Death after death blood after blood

Killing goes on despite claims that siege is over
We haven't given up. This is a lie by the government," said Amar Al-Khaji, a 29-year-old civil engineer from Baghdad. "As you can see, we are still here."
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Dissent Must Come Alive in New York

While some dissenters may think of New York as the apocalypse itself, many will be thinking of a strategic opportunity beyond the skirmish in New York: to turn the November election into a referendum on Iraq and democratically expel George W. Bush from power.
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Man fired for heckling Bush

When he showed up for work at Octavo Designs of Frederick, Maryland, the following morning, he said he was told he'd embarrassed and offended a client who provided tickets to the event -- and that he was fired.

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Plague of locusts casts shadow over Africa

Torn by war, famine and disease, the world's most tortured continent faces a new horror: the biggest swarms of locusts for 15 years.
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Flood alert as heavy rain blows in

People in the South West have been warned to brace themselves for more flooding over the weekend as an Atlantic storm heads towards British shores.

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Formisanos Twilight Zone Part 2

This game, this scam, this 'program,' is then literally extended over generations -- as succeeding graduating classes of science and engineering students enter the space industry to explore and learn the secret to ... perpetual funding!
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Roundup Ready Wheat Trials Continuing - Despite promises 16 field trials still in the ground

Greenpeace has learned that American agro-chemical giant Monsanto has continued with open air field testing of genetically engineered wheat, despite statements in May that all such research would be abandoned.
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Tree farmers enlisted to fight logging rule

Mark Woodall is an unlikely environmentalist. After all, he makes his living growing trees so he can cut them down.
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Genesis Spacecraft Prepares to Return to Earth with a Piece of the Sun

Six minutes after that, the main parachute, a parafoil, will deploy 6.1 kilometers (20,000 feet) up. Waiting below will be two helicopters and their flight crews looking for their chance to grab a piece of the Sun.
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Destructive power of 100,000 A-bombs

Hurricane Charley may not be the most terrible storm to have hit the US coastline, but it could be a warning of worse to come.
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New Zealand News - -violent storm batters lower North Island

the wind speed at 80 knots and the conditions were the worst they had seen.

This was only the third time he had closed the entrance in 10 years, he said.

"This is an absolutely unusual event."
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Bill Maher Bush blew it the morning of 911

This was a moment a President should have imagined a thousand times. There is no time in the nuclear age for a President to sit like Forrest Gump "gathering thoughts" after an attack has begun. Gathering information is what he should have been doing.
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Sewage waters a tenth of world irrigated crops

the study concludes that banning the practice is not usually practicable. ?We need to recognise that sewage is a valuable resource that grows huge amounts of food. So instead we should help the millions of farmers involved to do it better.
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911 In Plane Site

Why weren't America and the world shown the video and photographs of the Pentagon, BEFORE the outer wall had collapsed? The Pentagon's outer wall did not collapse for a full 35 minutes after the initial impact. See these astounding photographs for the first time.
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Teleportation goes long distance

Physicists have carried out successful teleportation with particles of light over a distance of 600m across the River Danube in Austria.
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FACTS UPDATE ON FLORIDA

I really don't care what CNN or ANY biased and controlled media group wants to "estimate" or purportedly "report" about this disaster. The world is NOT being told the truth of what happened here and how many died.
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Dozens rescued from flash floods

"It has been torrential. Really, really heavy rain and storms with water running down the village. I was amazed at the volume of rain."
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Goss?s Wish List

Bush?s CIA nominee has alarmed civil libertarians with a plan that would authorize the agency to arrest U.S. citizens. Plus, the real threat to the Olympic games.
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S.A. Zoo Weighs-In on Chupacabra Debate

Gramieri says he can't tell what type of canine, but that it could be mixed with coyote that has very weird teeth.

?For whatever reason, this animal had a very poor fusion in the front here, so it allowed that lower jaw to spread in a way that is not normal for any mammal, actually,?

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Combat robots wow crowds

A robot fighting contest that draws huge crowds in Japan each year has highlighted sophisticated technological trends in robotics, experts say.

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The Tiny Victims of Desert Storm

Some physicians who have treated Gulf vets believe they may be suffering from a general overload of chemical pollutants--and that their body fluids are actually toxic. (Indeed, many veterans' wives are sick; a few complain that their husbands' semen blisters their skin.)
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IHT: Political protesters come under FBI questioning

The FBI has been questioning political demonstrators across the country, and in rare cases even subpoenaing them, in an aggressive effort to forestall what officials say could be violent and disruptive protests at the Republican National Convention in New York.
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Is Our Media Covering its Errors or Covering Them Up?

There were two wars in Iraq--a military assault and a media war. The former was well-covered; the latter was not. Until now... Independent filmmaker, Emmy-award winning TV journalist, author and media critic, Danny Schechter turns the cameras on the role of the media. His new film, WMD, is an outspoken assessment of how Pentagon propaganda and media complicity misled the American people,
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New York ready to unleash fury on Republicans

New York is bracing for one of the biggest showdowns in its political history as the Republican national convention comes to town at the end of the month.
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Reporters Ordered to Leave Najaf

Iraqi police ordered all journalists to leave the holy city of Najaf on Sunday, just as a new U.S. offensive against militants hiding out in a revered shrine there began.
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Science and President Bush Collide in Election Year

With more than 4,000 scientists, including 48 Nobel Prize winners, having signed a statement opposing the Bush administration's use of scientific advice, this election year is seeing a new development in the uneasy relationship between science and politics.
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Hungry world 'must eat less meat'

World water supplies will not be enough for our descendants to enjoy the sort of diet the West eats now, experts say.
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