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Another United Nations War? By Ron Paul, M.D., and a Republican member of Congress from Texas. February 28, 2003 President Bush Sr. proudly spoke of "The New World Order," a term used by those who promote one-world government under the United Nations. In going to war in 1991, he sought and received UN authority to push Iraqi forces out of Kuwait. He forcefully stated that this UN authority was adequate, and that although a congressional resolution was acceptable, it was entirely unnecessary and he would proceed regardless. At that time there was no discussion regarding a congressional declaration of...

Bojinka, The Dog That Didn't Bark By Jim Rarey June 18, 2002 Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s fictional hero Sherlock Holmes once solved a case because a dog that would have been expected to bark didn’t. Something is missing from the numerous allegations about the government’s foreknowledge of the 9/11 terrorist attack. That thing is any mention of "Project Bojinka" by government officials and most of the national media. Those members of the media who do mention the project carefully avoid giving a full description of the plot with one exception, Bill Gertz of the Washington Times. But this was after...

Making a phone call has always been a game of chance. You never know whether the person you are calling is available. You just punch in the numbers and hope to get lucky. Imagine being able to learn without dialing a single digit whether another person's phone is in use, or in the case of a cellphone, whether it is even turned on. Now imagine being able to do the same thing with any wired or wireless device of the future whether it is in the car, in an airplane or at the gym. Not only could you learn ...

<p>Even if every airport in the United States scanned every bag loaded onto every airplane for explosives, and every passenger went under the metal-detector, a bomb could still get onto a passenger jet, experts say. The Federal Aviation Authority's next generation of holographic body imaging scanners can be trumped too. Welcome to the world of the "terror mule."</p>

http://www.nytimes.com/2001/05/06/magazine/06ARSENIC.html?pagewanted=print ********************************************** May 6, 2001 Chairman Mao's Cure for Cancer By Elisabeth Rosenthal Forty years ago, a folk healer in rural China discovered that arsenic could help fight leukemia. Today doctors around the world are treating patients with his poison. At the height of China's tumultuous Cultural Revolution, when Mao closed universities and banished intellectuals to the countryside for a "real" education, Dr. Zhang Tingdong found himself dispatched from the city of Harbin to a remote agricultural commune in the far reaches of frigid Heilongjiang Province in the northeast of China. His mission was to seek out an uneducated doctor ...

U.S. websites were attacked by malicious hackers from China as part of a plan to retaliate for the recent American spy plane incident, according to security-services firm Vigilinx. The firm said Monday that several U.S. government sites have been defaced, including the one belonging to the U.S. Department of Energy's Albuquerque, N.M., office. That site was reportedly defaced by a hacker who goes by the name of Peak and wrote on the site, "USA Will be With Responsibility for the Accident Total!!" There also are reports that U.S. commercial websites have been defaced and that American hackers have attacked People's ...

Funeral pyre By Marina Murphy From New Scientist magazine, 21 March 2001. As the carcasses of slaughtered animals pile up on British farms, American researchers have suggested a radical solution . Napalm. They say it would be a faster, cheaper and more efficient way of disposing of animals than the pyres now burning in fields across the country. Up to 60,000 animals have been left to rot in fields and barns, after slaughter to prevent the spread of foot and mouth disease. Farmers are waiting as long as 10 days for the Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food (MAFF) ...

Aryans want to carry loaded guns in parade SPO Filed COEUR D'ALENE, Idaho (AP) _ Aryan Nations members say the city of Coeur d'Alene allows military veterans to march with rifles and handguns, and they should be able to do the same _ with loaded weapons. The group plans to march July 7 in town, the group's spokesman said Wednesday. ``State law says we have the right to wear sidearms and carry rifles in upright positions,'' Aryan spokesman Shaun Winkler said. ``State law is on our side on this issue.'' But Police Lt. Don Jiran said the law allowing ...

Playing fair Are you breathtakingly mean or perfectly equitable? Kate Douglas investigates where your moral sense comes from, and how we can shape it Suppose I hand you a bundle of cash equivalent to a week's salary and say you can have it, but on the condition that you share the money with someone else. I'm not saying who, but it's someone you know. On the plus side, your anonymity is guaranteed, and you can offer as much or as little as you like. If the other person accepts your offer, each of you keeps your share of the ...

WASHINGTON(Reuters) - The Supreme Court allowed Monday the Ku Klux Klan to participate in a state ''Adopt-A-Highway'' cleanup program in which volunteers pick up litter along a highway in return for a sign acknowledging their efforts. The high court rejected without comment or dissent an appeal by Missouri arguing that it could deny the Klan's application without violating the group's constitutional free-speech protections under the First Amendment. The court also rejected a separate Justice Department appeal arguing the nation's civil rights laws would be violated...

A COUPLE OF months ago, Stowell filed a civil suit claiming that Good Samaritan Hospital in West Islip, N.Y., permanently deprived him and his future bedmates of “the pleasure of natural, normal sexual intercourse” thanks to an “excruciating” 10-minute procedure it conducted on him moments after birth. You may have heard of this procedure. It’s called circumcision.