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Month: July 2004
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Mad Cow ‘Firewalls’ Just a Smokescreen
by Thomas O. McGarity
July 22, 2004
USDA shredded its own restrictions on imports when it covertly permitted U.S. meatpackers to import 33 million pounds of beef from Canada between September 2003 and May 2004 despite Agriculture Secretary Ann Veneman’s August 2003 announcement that she was extending a ban on such meat.
The number of cattle tested for mad cow disease in the United States is still pitifully small. Indeed, the program remains entirely voluntary.
Most troublesome of all is an obscure, but gaping loophole in the firewall governing the handling of ‘specified risk materials’ from slaughtered cattle. The regulation permits industry to elect not to implement rigorous standards for specific controls, simply by asserting – as almost all establishments apparently have – that mad cow disease is unlikely to be a problem in their facility.
They are required to have a written plan, but not to follow it. Neither are they required to check for mad cow, or to perform simple tests for brain and other risky nervous system tissues in edible meat.
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FACTS
Melba toast is named after Australian opera singer Dame
Nellie Melba (1861-1931).
Elvis favourite collectibles were official badges. He col-
lected police badges in almost every city he performed in.
Duran Duran took their name from a mad scientists in the
movie Barbarella.
The world’s largest disco was held at the Buffalo Conven-
tion Centre, New York, 1979. 13,000 danced a place into the
Guinness Book of World Records.
In August 1983, Peter Stewart of Birmingham, UK set a world
record by disco dancing for 408 hours.
The Beatles song “Martha My Dear” was written by Paul Mc-
Cartney about his sheepdog Martha.
The harmonica is the world’s best-selling music instrument.
Themes from movies Unforgiven, A Perfect World, The Bridges
of Madison County, and Absolute Power were all written by
Clint Eastwood.
The only guy without a beard in ZZTOP surname (last name)
is Beard.
The Carpenters signature song, We’ve Only Just Begun, was
originally part of a television commercial for a Califor-
nia bank.
-Bizarre News
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19:00 21 July 04
Exclusive from New Scientist Print Edition.
Would you eat food cooked in your own urine? Food scientists working for the US military have developed a dried food ration that troops can hydrate by adding the filthiest of muddy swamp water or even peeing on it.
The aim is to reduce the amount of water soldiers need to carry. One day’s food supply of three meals, weighs 3.5 kilograms but that can be reduced to about 0.4 kilograms with the dehydrated pouches.
Hydration Technology of Albany, Oregon, says soldiers should only use urine in an absolute emergency.
The body will not find this toxic over the short term, says Ed Beaudry, an engineer with HTI, but rehydrating food this way in the long term would cause kidney damage.
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37 YEARS AGO TODAY
Jul 23 1967
After 73 negroes are arrested at a nightclub in Detriot, a race riot breaks out and continues for seven days.
On the morning of July 23, 1967, Detroit police raided an illegal black drinking establishment on 12th Street, handcuffed its patrons and forced them outside.
A crowd of black observers gathered at the scene, and the police retreated, fearing for their safety. Initially, the crowd looted and burned white-owned stores, but as the riot moved into its second day, African American stores were destroyed as well. Before the National Guard ended the rioting, 43 African Americans were killed, 1,189 were injured, and 7,231 were arrested.
It took 17,000 army forces, the Michigan National Guard, and Detroit police two days to subdue the riots. The effects of the rioting were enormous: 1,700 stores were looted, 1,383 buildings were burned, and property valued at about $50 million was damaged. President Lyndon Johnson set up the Kerner Commission to investigate the causes of civil disorder in American cities.
The Detroit riot of 1967 became a notion of African American despair and had lasting consequences. Detroit’s liberal political coalition was destroyed, significant numbers of whites moved to the suburbs, and Detroit’s African American majority faced economic stagnation.
Significant problems continued to plague the city, including police brutality, inadequate housing, and economic inequality. Detroit has fought back to reclaim its major city status just as it did after the race riots of 1943 that left 34 dead.
http://www.africanaonline.com/reports_detroit.htm
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58 YEARS AGO TODAY
After Black Sabbath, Menahem Begin received a letter from Moshe Sneh (chief of the Haganah General Headquarters) with instructions to blow up the King David. Irgun fighters gathered at 7 am. on Monday, July 22, 1946.
Prime Minister Menahem Begin, President Jimmy Carter and President Anwar Sadat at Camp David, 9/07/1978.
After the weapons had been distributed, the first unit – the group of “porters”-set out. All six “porters” were disguised as Arabs so as to avoid arousing suspicion. The strike force left next in a van loaded with seven milk-churns, each containing 50 kilograms of explosives and special detonators.
The van drove through the streets of Jerusalem, its tarpaulin cover concealing the milk-churns and the passengers, and halted at the side entrance of the hotel, through which foodstuffs were brought into the basement ‘La Regence’ restaurant. The fighters easily overcame the guards by the gate and hastened to the basement, where they searched all the rooms, and assembled the workers in the restaurant kitchen. They then returned to the van, brought the milk-churns into the restaurant, and placed them beside the supporting pillars . The commander set the time fuses for 30 minutes and ordered his men to leave.
Two women fighters who were waiting nearby ran over to a nearby telephone booth and delivered the following message to the hotel telephone operator and to the editorial office of the Palestine Post:
I am speaking on behalf of the Hebrew underground.
We have placed an explosive device in the hotel.
Evacuate it at once – you have been warned.
Some 25 minutes after the telephone calls, a shattering explosion shook Jerusalem, and reverberated at a great distance. The entire southern wing of the King David Hotel – all seven storeys – was totally destroyed.
King David Hotel after the explosion
At first, the Mandatory government denied having received a telephone warning, but testimony submitted to the interrogating judge made it clear beyond a doubt that such a warning had in fact been given. Moreover, the Palestine Post telephone operator attested on oath to the police that, immediately after receiving the telephone message, she had telephoned the duty officer at the police station.
King David Hotel after the explosion
All the evidence suggests that there were numerous flaws in the security arrangements in the King David, and that a series of omissions occurred. The telephone warning was disregarded, and although the warning signal was given, an all-clear was sounded shortly before the explosion.
http://www.etzel.org.il/english/index.html
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James Murray
“I possess,” James Murray wrote in an application letter for employment in the British Museum Library, “that general lexical & structural knowledge which makes the intimate knowlege (of a lanuage) only a matter of a little application. With several I have a more intimate acquaintance as with the Romance tongues, Italian, French, Catalan, Spanish, Latin & in a less degree Portuguese, Vaudois, Povencal & various dialects.”
“In the Teutonic branch, I am tolerably familiar with Dutch, Flemish, German and Danish.In Anglo-Saxon and Moeso-Gothic my studies have been much closer, I having prepared some books for publication in these languages.”
“I know a little of the Celtic and am at present engaged with the Sclavonic, having obtained a useful knowledge of Russian. In the Persian, Achaemenian, Cuneiform, & Sanscrit branches, I know for the purposes of Comparative Philology.”
“I have sufficient knowledge of Hebrew and Syriac to read at sight the Old Testament and Peshito; To a less degree I know Aramaic Arabic, Coptic and Phoenecian to the point where it was left by Gesenius.”
Murray was turned down for lack of a college degree, but went on to edit the Oxford English Dictionary.
For a year, J.R.R. Tolkien served as one of his sub-editors.
-William F. Buckley, Jr., New York Times Book Review
Caught in the Web of Words
See also: http://www.crimelibrary.com/notorious_murders/classics/william_minor/6.html?sect=13
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Wisconsin man injured while flipping off trains
Associated Press
July 21, 2004
APPLETON, Wis. — A man in a wheelchair who makes obscene gestures to the crews of passing trains was injured when he got a little too close to one of them.
A gas tank on a train engine clipped the wheelchair of Leland Laird, 54, Tuesday evening, causing him to fall out of the damaged chair and injure his arm, police said.
Laird has been wheelchair-bound since 1989 when a car he was driving was struck by a train near Fremont. But that’s not the reason he periodically ‘flips off’ the trains.
He told police he puts himself where train crews can see him – engineers and conductors consider him a regular – and makes obscene gestures because he is frustrated by their loud horns.
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DORMITORY:
When you rearrange the letters:
DIRTY ROOM
PRESBYTERIAN:
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BEST IN PRAYER
DESPERATION:
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A ROPE ENDS IT
GEORGE BUSH:
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HE BUGS GORE
THE MORSE CODE:
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HERE COME DOTS
SLOT MACHINES:
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CASH LOST IN ME
ANIMOSITY:
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IS NO AMITY
MOTHER-IN-LAW:
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WOMAN HITLER
SNOOZE ALARMS:
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A DECIMAL POINT:
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IM A DOT IN PLACE
THE EARTHQUAKES:
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THAT QUEER SHAKE
ELEVEN PLUS TWO:
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TWELVE PLUS ONE
AND FOR THE GRAND FINALE:
PRESIDENT CLINTON OF THE USA:
When you rearrange the letters
(With no letters left over and using each letter only once):
TO COPULATE HE FINDS INTERNS
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