Posts from ‘May, 2005’

Sue is starting a new blog, and we’re using Movable Type. I’ve got a bunch of newbie questions for anyone who has an MT blog; like how do you upload pictures, how do I customize the look and feel, etc. Any help appreciated. Email me or leave a comment. Thx!

European leaders should accept that the EU constitution is dead after it was rejected in the French referendum on Sunday, said the former EU commissioner Lord Kinnock today.
The former Labour leader warned that any attempt to ratify the treaty against the wishes of the European people would merely serve to increase the alienation millions feel [...]

CEOs at California’s largest 100 public companies took home a collective $1.1 billion in 2004, up almost 20% from 2003. That compares with the 2.9% raise that the average California worker saw last year,
“The average CEO made 42 times the average worker’s pay in 1980. That increased to 85 times in 1990 and is now [...]

Microsoft has until midnight tonight to comply with an EU anti-trust ruling on competitive practices or face fines of up to $5 million a day.

The Electric Amish …

“Three men, three beards, and no power. Cleaning up the vast wasteland of rock & roll!!! “

Experts: Petroleum may be nearing its peak

By Eugene Debs

Eugene Debs was born in Indiana in 1855. A militant trade unionist, he became the leader of the Socialist Party. He is best known for his working-class and internationalist opposition to World War I.
After the U.S. entered the World War, Debs continued to speak out opposing the war. In 1918 he was sentenced [...]

Crazy Frog Axel F is based off the revving sound of a Swedish mo-ped.
“This song is incredibly irritating and puerile and we’re still trying to understand why people like it,” Gennaro Castaldo, a spokesman for HMV [A British music retailer], said.
Click Watch the Video to hear the ring tone. *I* didn’t find it to [...]

‘The second French revolution’

What the British press had to say about the result of the French EU referendum
After France’s no vote, all bets are off on EU

From the Washington Post
“Philadelphia, its suburbs and indeed much of Pennsylvania have experienced a foreclosure epidemic as low-income homeowners take on mortgage debt they cannot afford. In 2000, the Philadelphia sheriff auctioned 300 to 400 foreclosed properties a month; now he handles more than 1,000 a month. Allegheny County, which includes Pittsburgh, had record auctions [...]

European leaders desperately played down Europe’s biggest crisis in 50 years as voters in France overwhelmingly rejected the European constitution.
Chirac’s government will probably fall because of this, and it never had to happen. He could have just had it raftified, but instead called the election in an attempt to boost his re-election chances. The Netherlands votes [...]

swarming the Minutemen with the ECD.

Updating the anti-Minuteman swarm topic: the Electronic Civil Disobedience group has urged people supporting the Swarm the Minuteman project to join an electronic sit-in against the Minuteman movement, scheduled for May 27-29th. This uses Floodnet to overwhelm Minuteman web sites.
Don’t use the program. I tried it for about three minutes, [...]

Email from Kirsten Anderson

Didja hear about Schwartengrabber’s latest P.R. stunt?  This was in San Jose. He was doing some sort of publicity stunt about funding for transportation. They were going to have him join with a bunch of Cal Trans and city people and fill pot holes. (put on a hard hat and a day-glo [...]

Schapelle Corby, 28, from Australia, was sentenced last week to 20 years in Indonesia after 9 pounds of marijuana were found in her luggage. Her sentence has gotten huge media attention in Australia, and even the government is involved.

Foreign Minister Alexander Downer said yesterday said it would take some months to finalise a prisoner exchange [...]

Employers of illegal immigrants face little risk of penalty

Owners of hotels, farms, restaurants and retail stores who hire illegal workers — never widely sanctioned to begin with — now face a negligible risk of being penalized.
What the Minutemen don’t realize is they will be taking on entrenched business classes who need that cheap labor. They [...]