Why Should You Pay Taxes?

Filed under:Bill of Rights,Our Money — posted by Q Ball on 4/6/2009 @ 8:03 pm

Hey, if most of the president’s cabinet pays them, then you should as well.

Scientist who predicted Italy earthquake was silenced

Filed under:General — posted by Maverick on @ 10:38 am

From Reuters:

The first tremors in the region were felt in mid-January and continued at regular intervals, creating mounting alarm in the medieval city, about 100 km (60 miles) east of Rome.

Vans with loudspeakers had driven around the town a month ago telling locals to evacuate their houses after seismologist Gioacchino Giuliani predicted a large quake was on the way, prompting the mayor’s anger.

Giuliani, who based his forecast on concentrations of radon gas around seismically active areas, was reported to police for “spreading alarm” and was forced to remove his findings from the Internet.

I’m sure once the fellows at the Ministry of Truth get ahold of this it’ll read “Italian Gov’t Predicted Earthquake: Scientist Jailed for Halting Efforts to Evacuate.”