161

Introduction
I have been involved in and out of the legal system with the process of PAS, and propose to answer the questions outlined, in the most simple terms. I will try to explain to those faced with PAS in cases of marital disharmony, marriage guidance, divorce proceedings, the legal system and evaluation of children and adults involved and suggest how to reverse some of the tragic consequences before they reach a court of law or during the proceedings in a court of law.

Although I will be responding to the questions posed briefly and succinctly, I will try not to over simplify this complex subject. However, there are wider and more comprehensive texts available which consider the complex phenomena of PAS (see Bibliography).

1. What is the Parent Alienation Syndrome (PAS)?
PAS is not a new phenomenon. It has been practised for as long as marital or relationship conflicts have occurred. It is the conscious action, although sometimes deemed unconscious by some psychologists and psychiatrists, of one parent turning against another to oust the other parent from the affection, love, respect or regard by children which both parents bore. It is most effectively used against younger, passive children and is rather less effective with older and more assertive children.

It is unlikely to occur in a stable harmonious relationship between parents. The couple who are at ease, even happy, with one another will tend to engender love for their children. They will encourage children to regard the other parent favourably They will work together to bring up their children appropriately with socialised standards of behaviour. Such children have the advantage of knowing they come from a secure base, of being loved by both parents and in turn, feeling the same way towards them. In some cases even where marital disharmony occurs PAS does not occur and parents continue to foster good relations with their children and with the other partner and their children. . . .

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Murrey Makes Future Predictions at AAPTA Meeting:


Murrey makes future predictions at AAPTA Meeting: Fort Worth, TEXAS April 13,2007 to (25) geniuses of Indicators

Murrey was invited by the Board of directors of the AAPTA to let them "see" the (only) new Logic Based Math: Fractal Formula "presented" to the Investing Technical Arena since 1920 when Gann confused everyone by forcing them to start a 100% false premise: all random market extremes on highs or lows are (exact) reverses, not panic sell offs or good feelings about markets selling at 1,400 to one earnings ratio as they did March 17 2000.

Murrey was the 1st to speak and he said: "There are no random market reverses since Oct. 09 1942."

The crowd of (25) Indicator geniuses were livid.

Murrey told the group: "the S&P 500 is getting near 1,500 soon, so you can predict every reverse (up to) (17) off 1,500.

They wanted to know how it could be done.

Bijan stood up and said: "Don't make predictions let the software do it, like you did in Oct. 09 1999 in Beverly hills, California when you called the (exact) high reversal the 1st time up at 1,468.75 off your birthday on Oct.. 09 1999 when it was at 1,434.75."

Murrey smiled and thanked him for remembering these past charts (exactly) from 1999, when we are trading in the same charts today: Greenpeace Traders Recycle past Charts: save the paper ride Secretariat: 1972.

They asked Murrey how it could predict the future reverses?

Murrey said: Take 10 plus (5) and add them together and arrive at 15.

5 x 3 = 15: move the decimal over two and you have 1,500. it will be the future balance point MM 4/8th of each MM 15.625 points above or below 1,500. 3.90625 will be each MM 1/8th.

Murrey told the crowd of geniuses the worst news they could ever hear: "Markets don't reverse off the extremes as you were shamed to believe, but are recoiling on either side of the MM 4/8th, so they know to reverse off + 3/8th or - 3/8th or + 5/8th or - 5/8th moves from it Harmonic Balance price point."

Bijan stood and hollered out: "Wait just a minute, I am the one who told you in 1999 the MM 7/8th was the best place to go short." The (25) geniuses were really pissed to see Murrey and Bijan agreeing on MM. Bijan said: "Don't tell us how to predict future market reverses, we don't do it and we are not here for that, we just want to know how your software works."

Murrey said: "I coach market investors to watch the VIX Index and the (exact) MM Trading Line and find it the VIX is on a MM 1/8th Yellow or 7/8th Yellow and we know we are ready for a small reverse (at least)."

This group was confused since Murrey never placed any (late) Indicators in his software program.

Murrey told the group of (25) genius investors he instructed his students to look at (only) VIX, TRIN, ADV- DEC and TICK set to MM Trading lines, plus Murrey's (4) exact Binary Bands and don't look at John Dillinger's shot gun bands, which cost you too wide a stops and you can't make up enough profits to pay off the "losers."

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Education Department:

Approved by Mr. James Batman, PHD, MBA and has written two books on trading and options

Murrey "presents" VIX, Trin, ADV-DEC and Tick to class so you can quit using Indicators which are late.

The group of (25) geniuses got together just after lunch and had a secret meeting: they came back and refused to believe any two markets were anything but random in their reverses.

Murrey asked them what they had most of their monies in, but he already knew it was Bonds.

Murrey pulled their minds (legs) by baiting them and let them talk for 30 minutes about how no one or no exact formula could record exact reverses of any market. Murrey had them by the short stares from across the room.

Murrey pulled up a chart of the 30 Year Bonds and the (raw) Interest Rates.

They hollered: "Foul play; you set us up."

They looked at the US 30 Year Bonds: MM - 2/8th = 104.6875.

They looked at (raw) Interest Rates: MM 0/8th = 4.6875%

The ratio of these two markets was exactly 1:16 and every reverse in Interest Rates signaled a reverse in the US 30 Year Bonds with no words or conversation over the Internet "taprooms of gossip."

The US 30 Year Bonds reversed (exactly) off Murrey's 7/8th and Murrey's - 1/8th which was down exactly - 8/8th.

What kind of a fool would make a fool of Murrey (Math)?

Show your friends how these markets are reversing off random numbers!

After lunch the group asked Murrey to show them how: 1) Soybeans, S&P 100 or Gold could be running to the same numbers. Murrey smiled and obliged with more proof (charts) set to MM Trading lines, hoping they would reverse off the same Yellow MM lines. What were the odds Murrey would lose? Don't bet against the man.

Gold: Soybeans and S&P 100 were trading on the same lines: MM 0/8th 625 to MM 8/8th 687.50 or MM 0/8th at 500.00 and MM 8/8th at 750.00. How could anyone see these reverses as "random guess?"

The group broke off into another "secret" meeting to find out from the different board members who were experts at finding knock-off versions of MM Trading Lines to secure it without Murrey knowing: why pay for knowledge when you can download it free off the Internet? They were thrilled to "steal" others' work for free.

Everyone was happy after they found out how to get it free: is more fun; it costs money to fly to Fort Worth, Texas for another three days of late Indicators and Tartly percentages no one uses or understands.

25 geniuses couldn't figure out Bartley Percentages in 25 years.

The group listened for over one hour and not one person asked a question or looked interested to know.

No one stole the Bartley Software since he offered to let you steal it for free. Who requested it?

Snake Oil is sold and bought by "snakes" in the pulpit from Tennessee Snake handler preachers (religion).

Bijan sent Murrey an E Mail saying his comments were equal to a snake oil salesperson who kept saying Murrey Math works, when everyone had already downloaded the knock-off versions. Murrey loves it when more traders join his team of winners; it makes our reverses more dependable, thanks.

Murrey has (3) Hedge Fund Managers flying to Tennessee for "snake oil" anointing by Murrey's Holy Smokies."

You must laugh at yourself at your "current" age against what you looked like at (17). were you so sure you knew all markets would (not) be random your entire life?

Each generation cleans out the trash of the last errors of intent; are we running out of time to repent?

Relax up and don't ever change anything except your back swing or the way you Putt.

Golf Question: Would you have gone for the pin on (17) to win, or would you have gone for the pay check?

Remember the 30 million people are watching you think: random money or (exact) name on the trophy.

If you got paid for just coming close with random guess who cares who is the best at anything?

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Synergistic Trading Newsletter: "Using Joe Granville's 'On Balance Volume' (OBV) to Your Trading Advantage

by Jim Wyckoff

Still another 'secondary' trading tool in my 'Trading Toolbox' is the On Balance Volume indicator (OBV), developed by Joe Granville, the respected stock market trader and analyst.

OBV is calculated as the continuous consecutive sum of volumes, whereby the entire volume of a day is added to the volume of the previous trading session’s OBV, if today’s closing price is above that of the previous session. Should the closing price be below that of the previous session, the day’s volume is subtracted. Unchanged closing prices have no effect on the OBV--the volume is neither added nor subtracted.

Granville OBV

The OBV study indicates whether money is flowing into or out of a market. Based on Granville’s principle, changing trends in the price of the underlying market are anticipated by trend changes in the OBV indicator. The theory is that one can see the flow of 'smart money' into a market by an increase in the OBV. As soon as the public moves into the market, both the market and the OBV will surge ahead.

The OBV indicator shows an upward trend whenever a new high or low exceeds the previous one. In the opposite case, a lower high or low indicates a downtrend. The changing in the OBV from an upward to a downward trend is called a breakout.

Importantly, in the OBV analysis, it is assumed that OBV breakouts precede the market breakouts, but that there is very little time for a trader to react. This study is not a timing tool. Rather, it monitors market sentiment, and it can alert you to a changing market situation. This alert may be used as a signal to taking a long position on upside breakouts, and selling short when the OBV makes a downside breakout. Traders usually hold the position until the trend changes.

Once a trend has been established, it remains until it is broken. This happens when a downward trend changes to an upward trend and vice versa, or when a trend changes to a choppy, sideways movement for more than three days. If a market changes from an uptrend to a sideways trend, and remains non-trending for two days only and then reverses to an uptrend again, the market is considered being in an uptrend as before.

It should be noted that the OBV indicator does not work on intra-day charts.

Granville has a book, "The New Commodity Trading Systems and Methods" that has more details on this and other indicators.

That is it for this week.

Why giving a compliment is a dying art

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Men have become too concerned about political correctness to give a compliment to the opposite sex, according to a survey.

Their concerns are backed by 65 per cent of women who suspect there is nothing innocent behind a flattering remark from a work colleague or new acquaintance.

While 89 per cent of women loved to receive a compliment, 67 per cent felt uncomfortable if it came from anybody other than their partner.

advertisementSadly, 12 per cent said no one had paid them a compliment in the past three months, the poll for Loire Valley White Wines found.

Christine Webber, a relationship expert, said: "While it may seem somewhat frivolous, a compliment is in fact a vital ingredient for well-being.

"The trick though is to be able to pay someone a compliment and make them feel good about themselves, rather than coming over as smarmy or, worse, a bit lecherous."



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"This plan injects more uncertainty and panic into a system that is already out of equilibrium. "

--Chicken Little

verbal learning and memory skills most likely to be disrupted

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Diabetes/Metabolism Research and Reviews
Volume 16, Issue 5 , Pages 308 - 315
Published Online: 22 Aug 2000
Copyright © 2000 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

Review Article

Why is learning and memory dysfunction in Type 2 diabetes limited to older adults?
Christopher M. Ryan *, Michelle Geckle
Western Psychiatric Institute & Clinic, Department of Psychiatry, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, Pittsburgh, PA, USA

email: Christopher M. Ryan (ryancm@msx.upmc.edu)

*Correspondence to Christopher M. Ryan, Western Psychiatric Institute & Clinic, 3811 O'Hara Street, Pittsburgh, PA 15213, USA.

Funded by:
National Institutes of Health; Grant Number: R01-DK39629

Keywords
memory; cognitive dysfunction; Type 2 diabetes


Abstract
Review of the literature on the cognitive correlates and consequences of Type 2 diabetes reveals two very intriguing findings. Not only are verbal learning and memory skills most likely to be disrupted as compared to other cognitive skills (e.g. attention, executive function; psychomotor efficiency), but these mnestic deficits appear to be restricted to individuals with diabetes who are older than 60-65 years of age. Middle-aged adults with either Type 2 or Type 1 diabetes are apparently protected insofar as researchers have only infrequently reported learning and memory impairments in that age group. Why do older adults have such an increased risk of diabetes-associated memory dysfunction? In our view, this phenomenon is a consequence of a synergistic interaction between diabetes-related metabolic derangements and the structural and functional changes occurring in the central nervous system (CNS) that are part of the normal ageing process. To critically evaluate that possibility, we summarise what is known about learning and memory dysfunction in the adult with diabetes, examine the extent to which chronic hyperglycaemia may adversely affect the integrity of the CNS, and selectively review the literature on age-associated changes in brain morphology and cognitive function, paying special attention to the threshold theory of cognitive impairment. Copyright © 2000 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.



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Good Lord!

We have a staff member who does not know the difference between and automatic weapon and a handgun?

We have a female Commissioner who asks the police witness if there is a central registry for firearms? And, why not?

We have a staffer ask the police witness, what is the rationale or public policy for exempting state licensees from purchasing more than one gun in a 30 day period?

We have a witness declare that it is "obvious" the reason for handgun killings is the "easy availability" of firearms, and there is no one there to point out that up until today, in the history of the United States and the British Colonies of North America, firearms have always been more available and less restricted than they are now.

Don't we deserve a commission of people who know something about the issue, the history of firearms regulation, or who have at least thought about it before today?

On the Cuff...

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"Seemingly (credit) is a perpetual motion machine; but one day the lever will go into reverse, and the value of total credit will shrink as dollar prices collapse."
- Bob Prechter, The Elliott Wave Theorist, May 2007

As calls for Dow 14,000, Dow 15,000 and higher flood the media while any talk of credit inflation is tossed to the compost heap, it's increasingly evident – and not surprising – that there are few bears in sight. It couldn't be clearer that investor optimism abounds, setting astonishing records in recent months. Yet not once in history have the financial markets taken extreme credit inflation as a sign of anything but an impending deep and debilitating decline. There's something so obviously wrong with this picture.

In the May 2007 issue of The Elliott Wave Theorist, Bob Prechter talks about the ultimate affects of a credit society in a way that you won't hear from any other source. As one of Bob's most detailed Theorists on the financial markets, this is a must-read issue...

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We have an immigration activist calling for the "boycott" who says that general strikes have long symbolic history for social justice...

"Social justice" has been used since hippy years in relation to race relations, but the truth is that it is a phrase signifying socialism. "Justice" alone is a perfectly good word to describe what we seek universally as just people. "Racial justice" or equity is a good term for countering racism and prejudice.

"Economic justice" even, is a better term for opportunity and fairness, but for the activists doesn't carry the import, significance and doctrine coded into the term "social justice." The fact is "social justice" to them means socialism, and this boycott, general strike of the U.S. economy is a strike for socialism, a demonstration for the leftmost solution, an open alignment between the purported interests of illegal aliens and radical socialism on May Day.

They don't say it, because many of those they would have march do not believe or understand socialism, but that is what these alien leaders are trying to achieve. This really IS an external threat from alien nations to our democratic republic and our economic system which has made us the most successful nation in the world as measured by real per capita income and quality of living.

They would pull us down to the Third World in order to pull the poorest, most bankrupt and most backward societies up one thin sliver of marginality on the spectrum. They are failures at economics and failures at math.

Let's be clear and call a spade, a spade. It is MayDay and it is Socialism.

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Bogus Report of So-called Bogus Study by Bogus Organization That Does Evidently Not Even Exist.

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This report is clearly a fabrication:

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Bogus National Chamber “Study”: Propaganda Attack Against Civil Justice System
Continues Effort to Eliminate Corporate Accountability for Wrongdoing and Negligence
Wednesday, April 25, 2007 (Washington, DC)—A bogus study released today by the national Chamber of Commerce claiming to rank so-called “anti-business” state legal systems is yet another baseless attack on the nation’s civil justice system in its campaign to eliminate corporate accountability for wrongdoing and negligence.

“This latest propaganda is a made-up survey primarily of corporate lawyers earning millions of dollars defending their CEOs from being held accountable,” said Jon Haber, chief executive officer of the American Association for Justice. “The Chamber will stop at nothing to destroy the civil justice system in America, which protects the rights of consumers, employees, and shareholders against corporate wrongdoing and negligence.”

As the largest lobby in the country and a front group for corporations seeking to evade accountability for wrongdoing and negligence, the national Chamber of Commerce has led the effort to eliminate access to justice for Americans.

The American Association for Justice today released “The Ten Worst States to Get Sick or Injured In” providing sobering examples of how the national Chamber’s efforts and those of big corporations seeking to evade accountability for wrongdoing and negligence puts corporate greed over public good. . . .

What "national Chamber of Commerce?" In the US, there is no "national Chamber of Commerce." We have a U.S. Chamber of Commerce, but this is a different name. Even though they use the wrong name, they must mean the US Chamber, who owns a registered trademark on National Chamber of Commerce®. This because The USCOC spends more money on lobbying than anyone else.

Veracity Problems

1. "Bogus study released today" uttered on April 25th. But the Report, if this is it, was released on April 16th, over a week ago.

2. "Bogus study" he says, but the study was done by The Harris Poll, which is the most highly regarded polling organization known to modern man! Calling a Harris Poll report "bogus" is defamatory and totally liable to cause liability for libel, Counsellor Haber. Govern your actions accordingly. If Harris signed it, it can't be bogus.

3. "Claiming to rank so-called 'anti-business' state legal systems": Looking through all the materials found on this report, there is nowhere where its producers or sponsors so-call anything "anti-business." Apparently, fabricated quotations are part of the plaintiff bar's stock in trade. The study's aim is "to explore how reasonable and balanced the tort liability system is perceived to be..."

4. "Front organization" is a most distorted and false characterization for a voluntary, legal, self-supported community-based advocacy group and for the U.S. Chamber particularly. A "front organization" is a deceit, a cover, and a hidden motive enterprise, which by definition is dishonest and crooked. None of those attributes are present here.

5. Quite the contrary, cursury research reveals that the class of pettyfogger represented by Attorney Haber regularly sets itself up behind front organizations:

USA Today`s editorial board thinks that special interest groups, including those which operate out of the various headquarters of state bar and trial lawyers associations, which give themselves deceptive names to shield their TRUE affiliations and intentions stink. I couldn`t agree more.

I suppose the American Medical Association, the state and county medical societies, the American College of Surgeons, the Politically Active Physicians Association, the Pennsylvania Physicians for the Protection of Specialty Care, the Alliance for Specialty Medicine, the Doctors for Medical Liability Reform and ALL the other physician specialty and related groups which advocate for medical liability reform on behalf of physicians and patients could take a lesson from ATLA, the state bar associations and trial lawyers associations on how to hide their identity and their agenda.....oh, wait.....doctors` groups don`t feel the NEED to hide their identity or their agenda. One wonders why those who oppose liability reform DO.....

Here`s a pretty reliable tip - if the group opposing medical liability reform has the words "consumer," "justice," "fairness," "citizens" or other high-sounding word or phrase in it, look CLOSELY at who created and who funds it. You may just discover, as I did quite easily with the "Utah Citizens Alliance For Safety and Accountability," that the organization is affiliated with a local lawyers` group to put a sympathetic face on purely financial incentives to oppose medical liability reform....

The "American Association for Justice" really is an Astroturf front organization for the American Association of Trail Lawyers and the Democrat Party.

The Legal Times
ATLA Conjures a New Reality
Emma Schwartz

Jon Haber`s effort to transform the image of the nation`s leading group of plaintiffs lawyers began, perhaps incongruously, in one of California`s golf and glitz capitals, Palm Springs. ((What`s incongruous about that?))

Haber, the incoming chief executive officer of the Association of Trial Lawyers of America, was there last week to meet members, who are aching to fight back against years of Republican-led attacks on them as greedy, irresponsible threats to the nation`s economy and justice system.

ATLA members are hoping Haber can use his years as a Democratic political strategist and corporate public relations executive at PR giant Fleishman-Hillard to derail the GOP`s legal reform agenda.

"We want to get the truth of the message out to the American people, and Jon has the kind of talent that will help us do that," says Todd Smith, a trial lawyer and president of ATLA.

But after years of playing defense against the Republicans, the question may be whether ATLA has brought Haber into the game too late. To be sure, the organization has been a political powerhouse inside the Beltway, doling out millions in campaign contributions -- almost all of it to Democrats. And tort reform backers acknowledge that Haber is a smart political operative.

Yet the war to influence public opinion has been waged more effectively by the GOP and its corporate allies. President George W. Bush has made tort reform a key plank of his political platform since his days as governor of Texas. And groups like the U.S. Chamber of Commerce and the National Association of Manufacturers have spent tens of millions on public education campaigns aimed at convincing Joe Six-Pack that reforming the legal system matters.

Even as ATLA met, GOP senators -- joined by a few Democrats -- were back in Washington advancing a bill to limit class actions. That legislation is expected to be the first in a series of legal reform measures to hit Congress this session.

"Unfortunately, we`ve spent the last 10 years with our finger in the dike trying to hold back the tide," says Fred Baron, a former ATLA president and head of Dallas-based plaintiffs firm Baron & Budd. "We`ve been playing more of an insider game and not spending the time and energy and money on public opinion."

((Could it be, perhaps, the public`s opinion is based on facts and likely can`t be influenced by slick marketing?))

He added: "The bottom line to it is that we have to get more aggressive."

((Well, we`ve certainly been seeing evidence of that....fake studies, bogus "consumer" groups, etc....looks like SOMEONE has been working overtime....))

[Looks like the pot is calling the kettle "bogus!"]

For his part, Haber -- who was named to the post Jan. 31 and officially starts his duties Feb. 14 -- has yet to reveal how exactly he`ll fight ATLA`s battle. Grass-roots work is likely to be a key, as is outreach to members of Congress who may be wavering on lawsuit reform. But the war of words and the effort to reposition the debate has already started.

"People who use neutral-sounding words like tort reform, what they are really asking for is taking away people`s rights," Haber says.

((They`ve been using that term for years now - but 63% of the American public STILL favors a cap on pain and suffering. Those who oppose reform deliberately confuse economic, non-economic and punitive damages in the hope of convincing people that pain and suffering is the ONLY category of damages which can compensate them for legitimate injuries - when, in fact, everything that a patient could possibly need and which can be quantified can be covered by ECONOMIC damages. Mr. Haber can try - but I think the public has already made up its mind on this one....))

Yet he acknowledges that the Bush administration is coming to the battle with key advantages. "I think the president has enormous power to control debate. It`s hard for a minority party to stand up and make a point," Haber says. "The biggest challenge is telling the story."

CAMPAIGN VETERAN

This is the second time in the last 13 months that Haber has been brought in to help perform a political makeover. In January 2004, he was hired by Howard Dean`s sinking presidential campaign. His primary task was to shore up day-to-day management, and he helped Dean stay on message.

It was the kind of thing Haber had done before. He is a campaign veteran who has worked on presidential bids by Democrats Edward Kennedy, Walter Mondale, Richard Gephardt, and Bill Clinton.

Says Steve McMann, a Democratic strategist from the Dean campaign who has known Haber for 20 years: "When he would prepare a candidate for `Meet The Press` or shows like that, the first thing he`d ask was `What are we trying to get out of this? What do we want our headline to be?` "

Haber, of course, was too late to save Dean, and whatever advice he may have given the candidate about message was undone after Dean`s infamous scream that followed the Iowa Caucus.

He had better luck with some of his corporate clients during his seven years at Fleishman-Hillard. Haber was head of the firm`s D.C. public relations division and handled a portfolio of clients that included Yahoo Inc., AOL Time Warner, SBC Communications Inc., and National Public Radio.

Haber won`t reveal details about his work, citing client confidentiality. But Bill Black, a colleague of Haber`s from Fleishman, says Haber is "good at defining the motives and agenda of various combatants in any situation and drawing from that the best message. I think he`s able to do it having worked in so many different situations, each one being very political."

Indeed, even with a law degree from the University of San Francisco and a few years of general litigation practice under his belt, Haber has spent most of his career in Democratic politics and has deep ties to Capitol Hill.

From 1989 to 1992, he served as counsel and communications director on the Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry Committee chaired by Sen. Patrick Leahy (D-Vt.). Leahy is now ranking Democrat on the Senate Judiciary Committee -- ground zero for tort reform legislation. He also served briefly as chief of staff to Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.), another Judiciary Committee member.

((Hopefully, Sen. Feinstein will reflect more on the positive impact medical liability reform has had on California than on party ties....))

Though he has liberal Democratic bona fides, Haber has corporate ties stemming from both his work at Fleishman and his two-year stint as special counsel to the Overseas Private Investment Corp. during the Clinton administration. That agency helps U.S. businesses invest abroad.

6. If this is the "bogus study" why not provide a ready link, a proper citation, a reference to the true title and the true creator and publisher? That's what you have to do for everything quoted or referenced in a submission to a COURT! Praps, Jon Haber is no longer practicing law precisely because he had a creative difference with that well-settled standard of advocacy. We know why. because the target of the deception might consult the true document and draw his own conclusions.

7. State rankings. Mr. Haber lists the 10 Worst states for plaintiffs, and the Harris Poll lists the ten worst states for defendants. [Summary]

Haber has the worst for his team alphebetically: Alabama, Alaska, Colorado. Florida, Illinois, Indiana, Oklahoma, Texas, Virginia, West Virginia.

Harris has the ten worst ranked for the opposing team: Arkansaw, Alaska, Texas, California, Illinois, Alabama, Louisiana, Mississippi, and West Virginia.

What is wrong with this picture? AL, AK, IL, TX and WV. Five are best and the same five are worst!

FURTHER AFFIANT SAYETH NAUGHT.

The state has 266 ways to enter your home

By Philip Johnston, Home Affairs Editor
Last Updated: 12:01am BST 23/04/2007

The state now has 266 powers to draw upon when its agents want to enter homes, according to research.

A report from the Centre for Policy Studies says that an Englishman's home is less his castle and more "a right of way'' for police, local government officials and other bureaucrats.

English law has traditionally regarded a citizen's home as a privileged space

In the 1950s just 10 new powers of entry were granted by statute. In the 1980s and 1990s an extra 60 were added.

For the first time, Harry Snook, a barrister and the author of the study, Crossing the Threshold, has drawn together the full list of entry powers in the state's possession.

Force can be used in most cases.

The research comes at a time of heightened concern over the lengthening arm of the state, with ID cards around the corner and more sophisticated surveillance equipment being used to watch people.

Mr Snook says: "The state today enjoys widespread access to what was previously considered to be the private domain. Entry powers - some of which have their origins in EU legislation - have proliferated over recent decades.''

One of the most powerful bodies is HM Revenue and Customs whose officers can exercise a "writ of assistance" with almost unlimited rights of access.

Its holders can break into any private house to seize any goods which the customs officers believes are liable to be forfeit without seeking prior judicial approval.

However, Mr Snook discovered that HM Revenue and Customs does not keep a regular record of the use of this entry power.

advertisementUnder English law, a citizen's home has traditionally been regarded as a privileged space. Courts have insisted that servants of the state cannot enter a private home without the occupier's permission unless a specific law authorises them to do so.

However as the state's role in society has expanded so have the number of statutes that allow forcible entry.

"As a result of the proliferation and variety of entry powers, a citizen cannot realistically be aware of the circumstances in which his home may be entered by state officials without his consent, or what rights he has in such circumstances," says the report.

"Force can be used in the exercise of almost all these powers. In part this is due to its specific authorisation by law; in part to the courts' readiness to imply a right to use force on grounds of necessity."

It adds: "In many cases, discretion as to what is considered as reasonable behaviour in exercising an entry power is left to the judgment of those wielding the entry power.''

Laws now going through Parliament will give bailiffs additional powers to enter homes in pursuit of traffic penalty debts.

But Mr Snook says: "Many powers are drafted so broadly that the citizen has little or no protection if officials behave officiously or vindictively. Some carry draconian penalties for obstruction, including heavy fines and prison sentences of up to two years.''

His report says the disparate provisions should be harmonised under a new Act.

This should make clear that officials should always seek permission to enter a home; a reasonable time for entry should be specified; and state officials should always have to get a warrant before they can force entry to a private home.


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What class are you?

What class are you?
Christopher Howse
Last Updated: 12:01am BST 17/04/2007


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Christopher Howse's tongue-in-cheek quiz

The sore questions of class are in the air again. Was Kate Middleton just too middle class for Prince William? Must the future Queen of England only be upper class? And just how easy is it to tell a person's class?


The social snobbery lampooned in My Fair Lady is still thriving in upper-class circles

According to Daily Telegraph letter writer Andrew Baxter, you can tell instantly the class of people by using the car test: "A couple taking another couple out for a drive would sit themselves thus: working class, men in the front. Middle class, man with his own partner in the front. Upper class, man with the other partner in the front."

So which class are you? Settle the matter once and for all with a tongue-in-cheek quiz...

1 Has your house got:

a A name and number?

b A name of your choosing?

c A name from time immemorial?

2 Sitting over drinks, do you:

a Say "Cheers"?

b Say "Cheers" and clink glasses?

c Say nothing?

3 Are you more likely to take a seaside holiday in:

a Cancun?

b Scotland?

c The Maldives?

4 Would you follow the hunt:

a At a distance by car?

b With an anti-hunt placard?

c On your own horse?

5 At breakfast do you like:

a Bio yogurt?

b Pop-Tarts?

c Porridge?

6 Have you got:

a A patio?

b Decking?

c A terrace?

7 At your children's weddings, will male guests wear:

a Morning dress?

b Dinner jackets?

c Lounge suits?

8 Do you ask for the:

a Lavatory?

b Bathroom?

c Toilet?

9 Do you send your children to:

a An old public school?

b A church school near which you have moved?

c The local school?

10 After dinner, do you:

a Leave your napkin loosely on the table?

b Fold your napkin neatly?

c Roll your napkin and put it in a ring?

11 Do your children have:

a PlayStation 3?

b A dressing-up box?

c Trivial Pursuit?

12 If you can't hear a remark, do you say:

a What?

b Say again?

c Pardon?

13 If you want butter with your roll at dinner, do you:

a Cut it in half and butter it?

b Break it in half and butter it?

c Break it up and butter bits as you eat them?

14 Would you prefer to read:

a Heat?

b The Field?

c The World of Interiors?

15 Do you associate Jordan with:

a Breakfast cereal?

b Petra?

c Peter André?

THE ANSWERS

1 a 10, b 20, c 30; 2 a 20, b 10, c 30; 3 a 10, b 30, c 20; 4 a 10, b 20, c 30; 5 a 20, b 10, c 30; 6 a 20, b 10, c 30; 7 a 30, b 10, c 20; 8 a 30, b 20, c 10; 9 a 30, b 20, c 10; 10 a 30, b 10, c 20; 11 a 10, b 30, c 20; 12 a 30, b 10, c 20; 13 a 10, b 20, c 30; 14 a 10, b 30, c 20; 15 a 20, b 30, c 10.

If you scored:

Below 200 You are cheerfully lower-class.

200 to 300 You are uneasily middle-class.

300 to 440 You probably have a coat of arms.

450 You are the Duke of Devonshire.




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This week's Time Out has a gloriously psychedelic and slightly Ann Summers-like front cover heralding its 11 page celebration of the London Underground.

From the lead editorial "As you struggle grim-faced up yet another broken escalator, indulge not the old gripes about the grime and crime. Succumb instead to Underground love....Think too of the men in stovepipe hats who died so that you could make it to work without mounting a Penny Farthing bike". They kindly acknowledge this blog, Geoff's mashed-up Tube maps and Hywel Williams' classic ghost station site amongst Tube websites to bookmark...

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