(CP) - A stay-at-home mother of three who created a website to alert the government about allegedly dangerous environmental problems in her southwestern Ontario neighbourhood is facing a $2 million libel suit by one of the developers she reported on.

Louisette Lanteigne of Waterloo, Ont., said she grew sick of what she saw during construction in her new subdivision and what appeared to be questionable building practices and labour-code violations.

• Pulsar Advanced Technologies announced last week that it will soon launch the Vulcanus MK4 water heater which uses microwaves to heat water on demand, drastically cutting heating costs to any family smart enough to install them once they've been approved for use by the general population.

  Powered by electricity and unaffected by the volatile gas markets, the Vulcanus MK4 can heat water from 35 degrees Fahrenheit to 140 degrees Fahrenheit in seconds and can source multiple applications at once: showers, dishwasher, sink usages and more. The Vulcanus MK4 is the size of a stereo speaker with a sleek modern look, making it ideal for condos and apartments, while powerful enough to serve the needs of any size family.

• The man who completed mapping the human genome is now starting a new company which, "plans to create new types of organisms that, ideally, would produce hydrogen, secrete nonpolluting heating oil or be able to break down greenhouse gases." This could be a major solution to the dependency on foreign oil and the Third World market demand which is driving up oil prices around the globe.

• In a move that would have made Malthus smile, China has approved the usage of the liquid female condom. This article doesn't reveal the name of the company who makes this product, but if any of you find out, let me know because if they're public--I'm buying stock in them right now!

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No One Can Do It Better

Knowledge is the key, and hard work is the fee
For me to be The Great at the start and remain to be
A threat, til the opposition is warned
As long as a song, cause I was born
With instincts to kill, a grave mentality
Over the edge and you say you want to battle me?
At your own risk, approach and be hosted
And in the end you may win or be roasted
But seeing that it's part of a game, you think if you hang
Close to The One and you'll claim, but that's lame
And I'm "Damn, another loser"
Without an apology, so next time I'm a use a
Little more force to get the message across
It's the D.O.C. on the boss
Creating, demonstrate some realate to easy listening
But here's a christening of what you've been missing
An exhibition, a hip-hop introduction
Smooth lyrical gab and I do the conducting
Drop it on a rhytm, suckers face it
But new to the masses, it's like I'm starting classes
Better bet I understand the direction
That I'm going, in fact when I'm flowing
The news is a constant change from one minute to the next
I'm different cause I always show flex
And it's essential, that's why I got it together
To the letter and

No one can do it better.

• The Internet allows communication to billions of individuals instantly--a power previously reserved only for od.
  

• The Internet obliterates the obstacles of power which served as stalwarts of information flow to the frontline masses--this is a danger that many (especially in the UN and totalitarian regimes) desperately want to gain control of to shut off the valve.
  

• The Internet allows for multiple viewpoints, multiple belief systems, and multiple realities to exist side by side in a collective reality that is far more diverse and accepting than many short-sighted, small-minded, and weak spirited humans in power today are capable of fathoming; therefore they fear it as a major threat that must be mitigated or removed completely.

Haven't had a chance to read much of your site yet, but a couple things caught my eye and I have some thoughts for you to consider. There seemed to be a common theme of support for the Bush Tax cuts and support for Neal Boortz Fair Tax system.

I know you probably have way more to read now than you can keep up with, but if you are going to make commentary on federal budget items, you should make a better effort to educate yourself on the facts.

I highly recommend reading everything that comes out of the Congressional Budget Office

As well as another site that interprets that data (admittedly partisan) and puts clearer perspecitive on it.

Be sure to read the slide show, putting tax cuts into context.

The bottom line is this, I am all for returning money to people at the same weighted percentages as it is taken in, whenever there is actually money to give back. But having to borrow money year after year to put it in the pocket of your richest people is complete insanity. A good percentage of that borrowed money is from foreign governments. Now you tell me how the hell it makes sense to have to borrow money from China to fund a new tax cut that Bush wants for rich people.

As for the "Fair Tax" thing, that has so many holes and flawed assumptions in it, I can't even get into it here, but I encourage you to look for the opposing viewpoints and understand them. It's a ploy to take the current tax structure as it exists today and shift more burden away from the rich (as most Republican tax ideas are). A noble concept, except when you take into account the fact that there HAS to be a fixed amount of money coming into the system each year, if you are taking money out of what is being paid by the richest people, it has to be coming from somewhere else.

Of course with the fair tax idea, you have no where near any guarantee as to what your tax revenues will be for the year, it puts it all in the hands of the people instead of the law. What if we fall hundreds of billions of dollars short, I guess we are just supposed to borrow it? Hell, that's what we do today, so I guess everyone is already used to that no matter how wrong it is.

Anyway, read up for yourself and form your own opinion, but keep the perspective that having to borrow money to make up for policies in a tax system is WRONG. Deficits of this magnatude are BAD for the economy in the long term. The % of debt we have related to our GDP is rising every year, this is BAD. It's too bad that most of the US doesn't realize this, because it is a slow moving problem that is really going to bite us in the ass 10-20 years from now, and it's only getting worse every year because we continue these ridculously stupid tax cuts.

1. Why are you so quiet?
   

2. Why are none of the Palestinian terrorists Christian?
   

3. Why is only one of the 47 Muslim-majority countries a free country?
   

4. Why are so many atrocities committed and threatened by Muslims in the name of Islam?
   

5. Why do countries governed by religious Muslims persecute other religions?

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the Bush Administration has compiled dossiers on more than 10,000 Americans it considers political enemies and uses those files to wage war on those who disagree with its policies.

The “enemies list” dates back to Bush’s days as governor of Texas and can be accessed by senior administration officials in an instant for use in campaigns to discredit those who speak out against administration policies or acts of the President.

The computerized files include intimate personal details on members of Congress; high-ranking local, state and federal officials; prominent media figures and ordinary citizens who may, at one time or another, have spoken out against the President or Administration.