Isn't that the way bureacracies work? The higher ups have all the control what they wish to do with the information presented to them is within their power. The United States is well known for a overbloated bureacracy which gets nothing done. Project approval years, project completion decades. With this type of enviroment burecrats play machevalian games in the back to get what they want. Main reason for the 9/11 conspiracy. It isn't Bush who is doing it but the military-industrial complex which wants more money for defense spending. Create a phony war, get the paranoia and approval you need to get a new bloated budget for military spending. If you want to kill the enemy you have to cut off the head. If you go high up enough the chain of command always ends up being one person. Find this "ivory tower" general and apprehend with extreme prejedice... It's the only way to get anything done...

Yep same schedule as usual for today:

-3)Breath
-2)Repeat random J-rock or J-pop song in head
-1)Figure out who the pilot of Grand Arms Kampfer is as it appeared in my dream.
0)Plan world domination
1)Wake up
2)Eat breakfast
3)Goto this webpage
4)Look for a job
5)"Work" on Fire sensor project
6)Eat lunch
7)Plan world domination
8)...

happy birthday paras. may your dreams of pie come true.

well, I'll say it again: Happy Birthdy Paras

and...

AVI LEWIS IS COMING!!! I'm so excited, if I wasn't exhausted, I'd be bouncing off the walls...
He'll be hitting the Myer Horowitz stage Wednesday March 2nd. AWESOME!
the revolutionary speakers series

And... if you haven't seen The Take yet, and want to, you can go to the Earth Justice Fair this Saturday (the 19th) at the Sacred Heart School Gym (9624 108th Ave), they'll be showing it in the evening, I've been told.

Why fish and wildlfe scientists hate America... (and I'm sure the same is true of canada too)

"When two public-interest groups sent a survey on scientific integrity to 1,400 scientists at the U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service, agency administrators warned the scientists not to respond -- not even in their personal time. Now that 414 of them have defied the warnings, it is clear why the bureaucrats were nervous. More than half of the respondents reported that agency officials had reversed or withdrawn scientific conclusions in response to industry pressure. One in five said that they had been directed to withhold or alter technical information from reports, and almost half claim they were pressured to avoid making findings that might lead to greater protections for endangered species. As to this political interference, an agency spokesflack responded, "There's nothing inappropriate about people higher up the chain of command supervising the work of people below them and reaching different scientific conclusions." Uh ... there isn't?"

don't you just love it when the media actually reports the truth?

"These (decisions) should get scrutiny. That's what they pay these folks for," he said. "The question at hand is, are they doing their job properly and in accordance with the law? The answer is yes. Does everyone like it? No. But they are doing it properly."

uh, great, so as long as they're doing their job properly, it doesn't matter that endangered species are dying... awesome.

makes me think of this Martin Luther King Jr. Quote I just got e-mailed: "The Negro's great stumbling block in the stride toward freedom is not the White's Citizen's Council-er or the KKK, but the white moderate who is more devoted to "order" than to justice; who constantly say, "I agree with you in the goal you seek, but I can't agree with your methods of direct action".

so... let's do things properly... I mean, we can't be stepping on anyone's toes here, no sir.

ditto.

Paras charged with Iraqi murder

HAPPY BIRTHDAY PARAS

pictoral representation of my eyeballs.