WASHINGTON — U.S. companies will need to keep track of all the e-mails, instant messages and other electronic documents generated by their employees thanks to new federal rules that go into effect Friday, legal experts say.

The rules, approved by the Supreme Court in April, require companies and other entities involved in federal litigation to produce “electronically stored information” as part of the discovery process, when evidence is shared by both sides before a trial.

The change makes it more important for companies to know what electronic information they have and where. Under the new rules, an information technology employee who routinely copies over a backup computer tape could be committing the equivalent of “virtual shredding,” said Alvin F. Lindsay, a partner at Hogan & Hartson LLP and expert on technology and litigation. (more…)

A brief history of the implantable microchip. Dating back to Dr. Jose Delgado’s experimentation on animals up to implanting pets and people for tracking and finally, man becoming machine. A We The People Will Not Be Chipped production.

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Video presentation charting the history of how societies that are morphed into being ID-centric eventually turn fascistic, with many comparisons to modern day developments.

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How bad can things be for Fox News when even a fellow conservative like MSNBC’s Joe Scarborough is willing to beat up on Bill O’Reilly for more than five minutes? With video.

Scarborough took off on O’Reilly in a big way Thursday (November 30, 2006) in retaliation for the Big Blow Hard attacking NBC for deciding to call the Iraq civil war a “civil war.” Scarborough says O’Reilly is on a “crusade against the American press, especially NBC.”

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Americans remain ignorant to 35% devaluation of their bank savings as skids are greased for introduction of Amero, North American Union

As the dollar goes into free fall and the housing market accelerates in sales yet plunges in price, the quickening of an agenda of economic catastrophe allied to the “solution” of predatory globalism and the creation of a North American Union is afoot, and it spells potential disaster for the livelihood of all Americans.

Home prices have dropped 24% in the last year and most of that fall has happened in the last six months. The dollar has devalued around 35% against its level six years ago and is being trounced by the Euro and Sterling.

A false impression of a rosy economy is being spun with the rise of the stock market. Former fed chief Alan Greenspan’s doubling of the money supply and Bernanke’s promise that the money supply will be doubled again leads to only one outcome. Common sense tells us that a dollar sink is inevitable and if the housing market isn’t the place to put all these devalued dollars then that excess will chase the stock market. Taking into consideration the devalued dollar, the stock market is really at about 6,000 - not 12,000. (more…)

Animal Enterprise Terrorism Act makes peaceful protesters terrorists

An endemic crackdown on peaceful protest and dissent has continued with President Bush signing the ‘Animal Enterprise Terrorism Act,’. Under the guise of protecting researchers, scientists and their staff who conduct experiments and tests on animals, the latest terror bill seeks to class as “terrorists” those who seek to protest against such activities.

The bill expands criminal prohibitions against the use of force, violence, and threats involving animal enterprises and increases penalties for violations of these prohibitions. The operative term being “threats”, because what an activist may see as protesting may be construed under the law to be threatening.

The Senate passed the bill by unanimous consent in September, just prior to the Congressional recess. A similar bill, H.R. 4239, was approved by the House of Representatives this month. (more…)

From his office at the Wisconsin National Primate Research Center, Dr. Joseph Kemnitz has watched people dig through the center’s trash cans, apparently searching for documents they think could be incriminating.

He has consoled fellow researchers whose mail contained razor blades, and he has shielded his wife and children from the animal rights activists who have protested at his home five times.

“I think they enjoy coming right up to the line without crossing it,” said Kemnitz, the center’s director.

He said he and his fellow researchers at UW-Madison feel safer now that Congress has passed the Animal Enterprise Terrorism Act. But opponents say the legislation, which makes it a crime to threaten or intimidate animal researchers or their family members, goes too far. (more…)

There’s a new Black man in Sean Hannity’s sights: Congressman-elect Keith Ellison. Ellison is the first Muslim elected to Congress. According to FOX News, Ellison has confirmed that he plans to use the Koran, not the Bible, in his ceremonial swearing in. The official oath of office is administered without any religious tomes. However, radio talk show host Dennis Prager wrote a hate-filled column accusing Ellison of undermining American civilization and making us more vulnerable to terrorism. Prager’s accusations were the top story on last night’s Hannity & Colmes (11/30/06). Sean Hannity was all ears.

Alan Colmes noted at the beginning of the discussion that Ellison would be sworn in en masse with the rest of the Congress, without a Bible or other religious book, and that his use of the Koran was for ceremonial purposes only.

Prager said, “The ceremony is in fact the important part.” He never explained why he thought so. Instead, he continued, “(The Bible) is the book from which America gets its values.” (more…)

NEW YORK — The dollar slid to its lowest in months against most major currencies on Friday after weak U.S. factory data reinforced expectations the Federal Reserve would cut benchmark interest rates next year.

The U.S. currency slumped to a 14-year low against the British pound and a 20-month low against the euro after the Institute for Supply Management’s survey of national manufacturing in November showed its key index at the lowest since April 2003, at 49.5. A reading under 50 indicates a contraction.
Friday’s report compounded concerns about a slowing in the U.S. economy, following data on Thursday that showed business activity in the Midwest shrank in November for the first time in 3-1/2 years. (more…)

Venezuelan intelligence agents have foiled a plot for a sniper attack on the opposition’s leading presidential candidate ahead of this Sunday’s election, President Hugo Chavez said Thursday.

Chavez said “fascist” militants had planned to use a rifle with a telescopic sight to shoot Manuel Rosales during a speech and then blame it on Chavez’s government in hopes of derailing Sunday’s vote.

“It was to say that Chavez sent them to kill him, and generate chaos,” Chavez told reporters at the presidential palace. (more…)

The man who invented the internet’s most popular email routing system says he would never have done it had he known how much trouble it was going to be.

Eric Allman, who founded email routing system Sendmail, tells this week’s edition of technology law podcast OUT-LAW Radio that he would “never have agreed” to the project had he known how much work it was going to be.

“Berkeley [at University of California] was supposed to build the internet platform for research, and one of the things they needed was an internet mailer, an SMTP mailer, and so I let myself get talked into writing that piece of code,” said Allman, who was not paid for his work. (more…)

A single, gigantic asteroid slammed into Earth 65 million years ago, dooming the dinosaurs and many other species, scientists said on Thursday in a new study rebutting theories that multiple impacts did the deed.

An examination of rock sediments drilled from five sites at the bottom of the Atlantic Ocean strongly supports the notion that one massive hunk of space rock caused the mass extinction, a research team led by University of Missouri-Columbia geology professor Ken MacLeod found.

“It’s a completely straightforward, single-impact scenario,” MacLeod, whose findings appear in the Geological Society of America Bulletin, said in an interview. “It was a haymaker that nobody saw coming. One shot, and that’s all you need to explain it.”

Scientists believe that an asteroid about 6 miles wide hurtled to Earth 65.5 million years ago at the end of the Cretaceous Period, plunging into what is now Mexico’s Yucatan Peninsula to carve out the Chicxulub (pronounced CHIK-shu-loob) crater measuring about 110 miles across. (more…)

1. The third Lebanon war There will be a war next summer. Only the sector has not been chosen yet. The atmosphere in the Israel Defense Forces in the past month has been very pessimistic. The latest rounds in the campaigns on both fronts, Lebanon and the Gaza Strip, have left too many issues undecided, too many potential detonators that could cause a new conflagration. The army’s conclusion from this is that a war in the new future is a reasonable possibility. As Amir Oren reported in Haaretz several weeks ago, the IDF’s operative assumption is that during the coming summer months, a war will break out against Hezbollah and perhaps against Syria as well.

At the same time, the IDF does not anticipate a long life for the cease-fire achieved last Saturday night with the Palestinians in the Gaza Strip. When the present tahdiya (lull) joins its predecessors that fell apart - the hudna (cease-fire) of summer 2003 (which lasted for a month and a half) and the tahdiya of winter 2005 (which was in its death throes for months until its final burial at the end of the disengagement) - there is a danger that the big bang will take place in Gaza. At its conclusion, like a self- fulfilling prophecy, IDF soldiers will return to the heart of Rafah for the first time in 13 years. (more…)

INDIANAPOLIS — Indianapolis police have begun watching certain street corners with surveillance cameras, saying they hope the devices will help them combat crime.

Authorities on Thursday showed off a camera mounted on a light pole at the intersection of Rural and Michigan streets on Indianapolis’ east side. Eventually, 27 cameras will be deployed in the city. Some will be placed in areas the city considers hot spots for crime.

Police will be able to see the camera’s pictures on their in-car computers and on monitors elsewhere. The cameras also will be able to record up to three days of footage. (more…)

There was a time when “Coast to Coast AM,” the late-night syndicated talk radio show dedicated to paranormal activities and political conspiracies, didn’t get much respect.

“At one point it was, ‘Oh, that strange show about weird paranormal things?’ ” said George Noory, who has hosted the program on weeknights from 10 p.m. to 2 a.m. PST full time since 2003.

That all changed when millions from the mainstream met up with the after-midnight fringe folks to make “Coast to Coast AM” a top-rated radio show. (more…)