HOTT Newslinks May 3, 2008

General: Homeland response task force to be ready by fall

http://www.stripes.com/article.asp?section=&article=61719&archive=true

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Massachusetts Police Get Black Uniforms to Instill Sense of 'Fear'

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,352471,00.html

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CPS Supervisor Accused Of Child Molestation

http://www.kpho.com/news/16121583/detail.html

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China Leaves Small Investors Behind on Road To Capitalism

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/05/02/AR2008050204009.html

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Palestinian Recruits Hit Streets Unprepared
Israel Blocks Arrival Of U.S.-Funded Gear

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/05/02/AR2008050204001.html

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Israeli Snipers Killing U.S. Troops in Iraq

http://www.blacklistednews.com/view.asp?ID=1263

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US troop deaths push monthly toll to 7-month high in Iraq

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080430/ap_on_re_mi_ea/iraq;_ylt=Ai5mplCra9U7ML9RfyRGcgGs0NUE

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Iraqi war veterans invade Manhattan

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6W1SC7fdlSY

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This Company May Be the Biggest Threat to Your Future Health

http://articles.mercola.com/sites/articles/archive/2008/05/01/this-company-may-be-the-biggest-threat-to-your-future-health.aspx?source=nl

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Report Questions Quality of Medical Care for Workers in War Zones

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/04/30/AR2008043003361.html

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Justice Official Who Oversees Cases On Corruption, Fraud Is Quitting

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/04/30/AR2008043003257.html

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D.C. Forging Surveillance Network
Privacy a Concern as 1st Phase Links 4,500 Cameras to Central Office

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/04/30/AR2008043003430.html

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Digital Deception

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/04/30/AR2008043003704.html

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The Eta Aquarid

http://www.spaceweather.com/meteors/etaaquarids/etaaquarids.html?PHPSESSID=48v82k6s010uoqfq3i82ejpqf2

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Economy grows by only 0.6 percent in first quarter

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080430/ap_on_bi_go_ec_fi/economy;_ylt=AifFTIWex4DFdKuQur9Y.Zus0NUE

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http://business.smh.com.au/japanese-lose-yen-for-us-treasuries/20080428-28y3.html

Add another ailment to the US misery index of soaring gasoline and wheat costs and falling home values: a federal deficit that is burgeoning as foreign investors led by the Japanese recoil from the slumping US dollar.

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http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20080428/us_nm/usa_housing_vacancies_dc

The share of vacant U.S. homes rose to a record level in the first quarter, the government reported on Monday, with homeowners finding it increasingly difficult to find buyers in a collapsed market and more homes in foreclosure.

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http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/24359826/

The number of U.S. homes heading toward foreclosure more than doubled in the first quarter from a year earlier, as weakening property values and tighter lending left many homeowners powerless to prevent homes from being auctioned to the highest bidder, a research firm said Monday.

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http://business.timesonline.co.uk/tol/business/industry_sectors/natural_resources/article3837029.ece

BP and Royal Dutch Shell have reported massive increases in profits for the first three months of this year on the back of rocketing petrol prices, which are expected to hit £5 a gallon today.

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http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/microsoft/2004379751_msftlaw29.html

Microsoft has developed a small plug-in device that investigators can use to quickly extract forensic data from computers that may have been used in crimes.
The COFEE, which stands for Computer Online Forensic Evidence Extractor, is a USB "thumb drive" that was quietly distributed to a handful of law-enforcement agencies last June. Microsoft General Counsel Brad Smith described its use to the 350 law-enforcement experts attending a company conference Monday.

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http://uk.reuters.com/article/newsOne/idUKNOA82901720080428?sp=true

Inflation threatens to supersede the credit crisis as investors' biggest enemy later this year as fears of a deep economic downturn recede and commodity prices show no signs of easing.

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http://www.sciam.com/article.cfm?id=solar-power-lightens-up-with-thin-film-cells

"Combining this highest efficiency, lowest cost and most reliable thin-film technology directly into building construction materials will be the beginning of a revolution in solar power," HelioVolt's Stanbery says. "I worried that I wouldn't live to see the day when solar became an economically substantive part of our energy mix, but I think we're on the road to that happening finally. The best is yet to come."

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http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/politics/the-food-crisis-begins-to-bite-815437.html

In a land where supposedly the rich are thin and the poor are overweight, one of the largest cash and carry stores, Sam's Club, announced this week it would limit customers to take home a maximum of four bags of rice. The move came a day after Costco Wholesale Corp, the biggest US warehouse-club operator, limited bulk rice purchases in some stores and warned that customers had begun stockpiling certain goods.

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http://www.businessweek.com/ap/financialnews/D90B5EA82.htm

Sagging pickup truck and sport utility vehicle sales have forced General Motors Corp. to shut down one shift each at four North American factories and lay off about 3,500 workers.

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http://www.latimes.com/news/opinion/la-oe-block28apr28,0,5592418.story

If left to stand, this ruling would render home schooling illegal as it is practiced by the families of an estimated 166,000 children in the state. And it could set a precedent for how other states will treat home schooling, a movement that has expanded with such astonishing speed since it took hold in the 1980s -- more than 1 million students strong and growing -- that it might be fair to call it a revolution.

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A Short Numismatic History of the United States

http://www.fff.org/freedom/fd0801f.asp

Throughout history, the substance and image of a nation’s coins reify its guiding spirit. Even today, most Americans would probably prefer a golden Liberty to a cupronickel Roosevelt, but noble preferences are little match for the velvet glove and iron fist of the modern American megastate.

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http://www.reason.com/news/show/126162.html

As Florida State University criminologist Gary Kleck notes, most criminals arm themselves by stealing guns or buying guns stolen by someone else. So new restrictions don't make much difference to them. The federal ban was a classic illustration of how gun control works. Law-abiding people who rarely misuse their guns were deprived of options. Ex-cons went on as before.

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http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/24360073/

U.S. Marines in helicopters and Humvees flooded into a Taliban-held town in southern Afghanistan's most violent province early Tuesday in the first major American operation in the region in years.

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http://www.nationalpost.com/rss/story.html?id=469385

Already, panic buying has hit some Canadian stores.
Bruce Cran, president of the Consumers Association of Canada said he was getting calls in British Columbia that store shelves were being emptied of rice by panicked buyers. "I was in one of the national chains and there was one packet of rice left on the shelf."

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FROM YOM KIPPUR 1973 TO PASSOVER 2008

www.thebarrychamishwebsite.com

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