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Evidence found of lake, catastrophic flood on Mars NASM NEWS RELEASE Posted: June 22, 2002 Geologists at the Smithsonian's National Air and Space Museum have discovered a large former lake in the highlands of Mars that would cover an area the size of Texas and New Mexico combined, and which overflowed to carve one of that planet's largest valleys. The findings appear in the June 21 issue of the journal Science. The flood channel, Ma'adim Vallis, is more than 550 miles long and up to 6,900 feet deep, making it larger than Earth's Grand Canyon. "Imagine more than five times...

Anyone who has watched the CNN yack show Crossfire is aware of the format.........2 hosts and 2 guests, with 1 host and 1 guest representing the "left" while the other pair represent the "right". Tonight, the "left" was being represented by guest co-host and Clinton hack, Dee Dee Myers along with Robert Wexler (D-FLA).......And "on the right", co-host Robert Novak and........get this.......

U.S. investigating claims Sun layoffs favored foreign workers Monday, June 24, 2002 Federal authorities are investigating claims that Sun Microsystems Inc. favored U.S.-based foreign workers over American citizens during a recent round of layoffs. The Justice and Labor departments launched their probes after a complaint filed in April by Guy Santiglia, who lost his Sun engineering job in October along with 3,900 other employees. Santiglia, 36, said the Unix server giant favored holders of H-1B visas because those engineers may be paid less. The visa program was expanded in 2000 to help fill the ranks of workers during the high-tech...

Arabs heard in US President George Bush's Mideast policy speech Monday an unacceptable call to topple Palestinian Authority Chairman Yasser Arafat and accused him of retreating from his promise of even a provisional Palestinian state. "The Arab world will not sleep tonight," said Mohamed el-Sayed Said, Washington bureau chief for the Egyptian daily Al-Ahram, after watching Bush's 20-minute address from the White House Rose Garden. "He practically demanded the removal of Arafat, the symbol of Palestinian unity," he said. "The Palestinians have elected Arafat and they will elect him again. If the Palestinians re-elect Arafat, are they going to be...

Texas Straight Talk directory Project FREEDOM Undersecretary John Magaw, the chief of the new Transportation Security Administration, has been very busy lately. He just spent $410,000 of your tax dollars installing lavish fixtures in his new office suite at the Transportation department headquarters. The Washington Post reports that "With its plush carpeting, mahogany stained doors, crown molding, and state-of-the-art conference room equipped with $109,000 worth of audio equipment, it has struck some visitors as ‘a little bit over the top.’" Incredibly, Magaw managed to spend about $132 per square foot on his new digs, more than the cost of new...

Apparently Mini-Teacups son has been abducted and the father may not be in a good state of mind, please keep Teacup and Mini Teacup in your prayers.They have registered with the National Missing Persons Database and are setting up a search fund at a local bank.

CARP bombshell: LIBRARIAN OF CONGRESS SET WEBCAST ROYALTY RATES BASED ON YAHOO! DEAL THAT WAS DESIGNED TO REDUCE COMPETITION AND HURT SMALL WEBCASTERSBroadcast.com founder Mark Cuban tells "RAIN: Radio And Internet Newsletter" about the strategy behind the RIAA license that Billington used as template for the industry CHICAGO (6/24/02): The voluntary royalty deal between Yahoo! and the RIAA that the Librarian of Congress announced as his template for the entire industry last week was a deal crafted by Yahoo! to shut out small webcasters and decrease competition, Broadcast.com founder and Dallas Mavericks owner Mark Cuban revealed to "RAIN: Radio And...

Many fear migrant toll may soar in the heat of summer TIJUANA – Like a family caring for the grave of a loved one, José Rufino Casio and his two daughters tend a section of the border fence where hundreds of their countrymen are memorialized with wooden crosses. In the United States, people who cross the border without proper documents are called illegal immigrants. But in Mexico, they are known as heroes who are trying to find work to give their families better lives. "It's sad," said Casio, a retired truck driver who does what he can to honor those...

Going against the flowHeat can flow without temperature differences - but thermodynamics remains intact.25 June 2002PHILIP BALL With the right rachet, heat can flow from one hot place to another © Getty Images Physicists have devised a way to dodge one of the most fundamental laws of nature: the fact that heat flows only from hot to cold. At face value, it implies they have invented a never-ending source of energy. Well they haven't - but it could provide a method for carrying out unheard-of chemical reactions.By imagining two chambers containing particles, Souvik Das of St Stephen's College in...

Dollar hits new two-year euro lowThe euro is now approaching parity with the dollar The slide in the value of the dollar has accelerated, with the US currency plumbing new lows despite central bank intervention. The euro has traded at more than $0.98 for the first time since February 2000, extending a rally that has seen it gain almost 9% against the US currency this year. I do have great confidence our economy is going to go forward - we're going to be fine US Treasury Secretary Paul O'Neill Earlier in the day, the Bank of Japan intervened in the...

Article in part...: Five years later, fresh from his victory over tobacco companies, Banzhaf is a leader of a movement of trial lawyers and public-health activists who are marshaling the strategies used against tobacco to go after fast-food restaurants and food processors that sell "fatty" food, candy, soft drinks and other consumables deemed politically incorrect. The leading chain of fast-food restaurants, McDonald's, states on its Website, "For both quality and safety, McDonald's has been a leader in setting and strictly enforcing high standards — often exceeding those established by industry and government." Yet, "Some of the same legal tactics, by...

ASSIST News Service (ANS) - PO Box 2126, Garden Grove, CA 92842-2126 USA E-mail: assistcomm@cs.com, Web Site: www.assist-ministries.comMonday, June 24, 2002 TERROR SITE RESURFACES UNDER DIFFERENT NAME BREAKING NEWS! By Jeremy ReynaldsSpecial Correspondent for ASSIST News Service ALBUQUERQUE, NM (ANS) -- An Arabic web site recently known as alneeda.com and believed by U.S. officials to have been used by al-Qaeda to deliver messages possibly connected with further attacks, has resurfaced under the name www.drasat.com. Cyberterrorism expert Ben Venzke told USA Today last week that alneda.com, of which this new site appears to be a duplicate, "is one of the...

This is a WorldNetDaily printer-friendly version of the article which follows. To view this item online, visit http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=28068 Monday, June 24, 2002 GLOBAL JIHADAl-Qaida: 'America is the head of all evil'WND translations covers unreported parts of spokesman's taped diatribe Posted: June 24, 20025:00 p.m. Eastern By Jon Dougherty © 2002 WorldNetDaily.com Though most media reported many of the details discussed by an al-Qaida spokesman in a lengthy audiotape in which he promises new attacks against U.S. and Jewish targets, an interpretation of the diatribe supplied to WorldNetDaily found key particulars were left out by news agencies. Spokesman Suleiman Abu Ghait's tape...

 Weekday Commentary from Jim Puplava Home One's a Bull and One's A BearStill Not Obvious to Many Changing Preferences The Velocity of Money & The Short Seller's NightmarePart 2 Now OnlineGuest Editorial 6/24James Sinclair & Harry SchultzWhen Does The Final Shoe Fall on the Complacent Hedger?  GLOBAL ANALYSIS with J. R. Nyquist The Error  Monday's Market Scoreboard  June 24, 2002  Dow Industrials 28.03 9281.82  Dow Utilities 4.99 272.01  Dow Transports 16.07 2739.57  S & P 500 3.58 992.72  Nasdaq 19.38 1460.34  US Dollar to Yen 121.785  US Dollar to Euro .9701  Gold 0.4 324.7  Silver 0.01 4.867  Oil 0.65...

French Alarmed by Anti-Tobacco Ad By Associated Press June 24, 2002, 5:08 PM EDT PARIS -- TV viewers were alarmed. A commonly consumed product, they were warned in an ad, had been found to contain frightening toxic substances. Not surprisingly, half-a-million people called the toll-free number for information, jamming the line. The unnamed product was the cigarette, and the health institute that dreamed up the ad said it was a big success. "The goal was to wake people up and make tobacco a real subject of debate," said Aurelie Martzel, a spokeswoman for the National Health Institute for Prevention and...

JERUSALEM (AP) -- Yasser Arafat welcomed President Bush's Mideast policy speech Monday as a ``serious effort to push the peace process forward,'' but the Palestinian leader ignored Bush's calls for new Palestinian leadership. Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon echoed Bush. A statement from Sharon's office said that ``when the Palestinian Authority undergoes genuine reforms and a new leadership takes it place at its head ... it will be possible to discuss ways of moving forward by diplomatic means.'' Palestinian officials insisted that was a decision only the Palestinian people can make. Saeb Erekat, an aide to Arafat, said the president's...

Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the government for a redress of grievances. Amendment II A well regulated militia, being necessary to the security of a free state, the right of the people to keep and bear arms, shall not be infringed. Amendment III No soldier shall, in time of peace be quartered in any house, without the consent of the owner, nor in time of war, but...

24 Jun 2002 18:24 ET DJ US Investigators Scrutinize New Info On Martha Stewart Copyright © 2002, Dow Jones Newswires WASHINGTON (AP)--Congressional investigators are looking at new information that appears to contradict what Martha Stewart and her now-suspended broker have said about her sale of ImClone Systems Inc. (IMCL) stock. A House committee is interested in a widening circle of Stewart acquaintances. The latest is a doctor who also sold shares of the biotech company shortly before the government announced it had rejected ImClone's approval application for the cancer drug Erbitux. Stewart, who commands a multimedia empire and a profitable...

June 24, 2002 Zimbabwe whites told it is against law to farm land From Jan Raath in Harare FROM midnight tonight it will be a crime for 2,900 Zimbabwean white farmers to produce food or exports to help to feed their country’s population, much of it now facing starvation. In what could be the most serious single blow to the country’s already shattered economy, the farmers will tomorrow face arrest if they set foot on their lands. Twenty years ago the same farmers earned President Mugabe’s newly independent nation its reputation as the breadbasket of Africa. Now the law allows...

<p>Busload of Canadians travels to Maine for health care By Associated Press, 6/24/2002 17:06 BANGOR, Maine (AP) A dozen Canadians traveled by bus from Saint John, New Brunswick, on Monday to obtain access to health care they say they could not get or would have to wait for under their country's single-payer system.</p>