PORTLAND, Ore. The FBI offered a $5,000 reward Tuesday for help finding whoever mailed dozens of threatening letters _ including some containing a potentially harmful insecticide - complaining about TV coverage of college cheerleaders and professional female athletes.
Must have wrapped up that pesky anthrax case
The writer or writers complained that ESPN and ABC crews have exploited cheerleaders, WNBA players and WTA Tour players through certain camera angles, even though those angles were rarely shown on the air.
As a member of the television brotherhood I resemble resent that remark
The FBI released excerpts of two letters in the hope of identifying who sent them.
"For the past 6-7 years, ESPN and its nationwide networks have exploited cheer/dance teams all across the country. They do this by parking their TV cameras on these women for their own personal entertainment," an excerpt from one letter said. "Pigs park their cameras on us close up, front view, dozens of times each game, yet rarely ever show on TV in this manner," another excerpt read.
Yes, but we've got really great tapes for the aftergame parties....
Investigators believe the author "may be directly or indirectly involved in some element of cheerleading and/or the television production/coverage aspect of collegiate athletics," according to an FBI statement.
What gave you the clue, the "park their cameras on us" part?
A spokesman for ESPN said the network is cooperating with authorities but could not give details about the investigation. ESPN and ABC are units of the Walt Disney Co.
Maintenance techs and cameramen are too busy at the bulk eraser to comment
The letters were sent to national networks and their local affiliates, as well as people in states throughout the West and Midwest, according to the FBI office in Portland. Recipients also included people associated with university athletic departments in Ohio, Michigan and Arizona. The initial batch of letters was postmarked in Portland and delivered in September 2004. Subsequent batches of letters were delivered between November 2006 and February, mostly with postmarks from Seattle, but some also were sent from Chicago, the FBI said.
The letters claim camera crews spent too much time on close-ups of cheerleaders. One letter also complained about coverage of WNBA players.
Judging from the WNBA ratings, no one else is watching them
The FBI declined to identify the kind of insecticide contained in some of the letters but said there were no reports of injuries.
In a letter sent in September 2004, the author objects to the timing and angles of the shots captured by camera crews during sports events. "We have asked nicely for them to respect us and all women, yet they refuse. They exploit innocent people, so we will too. When they start respecting us, we stop mailing these out," the letter reads.
The author of a letter sent in December 2006 complains that networks unfairly favor more modestly dressed cheerleading squads. "For the last 6 years, Ohio State cheerleaders have received more TV time than any other Division 1A cheer squad on ESPN, because they wear long sleeved red/white outfits. If they wore sleeveless outfits, they would not get ANY TV time. So, we are fed up with this constant exploitation," the author wrote.
Funny, I could of sworn showing more skin was considered exploitation
Calls made after hours Tuesday to Ohio State officials, WNBA headquarters and a WTA Tour spokesman were not immediately returned.
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Whadda ya mean my tits ain't enough for big TV time? Whadda ya mean by "boobs with no talent", huh?
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Green Steve is apologist for TeeVee Crew members with 58 Optical Zooooooooooooom lens and see in the dark capability taking shameless advantage of their sideline pass. This might stop cheerin as we know it. Or not. Depends on the evidence.
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Yeah, like cheerleading is a sport?????
sexist pig on/
How about naked, co-ed curling? Now that would be a sport. And them women already have hands geneitically predisposed to fit the broom...
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WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. (AP) -- A man was held Wednesday on charges that he performed dental work on customers without a license in his "filthy" garage, authorities said. Roger Bean, 60, was arrested Tuesday and held on $6,000 bond.
Bean performed denture fittings and made false teeth in his garage, charging just $200 for a full set of dentures, a procedure that typically costs more than $2,000, authorities said. But he was not licensed to practice in Florida.
Palm Beach County Sheriff's detective Don Zumpano said there were "health risks with operating this type of facility outside of your house," adding that Bean's workspace was "filthy."
Neighbors and clients, however, praised Bean for saving them thousands of dollars.
Ron St. Mary, 73, head of the neighborhood crime watch, said Bean is no criminal.
"He's helping the old people who don't have a few dollars," he said. "I think the world of him."
It was not immediately clear if Bean had an attorney.
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New Discovery Channel reality show: "Monster Molars"
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So who ratted him out?
An unidentified gumshoe serving as nightguard used careful calculus to cap off the investigation by filling in local police about the odd amalgam of activities at the Bean residence. Although paid a partialretainer, the crowning moment came when the detective was presented with an enameled porcelain plaque.
(SomaliNet) Eight people drowned after being thrown overboard by smugglers, while 10 died from asphyxia and dehydration on two crowded boats carrying 80 Ethiopians and 70 Somalis on April 20, the UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNCHR) said.
These died in smuggled boats crossing the Gulf of Aden to Yemen, taking the death toll so far this year to more than 200, the United Nations said on Tuesday. More than 5 600 people have landed on the Yemeni coast so far this year, while 26 000 people made the voyage last year when at least 330 lives were lost and another 300 people were reported missing and believed dead.The UNHCR has warned that smugglers often act ruthlessly, particularly if they spot coastguard boats or if they fear that their vessels are overloaded.
Survivors of last week's voyage said they paid $100 (about R750) for the crossing. Somalias capital of Mogadishu is embroiled in its worst violence for 16 years, with US-backed Ethiopian and Somali forces battling Islamists and disgruntled Hawiye clan fighters.
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2-3% fatality rate for the short crossing? Sure a lot harder than coming here from Mexico. A lot harder, at least on a per mile basis, than the Atlantic crossing for even the worst of the slave traders. Gives a good measure of how bad it must suck to be where they are coming FROM if they'll take this kind of risk to get TO Yemen.
Dozens of women, some carrying babies, have been arrested in the Zimbabwe capital, Harare, for protesting against worsening power shortages, the organisers of the protest said on Tuesday.
The 36 women, 20 men and 10 babies were rounded up Monday after they held a sit-in at the offices of Zimbabwe's main power company, Zesa, in the low-income suburb of Kuwadzana, Women of Zimbabwe Arise (Woza) said in a statement. "They are currently being held at Harare Central Police Station where they were moved under armed guard," the group said.
Simultaneous demonstrations by hundreds of Woza supporters took place in two other Harare suburbs but there were no arrests and activists were able to hand over their petitions, Woza said. Two of those arrested in Kuwadzana were beaten in police custody, it added. Police have not confirmed the arrests.
More than 80 Woza activists were arrested last week for staging "Power to the People" protests in the second city of Bulawayo. They were later released without being charged.
Zimbabwe is experiencing worsening power cuts in towns and cities countrywide due to a shortage of electricity in the region, which has seen exports to Zimbabwe cut. The cash-strapped Southern African country is unable to generate enough of its own power due to a shortage of coal and its inability pay for repairs to generators.
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Umaru Yar'Adua of Nigeria's ruling party was declared winner on Monday of a presidential poll rejected by the opposition and condemned by observers as a "charade". The vote for the first handover of power from one civilian leader to another in Africa's most populous nation and top oil producer was undermined by violence, ballot-stuffing and millions of missing voting papers on Saturday.
Electoral chief Maurice Iwu declared Yar'Adua of the People's Democratic Party (PDP) winner with 24,6-million votes, far ahead of his closest rival, former army strongman Muhammadu Buhari with 6,6-million. Buhari said he would not accept the result and called on Parliament to impeach President Olusegun Obasanjo. Yar'Adua said he was "greatly humbled" by the result, but observers said it lacked credibility.
"These elections have not lived up to the hopes and expectations of the Nigerian people and the process cannot be considered to have been credible," said Max van den Berg, leader of 150 observers from the European Union. The United States said the election was flawed but stopped short of calling for it to be overturned.
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Bangladeshs emergency government, which had been trying to exile two former prime ministers on Wednesday, said it would drop a ban on Sheikh Hasina returning to the country and stated there would be no restriction on the movements of Khaleda Zia. Bad move. The competing harridans are the problem. Not part of the problem, but the problem itself.
The government says clearly that there is no pressure on Khaleda Zia to go abroad and there have been no restrictions on her movements, the government said in a statement, read out by Information Officer Makhan Lal Hira. Ms Zia has been under virtual house arrest. The government had also withdrawn a press note issued on April 18, the statement said, referring to a ban imposed on Sheikh Hasina entering the country.
The military-backed government had been trying to exile both women as part of its campaign to clean up the countrys notoriously corrupt politics. On Sunday it blocked Awami League leader Sheikh Hasina Wajed from returning from London after declaring her a threat to national security. The Awami League held power between 1996 and 2001.
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Amateurs! In my day I'd just tell Beria to make them disappear anf *poof* they'd never be heard from again!
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I must admit I've had trouble following this story. Can someone give me the Cliffs Notes version?
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Bangla politix is deadlocked because these two harridans hate each other's gutz, with good reason, I might add. When one's in power the other's calling for strikes and riots etc., on a daily basis. When they trade places it's the same thing all over again, the net result being gridlock.
Bangla's always in the top ten of the world's most corrupt nations. Most of the corruption claims the ACC is getting are accurate.
Of the two, I like Khaleda least -- notice she's dabbing at tearless eyes in the picture -- because of her involvement with JI and the even less reputable Islamists. But Hasina's no prize, either.
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The central bank and National Board of Revenue (NBR) yesterday separately asked commercial banks for all banking information of former prime ministers Khaleda Zia and Sheikh Hasina, and 83 other people including politicians, bureaucrats and former ministers.
The Bangladesh Bank (BB) yesterday verbally asked the commercial banks for all banking information of BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia and Awami League President Sheikh Hasina, and their relatives. The central bank called the commercial banks early yesterday morning and asked them to provide all banking information of Khaleda Zia by mid-day yesterday. Then it again called the banks in the afternoon to ask for Sheikh Hasina's banking information and asked them to provide it by 11:00am today.
Sources said the National Coordination Committee on Combating Corruption and Crime sought the information via the central bank. The information is being sought to substantiate the existing case against Sheikh Hasina, and to look for incriminating activities in Khaleda Zia's bank accounts in a bid to find out if a case could be brought against her, as the government's plan to send the two leaders into exiles hit snags in the past few days, sources said.
NBR sent a list of 83 individuals including BNP Senior Joint Secretary General and Khaleda Zia's son Tarique Rahman, former ministers Shahjahan Shiraj, Barrister Aminul Haque, BNP adviser Barkatullah Bulu, and a businessman and editor of the daily Janakantha Atiqullah Khan Masud. In a letter, NBR, the central authority for tax administration, asked the banks for the account statements of the listed persons for the period since July 2001 till the last printout in the audit trail. The banks were asked to provide the information by May 10.
As per the directives, banks will have to come up with detailed information on transactions made through personal accounts, joint accounts, current accounts, foreign currency accounts, savings accounts, credit accounts, and credit cards.
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Russia bid a solemn farewell Wednesday to Boris Yeltsin, its first post-Soviet leader, in a funeral presided over by some two dozen white-robed priests, with and a crowd of dignitaries including President Vladimir Putin and two former US leaders in attendance. Captain Morgan led the troops past the reviewing stand and Johnny Walker read the eulogy.
Jack Daniels and Jimmy Beam were too broken up to attend
Before the funeral, more than 20,000 people had filed through the gold-domed Cathedral of Christ the Savior in central Moscow to view the body of Yeltsin, who died Monday at age 76. They filed by in Absolut silence.
After the viewing ended, dignitaries including former US presidents Bill Clinton and George H.W. Bush arrived and offered condolences to Yeltsin's black-clad widow Naina.
And his dear Old Granddad.
Many of the mourners said they admired Yeltsin for breaking the grip of monolithic Communism and moving the country toward full-fledged democracy - and said they fear his successor Vladimir Putin is reversing the progress. "I came here to pay respect to Boris Nikolayevich for everything he has given us: freedom and the opportunity to realize ourselves," said 73-year-old Svetlana Zamishlayeva. But now, she said, "there is a certain retreat from freedom of the press, from fair elections, from all kinds of freedom."
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INTERFAX > RUSSIAN POLL - numbers indic Russians believe that ORDINARY "LIFE" IN RUSSIA NOT AS VALUED AS IT SHOULD BE.
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Commies are pretty gruesome when it comes to using the honey pot technique. In eastern Europe, they even had "academies", where women would be made to have sex with men and other women until they were emotionally numb to it.
Once the women would be sent on their assignments, they would hunt up some lonely engineer who wanted a bride from "the old country", then if he wasn't in some classified project already, they would push him to get into one. If he failed, then she would kill him and look for a new husband.
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Read the comments at link for more info, including: Kanagawa Prefectural Police found floppy disks containing data on the Aegis destroyer's radar system and transmission frequencies in the home of a Maritime Self-Defense Force sailor during a probe of his Chinese wife on suspicion of violating the immigration law
In August, police found another MSDF sailor had copied data on foreign submarines from an MSDF base onto a compact disc and brought it home. He also made trips to Shanghai to visit a Chinese woman who worked in a karaoke bar he frequented.
The petty officer said he got the data from a 30-year-old petty officer 3rd class. Neither has authorized access to the secret information, the sources said.
Serious shit that our "World Class Press" ignores.
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Selected female agents were also trained to kill or incapacitate Western male targets using sexual technigues, the most famous overt example being James Bond's over-excited female antagonist in GOLDENEYE [complication of surgery to enhance sexual killing skill].
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Selected female agents were also trained to kill or incapacitate Western male targets using sexual technigues, the most famous overt example being James Bond's over-excited female antagonist in GOLDENEYE [complication of surgery to enhance sexual killing skill].
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Selected female agents were also trained to kill or incapacitate Western male targets using sexual technigues, the most famous overt example being James Bond's over-excited female antagonist in GOLDENEYE [complication of surgery to enhance sexual killing skill].
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Some people resort to doing stupid things just to get noticed. I wonder if she bought a stick for her husband upon conversion, no thicker than his thumb, to beat her when she doesn't submit?
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Fat ugly women sometimes join the college womens center and make puritanical judgments from there. The ones who pretend to be l*sbian even "have sex" once per year or so. Basically, it's six of one or half a dozen of the other.
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I see a few obviously non-Arab women in hijab around here, and I wonder if they have any idea what their lives would be like if they went back to their husbands' native lands, or if they're in such complete denial that they'd be "shocked" if it ever happened.
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In situations like this, deprogramming may not be anywhere near as effective as merely allowing the individual to suffer live with her choice. No better real-world demonstration exists of just how ill-thought-out her decision really is.
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I heard this on the radio this morning. The applause he got was like a guy gets on the PGA Tour when he taps in for a triple bogey.
Don't quit the day job, Johnny...
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I don't think Rudy actually said that, JosephM. Best of the Web (registration required, but free and well worth it!) had a bit about the brouhaha yesterday, as follows:
If an exchange between Rudy Giuliani and top Democrats is a preview of next year's general election campaign, Republicans have reason to be a lot more confident than they have been these past few months. Fox News Channel's Brit Hume reports:
Washington woke up [Wednesday] to morning headlines that Rudy Giuliani predicted a "new 9-11" if a Democrat wins the presidency in 2008. Barack Obama responded that Giuliani has "taken the politics of fear to a new low." John Edwards said Giuliani's comments were "divisive and plain wrong." And Hillary Clinton called it "political rhetoric" that would not lessen the threat of terrorism.
The problem is Giuliani never said what the headlines claimed. It all started with a story in The Politico newspaper, which contained not a single quote to support its lead and headline. But it got picked up elsewhere nonetheless.
What Giuliani actually did say is what he has been saying for weeks, that Democrats would play defense instead of offense in the War on Terror, the same approach tried back before 9/11.
Late yesterday afternoon the Democratic National Committee sent an email bearing the signature of chairman Howard Dean (reproduced at Little Green Footballs), in which he misquotes Giuliani outright:
Rudy Giuliani should be ashamed.
The former New York City Mayor is politicizing September 11th in his 2008 presidential bid. Here's what he said at a recent campaign stop in New Hampshire:
"If a Democrat is elected president in 2008, America will be at risk for another terrorist attack on the scale of Sept. 11, 2001... Never ever again will this country ever be on defense waiting for (terrorists) to attack us if I have anything to say about it. And make no mistake, the Democrats want to put us back on defense!"
I won't let this wannabe Republican nominee get away with remarks like these.
Rush Limbaugh has the actual "more losses" quote, and, contrary to the impression the Times [I didn't bother with the quote, it was more of the same. -tw] gives, it is substantive and not pointedly partisan:
The question is going to be, "How long does it take, and how many losses do we have along the way?" And I truly believe if we go back on defense for a period of time, we can ultimately have more losses and it's going to go on much longer. The power of our ideas is so great we'll eventually prevail. The real question is, "How do we get there?" Do we get there in a way in which it is as expeditious as possible and with as little loss of life as possible, or do we get there in some circuitous fashion.
I dunno why, but this idea never even occurred to me. John, do you have an opinion?
The Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP) has not discussed any political or electoral cooperation with the Muttahida Qaumi Movement (MQM) so far, said the Benazir Bhutto-led partys vice chairman Makhdoom Amin Fahim Wednesday. As far as the factual position is concerned, the PPP has not initiated even informal discussions with the ruling MQM on post-election cooperation, Fahim told Daily Times in answer to the question Wednesday. A leader of the MQM was recently quoted as saying that there had been informal talk between the two parties on these matters.
In fact, it is too early to comment on the PPPs electoral policy, added Leader of the Opposition in the Sindh Assembly Nisar Khuhro, also of the PPP. We want free and fair elections without any delay. There is no guarantee of transparency in the elections, he said, adding that this was the real issue.
Reports of an electoral adjustment between the two parties have irked PPP workers in Karachi and Hyderabad, strongholds of the ruling MQM. The PPP is the single largest party of Sindh province and rural Sindh is its stronghold. The MQM has made up its mind, however, to contest the elections from all over Sindh and it recently accommodated rural Sindhs figures in its organizational set-up and parliamentary politics. Sources in the MQM and the PPP said that the two are rival parties. Since the 1970s and in 2005, the PPP has been the third choice of the people of Karachi whose majority votes were divided between the MQM and political Islamist parties. The MQM is the single largest party of the ruling coalition in the province and now its leadership are eyeing the slot of chief minister in the next political set-up. However, the PPPs Sindh general secretary Nafees Siddiqui is looking at the idea of an alignment of liberal and progressive political parties at a different angle.
Unlike some stalwarts of his party, he acknowledged that the MQM was among the countrys tolerant democratic forces. Siddiqui lost to the MQMs candidate in the bye-election to a vacant seat of the National Assembly from Karachi. He had accused the MQM of rigging in the election but according to him that was an election issue and hence was over. I agree with critics that the MQM is with the ruling establishment, but the MQM, PPP, ANP and Balochistans nationalist parties may be natural allies in the context of global politics, he said. Dont look at this in the context of the local politics of Sindh. An idealistic Siddiqui said that under a new realignment, all the liberal parties could be in one camp against the extremists.
Karachi-based MNA Fauzia Wahab of the PPP faced stiff opposition from senior party members when she raised the proposal of a working relationship with the MQM at a party meeting at the Peoples Secretariat. Supporters of an MQM-PPP working relationship lack backing in the PPPs decision-making bodies which is why the proposal has yet to brought on to the partys agenda at the level of the central executive committee or federal council.
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Companies and individuals rushing to go green have been spending millions on carbon credit projects that yield few if any environmental benefits. FIRST, I MUST SOLICIT YOUR STRICTEST CONFIDENCE IN THIS TRANSACTION. THIS IS BY VIRTUE OF ITS NATURE AS BEING UTTERLY CONFIDENTIAL AND 'TOP SECRET'. I AM SURE AND HAVE CONFIDENCE OF YOUR ABILITY AND RELIABILITY TO PROSECUTE A TRANSACTION OF THIS GREAT MAGNITUDE INVOLVING A PENDING TRANSACTION REQUIRING MAXIIMUM CONFIDENCE.
A Financial Times investigation has uncovered widespread failings in the new markets for greenhouse gases, suggesting some organisations are paying for emissions reductions that do not take place. Others are meanwhile making big profits from carbon trading for very small expenditure and in some cases for clean-ups that they would have made anyway. WE ARE TOP OFFICIAL OF THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT CONTRACT REVIEW PANEL WHO ARE INTERESTED IN IMPORATION OF GOODS INTO OUR COUNTRY WITH FUNDS WHICH ARE PRESENTLY TRAPPED IN NIGERIA. IN ORDER TO COMMENCE THIS BUSINESS WE SOLICIT YOUR ASSISTANCE TO ENABLE US TRANSFER INTO YOUR ACCOUNT THE SAID TRAPPED FUNDS.
The growing political salience of environmental politics has sparked a green gold rush, which has seen a dramatic expansion in the number of businesses offering both companies and individuals the chance to go carbon neutral, offsetting their own energy use by buying carbon credits that cancel out their contribution to global warming. The burgeoning regulated market for carbon credits is expected to more than double in size to about $68.2bn by 2010, with the unregulated voluntary sector rising to $4bn in the same period. HOWEVER, BY VIRTUE OF OUR POSITION AS CIVIL SERVANTS AND MEMBERS OF THIS PANEL, WE CANNOT ACQUIRE THIS MONEY IN OUR NAMES. I HAVE THEREFORE, BEEN DELEGATED AS A MATTER OF TRUST BY MY COLLEAGUES OF THE PANEL TO LOOK FOR AN OVERSEAS PARTNER INTO WHOSE ACCOUNT WE WOULD TRANSFER THE SUM OF US$21,320,000.00(TWENTY ONE MILLION, THREE HUNDRED AND TWENTY THOUSAND U.S DOLLARS). HENCE WE ARE WRITING YOU THIS LETTER. WE HAVE AGREED TO SHARE THE MONEY THUS; 1. 20% FOR THE ACCOUNT OWNER 2. 70% FOR US (THE OFFICIALS) 3. 10% TO BE USED IN SETTLING TAXATION AND ALL LOCAL AND FOREIGN EXPENSES. IT IS FROM THE 70% THAT WE WISH TO COMMENCE THE IMPORTATION BUSINESS.
The FT investigation found:
■ Widespread instances of people and organisations buying worthless credits that do not yield any reductions in carbon emissions.
■ Industrial companies profiting from doing very little or from gaining carbon credits on the basis of efficiency gains from which they have already benefited substantially.
■ Brokers providing services of questionable or no value.
■ A shortage of verification, making it difficult for buyers to assess the true value of carbon credits.
■ Companies and individuals being charged over the odds for the private purchase of European Union carbon permits that have plummeted in value because they do not result in emissions cuts.
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Francis Sullivan, environment adviser at HSBC, the UKs biggest bank that went carbon-neutral in 2005, said he found serious credibility concerns in the offsetting market after evaluating it for several months. The police, the fraud squad and trading standards need to be looking into this. Otherwise people will lose faith in it, he said.
These concerns led the bank to ignore the market and fund its own carbon reduction projects directly. WE ARE LOOKING FORWARD TO DOING THIS BUSINESS WITH YOU AND SOLICIT YOUR CONFIDENTIALITY IN THIS TRANSATION. PLEASE ACKNOWLEDGE THE RECEIPT OF THIS LETTER USING THE ABOVE TEL/FAX NUMBERS.
Some companies are benefiting by asking green suckers consumers to pay them for cleaning up their own pollution. For instance, DuPont, the chemicals company, invites consumers to pay $4 to eliminate a tonne of carbon dioxide from its plant in Kentucky that produces a potent greenhouse gas called HFC-23. But the equipment required to reduce such gases is relatively cheap. DuPont refused to comment and declined to specify its earnings from the project, saying it was at too early a stage to discuss.
The FT has also found examples of companies setting up as carbon offsetters without appearing to have a clear idea of how the markets operate. In response to FT inquiries about its sourcing of carbon credits, one company, carbonvoucher.com, said it had not taken payments for offsets.
Blue Source, a US offsetting company, invites consumers to offset carbon emissions by investing in enhanced oil recovery, which pumps carbon dioxide into depleted oil wells to bring up the remaining oil. However, Blue Source said that because of the high price of oil, this process was often profitable in itself, meaning operators were making extra revenues from selling carbon credits for burying the carbon. Look mommy, it's raining money.
There is nothing illegal in these practices. However, some companies that are offsetting their emissions have avoided such projects because customers may find them controversial. What did you just buy? Just wait until the shareholders find out.
BP said it would not buy credits resulting from improvements in industrial efficiency or from most renewable energy projects in developed countries.
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More PENNY COIN-Haters??? C2CAM > JIM MCCANNEY > GLOBAL WARMING is being [falsely] used to intimidate and justify control of many different types of issues, not the least of which is control of resources [ e.g. fresh water]. SAD THINGY > WID MANY RADICAL ENVIROS + ALIGNED POLS, ONE DISASTER OR CATASTROPHIC EVENT(S) IS ALL THEY'LL NEED TO DEMAND GUBMINT = THIRD-PARTY CONTROL.
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O'REILLY > Radical or Xtremist Enviros > as a MOVEMENT in suppor of "MAN-MADE/CAUSED GLOBAL WARMING" Thoeries -Agendas are generally "ANTI-CONSUMER, ANTI-COMPETITION, ANTI-CAPITALIST and ANTI-DEMOCRATIC", or words to that effect. MOVE ALONG, BOYZ, OBVIOUSLY NO SOCIALISM OR TOTALITARIANISM HERE.
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PT Barnum would have been proud of this scheme. There IS a sucker born every minute.
Maybe RB should get into the carbon credit business. Then we set up an endowment for Burg Operation. Video Conferencing at the OC, unlimited R&D funding for AB. Ima writin up a list of projects. Carbon Credits are the best thing since dot com stocks! WahHOO! We are rich!!!
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Any Monopoly players recognize a Get Out of Jail Card. If you can afford it, put the burden on someone else and pat yourself on the back. Right, AlGore ?
A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
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Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
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PORTLAND, Ore. The FBI offered a $5,000 reward Tuesday for help finding whoever mailed dozens of threatening letters _ including some containing a potentially harmful insecticide - complaining about TV coverage of college cheerleaders and professional female athletes. 
(SomaliNet) Eight people drowned after being thrown overboard by smugglers, while 10 died from asphyxia and dehydration on two crowded boats carrying 80 Ethiopians and 70 Somalis on April 20, the UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNCHR) said. 
Bangladeshs emergency government, which had been trying to exile two former prime ministers on Wednesday, said it would drop a ban on Sheikh Hasina returning to the country and stated there would be no restriction on the movements of Khaleda Zia. 
