Washington Drops Bomb on Landmine Ban

Groups that have fought for the elimination of anti-personnel landmines worldwide lashed out Friday at the U.S. decision to not sign the global Landmine Ban Treaty
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Saturn looms large for spacecraft

The US-European spacecraft is not due at the giant ringed planet until July but has just sent back another stunning image, taken from a distance of 69m km.
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Astronaut Edgar Mithcell Speaks out: "We've had visitors"

"A few insiders know the truth . . . and are studying the bodies that have been discovered," said Mitchell, who was the sixth man to walk on the moon.Read it here...

60 world-class scientists agree: BushCo really loathes planet

60 out of 60 scientists agree: BushCo's time of reflecting nothing but cruel blackness and abuse needs to come to an end, right now. Read it here...

UN bugging scandal widens

The former UN chief weapons inspector in Iraq, Richard Butler, says his phone calls at the United Nations were bugged during his tenure from 1997 to 1999.
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t r u t h o u t - Hastert Poised to Shut Down 9/11 Probe

In a blow to the commission investigating the Sept. 11 attacks, the speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives has told the White House and fellow Republicans that he will not bring up legislation to extend its May 27 deadline, officials said on Wednesday.
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Dear Christianity,

Your first task, was to create love in this world. Yet, counter to this mission, you have instead spread hate, deciet and fear among God's children. You have used the name and school of Jesus Christ to cause separation, instead of bringing us together.
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Galapagos tortoises held hostage

More than 30 scientists and several giant tortoises are being held hostage by striking fishermen in the Galapagos islands.
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Art, but not as we know it

Why would you give a cactus human hair? Or grow wings for pigs? And as for redesigning the butterfly... Artists are appropriating biotechnology for their own ends.
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Osama in the House?

The U.S. Special Forces are “absolutely confident” there is no escape for Bin Laden, and are awaiting the order to go in and get him. The timing of that order will ultimately depend on President Bush, the source said. “Capturing Bin Laden will certainly be a huge help for him as he gets ready for the election.”

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UK 'spied on UN's Kofi Annan'

British spies listened in to UN Secretary General Kofi Annan's office in the run up to the Iraq war, former UK cabinet minister Clare Short says.
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Bush defense adviser resigns

Richard Perle, one of the most outspoken advocates for invading Iraq, has quietly resigned from the Defense Policy Board, an influential bipartisan Pentagon advisory group.

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ITC

To make a TRANS-VIDEO experience you need a television, a video-camera and a VHS video. The three machines must be conected in a locked circuit (we must to see the television screen looking at the viewfinder of the video-camera).
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One Hundred and Fifty Seven Witnesses Speak Out - We Want To Know!

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.
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the passion: parental discretion is advised

How many times have you seen some recovering alcoholic or drug addict find ? Jesus ?? If you watch closely, essentially, all they do is switch their addictions.
Now instead of taking a drink, they thump on their Bible. They still have their dependent personalities. All drug rehab did was switch that dependency from a drug to a religion
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Mystery disease kills 1500 pigeons (February 26, 2004)

SOME 1500 pigeons at a Hindu temple in northeastern India have dropped dead in the past six days.
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GCHQ case collapses over leaked 'dirty tricks' memo

Ms Gun's solicitor John Welch added: "It is quite appalling that a whistleblower who had acted in good conscience should have been threatened with two years' imprisonment for exposing that the American Government had asked our Government to do something which was illegal and would have undermined the deliberations of the United Nations."
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What the WHO doesn't want you to know about cannabis

Health officials in Geneva have suppressed the publication of a politically sensitive analysis that confirms what ageing hippies have known for decades: cannabis is safer than alcohol or tobacco.

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3D Reconstruction of Mars

animation has been created by our computer technique which automatically fuses the NASA input images by simulating the human brain.
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SARS Forgotten But Not Gone

Although the SARS (virus) this season may be of a slightly different lineage, a quick review of some of the mutations shows that the virus is mutating away," Niman wrote in a Feb. 10 post to his newsgroup. "It is beginning to look like more SARS is also percolating just below the radar screen in China."
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A pair of comets that astronomers have been monitoring for several months could become plainly visible in the night sky this spring.

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Wave energy generator unveiled

Ocean Power Delivery (OPD), based in Edinburgh?s Leith district, revealed to industry representatives and politicians the 400ft-long 700-tonne Pelamis Wave Energy Convertor which will be capable of delivering power enough for 500 homes.
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Hallucinogen May Cure Drug Addiction

It doesn't come from a modern laboratory, but from an ancient plant.
It was discovered not by a scientist, but by a heroin addict.
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Earth almost put on impact alert

Astronomers have revealed how they came within minutes of alerting the world to a potential asteroid strike last month.
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ESA - Aurora Programme - Flagship missions

ExoMars is the first Aurora Flagship mission to be assessed. Its aim is to further characterise the biological environment on Mars in preparation for robotic missions and then human exploration. Data from the mission will also provide invaluable input for broader studies of exobiology - the search for life on other planets.
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Spirit Rover Hot on the Trail of Martian Life

Spirit has discovered irregular patterns in a small patch of fine-grained soil at Gusev Crater. One possible explanation is that there is liquid brine -salty water - below the surface.

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MARS: Water World

numerous images of canals with calm, still water as well as cascading cataracts that fill shimmering wave filled pools reflecting enormous boulders on their banks and even violent water falls.
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Kelly was Murdered' Says UK Intelligence Insider

Michael Shrimpton, a UK national security lawyer who was a guest on the show, revealed that sources within MI5 and MI6 are `furious' that Kelly was murdered.
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Crops 'widely contaminated' by genetically modified DNA

US scientists are warning of a potentially "serious risk to human health" after the discovery that traditional varieties of major American food crops are widely contaminated by DNA sequences from GM crops.

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mayors take on oil companies

The board, for the first time in its history, will consider whether an oil company can use fresh water to inject into aging, congested oil wells in order to squeeze more oil out of them.

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climate change will destroy us

A secret report, suppressed by US defence chiefs and obtained by The Observer, warns that major European cities will be sunk beneath rising seas as Britain is plunged into a 'Siberian' climate by 2020. Nuclear conflict, mega-droughts, famine and widespread rioting will erupt across the world.

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