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Some are discussing a national trucker strike Nov 11, and then Nov 26-29. This Facebook group, while it lasts before being sh**-canned by our evil overlords, now has 20,000 members, and has doubled since yesterday.

Since 7am, worldwide.

CUPERTINO, Calif. -- The case of a Chinese businessman charged with illegally shipping missile guidance technology to China's military has intensified concerns about foreign espionage in Silicon Valley. Qing Chang Jiang, who was to be arraigned Thursday, is at least the fourth Chinese native indicted since October on charges involving the shipment of equipment or trade secrets to China from the nerve center of the U.S. technology industry. In the three years since the Justice Department established a computer hacking and intellectual property unit in Northern California, there has been a "significant increase" in the number of illegal technology shipments...

U.N. Population Fund's State of World Population 2001 Report Links Environmental Changes, Poverty Alleviation and Reproductive Health -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- NEW YORK, Nov. 5 /U.S. Newswire/ -- On 7 November, the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) will release The State of World Population 2001 report, "Footprints and Milestones: Population and Environmental Change." The report will be released at press conferences in London, Paris, New York, Washington, D.C. and numerous other cities worldwide. In the United States, the Washington, D.C. release will be at the National Press Club at 9:30 a.m., and the New York release will be at the United Nations Headquarters ...

The military is concerned about how to pry Taliban / al Qaeda from their holes in mountains. Nukes and FAE are not powerful enough given the design of the caves. Here is an option. Calculate the impact crater required in dense rock from a hard projectile. Assume a 1 km crater would be sufficient. If the projectile is small enough, launch a dense rock of the appropriate size from a Saturn V. If not, obtain projectile from Earth orbit asteroid and guide it to the Afghan mountain with a booster rocket. Roughly 120 foot wide rock. Here's the calculation: Crater ...

I heard on the local radio in the last half hour that the Pennsylvania State Treasurer, Barbara Hafer reported that $300,000 in check fraud had occured over the past few weeks. A number of checks were written on standard check stock using the State's bank routing and account numbers. The payees were typical residential bills like Sprint. The makers of the checks all had Middle Eastern names. An FBI investigation is underway.

Report: China Training Air Marshals By Associated Press October 14, 2001, 3:37 PM EDT BEIJING -- China is creating a 2,000-member police force to fly aboard its airlines, prompted by terror attacks in the United States, a state newspaper reported Sunday. The aviation police will replace private security guards who fly on many Chinese carriers, the Beijing Youth Daily said. Citing unidentified sources, it said the new force was being formed by the Civil Aviation Authority of China, the country's airline regulator. A man who answered the phone at CAAC on Sunday couldn't confirm the report and said no one ...

This is a request to those creative types with high quality digital video and the time to shoot it to do the following: In the 1950s John Cameron Swayze was a respected talking head who did commercials for Timex -- old folks will remember it. Here's the picture:: Queue Afghanistan, bombs rumbling in the distance, anti aircraft responds. Pan to JCS look-alike.: JCS: "This is John Cameron Swayze reporting near Kandahar with the US Army Special Forces for the Camel News Caravan. We're here for another test of the Timex Battlefield Watch. About 300 meters to the south is a ...

Tom Brokaw was visibly shakened while commenting on his assistant's infection with anthrax at the end of this evening's NBC broadcast. Comments to the effect of "I have no words that are suitable for this broadcast to express my feelings for this outrage." I know that many of you don't get news from the tube because it is 12 hours old by then, so I thought I'd pass it along.

COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) -- A restaurateur has been feeling the pinch since retailers dropped his distinctive yellow barbecue sauce because of his controversial views on race and politics. Maurice Bessinger is well known in South Carolina for his outspoken support for the Confederate flag, which has flown outside his restaurants since August. But grocers said it's religious and political tracts inside his restaurants, and not the flags outside them, that prompted them to stop selling Maurice's Gourmet BBQ Sauce. The tracts include one that suggests early slaves from Africa were grateful for slavery. Bessinger says his $5 million-a-year wholesale business ...