In a string of early morning raids today, federal and local authorities cracked down on a wide-ranging scheme to provide illegal aliens with fake ID badges that allowed them to work at OHare Airport. The fraudulent security badges gave the illegal or undocumented immigrants access to the tarmac at OHare, where they loaded pallets, freight and meals onto commercial airliners. The badges were issued by the citys Dept. of Aviation.

Authorities arrested 23 illegal aliens, who now face state felony charges for possession of fraudulent state identification. Two employees of Ideal Staffing Solutions, an employment agency in Bensenville, have been charged with federal crimes and were scheduled to appear in court late Thursday afternoon. The two Ideal Staffing employees were identified as Mary Gurin and Norinye Benitez.

The raids included agents from Immigration and Customs Enforcement a division of the U.S. Department of Homeland Security known as ICE as well as Cook County sheriffs deputies. This case illustrates ICEs resolve to ensuring unauthorized workers are not employed at our nations critical infrastructure facilities, said Elissa Brown, special-agent-in-charge for the ICE Office of Investigations in Chicago.

The issue of illegal or undocumented immigrants working at OHare is not new. Elvira Arellano, who conducted a year-long standoff with U.S. immigration authorities by seeking sanctuary in a Chicago church, once held a job at OHare cleaning airplanes.

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“I heard this huge bang, and he said, ‘That’s our engine that’s just fallen off.’ I couldn’t believe it. He had to repeat it to me,” she told …

That’s kind of a gift from the fates – very few people can tell that story.

And that’s one of the finest examples of observation ability. Whoever that “he” is, he is some cool dude…

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The advice from Holocaust suriviors still holds true. Finland understands that, at least for a few more days.

The only possible remedy I can offer for this other than 24/7 surveillance of everyone, all of the time, including the “surveillors”, is to develop and prepare mentally for a selflessly aggressive reaction to threats. Call me paranoid if you desire, but a certain awareness and readiness seems necessary to a peacful yet prepared life.

For those not already familiar with Jeff Cooper, a quick Wiki entry should get you up to speed. It is his Color Code that I wish to emphasize here, which would have undoubtedly tipped off the young man’s school buddies if not the administration about his intentions in a general if not specific fashion. These things do not happen in a vacuum, self aggrandizing You Tube videos or not.

Carbon dioxide production by benthic bacteria: the death of manmade global warming theory?

By Daniel A Klein et al. See the warning immediately below this article

Abstract

It is now well-established that rising global temperatures are largely the result of increasing concentrations of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere. The “consensus” position attributes the increase in atmospheric CO2 to the combustion of fossil fuels by industrial processes. This is the mechanism which underpins the theory of manmade global warming.

Our data demonstrate that those who subscribe to the consensus theory have overlooked the primary source of carbon dioxide emissions. While a small part of the rise in emissions is attributable to industrial activity, it is greatly outweighed (by >300 times) by rising volumes of CO2 produced by saprotrophic eubacteria living in the sediments of the continental shelves fringing the Atlantic and Pacific oceans. Moreover, the bacterial emissions, unlike industrial CO2, precisely match the fluctuations in global temperature over the past 140 years.

This paper also posits a mechanism for the increase in bacterial CO2 emissions. A series of natural algal blooms, beginning in the late 19th Century, have caused mass mortality among the bacteria’s major predators: brachiopod molluscs of the genus Tetrarhynchia. These periods of algal bloom, as the palaeontological record shows, have been occurring for over three million years, and are always accompanied by a major increase in carbon dioxide emissions, as a result of the multiplication of bacteria when predator pressure is reduced. They generally last for 150-200 years. If the current episode is consistent with this record, we should expect carbon dioxide emissions to peak between now and mid-century, then return to background levels. Our data suggest that current concerns about manmade global warming are unfounded.

Journal of Geoclimatic Studies (2007) 13:3. 223-231

POSSIBLE HOAX WARNING RE THE ABOVE

This article is a bit over the top for a scientific paper. Note that there is no Department of Climatology at the University of Arizona, nor is there a Daniel Klein or Mandeep Gupta in the U of A directory. Neither is there an Institute of Geoclimatic Studies. The whole things looks like an elaborate hoax. One should note that the very first sentence of the abstract is wrong. A global warming atheist would have said “widely-believed” rather than “well-established”.

I have been thinking about a significant issue for some time. It is the transformation of our society of the same magnitude and influence as the shift early last century from an agrarian to an industrialized society. Im not sure whether to call it the information age or the service based society; maybe both. I believe we need to make a fundamental change in our attitude about how we provide for ourselves and what are our priorities in life. I believe we need to reacquire the independent, self sufficient attitudes of our grandparents or we will face increasingly unpleasant consequences.

Only fifty or a hundred years ago, many families relied on themselves and their local community connections for their livelihood and well being. They were more balanced mentally, physically and spiritually than most of us are today. Where practiced, this has been the case for thousands of years worldwide. In the last century, the entire world has become an army of specialists as the assembly line process was applied to every facet of manufacturing and business. Self sufficient generalists left farms and independent trades and went to work in large, rigidly organized manufacturing plants or other institutions.

The system worked well from a material perspective: increased wages and the availability of products increased our standard of living and freed up large amounts of time. However, personal responsibility and the supportive network of community are lost in the process. Over time, the voluntary sacrifice of skills and relationships has resulted in dependency on the industrial engine for everything we need for life. We have high debt, poor health, and endless social problems; we and our children are undisciplined, uneducated, and completely disinterested in self betterment. We are mere vestiges of our parents or grandparents with regard to the balance we maintain in our lives.

Over the last several decades we see workforce reduction, job descriptions change, outsourcing of specialized functions, changes in work hours, work methods, and compensation as technology and automation impacts our world. What is our response? We sue, organize, or petition government to pressure or block our employer from adopting new technologies and methods in response to market pressure. Our goals are to preserve some nonexistent right to perform our specialized function without change, to get paid higher and higher wages, and to think only about our endlessly consuming leisure and material interests. Then we act completely surprised when the company moves elsewhere or closes its doors.

By growing angry and resentful and maintaining a stubborn, unchanging attitude, we doom ourselves and our families to lower and lower standards of living as we drift blindly toward losing the skills needed to remain viable and employable as the unstoppable fundamental changes evolve in society. How shallow have we become? We are not interested in growing or changing or lifting a finger to insure our own or our families future viability in this world; only maintaining the status quo at all costs. Its sadly what I am hearing from a large segment of society. It is an attitude of complete dependency.

Some contemporary political and business leaders say we need to return “ownership” to individuals. Id rather call it personal responsibility and self sufficiency, but this sentiment demonstrates a fundamental understanding of the simple but profound idea that YOU are your own best keeper, not the company or the organization which purports to represent our best interests..

Work is changing and the signs are glaringly clear. The company is no longer our nanny. It is not (and never has been) up to someone else to keep us employed and happy as we concern ourselves with nothing other than our own leisure. We should adopt a forward looking attitude and make transitions in as much a controlled pace as possible while we remain able to direct our resources and time as we see fit to best position ourselves to benefit from changes in our society.

We need to change our focus, to re-establish vital connections with family, community, and self sufficiency. We need to stand on our own two feet, learn to take care of our own concerns, and teach our children to do the same. We need to escape the voluntary surrender of ownership of our lives. Companies grow and die; jobs come and go. Individuals are more important than mere money. We all say we believe that; we need to start acting like we believe that.

Just what the hell is wrong with the old-fashioned, romantic tradition of packing a pair of tin snips for your big date? Cuts through that underwire like butter.

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Bra Trainer is a fictional teaching aid designed by Noam Toran to instruct adolescent boys to overcome the intricacies of opening the brassiere. When initiated the machine mechanically demonstrates the basic principles of clasp disengagement. Following a short pause the machine then re-secures the bra ready for the next demonstration.

The piece is inspired from accounts of repressive post-war institutionalised sex education in the UK in which teachers were not allowed to touch any of the props (prophylactics, physical models of reproductive organs) unless using gloves or a stick.

That’s still good advice while handling many teachers.

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