Raising Hell
Raising Hell is back after a summer of abscence. Go give it a read, especially if you are a parent. It is always well wortha read!
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Month: September, 2002
The Bush Plan for Empire
Interesting website I ran across today - Bush Watch. Well worth a read.
The official story on Iraq has never made sense. The connection that the Bush administration has tried to draw between Iraq and al-Qaida has always seemed contrived and artificial. In fact, it was hard to believe that smart people in the Bush [...]
Democracy rule by the people? Not in Canada
Southam newspapers (Canada’s largest newspaper chain) is running an intersting 19 part exanination of democracy in Canada. Here is Part 1
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Shooting from the lip
There is an excellent commentary, by Paul Harris, in the latest Yellow Times on Jean Chretien’s remarks on poverty, greed and terrorism.
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more creationist nonsense
The Cobb County Board of Education in Georgia has voted to allow creationism be taught in public schools as an alternate view to how life evolved on earth.
I am constantly amazed at the ignorance and outright stupidity evinced by US school boards and the proponents of Creationism. Please note I do not call it Creation [...]
Is it ignorance or crass political exploitation
Marie-Josee Kravis, in yesterday’s WSJ, attacked Prime Minister Jean Chretien for his position on terrorism and world poverty. In doing so Marie-Josee Kravis proved she is either incredibly ignorant or someone who is willing to crassly misconstrue the facts inorder to promote her own political agenda. My vote is for the latter. The facts are [...]
Arrest for Slapper author
Might I suggest a long excursion in the Gulag Archipeligo for this asshole!
By James Middleton [24-09-2002]
But a new variant is already out there A suspect has been arrested on suspicion of authoring the Slapper worm.
But although the threat of the worm seems to have been shortlived, a new variant is already set to take up [...]
Acidic clouds of Venus could harbour life
The acidic clouds of Venus could in fact be hiding life. Unlikely as it sounds, the presence of microbes could neatly explain several mysterious observations of the planet’s atmosphere.
Venus is usually written off as a potential haven for life because of its hellishly hot and acidic surface. But conditions in the atmosphere at an altitude [...]
Mars Attacks!
A hardy microbe that can withstand huge doses of radiation could have evolved this ability on Mars.
That is the conclusion of Russian scientists who say it would take far longer than life has existed here for the bug to evolve that ability in Earth’s clement conditions. They suggest the harsher environment of Mars makes it [...]
Time to move beyond war
Yesterday a group of 100 prominent Canadians issued a statement condemning an attack on Iraq as immoral. Amongst those authors are such notables as David Suzuki, Bruce Cockburn, Buffy Sainte Marie, Pierre Burton, Margaret Atwood and Robert Bateman. Below is the text of their statement.
We, the undersigned, are deeply alarmed that the most powerful nations [...]
