A $100 laptop is being developed for poor countries and children that will run on the open source operating system Linux instead of Windows.

A German court ruled that the US invasion and war against the people of Iraq is illegal and so is Germany’s support of it.

The refusal of a Texas Immigration court to extradict convicted CIA terrorist Luis Posada Carriles to Venezuela for trial highlights the continued US support of terrorism and its terrorists.

Hospitals help ensure that their victims don’t recover (as long as they have insurance) by giving them the worst food possible. Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine are encouraging hospitals to offer more than the garbage they currently offer.

Two Japanese scientists, Tsunemi Kubodera and Kyoichi Mori, report that they have made the world’s first observations of a giant squid in the wild.

Amid feeble excuses the Pentagon refuses to allow key witnesses to testify in the investigation of destroyed counter-terrorism intelligence.

Iran has threatened to resume uranium enrichment and block UN inspections of its nuclear facilities unless the UN nuclear agency reverses its resolution to refer it to the Security Council for possible sanctions.

As Congress finalizes the wording on the 2006 Agricultural Appropriations bill in the House/Senate Conference Committee, thousands of consumers are mobilizing across the U.S. to stop an industry-sponsored “Sneak Attack” on Organic Standards contained in a rider to the bill.

This is the time of year when Arctic sea ice shrinks to its annual minimum, and satellite measurements indicate that the ice cover has fallen below a “tipping point” from which it may not recover.

Georgia Tech & electric utilities play with wind power.

Peace supporter Cindy Sheehan was arrested with others for the high crime of sitting on a public sidewalk in front of the white house.

Dennis Kucinich relates the success that Cuba has had in responding to hurricanes.

Corporate criminals are using the recent hurricanes as an excuse to push for even more handouts and immunity from laws.

According to an article in blesovky, apple trees have bloomed twice in the same season in two villages in the eastern European country of Slovakia . As apples hang on the tree ripening, large healthy blossoms have appeared. Could this be another effect of global warming?

The city of New London, Conn., is not happy with just taking citizens’ property. Now they are out for blood, say residents.

Puppet Tony Blair has been reprogrammed to mimic other globalist puppets on global warming. He is now all for it.

You can do lots of cool things with a Prius. If we could only get Toyota to make more of them….

The corporations are demanding regulation, and the government is refusing to give it to them

There are fears for the future of one of the most ancient, as well as the smallest, communities in Iraq – the Mandeans.

In a bold move of defiance against the occupation, an Iraqi judge has issued an arrest warrant for two British soldiers for the murder of a civilian and assault on a policeman.

With Bush at NorthCom headquarters and the military running operation Granite Shadow to coincide with Peace Demonstrations, it may to be an interesting weekend.

Israelis have long used Palestinian land to dispose of their garbage and sewage. Some Israeli settlements pipe their raw sewage onto Palestian villages.

“See, you can’t wash your hands when they’re covered in blood. The wounds carry on. This is what war does to your soul, to your humanity, to your family.” – Hart Viges, US Soldier

The International Atomic Energy Agency’s (IAEA) governing board, under pressure from the US, has decided to report Iran to the UN Security Council despite finding no evidence that Iran is working on any kind of nuclear weapons program.

Activists are facing 6 years in prison and $250,000 fines at the hands of a corrupt court for simply exercising their right of free speech in a military recruiting center.

Over-population is threatening the very existence of life on Earth. France’s response is to pay its citizens to have even more children.

Bush’s insistence that Iran has a nuclear weapons program is not supporting by any facts.

To keep justifying the war against the people of Iraq, Bush has to label the resistance as ‘insurgents’ instead of the freedom fighters they are. Again, Bush is lying and a new report proves it.

Danny Glover and Harry Belefonte share their wisdom…

The solution to the America’s oil crisis may be sitting quietly in Ron Gremban’s garage. It gets 80 to 100 miles to the gallon.

Is your child’s school cafeteria free of rodents, under-cooked or improperly stored food, and other hazards that can cause serious—and possibly fatal—food poisoning?

Bush has assured that his gang of looters gets all they can under the guise of disaster relief.

Disaster experts will tell you that a key to surviving a catastrophe is to quickly discard the old paradigm of normalcy and to act with urgency and creativity in facing the new reality. There is no time for fretting or wishful thinking; decisiveness and imagination are crucial.

The Bay Area is a hotbed in the search for intelligent life. But is anybody out there, because there sure isn’t much intelligent life here on Earth.

Haitian President Aristides was kidnapped by US-Canadaian-French military because he had sued France for all the damage done to Haiti and had a good case. What if he had won?

The US federal govt. has been caught destroying records to hide its multi-billion dollar theft of funds from Indian trust funds.

The U.N. Human Rights Committee, scheduled to meet in Geneva next month, has written to non-governmental organisations (NGOs) calling for any available evidence of human rights abuses by the United States — particularly in the aftermath of its global war on terrorism.

Thousands of Latin American immigrants in the southeastern United States uprooted by Hurricane Katrina are now fleeing Hurricane Rita, while activists are demanding that the U.S. government provide them with special protection, because so many are hesitant to seek assistance out of fear of deportation.

Like its evil twin Duhmerika, Canada imprisons people without charges being filed, without a trial, without hope of ever being released or the chance to prove their innocence.

The CIA run ‘Al Qaeda’ is being used to prevent the real Iraqi resistance from gaining support by staging terrorist attacks against civilians. If Iraqis are busy fighting each other they won’t be able to fight their true enemy.

The US is set to burn tons of US food aid sent by Britain to hurricane victims.

The Feds are wasting tax dollars are fast as they can in the name of hurricane relief.

Why is one of the most profitable companies on the planet moving jobs to China?

An Egyptian refugee in prison in Canada without charge has been hospitalized on his 76th day of a hunger strike to protest his 5 years of illegal and inhumane imprisonment.

Cuba has formed a brigade of medical professionals to provide assistance wherever there is a disaster or epidemic.

Israel’s high court has affirmed that it will continue to build its wall to separate Palestinians from their water and farm land, despite the fact that the World Court ruled the wall illegal.

Are the US & Britain staging terrorist attacks in Iraq? Absolutely.

For those of us, which have chosen to stay in the public eye, whether on TV or in print, find ourselves in a strange space at the moment. Allow me to share some thoughts, memories and some of the things which I have related to many of you over the past two weeks.

A mainstream study has found that all parts of the hand emit detectable levels of light.

Most published scientific research papers are wrong, according to a new analysis.

The hole in the ozone layer above Antarctica has grown to near record size this year, suggesting 20 years of pollution controls have so far had little effect, the United Nations said on Friday.

Iran recently said that it was willing to offer its nuclear technology to other muslim countries.

The first hard numbers on the economic damage caused by hurricane Katrina are in and the news isn’t good: plunging factory orders, soaring costs and the biggest jump in jobless claims in nearly a decade.

America can’t stand the presence of democracy in Venezuela because it might be bad for big business and spread to other countries. Efforts to unseat the wildly popular President Hugo Chavez has failed yet the US keeps pumping money into the opposition.

As an instrument of social engineering, George Bush is highly effective.

Eyewitness, politically charged, on-the-ground truth telling from New Orleans

Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez took George ‘Monkey Boy’ Bush to task in front of the UN global summit and won a rousing applause for his critique.

Yahoo’s greed has led it to cheerfully sacrifice human rights in return for a cut of the Chinese market. Google is no better. Use smaller search engines to not support evil.

Hurricane victims who stole food and water to survive are no match for the massive looting that has started by the Bush gang.

While no one really expects Bush to accept the offers of aid from Cuba, a number of people are at least keeping the issue alive.

The truth is out there — and it may be as close as your own backyard.

Big Brother will be watching over all Dutch citizens starting in 2007.

A woman in Rio de Janeiro fought crime in her neighborhood by video taping drug dealing because police wouldn’t do anything. In the process she has become a hero.

Mayor Ray Nagin announced Thursday that large parts of the city will reopen next week.

In Utah, as in other states, thousands of survivors of Hurricane Katrina are attempting to start their lives over as strangers in a strange land.

UN chief Kofi Annan has urged world leaders to persevere on UN reforms and take bolder steps to fight poverty.

The criminals in Washington have stolen hundreds of Billions from Iraq and American Taxpayers, but they are not through yet.

Is the government failure to respond sanely to the hurricane Katrina disaster ineptness or part of a master plan? Why did they deliberately make a bad situation much more horrible?

Journalists at a Mexican news paper have found out the hard way how dangerous it is to shine a spotlight on the drug trade.

Conceived in New York, the Guardian Angels’ unique brand of law enforcement never really caught on elsewhere after the mafia murder of its leader.

Animal rights activists claimed another victory against beleaguered animal testing group Huntingdon Life Sciences after the company’s planned New York stock exchange listing was pulled at the last moment.

Is America really a fascist police state? Ask the federal appeals court.

FEMA didn’t fail because it was headed by an inept Director or was underfunded. FEMA was simply never intended to function as a disaster relief agency.

Greenland is rapidly losing its ice and native species to global warming.

The ancient Egyptians left proof of their scientific prowess for people to marvel at for millennia.

At the very least, there are two Level-3 biolabs in New Orleans and a cluster of three in nearby Covington. They have been working with anthrax, mousepox, HIV, plague, etc. There are surely other labs in the city.

The US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE)has an ambitious plan to house up to 5 million people in detention camps.

Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez has warned that world oil prices would surge to US$200 a barrel if the United States attacked his country.

A Symposium on UFO Disclosure and Planetary Directions –
Sunday September 25, 2005 – 9:30am to 3:45pm at University of Toronto.

A new center that aims to be a cross between a museum and an amusement park may soon allow people to explore a Martian settlement without ever having to leave Earth.

Heavily armed paramilitary mercenaries from a private security firm, infamous for their work in Iraq, are openly patrolling the streets of New Orleans.

Unions representing 7,000 EPA scientists have called for a moratorium on the addition of fluoride to drinking water due to the potential to cause cancer.

Once again a study has shown that eating organically grown food greatly reduces the pesticides in children’s bodies. For the full report visit http://ehp.niehs.nih.gov/members/2005/8418/8418.pdf

An interview with Jeffrey Smith, Author of “Seeds of Deception” while in South Africa.

UFOs are experienced throughout the world and China is no exception. A UFO Conference in Dalian drew a large crowd.

Barb Campbell of relates a sighting she had in the late seventies of a very unusual craft.

China seems to be stumbling forward and will be allowing public hearings on some new laws it will consider.

Proving that greed is more important than liberty, Canada’s Prime Minister announced a formal “strategic partnership” between Canada and the Chinese dictatorship.

With more than $200 Billion spent so far, there is very little to show for reconstruction in Iraq and some projects are being shut down before completion as the money dries up.

The U.S. military is tube-feeding more than a dozen of the 89 prisoners on hunger strike at the Guantánamo Bay prison in Cuba. The prisoners are on hunger strike in protest of their inhumane and illegal treatment.

Israel has continued the expansion of Jewish settlements in the West Bank and is violating its obligation to freeze its theft of Palestinian land under Peace Plans.

Girls who regularly ate breakfast, particularly one that includes cereal, were slimmer than those who skipped the morning meal, according to a study that tracked nearly 2,400 girls for 10 years.

As usual, the government propoganda media is helping it churn out lies. This time the lies are about the hurricane Katrina disaster.

The October 2004 issue of National Geographic predicted exactly what would happen to New Orleans in the event of a major hurricane.

Fast food corporations, like the tobacco companies before them, are largely aware of the ill-effects of their products, but as long as the customers keep lining up they continue to sell their toxic wares.

Bush’s war on freedom and looting spree has had a disastrous impact on American’s health.

Ralph Nader tells it like it is in an open letter to George Bush that he won’t ever read.

One of the limitations on using hydrogen as a fuel has been the storage issue. Danish scientists have developed a new and safe storage method that will make hydrogen more practical as an automotive fuel.

A Mexican army convoy began crossing into the United States on Thursday to bring aid to victims of Hurricane Katrina.

A look at how the world’s largest pharmaceutical companies are turning healthy people into patients.

A true story of survival, barely, by Parmedics Larry Bradsahw and Lorrie Beth Slonsky.

A Canadian search-and-rescue team reached a flooded New Orleans suburb to help save trapped residents five days before the U.S. military, a Louisiana state senator said on Wednesday.

As New Orleans Mayor Ray Nagin pleaded on national television for firefighters a battalion of highly trained volunteer firefighters from across America sat idle in a muggy conference room in Atlanta for training on how to hand out FEMA brochures and do PR.

Global warming is causing soil to release huge amounts of carbon, making efforts to fight global warming tougher than previously thought. Earlier studies had revealed the phenomenon 10 years ago but were largely ignored.

Creoles who live thousands of miles from the bayous of southern Louisiana suddenly find themselves uncertain ambassadors for a city _ and a way of life _ that is endangered.

THERE hasn’t been anybody out there for a couple of years but UFO spotters are finally heading back to Leeds.

Users looking to file claims online for government help must be running Microsoft Internet Explorer 6.0 or later with JavaScript enabled. That blocks everyone running Linux, Apple Macintosh computers or not using Internet Explorer.

Mystery Bulge in Oregon Still Growing

Internet giant Yahoo has been accused of supplying info. to China which led to the jailing of a journalist for “divulging state secrets”.

Bush on Wednesday asked Congress to provide an additional $51.8 billion in relief and recovery aid. FEMA is already spending $2 Billion per day.

Is it not time we begin to take care of our people here at home? Is it not time that we rescue our own citizens? – Dennis Kucinich

“Two superpowers have the ability to control weather around the world: the United States and Russia.” – Sydney Sheldon

Internal oil company memos show how the industry intentionally reduced domestic refining capacity to drive up profits.

Cuba, Iran and Venezuela have all offered assistance to the victims of hurricane Katrina and the offers refused by Bush. Who is the real axis of evil?

Caribbean island nations are taking Venezuela up on its offer of cheaper fuel. Instead of thinking only about enriching itself Venezuela is using its oil wealth to combat poverty.

The federal official in charge of the bungled New Orleans rescue was fired from his last private-sector job overseeing horse shows.

A six year old boy named Deamonte Love led six other children to safety in New Orleans. “How did a 6-year-old end up being in charge of six babies?”

Neither the death of the chief justice nor the frantic efforts of panicked White House political advisers can conceal the magnitude of Bush’s failure of leadership.

A week after hurricane Katrina some residents in Jefferson Parrish were allowed to salvage some belongings. Nearly a third of New Orleans policemen remain unaccounted for.

The site of Washington Monroe High School in Southeast Portland will serve as a temporary shelter for up to 1,000 refugees from the Gulf Coast region.

The residents of rural Laurel, Mississippi, a town of 20,000, will soon receive a semi truck from Champaign carrying thousands of pounds of canned goods, water, diapers and infant formula. A small but willing group of ordinary folks from central Illinois and central Mississippi, who met for the first time this weekend, made it all happen.

82-year-old former Canadian defence minister will address the Exopolitics Toronto Symposium on UFO Disclosure and Planetary Directions at U of T’s Convocation Hall on Sept. 25.

Foreign rescue teams sit waiting to help rescue hurricane victims while Washington drags its feet.

Bush finally arrived last night in the ravaged Gulf coast region amid mounting criticism of his handling of the crisis.

Emergency stocks of oil in the US, Europe and Asia will be released onto the market in an attempt to stabilize oil prices. However, this may make little difference in the unwarranted price gouging at the pumps.

Katrina may start a perfect storm in the world economy.

Canada is sending Navy & Coast Guard ships and helicopters to Louisiana to assist in Hurricane relief.

China was slammed by a Typhoon that has killed at least 10 people.

A small training program is making a big difference for rural women in Nepal.

Massive destruction of wetlands and rampant coastal development are among the reasons Hurricane Katrina caused so much devastation.

Sometimes all that a person can do to help others is to send their prayers. Numerous scientific studies have clearly demonstrated that prayer and meditation have a real impact and that the key factor is simply intent.

The Red Cross has a long history of withholding and stealing funds given it for disaster relief. If you want to help disaster victims please give to charities other than the Red Cross or United Way.

Many scientists and environmentalists are linking the increased severity of hurricanes to global warming and calling for action. Meanwhile, Bush’s response is to cause more greenhouse gases to be emitted.

Greg Henderson is a pathologist from New Orleans. After Hurricane Katrina struck he stayed in the city and has set up a makeshift hospital at the Ritz Carlton Hotel, along with fellow doctors who were attending a medical conference.

An enterprising young killer whale at Marineland has figured out how to use fish as bait to catch seagulls — and shared his strategy with his fellow whales.

In 2001, FEMA warned that a hurricane striking New Orleans was one of the three most likely disasters in the U.S. Bush’s response – New Orleans flood control funding by 44 percent to ensure disaster.

Bush was warned back in 2001 that a major hurricane could swamp New Orleans under 20 feet of water, killing thousands.

Bush and minions are drawing sharp criticism for the speed and effectiveness of their response to Hurricane Katrina and the New Orleans flood.

Leave it to Bush to figure out a way to use a disaster like hurricane Katrina to further his agenda for world war III by channeling FEMA funding through a ‘christian’ charity founded by the rabid dog Pat Robertson.

The future of Venezuelan president Hugo Chavez started to look precarious last January. It was then that CNN announcers began referring to him as a “Latin American strongman.”

The federal government so far has bungled the job of quickly helping the multitudes of hungry, thirsty and desperate victims of Hurricane Katrina.

Three days after the hurricane there are thousands dead and hundreds of thousands homeless. Little or no effective response has been seen by the Federal govt. as a delusional George Bush obsesses with punishing looters and raising relief money and his minions brag about what a great job they are doing.

On Wednesday reporters listening to horrific stories of death and survival at the Biloxi Junior High School shelter looked north across Irish Hill Road and saw Air Force personnel playing basketball and performing calisthenics.

The citizens who had counted on their governments to protect them are finding out that they had no protection. They are now paying with their lives.