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By Joan Veon May 3, 2005 NewsWithViews.com At the spring meeting of the IMF/World Bank in Washington, D. C. it was announced that a number of countries will be used to test a $1 tax on airline tickets. This global tax idea has been around for the last twenty years and is now back as a tax that would be relatively easy to put in place. Furthermore, an “International Financing Facility” for immunization will also be set up on a test basis. How could we be this far? For the last ten years I have followed the topic of global...

<p>The terrorist news is getting a little thin for the newscasters lately. Instead of action news, they're relegated to reporting baloney about Osama bin Laden: Bin Laden is dead. Bin Laden is alive. Ben Laden is sick. Ben Laden is hiding. Etc., etc.</p> <p>This stuff is as boring for the American public as it must be for the news reporters. One little Predator drone firing one little Hellfire missile trumps any terrorist leadership meeting all to hell. Look for that to happen soon. And, if bin Laden is alive, he will not be then.</p>