SOME of the Links for 2005
FCC Extends 'Truth-In-Billing' Guidelines
WASHINGTON -AP- Mar 10/05 - Regulators on Thursday voted to extend "truth-in-billing" guidelines to cell phone bills in hopes it would lead to clearer, shorter statements devoid of confusing add-on fees.
All five federal communications commissioners gave their support to the measure that requires cell phone bills to be "brief, clear, non-misleading and in plain language." The guidelines already cover bills for traditional phone service.
The FCC said that it was misleading to suggest that any line item fees in addition to the base rate charged for cell phone service were due to taxes or government-mandated charges.
Such charges must be folded into the base rate so consumers have more accurate comparison of costs when shopping for cell phone service, said FCC chairman Michael Powell, who presided over his last commission meeting.
But the two Democratic commissioners opposed a part of the measure that they said would pre-empt state regulations covering similar billing issues.
"Unfortunately, from the consumer's perspective, the most tangible result of this order will likely be less oversight of consumers' bills, not more," FCC commissioner Jonathan Adelstein said.
Hollywood chip will bring digital TV to mobiles
ZDNet UK - Oct 21/04
A single processor developed by Texas
Instruments will let mobile phone users watch digital television on the move
Texas Instruments (TI) announced details of a wireless chip on Thursday
that will let mobile phone users watch high-definition television on their
handset.
Codenamed 'Hollywood', the chip will support two emerging digital TV
standards --Digital Video Broadcasting - Handheld (DVB-H), a European
specification that should also be deployed in the US; and Integrated Services
Digital Broadcasting - Terrestrial (ISDB-T), a similar Japanese spec.
Demographics: Youthquakes shake up gray-haired states
Mar 10/05 - Immigrants and families moving
from other states are giving gray-haired Florida and Arizona a youthful
makeover, according to Census estimates released today.
The states remain top retirement destinations, but they're also among a
handful that are gaining school-age residents. They also have some of the
highest percentage increases in the number of people younger than 25. Florida, which had the oldest population in 1997, has dropped to fifth
with a median age of 39.3. Eastern states are losing young people to the Sun Belt and aging in the
process. Maine, which became the oldest state in 2002, now has a median age of
40.6. It's followed by Vermont and West Virginia at 40.2. Florida and Arizona show significantly higher growth in their under-25
populations than the nation as a whole
EU states back action against Microsoft
Asian Internet use takes off
By Stephen Green
Internet use, particularly in China but across the rest of Asia as well, is exploding, making it geographically the world's largest market, altering consumer spending patterns and perhaps even the Internet's dominant language, according to an exhaustive new report on Asian online use by the New York-based market research firm eMarketer.
By the time 2003 is out, according to the report, "Asia-Pacific Online", Internet use in China will have nearly doubled to 114 million people online.
In just two more years, 250 million Chinese are expected to be accessing the
Internet.
Full Story at: http://www.atimes.com/atimes/Asian_Economy/EL25Dk01.html
International Perceptions
Middle East
Turkey and the Central Asian ethnic octopus
By K Gajendra Singh
Once again, Chechen suicide bombers have struck in the center of Moscow, on December 10, this time to influence the outcome of parliamentary elections in Russia. An earlier devastating attack on a train near Chechnya on December 5 killed over 40 persons and injured hundreds more.
Russia has many millions of Muslim citizens....
Full Story at: http://www.atimes.com/atimes/Middle_East/EL18Ak03.html
ORIANA FALLACI - World Renoun Author - on 9-11
This is a "literal" translation of a series of
articles in italian,
The articles, written specifically for Il Corriere Della Sera by the
great
"Italian Author" as well as world renown writer: Oriana
Fallaci,
http://www.borg.com/~paperina/fallaci/fallaci_main.html
THE ROVING EYE
Pipelineistan, Part 1: The rules of the game
By Pepe Escobar
War against terrorism? Not really. Reminder: it's all about
oil.
Full Story at: http://atimes.com/c-asia/DA25Ag01.html
Pipelineistan, Part 2: The games nations play
Full story at: http://www.atimes.com/c-asia/DA26Ag01.html
Old News: Trans-Turkish pipeline deal signed
Full Story at: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/526515.stm
Worth Reading ?
The oil behind Bush and Son's campaigns
By Ranjit Devraj
Full Story at: http://www.atimes.com/global-econ/CJ06Dj01.html
U.S. Corporations, Gov't Agencies and Nuclear Labs Helped Illegally Arm Iraq
List Of US Firms That Armed Iraq
http://israelbehindthenews.com/Archives/Dec-20-02.htm#bagdad2
DOW and Monsanto Sued over production of Agent Orange
(& use in Vietnam War)
Vietnam's Agent Orange Victims File Suit
HANOI, Vietnam (AP) -- Three Vietnamese claiming to be victims of Agent Orange have filed a lawsuit against the U.S. companies that produced the defoliant used by American forces during the Vietnam War.
Full Story at:
CONGRESSMAN TO JOIN PHARMACEUTICAL LOBBY ?
Tauzin Considers
Lobbyist Position
Feb 2004
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Rep. Billy Tauzin of Louisiana is stepping down as chairman of one of the most powerful committees in Congress and is considering an offer to become the top lobbyist for the pharmaceutical industry.
Full Story at:
IS P.E.T.A (Peta) Secretly Killing Animals ???
"PETA: Lies, Abuse, and Death" at:
1. http://www.american-partisan.com/cols/2003/gibson/qtr3/0903.htm
2. http://community-2.webtv.net/friend2pitbulls/PETAkillshomeless/
Friends of the CIA? - The Palestinian
Militias
Jim Hoagland - Special to The Washington Post
http://israelbehindthenews.com/Archives/Apr-17-02.htm#XXX
MANY MAPS on ISRAEL, PALESTINE AND THE MIDDLE EAST
(About persecution of Christians in Indonesia)
http://cryindonesia.rnc.org.au/
Links concerning Lignostone Tanks
(widely reported as being the materials that Russian Tanks are made from, and the possibility of those materials burning for 7 years).
- Military weapons are often made of Durastone, a related material
Lignostone Materials-Ships -PDF 1
Lignostone Materials-Pipes - PDF 2
U.S. Military Forces
CO-ED TRAINING DAMAGES HEALTH OF WOMEN SOLDIERS
British Army Doctor Confirms Findings
A British Army doctor has confirmed that female soldiers are paying for "equal opportunities" with a much higher risk of injury than men during basic training. Writing in the Journal of the Royal Society of Medicine, Lt. Col. Ian Gemmell noted that women’s rates of injury doubled when co-ed basic training was introduced, due to differences in strength, bone mass, and stride length.
Full story at: http://www.cmrlink.org/coedTraining.asp?docID=90
US Forces: Seriously misleading tactics & statements by Feminists are uncovered - you decide
What is Used in the News What It Pretends To Be
quotes data (measures, scores)
eye witness report professional assessment, opinion
by-stander accounts statistical verification
opinion of interested parties expert objective judgment
getting the quote right verifying the event
looking-in-the-eyes certifying the claim
photograph(s) ipso facto ongoing events
a fact the facts
trend, estimate, some events statistical analysis
pocket survey, odd case representative statistics
short term visits ["hit-&-run teams"] longitudinal studies
professional (society) endorsement peer review process
broadcast, published in media peer review publication
quoting from the media repeating/verifying conclusions
headline research discovery
scoop research breakthrough
condemnation deductive conclusion
dramatize clarify with data
weight of emotion weight of evidence
present persuasively use scientific method
impress, affect, convince inform, elaborate, convince
Military/U.S. Gulf War/
For the Soldiers:
Columnist David Hackworth
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