The man who lost to Pat Buchanan in a struggle for Reform Party presidential campaign funds in 2000 has announced plans to start a second U.S. government: the U.S. Peace Government.
John Hagelin, a physicist based at the Maharishi University of Management in Fairfield, Iowa, said he is not talking about secession.
Phil Plait, 38-year-old astronomer and skeptic, was on the California State University, Northridge, campus Friday, punching holes in the tenacious myth that American astronauts never landed on the moon.
By PETER WAYNER
The Sims Online is a clean, well-lighted corner of the Internet where people work to build an elaborately decorated, chat-filled virtual world. But if playing by the rules in this realm isn't entertaining enough, there are after-hours joints where rogues and grifters gather to swap schemes for gaming the game and growing rich.
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by SEYMOUR M. HERSH
Why did the Administration endorse a forgery about Iraq.s nuclear program?
Last September 24th, as Congress prepared to vote on the resolution authorizing President George W. Bush to wage war in Iraq, a group of senior intelligence officials, including George Tenet, the Director of Central Intelligence, briefed the Senate Foreign Relations Committee on Iraq.s weapons capability. It was an important presentation for the Bush Administration. Some Democrats were publicly questioning the President.s claim that Iraq still possessed weapons of mass destruction which posed an immediate threat to the United States. Just the day before, former Vice-President Al Gore had sharply criticized the Administration.s advocacy of pre�mptive war, calling it a doctrine that would replace .a world in which states consider themselves subject to law. with .the notion that there is no law but the discretion of the President of the United States.. A few Democrats were also considering putting an alternative resolution before Congress.
According to two of those present at the briefing, which was highly classified and took place in the committee.s secure hearing room, Tenet declared, as he had done before, that a shipment of high-strength aluminum tubes that was intercepted on its way to Iraq had been meant for the construction of centrifuges that could be used to produce enriched uranium. The suitability of the tubes for that purpose had been disputed, but this time the argument that Iraq had a nuclear program under way was buttressed by a new and striking fact: the C.I.A. had recently received intelligence showing that, between 1999 and 2001, Iraq had attempted to buy five hundred tons of uranium oxide from Niger, one of the world.s largest producers. The uranium, known as .yellow cake,. can be used to make fuel for nuclear reactors; if processed differently, it can also be enriched to make weapons. Five tons can produce enough weapon-grade uranium for a bomb. (When the C.I.A. spokesman William Harlow was asked for comment, he denied that Tenet had briefed the senators on Niger.)
A friend emailed, and said there was this image on the Onion that looked just like me:
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Hardly. I don't even own a red T-shirt. Oh, wait ... I have one. But there's no peace logo on it. No wait ... yes there is.
Those of you who fondly remember "A Christmas Story" will love this:
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This clever leg lamp will get more attention than anything you've ever had...for gifts, bars, dens, fraternity houses, playrooms. The leg of this lifesize Leg Lamp is one of a kind. Including the shade it stands 40 inches high. The light illuminating the leg from inside can be turned on simultaneously with the light under the shade or separately, with your choice of stocking, shoe and lampshade it can be "Customized to fit any decor."
Latest censorship incident:
Radio stations across the country remove songs by the Dixie Chicks from airplay because of a common made by the group's singer saying she was embarrassed that U.S. President George W. Bush was from her home state of Texas. Even though she later apologized for the comment, the ban is still being aggressively enforced
All these recordings were banned during the gulf war in 1990...
Even before the first bomb fell in the United States' war in Iraq, musicians had taken up positions on both sides of the issue. Now they are verbally firing at each other from across this musical Maginot Line.
The anti-war movement has already heard from a range of artists -- Madonna, John Mellencamp and the Beastie Boys among them -- who have made statements both in the recording studio and in action. Peacekeeper, the new Fleetwood Mac single, has been appropriated as an anti-war song and this week has broken through to the Billboard Hot 100. Even Yusuf Islam, formerly Cat Stevens, has entered the fray by recording Angel of War, his first pop song since 1978.
When Democracy Failed: The Warnings of History
by Thom Hartmann
It started when the government, in the midst of a worldwide economic crisis, received reports of an imminent terrorist attack. A foreign ideologue had launched feeble attacks on a few famous buildings, but the media largely ignored his relatively small efforts. The intelligence services knew, however, that the odds were he would eventually succeed. (Historians are still arguing whether or not rogue elements in the intelligence service helped the terrorist; the most recent research implies they did not.)...
(If you thought what Michael Moore said at the Oscars was controversial, check this out.)
Dear Governor Bush:
So today is what you call "the moment of truth," the day that "France and the rest of world have to show their cards on the table." I'm glad to hear that this day has finally arrived. Because, I gotta tell ya, having survived 440 days of your lying and conniving, I wasn't sure if I could take much more. So I'm glad to hear that today is Truth Day, 'cause I got a few truths I would like to share with you...
