More profits to be made in homeland security. " Biometrics" are here! Similar to War on Drug tactics_American citizens have long given up 'rights to privacy' in the mandatory submission to urine tests for " drugs" just to get/keep a job while the Piss Test Company, Republican-of-course, get richer, this practice has become " normal". *Newsflash*_pissing to keep or get a job isn't " normal" and isn't standard practice anywhere-but..in the Safe States. The latest technology should have xe...

( Link courtesy of Angel, found in the comments section at this site, angel printed the second part. Here's the first. What would be the motivation be for creating social divsions ( ie: left, right, conservative, liberal...), promoting racism, misinforming, misleading and manipulating the public through the media, and worst, playing a part in killing 3000 people in their own land. Money is always the answer...read-on and keep in mind the Skull and Bones secret society of Yale and the powerf...

U.N. Scientists Warn of Catastrophic Climate Changes Jennifer Mapes National Geographic News (February 6, 2001) Scientists from 99 countries issued a dire warning last month: curtail air pollution or expect drastic climate change in the next century. The Earth's average surface temperature rose 1.1°F (.6°C) in the last century, according to the United Nation's Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC). The IPCC's January report predicts temperatures may rise as much as 11°F (...

Climate Change Linked to Civilization Collapse Jen Mapes National Geographic News (February 27, 2001) Two scientists have linked climate variations to the collapse of societies around the globe. Sometimes slight, sometimes intense, the scientists argue in a recent issue of the journal Science that the changes were enough to forever alter the lifestyles of the people living under changed conditions. A Culture Killer An article in a 1995 issue of Nature pointed to drought as one ...

Herrenvolk Mentaliteit New York Times: An American Airlines pilot arriving in São Paulo, Brazil's largest city, was jailed Wednesday after he protested new procedures requiring the fingerprinting and photographing of all incoming United States citizens by making what Federal Police officers described as an obscene gesture. Eleven other crew members on the same flight from Miami were refused entry to Brazil and detained after the police said that they had refused to be fingerpr...

The Killer Among Us By Michael Greger, AlterNet January 7, 2004 In October, 2001, 34-year-old Washington State native Peter Putnam started losing his mind. One month he was delivering a keynote business address; the next, he couldn't form a complete sentence. Once athletic, soon he couldn't walk. Then he couldn't eat. After a brain biopsy showed it was Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease, his doctor could no longer offer any hope. "Just take him home and love him," the doctor counseled his family. ...

Could my native Atlanta-based, Coca-Cola Inc., be challenged by these (2) new soft-drinks? This was the subject of a documentary I watched last night. I wonder. Imagine challenging the Coke market, appealing to Muslims, world-wide, a market-potential of 1 Billion plus. Mohammed Haider, spokesman for the Qibla Cola Company said, 'We are happy to participate in documentaries of this nature that demonstrate the emerging global trend amongst consumers for quality products founded on et...

I appreciate many points of view_especially when they illustrate the follies of this US-led occupation. THE ROVING EYE IRAQ AND AL-QAEDA Why al-Qaeda votes Bush By Pepe Escobar Sheikh Terror are the new underground sensation in ever-swingin' London. Their rap video called "The Dirty Infidels" has been sent by e-mail to the Arab-language newspaper al-Sharq al-Awsat. The paper says the video - unlikely to end up on MTV - may have been produced in a London studio by young, radical M...

THE ROVING EYE IRAQ AND AL-QAEDA Part 1 - The usual suspects By Pepe Escobar Nearly 100 Iraqis have been killed in less than 24 hours in two suicide bombings in Iskandariya and Baghdad. Most of them were poor and unemployed and were trying to find a job with the new, American-approved Iraqi police and army. They were Shi'ites in Iskandariya, and mostly Sunnis in Baghdad. But for the anti-occupation guerrilla forces, they were just one thing: collaborators. These two deadly attacks...

To me, this kind of shit_making soldiers take drugs or "peak performance enhancers" is the epitome of the the US's hypocritical "war on drugs". It is being used already, or something similar, reports have shown soldiers are REQUIRED to take the drugs and mistakes ( " friendly fire" ) have been made under influence. Athletes are banned from using these substances but soldiers will be high? while attacking perceived threats. Looks like its more a War ON drugs if this is what they are(or will be...

More than 50% of world's coral reefs at risk By Steve Connor, Science Editor, in Seattle 15 February 2004 More than half of the world's coral reefs - the tropical rainforests of the ocean - could be lost by the end of the century, according to the latest analysis of the marine environment's most vulnerable ecosystem. A "triple whammy" of global warming, pollution and overfishing has put unprecedented pressure on tropical coral reefs. Until now, these reefs have survived undisturbed for...

"Inaction due to questions over the science is no longer defensible" What will it take to convince the Americans? They laugh and compare present data to data in the 70's, back when they called it*Global Warming* The propaganda makers ( US Giant multi-national companies) doesn't want the truth told_it isn't good for business...once again business scores over life as we know it on this planet. Britain talks tough to Bush on Kyoto By Geoffrey Lean, Environment Editor 15 February 2004 ...

Published on Monday, February 2, 2004 by CommonDreams.org Pentagon Goes Crazy for Massive Climate Change by Ira Chernus If you want to know the prospects for major climate change in the years ahead, ask the Pentagon. They have to figure out how to fight and win, wherever the president sends them. And they always ask the same question first: What's the weather like out there? If the forecasters say, "Weather uncertain," smart soldiers plan for every eventuality. As Thom Hartmann t...

This isn't fantasy or politics but a glimpse into our not too distant future. The Ice Age Cometh By Thom Hartmann, Thomhartmann.com February 1, 2004 While global warming is being officially ignored by the political arm of the Bush administration, and Al Gore's recent conference on the topic during one of the coldest days of recent years provided joke fodder for conservative talk show hosts, the citizens of Europe and the Pentagon are taking a new look at the greatest danger such climate...

Hamas leader Yassin was assassinated this morning. Yassin, an influential Hamas leader, who, according to Israel intelligence, "encouraged suicide bombers" was exiting a mosque this morning, an old man in his wheelchair, accompanied by 7 others when an Israeli helicopter dropped missles on the area, killing Yassin and the 7 bodyguards and or bystanders. The Israelis have intensified their weekly Sunday Assualt's. Children have been targeted as well. The wall has been sealed today to prevent ...