"Next year in California, state regulators are likely to have the emergency power to control individual thermostats, sending temperatures up or down through a radio-controlled device that will be required in new or substantially modified houses and buildings to manage electricity shortages."
http://www.iht.com/articles/2008/01/11/america/calif.php "Some Virginia lawmakers want drivers to take their thumbs off the keyboards and put them back on the steering wheel while cruising down Virginia's roads. They are tackling the problem of drivers who send, read and write messages on cellphones, PDAs and BlackBerrys. It's a thoroughly modern distraction dubbed Driving While Texting or DWT." http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/01/11/AR2008011103419_pf.html "The Government will launch an overhaul of the system next week, which will put pressure on doctors and nurses to identify more "potential organ donors" from dying patients. Hospitals will be rated for the number of deceased patients they "convert" into donors and doctors will be expected to identify potential donors earlier and alert donor co-ordinators as patients approach death. But Mr Brown, who carries a donor card, has made it clear he backs an even more radical revamp of the system, which would lead to donation by "presumed consent". The approach is modelled on that of Spain, which has the highest proportion of organ donors in the world." http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml;jsessionid=GK0FARS1NQKNTQFIQMGSFGGAVCBQWIV0?xml=/news/2008/01/13/norgans113.xml "Ministers are planning to implant "machine-readable" microchips under the skin of thousands of offenders as part of an expansion of the electronic tagging scheme that would create more space in British jails. Amid concerns about the security of existing tagging systems and prison overcrowding, the Ministry of Justice is investigating the use of satellite and radio-wave technology to monitor criminals. But, instead of being contained in bracelets worn around the ankle, the tiny chips would be surgically inserted under the skin of offenders in the community, to help enforce home curfews. The radio frequency identification (RFID) tags, as long as two grains of rice, are able to carry scanable personal information about individuals, including their identities, address and offending record." http://news.independent.co.uk/uk/politics/article3333852.ece "President Hugo Chavez threatened again on Friday to seize property from businesses if they are caught hoarding products, as Venezuela struggles with shortages of some basic foods and high inflation. Chavez warned that price speculation is occurring "at all levels of society, from the big capitalists to the small shopkeepers," and said his government could expropriate property from individuals or companies that purportedly sit on goods for months to sell later them at inflated prices." http://www.iht.com/articles/ap/2008/01/11/news/Venezuela-Expropriations.php "FOOTAGE of a pregnant woman being held down on her stomach while being Tasered by a police officer has emerged in the middle of a US federal investigation. Shocking CCTV footage of the incident, which occurred nearly two weeks ago outside of a police station in Trotwood, Ohio, is being distributed online." http://www.news.com.au/story/0,23599,22847362-2,00.html "Nearly a dozen members of a police SWAT team in western Colorado punched a hole in the front door and invaded a family's home with guns drawn, demanding that an 11-year-old boy who had had an accidental fall accompany them to the hospital, on the order of Garfield County Magistrate Lain Leoniak. The boy's parents and siblings were thrown to the floor at gunpoint and the parents were handcuffed in the weekend assault, and the boy's father told WND it was all because a paramedic was upset the family preferred to care for their son themselves." http://wnd.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=59566 "A man in his 20s died after a Coral Gables police officer used a Taser stun gun to subdue him Friday morning. He was identified Friday afternoon as Xavier Jones, 29. Jones had been disruptive at a party and resisted arrest, according to Miami-Dade police, whose homicide bureau is investigating the death." http://www.miamiherald.com/news/breaking_news/v-print/story/375399.html "An obstetrician saved his wife and six children from a fire that ravaged their home, delivered a baby while the house was still smoldering and then got cited with building violations." http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/22623155/?GT1=10755 These are just a sample of Government malfeasance and/or meddling but if I spent enough time I could probably break the record for the longest email ever sent. Vic "Are you crazy? No. "Crazy" describes someone whose behavior or thinking is irrational - for example, his opinions do not rationally follow from his premises, or his premises bear no relation to reality. The crazy ones around here are those that observe the massive chaos and destruction wrought by governments always and everywhere, yet who support their continuance so as to avoid chaos and destruction. Yes, that does mean that most of the world is mad."--The Anarchist Alternative.info FAQS [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
