Friday, October 08, 2004

PR WATCH: NOW THEY WANT YOUR BRAIN

Spielgel: Gedanken lesen: Marktforschung mit dem Hirnscanner
Um ihre Produkte noch besser verkaufen zu können, durchleuchten Unternehmen ihre Kunden nun auch per Hirnscan. Der tiefe Blick ins Gehirn soll die klassische Konsumentenbefragung ablösen. Doch der Hirn-Hype birgt Risiken.

Thursday, October 07, 2004

PEAK OIL IS HERE

FTW: WE DID IT!
World's Seven Largest Economies (G7) Admit They Have No Idea How Much Oil Is Left - Issue Emergency Call for Transparency at DC Summit

WASHINGTON, Oct 1 (Reuters) - Worried soaring oil prices could hurt the best global prospects in years, finance chiefs from wealthy nations met on Friday to try to work out what lay behind the surge and how to buffer the economic expansion.

Group of Seven finance ministers and central bankers met at the tightly guarded U.S. Treasury building over lunch and were to work through the afternoon before a dinner with Chinese counterparts that has currency reform on the menu.

The officials will set out their world-view at about 5:45 p.m. EDT (2145 GMT) in a communiqué sources said would include a call to bolster oil-market monitoring to make it easier to discern if scarce supply, hefty demand or market speculation lay behind crude's drive to record levels.

The answer to this question is critical.

Wednesday, October 06, 2004

OCCUPIED TERRITORIES: GAZA

Reuters: Israeli Tank Fire Kills 3 in Gaza Town

Israeli tanks shelled a town in the in the northern Gaza Strip early on Wednesday, killing three Palestinians and wounding 10 children in their houses, witnesses and medics said.

Haaretz: Top Sharon Aide : Gaza plan aims to freeze the peace process

"And when you freeze that process, you prevent the establishment of a Palestinian state, and you prevent a discussion on the refugees, the borders and Jerusalem. Effectively, this whole package called the Palestinian state, with all that it entails, has been removed indefinitely from our agenda.

OCCUPIED TERRITORIES: US VETO

AP: U.S. vetoes resolution calling for halt to Israeli military operations in Gaza

UNITED NATIONS – The United States on Tuesday vetoed an Arab-backed resolution that demanded an immediate end to military operations in the northern Gaza Strip and the withdrawal of Israeli forces, saying the measure was "lopsided and unbalanced" and "absolves terrorists in the Middle East

"Every time a Resolution about Israel in brought before the Security Council the USA vetos against it with the same hypocrite phrases. Thanks to USA Israel is not condemned for the destruction of Gaza and the ongoing war crimes. The USA finds the resolution not balanced enough. Is it balanced to erase numerous homes, sending 2000 troups and 200 tanks into Gaza and killing 68 Palestinians in the last 6 Days as retalition for some homemade wannabe rockets fired into a illegal settlement by Hamas which killed two children? And still they ask "why do they hate us"."

OCCUPIED TERRITORIES: ISRAELI TERROR

Reuters: 'Israeli Troops Shot 13 Yr Old Palestinian Schoolgirl 20 Times'

Gaza Strip (Reuters) - Israeli soldiers shot dead a 13-year-old Palestinian schoolgirl in the southern Gaza Strip on Tuesday after she approached an army watchtower in a tense border zone, witnesses said.

An Israeli military source said the girl was shot inside a restricted area when soldiers suspected she had a bomb. Palestinian medics said she had been hit by 20 bullets.