Month December 2002

Spammer gets poetic justice!

Spammer gets poetic justice! From the Detroit Free PressInternet spammer can’t take what he dishes out. West Bloomfield bulk e-mailer Alan Ralsky, who just may be the world’s biggest sender of Internet spam, is getting a taste of his own…

Blix blindsides Bushies

Blix blindsides BushiesThe UN weapons inspectors will edit the Iraq report before giving it to the Security Council to prevent it being used as a bomb building manual.  The report is 10,000 pages, so it will unquestionably take quite a…

Venezuela strike gets serious

Venezuela strike gets serious Two people dead. Major strikes in key industries. Their oil industry is nearly been shut down – which will spike world oil prices within a few days. A polarized populace. Those who want President Chavez to…

Networks vs. hierarchies, LA gang…

Networks vs. hierarchies, LA gang styleThe new LAPD Chief of Police, William Bratton, recently strutted into town and is gitting tough on gangs, promising to “dismantle the Bloods, the Crips and other gangs in much the same way that law…

What the world thinks

What the world thinks From a Pew Foundation poll Global Gloom and Growing Anti-Americanism Despite an initial outpouring of public sympathy for America following the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks, discontent with the United States has grown around the world…