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An interesting, albeit a little over the top, look at the current state of freedom in the US. Then again, given what is going on south of the 49th maybe being a little over the top is what is needed today. Americans need to be shocked out of their complacent, and false, belief that they [...]

Now as Tom Tomorrow says “given the extent to which the war on terror has come to define the administration’s policies, foreign and domestic, why isn’t this on every front page in the country?” Again the question must be asked, what is the Bush/Cheney/Rumsfeld cabal hiding?’
By Rebecca Carr, Palm Beach Post Washington Bureau
Saturday, July 27, [...]

Matthew Riemer continues his series on the power of words and how the media shapes our beliefs.
(YellowTimes.org) ? The more likely someone is of accusing you of being conspiratorial in your ideas the more likely it is that they actually don’t understand how the world works or the more afraid they likely are of the [...]

By Roger Highfield, Science Editor
(Filed: 01/08/2002)
Research published today suggests that dogs can count and that their barks are more complex than previously thought.
Many apes and monkeys are able to count. But Robert Young, an animal behaviour expert at the Pontifical Catholic University of Minas Gerais in Belo Horizonte, Brazil, suspected that dogs did, too….Telegraph
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Not to suspect that a dirty little word lies at the center of the controversy spawned by the most recent Bush administration document on climate change. In the June EPA policy paper “Climate Action Report 2002,” the government admitted that climate change is not only real but getting worse, that human activities are the most [...]

Using a search engine to locate stories on newspapers’ sites violates European Union law, according to a recent ruling by judges in Munich’s Upper Court….Wired
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Ziff Davis, a publishing leviathan which has and has had a strong presence in computer periodicals, might declare bankruptcy by week’s end, according to a published report.
ZD, according to the report, has been telling advertisers that it is likely to declare bankruptcy this week. The story cites three unnamed sources said to be familiar with [...]

By Roger Highfield, Science Editor
(Filed: 30/07/2002)
Boeing, the world’s largest aircraft maker, is the latest research organisation to admit that it is following up the work of a controversial Russian scientist who suggests it should be possible to turn off gravity.
Most scientists believe anti-gravity is a flight of fancy but the implications are too huge to [...]

Matthew Riemer has written two interestring articles on the power of words and how public perception of political events is manipulated.
Part 1: The Dissident
Part 2: Conspiracy
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The NFTF has printed pictures from last week’s Israeli airstrike on
Gaza. The pictures are very graphic, but they will show you how the
airstrikes affected the neighborhood that was attacked, along with the
victims, including many children….YellowTimes
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