The curt saxon of carralitos tries to keep cypherpunks in the dark and fed on BS. Buffer the overflow slayer has been called in to stake the ugly mother. http://www.ainfos.ca/ ________________________________________________ News from the Farm Worker Movement(www.ufw.org): For 14 years, workers at Picksweet Mushroom Farms in Ventura County north of Los Angeles have tried to negotiate a United Farm Workers contract. Picksweet has ignored its workers desires and violated a host of state labor laws. * A detailed nine-count complaint issued on June 26, 2001 by prosecutors with California's Agricultural Labor Relations Board cited Picksweet for bad faith bargaining and illegally conspiring to get rid of the union. * Pictsweet was recently fined $7,475 by the Oregon Occupational Safety and Health Division for safety violations at its Salem plant. One of them caused Enrique Diaz Lupian, 46, to lose his right hand in an accident. Other workers in both Oregon and California have been disciplined or fired for supporting unions. * On Sept. 4, 2001, the state of California filed another complaint against Picksweet for firing Ventura, Calif. mushroom worker Fidel Andrade because he exercised his right to organize and support the UFW. Conditions at Picksweet in Ventura are cruel and dangerous. Mushroom workers labor in dark and damp rooms. Floors are slippery. They only have the lights on their helmets to guide them. Many suffer vision problems. Such conduct is why workers have called for a boycott of Picksweet mushrooms. Picksweet has lost many major customers, including Vons and Safeway supermarkets, and Pizza Hut restaurants. Picksweet workers ask consumers to help them ensure Vons and Safeway continue to keep Picksweet mushrooms off their shelves until a union contract with the Ventura, Calif. plant is signed. Email Vons and Safeway today! Go to http://www.ufw.org/ufw/e-mail.htm and send your e-mail today! For more information on the Farm Worker Movement visit our web site at http://www.ufw.org and/or subscribe to the Farm Worker Movement list serve by sending an e-mail to UFW-subscribe@topica.com. To unsubscribe send an e-mail to: UFW-unsubscribe@topica.com. AND Scotland Yard probes A-tests By CHRISTINE MIDDAP in London 29dec01 SCOTLAND Yard has launched a criminal investigation into Britain's atomic bomb tests on Christmas Island off Australia's northwest coast in the 1950s. The inquiry centres on claims from the widow of British RAF pilot Eric Denson that military chiefs ordered him to fly his plane through a mushroom cloud several times to collect radioactive samples for scientists in 1958. More than 22,000 British servicemen were involved in, or witnessed, 21 atomic bomb tests in Australia, Christmas Island and other Pacific Islands between 1952 and 1958, according to a report in British newspaper The Guardian. The police inquiry will look at whether it was legal for military chiefs to order Mr Denson to fly through the radioactive cloud. His widow, Shirley, claims the British Government knowingly and maliciously exposed her husband to deadly levels of radiation, which ultimately led to his death. Mr Denson, who developed chronic respiratory and psychological illnesses, committed suicide in 1976. He told his father that as he battled to control the plane in the powerful mushroom cloud, the Tennyson lines: "Into the jaws of Death, into the mouth of Hell," kept going through his mind. Electrical fitter Ken Sutton, now dead, said in a statement that he took recordings from the radioactively "hot" plane the day after Mr Denson's flight. He said in a statement that he was scared to death of the radiation: "You couldn't see it, you couldn't smell it, you couldn't touch it or anything, but you knew damn well it was a killer," he said. Other servicemen have told of their horror at witnessing a nuclear explosion on Christmas Island. Royal Engineers sapper Ken McGinley, then aged 20, said he and others were ordered to sit on a beach before the April 1958 explosion and jam their fists into their eyes. But when he heard the blast he opened his eyes and saw the bones of his hands light up like an X-ray. "The noise was deafening, like a thousand horses thundering towards you. The man next to me broke down and cried," he told The Guardian. The servicemen were ordered not to reveal any information about the tests, but their resolve fractured by the 1980s when they started to develop illnesses and cancers believed to have been caused by the tests The plutonium is in the post Tim.boil away.