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2003-06-14T20:19:00.000-07:00

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to all those graffitists out there: the black spot.
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http://unbrandamerica.org/flash.html
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2003-06-14T20:03:00.000-07:00

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Goodbye, Erin Brockovich, as class actions end
http://www.observer.co.uk/international/story/0,6903,977761,00.html
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it's all almost over. all the freedom is draining out of this great nation.
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i started this newsfeed/blog to educate myself, and what i have learned is that there is no hope for the world. the bastards won't stop. they want to destroy the nation, the world, and rebuild it after their own facist fashion, where there are no homeless, no jobless, because every citizen is an employee. they'll never stop.
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i don't think that we can stop them. we'll all have to wait till we starve.
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:D
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2003-06-14T15:34:00.000-07:00

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who is "the fellowship?"
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http://www.guerrillanews.com/government/doc1759.html

Regular prayer groups have met in the Pentagon and at the Department of Defense, and the Family has traditionally fostered strong ties with businessmen in the oil and aerospace industries. The Family maintains a closely guarded database of its associates, but it issues no cards and collects no official dues. Members are asked not to speak about the group or its activities. The organization has operated under many guises, some active, some defunct: National Committee for Christian Leadership, International Christian Leadership, the National Leadership Council, Fellowship House, the Fellowship Foundation, the National Fellowship Council, the International Foundation. These groups are intended to draw attention away from the Family, and to prevent it from becoming, in the words of one of the Family's leaders, "a target for misunderstanding."
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.The Family's only publicized gathering is the National Prayer Breakfast, which it established in 1953 and which, with congressional sponsorship, it continues to organize every February in Washington, D.C. Each year 3,000 dignitaries, representing scores of nations, pay $425 each to attend. Steadfastly ecumenical, too bland most years to merit much press, the breakfast is regarded by the Family as merely a tool in a larger purpose: to recruit the powerful attendees into smaller, more frequent prayer meetings, where they can "meet Jesus man to man."
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2003-06-12T22:51:00.000-07:00

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Threats Rising for U.S. Public Water Supplies
http://ens-news.com/ens/jun2003/2003-06-11-10.asp
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2003-06-11T18:28:00.000-07:00

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Republicans Limit Probe of Iraq Intelligence
http://reuters.com/newsArticle.jhtml?type=topNews&storyID=2914132
Republicans in Congress on Wednesday rebuffed Democrats' calls for an investigation into whether the Bush administration misread or inflated threats posed by Iraq before going to war in March.

But they agreed to hold more general hearings and review documents on U.S. intelligence on Iraqi weapons of mass destruction.
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2003-06-10T23:13:00.000-07:00

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War crime vote fuels US anger at Europe
http://www.guardian.co.uk/usa/story/0,12271,974968,00.html
The US has bitterly attacked European leaders for trying to stop the UN security council voting tomorrow to renew America's exemption from prosecution by the new war crimes tribunal.

The Bush administration has accused the EU of "actively undermining" American efforts to protect its peacekeepers from prosecution by the international criminal court, which was set up to try cases of genocide, war crimes and systematic human rights abuses.

A note written by a US official says Europe's objections "will undercut all our efforts to repair and rebuild the transatlantic relationship just as we are taking a turn for the better after a number of difficult months", according to the Washington Post. "We are dismayed that the European Union would actively seek to undermine US efforts."
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2003-06-09T17:48:00.000-07:00

U.S. Hunt for Iraqi Banned Weapons Slows
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=540&e=9&u=/ap/iraq_idled_hunt
BAGHDAD, Iraq - U.S. military units assigned to track down Iraqi weapons of mass destruction have run out of places to look and are getting time off or being assigned to other
duties, even as pressure mounts on President Bush (news - web sites) to explain why no banned arms have been found.

"We've interviewed a fraction of the people who were involved. We've gone to a fraction of the sites. We've gone through a fraction of thousands and thousands and thousands of documents about this program," National Security Adviser Condoleezza Rice (news - web sites) said Sunday.
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British Scientist Puts Odds for Apocalypse at 50-50
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=570&e=20&u=/nm/science_rees_dc
This is the way the world might end: A genetically engineered pathogen is released, debris from an erupting "supervolcano" blocks the sun or scientists in the biggest "bioerror" of them all accidentally trigger a matter-squeezing "big bang."

The demise of civilization has been predicted since it began, but the odds of keeping Planet Earth alive and well are getting worse amid a breakneck pace of scientific advances, according to Martin Rees, Britain's honorary astronomer royal.

Rees calculates that the odds of an apocalyptic disaster striking Earth have risen to about 50 percent from 20 percent a hundred years ago.

"We need to keep track of those who have potentially lethal knowledge," Rees said. He also suggested better efforts to "reduce the number of people who feel excluded or otherwise motivated to cause harm."
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2003-06-07T12:42:00.000-07:00

More Than 13,000 May Face Deportation
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/06/07/national/07DEPO.html?ex=1055563200&en=85b98a6079118552&ei=5062&partner=GOOGLE
More than 13,000 of the Arab and Muslim men who came forward earlier this year to register
with immigration authorities, roughly 16 percent of the total, may now face deportation,
government officials say.

Only a handful have been linked to terrorism. But of the 82,000 men older than 16 who
registered, more than 13,000 have been found to be living in this country illegally, officials say.

Many had hoped to win leniency by demonstrating their willingness to cooperate with the
campaign against terror. The men were not promised special treatment, however, and
officials believe that most will be expelled in what is likely to be the largest wave of
deportations after the Sept. 11 attacks.
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2003-06-07T11:19:00.000-07:00

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  GAO Cites Risks in Missile Defense
http://www.truthout.org/docs_03/060603I.shtml
A congressional report warned yesterday that President Bush's drive to erect a nationwide
antimissile system next year is hampered by immature technology and limited testing,
raising the risk of failure.

  The report, by the General Accounting Office, also criticized the administration for refraining
from making long-term cost estimates for many elements of the planned system, clouding
decisions about what technologies to pursue.

  Critics accuse Bush of shortcutting normal Pentagon testing and budgeting procedures to
have an antimissile weapon in place before the next presidential election. Administration
officials contend that U.S. vulnerability to a ballistic missile attack warrants quick fielding of a
less-than-perfect defense. They also say that tests so far have confirmed the viability of the
basic concept behind the system: namely, launching missile interceptors into space to
collide with enemy warheads.
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Canada Lays Down Limits on Joining Missile Defense
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/nm/20030530/ts_nm/arms_canada_usa_dc
Canadian Prime Minister Jean Chretien, under fire for planned talks with Washington over
joining a U.S. missile defense system, on Friday said Canada would not sign up if it became
clear the Americans wanted to put weapons into space.
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2003-06-06T12:38:00.000-07:00

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U.S. 'negation' policy in space raises concerns abroad
http://www.eetimes.com/sys/news/OEG20030522S0050
While much of the talk around the Pentagon these days focuses on "transformation" of the
military, some of the United States' closest allies worry about another buzzword being used
in subtler ways at the National Reconnaissance Office: "negation."
The nation's largest intelligence agency by budget and in control of all U.S. spy satellites,
NRO is talking openly with the U.S. Air Force Space Command about actively denying the
use of space for intelligence purposes to any other nation at any time?not just adversaries,
but even longtime allies, according to NRO director Peter Teets.
At the National Space Symposium in Colorado Springs in early April, Teets proposed that
U.S. resources from military, civilian and commercial satellites be combined to provide
"persistence in total situational awareness, for the benefit of this nation's war fighters." If
allies don't like the new paradigm of space dominance, said Air Force secretary James
Roche, they'll just have to learn to accept it. The allies, he told the symposium, will have "no
veto power."
Beginning next year, NRO will be in charge of the new Offensive Counter-Space program,
which will come up with plans to specifically deny the use of near-Earth space to other
nations, said Teets.
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Operation Iraqi Domination
http://www.theempirecards.com/index2.html
A companion set to the Iraqi "most wanted" deck of playing cards, this set featurs Bush-n-
team's 52 leaders and organizations profitting from the privatization of Iraq in the name of
freedom.
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Jobs Squeeze for Indian Workers
http://www.wired.com/news/business/0,1367,59126,00.html
U.S. companies such as IBM, Intel, Hewlett-Packard, Oracle and PeopleSoft are already
exploring countries with even cheaper sources of technical labor, says a report from
research firm IDC. The new destinations include Romania, Russia, Hungary, the Czech
Republic, the Philippines, Singapore, Thailand and Vietnam.
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Global warming's sooty smokescreen revealed
http://www.newscientist.com/news/news.jsp?id=ns99993798
Smoke is clouding our view of global warming, protecting the planet from perhaps three-
quarters of the greenhouse effect. That might sound like good news, but experts say that as
the cover diminishes in coming decades, we are in for a dramatic escalation of warming that could be two or even three times as great as official best guesses.
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2003-06-04T23:02:00.000-07:00

Pentagon Admits Intelligence Reports Found 'No Reliable Information' on Iraq's WMD
http://www.voanews.com/article.cfm?objectID=2C6030C7-3830-448F-89C8B77A0B7ADFA4
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EPA Chief Resigns
http://www.voanews.com/SpecialEnglish/article.cfm?objectID=1100131D-E1EF-47B2-BC527A809EEBA251&title=ENVIRONMENT%20REPORT%20%96%20EPA%20Chief%20Resigns
Among her major successes was to order the company, General Electric, to pay to remove
poisonous chemical waste from an eastern river. Two General Electric factories along the
Hudson River released the waste into the water for many years. Missus Whitman also won
approval for new rules to help cut pollutants created by the use of diesel fuel.
However, she found herself in a difficult situation when President Bush rejected the Kyoto
treaty on global warming in two-thousand-one. She had said the president would keep a
campaign promise to act on carbon dioxide releases by power stations. But Mister Bush
said he could not support the treaty at a time of economic weakness and an energy crisis.
The Bush administration reportedly is considering several possible replacements for
Christine Whitman. The possible nominees are said to include John Engler, the former
governor of Michigan, and Josephine Cooper. She is the president and chief executive
officer of the Alliance of Automobile Manufacturers.
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American Anglers Warned to Watch Out for Mercury
http://ens-news.com/ens/jun2003/2003-06-05-12.asp
WASHINGTON, DC, June 5, 2003 (ENS) - Mercury contamination is at crisis levels in an
increasing number of U.S. lakes and rivers, the Public Interest Research Group (PIRG)
warned today. In a new report PIRG says there are currently 43 states with advisories in
effect for mercury contaminated fish, an increase of some 60 percent over the past decade.
Nineteen states have issued statewide advisories, which urge people to avoid or limit
consumption of fish due to high levels of mercury, for all of their inland freshwater lakes and/
or rivers for at least one species of fish.
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Dutch court throws out terror case
http://www.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,3604,971686,00.html
Dutch prosecutors may review their tactics in the battle against Islamist extremism after the
acquittal yesterday of 12 men suspected of supporting terrorism, when a court ruled that
unverified intelligence reports were inadmissible.
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Graham says Bush liable for any altered intelligence
http://www.heraldtribune.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20030605/NEWS/306050693/1017
"In our system of government, the president is ultimately accountable -- whether it's his
decision, or the decisions of those responsible to the president," Graham said after attending
a health policy forum at the University of California, San Francisco.
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Ashcroft Pushes Anti-Terror Law Expansion
http://www.guardian.co.uk/uslatest/story/0,1282,-2756652,00.html
WASHINGTON (AP) - Attorney General John Ashcroft urged Congress on Thursday to
expand the new anti-terror law to permit the government to hold more suspects indefinitely
and extend the death penalty to more people accused of terrorist crimes.

He also said the current anti-terror law, which critics say is cramping citizens' legitimate
rights, needs to be expanded to let prosecutors bring charges against anyone who helps or
works with suspected terrorist groups as ``material supporters.''
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Weedkilling robots slash herbicide use
http://www.newscientist.com/news/news.jsp?id=ns99993797
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Green groups name forests most at risk from Bush policy
http://www.planetark.org/dailynewsstory.cfm/newsid/21056/story.htm
The report said the 10 forests most at risk were:

* Apache-Sitgreaves National Forest - Arizona

* Bitterroot National Forest - Montana

* Black Hills National Forest - South Dakota

* Chequemegan-Nicolet National Forest - Wisconsin

* Washington-Jefferson National Forest - Virginia

* Kootenai National Forest - Montana

* Mississippi's National Forests

* Plumas National Forest - California

* Tongass National Forest - Alaska

* Umpqua National Forest - Oregon.
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2003-06-04T22:46:00.000-07:00

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Pentagon Denies Slanting Intelligence on Iraq
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A12383-2003Jun4.html
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jessica's "amnesia" and her parents "aren't allowed to comment." ... jesus christ.
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Lynches Say They Can't Discuss POW Rescue
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A53277-2003May29.html
American POW Pfc. Jessica Lynch's parents said Thursday they are not permitted to discuss details of their daughter's capture and rescue in Iraq.

Greg and Deadra Lynch also said they couldn't comment on media reports that dispute military information released on Lynch's April 1 rescue from an Iraqi hospital.
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2003-06-04T11:12:00.000-07:00

the rich get richer, but give up their laundry service.
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America's $40m men feel the heat
http://www.guardian.co.uk/elsewhere/journalist/story/0,7792,968805,00.html
Eight chief executives of US corporations were invited to appear before a senate hearing last week to discuss the scabrous issue of excessive executive pay. None of them showed up, perhaps wisely. How do you defend a $40m (£25m) or $50m pay packet unless with the same kind of lame excuse voiced by football managers, that it is the market rate?
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Group Wants Anti-Gay Outreach at Disney
http://www.guardian.co.uk/uslatest/story/0,1282,-2748273,00.html
ORLANDO, Fla. (AP) - A conservative Christian organization wants the no-fly zone over Walt Disney World to be removed so it can fly banners touting an anti-homosexuality Web site over a gay festival this week.

The Virginia-based Family Policy Network claims the no-fly zone infringes upon its right to preach freely during the Gay Days celebration.

The group hopes to include as part of its outreach planes pulling banners reading: ``JESUS CHRIST: HOPE FOR HOMOSEXUALS.COM,'' according to Joe Glover, the organization's president.
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Marijuana 'Guru' Gets One-Day Sentence
http://www.guardian.co.uk/uslatest/story/0,1282,-2750753,00.html
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) - Ed Rosenthal, the self-proclaimed ``Guru of Ganja,'' walked free Wednesday after a federal judge sentenced him to one day in prison for a marijuana conviction.
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Interior Deputy Secretary's Conduct Questioned
http://ens-news.com/ens/jun2003/2003-06-03-10.asp
WASHINGTON, DC, June 3, 2003 (ENS) - A coalition of environmental and government ethics organizations today asked U.S. Attorney General John Ashcroft to launch a criminal investigation into the conduct of the Bush administration's second in command at the Interior Department, Steven Griles.

The organizations say Griles, Interior Department Deputy Secretary and a former lobbyist for mining and oil industries, has failed to abide by recusal agreements and has played a key role in several decisions that have directly benefited his former employer and clients.
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i don't understand this next article as well as i'd like - i can't figure out what the issue really is... what really confuses me is the idea of ethical issues regarding pesticide testing on humans - when we're putting this stuff on our food by the kiloton... seems to me like you can test it on a few people, or test it on the whole fucking world...
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Court allows human tests for pesticides
http://upi.com/view.cfm?StoryID=20030603-113930-3636r
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2003-06-03T08:56:00.000-07:00

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Man Jailed for Airport Explosion
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=573&e=16&u=/nm/journalist_dc
AMMAN (Reuters) - A Japanese journalist was jailed for 18 months for blowing up a Jordanian airport security guard as he tried to show that a souvenir cluster bomblet from the Iraq (news - web sites) war was harmless.
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Insults thrown, left and right
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=680&e=17&u=/usatoday/5204299
LOS ANGELES -- Bill O'Reilly, the conservative talk show host, first decried political commentators who ''call people names.'' Then he called Al Franken, the liberal humorist, an ''idiot.'' As for calling Franken an idiot, O'Reilly told a reporter, ''If I said it, I misspoke.'' Then he said, ''I stand by my description.''
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It isn't exactly rocket science ...
http://www.guardian.co.uk/online/news/0,12597,969564,00.html
http://www.interestingprojects.com/cruisemissile/
An inventor from New Zealand who is building a cruise missile in his garage using parts bought over the internet has said you don't have to be a rocket scientist to construct your very own rocket. Bruce Simpson says he is planning to post step-by-step instructions on his website describing how to make the jet-powered missile, which he claims would be able to fly the 60 miles (100 kilometres) between his home and Auckland in less than 15 minutes, the New Zealand Herald newspaper has reported. The missile could carry a small warhead weighing 22lbs, and Mr Simpson claimed the air force would have no way of stopping it. Mr Simpson, a 49-year-old internet site developer, said that his missile project, which he says will cost around US$5,000 (£3,058), was intended to warn governments how easy it would be for terrorists to build one.
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Seattle Protesters Decry 'Secret Police'
http://www.guardian.co.uk/uslatest/story/0,1282,-2746303,00.html
SEATTLE (AP) - Police using pepper spray arrested 12 people at a march and rally by activists protesting an annual seminar of a group decried by critics as a virtual ``secret police.''

Arrests were made Monday night for alleged assault, property damage, obstructing and reckless burning, police officer Deanna Nollette said. Nobody required first aid, she said.

The 400 or so protesters, who had obtained a permit, held a rally and then marched to the hotel where the five-day Law Enforcement Intelligence Unit seminar began Monday. The LEIU is a coalition of about 250 local and federal law enforcement agencies.
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US consumer groups slam biotech firms for ending talks
http://www.planetark.org/dailynewsstory.cfm/newsid/21018/story.htm
WASHINGTON - U.S. biotech companies suppressed a campaign to strengthen government oversight of genetically modified foods, fearing this would hurt a U.S. trade case against the European Union, consumer advocates said.
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2003-06-02T16:59:00.000-07:00

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i don't really understand this one, but it sounds nifty.
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Alchemy with light shocks physicists
http://www.newscientist.com/news/news.jsp?id=ns99993750
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Teen's IQ too high to measure
http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/nationworld/134859999_boygenius31.html
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Swimming pool chlorine linked to asthma epidemic
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=1508&e=2&u=/afp/health_asthma_children
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http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story2&u=/030528/168/47f2q.html&e=7
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Bad Trip Ahead for Dutch Joint Joints
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=573&e=6&u=/nm/odd_dutch_coffeeshops_dc
AMSTERDAM (Reuters) - Dutch "coffee shops" famous for selling cannabis are about to see business go up in smoke. Officials have just put the finishing touches to a measure banning smoking in cannabis-selling cafes. Due to get government approval soon, the law aims to protect employees of all companies from passive smoking. "Any coffee shop that has employees will be affected too," said Trudy Prins, director of Dutch anti-smoking group Stivoro.
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Colleges Blasted Over 'Free-Speech' Zones
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=519&e=10&u=/ap/campus_speech
DALLAS - Time and again, Ruben Reyes asked the University of Texas at El Paso for permission to hold protests about environmental dangers, the administration and censorship ? typical stuff for a campus demonstration. Each time, Reyes was turned down by officials who said the student union where the creative-writing student wanted to talk was not one of the two "free-speech zones" on the campus of 17,000 students. Reyes responded by joining a growing number of students around the country who have taken university officials to court, complaining that free speech is being stifled by institutions that in many cases promote themselves as pillars of democracy.

2003-06-02T16:37:00.000-07:00

techfeature on the new xray.
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Taming the Terahertz
http://www.technologyreview.com/articles/innovation40603.asp
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friendly neighborhood DROUGHT MAP.
http://drought.unl.edu/dm/monitor.html
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yes, doom and gloom is fun, but my first love is technology, followed by brilliant nonsense. hence this link. here's to chaos beyond understanding.
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Handsome men have the best sperm
http://www.newscientist.com/news/news.jsp?id=ns99993777
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2003-06-02T16:25:00.000-07:00

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Iowa to harness wind at compressed air power plant
http://www.planetark.org/dailynewsstory.cfm/newsid/21004/story.htm
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US must cut auto greenhouse gases-research group
http://www.planetark.org/dailynewsstory.cfm/newsid/20995/story.htm
WASHINGTON - U.S. automakers could nearly halve output of heat-trapping greenhouse gases by 2030 with new technology and more fuel-efficient models, a needed step to reverse growing emissions from the world's No. 1 transportation sector, an environmental think tank said.
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Forest Thinning Rules Fuel Wildfire Controversy
http://ens-news.com/ens/jun2003/2003-06-02-10.asp
WASHINGTON, DC, June 3, 2003 (ENS) - The Bush administration announced controversial new rules Friday to expedite forest thinning projects in order to reduce the risk of wildfire on public lands. The rules reduce the federal government's responsibility for studying the environmental impact of forest thinning projects and limit the timing and scope of appeals to challenge these projects. Environmentalists are outraged by the new regulations, which they describe as little more than a giveaway to the timber industry, but Bush administration officials say the changes reflect "common sense" forest management.
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Half U.S. Climate Warming Due to Land Use Changes
http://ens-news.com/ens/may2003/2003-05-28-01.asp
COLLEGE PARK, Maryland, May 28, 2003 (ENS) - The growth of cities and industrial agriculture is responsible for more of the rise in temperature across the United States than scientists previously believed, according to a new study by scientists at the University of Maryland. They found that land use changes may account for up to half of the observed surface global warming.
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2003-06-02T16:18:00.000-07:00

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US aims to streamline mountaintop mining permits
http://www.planetark.org/dailynewsstory.cfm/newsid/21006/story.htm
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WASHINGTON - The U.S. government on Thursday recommended regulating Appalachian mountaintop coal mining on a case-by-case basis to minimize environmental damage in the area despite arguments by green groups that it could increase it.
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Mountaintop strip mining uses explosives to blast off the tops of mountains to get at coal deposits. The process generates tons of broken rock, called valley fill, that is dumped into nearby valleys and streams.
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2003-06-02T16:11:00.000-07:00

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Wolfowitz comments revive doubts over Iraq's mass destruction weapons
http://www2.iraqwar.ru/iraq-read_article.php?articleId=7769?=en
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"For bureaucratic reasons we settled on one issue, weapons of mass destruction, because it was the one reason everyone could agree on," Wolfowitz was quoted as saying.
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He said one reason for going to war against Iraq that was "almost unnoticed but huge" was the need to maintain American forces in Saudi Arabia as long as Saddam was in power.
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Those troops were sent to Saudi Arabia to protect the desert kingdom against Saddam, but their presence in the country which houses Islam's holiest sites enraged Islamic fundamentalists, including Osama bin Laden.
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2003-06-02T16:03:00.000-07:00

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U.S. Concerned About Cuban Prisoner
http://www.guardian.co.uk/uslatest/story/0,1282,-2743883,00.html
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2003-05-15T09:36:00.000-07:00

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cows do the lemming thing.
http://www.clickondetroit.com/sh/news/stories/news-220521920030515-050546.html
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2003-05-15T09:34:00.000-07:00

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the stage managing gets worse.
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Some Audience Members Told Not to Wear Ties for Bush Speech
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President Bush came to Indianapolis to send the message that his tax cut plan will help everyone and not just the wealthy. That's why all those people sitting behind him were instructed on what to wear.
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?When you see somebody who is in coat an tie, then not in coat and tie, then in coat and tie, it sort of reveals that this is about stagecraft rather than statecraft,? said Bloomquist.
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Peyton Manning was apparently allowed to keep his tie on. But then, everybody knows he's not ordinary.
http://www.wishtv.com/Global/story.asp?S=1278487&nav=0Ra6Fp4l
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2003-05-15T09:25:00.000-07:00

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Fake drugs show up in U.S. pharmacies
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Many of the fakes are so good that pharmacists have trouble telling them from the real thing. Investigators and pharmacists say the problem of counterfeit, mislabeled or mishandled drugs could spread beyond the relatively few medications affected now unless state and federal regulators tighten requirements for the nation's drug wholesalers.
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''I've been in this business for 40 years,'' says pharmacist Lowell Anderson of Bel-Aire Pharmacy in White Bear Lake, Minn. ''I have less confidence in the integrity of the supply line today than ever before. It scares me.''
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=676&e=16&u=/usatoday/5159798
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2003-05-15T04:53:00.000-07:00

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FBI Team Expected to Probe Saudi Attacks
http://www.guardian.co.uk/worldlatest/story/0,1280,-2678684,00.html
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good lord. homeland security is chasing legislators, the fbi is chasing terrorists in saudi arabia, the president runs his own intelligence agency - what's next? the irs raiding cuba? the cia sets up a moon base? or maybe federal judges will hold a presidential run-off.
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we're supposed to think it's Normal for the fbi to "aid - not to run" a saudi arabian federal investigation - it's really more Mass Confusion Tactics. maybe it's supposed to be more tolerable that it's the fbi and not the cia "aids" the investigation - since they're less
Spy-Oriented than the cia (not that that means there will be any less spying going on)
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what a hard (and dangerous) job those guys will have...tracking down guys who are clearly willing to kill you... no doubt they'll have some marines with them too...
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etc etc, unfold american empire, etc etc.
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2003-05-14T22:34:00.000-07:00

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Study reveals plunge in big fish numbers
http://www.upi.com/view.cfm?StoryID=20030514-014438-1306r
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"We have forgotten what we used to have," Jackson said. "We had oceans full of heroic fish -- literally sea monsters. People used to harpoon 3-meter-long swordfish in rowboats."
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Homeland Security Department Used to Track Texas Democrats
http://www.commondreams.org/views03/0514-07.htm
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Republicans in Washington and Austin, Texas apparently used a Homeland Security Department agency to track Texas Democratic legislators who left the state to block passage of a GOP-backed Congressional redistricting bill.
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This is the same Homeland Security Department that is supposed to be making America safe from foreign terrorists. It's the agency we were told would never be used for domestic political purposes.
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But today's edition of the Fort Worth Star-Telegram reports that the Air and Marine Interdiction and Coordination Center, in Riverside, California, became involved in the Republican search for 51 Democratic state representatives who went to Ardmore, Oklahoma to break a quorum of the House and block action on the redistricting bill.
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Here's what the Star-Telegram reported: "The agency received a call to locate a specific Piper turboprop aircraft. It was determined that the plane belonged to former House Speaker Pete Laney." Laney is one of the Democrats who is fighting against the redistricting bill.
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The newspaper said, "Laney's plane proved to be a key piece of information because, (Republican House Speaker) Craddick said, it's how he determined that the Democrats were in Ardmore. 'We called someone, and they said they were going to track it. I have no idea how they tracked it down,' Craddick said. 'That's how we found them.'"
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The Interdiction and Coordination center "falls under the auspices of the Homeland Security Department," the Star-Telegram reported.
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Republican Craddick, at the request of U.S. Rep. Tom DeLay, is pushing a redistricting plan that would eliminate five Democrats from the U.S. Congress. Currently, the Texas delegation contains 17 Democrats and 15 Republicans.
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While saying they "called someone," Craddick denied making calls to any federal agency, but DeLay confirmed that Republicans sought the assistance of federal law enforcement.
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The action by the House Democrats, dubbed the "Heroes of the House" and the "Killer D's" (a reference to a similar quorum-busting action by Texas Senate Democrats in the late 1970s), has gained national attention. Their action has also received a surprising amount of support from Texas newspapers, which have criticized the deeply partisan actions of Texas Republicans.
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Republican leaders in Texas and Washington are furious. They have called the Democrats, holed up in a Holiday Inn in Ardmore, "cowards" and "terrorists."
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State troopers have followed the Democrats wives, parents and children. Troopers even staked out a hospital where one lawmaker's premature twins are being cared for. Staffers have been harassed. All this has happened after the location of the Democrats was known.
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Now, in a chilling revelation, we discover the Homeland Security Department was apparently used to try and track the Democrats' whereabouts.
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It was no doubt a ham-fisted, incautious and bungled attempt (like the Watergate burglary) by Republicans to use all the law enforcement they could find to overcome the Democrats' temporary advantage.
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But the use of the Homeland Security Department for partisan political purposes should alarm all Americans. It deserves a full, complete and independent investigation.
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The warnings of civil libertarians appear to have been justified. Even if it turns out that some half-crazed Republican staffer or independent investigator called the Air and Marine Interdiction and Coordination Center, it raises disturbing questions about the operations of Homeland Security and the lengths Republicans will go enforce their will.
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Americans deserve to know the details of this scandal. And they deserve to know them now.
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"The circumstances of people in that country are better than they were before the war," Rumsfeld said. "They're going to get better every day. ... We can't make it like the United States in five minutes."
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American troops in Iraq made first use of a new kind of helicopter-launched Hellfire missile, Rumsfeld said. The AGM-114N Metal Augmented Charge Hellfire uses a thermobaric warhead, which creates a blast wave that kills people while leaving a building, bunker or
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Putting a thermobaric warhead on a Hellfire costs $35,000 above the $57,000 cost for each basic missile.
http://www.kansascity.com/mld/kansascity/news/breaking_news/5859483.htm
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england backs off euro.
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Three States Aim to Outlaw Eco-Protests
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AUSTIN, Texas, May 13, 2003 (ENS) - A bill pending in the Texas state legislature that outlines penalties against criminal behavior by animal rights protestors has critics concerned that it would outlaw all environmental advocacy. Similar bills are pending in New York and Pennsylvania.
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"We could be considered an eco-terrorist organization under this bill because what we do is try to advocate for positive change at state levels," says Julian Zelazny, director of the State Environment Resource Center (SERC) in Madison, Wisconsin. SERC provides research and tools for state lawmakers.
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The bill establishes as a crime obstructing "any lawful activity involving the use of a natural resource with an economic value," including mining, foresting, harvesting, or processing natural resources, or obstructing a lab being used for research on animals, a circus, rodeo or zoo, if it is done with "political motivation," or by someone "acting on behalf of an animal rights or ecological terrorist organization."
http://ens-news.com/ens/may2003/2003-05-14-06.asp
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2003-05-14T07:22:00.000-07:00

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U.S. Suspects Al Qaeda; No Conclusions Reached
http://asia.reuters.com/newsArticle.jhtml?type=politicsNews&storyID=2740810

2003-05-14T06:57:00.000-07:00

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http://www.wibsite.com/wiblog/dull/
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2003-05-14T06:24:00.000-07:00

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george bush has ties to fascism, nazis, is subpoenaed by nuremburg, is sued by JADL, resigns from tyranny in disgrace...
http://www2.iraqwar.ru/iraq-read_article.php?articleId=5817&lang=en
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2003-05-14T06:11:00.000-07:00

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US says it will hunt down terrorists
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President George Bush vowed yesterday that the perpetrators of the bombings in Saudi Arabia would "LEARN THE MEANING OF AMERICAN JUSTICE", warning the US would be "on the hunt" after the worst terrorist attack on American interests since September 11 2001.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/alqaida/story/0,12469,955288,00.html
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2003-05-14T06:09:00.000-07:00

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America challenges GM crops ban
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President Bush launched a legal challenge at the World Trade Organisation yesterday, to force Europe to accept imports of American genetically modified crops.
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2003-05-14T06:07:00.000-07:00

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Report: U.S. to Approve Shooting of Iraqi Looters
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NEW YORK (Reuters) - The new U.S. administrator for Iraq (news - web sites), L. Paul Bremer, is preparing a series of security-related measures that include permitting soldiers to shoot looters on sight, The New York Times reported on Wednesday.
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Bremer, outlining his approach at a meeting with senior staff members on Tuesday, also said he was eager to hire more police officers and ban Baath Party members from serving above a certain rank in future governments, the Times reported, citing officials present at the meeting.
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Since the fall of Saddam Hussein (news - web sites), Iraq's cities have faced widespread looting, and a failure to ensure safety and security are among the chief complaints of Iraqis with U.S. forces.
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"They are going to start shooting a few looters so that word gets around," The Times quoted an official who attended the meeting with Bremer as saying. "I think you are going to see a change in the rules of engagement within a few days to get the situation under control."
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http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=564&e=10&u=/nm/iraq_looters_report_dc
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2003-05-14T06:02:00.000-07:00

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Calif. Autism Rate Doubles in Four Years -Study
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=570&e=1&u=/nm/health_autism_dc
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this and future collapse of basic civic functions.
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2003-05-13T23:48:00.000-07:00

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"The question, why societies make disastrous decisions and destroy themselves, is one that not only surprised my UCLA undergraduates, but also astonishes professional historians studying collapses of past societies. The most cited book on the subject of the collapse of societies is by the historian, Joseph Tainter. It's entitled The Collapse of Complex Societies. Joseph Tainter, in discussing ancient collapses, rejected the possibility that those collapses might be due to environmental management because it seemed so unlikely to him. Here's what Joseph Tainter said: "As it becomes apparent to the members or administrators of a complex society that a resource base is deteriorating, it seems most reasonable to assume that some rational steps are taken towards a resolution. With their administrative structure and their capacity to allocate labor and resources, dealing with adverse environmental conditions may be one of the things that complex societies do best. It is curious that they would collapse when faced with precisely those conditions that they are equipped to circumvent." Joseph Tainter concluded that the collapses of all these ancient societies couldn't possibly be due to environmental mismanagement, because they would never make these bad mistakes. Yet it's now clear that they did make these bad mistakes."
http://www.edge.org/documents/archive/edge114.html
What I'm going to suggest is a road map of factors in failures of group decision making. I'll divide the answers into a sequence of four somewhat fuzzily delineated categories. First of all, a group may fail to anticipate a problem before the problem actually arrives. Secondly, when the problem arrives, the group may fail to perceive the problem. Then, after they perceive the problem, they may fail even to try to solve the problem. Finally, they may try to solve it but may fail in their attempts to do so. While all this talking about reasons for failure and collapses of society may seem pessimistic, the flip side is optimistic: namely, successful decision-making. Perhaps if we understand the reasons why groups make bad decisions, we can use that knowledge as a check list to help groups make good .
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The last reason that I shall mention for irrational failure to try to solve a perceived problem is psychological denial. This is a technical term with a precisely defined meaning in individual psychology, and it has been taken over into the pop culture. If something that you perceive arouses an unbearably painful emotion, you may subconsciously suppress or deny your perception in order to avoid the unbearable pain, even though the practical results of ignoring your perception may prove ultimately disastrous. The emotions most often responsible are terror, anxiety, and sadness. Typical examples include refusing to think about the likelihood that your husband, wife, child, or best friend may be dying, because the thought is so painfully sad, or else blocking out a terrifying experience. For example, consider a narrow deep river valley below a high dam, such that if the dam burst, the resulting flood of water would drown people for a long distance downstream. When attitude pollsters ask people downstream of the dam how concerned they are about the dam's bursting, it's not surprising that fear of a dam burst is lowest far downstream, and increases among residents increasingly close to the dam. Surprisingly, though, when one gets within a few miles of the dam, where fear of the dam's breaking is highest, as you then get closer to the dam the concern falls off to zero! That is, the people living immediately under the dam who are certain to be drowned in a dam burst profess unconcern. That is because of psychological denial: the only way of preserving one's sanity while living immediately under the high dam is to deny the finite possibility that it could burst.
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2003-05-13T20:29:00.000-07:00

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Does Senator Bob Graham have the goods on the Bushies and 9/11?
http://www.antiwar.com/justin/j050903.html
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At approximately 8:48 a.m. on the morning of September 11, 2001, the first pictures of the burning World Trade Center were broadcast on live television.
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So why, at 9:03 a.m. - fifteen minutes after it was clear the United States was under terrorist attack - did President Bush sit down with a classroom of second-graders and begin a 20-minute pre-planned photo op?
http://www.cooperativeresearch.net/timeline/main/essayaninterestingday.html
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2003-05-12T19:30:00.000-07:00

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Texas House Seeks Arrest of Truant Dems
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AUSTIN, Texas - State troopers and the elite Texas Rangers were ordered to track down and bring in 59 Democratic lawmakers who brought the Texas House to a standstill Monday by going into hiding.
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The quorum-busting boycott capped months of tension between Democrats and the newly-in-control Republicans over a bill to limit lawsuits and a GOP budget that would make deep spending cuts without raising taxes.
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Most of the missing lawmakers said they planned to leave the state to avoid arrest, and late Monday the Texas Department of Public Safety asked the public for help in finding the lawmakers.
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In New Mexico, Attorney General Patricia Madrid said her state has no authority to arrest lawmakers who show up there.
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"Nevertheless, I have put out an all-points bulletin for law enforcement to be on the lookout for politicians in favor of health care for the needy and against tax cuts for the wealthy," said Madrid, a Democrat.
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http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=519&e=3&u=/ap/texas_legislature_rebellion
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2003-05-12T04:16:00.000-07:00

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israel invents a new entry form for foreign nationals entering gaza - essentially a license to kill foreign protestors.
http://electronicintifada.net/v2/article1452.shtml
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2003-05-12T01:39:00.000-07:00

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the american publc has gotten fairly blase about the military in our streets. apparently no one remembers what the military is (ostensibly, insensically) for - protection from the OUTSIDE... if we have to be protected from US CITIZENS, then maybe something is WRONG in this DEMOCRACY!?!?
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Bringing the War Home
http://www.thenation.com/doc.mhtml?i=20030526&s=dreyfuss
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2003-05-12T01:07:00.000-07:00

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Air Force One Remains Perk of Presidency
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=544&ncid=693&e=3&u=/ap/20030511/ap_on_go_pr_wh/air_force_one
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2003-05-12T01:00:00.000-07:00

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tech feature - space glass, materials revolution... if only we can STAY IN SPACE.
http://www.newscientist.com/news/news.jsp?id=ns99993704
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reliable sars test by august, says one co.
http://upi.com/view.cfm?StoryID=20030511-112657-5145r
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2003-05-12T00:51:00.000-07:00

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Michigan food poisonings linked to pesticide - CDC
http://www.planetark.org/dailynewsstory.cfm/newsid/20761/story.htm
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2003-05-12T00:32:00.000-07:00

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MICKEY MOORE: DISNEY TO FINANCE NEW BUSH-BASHING DOCUMENTARY
http://www.drudgereport.com/mdisney.htm
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2003-05-12T00:12:00.000-07:00

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Weapons taskforce leaves in failure
The US military task force hunting for chemical, biological and nuclear weapons in Iraq is to leave within a month, having found no trace of any illegal weapons, according to a report yesterday.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/Iraq/Story/0,2763,954039,00.html
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2003-05-11T05:41:00.000-07:00

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i feel deeply ashamed for posting this link.
http://go.everwars.com/play.x?p=
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i've developed quite the cache of timewasters (this blog not the least of them).
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remind me to post my top 5 most evil webcomix that you should read for your spiritual enlightenment.
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hee. (it's not funny)
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2003-05-11T04:09:00.000-07:00

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i think this is the first xxx link i've ever posted.
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sorta xxx - not actually politics, more a culture jamming thing -
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but very, very, very wrong.
http://www.cyberbooty.com/purplegay.jpg
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2003-05-10T21:48:00.000-07:00

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Midwest weather unstable again
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2003-05-10T21:42:00.000-07:00

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Bush, Blair nominated for Nobel Prize for Iraq war
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2003-05-10T16:23:00.000-07:00

PENTAGON'S MISSILE DEFENSE AGENCY
STAR WARS PLANS UNDER REVIEW
PUBLIC COMMENTS DUE BY JUNE 12

Dear Friends:

Bush's Missile Defense Agency (MDA) has announced a public comment period on their new Star Wars plans. See more details at this link:

http://www.acq.osd.mil/bmdo/peis/html/home.html

Under law, they are required to prepare a new Programmatic Environmental Impact Statement and take public comment. There are several ways you can send your comments:

E-MAIL: bmds.peis@mda.osd.mil

FAX: (877) 851-5451
          Attn: MDA BMDS PEIS

BY MAIL: MDA BMDS PEIS
                   c/o ICF Consulting
                  9300 Lee Highway
                   Fairfax, VA 22031

According to the MDA, "The Ballistic Missile Defense System (BMDS) is a complex, multi-component defensive weapon system involving technologies and systems ranging in maturity from PATRIOT missiles to directed energy weapons (lasers) and kinetic energy intercept concepts (hit-to-kill technology) from space-based satellites. The BMDS is envisioned to be a layered system of elements, programs and components each with specific defensive capabilities, which, when working together, are capable of defending against all classes of threat ballistic missiles in all flight phases (i.e., boost, midcourse and terminal)."

We urge you to send comments immediately to the MDA expressing your outrage and opposition to this new Star Wars planning. Below are some suggested points to make.

PUBLIC COMMENT TALKING POINTS: (We recommend you use your own words)

1) The cost of Star Wars research, development, testing and production will bankrupt the country. There are currently more pressing needs such as health care, education, child care and social security.

2) Star Wars will destabilize the world, create a new arms race in space, and only make life more insecure for the public

3) Who is the enemy? Today it is the U.S. that leads the world with weapons of mass destruction and a global conventional military second to none

4) Star Wars is being driven by the aerospace corporations who stand to make massive profits by successfully promoting an arms race in space

5) Missile defense has nothing to do with "defense" but is in fact part of a larger effort on the part of the Pentagon to "control and dominate" the Earth and space

Thanks for your help.

Global Network Against Weapons & Nuclear Power in Space
PO Box 90083
Gainesville, FL. 32607
(352) 337-9274
(352) 871-7554 (Cell Phone)
http://www.space4peace.org
globalnet@mindspringcom

2003-05-10T14:55:00.000-07:00

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singapore uses walk-thru thermal imagers to see who has a fever.
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good lord, american kids are dumb.
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the us has NO PLANS to clean up ANY du in iraq. mumble something loike "there's clearly no threat from this radioactive projectile..."
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remember that iraqi restaurant we bombed? cu'z we'd thought saddam had been there? we got that "info" from hacking his communications. which he might possibly have thought of beforehand. (what moron of a dictator goes and eats lunch at a restaurant during wartime, anyway?)
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2003-05-10T14:48:00.000-07:00

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bush is an alcoholic. he's always been an alcoholic. now - he's drunk on power. addicted.
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duck and cover in the new millenium
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bush offers arab countries economic benefits for being friendly.
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yeahbut - what about the wto?
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a sci.am. article i've posted before - claiming that the universe is spatially infinite, that you have an infinite number of identical copies and dopplegangers, that there are 4 "levels" of universes (something like universe, multiverse, metaverse and ... omniverse?). anyways, on my 4th try i made it all the way through, and it more or less all made sense, very informative and makes references to two of my favorite far-edge SF authors, Greg Egan and Rudy Rucker. :)
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bush says new nukes is good nukes!
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more small nukes are just fine for us, right world opinion? nudge-nudge-poke-bribe-backstab, right world opinion? RIGHT?
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feds doing more secret searches
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2003-05-10T01:50:00.000-07:00

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in my quest to illuminate how fucked up americans are - i've been freed from my adulthood by this latest survey. i'll probably never have one.
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Are We Grown Up Yet? Study Says Not 'Till 26
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this story has been emailed over 5000 times today, just from the yahoo site.
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2003-05-10T01:32:00.000-07:00

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monkeys fail to produce shakespear - news at 11.
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Typing Monkeys Don't Write Shakespeare
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2003-05-09T22:43:00.000-07:00

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2003-05-09T22:35:00.000-07:00

The Oil Grab Begins?
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"Richard Perle, who just happens to sit on the Defense Policy Board, also just happened to get a classified briefing from the top secret Defense Intelligence Agency on crises in North Korea and Iraq last February. Three weeks later "the then-chairman of the board, Richard N. Perle, offered a briefing of his own at an investment seminar on ways to profit from possible conflicts with both countries.""

2003-05-09T22:10:00.000-07:00

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2003-05-09T21:07:00.000-07:00

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2003-05-09T21:01:00.001-07:00

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Selective Intelligence Donald Rumsfeld Has His Own Special Sources. Are They Reliable?
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A Pentagon official who works for Luti told me, ?I did a job when the intelligence community wasn?t doing theirs. We recognized the fact that they hadn?t done the analysis. We were providing information to Wolfowitz that he hadn?t seen before. The intelligence community is still looking for a mission like they had in the Cold War, when they spoon-fed the policymakers.?
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2003-05-09T20:49:00.000-07:00

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2003-05-08T21:54:00.000-07:00

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WASHINGTON, DC, May 8, 2003 (ENS) - American taxpayers are spending $58 billion to fund wasteful and environmentally damaging federal programs, charges a new report released today by a coalition of environmental, taxpayer and consumer groups
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2003-05-08T18:18:00.000-07:00

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wells that draw from aquifers in contact with salt water may be more contaminated that previously thought - new research shows how salt assists many carcinogens, teratogens and heavy metals percolate through the porous rock that contains fresh water aquifers
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2003-05-08T18:05:00.000-07:00

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2003-05-08T04:27:00.000-07:00

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2003-05-08T04:25:00.000-07:00

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Associated Press Puts Violent Words in Iraqi Protesters' Mouths
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2003-05-08T04:21:00.000-07:00

bush saves money by valuing older people less
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E.P.A. Drops Age-Based Cost Studies
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us politicians accuse foreign nations of preferrential treatment for airbus engine deal - against the us!
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2003-05-08T04:11:00.000-07:00

sen. byrd on bush.
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"President Bush's address to the American people announcing combat victory in Iraq
deserved to be marked with solemnity, not extravagance; with gratitude to God, not self-
congratulatory gestures. American blood has been shed on foreign soil in defense of the
President's policies. This is not some made-for-TV backdrop for a campaign commercial.
This is real life, and real lives have been lost. To me, it is an affront to the Americans killed
or injured in Iraq for the President to exploit the trappings of war for the momentary spectacle
of a speech. I do not begrudge his salute to America's warriors aboard the carrier Lincoln, for
they have performed bravely and skillfully, as have their countrymen still in Iraq, but I do
question the motives of a deskbound President who assumes the garb of a warrior for the
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new findings on pesticide drift -
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2003-05-08T01:12:00.000-07:00

we found something that should have been a mobile bio-weapons lab. but we have no proof.
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2003-05-08T01:00:00.000-07:00

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this administration is developing a major credibility problem
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Cheney company 'running Iraqi oil industry'
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a far broader role in Iraq than previously disclosed and is already operating oil fields in the
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2003-05-07T04:25:00.000-07:00

i got this email tonite - i think it's massmarket political propoganda.
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actually just like something i read in
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anyways i figured out who this was from - but it was a wierd moment - thot i was being micro-targeted or something.
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"I came across the most amusing political campaign site.
http://www.joseph2004.org/
Campy tongue-in-cheek mockery is the new mud-slinging! Omygod!
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"I hate to be such a tool for clever PR agencies but based on his current platform of Bush is a Fool, Id vote for him. Oh! i just told a friend, fucking clever PR agencies... I just can't outsmart them anymore!"

2003-05-06T21:24:00.000-07:00

bush admits he just wanted to ass-rape another nation with his prosthetic military-dildo after 9-11.
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2003-05-06T20:47:00.000-07:00

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In Kansas, Crawford County emergency manager Eldon Bedene said 95 homes were
destroyed in a storm so powerful it blew a freight train completely off the tracks.
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i just watched the xmen-2, which was suprisingly competent - as long as you enter the theater with no expectations, you won't be disappointed - and what it basically came down to, for me, for the fictional president, for the powers of the hegemony, was that these mutants were far more powerful than anyone gave them credit for, militarily. in powers of raw violence. they had a single infantryman that was worth hundreds of marines (wolverine), highly mobile artillery (pyro, iceman, cyclops), seriously heavy artillery (storm, the soon-to-be-phoenix) - and some special weapons in the form of xavier, and "a little girl who walks through walls," etc - and that's not even counting the "bad" mutants.
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that's how i see global environmental instability. we're simply not giving it/them enough credit.
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declare war on natural systems, as cheneyCo. has basically done, and you Will LOSE.
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unfortunately, these fucks don't learn none too quick. looks like we'll ALL have to pay the price, instead.
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these poor dead fucks in the plains have learned the strength of nature disturbed. the hardest way.
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2003-05-06T20:33:00.000-07:00

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europe has a good idea. expensive, but good. with the additional problem that most likely, they'll gather nothing but bad news. let's see where they go with this.
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EU plans tough screening of toxic chemicals
The new law would oblige chemical firms to register and test for safety 30,000 chemicals for a cost of up to seven billion euros ($7.86 billion) in the first 10 years, according to Commission estimates.
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America has a bad idea. somebody in congress has been hired to support this terrible idea -
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Green groups oppose exemption for US factory farms
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2003-05-06T20:27:00.000-07:00

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bush names another (!) ruler of iraq. just what a poor, destroyed nation needs. more bureaucrats to fight amongst themselves.
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Bush names chief administrator for Iraq
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2003-05-05T08:11:00.000-07:00

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new global sars map!
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2003-05-05T07:05:00.000-07:00

immigrants detained, questioned heavily.

"At Justice, NSEERS Spells Data Chaos
This shadowy program has gathered extensive personal data on immigrants. But who has the info, and what's it being used for? Answers are hard to find "
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us criticizes candada.
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"U.S. says Canada cares too much about liberties"
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2003-05-05T06:54:00.000-07:00

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students settle with the riaa - agree to pay tens of thousands in fines.

wtf? stupid kids. never trust cops. either that or revert to a more solid media - rip more, burn more.
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2003-05-05T00:07:00.001-07:00

it's always reassuring to know that everyone is miserable. gives you faith in life - faith in an end to all this madness.

this is my goal in life - to get the american populace in touch with their pain.

the roots of the pain are wide branching - not all of them lead directly to george w. bush.

just a lot of them.

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as constantly as the ad execs can find ways to manage - we are subjected to psychological torture.

every day we listen to the news, we are subjected to paradox and lies - intentionally designed to burn out our curiosity and desire.

everyday we are exposed to fancy and distraction - all to keep our minds off our pain, and our eyes away from the truth.

we are overwhelmed with information, too much to process, too much to analyze or assess - which is the point.

they want to break our attention, cut it into tiny ribbons, until we lack the motivation to present them with any challenge or contest.

bush claims some sort of family values, but he secretly coddles moral relativism. this contradiction serves his purpose simply by sowing contradiction (contradiction + conflict are his allies, confusion is his tool). all authorities enjoy confusing each persons idea of right and wrong, undermining each person's beliefs regarding whether right and wrong exist, and whether it's worthwhile to believe anything at all.

they exploit their own irrationality to drive us out of our minds.

the DONT WANT US TO BE HAPPY. they will FIGHT to keep us MISERABLE.

they want us to believe that justice will prevail.

(so since this world exists, it MUST be just.)

they want us to believe there is no justice - and so it doesn't really matter anyway.

they give only a very narrow range of choices, and try to make us believe that we are free. we can buy almost anything we can dream of, provided it doesn't undermine the establishment, government, or certain subsidized industries.

we can say almost anything we want.

intoxication as a substitute for inebriation.

constant overstimulation numbs me.

there shall be creation. there shall be destruction.

commmunication. envision.

2003-05-05T00:07:00.000-07:00

psyops against apple. microsoft releases plans for the "iloo" a public toilet/internet station.
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fighting back against walmart.
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"Complaints about understaffing and low pay are not uncommon among retail
workers -- but Wal-Mart is no mere peddler of saucepans and boom boxes. The
company is the world's largest retailer, with $220 billion in sales, and the
nation's largest private employer, with 3,372 stores and more than 1 million
hourly workers. Its annual revenues account for 2 percent of America's entire
domestic product. Even as the economy has slowed, the company has
continued to metastasize, with plans to add 800,000 more jobs worldwide by
2007. "

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cali wants to fund tox-testing people. how much mercury is in Your liver?
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in reading the guardian and the independant and such
it's become clear to me that everyone else is paying
much closer attention to america than americans are.
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Iraqis target Gen. Franks for war crimes trial --
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With pot and porn outstripping corn, America's black economy is flying high
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Americans split over marine's 'war crimes'
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A US marine under investigation for war crimes, after he told his local
newspaper that he had executed an Iraqi soldier, has become a cause
célèbre in his home town, Las Vegas, and has announced his intention to
become a policeman.
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troops kill civilians protesting troops killing civilians.
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i'm confused about something - are we pulling out of saudi arabia, or putting in new bases? also in the guardian - apparent we're planning on moving our "old europe" military bases further east - supposedly eastern bloc states.
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2003-05-01T05:38:00.000-07:00

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warspying - keeping tabs on surveillance.
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2003-05-01T05:33:00.000-07:00

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Coke Pulls Swastika-Bearing Figurine
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2003-05-01T05:30:00.000-07:00

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Boy 'pregnant' with twin brother
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2003-04-27T15:34:00.000-07:00

it just occured to me - We DO know that saddam had wmd! bush can say it all he likes, cuz
it's true.
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we sold them to him.
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how bizarre.
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An Iraqi exile who had proclaimed himself Baghdad's mayor and begun issuing directives to
city workers was arrested Sunday by U.S. forces, who accused him of exerting authority he
didn't have.
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yahoo news tells us that six iraqis died in that munitions explosion. other sources say
twelve. the russian site, iraqwar, says 40. whatever the number - it's connected to these kids
throwing rocks. i wonder how many of those kids were orphans?
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jk rowling is richer than the queen.
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we're ready to get our asses into gear to monitor illegal biotech rite mr. bush?
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it's a damn shame we never know what the potential disasters are before they happen.
beforehand all possibilites are essentially of equal weight. so to overcompensate, we
overract to crises when they happen.
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rumsfelds indignation seems really funny now: forcing iraqis to run naked.
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oops - someone ofound our plans to bomb NK. funny how powell was saying just the other
day that they have nothing to fear from denuclearization. except preemptive strikes and
unprovoked bomings that its.
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kathy kelly on and in iraq: this is your country now.
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cnn digitall edits michael moore's acceptance speech, adds extra boos.
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the bbc says their news is very popular. digs at faux news' impartiality. bush discusses
punishment.
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they've proven the universe is infinite, and everything exists.
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markfiore.com - one of the earliest links i ever published, he's still putting out great flash
political cartoons. check him out.
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visual thesaurus. the connections between words on java sillystring. very damn nifty. almost
as cool as graphing your philosophy (contact me if you want a copy) - only problem with this
site is it only has words we all know, it's no OED. still nifty, tho.
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2003-04-24T16:32:00.000-07:00

well thank god, we're finally building nukes again.
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bush mulls holding a victory parade.
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if you build a better engine, will the world beat a path to your door?
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look for the animations, under research.

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bush's '04 strategies
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cthullu for prez - why vote for a lesser evil?
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someone underestimated islam again.
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"In a show of political strength, hundreds of thousands of Shi'ite Muslims filled the holy city of Kerbala on Tuesday in a long-banned pilgrimage marked by religious fervor and chants of "Yes to Islam, No to America." "

saddam did not invent the biological weapon. truly evil wmd seem to all come from one source.
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2003-04-23T13:40:00.000-07:00

i've figured it all out - i know why i'm filled with fear all the damn time.

it happened as i was driving, i started feeling all this anxiety and pressure, a desire to curl up and hide, to find a soft place to lay down and close my eyes.

i realized that more than fear, this was pain. i was in pain. psychic pain. emotional pain. i was fucking suffering. suddenly it was no great suprise or wonder that i feel so much fear, i'm afraid of more pain, more "stress."

now i just need to focus on continuing to turn this pain into anger, and thus into fuel, instead of hiding from it.

life follows dream logic, and the only piece of dream logic i've ever discovered is taht you can't run away. it just doesn't work. fleeing is focusing on your pursuer's strength over you, it gives the nightmares more power.

attacking transforms them, and you, and your surroundings, your scenario. do violence to your nemesis, violence is transformative.

2003-04-15T00:20:00.001-07:00

30k chickens, thru a woodchipper darkly
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toxic aluminum, in your water and rots your brain.
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syria has chem weapons.... israel has nukes. only one of these countries is currently an occupying force.

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"The United States still develops small amounts of weapons-grade chemical and biological toxins in order to defend against them, Smithson said. "

"An atheist who sought to pray in City Council meetings for deliverance "from weak and stupid politicians" got the blessing of the Utah Supreme Court on Friday."

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elephant frees antelopes - news at 11.
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Smoking Gun in Baghdad: 'Welcome, Bush' = INC Photo Op!
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anwr
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http://www.satn.org/archive/2003_04_06_archive.html#200137276

i'm being eaten alive by fear. this transcends the struggle and tension of everyday life, transcends my fear of the United States Government, the Penal system, the Military, the fucking IRS.

i don't remember being this way, not forever.

i'm afraid of cars and traffic. i'm afraid of strangers. i'm afraid of what may be out in the dark, every sound when i'm alone at night, every sound warrants full attention, full caution. i'm afraid of deep space and objects hurtling towards us, afraid of gamma ray bursters, afraid of our own sun (i love the sun).

i'm afraid of all those things too small to see and those too large to be imagined. i'm afraid of concrete and steel, it makes me shiver and cringe.

my imagination is potent. i can feel the pressure, my muscles tearing, bones popping, blood spilling out as i lose consciousness...

the real irony is that, intellectually, i feel immortal. viscerally, however, i feel like a small soft pink worm living on the surface of a cosmic cue ball.

i've been trying to rationalize it as "caution," that my immortality is not by god's decree, it's not cain's mark, it's just a logical necessity. but the logic doesn't hold up too well if i go walking in front of mac trucks.

so it's a sensible thing, for any young dwarf with no definite limits to his time on earth, to tread with caution.

reasonable, except that i'm paralyzed.

i'm afraid for my family, so full of fear that they will die because i didn't take the right preCaution. i'm afraid for everyone i love, for everyone i even like, that they will be unable to fight against the crushing pressure, and be who they are.

2003-04-10T14:35:00.000-07:00

NF 29! all your base are belong to U.S.

i'm on a slow percolate, bubbling up news... trying not to stuff anyone's email box. some of these articles are already a little outdated.

if the links don't work, try google news, it almost always works.
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http://news.google.com/
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on september 5, 2002, congress declared 2003 - "the year of the blues."
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http://www.yearoftheblues.org/about.asp
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and they've been doing all they can to make it that way.

new high-tech concrete bombs. (that's right, bombs made of concrete)
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http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story2&cid=1514&e=16&u=/afp/iraq_war_britain
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all your base are belong to U.S.
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http://wave.prohosting.com/ayiabtu/ayiabtu.html
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(if you don't get it, go here.)
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http://www.planettribes.com/allyourbase/video3.shtml
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cbs is deleting war news articles from their website. (now why would they do that?)
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http://www.thememoryhole.org/media/cbs-deletes-stories.htm
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some guy has started a video surveillance tour of NY, pointing out all the cameras and sensors (and yelling at them)
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http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story2&cid=569&u=/nm/tech_surveilliance_dc&ncid=
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tony blair says there's no conspiracy. somehow, we're not buying it.
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http://www2.iraqwar.ru/iraq-read_article.php?articleId=2230&lang=en
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prosecuting corporate homicide (think ford pinto)
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http://www.commondreams.org/views03/0401-11.htm
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kucinich calls for creation of US Peace Department
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http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story2&cid=1521&e=6&u=/afp/iraq_war_us_peace
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thurston moore of sonic youth has set up this label for free protest music. all songs currently downloadable mp3's
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http://www.protest-records.com/index.html
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Army Questions Spearhead Mom
Band's protest ways draws military inquiries
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http://www.rollingstone.com/news/newsarticle.asp?nid=17846
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imperialist chic
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http://tanakanews.com/b1114suntimes.htm
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"Imperialism is often seen as an expanding circle, with power radiating outward from a capital city like London or Paris to hinterlands. But a quick review of history shows that imperial enthusiasm doesn't emanate only from the center. Often, the dream of empire is nursed by those born on the periphery of power, precisely because empire would give them a place in a larger framework."

Secretary of State Colin Powell ( news -web sites ) has rebuffed the near unanimous demands from members of the European Union ( news -web sites ) and NATO ( news -web sites ) to put the United Nations in the driving seat.
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http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story2&cid=615&e=17&u=/nm/iraq_administration_dc
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Retired U.S. General Jay Garner is set to make his media debut in Kuwait on Monday as the man whom the United States has named to be Iraq's temporary postwar civilian administrator.

this site is really really interesting.
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http://www.thememoryhole.org/
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also from the memory hole, bush admits there's no connection between iraq and 9-11
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http://www.thememoryhole.org/war/no-saddam-qaeda.htm
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the American South leads nation in locking people up. Critical Resistance fights back.
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http://www.cnn.com/2003/LAW/04/05/southern.prisons.ap/index.html
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http://www.criticalresistance.org/crsouthlive/
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(jams not jails)

abusing the "unembedded" journalists.
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http://www2.iraqwar.ru/iraq-read_article.php?articleId=1975&lang=en
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a helpful article - on protest
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http://www.nuvo.net/news/archive/001843.html#001843
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The Iraqi Coalition of National Unity (ICNU), which appeared in the city last week riding on US special forces vehicles, has taken to looting and terrorising their neighbourhood with impunity, according to most residents.
"They steal and steal," said a man living near the Medresa al Tayif school, calling himself Abu Zeinab. "They threaten us, saying: 'We are with the Americans, you can do nothing to us'."
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http://www2.iraqwar.ru/iraq-read_article.php?articleId=2363&lang=en
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these fucking "coalition" soldiers just can't keep their fucking bullets in their pants.
Russian diplomatic convoy attacked in Iraq
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http://www.guardian.co.uk/Iraq/Story/0,2763,931013,00.html
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they're beating protestors in oakland. graphic pictures.
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http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story2&u=/030407/170/3qee9.html&e=6

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story2&u=/030407/168/3qdhu.html&e=1
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there are 2 million prisoners in the us. .7% of the population.
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http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&ncid=676&e=1&cid=676&u=/usatoday/20030407/ts_usatoday/5040832
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An estimated 4.8% of all black males in the population were in prison or jail. About 1.7% of Hispanics and 0.6% of whites were incarcerated

more on those documents bush won't declassify
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http://www.tompaine.com/feature.cfm/ID/7525
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tech feature - controlled fusion
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http://www.nytimes.com/2003/04/08/science/physical/08FUSI.html
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stupid link feature - valkyrie barbie
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http://www.barbiecollectibles.com/showcase/product.asp?type=&subtype=&product_id=1002788&series_id=150079
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2003-04-05T11:32:00.000-08:00

NF 28!

WE'VE ALWAYS BEEN AT WAR WITH OCEANIA!

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all the news that i see fit.

global sars map
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http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story2&u=/030402/241/3onua.html&e=14
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it's growing exponentially, in case you hadn't noticed. if there weren't a 24/7 coverage of this stupid war on, how do you think people would be responding?

more on pnac (project for a new american century) - the conspiracy behind iraq. you want the real deal? we'll never leave those oil fields. after this war, they're OURS. (theirs)
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http://www.accessatlanta.com/ajc/opinion/0902/29bookman.html
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MORE + MORE on pnac - their strategy of pre-emption - of nation states, preventing countries like japan or germany from every rearming.
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http://brandhast.airbeagle.com/DPG1992.htm
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russian site, with VERY uptodate info
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http://www2.iraqwar.ru/index.php?lang=ru&userlang=en
http://www2.iraqwar.ru/iraq-read_article.php?articleId=1514&lang=en
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the politics of WATER.
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http://www.indymedia.org/front.php3?article_id=308095&group=webcast
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scarcity = value.
when you exhaust a resource it becomes more valuable.
when the water table drops past consumer wells, the metanat corps (metanational corporations/metanatural corpse) will own it all.

drilling in ANWR (alaska national wildlife refuge) is back on track, after house panel passes the environmental smackdown, i mean, legislation
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http://www.planetark.org/dailynewsstory.cfm/newsid/20367/story.htm
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Americans who support the war probably do not read press reports detailing what mounts to war crimes being committed by the invading US and British troops. In a report by an "embedded" New York Times correspondent in central Iraq on Sunday, young American soldiers boasted of how they were mercilessly killing Iraqi civilians. "We had a great day. We killed a lot of people," Sergeant Eric Schrumpf, 28, said while referring to the growing mistrust between the invading troops and Iraqi civilians. "We dropped a few civilians, but what would you do," he added. Schrumpf recalled one incident in which he killed an Iraqi woman for standing too close to an Iraqi soldier. "I'm sorry," the sergeant said. "But the chick was in the way."
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http://weekly.ahram.org.eg/2003/632/sc3.htm
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if there was ever a good reason for violent holdouts to maintain a lasting campaign of assasination and bombings in baghdad, this is it.
rev. graham invades iraq. a new beginning to the age of irony
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http://www.workingforchange.com/printitem.cfm?itemid=14780
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Shortly after September 11, the Rev. Franklin Graham stunned Muslims and the Bush Administration by bashing Islam. He declared: "The God of Islam is not the same God. He's not the son of God of the Christian or Judeo-Christian faith. It's a different God, and I believe it is a very evil and wicked religion." Later, he told NBC News: "It wasn't Methodists flying into those buildings, it wasn't Lutherans. It was an attack on this country by people of the Islamic faith."

regime change in the us: one option is john kerry
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http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A22827-2003Apr3.html
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regime change in the us: another option is dennis kucinich
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http://kucinich.us/
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what's going on domestically behind the flashbang iraq war?
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http://www.prospect.org/webfeatures/2003/03/kuttner-r-03-27.html
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The budget enacted by the Republican House on a straight-line party vote (with just 12 GOP dissenters) is astonishing. It not only gives Bush his entire tax cut but proposes to balance the budget within six years. The casualties of that process would be monumentally unpopular if the public were not distracted by war. For starters, the House Republicans are cutting, of all things, veterans benefits . The message, evidently, is God bless our troops when they are dodging bullets but God help them when they come home. Once, a grateful nation offered vets free medical care. Now, the Republicans want to charge premiums to "well-to-do" vets -- with well-to-do defined as earning $26,000 a year. All told, the House budget cuts an amazing $14.6 billion in vets' programs, including money for disabilities caused by war wounds, rehabilitation and health care, pensions for low income veterans, education and housing benefits, and even -- nice touch -- burial benefits.

language and googlewashing - the phrase "second superpower" (from a nytimes article which claimed there may be two superpowers in the world after all, the us and world opinion) has changed definition in 42 days
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http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/6/30087.html
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UN takes on NK
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http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/asia-pacific/2911581.stm
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Dollar, Stocks Gain as Baghdad Airport Taken
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http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&ncid=580&e=1&cid=580&u=/nm/20030404/bs_nm/markets_global_dc
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read this ted rall, only to get to the description of the Impostor Prez as the "resident, and commander-in-thief"
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http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&ncid=127&e=1&cid=127&u=/ucru/20030403/cm_ucru/ignoramuses_abroad
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riaa wants to sue campue file-swappers: keep track of this one! (course even if the industry wins, could they actually enforce it?? - picture all the file swappers in jail along side all the pot-growers and pipe-sellers)
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http://news.com.com/2100-1027-995429.html
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this guy stole my state of mind. (he's DEEPLY psycho.)
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http://flem.keenspace.com
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(don't read webcomix)

old news:
um, "WASHINGTON (AP) ? The White House did some digging into old Clinton administration files on Friday to make the case that it was appropriate for Vice President Dick Cheney to help campaign supporters at Enron collect a $64 million debt from India. "
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http://www.nctimes.net/news/2002/20020119/53051.html
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The spokesman said Bush is always ``looking out to protect America's jobs and taxpayers' money.'' He noted, for example, that Bush has talked to China about purchasing a Boeing aircraft.
``I don't see any problem with that,'' Fleischer said.

us starts the crank on TIA, churning out "correlations."
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http://www.usnews.com/usnews/issue/030407/tech/7data.htm
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another TIA use of datamining against the people
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http://www.usnews.com/usnews/issue/030407/tech/7data.b.htm
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british soldiers sent home after protesting civilian deaths
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http://www.guardian.co.uk/Iraq/Story/0,2763,926135,00.html
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space doesn't get blurry at the farthest distances we can see. nobody knows why.
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http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story2&cid=96&e=9&u=/space/hubble_pictures_too_crisp__challenging_theories_of_time_and_space
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if it doesn't get blurry at the planck interval, we've got problems.

in one of my favorite articles ever, some scientists postulated that global warming causes giant squid (a 2 degree increase in water temperature added a meter+/- to their length... now a followup - they found a baby Collosal squid, 300 lbs, and 6 meters long! an adult is estimated to over 2000lb, and 20 METERS!
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http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/2910849.stm
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see the freaks, save the twins.
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http://edition.cnn.com/2003/HEALTH/04/03/egyptian.twins.ap/
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this link is not politically correct, it's not political. on the other hand, humanity is mutating.

2003-04-04T20:56:00.001-08:00

NF 27

if you are an activist against society, does that make you an antisocial activist?

congress cuts veteran benefits while screaming "support our troops." the whole world is bored to tears and wants us to grow the fuck up.
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http://www.commondreams.org/views03/0328-11.htm
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Making matters worse, forty percent of Vietnam Veterans are homeless. They went from the jungles of the war to the jungles of the street. Before President Bush decided to declare war, maybe he ought to have considered correcting this situation first. How many current veterans will return home, only to find themselves in the same situation?

images of pain.
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http://www.aljazeera.net/news/arabic/2003/3/3-22-26.htm
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you must look at this.
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http://fp.collectiblestoday.com/images/product/450/0912316001.jpg
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a conversation i've received more than once. peacenik vs. warmonger, dismantling the arguments. long, but quite good.
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http://www.minimumeffort.com/nutshell.html
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it's really funny to hear about the us complaining about article thriteen of the geneva convention. rumsfeld should give the conference from guantanamo, in front of the graves of the taliban soliders who died there.
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http://www.alternet.org/story.html?StoryID=15465
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this guy has my state of mind, and got me hooked on online comix. you should read all of them. (you should NOT get into online comix)
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http://somethingpositive.net/
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fun and funny,
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http://www.wakeuplaughing.com/newsletter.shtml
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Because -- and I have to be blunt here -- the folks we have in charge are fossils fueled by fossil fuels. And in the reptilian brain, problems aren't solved, they're attacked. Like the War on Poverty. Remember that? I'm happy to report that it's finally over. The poor people have all urrendered. And take the War on Drugs -- please! How many billions have they spent? My solution is cheaper and more effective ... improve reality!

white house thinks maybe their ads linking drugs to terror were just a little over the top... since no one believed them.
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http://www.adage.com/news.cms?newsId=37504
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combat marines are being asked to pray for bush.
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http://www.abc.net.au/news/newsitems/s819685.htm
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pray that he sends them home is more like it.

nuns arrested for damaging nuclear silos, await sentencing
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http://rockymountainnews.com/drmn/local/article/0,1299,DRMN_15_1854714,00.html
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jic you never check there, this picture has been on yahoo most popular for at least four weeks. maybe six.
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http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story2&u=/030303/170/3ek8c.html&e=4
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good stuff on currencies and thus oil and then of course war....
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http://www.feasta.org/documents/papers/oil1.htm
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show the wrong pattern in your emails and you might be a ringleader.
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http://www.newscientist.com/news/news.jsp?id=ns99993550
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the history of the bushes.
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http://www.hereinreality.com/familyvalues.html
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kids shoot at marines, get splattered.
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http://newsobserver.com/nc24hour/ncnews/story/2379455p-2217701c.html
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more evidence for gulf war syndrome, tiny amounts of chemicals can cause brain damage
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http://www.newscientist.com/news/news.jsp?id=ns99993546
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"We'll never give up commercializing this humanoid robot," Fujita, principal scientist in Sony's Intelligent Dynamics Laboratory, told a demonstration for foreign reporters on Thursday.
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http://wired.com/news/gizmos/0,1452,58237,00.html
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The updated SDR boasts a handful of improvements over its predecessor, including an extra microprocessor to help it make small talk and special sensors to keep it from pinching a human as it moves its arms or legs. At fewer than 24 inches tall and a slight 15 pounds, the robot is too small to pose much of a threat to furniture or other household objects.

The approach at Sony, which wants to make home robots that entertain their owners, contrasts sharply with companies like Honda Motor Company, whose Asimo robot aims to become a human helper.

i'm sorry, the "asimo?!?!" i'll never buy one, just in protest.

2003-04-04T20:56:00.000-08:00

NF 26

"I've invited my fellow documentary nominees on stage with us here in solidarity with me," he said, "because we like non-fiction and we live in fictitious times. We live in the time where we have fictitious election results that elect a fictitious president. We live in a time where we have a man who's sending us to war for fictitious reasons, whether it's the fiction of duct tape or the fiction of orange alerts. ... We have a man sending us to war for fictitious reasons. We are against this war, Mr. Bush. Shame on you, Mr. Bush, shame on you."

time traveler busted for insider trading
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http://tv.yahoo.com/news/wwn/20030319/104808600007.html
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all your base are belong to us
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http://www.planettribes.com/allyourbase/video3.shtml
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check newsfeed.blogspot.com for a ripped article from sunday times.uk, which is a paysite. it's a must-read, even if you don't finish.
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http://newsfeed.blogspot.com/
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2003-04-04T20:55:00.000-08:00

NF 25

in case you thought otherwise, here's usa today to tell you that the anti-war protests are having absolutely no effect.
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http://www.usatoday.com/news/world/iraq/2003-03-23-protests-usat_x.htm
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oh, and by the way, they also say the movement is hurtful, unproductive, and over.

war means rights may be scale back
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http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/ap/20030319/ap_on_re_us/scalia_rights_2
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""The Constitution just sets minimums," Scalia said after a speech at John Carroll University in suburban Cleveland. "Most of the rights that you enjoy go way beyond what the Constitution requires."

more on halliburton, cheney is an evil little bitch.
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http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&ncid=988&e=1&cid=568&u=/nm/energy_halliburton_dc
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guardian's special report on protest
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http://www.guardian.co.uk/antiwar/0,12809,879311,00.html
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+their anti-war march checklist (cute, but stupid)
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http://www.guardian.co.uk/flash/0,5860,894738,00.html
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bush wants more power over what is and isn't classified. he also wants more secrecy in general.
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http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&ncid=693&e=2&cid=544&u=/ap/20030322/ap_on_go_pr_wh/bush_secrecy
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WASHINGTON - President Bush ( news -web sites ) demanded Sunday that American troops held captive in Iraq ( news -web sites ) be treated humanely, warning that Iraqis who do otherwise will be punished as war criminals.
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http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&ncid=536&e=1&cid=536&u=/ap/20030324/ap_on_re_mi_ea/war_bush
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oh, the irony.

With the nation back on high alert and officials warning that terrorists may already be planning major new attacks, ABCNEWS has learned the government will begin detaining dozens of suspected Saddam Hussein sympathizers in at least five U.S. cities this week.
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http://www.abcnews.go.com/sections/us/Primetime/terror_alert030318.html
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not any actual news here, but what could you expect from abc.
"Increased security is present at potential targets around the country. Some streets in Beverly Hills, Calif., have been shut down. Flight restrictions have been imposed over cities including Washington and New York City, and also over Disneyland and Disneyworld. Around-the-clock armed guards are watching over some synagogues. "

we're attacking afghanistan again? wtf?
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http://www.guardian.co.uk/afghanistan/story/0,1284,918121,00.html
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there are only 2,500 visible stars from any vantage point on earth. but you can probably only see 15
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http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&ncid=96&e=1&cid=96&u=/space/20030321/sc_space/disappearing_stars__how_2_500_points_of_light_has_dwindled_to_15
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a story about a national guardsman who changed his name to optimus prime. the link will probably expire, but thats life.
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http://www.wkyc.com/news/news_fullstory.asp?id=3828
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"I got a letter from a general at the Pentagon when the name change went through and he says it was great to have the employ of the commander of the Autobots in the National Guard."

2003-03-31T00:02:00.002-08:00

following article from uk sunday times.

US Marines turn fire on civilians at the bridge of death
Mark Franchetti, Nasiriya

THE light was a strange yellowy grey and the wind was coming up, the
beginnings of a sandstorm. The silence felt almost eerie after a night
of shooting so intense it hurt the eardrums and shattered the nerves.
My footsteps felt heavy on the hot, dusty asphalt as I walked slowly
towards the bridge at Nasiriya. A horrific scene lay ahead.

Some 15 vehicles, including a minivan and a couple of trucks, blocked
the road. They were riddled with bullet holes. Some had caught fire
and turned into piles of black twisted metal. Others were still
burning.

Amid the wreckage I counted 12 dead civilians, lying in the road or in
nearby ditches. All had been trying to leave this southern town
overnight, probably for fear of being killed by US helicopter attacks
and heavy artillery.

Their mistake had been to flee over a bridge that is crucial to the
coalition's supply lines and to run into a group of shell-shocked
young American marines with orders to shoot anything that moved.

One man's body was still in flames. It gave out a hissing sound.
Tucked away in his breast pocket, thick wads of banknotes were turning
to ashes. His savings, perhaps.

Down the road, a little girl, no older than five and dressed in a
pretty orange and gold dress, lay dead in a ditch next to the body of
a man who may have been her father. Half his head was missing.

Nearby, in a battered old Volga, peppered with ammunition holes, an
Iraqi woman -- perhaps the girl's mother -- was dead, slumped in the
back seat. A US Abrams tank nicknamed Ghetto Fabulous drove past the
bodies.

This was not the only family who had taken what they thought was a
last chance for safety. A father, baby girl and boy lay in a shallow
grave. On the bridge itself a dead Iraqi civilian lay next to the
carcass of a donkey.

As I walked away, Lieutenant Matt Martin, whose third child, Isabella,
was born while he was on board ship en route to the Gulf, appeared
beside me.

"Did you see all that?" he asked, his eyes filled with tears. "Did you
see that little baby girl? I carried her body and buried it as best I
could but I had no time. It really gets to me to see children being
killed like this, but we had no choice."

Martin's distress was in contrast to the bitter satisfaction of some
of his fellow marines as they surveyed the scene. "The Iraqis are sick
people and we are the chemotherapy," said Corporal Ryan Dupre. "I am
starting to hate this country. Wait till I get hold of a friggin'
Iraqi. No, I won't get hold of one. I'll just kill him."

Only a few days earlier these had still been the bright-eyed
small-town boys with whom I crossed the border at the start of the
operation. They had rolled towards Nasiriya, a strategic city beside
the Euphrates, on a mission to secure a safe supply route for troops
on the way to Baghdad.

They had expected a welcome, or at least a swift surrender. Instead
they had found themselves lured into a bloody battle, culminating in
the worst coalition losses of the war -- 16 dead, 12 wounded and two
missing marines as well as five dead and 12 missing servicemen from an
army convoy -- and the humiliation of having prisoners paraded on Iraqi
television.

There are three key bridges at Nasiriya. The feat of Martin, Dupre and
their fellow marines in securing them under heavy fire was compared by
armchair strategists last week to the seizure of the Remagen bridge
over the Rhine, which significantly advanced victory over Germany in
the second world war.

But it was also the turning point when the jovial band of brothers
from America lost all their assumptions about the war and became
jittery aggressors who talked of wanting to "nuke" the place.

None of this was foreseen at Camp Shoup, one of the marines' tent
encampments in northern Kuwait, where officers from the 1st and 2nd
battalions of Task Force Tarawa, the 7,000-strong US Marines brigade,
spent long evenings poring over maps and satellite imagery before the
invasion.

The plan seemed straightforward. The marines would speed unhindered
over the

130 miles of desert up from the Kuwaiti border and approach Nasiriya
from the southeast to secure a bridge over the Euphrates. They would
then drive north through the outskirts of Nasiriya to a second bridge,
over the Inahr al-Furbati canal. Finally, they would turn west and
secure the third bridge, also over the canal. The marines would not
enter the city proper, let alone attempt to take it.

The coalition could then start moving thousands of troops and
logistical support units up highway 7, leading to Baghdad, 225 miles
to the north.

There was only one concern: "ambush alley", the road connecting the
first two bridges. But intelligence suggested there would be little or
no fighting as this eastern side of the city was mostly
"pro-American".

I was with Alpha company. We reached the outskirts of Nasiriya at
about breakfast time last Sunday. Some marines were disappointed to be
carrying out a mission that seemed a sideshow to the main effort. But
in an ominous sign of things to come, our battalion stopped in its
tracks, three miles outside the city.

Bad news filtered back. Earlier that morning a US Army convoy had been
greeted by a group of Iraqis dressed in civilian clothes, apparently
wanting to surrender. When the American soldiers stopped, the Iraqis
pulled out AK-47s and sprayed the US trucks with gunfire.

Five wounded soldiers were rescued by our convoy, including one who
had been shot four times. The attackers were believed to be members of
the Fedayeen Saddam, a group of 15,000 fighters under the command of
Saddam's psychopathic son Uday.

Blown-up tyres, a pool of blood, spent ammunition and shards of glass
from the bulletridden windscreen marked the spot where the ambush had
taken place. Swiftly, our AAVs (23-ton amphibious assault vehicles)
took up defensive positions. About 100 marines jumped out of their
vehicles and took cover in ditches, pointing their sights at a
mud-caked house. Was it harbouring gunmen? Small groups of marines
approached, cautiously, to search for the enemy. A dozen terrified
civilians, mainly women and children, emerged with their hands raised.

"It's just a bunch of Hajis," said one gunner from his turret, using
their nickname for Arabs. "Friggin' women and children, that's all."

Cobras and Huey attack helicopters began firing missiles at targets on
the edge of the city. Plumes of smoke rose as heavy artillery shook
the ground under our feet.

Heavy machinegun fire echoed across the huge rubbish dump that marks
the entrance to Nasiriya. Suddenly there was return fire from three
large oil tanks at a refinery. The Cobras were called back, and within
seconds they roared above our heads, firing off missiles in clouds of
purple tracer fire.

There were several loud explosions. Flames burst high into the sky
from one of the oil tanks. The marines believed that what opposition
there was had now been crushed. "We are going in, we are going in,"
shouted one of the officers.

More than 20 AAVs, several tanks and about 10 Hummers equipped with
roof-mounted, anti-tank missile launchers prepared to move in. Crammed
inside them were some 400 marines. Tension rose as they loaded their
guns and stuck their heads over the side of the AAVs through the open
roof, their M-16 pointed in all directions.

As we set off towards the eastern city gate there was no sense of the
mayhem awaiting us down the road. A few locals dressed in rags watched
the awesome spectacle of America's war machine on the move. Nobody
waved.

Slowly we approached the first bridge. Fires were raging on either
side of the road; Cobras had destroyed an Iraqi military truck and a
T55 tank positioned inside a dugout. Powerful explosions came from
inside the bowels of the tank as its ammunition and heavy shells were
set off by the fire. With each explosion a thick and perfect ring of
black smoke ring puffed out of the turret.

An Iraqi defence post lay abandoned. Cobras flew over an oasis of palm
trees and deserted brick and mud-caked houses. We charged onto the
bridge, and as we crossed the Euphrates, a large mural of Saddam came
into view. Some marines reached for their disposable cameras.

Suddenly, as we approached ambush alley on the far side of the bridge,
the crackle of AK-47s broke out. Our AAVs began to zigzag to avoid
being hit by a rocket-propelled grenade (RPG).

The road widened out to a square, with a mosque and the portrait of
Saddam on the left-hand side. The vehicles wheeled round, took up a
defensive position, back to back, and began taking fire.

Pinned down, the marines fired back with 40mm automatic grenade
launchers, a weapon so powerful it can go through thick brick walls
and kill anyone within a 5-yard range of where the shell lands.

I was in AAV number A304, affectionately nicknamed the Desert Caddy.
It shook as Keith Bernize, the gunner, fired off round after deafening
round at sandbag positions shielding suspected Fedayeen fighters. His
steel ammunition box clanged with the sound of smoking empty shells
and cartridges.

Bernize, who always carries a scan picture of his unborn baby daughter
with him, shot at the targets from behind a turret, peering through
narrow slits of reinforced glass. He shouted at his men to feed him
more ammunition. Four marines, standing at the AAV's four corners,
precariously perched on ammunition boxes, fired off their M-16s.

Their faces covered in sweat, officers shouted commands into field
radios, giving co-ordinates of enemy positions. Some 200 marines,
fully exposed to enemy fire and slowed down by their heavy weapons,
bulky ammunition packs and NBC suits, ran across the road, taking
shelter behind a long brick wall and mounds of earth. A team of
snipers appeared, yards from our vehicle.

The exchange of fire was relentless. We were pinned down for more than
three hours as Iraqis hiding inside houses and a hospital and behind
street corners fired a barrage of ammunition.

Despite the marines' overwhelming firepower, hitting the Iraqis was
not easy. The gunmen were not wearing uniforms and had planned their
ambush well -- stockpiling weapons in dozens of houses, between which
they moved freely pretending to be civilians.

"It's a bad situation," said First Sergeant James Thompson, who was
running around with a 9mm pistol in his hand. "We don't know who is
shooting at us. They are even using women as scouts. The women come
out waving at us, or with their hands raised. We freeze, but the next
minute we can see how she is looking at our positions and giving them
away to the fighters hiding behind a street corner. It's very
difficult to distinguish between the fighters and civilians."

Across the square, genuine civilians were running for their lives.
Many, including some children, were gunned down in the crossfire. In a
surreal scene, a father and mother stood out on a balcony with their
children in their arms to give them a better view of the battle raging
below. A few minutes later several US mortar shells landed in front of
their house. In all probability, the family is dead.

The fighting intensified. An Iraqi fighter emerged from behind a wall
of sandbags 500 yards away from our vehicle. Several times he managed
to fire off an RPG at our positions. Bernize and other gunners fired
dozens of rounds at his dugout, punching large holes into a house and
lifting thick clouds of dust.

Captain Mike Brooks, commander of Alpha company, pinned down in front
of the mosque, called in tank support. Armed with only a 9mm pistol,
he jumped out of the back of his AAV with a young marine carrying a
field radio on his back.

Brooks, 34, from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, had been in command of
200 men for just over a year. He joined the marines when he was 19
because he felt that he was wasting his life. He needed direction, was
a bit of a rebel and was impressed by the sense of pride in the corps.

He is a soft-spoken man, fair but very firm. Brave too: I watched him
sprint in front of enemy positions to brief some of his junior
officers behind a wall. Behind us, two 68-ton Abrams tanks rolled up,
crushing the barrier separating the lanes on the highway.

The earth shook violently as one tank, Desert Knight, stopped in front
of our row of AAVS and fired several 120mm shells into buildings.

A few hundred yards down ambush alley there was carnage. An AAV from
Charlie company was racing back towards the bridge to evacuate some
wounded marines when it was hit by two RPGs. The heavy vehicle shook
but withstood the explosions.

Then the Iraqis fired again. This time the rocket plunged into the
vehicle through the open rooftop. The explosion was deadly, made 10
times more powerful by the ammunition stored in the back.

The wreckage smouldered in the middle of the road. I jumped out from
the rear hatch of our vehicle, briefly taking cover behind a wall.
When I reached the stricken AAV, the scene was mayhem.

The heavy, thick rear ramp had been blown open. There were pools of
blood and bits of flesh everywhere. A severed leg, still wearing a
desert boot, lay on what was left of the ramp among playing cards, a
magazine, cans of Coke and a small bloodstained teddy bear.

"They are f**** dead, they are dead. Oh my God. Get in there. Get in
there now and pull them out," shouted a gunner in a state verging on
hysterical.

There was panic and confusion as a group of young marines, shouting
and cursing orders at one another, pulled out a maimed body.

Two men struggled to lift the body on a stretcher and into the back of
a Hummer, but it would not fit inside, so the stretcher remained
almost upright, the dead man's leg, partly blown away, dangling in the
air.

"We shouldn't be here," said Lieutenant Campbell Kane, 25, who was
born in Northern Ireland. "We can't hold this. They are trying to suck
us into the city and we haven't got enough ass up here to sustain
this. We need more tanks, more helicopters."

Closer to the destroyed AAV, another young marine was transfixed with
fear and kept repeating: "Oh my God, I can't believe this. Did you see
his leg? It was blown off. It was blown off."

Two CH-46 helicopters, nicknamed Frogs, landed a few hundred yards
away in the middle of a firefight to take away the dead and wounded.

If at first the marines felt constrained by orders to protect
civilians, by now the battle had become so intense that there was
little time for niceties. Cobra helicopters were ordered to fire at a
row of houses closest to our positions. There were massive explosions
but the return fire barely died down.

Behind us, as many as four AAVs that had driven down along the banks
of the Euphrates were stuck in deep mud and coming under fire.

About 1pm, after three hours of intense fighting, the order was given
to regroup and try to head out of the city in convoy. Several marines
who had lost their vehicles piled into the back of ours.

We raced along ambush alley at full speed, close to a line of houses.
"My driver got hit," said one of the marines who joined us, his face
and uniform caked in mud. "I went to try to help him when he got hit
by another RPG or a mortar. I don't even know how many friends I have
lost. I don't care if they nuke that bloody city now. From one house
they were waving while shooting at us with AKs from the next. It was
insane."

There was relief when we finally crossed the second bridge to the
northeast of the city in mid-afternoon. But there was more horror to
come. Beside the smouldering wreckage of another AAV were the bodies
of another four marines, laid out in the mud and covered with
camouflage ponchos. There were body parts everywhere.

One of the dead was Second Lieutenant Fred Pokorney, 31, a marine
artillery officer from Washington state. He was a big guy, whose
ill-fitting uniform was the butt of many jokes. It was supposed to
have been a special day for Pokorney. After 13 years of service, he
was to be promoted to first lieutenant. The men of Charlie company had
agreed they would all shake hands with him to celebrate as soon as
they crossed the second bridge, their mission accomplished.

It didn't happen. Pokorney made it over the second bridge and a few
hundred yards down a highway through dusty flatlands before his
vehicle was ambushed. Pokorney and his men had no chance. Fully loaded
with ammunition, their truck exploded in the middle of the road, its
remains burning for hours. Pokorney was hit in the chest by an RPG.

Another man who died was Fitzgerald Jordan, a staff sergeant from
Texas. I felt numb when I heard this. I had met Jordan 10 days before
we moved into Nasiriya. He was a character, always chewing tobacco and
coming up to pat you on the back. He got me to fetch newspapers for
him from Kuwait City. Later, we shared a bumpy ride across the desert
in the back of a Humvee.

A decorated Gulf war veteran, he used to complain about having to come
back to Iraq. "We should have gone all the way to Baghdad 12 years ago
when we were here and had a real chance of removing Saddam."

Now Pokorney, Jordan and their comrades lay among unspeakable carnage.
An older marine walked by carrying a huge chunk of flesh, so maimed it
was impossible to tell which body part it was. With tears in his eyes
and blood splattered over his flak jacket, he held the remains of his
friend in his arms until someone gave him a poncho to wrap them with.

Frantic medics did what they could to relieve horrific injuries, until
four helicopters landed in the middle of the highway to take the
injured to a military hospital. Each wounded marine had a tag
describing his injury. One had gunshot wounds to the face, another to
the chest. Another simply lay on his side in the sand with a tag
reading: "Urgent -- surgery, buttock."

One young marine was assigned the job of keeping the flies at bay.
Some of his comrades, exhausted, covered in blood, dirt and sweat
walked around dazed. There were loud cheers as the sound of the
heaviest artillery yet to pound Nasiriya shook the ground.

Before last week the overwhelming majority of these young men had
never been in combat. Few had even seen a dead body. Now, their faces
had changed. Anger and fear were fuelled by rumours that the bodies of
American soldiers had been dragged through Nasiriya's streets. Some
marines cried in the arms of friends, others sought comfort in the
Bible.

Next morning, the men of Alpha company talked about the fighting over
MREs (meals ready to eat). They were jittery now and reacted nervously
to any movement around their dugouts. They suspected that civilian
cars, including taxis, had helped resupply the enemy inside the city.
When cars were spotted speeding along two roads, frantic calls were
made over the radio to get permission to "kill the vehicles".
Twenty-four hours earlier it would almost certainly have been denied:
now it was granted.

Immediately, the level of force levelled at civilian vehicles was
overwhelming. Tanks were placed on the road and AAVs lined along one
side. Several taxis were destroyed by helicopter gunships as they
drove down the road.

A lorry filled with sacks of wheat made the fatal mistake of driving
through US lines. The order was given to fire. Several AAVs pounded it
with a barrage of machinegun fire, riddling the windscreen with at
least 20 holes. The driver was killed instantly. The lorry swerved off
the road and into a ditch. Rumour spread that the driver had been
armed and had fired at the marines. I walked up to the lorry, but
could find no trace of a weapon.

This was the start of day that claimed many civilian casualties. After
the lorry a truck came down the road. Again the marines fired. Inside,
four men were killed. They had been travelling with some 10 other
civilians, mainly women and children who were evacuated, crying, their
clothes splattered in blood. Hours later a dog belonging to the dead
driver was still by his side.

The marines moved west to take a military barracks and secure their
third objective, the third bridge, which carried a road out of the
city.

At the barracks, the marines hung a US flag from a statue of Saddam,
but Lieutenant-Colonel Rick Grabowski, the battalion commander,
ordered it down. He toured barracks. There were stacks of Russian-made
ammunition and hundreds of Iraqi army uniforms, some new, others left
behind by fleeing Iraqi soldiers.

One room had a map of Nasiriya, showing its defences and two large
cardboard arrows indicating the US plan of attack to take the two main
bridges. Above the map were several murals praising Saddam. One, which
sickened the Americans, showed two large civilian planes crashing into
tall buildings.

As night fell again there was great tension, the marines fearing an
ambush. Two tanks and three AAVs were placed at the north end of the
third bridge, their guns pointing down towards Nasiriya, and given
orders to shoot at any vehicle that drove towards American positions.

Though civilians on foot passed by safely, the policy was to shoot
anything that moved on wheels. Inevitably, terrified civilians drove
at speed to escape: marines took that speed to be a threat and hit
out. During the night, our teeth on edge, we listened a dozen times as
the AVVs' machineguns opened fire, cutting through cars and trucks
like paper.

Next morning I saw the result of this order -- the dead civilians, the
little girl in the orange and gold dress.

Suddenly, some of the young men who had crossed into Iraq with me
reminded me now of their fathers' generation, the trigger-happy grunts
of Vietnam. Covered in the mud from the violent storms, they were
drained and dangerously aggressive.

In the days afterwards, the marines consolidated their position and
put a barrier of trucks across the bridge to stop anyone from driving
across, so there were no more civilian deaths.

They also ruminated on what they had done. Some rationalised it.

"I was shooting down a street when suddenly a woman came out and
casually began to cross the street with a child no older than 10,"
said Gunnery Sergeant John Merriman, another Gulf war veteran. "At
first I froze on seeing the civilian woman. She then crossed back
again with the child and went behind a wall. Within less than a minute
a guy with an RPG came out and fired at us from behind the same wall.
This happened a second time so I thought, `Okay, I get it. Let her
come out again'.

She did and this time I took her out with my M-16." Others were less
sanguine.

Mike Brooks was one of the commanders who had given the order to shoot
at civilian vehicles. It weighed on his mind, even though he felt he
had no choice but to do everything to protect his marines from another
ambush.

On Friday, making coffee in the dust, he told me he had been writing a
diary, partly for his wife Kelly, a nurse at home in Jacksonville,
North Carolina, with their sons Colin, 6, and four-year-old twins
Brian and Evan.

When he came to jotting down the incident about the two babies getting
killed by his men he couldn't do it. But he said he would tell her
when he got home. I offered to let him call his wife on my satellite
phone to tell her he was okay. He turned down the offer and had me
write and send her an e-mail instead.

He was too emotional. If she heard his voice, he said, she would know
that something was wrong.

2003-03-23T16:14:00.001-08:00

nf 24

quote of the weekk:

"Why of course the people don't want war. . . . That is understood. But, after all, it is the leaders of the country who determine the policy and it is always a simple matter to drag the people along, whether it is a democracy, or a fascist dictatorship, or a parliament, or a communist dictatorship. Voice or no voice, the people can always be brought to the bidding of the leaders. That is easy. All you have to do is tell them they are being attacked, and denounce the peacemakers for lack of patriotism and exposing the country to danger. It works the same in any country."

-- Hermann Goering, Nazi Reichsmarshall and Luftwaffe-Chief
Nuremberg Jail, April 18, 1946. (" Nuremberg Diary" , by Gustave Gilbert, 1947)

definition of the week
--
from- The American Heritage ®Dictionary of the English Language: Fourth Edition. 2000.
jingo
SYLLABICATION:
jin·go

NOUN:
Inflected forms: pl. jin·goes
One who vociferously supports one's country, especially one who supports a belligerent foreign policy; a chauvinistic patriot.

ADJECTIVE:
1. Of or relating to a chauvinistic patriot. 2. Characterized by chauvinistic patriotism.

from bartleby.com
--

they're trying to tax the sun.
--
http://www.faultline.org/news/2003/02/solar.html
--

bush is a psychopath - learn why!
--
http://www.commondreams.org/headlines02/1128-02.htm
--
"Bush is not an imbecile. He's not a puppet. I think that Bush is a sociopathic personality. I think he's incapable of empathy. He has an inordinate sense of his own entitlement, and he's a very skilled manipulator. And in all the snickering about his alleged idiocy, this is what a lot of people miss."

great article, what would happen if we all thought like bush?
--
http://www.observer.co.uk/comment/story/0,6903,882459,00.html
--
And let's face it, Mr Bush's carefully thought-out policy towards Iraq is the only way to bring about international peace and security. The one certain way to stop Muslim fundamentalist suicide bombers targeting the US or the UK is to bomb a few Muslim countries that have never threatened us.

michaelmoore.com

clear channel, the radio monsterglomerate, sponsors pro-war demos.
--
http://www.commondreams.org/headlines03/0319-01.htm
--

there's a british and european embargo on weapons to israel that no american has probably ever heard of.
--
http://www.albawaba.com/news/index.php3?sid=238435&lang=e&dir=news
--

after freedom fries, the freedom quarter!
--
http://www.fqu-usa.com/
--
btw, this site is satirical.

this one isn't
"AT LAST - A CONSERVATIVE ALTERNATIVE TO BEN & JERRY'S!
Like millions of your fellow Americans, you enjoy ice cream but do NOT enjoy seeing your money funneled to wacko left-wing causes. "
--
http://www.starspangledicecream.com/
--
with flavors like "i hate the french vanilla," "iraqi road," "smaller governmint," and "nutty environmentalist."

at least i think it's serious. hard to be sure.

owww my brain. arguing for the war - globalization is good, everyone else (the unglobalized) gets bombed. the only way to peace is a totally globalized planet. apparently terrorist come from isolated nations - they are bred by their isolation. owww my brain.
--
http://www.nwc.navy.mil/newrulesets/ThePentagonsNewMap.htm
--

Colonel James Naughton of US Army Materiel Command said Iraqi complaints about depleted uranium (DU) shells had no medical basis.
"They want it to go away because we kicked the crap out of them," he told a Pentagon briefing
--
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/2860759.stm
--

polls say that americans support the war but think it's raised the terror threat. way to go bush. priorities in line!
--
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story2&cid=68&e=6&u=/nyt/most_americans_support_iraq_action__poll_finds
--

dixie chicks pay for their politics
--
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story2&cid=638&e=2&u=/nm/20030314/en_nm/leisure_chicks_dc
--

they're spying on us from above. they prez's next target is YOU.
--
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/ap/20030315/ap_on_go_ca_st_pe/fbi_spy_planes_10
--

the new media medium, ethernet through ether
--
http://www.poynter.org/content/content_view.asp?id=23585
--

2003-03-23T16:14:00.000-08:00

2003-03-23T16:13:00.001-08:00

NF 23

vote to impeach
--
votetoimpeach.org
--
fairly self explanatory and nicely done.

amy goodman is, apparently, awesome.
--
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A2307-2003Mar9.html
--

how is it legal that cheney is still getting paid by halliburton?
--
http://www.guardian.co.uk/Iraq/Story/0,2763,912515,00.html
--

this is the most humiliating thing i've ever heard. they've actually made them "freedom fries."
--
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story2&cid=512&e=1&u=/ap/20030311/ap_on_go_co/freedom_fries
--

next comes "victory gin" and "victory coffee."

go re-read 1984. revel in your freedoms while you still have a couple.

ted rall on france - they should be gratefull? what about our gratitude for their support during the american revolution? what about the statue of liberty?
--
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&ncid=127&e=1&cid=127&u=/ucru/20030228/cm_ucru/the_case_for_the_french
--
"The United States, as led by Bush and his goons, is like a belligerent, out-of-control drunk trying to pick a fight and demanding the car keys at the same time."

and more on france.
--
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story2&cid=676&e=18&u=/usatoday/20030220/ts_usatoday/4883521
--

at least we're winning the War on Schools
--
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/03/06/opinion/06HERB.html
--
It's an insane society that can contemplate devastating and then rebuilding Iraq, but can't bring itself to provide schooling for all of its young people here at home.

more uranium, more often. flying overhead in every form imaginable.
--
http://www.wired.com/news/conflict/0,2100,57959,00.html
--
Depleted uranium has a few drawbacks. It is 40 percent as radioactive as pure uranium and has a half-life of 4.5 billion years. In addition, the very volatility that makes it blaze like an atomic furnace upon impact converts a large percentage of the spent projectile into microscopic radioactive oxides that, when borne by the wind, may be inhaled by civilians miles from the battlefield.

Despite this, Pentagon and Veterans Administration brass are adamant in insisting that depleted uranium is absolutely harmless to both combatants and non-combatants, and is in no way responsible for any of the symptoms associated with so-called "Gulf War syndrome."

we can't stop the flood. (maybe if we could stop the rain of bombs...)
--
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/03/06/politics/06THRE.html
--

betting on the war x2
--
http://www.wired.com/news/politics/0,1283,58002,00.html
--

corporate tax shelters hide companies from helping pay for all citizens basic services. oddly, the govt doesn't seem to mind.
--
http://www.alternet.org/story.html?StoryID=15362
--

who woulda thunk - Delta airlines is now evil.
boycott delta
--
http://www.wired.com/news/privacy/0,1848,57909,00.html
--
Scannell also raises the issue of ruined credit ratings as a side effect of CAPPS II screening.

"Every time a credit report is run on you, it hurts your credit rating," Scannell said. "Frequent fliers will not only have a nice thick Delta dossier, but a damaged credit history to boot."

Privacy activists are also concerned that CAPPS II will target less-affluent people, those with bad credit ratings or no credit history at all.

sharp jump seen for drug-resistant germs
--
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story2&cid=541&e=2&u=/ap/20030309/ap_on_he_me/supergerms
--
Penicillin resistance rose from 21.7 percent of strep strains in 1996 to 26.6 percent in 1999, and for erythromycin it increased from 10.8 percent to 20.2 percent

satire bugs me, but this...
--
http://www.theonion.com/onion3908/bush_offers_taxpayers.html
--

halliburton wins major post-iraq oil contract.
--
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/chronicle/archive/2003/03/08/MN242495.DTL
--
"Iraq's natural resources belong to all the Iraqi
people and -- after decades of being used to build palaces and weapons
of mass destruction -- will finally be used for their benefit, not
Hussein's," wrote deputy national security adviser Steve Hadley in a
recent op-ed article in the Washington Post.

say it with me - george w. bush is out of control

they're beating afghan prisoners to death.
--
http://www.commondreams.org/headlines03/0307-04.htm
--

kinder, gentler torture
--
http://www.commondreams.org/views03/0306-05.htm
--
his week, West Virginia Sen. John D. Rockefeller actually encouraged
the U.S. to hand over the recently arrested Al Qaeda suspect Khalid
Shaikh Mohammed to another country for torture. Whatever legal
distinction Rockefeller sees in using surrogates to do our torturing,
it is hardly a moral distinction. As a result, we are now driving the
new market for torture-derived information. We have gone from a
nation that once condemned torture to one that contracts out for
torture services.

studies show: suicide bombers are mentally fit.
--
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,251-602627,00.html
--

war is a family affair
--
http://www.alternet.org/story.html?StoryID=15284
--

more from alternnet, media moguls wont air anti-war ads.
--
http://www.alternet.org/story.html?StoryID=15340
--

hee hee hee, ted rall vs. suvs
--
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&ncid=127&e=2&cid=127&u=/ucru/20030227/cm_ucru/big_babies
--

2003-03-23T16:13:00.000-08:00

NF 22

archive:
newsfeed.blogspot.com
topica.com/lists/newsfeed

which is more evil-
that the us is spying on the un
or that the US media acts like it's no big deal?
--
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2003/03/03/iraq/main542516.shtml
--
this is how the observer presents it.
--

have you heard about PNAC? meet the new boss, worse than the old boss.
--
http://www.conspiracyplanet.com/channel.cfm?channelid=39&contentid=760&page=2
--
the pax americana committe on global domination

free speech? not in my mall...
--
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story2&cid=519&e=6&u=/ap/20030306/ap_on_re_us/mall_activists
--

what an age we live in: conservative catholics can't decide to back their spiritual leader or their secular leader.
--
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story2&cid=68&e=14&u=/nyt/20030306/ts_nyt/catholics_debating__back_president_or_pope_on_iraq_
--

a brief history of the patriot act
--
http://www.capitolhillblue.com/artman/publish/article_1865.shtml
--
Provide Appropriate Tools Required to Intercept and Obstruct Terrorism

the horrors of total information
--
http://abcnews.go.com/sections/scitech/WhosCounting/whoscounting030105.html
--
"To see why this is so and to make the calculations easy, let's postulate a population of 300 million people of whom 1,000 are future terrorists. The system will correctly identify, we're assuming, 99 percent of these 1,000 people as future terrorists. Thus, since 99 percent of 1,000 is 990, the system will apprehend 990 future terrorists. Great! They'll be locked up somewhere.

But wait. There are, by assumption, 299,999,000 non-terrorists in our population and the system will be right about 99 percent of them as well. Another way of saying this is that it will be wrong about 1 percent of these people. Since 1 percent of 299,999,000 equals 2,999,990, the system will swoop down on these 2,999,990 innocent people as well as on the 990 guilty ones, incarcerating them all."

the next protest
--
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A30813-2003Mar2.html
--

everybody wants in on the protest action these days, it feels a bit unfocused. mar5 didn't happen like people wanted it too, nothing big has happened since F15... the national organizers are doinga good job, i'm sortof disapporving of local actions these days, it subtracts from the national energy...

though i'm definitely not comfortable with holding that opinion. here's a sour view on marching in general
--
http://www.freezerbox.com/archive/article.asp?id=264
--

anti-us sentiment unites iraq's opposition. how ironic.
--
http://www.csmonitor.com/2003/0303/p10s01-woiq.html
--

phillipines "operation" is called off. (who knew?) apparently doublethink backfired! we called it an "operation," the phillipines called it an "excercise." apparently the two are incompatible.
--
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A30933-2003Mar2.html
--
called off for public reaction in the phillipines. thank god.

depleted uranium is not nearly as depleted as they tell us.
--
http://www.csmonitor.com/2002/1220/p01s04-wome.html
--

say it with me: bush is out of control
--
http://truthout.org/docs_03/030503A.shtml
--

fbi turns a blind eye to violent crime if you're a rat.
--
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/ap/20030303/ap_wo_en_ge/na_fea_gen_us_dangerous_informants_1
--
"You have to weigh the odds of whether killing one or two people is better than killing a whole planeload," said Wesley Swearingen,

Israel kills pregnant woman, child in Gaza raid, earning US
scolding
--
http://sg.news.yahoo.com/030303/1/38hbp.html
--

treat the bush administration like the bunch of lying bastards they are. also an analysis of the types of lies that they repeatedly use.
--
http://www.scoop.co.nz/mason/stories/HL0303/S00011.htm
--

2003-03-23T16:12:00.003-08:00

NF 21

bush is ready to assasinate.
--
http://www.abc.net.au/am/s793104.htm
--

bush, on the unimportance of protest
--
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/02/23/weekinreview/23PURD.html
--

bush - the liar. follow this link, it's awesome awesome awesome.
--
http://www.house.gov/appropriations_democrats/caughtonfilm.htm
--

cnn streamlines it's censorship process
--
http://www.commondreams.org/views03/0225-08.htm
--
"we had already mentioned right at the top of our piece that Israel says it is doing all these incursions because it wants to crack down on the infrastructure of terror. However, obviously that was not enough. We were made by the ROW (in Atlanta) to repeat this same idea three times in one piece, just to make sure that we keep justifying the Israeli actions..."

they're watching us from the air. at least in bloomington, indiana.
--
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/ap/20030301/ap_on_re_us/mystery_plane_7
--

donahue was canceled "The study went on to claim that Donahue presented a "difficult public face for NBC in a time of war......He seems to delight in presenting guests who are anti-war, anti-Bush and skeptical of the administration's motives." The report went on to outline a possible nightmare scenario where the show becomes "a home for the liberal antiwar agenda at the same time that our competitors are waving the flag at every opportunity.""
--
http://www.commondreams.org/views03/0226-11.htm
--

depleted (?) uranium has made afghani citizenry sick
--
http://www.umrc.net/projectAfghanistan.asp
--

more of the same. (you must be bored with my opinions by now)someone presents a workable solution. "to end terrorism, end US state terrorism"
--
http://www.transnational.org/pressinf/2002/pf158_EndStateTerrorism.html
--

lining up the next war. same as the last war.
--
http://www.cnn.com/2003/WORLD/asiapcf/east/03/01/nkorea.nuke/
--

WAR IS PEACE

IGNORANCE IS STRENGTH

FREEDOM IS SLAVERY

human shields officially warned
--
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/ap/20030226/ap_on_re_mi_ea/iraq_us_commanders_4
--
We'll do our best to avoid noncombatant casualties and, I will tell you, we will not be 100 percent successful," said Army Gen. Tommy R. Franks, the commander of U.S. Central Command.

viability and the occupation of iraq, palestine, whomever else.
--
http://www.zmag.org/content/showarticle.cfm?SectionID=22&ItemID=3158
--
Rebuilding Iraq will require "a sustained commitment from many nations" but "we will remain in Iraq as long as necessary and not a day more". How extraordinary. For these are precisely the same words used by Israel when it invaded Lebanon in 1982. It took Israel 22 years and hundreds of Israeli lives - and thousands of Arab lives - before that occupation ended.

bigger badder daisycutter bombs.
--
http://us.f132.mail.yahoo.com/ym/login?.rand=162bj7qk6c271
--
"The MOAB's (massive ordnance air burst) massive explosive punch, sources say, is similar to a small nuclear weapon. "

experts agree - bush's climate plan sucks ass
--
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/02/26/science/26CLIM.html
--

"There may still be two superpowers on the planet: the United States and world public opinion."

Patrick E. Tyler, in "The New York Times"
article "A New Power in the Streets,"
Feb. 17, 2003.

inevitability - committed forces
--
http://www.sojo.net/index.cfm?action=sojomail.display&issue=022603#2
--

no blood for oil, but money on the blood. betting on the bombing.
--
http://18.85.1.11/mtw/index.jsp
--

they cleverly choose the plan that involves the tallest building in the world for the trade center. how devious
--
http://www.nypost.com/news/regionalnews/69597.htm
--

frontline's total analysis of the "war behind closed doors."
--
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/iraq/
--
haven't really looked at this. just liked the title.

amusment from the other side
--
http://www.gopfun.com
--
humans, sauruman protest war against moria, calling for more time to allow inspectors to search for sauron's rings of mass destrucion. gandalf the grey accused to imperialism.

2003-03-23T16:12:00.002-08:00

2003-03-23T16:12:00.001-08:00

NF 20

since the patriot act, since anti-terror legislation, apparently the gov't can attack and surveil anyone it pleases.

i'm re-reading 1984, like i said i would.

don't wonder whether it's really that bad.

YES. IT IS THAT BAD.
it is very much that bad.

support the virtual march - it's tomorrow.
--
http://www.alternet.org/story.html?StoryID=15242
--

apparently the primary manufacturer of duct tape in the US is a major republican party supporter.
--
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A38109-2003Feb20.html
--

they're coming after you, to see what you read!
--
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story2&cid=519&e=2&u=/ap/20030220/ap_on_re_us/book_purge
--

cities say no to the patriot act, pass laws upholding the bill of rights.
--
http://www.bordc.org/
--
Bill Of Rights Defense Committee

bush makes it clear how his agenda is more important than the american economy - buried in the new budget is a rewrite of a law that requires appropriate testing before a weapon system can be fielded... but a $70 billion missile defense plan should apparently be exempt.
--
http://www.latimes.com/la-na-missile24feb24,0,379002.story
--

horror stories of those attempting to avoid deportation from the US
--
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/02/25/national/25DETA.html
--

execute the innocent. prosecutors want limits to doubt and evidence.
--
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/02/24/national/24DNA.html
--

read this. meet our rulers.
--
http://www.viridiandesign.org/notes/351-400/00362_the_mood_at_davos.html
--

pro-war rallies.
--
http://www.indystar.com/print/articles/8/024789-9818-009.html
http://www.antiwar.com/justin/j022403.html
--
tired old slogans "america: love it or leave it" yadda yadda, "god supports president bush."

rice for peace. just make sure you don't mail any suspicious powder with it.
--
http://www.everyvoice.net/modules.php?op=modload&name=News&file=article&sid=70&mode=thread&order=0&thold=0
--

KUALA LUMPUR -- Iranian leader Mohammad Khatami issued an extraordinary assessment of U.S. foreign policy Monday, accusing the United States of positioning itself as a violent "big brother" driven by "fanatic fundamentalism."
--
http://www.tehrantimes.com/Description.asp?Da=2/25/03&Cat=2&Num=018
--

low yield nukes are far more politically acceptable.
--
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A32530-2003Feb19.html
--

saddam wants a debate.
--
http://www.newsday.com/news/nationworld/world/ny-saddam0224,0,6807891.story?coll=ny-worldnews-headlines
--

prez invokes special powers. like he's a friggin super hero or something.
--
http://www.dailytelegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2003/02/24/wcolom24.xml&sSheet=/news/2003/02/24/ixworld.html
--

GMO rapeseed may someday fuel your car. unless we slap some tariffs on it or some stupid shit.
--
http://straitstimes.asia1.com.sg/techscience/story/0,4386,173515,00.html?
--

fun with fear.
--
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story2&cid=891&e=6&u=/vv/20030221/lo_laweekly/42050
--

screw the govt, we'll do our own 9/11 investigation
--
http://www.guerrillanews.com/after_math/
--

The first nationwide antiwar march in 1965 attracted about 25,000 people. By 1969, the protests had grown to half a million. But increasing the numbers required weeks and months of planning, using snail mail, phone calls and fliers. "This time the same thing has happened in six months,"
--
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story2&cid=68&e=4&u=/nyt/20030223/ts_nyt/how_the_protesters_mobilized
--

santacruz city council defies dea
--
http://www.commondreams.org/news2002/0911-03.htm
--

strangely, a report detailing how coal burning plants emit mercury that accumulates in women of child-bearing age has been repeatedly delayed in gov't bureacracy.
--
http://www.planetark.org/dailynewsstory.cfm/newsid/19931/story.htm
--

our energy information is being kept from us for our own good.
--
http://www.planetark.org/dailynewsstory.cfm/newsid/19926/story.htm
--

on the controversy of actors making political statements - we elected regan, didn't we?
--
http://www.planetark.org/dailynewsstory.cfm/newsid/19921/story.htm
--
or is that a counter argument?

* Bill Would Reauthorize Superfund Tax
* Spent Nuclear Fuel Pools Pose Serious Risks
* Groups Seek Revisions to Missouri River Operations
* Comment Time Extended for New Source Revisions
* Lawsuit Challenges Metro Air Park Project
* Census Shows Recycling Up, Hog Farms Down
* Crawfish Farmers Win Right to Sue Pesticide Maker
* Island Added to Connecticut Wildlife Refuge
--
http://ens-news.com/ens/feb2003/2003-02-14-09.asp
--
"One in four Americans live within four miles of a toxic Superfund site."

swansons new 1000 calorie microwavable breakfast.
--
http://www.x-entertainment.com/articles/0744/
--

2003-03-23T16:12:00.000-08:00

2003-02-24T10:52:00.000-08:00

nf 19

MARCH 5 is the followup to 2-15.

this is not a student strike.

WALK OUT!!
--
http://www.notinourname.net/call_for_the_moratorium.html
--

brilliant new idea of a virtual march- jamming phones, faxes and emails of congress and the prez.
--
http://www.moveon.org/winwithoutwar/
--

support capitalism - buy tshirts that slander bush.
--
http://www.gwbush.com/store/
--

support capitalism - buy subversive books.
--
http://www.loompanics.com/cgi-local/SoftCart.exe/online-store/scstore/shophome.html?E+scstore
--

dont support capitalism - support real subversives.
--
http://www.crimethinc.com/index2.html
--
met some of these guys once or twice. defintely freaks.

there's no hypocrisy like thermo-nuclear hypocrisy.
--
http://www.guardian.co.uk/usa/story/0,12271,898550,00.html
--

a new theory that fascinates me, seismologically scanning for strange nuggets of super-dense dark matter zipping through the planet.
--
http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/11.02/matter.html?pg=1&topic=&topic_set=
--

spying on taggers from SPACE!
--
http://www.reuters.com/newsArticle.jhtml?type=topNews&storyID=2230628
--

i love google, but i have to wonder. is google evil?
--
http://www.google-watch.org/bigbro.html
--
(a big brother issue, they retain a LOT of info on you + your surfing...)

something i've been saying for years... send ROBOTS to space, at least until we can figure out how to support people out there.
--
http://www.cnn.com/2003/TECH/space/02/18/sprj.colu.space.future/index.html
--
"A typical shuttle mission, for example, runs between $400 million and $500 million. A satellite can reach orbit for $20 million"

hate pre-movie ads? SUE!
--
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story2&cid=598&e=6&u=/nm/20030220/film_nm/film_movieads_dc
--

thought crime.
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http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2003/02/18/nxeno18.xml&sSheet=/portal/2003/02/18/ixportal.html&secureRefresh=true&_requestid=52132
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site of a guy who's walking around the world. literally.
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http://www.earthtrekuk.net/Intro.htm
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U.S. Undersecretary of State John Bolton said in meetings with Israeli officials on Monday that he has no doubt America will attack Iraq, and that it will be necessary to deal with threats from Syria, Iran and North Korea
afterwards
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http://www.haaretzdaily.com/hasen/spages/263923.html
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canadian PM says the world doesn't trust the US.
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http://www.globeandmail.ca/servlet/ArticleNews/TPStory/LAC/20030214/UCHREN/TPFront/TopStorie
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The US Air Force is examining the feasibility of a nuclear-powered version of an unmanned aircraft. The USAF hopes that such a vehicle will be able to "loiter" in the air for months without refuelling, striking at will when a target comes into its sights.
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http://www.newscientist.com/news/news.jsp?id=ns99993406
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microwaving protestors
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http://www.newscientist.com/news/news.jsp?id=ns99991470
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archive:
newsfeed.blogspot.com

my older newsfeeds are better. back when this was my life.

there was radioactive material in columbia.
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http://www.cnn.com/2003/TECH/space/02/11/sprj.colu.shuttle.livestock.reut/
http://www.hindustantimes.com/news/181_157099,00120002.htm
http://www.centredaily.com/mld/centredaily/news/5124879.htm
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the real reason? space based lasers. supra-planetary
assasination.

(if only we had star wars weapons, then we could really
sock it to osama.)

there was a antiwar ad at the top of my yahoo mail today
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http://www.radicalparty.org/welcome2.html
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the numbers on the polling freefall that bush is in, since
'00.
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http://www.pollingreport.com/BushJob.htm
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patriot act part deux - all new and more evil
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http://www.public-i.org/dtaweb/report.asp?ReportID=502&L1=10&L2=10&L3=0&L4=0&L5=0
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the police state becomes more real every day. i think it's
time to reread 1984. brush up on my doublethink.

how long did it take to burn rome?

reports from new york.
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http://www.alternet.org/story.html?StoryID=15196
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freetrade!!! except for people who disagree with us.
considering sanctions as a response to france and germany's
opposing the war.
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http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&ncid=988&e=2&cid=506&u=/ap/20030212/ap_wo_en_ge/us_na_gen_us_france_germany
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not only are these people not our enemies, they're frigging
ordinary capitalists, and white too!

legal hiccup in the war against iraq - unikom peacekeepers
are stationed on the kuwait border to "deter violations of
the boundary; and to observe any hostile action mounted
from the territory of one State against the other."
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http://www.gvnews.net/html/Crisis/gvabs033.html
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another bit about something in the un charter that would
allow the us to attack germany or japan if they don't get
in line.

paxman vs. blair = ko. long, but fun.
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http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/programmes/newsnight/2732979.stm
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judge may let nyc cops follow spy rules, investigate
political organizations.
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http://news.findlaw.com/ap/other/1110/2-12-2003/20030212100005_33.html
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CIA, still running drugs.
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http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/ap/20030212/ap_on_re_us/narcotics_agents_lawsuit_2
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taking bush to court, to stop the war. brilliant.
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http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/ap/20030213/ap_on_re_us/anti_war_lawsuit_5
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next, take him to court to get him to step down. (he's not
the president)

scientific journals to self-censor for national security.
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http://www.wired.com/news/technology/0,1282,57698,00.html
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orange alert info bogus, says abc. big suprise.
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http://www.wpmi.com/Global/story.asp?S=1130750
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as a supreme despot of a virtual world, it's easy to save
the whales.
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http://www.utne.com/pub/2003_115/promo/10224-1.html
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message to workers: suck it up, lower expectations.
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http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story2&cid=75&e=18&u=/nf/20030206/tc_nf/20682
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colin powell caught out - his 'terrorist chemicals and
poisons factory.' is nothing of the kind.
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http://www.observer.co.uk/international/story/0,6903,892045,00.html
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"We don't even have any aspirin. How can we produce any
chemicals or weapons of mass destruction?"

who wants to be a billionare. no, really.
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http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story2&cid=597&e=17&u=/nm/20030210/tv_nm/billionaire
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"All told, according to Beverly, more than 150 players have
won at least $200,000 from various game shows."

that's 150 people, total, throughout history.

some folks thought a fence post looked like the virgin
mary. only via the net can this sort of stupid story become
widespread.

then somebody ripped off the fencepost.
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http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story2&cid=573&e=15&u=/nm/20030210/od_nm/virgin_dc
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ha ha ha ha ha.