KC GlobeNews APRIL 2003 Amazing News Special Vol.4, No.4 Current events, trends, travel, politics, eco and tech topics. Add earthlings to our mailing list - email: subglobenews-@-kahl.net CONTENTS NEW AMERICAN CENTURY HANDY HOUSEHOLD HINTS DEGREE CONFLUENCE CURRY A CANCER CURE? SUB-URBIA FIND A DRUG ISIS THE AVENGER ============ !!GLOBALERT!! ============ NEW AMERICAN CENTURY ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ The United States has demonstrated how it deals with the nations that belong to what President Bush labeled the "Axis of Evil." The shift in global politics that has been created by the Afghanistan and Iraq invasions is being touted as the "New New World Order." Political analysts have plenty of theories about the causes and reasons for an American foreign policy that includes preventive strikes against perceived foes. Some see the enhanced global military presence as a result of irrational behavior from the Texan leadership, jokingly referred to as Mad Cowboy Disease Some see it as a natural response to the attacks of Sept. 11, 2001. And others have been promoting America's role as global sheriff for years. At the forefront of this push is a group called the Project for a New American Century. Project for a New American Century http://www.newamericancentury.org/ The president's real goal in Iraq http://www.accessatlanta.com/ajc/opinion/0902/29bookman.html KEEP IN TOUCH -------------------- Get great LONG DISTANCE RATES with GLOBALCOM. Sample RATES from ANY phone in the USA: * USA, Canada, Germany, France, UK, Belgium, Hong Kong - ONLY 5.5 cents/min * Spain, Netherlands, Denmark - ONLY 6 cents/min * Philippines, Brazil - ONLY 14 cents/min * Works worldwide (via web enabled CALLBACK)! * No Monthly Fees! No Hidden Fees! CALIFORNIANS save even more! Take off another 1.5 cents/min our rates! Talk for hours with Click4Prepaid from GLOBALCOM: http://www.kahl.net/global/ ============== THE GOOD NEWS ============== HANDY HOUSEHOLD HINTS ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Take a look at this list. Has anyone ever tried any of these tips? Who can vouch for any of them? I'm gonna try #23 next time! 1---Stuff a miniature marshmallow in the bottom of a sugar cone to prevent ice cream drips 2---Use a meat baster to "squeeze" your pancake batter onto the hot griddle-perfect shaped pancakes every time. 3---To keep potatoes from budding, place an apple in the bag with the potatoes. 4---To prevent egg shells from cracking, add a pinch of salt to the water before hard-boiling. 5---Run your hands under cold water before pressing Rice Krispies treats in the pan-the marshmallow won't stick to your fingers. 6---To get the most juice out of fresh lemons, bring them to room temperature and roll them under your palm against the kitchen counter before squeezing. 7---To easily remove burnt on food from your skillet, simply add a drop or two of dish soap and enough water to cover bottom of pan, and bring to a boil on stove-top-skillet will be much easier to clean now. 8---Spray your Tupperware with nonstick cooking spray before pouring in tomato-based sauces-no more stains. 9---When a cake recipe calls for flouring the baking pan, use a bit of the dry cake mix instead- no white mess on the outside of the cake. 10--If you accidentally over-salt a dish while it's still cooking, drop in a peeled potato it absorbs the excess salt for an instant "fix me up". 11--Wrap celery in aluminum foil when putting in the refrigerator- it will keep for weeks 12--Brush beaten egg white over pie crust before baking to yield a beautiful glossy finish. 13--Place a slice of apple in hardened brown sugar to soften it back up. 14--When boiling corn on the cob, add a pinch of sugar to help bring out the corns natural sweetness. 15--To determine whether an egg is fresh, immerse it in a pan of cool, salted water. If it sinks, it is fresh- if it rises to the surface, throw it away. 16--Cure for headaches: Take a lime, cut it in half and rub it on your forehead. The throbbing will go away. 17--Don't throw out all that leftover wine; Freeze into ice cubes for future use in casseroles and sauces. 18--If you have problem opening jars: Try using latex dishwashing gloves. They give a non-slip grip that makes opening jars easy. 19--Potatoes will take food stains off your fingers. Just slice and rub raw potato on the stains and rinse with water. 20--To get rid of itch from mosquito bite, try applying soap on the area. Instant relief. 21--Ants, ants, ants everywhere ... Well, they are said to never cross a chalk line. So get your chalk out and draw a line on the floor or wherever ants tend to march. See for yourself. 22--Use air-freshener to clean mirrors. It does a good job and better still, leaves a lovely smell to the shine. 23--When you get a splinter, reach for the scotch tape before resorting to tweezers or a needle. Simply put the scotch tape over the splinter, then pull it off. Scotch tape removes most splinters painlessly and easily. 24--Now look what you can do with Alka Seltzer: Clean a toilet. Drop in two Alka-Seltzer tablets, wait twenty minutes, brush, and flush. The citric acid and effervescent action clean vitreous china. Clean a vase. To remove a stain from the bottom of a glass vase or cruet, fill with water and drop in two Alka-Seltzer tablets. Polish jewelry. Drop two Alka-Seltzer tablets into a glass of water and immerse the jewelry for two minutes. Clean a thermos bottle. Fill the bottle with water, drop in four Alka-Seltzer tablets, and let soak for an hour (or longer, if necessary). Unclog a drain. Clear the sink drain by dropping three Alka-Seltzer tablets down the drain followed by a cup of Heinz White Vinegar Wait a few minutes, then run the hot water. ========== GLOBESITES ========== DEGREE CONFLUENCE ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ The goal of the Degree Confluence Project is to visit each of the latitude and longitude integer degree intersections in the world, and to take pictures at each location. Huh? Say what? Well visit the website and see what it's all about! Degree Confluence http://www.confluence.org KC WEBSITE HOSTING ---------------------------- Kahl Consultants offers WEB SERVICES and HOSTING for small business and individuals. * World Class Hosting with Personal Attention * Online Marketing Plans * Website Traffic Analysis $60 per quarter or $220 per year (get one month free!) All this and more can be found here: http://www.kahl.net/hosting ========= GlobeNews ========= CURRY A CANCER CURE? ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Lab research shows an ingredient in turmeric (a the curry spice) may help suppress and destroy a blood cancer. Turmeric is a common ingredient in Indian food and yellowmustard. Its active ingredient is curcumin, which gives turmeric its yellow color. Dr. Aggarwal of the University of Texas Anderson Cancer Center found that adding curcumin to human cells with the blood cancer multiple myeloma stopped cells from replicating. And the cells that were left died. Studies have also shown that curcumin, even in large quantities, does not produce any known side effects in humans. Based on this evidence, Aggarwal recommended that people with cancer should try to eat more curcumin, if possible. "Whichever way you can take it, as much as possible," he said. Further research is needed to determine how much curcumin people need to get the most benefits. Previous research has shown that curcumin may have antioxidant and anti-inflammatory properties, as well as treat and prevent cancer. Studies in the lab and in animals also suggest that the compound might help heal wounds and fight Alzheimer's disease and multiple sclerosis. Aggarwal explained that it difficult to study the effects of curcumin in a large number of patients because these experiments cost a lot of money. Funding for similar research is often provided by a company that stands to benefit if the tested treatment works; however, in the case of curcumin, a natural compound, no company can reap the benefits if turmeric shows itself to be an effective anti-cancer drug. Alison McCook, Reuters Health ============= FUTURE IS NOW ============= SUB-URBIA ~~~~~~~~~ Thanks to new tunneling technologies, real estate trends are down. Way down. It's the mantra of every silver-tongued real estate agent straining to close a deal: They're not making any more land. But imagine if they were. Suppose acres of new land could be manufactured just like I-beams, bolts of cloth, or toothpaste. And what if this man-made frontier could be rolled out anywhere, even in the heart of the densest metropolis, without displacing anyone? Well, it can. The world's cities may be overcrowded, and the suburbs that surround them may be choked by unchecked sprawl, but there's plenty of undeveloped space. It's right at your feet: underground. You won't hear much talk of it outside of specialized engineering circles, but we're at a tipping point. The cost to burrow down is dropping, while the price (and hassle) of erecting a skyscraper in a dense urban area just keeps rising. The breakthrough comes thanks to tunneling technologies that are now being used on huge transportation projects, like Boston's Big Dig and Moscow's Lefortovo highway tunnel project. Until recently, tunneling required large crews to drill holes, cart out rock, and install lining. All of that manpower drove up costs, and not just because of wages earned. Take humans out of the digging process and the price of a hole starts to fall. By 2005, some under-urban highway projects will start to include parking lots. Where there is parking, malls will spring up. By 2008, developers might offer these retailers subterranean warehouse space, then offices, and, finally, full-fledged industrial parks. By 2013, we could see some hotels, probably marketed to international commuters and located just below the financial centers of Tokyo, London, and New York. Read the entire article in WIRED: http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/11.04/suburb.html ====== NetTips ====== FIND A DRUG ~~~~~~~~~~~ Need to find a drug? More precisely, need to learn more about a specific drug? Go to the RX List, which is a huge drug index on the internet. RX List: http://www.rxlist.com/ Thanks to all who wrote in! And to everyone else, speak up! ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ GlobeNews by Kahl Consultants Visit us: http://www.kahl.net/globenews Email GlobeNews: globenews-@-kahl.net SUBSCRIBE: subglobenews-@-kahl.net Unsubscribe: unsubglobenews-@-kahl.net ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ THE PLUG ======== How has your small business or organization been performing? Happy with your work? Let Kahl Consultants help! Technology. Use it appropriately. Put it in our hands. http://www.kahl.net If you got this far you obviously enjoyed GlobeNews. Please pass it on! Remember, the best things in life are free. THE PUNCH LINE ============== ISIS THE AVENGER ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ It used to be that junk mail came from folks trying to make a fast buck or push a product. Now even political activists are using SPAM to push their agenda and get their message out! So here it is, the first politically motivated spam that I have ever received... From: ISIS THE AVENGER Help us stop the terrorist Help Put an END to THE WAR! Our GOVERNMENT has been LYING TO US! Together We Can Stop Government Corruption. If any of this information sounds true and you are suspicious towards the policies of the U.S. governments, then email this message to your friends and loved ones. Start talking about it. Help get this message out! Bush Knew About 911 and Failed To Act. George W. Bush said on two occasions that he saw the first plane hit the World Trade Center at 8:46 a.m. on 911, and was told by Andrew Card about the second plane hitting the World Trade Center at 9:05 a.m.- yet Bush did nothing but listen to a children's story at an elementary school until 9:30 a.m. instead of ordering fighter jets to intercept all high-jacked planes immediately. Why would the president wait for the second plane to hit before scrambling jets to shoot down the high jacked plane? Bush Used the 911 Tragedy To Direct Funding To His Wealthy and Powerful Supporters. Bush demanded additional tax cuts for the wealthy using the pretense of "stimulating the economy". Bush massively increased defense spending, to the direct personal benefit of his fathers and his financial interests in the Carlyle Group, the nation 11th largest defense contactor. What is the Carlyle Group? The Carlyle Group is a Closely Held Corporation Which Buys and Sells Defense Contractors. George Bush's father owns shares in the Carlyle Group, which include ownership in 164 companies throughout the world. The firm also helped George W. Bush Jr. in the early 1990's by placing him on the board of directors on one of Carlyle's subsidiaries. Wall Street Journal has reported (Sept. 27, 2001) "A Carlyle executive said that the bin Laden family committed $2 million through a London Investment arm in 1995 in Carlyle Partners II Fund which raises $1.3 billion overall. The fund has purchased several aerospace companies among 29 deals..." In Other Words, Osama bin Laden's attacks On the World Trade Center and Pentagon, with the resulting massive increase in the U.S. defense budget have just made his family a great fortune. This is government corruption of the highest proportions. The U.S. government has been secretly arming its enemies. This includes the Taliban and Saddam Hussein. ABC News Nightline opened last June 9 with these words, "It is becoming increasingly clear", said a grave Ted Koppel, "that George Bush (Sr.) operated largely behind the scenes throughout the 1980s, initiated and supported much of the financing, intelligence, and military help that built Saddam's Iraq into the aggressive power that the United States eventually had to destroy..." War Makes the Government Money at the Expense of Human Lives. The father of our current president, George Herbert Walker Bush, authorized a series of programs that not only armed Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein but also provided him with technology that assisted in his development of chemical weapons like Sarin Gas, and biological weapons, which he still possesses. Bush's directives and policies, including relationships with the Bank of Credit and Commerce Internatinal(BCCI), and the Banca delLavoro (BNL) were directly and deliberately responsible for creating the army the U.S. fought in 1991. It was the U.S. who armed and trained the Taliban. More money is made from war then any other industry in the world. Next in line is OIL. The connections continue with Vice President Dick Cheney. The multitude of oil pipeline construction running through the new war zone is one project- according to a Sept.19, 2001 Wall Street Journal story- a joint venture in which the bin Laden family joined H.C. Price renamed Bredero Shaw, now owned by a subsidiary of the Haliburton Corporation, Dresser Industries. Vice President Dick Cheney, who served as Secretary of State during Desert Storm, directing the campaign against Saddam Hussein, was Haliburton's CEO until last year. FTW, Oct.26, 2001, 1700 PDT - The New York Times is today reporting that, "The Saudi family of Osama bin Laden is severing its financial ties with the Carlyle Group, a private investment firm known for it connections to influential Washington Political figures, executives who have been briefed on the decision said today." Some of those influential figures include George H.W. Bush and his son, our President. The Times story indicates that the decision by the bin Ladens was the result of "public controversy" about the family's investments in the nation's 11th largest defense contractor. The Carlyle Group employs former president George Bush, who met with the bin Laden family in Saudi Arabia in 1998 and 2000. As a result of explosive increases in the US defense budget the Carlyle Group is facing enormous windfall profits. And there is still strong suspicion that, in spite of mainstream reports indicating otherwise, the family has not severed all ties with the alleged mastermind of the September 11th attacks on the World Trade Center. One of the most detailed investigated reports on bin Laden and Bush business connections was published by FTW just weeks ago. We know that it has received worldwide attention and close scrutiny within the Bush Administration. The story is at http://www.fromthewilderness.com/members/Carlyle.html While not cause for great jubilation, this development is clear-cut evidence that independent and alternative media sources do have impact. It should be, therefore, a soul-reassuring affirmation that we must - all of us - continue our important work of filling the canyon-sized gaps left in current reporting by the major media. - www.copvcia.com Be Skeptical of Major News Networks. They serve as Bush's War Propaganda Machine. Considering the CIA trained and equipped death squads that tortured and murdered hundreds of thousands of people from Guatemala to Panama- that these same people have brutalized Iraq, leaving portions of it radioactively contaminated by depleted uranium for the next 4 billion years, causing a fivefold increase in the number of childhood leukemia cases amidst a starving population, one can only wonder what they will produce for the world given the context of the World Center attacks. WAKE UP TO THE TRUTH! BUSH IS DOING BUSINESS WITH THE TERRORISTS! Watch for our next email ... ISIS THE AVENGER. * More information on members of our government Dick Cheney (Vice President) CEO of Haliburton, oil services firm. Under his tutelage, the company gained $2 billion in government contracts to clean up damaged oil fields in Iraq (which, of course, became damaged during Operation: Desert Storm while Cheney was Secretary of Defense under "Poppy" Bush) Condoleeza Rice (National Security Adviser) member of the board of directors of Chevron (which has christened an oil tanker, the Condoleeza Rice) and Charles Schwab, and is a member of J.P. Morgan's International Advisory Council. Andrew Card (Chief of Staff) came to the White House from a posting as a vice president of General Motors. Previous to that position, he was CEO of the American Automobile Manufacturers Association, an auto industry lobby shop which fought against stricter fuel emissions standards. Don Evans (Commerce Secretary) former Chairman and CEO of oil giant Tom Brown Inc. and board member of its subsidiary TMBR/Sharp Drilling, has been friends with G.W Bush since their early days in the oil business and is a longtime political supporter, serving as national finance chairman for the 2000 campaign. As Commerce Secretary, Evans oversees the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, which has direct jurisdiction over the national coastline. Spencer Abraham (Energy Secretary) previously a one-term senator from Michigan, has received more campaign contributions from the auto industry than any other member of Congress. He was also the leading benefactor of an industry lobbying group called the Coalition for Vehicle Choice, which opposes federal fuel economy regulations. While in the Senate, he tried repeatedly to abolish the department which he now leads, and he has earned the lowest possible rating from both the Sierra Club and the League of Conservation Voters. He also pushed for legislation to suspend federal taxes on gasoline, favored drilling for oil in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, voted against reform of the federal system that allows oil companies to pay minimal royalties for oil from public lands, against increasing home heating assistance for low-income families, and against increased funding for solar and renewable energy. Bush's transition team is dominated by high donors and corporate interests. Of the 474 individuals on the transition team, 261 made political contributions during the last election cycle -- and 95 percent of the $5.3 million they contributed went to Republican candidates or the Republican Party. Even more telling is the overwhelming corporate background of the transition team members. The transition team for the Department of Energy, for example, is almost exclusively made up of people affiliated with or working for the extractive energy industry. Companies and outfits represented include: Phillips Petroleum, Enron, Kennecott, Southern California Edison, the National Mining Association and the Nuclear Energy Institute.