Cinemas ponder cell phone jammers

Opportunity Mars Rover Stuck in Sand

The mother of all UFO abduction stories persists, 30 years later.

The beings grabbed the two fishermen, hauled them into the ship, and examined them with some sort of "electronic eye" that floated in midair. The interior of the ship was incredibly bright: Light seemed to come from the floors, the walls, the ceiling, everywhere.

Jesus, the talking doll version

- A talking Jesus doll is due to go on sale in May, along with versions of Moses, the Virgin Mary and David, as a teddy bear maker tries to find a market with churches and religious families. Click to hear them talk.

Wind farms' role in the fight against global warming

Wind turbine technology has only just started and is improving all the time. Once turbines increasingly move off-shore the potential resource is enormous. We conservatively estimate that by 2020 around 15% of our electricity could come from wind. The number of turbines needed to do that will depend on their size and efficiency.

Pope B-XVI's VW On Ebay

A few months before being elected the head of the Catholic church, the then Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger decided to sell his six-year-old Golf. His private secretary, Dr Josef Clemens, who had imported the vehicle from Germany to Rome in 1999, drove it back from Italy to his home town of Siegen. There, the bishop sold it to the local VW dealer, Jost Schneider.

First ever photo of planet outside Solar System!

Author Claims Admin Complicit in 9/11

David Ray Griffin presents his case at UW-Madison

David Ray Griffin asks the tough questions about Sept. 11, contending U.S. officials had some knowledge of what was coming and possibly orchestrated the attacks.

Griffin, whose book, “The New Pearl Harbor: Disturbing Questions About the Bush Administration and 9/11,” came out a year ago, drew an enthusiastic standing ovation from the majority of the 400 or so people who packed his lecture Monday night at Bascom Hall.

A retired Christian theologian, Griffin, 65, taught for more than 30 years at the Claremont School of Theology in California.

His comments Monday night were directed at religious people, who he said need to respond to Sept. 11 – and the American empire that has ensued – based on the moral principles of their religious traditions.
Tower 7, contolled demolition?

Ecstasy’s The Rx For Bummed-Out Iraq Vets

Eurabia: The Euro-Arab Axis

How is it that ten percent of France is Muslim, 15% of Denmark is Muslim and close to half of the births in the next generation will be Muslim? Imperious mosques and lawless Muslim neighborhoods dot the landscape of major European cities. And Spain willingly and meekly chose to acknowledge its Islamic past, and that pro-Arab opinion is rampant and anti-Israeli sentiment vitriolic.

Saudi Arabia Jails 40 For Christian Faith!

-Is this the same Saudi Arabia that Dubya was kissing up to earlier this week?

HO HO HO: Gannon attended White House Christmas parties

-but who invited him?

"Idol" Finalist Dodged Cocaine, Pot Raps

One of the five remaining "American Idol" finalists was once arrested for felony cocaine possession, but had the charge--and a separate marijuana count--dismissed last year after completing a so-called "diversion program," The Smoking Gun has learned.

The Munch masterpieces "The Scream" and "Madonna" have been incinerated.

Star Magazine Fakes Photo of Pitt, Jolie

Just … A Cloud?

UFO That Buzzed White House & Sent Bush & Cheney Scrambling To Bunkers Was Actually Just … A Cloud?

BUSH DUMPED FOR TRUMP!

President Bush - "Thank You For The Answers"

-The White House learned a painful media lesson Thursday: Do not launch a press conference on the first night of May Sweeps!

What Really Happened.com

Andrew Sullivan: Comments On Randi Rhodes

What's worse than an outspoken hypocrite?

An outspoken hypocrite picking his butt.

The Contradictory Faces of Andrew Sullivan

Motor Trend: FUTURE VEHICLE FORECAST

Unofficial guide to the automotive future
Future Vehicle Forecast
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2007 Future Vehicle Forecast
2008 Future Vehicle Forecast
2009 Future Vehicle Forecast

Stephanie Miller has a new progressive talk radio show!

Yes, you heard right! Stephanie Miller has a new progressive talk radio show syndicated nationally by the Jones Radio Network. 6 AM - 9 AM PST / 9 AM - 12 Noon EST. Live stream available now, click HERE or HERE to access!

Now hear her on Sirius Satellite Radio, click here for times.

'Smoking gun' on global warming

Using ocean data collected by diving floats, eminent U.S. climate scientists released a study Thursday that they said provides the "smoking gun" that ties manmade greenhouse gas emissions to global warming.

Scientists Say Everyone Can Read Minds

Ivory-billed woodpecker flies back from the dead

For the world of ornithology, it is the equivalent of Elvis being found alive and kicking.

Rethinking the Axis of Oil

Can America ever kick the oil habit? Not if Congress and George Bush have their way, but the ground is shifting

Rush Limbaugh: No Appeal

TheFlorida Supreme Court said Thursday it will not consider an appeal from conservative commentator Rush Limbaugh over prosecutors' seizure of his medical records during an investigation into whether he illegally purchased painkillers.The 4-3 order did not explain the court's reasoning.

NY State Sues "SPYWARE" Company

New York Attorney General Eliot Spitzer on Thursday sued a major Internet marketer, claiming the company installed "spyware" and "adware" that secretly install nuisance pop-up advertising on screens which can slow and crash personal computers.

"Young Republican" Impersonates Secret Service Officer

The real Secret Service says the man who ousted Bauer, Weise and Alex Young from the president's speech was actually a Republican Party staffer. The Secret Service has told the three that the man admitted to an agent that he ousted them because they arrived in a car with a "No more blood for oil" bumper sticker.

Secret Service Comments On The Randi Rhodes Show

Secret Service spokesperson Lorie Lewis told The Post that "if we determine that questions need to be asked, we will attempt to get them answered, but at this point we have not made any inquiries to anyone connected with the show."

JENNIFER GARNER'S EX-LOVE GOES CAR-AZY

VIDEO: Jon Stewart's "GayWatch"

VIDEO: Jon Stewart's "GayWatch" covers gay issues from Microsoft to Texas and beyond. Real Media format (4 minute)

NYC cab driver takes pregnant woman on 'terror ride'..

-Only in NYC!

Report: Air America Under Investigation By Secret Service

Air America Radio is being investigated by the Secret Service over a skit that aired during Randi Rhodes show on April 25, according to the Drudge Report.

Matt Drudge is modeling for Jeff Gannon's website?

In the skit, which focused on the ongoing debate over Social Security, a character, purportedly from the American Association of Armed Retired People, said , "A spoiled child is telling us our Social Security isn't safe anymore, so he is going to fix it for us.” While not named, it's obvious the “spoiled child” is President Bush.
-Can Drudge back this story up? I doubt it.

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THE GANNON & CUNNAN CONNECTION: The Plot Thickens?

-Just when you thought you knew everything?

UFO Buzzes White House

WASHINGTON - Fears that an unidentified aircraft had entered restricted space near the White House prompted security officials to move President Bush from the Oval Office to an underground shelter Wednesday.

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Tony Blair’s Plane Hit By Lightning

Students Getting Paid To Be Informants

Tragedies like last month's deadly shooting at a Red Lake, Minn., school have prompted more schools to offer cash and other prizes -- including pizza and premium parking spots -- to students reporting classmates who carry guns, drugs or alcohol, commit vandalism or otherwise break school rules.

Put a Tiger in Your Mac: Early Review

With several significant and innovative new features among the 200 additions Apple is touting, I think it's a success.

Making sense of life without wires

-Bluetooth and wireless basics article

Bluetooth a Mile AwayWith a simple modification to a USB Bluetooth adapter, you can extend your wireless range to record-setting distances.

Fascism: Are We There Yet?

Our government is treating us the way exterminators treat vermin. We are ruled by people who mask evil ideology with the artful use of language, so an advertising slogan is in order.
“Roaches check in, but they don’t check out.”

Twinkie Turns 75 - Still Edible

The thing about Twinkies is they suffer from a bad reputation. Which is odd, because they're so delicious.

NY Daily News: Summer Movie Preview

The season's blockbusters will makeold favorites seem new again.

Larry Flint To Publish Major 911 Skeptic Article

The next big, welcome and ironic breakthrough will hit the newsstands the June first as Larry Flynt features renowned theologian Dr. David Ray Griffin in a four-page Hustler interview/article entitled "What if Everything You Knew about 9/11 was Wrong?"

British Petroleum: RECORD SETTING PROFITS!

"If pump prices stay up, then 2004 will the most profitable year yet for the oil companies," said Hamilton. "These levels of profits are likely to continue in the West regardless of any actions taken by OPEC between now and the elections, since these spikes in profits are being driven by refinery manipulation, not crude shortages."

Sirius + iPod = Best Thing Ever?

CNN perks up for about five minutes today and realizes that satellite radios plus iPods are like chocolate and peanut butter. Sirius, which getting caned by XM, is pestering Steve Jobs to co-brand a satPod or whatever and apparently the analysts, who are one step ahead of CNN in all of this, are salivating at the prospect.

Golden Slumbers: A Father's Love

A new various artists CD featuring Dave Koz was released today.

Golden Slumbers - A Father's Love is a heartfelt collection of songs celebrating the bond between father and child.

More 4/26/05 New Releases

George W. Bush is the Dems best friend

Well this is a scary title for a first diary but please read with an open mind.

Flying High: Classic aviators, reconceived in plastic, are the sunglasses of the season

"Left Of Kandahar"

The Randi Rhodes Show debuts the trailer of a new HBO documentary titled, "Left Of Kandahar."[[more audio from the show]]

Cassini Finds Organic Material on Titan

A close flyby of Saturn's big moon Titan by the international Cassini spacecraft revealed an upper atmosphere brimming with complex organic material, a finding that could hold clues to how life arose on Earth, scientists said Monday.

Organic = Life, Correct?

or·gan·ic ( P ) Pronunciation Key (ôr-gnk)adj.
Of, relating to, or derived from living organisms: organic matter.

Pop singer Moby: Make my kid 'gay'

Musician also rips DeLay, Coulter, Hannity as 'immoral' right-wingers-

ROSIE FEUDS WITH DAVE

On her Web site, O'Donnell recalls "a casual aside" she made to the head of CBS, Les Moonves, on the day the Letterman news broke.
"If u r stuck for a host lemme know — i am here. the end," she wrote on the personal Web site, once-adored.blogspot.com, where she writes in the abbreviated, uncapitalized style of some weblogs.

I was drugged, two-timed and strangled..and all by my Ozzy

He ground up addictive drugs with a pestle and mortar and slipped them into Sharon's food—sending her so crazy she would smash up their home.

Big bucks for Will & Grace

Los Angeles - Stars of the hit comedy Will & Grace have won salary increases despite speculation that they might have to settle for pay cuts.

New Will & Grace Show This Week! Preview

Only Two Days Left to Save the Courts

The Republican leadership is planning to pull the trigger on their scheme to break the rules of the Senate, seize absolute power over judicial appointments, and stack the courts with extreme judges. Overnight, some of our most treasured rights, like the 40-hour work week, basic environmental protections, and the right to privacy, would be in danger.

VIDEO: RuPaul - "Looking Good, Feeling Gorgeous"

RuPaul : Red Hot : 'Looking Good, Feeling Gorgeous'

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American Caligula

"Let them hate so long as they fear." - Roman emperor, Caligula

Excerpt:
Though He was born into a life of wealth and privilege Bush’s introduction into the super secret super decadent society of the ruling rich and his first alleged homosexual experiences probably began in 1968 while he was a student at Yale University. In her book 'Secrets of the Tomb---Skull and Bones, the Ivy League, and the Hidden Paths of Power,’ Alexandra Robbins describes how Skull & Bones initiates were selected from American aristocracy to be pushed to the heights of power in a globalist empire. Initiates took part in satanic rituals in a windowless building at Yale University, known as ‘The Tomb’. As part of the initiation ritual, new members engaged in homosexual acts in a coffin while divulging secrets about their sex lives and other personal information. From that day forward the acts committed by the initiate and their confession were used as a means of control, and it formed a dark bond among the inner circle members of the Skull & Bones Order.

"Bush and Abdullah, sitting in a tree, K - I - S - S - I - N - G"

-Is he using him for his oil?


(Yes, they are holding hands)

Does This Mean They Are Going Steady?

TAKING A HUMANE APPROACH TO ANIMAL OVERPOPULATION

"We are a no-kill shelter," Jennifer stressed, "and we are seeing more and more like this. Best Friends in Utah is one of them, and the Dumb Friends League of Denver. We are even shipping some animals to places like San Francisco and upper New York state, where they have had so much success in spaying and neutering that they actually need animals."

Video: "Orwell Rolls In His Grave"

"Could a media system, controlled by a few global corporations with the ability to overwhelm all competing voices, be able to turn lies into truth?..."

Director Robert Kane Pappas’ "Orwell Rolls In His Grave" is the consummate critical examination of the Fourth Estate, once the bastion of American democracy. Asking whether America has entered an Orwellian world of doublespeak where outright lies can pass for the truth, Pappas explores what the media doesn’t like to talk about: itself.

FLASHBACK: Tom Delay Was Involved With The Miami "Rent-A-Riot" In 2000

London Sunday Times correspondent Tom Rhodes, who was present during the protest, says he overheard one GOP protester on a cellphone in the midst of that political mosh pit bragging that he had tipped off Bush campaign strategist Karl Rove about the rally. "I just told Rove," Rhodes overheard. As with the presence of Ross and Pyle, the call demonstrated that these weren't just protesters lured off the streets by the party, but connected, dyed-in-the-wool party operatives.

Bolton Was Involved In The 2000 Florida Election Recount - Yes It's True

Judge Charles Burton, chairman of the Palm Beach County canvassing board, holds up the last ballot the board was able to consider in the manual recount of ballots as Democratic lawyer Mark White, left, and Republican lawyer John Bolton watch at the Palm Beach County Emergency Operations Center Sunday, Nov. 26, 2000, in West Palm Beach, Fla. On Election Day 2004 partisan lawyers are planning to be at polling places they consider important or prone to trouble as the best remembered controversies in the 2000 Florida election grew from technical voting problems, many of which still exist; an estimated 32 million voters in 19 states will use punch cards. -AP File Photo

A ‘Bunch’ of ‘Wonder’

A rare chance to relive the ’70s, if you want to, by checking out new DVDs of both ‘The Brady Bunch’ and ‘Wonder Woman.’

Dolphins, Seals at Home in London's Reborn River

Nearly 50 years ago London's River Thames was so polluted that it was declared biologically dead. Today herons wade its waters and bottlenose dolphins swim past London Bridge.

ExxonMobil Spends Millions Funding Global Warming Skeptics

A new investigation by Mother Jones magazine has revealed that ExxonMobil has spent at least $8 million dollars funding a network of groups to challenge the existence of global warming.

Why Google Is Like Wal-Mart

On one hand, you have a company that rose up from modest beginnings to become one of the richest businesses in America (indeed, the world), and in the process revolutionized the use of technology to create a new way to do business -- helping people find what they want.

And then you have Google.

Michael Moore Will Pay You To Defy School Administration

On Wednesday, the outspoken documentarian announced the establishment of the Michael Moore Freedom of Speech Scholarship at Cal State San Marcos, the same school that canceled a speech by the Oscar-winning director last year when the school's president decided he was too "political."

Antarctic glaciers show major melting

A comprehensive survey of Antarctic glaciers shows the continent is melting worse than thought.

Venezuela To USA: Get Out!

Venezuela is ending military operations and exchanges with the United States, President Hugo Chavez said on Sunday, and he ordered out U.S. instructors he said were trying to foment unrest in the barracks against him. Warning of a possible U.S. invasion, Chavez said a female U.S. naval officer and some American journalists were temporarily detained in recent separate incidents for photographing a Venezuelan army base and an oil refinery.

Oh Rapture!

One of the major problems America faces is a large population of religious fundimentalists who have become as fanatical in their own way as any Middle Eastern Ayatollah.

FOX's Cavuto astrologer friend predicts major terrorist attack

-FOX News has officially started the "attack Iran" propaganda push.

Scandal looming in promised $425 million for Sir Lanka tsunami victims that never arrived?

Four months after the tsunami hit, Sri Lankans still don’t have their money. Canadian Prime Minister Paul Martin rushed to the scene for a weeklong photo op. Generous Canadians donated record amounts of money on line.

Rice changed terrorism report

A state department report which showed an increase in terrorism incidents around the world in 2004 was altered to strip it of its pessimistic statistics, it emerged yesterday.

Bush's Most Radical Plan Yet

With a vote of hand-picked lobbyists, the president could terminate any federal agency he dislikes.

Secret Service records raise new questions about discredited conservative reporter

On at least fourteen occasions, Secret Service records show either the entry or exit time missing. Generally, the existing entry or exit times correlate with press conferences; on most of these days, the records show that Guckert checked in but was never processed out.

Stevie Wonder: "A Time To Love"

Stevie Wonder has a new album coming out on May 2nd called a Time To Love. If any album could truly signal a revival for the industry and a sign of better things to come both in the music and in this world, it would be this one...

Stevie Wonder is my favorite musician of all time. If any of you ever doubted him, pick up a copy of his album (2 CD set), Natural Wonder, released in 1995. It's a live concert with so much heart and emotion (I rarely like listening to live albums) in it you will be happy and energized by listening to the album.

Here's the bio from his web site... I hope that Motown decides to do some remixes, that would be WAY COOL!!!!
-DJ Rob - San Diego
djrobsandiego@aol.com

Happy Justice Sunday! Watch It On Pay Per Pew

Justice Sunday is one more way the GOP forces its beliefs on others. The idea behind this event is to use a place of worship to overturn the framework of our legislative process. The goal of this event is to reach more than a million people around the country in churches and through the internet, Christian television, and radio networks.

Breaking Up Is Hard To Do

It's an old song with a familiar refrain, and now it seems that it also is true for smokers trying to quit. Puffing on a cigarette is so familiar people trying to break up with the weed are willing to try almost anything.

Did Microsoft Put Knife In Washington Gay Rights Bill?

Microsoft, Washington state's biggest employer, is accused of bowing to a conservative Christian group and pulling its support for an LGBT civil rights bill, ensuring its defeat.

Honda to offer natural gas vehicle. Taco Bell offers to be refueling station?

It what it describes as an industry first, Honda Motor Co. is offering a natural gas vehicle with its own home refueling machine at dealerships in California.

What If Everybody Is Listening And Nobody Is Transmitting?

To understand this conclusion, it’s necessary to appreciate that there is a fundamental asymmetry in our current situation: we are a hundred-year-old technology in a ten-billion-year-old galaxy.

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Your Ecological Footprint

Online quiz to measure your impact on the Earth's resources.

"I'm with the Bush-Cheney team, and I'm here to stop the count."

Those were the words John Bolton yelled as he burst into a Tallahassee library on Saturday, Dec. 9, 2000, where local election workers were recounting ballots cast in Florida's disputed presidential race between George W. Bush and Al Gore.

European Idols Sing - "Simply The Best"

Neil Bush, Ratzinger co-founders

WASHINGTON -- Neil Bush, the president's controversial younger brother, six years ago joined the cardinal who this week became Pope Benedict XVI as a founding board member of a little known Swiss ecumenical foundation.

GLAAD is getting ready to honor Liza Minnelli and Jennifer Beals.

"Liza is a crack baby"
-Carol Channing

Spain to vote on gay marriage

"The right to marry is a right for everyone, without distinction. It cannot be understood as a privilege," Deputy Prime Minister Maria Teresa Fernandez de la Vega says.

America's riotous real estate

The current US housing bubble is the bastard offspring of the stock-market bubble of the mid-1990s. Housing prices, especially on the west coast and in the east's Bos-Wash (Boston-Washington, DC) corridor, began to rocket in the second half of 1995 as dot-com profits were plowed into real estate. The boom has been sustained by sensationally low mortgage rates, thanks principally to the willingness of China to buy vast amounts of US Treasury bonds despite their low or negative yields. Beijing has been willing to subsidize US mortgage borrowers as the price for keeping the door open to Chinese exports.

9/11 - ALL THE PROOF YOU NEED!

Before you read this article, conduct this test. Try to purchase some stock, or some futures, a mutual fund or some put options, without providing your identity. Go ahead and try it! See if you get anywhere. Find out what happens when you tell the investment firm that you want to make a huge investment anonymously. It can’t be done.

Rumsfeld Seals The Deal On Military Bases To Launch Attack On Iran?

Which Plastics Are Safe?

The news about plastics has been pretty alarming lately, causing some of us to go dashing for the water bottles to see what kind of plastic they are -- and find out if we've been unwittingly poisoning our children and ourselves with chemicals leaching into the water from them.

Evidence points to 911 was executed by Mossad

Israel to warn Russia on missiles

Rare bacteria clusters Yellowstone find could unlock clues to early Mars life

A bizarre community of microbes has been discovered inside rocks in Yellowstone National Park, thriving in pores filled with water so acidic it can dissolve steel nails.

Coulter falsely blamed Arizona county attorney for dropping charges in pie-throwing case

Right-wing pundit Ann Coulter falsely accused an Arizona county attorney of anti-conservative bias for dismissing charges against two men who allegedly threw pies at her during an October 2004 speech. In fact, the blame lies with Coulter herself; the charges were dropped becuase neither she nor the arresting officer appeared for the scheduled trial.
-I am so surprised! Not.

Firms Paid TV's Tech Gurus To Promote Their Products

Greenberg, an NBC contributor, confirmed yesterday that he has received payments from Apple as well as Sony, Hewlett-Packard, Seiko Epson, Creative Technology and Energizer Holdings, charging $15,000 apiece to talk up their products on news shows. The contracts were first disclosed by the Wall Street Journal.

SOME FACTS ABOUT THE THE NEW POPE AND THE INQUISITION

Benedict XVI, the new elected Roman Cathlic Pope, runs the Church’s Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith. This august organization is occasionally referred to as the Holy Office but it is perhaps best known by an older name – the Inquisition. You will remember the Inquisition: those Catholic zealots who in the Middle Ages couldn’t abide apostates and doubters of the One True Faith. They perfected the use of thumbscrews and the rack to force Jews, Muslims and other dissenters to adopt the Vatican’s more ‘accurate’ understanding of Christianity. Continued

Anti-HIV Bacterium Isolated?

A harmless bacterium that binds to the HIV virus has been discovered by medical researchers. The find may lead to a cheap way to control infection.

Police dog goes on maternity leave just a month after joining the force

Lady was supposed to have been spayed before she arrived for active duty. But she began showing signs of pregnancy, and a veterinarian confirmed it April 5.

‘I Do Not Believe Freedom Is America’s Gift To The World’

In a speech to the U.S.-Hispanic Chambers of Commerce, Bush said God is the one in charge of the war on terror, etc.

Venezuela Flexes Oil Muscle

Twenty-thousand reservists paraded before Mr Chavez at the main military barracks in Caracas. The new formation, which the president wants to become a two million-strong force in the near future, will be directly under his command. The move comes amid growing tension between Venezuela and the US

Condo development on Miami coast is hot, hotter, hottest

Florida's developers and real estate brokers are flying high amid an unprecedented condo-building and -buying wave they hope won't end anytime soon. The frenzied spending is coming to a large extent from outside Florida — well-to-do baby boomers from the North nearing retirement, and foreigners whose money for real estate has gained potency from a weak dollar.

Evidence of extraterrestrial UFOs controlling tectonic movements, earthquakes and Tsunamis through electromagnetic flux

For many decades a strange phenomenon has surprised the scientific community. It is called earthquake lights. During earthquakes and just before the massive tectonic movements, people experience strange lights in the sky. Many have for many years taken these lights as bunch of hoax.

Sudan says "abundant" oil found in war torn Darfur

FBI Tells 911 Rescue Worker To 'Shut Up' Over Finding Airplane 'Black Boxes'

Two ground zero workers go public about finding cockpit and flight data recorders from Flight 11 and 175. Government claims 'black boxes' from the doomed 911 flights were never found. 911 Commission ignores information and fails to interview rescue workers.

Oil unlimited? Washington Times Commentary

Predictably, the recent rise in oil prices has the usual doom-and-gloom crowd, which has consistently been wrong for 30 years, saying once again that this proves we are running out of oil and that severe curbs on gasoline consumption must be imposed to preserve what little is left for future generations. They need not worry. There is growing evidence that oil is far more plentiful than we have been led to believe.

"Jack In The House" | The House That Jack Abramoff Bought

JackintheHouse.org explores the world of GOP superlobbyist Jack Abramoff who spent years trading money for influence in the halls of Congress. The site provides a road map to Jack Abramoff’s unscrupulous back-door deals with ethically-challenged Members of Congress

Aid Worker Murdered In Iraq

Marla Ruzicka had only moved to the East Village a few months ago. But she spent most of her time in Iraq, persuading senators and generals to help thousands of poor Iraqis recover from the war.
-She was also pushing for the U.S. to count the civilian dead.

Ann Coulter Advocates Violence - TIME Magazine Puts Her On The Cover

Cancel Your Subscriptions Department: Ann Coulter Glorifies and Gives Massive Credibility to Ann Coulter Instead of Treating Her as a Pariah Who Has Advocated Violence. Let Time Know What Your Think, And CANCEL Your Subscription. 4/18

"Death from cancer can be eliminated by 2015"

ANAHEIM, Calif. - Death from cancer can be eliminated by 2015, thanks to an "explosion" in cancer research, the director of the U.S. National Cancer Institute said yesterday in a dramatic revelation. Continued

Intel's WiMax: Like Wi-Fi On Steroids

Intel is gearing up for WiMax' world premiere. As early as Apr. 18, the company will start turning out a new generation of chips that it hopes will turn WiMax into the Next Big Thing in the wireless Web.

Surveillance Works Both Ways

In an attempt to establish equity in the world of surveillance, participants at the Computers, Freedom and Privacy conference in Seattle this week took to the streets to ferret out surveillance cameras and turn the tables on offensive eyes taking their picture.

"Warm Springs" A New Movie By HBO

Premieres Saturday, April 30 at 8pm

Watch a preview As the only U.S. president re-elected three times, he brought America out of the Great Depression, and led us though World War II. But the most formidable challenge Franklin Delano Roosevelt ever faced was one the country never saw. Kenneth Branagh and Cynthia Nixon star in the stirring true story of one man's search for public redemption from the depths of personal adversity. More

BILL MAHER: America is headed for a 'showdown' over religion...

-Interview with the DRUNK REPORT.

C-Span will challenge the official version of the 9/11 "terrorist attacks"

A nationwide delayed broadcast of a talk by David Ray Griffin at U.W.-Madison Monday 4/18/05, 7:30 p.m

Was the 2004 Bin Laden Video Tape A Fraud?

U.S. government planting propaganda and misleading stories in the international media

Go Green - the Reva NXG concept

GoinGreen has been marketing the Reva G-Wiz electric car in London since last May and over 200 of these zero-emission cars have been sold without advertising. Keith Johnston, managing director of GoinGreen, will be joined by Chetan Maini, deputy chairman and chief technical officer of RECC at the UK press viewing of the Reva NXG concept car.

Green Car Congress
Technologies, issues and policies for sustainable mobility.

Iowa Community Goes All-Organic

It's official: Maharishi Vedic City has gone all natural. The town of about 200 in southeast Iowa has become what some experts believe is the first all-organic city in the country.

Republicans Fail to support the troops by blocking veterans benefits

Sources:
Kenny's Bunk Port
Republicans Who Voted No to Veterans
Senate rejects increased funding for veterans

Dog Lives In Montana Dump For 16 Years!

13 Year Old Says: "Britney Does It Why Can't I"

High-energy drinks are hotter than ever, especially with young teenagers.

Ever since Britney Spears was spotted buying Red Bull, the drinks have been a hit with the junior high school set.

Writer Fabricated Boston Globe Story on Seal Hunt

Sub wreck could reveal Japanese peace offer

Paul Tidwell, a shipwreck salvager, said yesterday he believes wreckage of a Japanese submarine sunk by US warplanes in the Atlantic on June 23 1944 could contain a peace proposal from Tokyo that never made it into the hands of its intended recipient.

The vessel is thought to be carrying the remains of 112 crew, two tonnes of gold and a similar quantity of opium.

Scientists say evidence mounting that chemical in plastic is dangerous

Dr. Hunter S. Thompson and the Franklin frame-up

Bush's Favorite Secret iPod Playlist Revealed

Leaders Urge Calm IMF Protest

Organizers of this weekend's protests against the World Bank and International Monetary Fund are encouraging a less combative tone than in past protests.

Third World debt relief will be a major theme of protests slated to coincide with the financial institutions' spring meetings, organizers said at a news conference Tuesday.

Fox News Host: Repeat After Me

"Just say, 'I'm here to tell what I saw,'" Hannity can be heard instructing his guests. "No matter what the question, 'I'm here to tell you what I saw. I'm here to tell you what I saw.'"

2005 Honda FCX (Hydrogen Fuel Cell Car)

Deadly influenza virus shipments missing: WHO

"Health experts have destroyed most samples of a deadly influenza strain mistakenly sent to labs around the world; but two shipments meant to reach Mexico and Lebanon are missing, UN officials said Friday."
Bermuda, Brazil, Israel, and Japan have not confirmed destruction of their samples yet.
The list of nations with biological weapons of mass destruction just got bigger. (www.whatreallyhappened.com)

Pat Sajak Says: Arguing with Liberals, and Why I've Stopped

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U.S. Military Is Recruiting 14 Year Olds?

"It's a sweet deal," says Hadley, who boasts that he bought his X-Box with the enlistment bonus he received after signing up last month. "I don't have to do hardly anything for three years, but they're paying me now."

Chimpanzee told to stop smoking

Charlie, a grown male chimp and the Bloemfontein Zoo, has been picking up cigarettes thrown to him by visitors and smoking them -- a habit he probably picked up by observing humans, zoo officials told the SAPA news agency on Thursday.

Whale-Dolphin Hybrid Has Baby Wholphin

The only whale-dolphin mix in captivity has given birth to a playful female calf, officials at Sea Life Park Hawaii said Thursday.

Area 51 Revealed! Thanks Google Maps.

Pee Wee Herman's Going To Reno

-Paul Reubens will join the cast of Reno 9-11 on Comedy Central.

Sharon Tries to Pawn Off Fake Photos of Iran's "Nuclear Installations"

It's really sad when you have to read newspapers and web sites in the Middle East to find out what is happening in the United States. For instance, al-Jazeera was about the only site outside of Israel to report that General Yoav Gallan, war criminal Ariel Sharon's "military advisor" (that is, he tells Arik the Butcher the best way to kill Palestinians and other Arabs), "has reportedly handed Bush documents and aerial photos of Iranian nuclear installations during the Israeli prime minister's Monday meeting with the U.S. President George W. Bush, Israeli public radio reported on Tuesday."

The Teen Who Worries Microsoft

10,000 Suspects Arrested, No Bin Laden!

-Osama is dead, this FAKE video from 2004 proves it.

Kenny The Cat & Sponge Bob

Animal Activists Showered At KFC

BROWNSVILLE, Texas (AP) - A trio of protesters with People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals didn't find the welcome mat out when they stopped at a KFC in Brownsville on Wednesday. The sprinkler system was on for them, though.

Adopt A Gorilla

Are Humans Part Alien?

We may even be part alien ourselves, astrobiologist Paul Davies suggests. He says some early switching of genetic material may have occurred between our ancestors and the alien life forms that may also have called the Earth home billions of years ago.

Steal This Song

The entertainment industry's decision to sue hundreds of college students for using the super-fast Internet 2 network to steal music and movies couldn't have come at a worse time. As April winds down and finals loom ahead, the last thing today's harried coed needs is a steel-toed boot in the face from the brownshirts who do the Man's dirty work.

Congressman Dennis Kucinich: Create a U.S. Department of Peace

Participate in an historic citizen lobbying effort to create a U.S. Department of Peace, sponsored in the House of Representatives by Congressman Dennis Kucinich.

Executive Order Protecting the Development Fund for Iraq

-Pretty obvious that the war in Iraq was all about oil.

From iPod To iWaste

iPod Integrated Into MINI Cooper

Support Evolution, Before it is Extinct

US Appears To Have Fought War For Oil And Lost

THE POLIO VACCINE & AIDS

Vote Fraud is Real- Wake Up America

FDA Studies Show Aspartame Link to Brain Tumors

Patriot Act Being Used To Impliment Currency Controls

1. New bankruptcy law (last week)
2. Announcement that travel to other parts of North America will require a passport
3. New compliance standards for foreign banks (this past year)
4. Elimination of foreign accounts for US residents
(Source: whatreallyhappened.com)

Huge Earthquake, tsunami and Volcano expected North West Sumatra

It is our belief that a new earthquake (possibly the largest ever recorded in modern times) will again occur just off the West coast of Northern Sumatra, which will result in a tsunami perhaps 80 meters high (near the epicenter) and this will trigger a volcanic eruption on the Island itself. Many of the smaller Islands off the west coast of Sumatra may be lost completely.

US Rolls Out Robotic Broadband Airship

FOX NEWS: Guest Comments On Real Estate

“First the gays move in, then the students, then there’s nightlife and then people realize, My God, something’s happening here.”

Tiger Unleashed: April 29th

Meet the world’s most advanced operating system. Again. Find what you’re looking for. Get information with a single click. Create. Explore. Share. Mac OS X Tiger makes it easier than ever to find, access and enjoy everything on your computer.

United Vegetative States of America

Americans never fail to astound the world with their penchant for sensationalism. Just when it appears that they’ve scaled new peaks, they manage to notch themselves up yet higher into the dizzying summits of luridness. While the carnival of mayhem is progressing ahead in full tide in Iraq, the Americans love and sympathy for the plight of Terri Schiavo is the very embodiment of duplicity. Hypocrisy in its truest form, it speaks volumes of their O.J. Simpson syndrome. More...

A-Hole: A Bush Filmstrip

Castro Denies Bio Weapons Tries

“The only thing true in Bolton's lies is that Cuba is 90 miles away from United States territory,” said Castro, adding that the United States would be unable to provide evidence of the claim because such evidence “does not and cannot exist.”

Videos Challenge Accounts of RNC Unrest

During the event, 1,806 people were arrested on charges like disorderly conduct and obstructing justice the week of the convention, which began Aug. 30. But since then, out of 1,670 that have been brought through the courts, 91 percent ended with dropped charges or acquittal.

PRESLEY HITS OUT AT TRASH TV

LISA MARIE PRESLEY is so disgusted with the rise of trash TV in America, she's decided to address it in song. For her new album NOW WHAT, the LIGHTS OUT singer, daughter of legendary rocker ELVIS PRESLEY, has recorded a cover of DON HENLEY's DIRTY LAUNDRY, whose lyrics she feels are extremely relevant in today's world.

Check out her new song "Dirty Laundry"

The Fire That's Smouldering Under Bush

These are the polls that measure a re-elected George Bush's popularity, and thus the "dividend" he intended to spend on "being Bush". Strange news: there is no dividend. And George, at this point of the second term, is the least popular president of the US since the second world war.

Clouds May Harbor Nanobacteria

Tiny particles linked to a number of painful and sometimes deadly diseases may spread across the globe by hitching a ride in clouds, claim researchers in a recent issue of the Journal of Proteome Research.

Bolton: Wrong for the UN

The Senate begins hearings today on John Bolton, President Bush's choice for Ambassador to the United Nations. Bolton is clearly the wrong person for the job. His record on international security efforts shows a striking indifference to serious threats facing the U.S. today and contradicts his oath to best protect the American people.

Bill Clinton Bashes Man Behind 'Stop Hillary' Push

Former President Bill Clinton took aim on Monday at a powerful political opponent of his wife Sen. Hillary Clinton, saying a surge of "Stop Hillary" efforts "can't stop her." Clinton called one of the leaders of the movement, New York powerbroker Arthur Finkelstein "sad," after reports over the weekend that the Republican consultant married his gay lover

Astronomers Discover Mysterious New Star Clusters

A UK-led team of astronomers has discovered a completely new type of star cluster around a neighbouring galaxy.
The new-found clusters contain hundreds of thousands of stars, a similar number to the so-called "globular" star clusters which have long been familiar to astronomers.

FLASHBACK: DeLay's Dirty Rent-A-Riot In 2000

The incident -- the ugliest single set piece of the Election 2000 epic and possibly the most decisive one --

Project For The Old American Century - See #14 "Fraudulent Elections"

Apple Store Midtown Construction Begins

A series of recent Macklowe Properties file photos show the ground-breaking and construction efforts outside 767 Fifth Ave, the site of the General Motors building that will eventually host a massive Apple retail store in its underground concourse.

Apple's Chicago Store

Eat the Spam, it won’t kill you

Japanese Woman Blasts Neighbor With Dance Music For 2+ Years

A 58-year-old woman in the ancient Japanese region of Nara was arrested on Monday for allegedly playing loud music around the clock to harass her neighbour for two and a half years.

Dear George and Dick

Open letter from Cindy Sheehan, the mother of Spc. Casey Austin Sheehan, KIA 04/04/04 She is co-founder of Gold Star Families for Peace.

Bush and Rove Spend $2.2 Million on Social Security Propaganda

Federal law prohibits spending any public funds for publicity or propaganda designed to support or defeat legislation pending in Congress.

Woolly Mammoth Resurrection, "Jurassic Park" Planned

National Geographic News

It Will be Karl Rove Who Brings Down Tom DeLay, Not the Democrats.

Clippet:
Even the Neanderthal Wall Street Journal editorial board opined that whether DeLay "violated the small print of House ethics or campaign-finance rules is ... largely beside the point. His real fault lies in betraying the broader set of principles that brought him into office, and which, if he continues as before, sooner or later will sweep him out."

What's On Dubya's iPod?

The president also has an eclectic mix of songs downloaded into his iPod from Mark McKinnon, a biking buddy and his chief media strategist in the 2004 campaign. Among them are "Circle Back" by John Hiatt, "(You're So Square) Baby, I Don't Care" by Joni Mitchell and "My Sharona," the 1970s song by The Knack that Joe Levy, a deputy managing editor in charge of music coverage at Rolling Stone, cheerfully branded "suggestive if not outright filthy" in an interview last week.

Ordering Pizza In The Year 2010

iTunes: FREE Single Of The Week

-Great tune!

Queen Elizabeth has nothin' on this lady.

Pompano Bill a.k.a J.W. Calcaterra, his first solo exhibit -- called "Drag" -- shows off his coruscating collection of queens. Check it out through April 30 at the Stonewall Library and Archives (1717 N. Andrews Ave., Fort Lauderdale).

Ground telescopes to 'super-size'

UFO Flies Over The Vatican?

Why We Fight

What are the forces that shape and propel American militarism? This award-winning film provides an inside look at the anatomy of the American war machine.

Shetka: Counterfit Stone

shetkaSTONE is a new material that’s constructed from 100 percent recycled materials including U.S. currency, paper, plant or cloth fibers including old jeans. shetkaSTONE can be used for doors, counter tops, soap dishes, benches and molding.

Cameron Diaz is "Trippin' and Falling"

Whilst filming her new travel show for MTV (aptly) called Trippin', the actress ended in a crumpled heap whilst tackling a spot of sandsurfing with her celeb pal Drew Barrymore in Chile.

US urged to lead on Sudan before donors' conference,

President George W. Bush's decision to send the State Department's No. 2 official on a round of Sudan-related diplomacy this week has cheered many people who feared the country would be relegated to the U.S. policy back burner.

Secret Of Ashlee Simpson's Success

-Pickle relish?

THE BIG FIX

Late last year, Congress heard sworn testimony from Florida programmer Clint Curtis, who created vote-rigging software in 2000 at the request of Tom Feeny, a Bush Family factotum. Feeny wanted Curtis (a fellow Republican) and his employer, Yang Enterprises, to produce untraceable programs that could "control the vote" as needed, investigator Brad Friedman reported. Feeny also told Curtis of Bush plans to "suppress the black vote" with "exclusion lists." This is exactly what happened. BBC investigator Greg Palast has shown that tens of thousands of legitimate African-American voters were deliberately "purged" from the rolls by a private Republican-controlled corporation hired by Florida Governor Jeb Bush. Afterwards, Feeny -- who had been Jeb's running mate in his first gubernatorial campaign -- was rewarded for his dutiful service with a plum congressional seat. Continued

Bush Caught in a Lie About the 9/11 WTC Attacks

Shell agrees to move oil pipeline to protect endangered Western Gray Whales

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How The U.S. Murdered A City

Fallujah: The truth at last

Huge crowds rally in Iraq against occupation

Clinton Mobbed In Italy

G.O.P. Consultant Weds His Male Partner

Arthur J. Finkelstein, a prominent Republican consultant who has directed a series of hard-edged political campaigns to elect conservatives in the United States and Israel over the last 25 years, said Friday that he had married his male partner in a civil ceremony at his home in Massachusetts.

Mr. Finkelstein, 59, who has made a practice of defeating Democrats by trying to demonize them as liberal, said in a brief interview that he had married his partner of 40 years to ensure that the couple had the same benefits available to married heterosexual couples.

WHY GEORGE W. DOESN'T GO TO CHURCH.

Most Americans are aware that George W. Bush is a religious man. He is, after all, the man who presided over a religious revival of sorts at the Republican National Convention. He is the man who has pioneered what could be called cardio-diplomacy, judging world leaders--and, at times, entire nations--by their "hearts." He is the subject of at least four spiritual hagiographies currently in bookstores, and one religious documentary ("George W. Bush: Faith in the White House"). Most famously, Americans know him as the man who, when asked to cite the philosopher who had the greatest influence on him, named Jesus Christ.

What most--including many of the president's fiercest supporters--don't know, however, is that Bush doesn't go to church. Sure, when he weekends at Camp David, Bush spends Sunday morning with the compound's chaplain. And, every so often, he drops in on the little Episcopal church across Lafayette Park from the White House. But the president who has staked much of his domestic agenda on the argument that religious communities hold the key to solving social problems doesn't belong to a congregation. Continued

Arianna Huffington -vs- Matt Drudge

The "Huffington Report," as Ms. Huffington has dubbed it, will also feature such boldface bloggers as Senator Jon Corzine, David Geffen, Viacom co-chief Tom Freston, Barry Diller, Tina Brown and Gwyneth Paltrow. If the name seems to echo that of the Drudge Report—the mega-site operated by the rightward-tilting unofficial editorial director of America’s news cycle, Matt Drudge—well, it’s supposed to. And Mr. Beatty approved of that.

Death Valley Blooms

A rare burst of color is softening the stark landscape of Death Valley, with clusters of purple, pink and white wildflowers dotting the black basalt mountainsides and great swaths of golden blooms bordering the blinding white salt flats on the valley floor.

Turbine shadows 'upset prisoners'

A wind turbine near a top-security prison is being switched off in the early mornings because the flickering shadows it creates annoy inmates.

78% INCOME TAX RATE HIKE?

According to the White House's Minister of Disinformation and Deceit, in a speech at the Detroit Economic Club by President Bush on February 8, 2005, Bush "discussed his strategy for ensuring America's prosperity by restraining spending, promoting pro-growth policies, and strengthening institutions like Social Security for future generations.

Online Gaming Sites May Have Inside Track On Next Pope

-Gambling and religion, together? Yikes!

Chinese begin to worry U.S. militarily

China, these officials say, has smartly analyzed the strengths and weaknesses of the American military and focused its growing defense spending on weapons systems that could exploit the perceived weaknesses in case the United States ever needs to respond to fighting in Taiwan.

-It's scary being the only super-power in the world.

Fossil Records Show Biodiversity Comes and Goes

BERKELEY, CA – A detailed and extensive new analysis of the fossil records of marine animals over the past 542 million years has yielded a stunning surprise. Biodiversity appears to rise and fall in mysterious cycles of 62 million years for which science has no satisfactory explanation.

Kim Komando: The Digital Computer Goddess

Kim's show is on Sirius 135 - Saturdays from 10AM-1PM
Kim On The AM/FM Radio

Saudi Kingdom Oil Reserves May Go Up by 200 Billion Barrels

-Who said there was an oil shortage?
“These huge reserves enable the Kingdom to remain a major oil producer for between 70 and 100 years, even if it raises its production capacity to 15 million barrels per day, which may well happen during the next 15 years,” Al-Naimi said.

Wounded, Openly Gay Soldier Wants To Stay In The Army

An Army sergeant who was wounded in Iraq wants a chance to remain in the military as an openly gay soldier, a desire that's bringing him into conflict with the Pentagon's "don't ask, don't tell" policy.
Sgt. Robert Stout, 23, says he has not encountered trouble from fellow soldiers and would like to stay if not for the policy that permits gay men and women to serve only if they keep their sexual orientation a secret.

Schiavo Memo: The DeLay/Martinez Connections

The DeLay Connection
The Martinez Connection
-On March 20th, Martinez said he knew nothing about this memo. OK Mel, whatever..

D.C. Cherry Blossoms Begin To Bloom

-Another reason for Liberals to smile today

Hole Drilled to Bottom of Earth's Crust, Breakthrough to Mantle Looms

Seeking the elusive 'Moho'
Scientist said this week they had drilled into the lower section of Earth's crust for the first time and were poised to break through to the mantle in coming years.

JENNA IN DIRTY DISCO DANCE

April 7, 2005 -- VIDEOTAPE of Jenna Bush in very high spirits at a bachelorette party is being sold and could end up on national TV by the end of the week.

Closest Human Relatives Face Extinction

Several species of apes, monkeys and other primates could soon become extinct, warns a comprehensive new report released Thursday.

MIT developing $100 laptops for children

It's a grand idea and a daunting challenge: to create rugged, Internet- and multimedia-capable laptop computers at a cost of $100 apiece.
The laptops would be mass-produced in orders of no smaller than 1 million units and bought by governments, which would distribute them.

MTV launches Web-based TV 'Channel'

MTV Networks, home to raucous pop culture television hits like "The Osbournes" and "Punk'd," Wednesday launched a free Web-based "channel" that places many of its popular programs on the Internet.

Google Shows Off Satellite Map Feature

Google Maps provides for free a satellite view of any address in North America.

Grace Jones in Eurostar attack

Actress and singer Grace Jones had to be escorted off a Eurostar train by police in Kent after allegedly attacking a train manager, it was revealed today.
The 56-year-old star was reported by passengers to have grabbed the female manager's arm and sworn at her in French and English in a row over a ticket upgrade.

RIF: Reading Is Fundamental

Take Action Now!
RIF needs your support to secure funding for FY '06 RIF programs. Please help by asking your members of Congress to sign the RIF Dear Colleague letter. Learn more...

Home "Depot" Land Security

Last month, Tom Ridge joined the board of directors of The Home Depot Inc. and has since received criticism based on the fact that the company is a major supplier of the Homeland Security-recommended chemical warfare provisions of duct tape and plastic sheeting.

A New 911 Truth Documentary Premieres In CA

We're all paranoid....
Sure, the people with the 9/11 conspiracy theories are a little odd. But not everything they're saying is entirely crazy.

Mars: Case For Liquid Surface Water

-Interesting photos.

"SCISSOR SISTERS VICTIMS OF HOMOPHOBIC US" - Boy George

-Boy George is getting lots of press these days, a new CD must be on the way.
"Veteran pop star BOY GEORGE claims the SCISSOR SISTERS' failure to attract a huge following in the band's native America is down to homophobic record buyers. "

http://www.scissorsisters.com/

"Hot Tub Tom, Who Lives In Macho Manor..."

When Is The Hammer Going To The Slammer?

DeLay daughter's baby shower held by Texas energy firm under investigation.

|-SPLOID-|

Sploid is a news site with a tabloid mentality -- top stories up top, played big, as fast as they break. If there's a political line, it's anarcho-capitalist: sniffing out hypocrisy and absurdity, whether from salon left or religious right.

Best Buy To Carry Apple's Mac Mini

"Miami Will Sizzle, L.A. Will Fizzle"

Whether home prices will rise or fall in the coming year is anyone's guess. The housing market continues to stump experts on both sides of the bubble debate.
Even so, economists at Fiserv Case Shiller Weiss think they have a pretty good idea what's in the cards for most metros in 2005.
Their prediction: Los Angeles will fizzle. Miami will sizzle.

Anti-governor protesters block San Francisco streets

Several thousand boisterous union members besieged the Ritz-Carlton Hotel where Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger was holding a fundraiser Tuesday night and tried to stop guests from getting through a side door.
While an airplane flew overhead, trailing a banner that read, ``ARNOLD: CALIFORNIA IS NOT FOR SALE!'' the protesters massed along the side entry on Pine Street, closing it several times, before police moved them aside.

The New "W" Bumpersticker

Liberal Radio Goes LA Local..But Will Local Libs Learn From Air America's Mistakes?

April 6, 2005 -- HOLLYWOOD (apj.us) -- Last week, HBO debuted the
documentary "Left of the Dial," a look at the early, stumbling days of the
progressive radio network Air America -- warts and all... though with all
the warts the "all" was difficult to find.

The documentary, which originally might have been only an amiable birthday
present to the progressive network (Air America, not HBO), turned out to be
a dramatic and, most of the time, anguished look at an infant broadcasting
entity born to parents who had little comprehension of how radio works --
kind of the way regular infants are born to regular parents.

With the irascible and most powerful female voice on the AM dial, Randi
Rhodes, on board as the only experienced radio talent on Air America's debut
roster, it would be difficult to think that anything but a comedy (of
errors) might be in the offing.

Satellite Radio Takes Off, Altering the Airwaves

Just a blink after the newly emergent titans of radio - Clear Channel Communications, Infinity Broadcasting and the like - were being accused of scrubbing diversity from radio and drowning listeners in wall-to-wall commercials, the new medium of satellite radio is fast emerging as an alternative. And broadcasters are fighting back.

The announcement on Friday by XM Satellite Radio - the bigger of the two satellite radio companies - that it added more than 540,000 subscribers from January through March pushed the industry's customer total past five million after fewer than three and a half years of operation. Analysts call that remarkable growth for companies charging more than $100 annually for a product that has been free for 80 years.

Total subscribers at XM and its competitor, Sirius Satellite Radio, will probably surpass eight million by the end of year, making satellite radio one of the fastest-growing technologies ever - faster, for example, than cellphones.

Court upholds groundbreaking California DP law

California's new domestic-partner law, which gives registered partners many of the same rights and protections of marriage, does not conflict with a voter-approved initiative that defined marriage as a union of a man and a woman, a state appeals court ruled Monday. The law, which was signed in 2003 by former governor Gray Davis and went into effect January 1, represents the nation's most sweeping recognition of domestic-partner rights after Vermont's recognition of civil unions for gay couples. It grants registered couples virtually every spousal right available under state law except the ability to file joint income taxes.

The End of the World As We Know It

The fight against extreme poverty can be won, but only if Bush recognises that military might alone won't secure the world.

Oil barons play at lavish hot spots as consumers sweat at the pump

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates — Snow skiing in the desert? Sure. The world's tallest building and largest shopping mall? Build them. An undersea luxury hotel? Why not?
Seemingly nothing is impossible these days in this desert kingdom on the northern coast of Arabia.
The biggest oil price boom of a generation is under way, proving wildly wrong predictions by the U.S. Department of Energy last year that oil prices would decline to $23.57 a barrel.

WHERE TO BUY GAS

Here are some large companies that do not import Middle Eastern oil:
Citgo
Sunoco
Conoco
Sinclair
BP/Phillips
Hess
ARCO

Stop the Republicans' abuse of power

Radical Right leaders in the Senate -- Bill Frist, Trent Lott, and Vice President Dick Cheney -- are just days away from attempting an unprecedented political coup that would thrust the country closer to one-party rule.
People For the American Way Foundation has launched a new phase of our emergency campaign to save the filibuster. We're sounding the alarm and mobilizing Americans to stop far-right leaders in their tracks. Preventing this disaster requires six principled Republican Senators.
Senator Frist's "nuclear option" scheme relies on a bogus procedure that would need the backing of 50 senators. We need at least six Republican senators to stand up for checks and balances. Fortunately, many Republicans have deep misgivings about the "nuclear option." They know it would damage the Senate and violate basic principles of American democracy. But they will be under intense pressure from Bill Frist, Karl Rove, George W. Bush, and far-right groups.
The vote is too close to call. We can defeat the "nuclear option" if we get our message out.

Iraq Coalition Casualty Count

1538 Official U.S. Military Fatalities in Iraq (thru today)
11442 Official Wounded (thru 19-Mar-05)
Bush Lied, Soldiers Keep Dying.
http://icasualties.org/oif/

Gore TV Sets Launch Date: August 2005

The former vice president and his partners, including entrepreneur Joel Hyatt, are taking an unconventional approach to TV programming in hopes of attracting viewers aged 18 to 34. That demographic, heavily sought by advertisers, has become difficult for TV networks and newspapers to reach.

Europe's 'smart' cars coming to U.S. — in 2 sizes

The tiny car that won over Europeans with its cute looks and very high mileage is finally coming to America, just not in the way you might expect it to.

"The Heat Is On"

"A marvelously readable but devastatingly candid account of the brutal politics of debunking the scientific method by the opulent vested interests of the fossil-fuel lobby." -- Nature

NYU antiwar protesters keep CIA at bay

A CIA recruitment event scheduled to occur Thursday at NYU was canceled after organizers learned of a protest by the Campus Antiwar Network against the CIA's presence on campus, university officials said.

Pilots fear computers taking over

It’s a word from aviation that has entered common usage - "autopilot" - but the increasing use of computers on board planes is potentially dangerous, according to the people in charge of the flight deck - the pilots. Senior aircrew believe that the growing reliance on electronics has reduced pilots to "machine minders" with a decreasing ability to fly the planes manually.

White House Fights American POWs Who Were Tortured by Saddam

In 1996, Congress passed a law allowing US citizens who had been tortured by foreign governments to sue for damages. Now that a court has awarded a group of Gulf War POW's nearly 900 million dollars, the Justice Department is appealing to stop them from collecting.

US relied on 'drunken liar' to justify war

An alcoholic cousin of an aide to Ahmed Chalabi has emerged as the key source in the US rationale for going to war in Iraq.

Sly artist strikes again

A shadowy British artist who calls himself Banksy walked into the Museum of Modern Art, the Metropolitan Museum, the Brooklyn Museum, and the Museum of Natural History sometime around March 13 and surreptitiously mounted his own artwork on the walls.

APRIL FOOL’S DAY SURPRISE FOR STAR JONES

Morrissey Video: "I Have Forgiven You Jesus"

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VIDEO FLASHBACK: X "Burning House Of Love" (American Bandstand 1985)

"Hit-and-run Exene" Exene Cervenka — punk pioneer, spoken-word orator, school librarian. The Coloradoan

Attack Iran the day Iraq war ends, demands Israel

ISRAEL’S Prime Minister Ariel Sharon has called on the international community to target Iran as soon as the imminent conflict with Iraq is complete.

Belgium red-faced over Bush chimpanzee photos

BRUSSELS (AFP) - Belgium's interior minister was left red-faced after it emerged that photos comparing US President George W. Bush to a chimpanzee had been used in a police training manual.

Shaky faultline raises the threat of a super-volcano

"These super-volcanoes are potentially the greatest hazard on Earth, the only greater threat being an asteroid impact from space," said Ray Cas, a vulcanologist with Monash University in Melbourne.

Give me a break - John Stossel: State of Fear

"Crichton himself used to worry about global warming. But then he spent three years researching it. He concluded it's just another foolish media-hyped scare. Many climate scientists agree with him, saying the effect of man and greenhouse gases is minor. "

The Smiths: Some bands are bigger than others...

"I once said that Morrissey and Marr were better songwriters than Lennon and McCartney. "
-Jonathan Coe, Author

Tom Delay: "Judges will be made to pay"

-Does he know 13 out of the 22 judges that ruled on the Schiavo case were Republican appointees? At least one who ruled in favor of the Schindlers was a Clinton appointee.

Osama bin Laden: A dead nemesis perpetuated by the US government

What Really Happened.Com

Ms. Wheelchair Pageant Winner Loses Crown

Ms. Wheelchair Wisconsin has been stripped of her title because pageant officials say she can stand _ and point to a newspaper picture as proof. Full Story

It's Spring - Think Pink

"Well. I dare say, pink is the new black for spring.
Not since the 80’s (when I was but a wee child) have I seen so much pink about and to be honest it feels quite refreshing. Pink is so optimistic, don’t you think? " - By Duane Wells, 365Gay.com

-Self Portrait: Andy Warhol 1986

Sierra Club: Embrace a Clean Energy Future

Add your name to our oil and gas drilling petition!

Biodiesel maker in green fuel tie-up

LONDON (Reuters) - Green fuel maker Global Commodities UK says it plans to open a new facility to turn waste vegetable oil into biodiesel this year after agreeing a joint venture with distributor Rix Biodiesel.

Clinton Team Preps For 'Swift Boat' Tactics

New York Times -
WASHINGTON, March 31 - With 19 months to go before the elections and no opponent in sight, Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton's campaign is nonetheless warning her political supporters that she is the prime target of "the right-wing attack machine."

Seymour Hersh: Bush is "Unreachable"

“Nothing I write” is likely to influence Bush, he said. “He is unreachable. I can’t reach him. He’s got his own world. This is really unusual and frankly, it scares the hell out of me.” Full Article