Friday, September 26, 2003

We could all learn a lesson here

India's most famous woman guru, Mata Amritanandamayi, whose name means "mother of absolute bliss", is renowned for many things. read here

Schwarzenegger?s business scams

During his 1981 appearance, Arnold explained to Johnny how his bricklaying business worked. Franco and Arnold would call on a homeowner. Arnold, always good with the public, would keep the homeowner busy, discussing prices and such. "In the meantime," Arnold recounted, "Franco climbed up on the roof to check the chimney?and he, of course, is a very strong guy and a [weight] lifter?he pushed all the chimneys over so they fall down. So these people come and say, ?Oh, thank you so much for helping us. This could have fallen on somebody?s head, you know. Thank you for doing it for us.?" read it here

Danish capital loses power

In an eerie "coincidence" (one to many if you ask me) Copenhagen was hit with a massive power outage affecting nearly four million homes and businesses. In another eerie "coincidence" engineers are at a loss to explain the outage. Once again we are left asking why? Read it here...

Michael Moore.com : Mike's Message

No one is innocent here. And yet, there is, in everyone, a chance for redemption. Read it here...

Thursday, September 25, 2003

BBC NEWS | Science/Nature | Europe gets set for Moon mission

The probe's tiny instruments will give scientists precise data on what the Moon is really made of.

This should help them confirm the theory that the Moon was created in a collision between Earth and another object.
read more here

Wednesday, September 24, 2003

Michael Moore Digs Himself A Deeper Hole

I was wondering how filmmaker Michael Moore would react to the avalanche of criticism, outrage, and shock set off by his paean to retired General Wesley Clark, the ex-Supreme Commander of NATO forces in Europe, who's thrown his hat into the ring for the Democratic Party's presidential nomination. read more here

Pentagon's call to mercenaries

Mercenaries are training to do the kind of work the US Government can't afford to have its own soldiers doing. And in a couple of weeks some of them will be shipping out to places like Iraq and Afghanistan.
it's only a matter of time before the world's next humanitarian crisis demands troops and looks for them under a corporate flag. read it here

Sorrow as UFO expert dies, 49

Graham Birdsall, editor of UFO Magazine, died on September 19, two days after undergoing a seven hour operation following a brain haemorrhage. read here

Tuesday, September 23, 2003

Scientists See Antarctic Vortex as Drought Maker

Australia may be facing a permanent drought because of an accelerating vortex of winds whipping around the Antarctic that threatens to disrupt rainfall, scientists said on Tuesday.
read more here

Monday, September 22, 2003

t r u t h o u t - White House Ambushed By Criticism From America's Military Community

"I once believed that I served for a cause: 'To uphold and defend the Constitution of the United States'. Now I no longer believe that," Tim Predmore, a member of the 101st Airborne Division serving near Mosul, wrote in a blistering opinion piece this week for his home newspaper, the Peoria Journal Star in Illinois. "I can no longer justify my service for what I believe to be half-truths and bold lies." read it

Guardian Unlimited | Special reports | Bush covers up climate research

The disclosure will anger environment campaigners who claim that efforts to cut greenhouse gas emissions are being sabotaged because of President George W. Bush's links to the oil industry. read more here

Oldest ever ice core promises climate revelations

He also hopes the core will reach as far back as 780,000 years ago, when the Earth's magnetic field last reversed. Very little is known about what such a reversal would do to the planet's climate. read more here

UFOs, Beam of Light, Puzzled And Frightened Residents

What can cause so many residents in various communities from Kamloops through to the Okanagan and the Kootenays in British Columbia left scratching their heads, wondering what it was they all witnessed? read more here

Oregon's 'gold' passport to the paranormal

The vortex is billed as a mysterious point on the planet where some laws of physics are temporarily suspended as the result of a curious confluence of magnetic fields.read it here

Sunday, September 21, 2003

Mars Global Surveyor images of D&M pyramid

In recent weeks, the MOC team has received numerous requests through the Mars Orbiter Camera Target Request Site to obtain pictures of the "D&M Pyramid." see it here