NEW YORK — Former U.S. Vice President Al Gore on Monday suggested taxing carbon dioxide emissions instead of employees’ pay in a bid to stem global warming. ‘Penalizing pollution instead of penalizing employment will work to reduce that pollution,’ Gore said in a speech at New York University School of Law. The pollution tax would replace all payroll taxes, including those for Social Security and unemployment compensation, Gore said. He said the overall level of taxation, would remain the same. ‘Instead of discouraging businesses from hiring more employees it would discourage business from producing more pollution,’ Gore said. Gore, a longtime environmentalist, also proposed that the United States re-join any successor to the U.N. Kyoto Protocol for curbing global warming beyond 2012. Scientists believe global warming is caused by the trapping of greenhouse gases, including carbon dioxide, in Earth’s atmosphere. The consequences of this climate change include rising seas, stronger storms and intense heat waves. Under the Kyoto global warming treaty, 35 industrialized nations — but not the United States — have agreed to cut carbon dioxide emissions to below 1990 levels. President George W. Bush withdrew from the Kyoto pact in 2001, […]
WASHINGTON — More than a quarter of New Yorkers infected with the AIDS virus are now dying of other causes, researchers said on Monday. An analysis of 68,669 New York City residents infected with HIV, the virus that causes AIDS, found that of those who died between 1999 and 2004, 26.3 percent died of something other than HIV. That is a 32 percent increase from 1999, when just under 20 percent of HIV patients died of other causes. Cocktails of drugs that suppress the virus have been credited with allowing HIV patients to lead near-normal lives, and once- or twice-a-day dosing now makes them more manageable. Nonetheless, AIDS remains incurable and is always fatal in places where the drugs are not available — notably much of Africa. Writing in the Annals of Internal Medicine, Judith Sackoff and colleagues at the New York Department of Health and Mental Hygiene said they found that 31 percent of HIV patients died because of substance abuse, close to 24 percent died of cardiovascular disease and 20 percent died of cancer unrelated to the virus. ‘Physicians everywhere must remember that most of their HIV-infected patients will survive to develop the […]
They Compare Their Conquest of Mogadishu to That of Prophet Muhammed’s Conquest of Mecca From the Quraishite Pagans’ ‘Peace is sweet but peace without dignity and freedom is no peace at all. The Islamists who took the power in Mogadishu told the people to have peace, go about their business, eat and drink, conjugate and have many children, go to the mosque and pray five times a day, send their children to Madrasses where they get brainwashed and chant Koran interpreted in a satanic way by Wahhabist/Salafist clerics and give praise to Allah that the warlords who kept them hostage for 15 years have gone. ‘They compare their conquest of Mogadishu to that of Prophet Muhammed’s conquest of Mecca from the Quraishite pagans. They believe that they are acting on God’s behest and that the Almighty guides their guns. We tell them that they are not the army of Muhammed and that they are not in anyway nearer to Allah than a woman dancing to music in a beautiful wedding or tantalizing people’s inner feelings with her melodious voice. We tell them that prophet Muhammed didn’t ban music and dance and did not in anyway deny people to […]
LOS ANGELES — Crystal Resendez was working in the Virgin Megastore in New York’s Union Square on the morning of 9/11, and vividly remembers crowds of people fleeing the World Trade Center covered in ash. Today Resendez, 30, is general manager of the store, next to Mann’s Chinese Theatre in Hollywood Boulevard, one of the hottest tourist spots on America’s West Coast. ‘There’s no doubt we’re still suffering much more than New York from the drop-off in foreign visitors,’ she said. ‘The Union Square store is beating its sales records, but we’re definitely not.’ Midwest accents seemed to dominate the throngs jostling around the freshly made hand and foot prints of actor Kevin Costner in the Chinese Theatre forecourt, but few of them were going into the Virgin store. ‘I think the recent bomb threat at Heathrow has had a big effect on visitor numbers,’ said Resendez. ‘It seems to have affected the whole of Europe’s tourist decisions whether to come here.’ Last Monday relatives of the 2,700 people killed in the Twin Towers gathered to commemorate the fifth anniversary of the terrorist attacks. At the same time, 1,000 leaders of America’s travel industry were preparing […]
Icuity iWear for iPod represent a remarkable realization of the videoshades referred to by science fiction writers less than twenty years ago. Yes, iPod has a great little screen. But why not relax with a 44-inch virtual screen-a movie experience that fits right in your pocket. Check the specs: * Twin high-resolution 320×240 (230,000 pixels) LCD Displays * Equivalent to a 44′ screen viewed at 9 feet * 24-bit True color (16 million colors) * Weighs 4 oz * iPod battery life remains the same as if using the iPod screen * 60 Hz update rates It offers +2 to -5 diopters, so you can use it without your glasses. The flexible headphones are removable and the viewer pivots up to 15 degrees for comfort. The nosepiece also adjusts, along with the custom fit headstrap. [Photo] Incredibly, you get all this for just $300.
Remote Viewing the Year 2060
