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Body Count: U.S. Troops Lost In The Bush Wars In Afghanistan And Iraq
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The Deadly Toll Mounts: 4073 U.S. Military Men And Women Sacrificed For Iraqi Oil And Corporate Profits 

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Steamer City of Portland Wrecked Off Maine Coast
 

The lookout, a man named Bibber, correctly spotted the buoy that marked the channel, but unknown to the crew, the buoy was not in its proper place. Because the ship was running at a full speed of 12 knots, the crew was not dropping depth lines as a precaution against trouble. Consequently, the City of Portland crashed at full speed driving its wooden hull right on top of Grindstone Ledge before coming to an abrupt stop. Click For Full Story

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Then And Now

Pundits, Government Leaders, Still In Denial About Warming

 

We were clicking the channels the other night and accidentally caught CNN’s Glenn Beck in an interview with some guy who was claiming that the world ice caps are increasing in size and that Al Gore’s global warming movie is a big hoax. Is this guy stupid or a fool for big business interests? Click For Story

Endless War - A Conflict That Cannot Be Won
 
The Iraq war cannot end, and the Pentagon is already debating about the next one. Like Vietnam, this has become a guerrilla war situation in which there is no obvious territory to be taken and no clear way to establish what previous Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld called the "metrics" of victory. Tom Dispatch/Alternet. Click For Link

Environment Enthusiasts Are Going Back To Drinking Tap Water
 
It's a trend that is taking hold in the U.S., Europe and Canada: more people are switching from bottled water to tap. Call it reverse snob appeal. Bottled water once carried a certain European mystique. But these days, it's the tap water enthusiasts, concerned about the environment, who get to act self-righteous. Alternet. Click For Story

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That Strange Number 11

 

Students of numerology have been fascinated by the strange way the number 11 has been playing in world events, especially since 9-11 and the terrorist assault in Madrid on 3-11. What do they have to say about this interesting number? Click For Story

New Superbug Threat In Our Hospitals
 
Hospitals face a new superbug threat with the rise of a potentially lethal microbe that is at least as hard to treat as MRSA, scientists warned today. There were 1,000 cases of blood poisoning caused by Stenotrophomonas maltophilia, or Steno, in the UK last year, of which around 300 were fatal, said researchers from the Wellcome Trust and Bristol University. UK Guardian. Click For Link

Pogo: "We Have Met The Enemy And He Is Us"
 
American capitalism created all of the deadly variations to turn good food into bad. It was the capitalist system that brought us radio, television, cars, motorized golf carts and all of the other devices that turned us into couch potatoes. And it was capitalism that turned health insurance into a greedy empire conspiring against the people who need it the most. We have been our own worst enemy. Click For Story

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Our Endangered Home

Why Has The Media Refused To Examine The 2000 Bush Election Theft?

 

The American media has traditionally been hot to chase after great news stories and once they are on them, milk them until the general public is sick of hearing about the matter. But something seems to have gone awry in recent years. Real news stories are going by the board as the talking heads waste their time on minutia that offers no consequence in the scheme of things. One story that some reporters have tried to tell, but can’t get off the ground, has been the theft of the 2000 presidential election by the Bush Administration. Click For Story

Profiteers Forcing Up The Price Of Food
 
Giant agribusinesses are enjoying soaring earnings and profits out of the world food crisis which is driving millions of people towards starvation, and speculation is helping to drive the prices of basic foodstuffs out of the reach of the hungry. UK Independent/Alternet. Click For Link

Alternative Currency To Replace The Failing Dollar?

  

To counter the declining dollar, the loss of jobs, and all the rest, something unique has been happening in cities and towns across America. Literally hundreds of communities have begun printing their own money, or utilizing the most ancient of commodity exchange . . . the barter system . . . to keep the wheels of local business and life-styles running. Click For Story

Salmon Fishing Banned On U.S. West Coast!
 
The catastrophic disappearance of the King Salmon has prompted the National Marine Fishery Service to ban salmon fishing off California and Oregon coasts. It is a decision that is expected to have a devastating economic impact on fishermen, dozens of businesses, tourism and boating. Commerce Secretary Carlos Gutierrez has declared a commercial fishery disaster, opening the door for Congress to appropriate money for anyone who will be economically harmed. SFGate. Click For Link

Fuel Prices Could Force Truckers Off The Road
 
"Without trucks - America stops." Never has that slogan rang truer than today, when the United States’ economy is on a major downslide, largely due to rising fuel costs, and the trucking industry is threatening to shut down. The Express. Click For Link

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Were Neanderthal And Cro Magnon Genetic Crossbreeds?

 

Dr. Calum MacKellar, director of research at the Scottish Council on Human Bioethics, notes that because of similaries in the DNA, he believes it is possible for a hybrid type of humanoid to be created by fertilizing a female chimpanzee with human sperm. Did it happen in the distant past? Click For Story

Can We Trust Government Inflation Statistics?

 

We all know that the high price of fuel to operate our cars for the trip to and from our jobs, and to run the trucks that bring food, goods and services to our communities, and the farm machinery to produce the food we eat, are driving the cost of everything right through the roof. So how can the Department of Labor Statistics say the cost of living rose only 0.03 percent last month? Click For Story

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Hofmann Was Living Proof That LSD Critics Are Wrong

 

Albert Hofmann, the Dutch scientist who accidentally discovered synthesized lysergic acid diethylamide (LSD) in 1938, was the first person in the world to experience a full-blown “acid trip.” Hofmann, who went on to make other great medical discoveries, died this week at the ripe old age of 102. Click For Story

The Idiocy Of Staging Wars That Cannot Be Won

 

Just after 9-11, when George W. Bush launched his “war on terrorism,” we expressed a concern about the rash of so-called national wars against ideologies that lead down endless tunnels and never finding completion. The thought then, and it has not changed one iota since, is that the war on terror looks much like America’s drug war. We are using troops, bombs and bullets in an endless campaign that is a total waste of taxpayer dollars and for a senseless cause. Click For Story

If You Think Gas Prices Are High Now . . .
 
Get ready for another economic shock of major proportions — a virtual doubling of prices at the gas pump to as much as $10 a gallon. That's the message from a couple of analytical energy industry trackers, both of whom, based on the surging oil prices, see considerably more pain at the pump than most drivers realize. New York Sun. Click For Link

Exciting Alternative Energy Sources Right Under Our Noses

 

The April edition of Common Ground offers an interesting article by Alastair Bland that outlines four “far-out renewable energy technologies” that are not only feasible, but already in the works to be future sources of heat, lights and power. You won't believe where it will be coming from. Click For Story

EPA Report No Surprise: Agency Stymied By Bush Administration

 

An Associated Press report that hundreds of Environmental Protection Agency scientists complain of “political interference and pressure” from superiors to “skew” their findings confirms what many of us have suspected since the day George W. Bush took office. Why are we not surprised? Click For Story

Are Americans Under Mass Sedation?

 

The takeover of America by George W. Bush and that gang gathered with him at the Capital, with hardly a word of protest from the people, remains a surprise and a shock to a lot of clear thinkers. That this man could seize the office by judicial order after losing the popular vote, use executive order to release American industry from a volume of anti-pollution measures, and lead us to war against Iraq without provocation, should have stirred the wrath of the masses. It didn't happen. Click For Story

War On Drugs – A Pharmacratic Inquisition

 

Since former President Richard M. Nixon first declared a “War on Drugs” in America in 1972, and even a century before that, when the United States and China launched the so-called “opium wars,” there has been a growing prohibition campaign against the production and use of certain “psychoactive substances” declared by governments to be “harmful or undesirable.” It has had a negative impact on global human spiritualism. Click For Story

Is America Falling Into A Depression?

 

An economic depression is defined as a period of drastic decline in the economy characterized by decreasing business activity, falling prices and unemployment. An examination of recent labor department statistics indicates that America is, indeed, in a severe economic slump with a large percent of the work force left out of work. Instead of soup lines, people are getting food stamps. Click For Story

Young American Soldiers Held Captive In An Unending War
 
An estimated 60,000 American soldiers are being held captive by our military, in the Iraq conflict past their scheduled time for discharge, purely by presidential order. President Bush is using a device called "stop-loss" which, during wartime, can extend an enlistee's service time until six months after the war ends. But the Bush "War On Terror" will never end. Click For Story

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Mexican/US Fence Could Spark Water Wars
 
A project launched by the Bush Administration to build a 2,000-mile-long wire fence straight across the United States-Mexican border to control illegal immigration and drug trafficking could spark more trouble than it would be worth. Not only is such a fence a wasted effort in controlling illegal trafficking, it is sure to create barriers to natural water access, mostly on the Rio Grande River, long shared by ranchers on both sides of the border. Click For Story

America's Government Showing Paranoid Behavior

Two troublesome news clips recently caught my eye. It seems that the IRS has opened a new Whistleblower Office that offers cash to people who turn in their neighbors for cheating on their income tax returns. Also California Contressman Henry Waxman has filed something called the Executive Branch Reform Act that will require personal recorded files on every individual or organization that calls an elected Washington official and the subjects of any conversations. Click For Story

Concerning The Impeachment Of President Bush

During his seven-year tenure U.S. President George W. Bush has generated a growing chorus of people calling for his impeachment. Whole Internet websites are dedicated to getting people to sign petitions, and more and more newspapers, political organizations and even legislators are talking about the possibility. Is impeachment probable? Click For Story

American Media’s Failure To Investigate Corrupt US Officials

 

A “must read” review by Daniel Ellsberg from Brad Blog that examines a failure by the American media to consider a story making headlines in Europe. The story involves a cover-up of a dynamite story of criminal activities by corrupt U.S. officials promoting nuclear proliferation, including arms sales to Pakistan and other unstable Middle Eastern countries.  Click For Read

Those Double Letters In Candidate’s Names May Impact Election Outcome

 

The Iowa victories this week putting Mike Huckabee and Barack Obama at the head of the pack in party races for presidential nominations suggests that an old story about voter choices may be more of a reality than we might wish to admit. Click For Story

Egad - They Simulated A Mouse Brain On A Computer

It sounded relatively simple when the news broke, but what three researchers at the IBM Almaden Research Lab and the University of Nevada recently accomplished is quite astounding. Using a supercomputer they simulated the thought patterns of half a virtual mouse brain. Click For Story

The China Alien Connection
 

There is a story about an archaeologist named Chi Pu Tei, who in 1938 discovered a strange alignment of graves in the Baian Kara Ula Mountains, near the Sino-Tibetan border. In the graves were small, frail skeletal remains of beings that had unusually large skulls. Nearby were found cave drawings of these beings wearing helmets. Click For More

Did A UFO Crash In Max, Nebraska?

The name Max, Nebraska, doesn't sound as nifty as Roswell, New Mexico, when it comes to crashed UFO junk hunting. But there is an old news story dating back to 1884 that suggests that something happened there that strongly compares to the Roswell incident. Click For Story

Animals Attacking People And Other Unnatural Stuff

There have been disturbing reports of animals and nature all over the world behaving strangely. It is as if Mother Nature has had enough of the human race and is beginning to turn her forces on us. Click For Story

 
Reasons To Impeach

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Those Legends Of Dragons And Sea Monsters
 
The stories about giant krakens that rise up out of the sea and tear ships apart with their tentacles, about St. George riding off to slay the dragon that was terrorizing the people of old England, and the dragon god that smiles down on the Chinese people, may have origins that date back before written human history. Click For Story 

Why Do Earth Creatures Need Sleep And Why Aren't We Getting It?

One of the problems people are facing in our chaotic and complex times is getting enough sleep. We struggle with this so much that the pharmaceutical companies are seeing big profits just from the sale of sleeping medications. We examine the problem. Click For Story

The Skinwalker Eludes The Scientific Mind

By definition, a skinwalker is a scientific impossibility. It is a human that has allegedly achieved an ability to change shape at will and become a wild animal or bird, or else give others the impression they can do this. Click For Story

The Spirit In George Ferguson's Head

 

Ferguson described it as a voice. The first few times it happened he said he dismissed it as hallucinations. But the voice returned again and again. After a while, George said he started taking them seriously and listening to what they had to say. He began to realize there was more than one voice.  Click For Story
















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The Ancient Island City Of Tenochtitla'n

Mexicaltitan is a village of about 1,300 people on a small island in central Mexico. It is all that remains of one of the oldest great cities of the world. Its buildings rest on the ruins of Tenochtitla'n, the heart of the ancient Aztec civilization that existed in the region more than a thousand years ago. Click For Story

The Mystery Of Particle "Entanglements"

When the late physicist John Bell published his 1964 paper "On the Einstein Podolsky Rosen paradox" he set the world of science and quantum physics on its ear. That is because his infamous theorem broke all the rules of fundamental physics and makes us all question what we once considered reality. Click For Story

Thebes - The Forgotten Center Of World Government

When we think of Egypt we think of the great city of Cairo which has stood a very long time as the heart of that nation's government. What we don't remember is the City of Thebes, which was the true heart of ancient Egypt at a time when the country was ruled by the pharaonic dynasties. Click For Story

Nannobacteria - The Pre-Biotic Chemistry Of Life

For lack of any other thing to call them, newly discovered microscopic life forms have been dubbed "nannobacteria." It is found just about everywhere. They are in the rocks, in hot-spring waters, decaying leaves, and even in space. The Universe appears to be alive with it. It appears to be the source of life. Click For Story

Ruins Of Great Zimbabwe Astounded Early Explorers

When the first European explorers hacked their way into darkest Africa, in the area now known as Zimbabwe, they were astounded to find the colossal ruins of an ancient stone fortress that surrounded the remains of a great city. Click For Story

The Amazing Terra Cotta Army Of Xi'an

The soldiers, all standing in perfect rows, were obviously created and placed there to protect the emperor. Since they have been discovered in 1974 and uncovered by archaeologists, this display has become a marvel attracting world attention. The skilled detail of each face, uniform and weapon is so lifelike it is believed that each statue represents a real person. Click For Story

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To Write Is But A Thought Crime

This life-long writer finds himself ultra sensitive to stories that infringe on our First Amendment rights to free speech and expression, whether it comes from a soapbox on the main corner of town, or from the pen. Click For Commentary

Was Lincoln A Fascist Puppet Of Big Business?

Every school child knows that Abraham Lincoln was among America's greatest presidents. That is because they are told the textbook story about how the northern Union Army under his leadership defeated the southern rebel Confederates, re-united a nation in division, and brought about the abolishment of slavery. But was Lincoln really the nice guy we think he was? Why was there a conspiracy that led to his assassination? Why would any group hate such a national leader enough to want to commit such a crime? Much of the Lincoln story has been kept out of the textbooks. Click For Story

To The Iraqis We Are The Terrorists
 
What would we say if we were attacked by an invading army, our land contaminated by bombs and bullets laced with depleted uranium, and over 100,000 of our citizens killed in the name of liberating us from the government we have enjoyed for over 200 years? Click For Story

A Constitutional Jury Power Kept Secret

We were astounded when we recently discovered an organization called The Fully Informed Jury Association, a group of people pressing for laws to force judges and criminal lawyers to reveal the full power of juries to all people who gather to decide a criminal trial. Click For Story

 
 
 
 
 
 
 

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