] LONDON, England (CNN) -- Rock singer Robert Palmer has
] died in Paris of a heart attack at the age of 54, his
] manager said.
]
] The British star, whose chart hits in the 1980s included
] Addicted to Love, suffered the attack in the early hours
] of this morning, Mick Cater said.
]
] Palmer, who lived in Switzerland, was staying in the
] French capital with his partner, Mary Ambrose, after
] recording a TV appearance in the UK.
]
] "I can't say anything else at this point, I'm just in
] shock," Cater of What Management in England told CNN.

Bob Hope, Jonny Cash, John Ritter, Charles Bronson, now Robert. Its been a rough summer for the entertainment industry - and I don't mean from illegal downloads.

LB

Singer Robert Palmer dies at 54

Laughing Boy wrote:
] ] A federal judge in Oklahoma has ruled that the Federal
] ] Trade Commission overstepped its authority in creating a
] ] national do-not-call list against telemarketers.
] ]
] ] The ruling came in a lawsuit brought by telemarketers who
] ] challenged the list, comprised of names of people who do
] ] not want to receive business solicitation calls. The
] ] immediate impact of Tuesday's ruling was not clear.
] ]
] ] U.S. District Judge Lee West sided in favor of the
] ] plaintiffs, U.S. Security, Chartered Benefit Services
] ] Inc., Global Contact Services Inc., InfoCision Management
] ] Corp. and Direct Marketing Association Inc.
] ]
] ] The telemarketing industry estimates that the do-not-call
] ] list could cut its business in half, costing it up to $50
] ] billion in sales each year.
]

I heard on NPR a few minutes ago that congress is already acting to explicitly give the FTC the needed authority. The system works, occasionally.

RE: Court blocks 'do not call' list

Dementia wrote:
] ] NEW YORK (Reuters) - The U.S.-led invasion and occupation
] ] of Iraq was "a perfect example" of military domination
] ] while failing to achieve victory, retired general and
] ] Democratic presidential hopeful Wesley Clark wrote in a
] ] new book.
] ]
] ] Clark, who joined the 2004 race last week, also said he
] ] learned in November 2001 that the Bush administration's
] ] plan for invading Iraq and ousting President Saddam
] ] Hussein had been part of a broader five-year military
] ] campaign in seven countries that Washington accused of
] ] supporting terrorism.
] ]
] ] He believed that would be a mistake, Clark wrote in
] ] "Winning Modern Wars. Iraq, Terrorism and the American
] ] Empire" to be published by Public Affairs next month.
] ]
] ] Clark wrote that a senior military officer told him on a
] ] visit to the Pentagon in November 2001 that the U.S. was
] ] planning to go against Iraq but there was more to it.
] ] After Iraq, the plan called for targeting Syria, Lebanon,
] ] Libya, Iran, Somalia and Sudan.
]
] I have realized from being out in the 'working' world for a
] few years that it's very easy to create a mandate if the
] creator isn't the one who has to go do the work.
]
] Something tells me that after a couple years in Iraq the
] morale of the armed forces is going to be low enough that any
] further invasions will inevitably fail.

RE: Reuters | Latest Financial News / Full News Coverage

SNIP
] When the pair reunited Wednesday, the cat "rubbed his
] face on my hand, climbed right up and started purring,"
] Inglis said. "It's pretty monumental. It's almost
] surreal."

Chip helps reunite cat with Calif. man after 10-year separation

] Despite the Internet community's near unanimous outcry
] against the Site Finder service, it quickly learned just
] how powerless it has become. ICANN, the supposed steward
] of the domain name system, took until Friday evening
] to issue a weak statement calling on VeriSign to
] voluntarily suspend the Site Finder service while it
] reviewed the matter....
] Regardless of the eventual outcome, Internet users will
] look back on the day that Internet governance mattered
] and remember that they didn't.

[Politech] Michael Geist's column on VeriSign's domain name redirection

] According to ACLU legal papers, local police, acting at
] the direction of the Secret Service, violated the rights
] of protesters in two ways: people expressing views
] critical of the government were moved further away from
] public officials while those with pro-government views
] were allowed to remain closer; or everyone expressing a
] view was herded into what is commonly known as a
] protest zone, leaving those who merely
] observe, but express no view, to remain closer.

American Civil Liberties Union : Secret Service Ordered Local Police to Restrict Anti-Bush Protesters at Rallies, ACLU Charges in Unprecedented Nationwide Lawsuit

This web site is a government run web page that is dedicated to making you feel better about the US patriot act...

its already a law, so why do they feel so threatened by it?...perhaps its because they know it does not have real support in this country, and if its not overturned before 2005, most of its provisions will not be renewed...

I dont see why a branch of the government is spending out money to influence our political views, when I elect a democrat I do not expect them to have government paid PR compains targetted at their political oponents...so why am I getting this from our current administration...

--Abaddon

DOJ spending your money to take your rights

] Internet restrictions, government secrecy and
] communications surveillance have reached an unprecedented
] level across the world.
]
]
] A year-long study of Internet censorship in more than 50
] countries found that a sharp escalation in control of the
] Internet since September 2001 may have outstripped the
] traditional ability of the medium to repel restrictions.
]
]
] The report fires a broadside at the United States and the
] United Kingdom for creating initiatives hostile to
] Internet freedom.
]
]
] Those countries have "led a global attack on free speech
] on the Internet" and "set a technological and regulatory
] standard for mass surveillance and control" of the Net,
] the report by London-based Privacy International and the
] GreenNet Educational Trust argues.
]
]
] The 70,000 word report, Silenced, is launched today
] (Friday, September 19) at the preparatory meeting of the
] World Summit on the Information Society in Geneva.
]
]
] The study, undertaken through a collaboration of more
] than 50 experts and advocates throughout the world and
] funded by a grant from the Open Society Institute, found
] that censorship of the Internet is commonplace in most
] regions of the world.

The Register

] A federal judge in Oklahoma has ruled that the Federal
] Trade Commission overstepped its authority in creating a
] national do-not-call list against telemarketers.
]
] The ruling came in a lawsuit brought by telemarketers who
] challenged the list, comprised of names of people who do
] not want to receive business solicitation calls. The
] immediate impact of Tuesday's ruling was not clear.
]
] U.S. District Judge Lee West sided in favor of the
] plaintiffs, U.S. Security, Chartered Benefit Services
] Inc., Global Contact Services Inc., InfoCision Management
] Corp. and Direct Marketing Association Inc.
]
] The telemarketing industry estimates that the do-not-call
] list could cut its business in half, costing it up to $50
] billion in sales each year.

Tough shit if they lose money. Its an iffy business model anyway - call huge volumes of phone numbers until you find a sucker who will buy your crap? Ummm... doesn't that sound an awful lot like SPAMMING? And I'd think this list would actually HELP their business - weeds out the people who do not want these calls.

I wonder how much this judge was paid off by the telemarketing industry?

LB

Court blocks 'do not call' list

] To gather new strains, Sulakvelidze need only drop a
] bucket into Baltimore's Inner Harbor. The waters of the
] Chesapeake Bay, of which the harbor is an inlet, have
] enough exchange with the Atlantic that he can find a
] phage for almost any species of bacteria, he says. If one
] doesn't work, he simply refills his bucket and looks for
] another that does.
]
] "This upgradability is one of the unique qualities of
] phages," Sulakvelidze adds. "Developing a new antibiotic
] takes 10 years and God knows how many millions of
] dollars."
]
] As he puts it, "Mother Nature runs the best genetic
] engineering lab out there. No institution or company can
] match it."

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