Hitachi to cut 14,700 jobs the capitalists believe that creating a huge population of unemployed will lead to a market recovery and not a depression

Wildfires Send Tons Of Mercury Up Into The Air: Gaseous elemental mercury in the atmosphere travels the globe for about a year before being deposited on land or water. About 6,500 tons, all well mixed, are circulating at any one time. About half the atmospheric mercury got there from natural sources in soil, oceans and volcanoes, and the other half through human activity.

GOP boosted turnout better: larger financial commitment the party made to voter turnout, while Democrats relied more on outside groups like labor, blacks and environmentalists. no mention of their financial commitment to fraudulently wiping voters of the rolls

Greenspan: volatile economy perplexes policy makers: to assess how gains or losses from different types of assets -- a stock versus a home -- affects consumer spending and thus the overall economy will require more analysis by policy-makers, Greenspan said. "To answer these questions, we need far more information than we currently possess about the nature and the sources of capital gains and the interaction of these gains with credit markets and consumer behavior," he said. you possess the information, but you don't read it: Marx's Capital

MTBE Polluting Midwest Water - Even Though It's Not Supposed To Be There! evidence the additive may be contaminating drinking water across the United States. more republican policies protecting unborn children

D.C. PROTEST ‘FENCE' COULD STRETCH FOR MILES let's see if they take it down after the meeting

each 1 per cent loss of ozone layer causes an extra 50,000 cases of skin cancer each year. This has stimulated an unprecedented international effort to ban the chemicals – perhaps the world's greatest environmental success story. UNEP predicted last month that the ozone layer would start to recover "in the near future". every 1,000 supersonic aircraft, which
also fly in the stratosphere, would thin the ozone layer by
about 1 per cent a year, suggesting that several thousand
operating for years, as is planned for the sonic cruiser, would
be devastating. prematurely predicting recovery of the ozone layer in order to argue for the efficacy of protective measures only makes people relax about the issue so the capitalists can ramp up destruction

One in six veterans 'believe they have Gulf War Syndrome' the great unacknowledged american war crime.

US astronaut Frank Culbertson told the BBC that the view had changed markedly since his first space mission in 1990. "There is smoke and dust in wider spread areas than we have seen before, particularly as areas like Africa dry up in certain regions," he said. "I have seen changes in what comes out of some of the rivers, in land usage. We see areas of the world that are being burned to clear land, so we are losing lots of trees."

Men attempting to show off to their rivals in prehistoric times may have led to the evolution of speech. somebody call derrida

Aaliyah album sales rise 41 pct this week-Soundscan look for more dead singers

Dow Falls Below 10,000: The Commerce Department said consumer spending rose just 0.1 percent during July, an unexpectedly weak showing given that Americans began receiving tax rebate checks last month. do they really think that even americans can be hoodwinked into spending their money with 600 dollars? are we on the same page yet? it's time to start talking about the d word.

Sen.: Thurmond no longer 'Mentally Keen' he was?

Cell phone orders fall

Bush's budget goes for broke: The new budget numbers make it clear that the president's tax cut was aimed at bankrupting the treasury all along.

NE US Cities Set 38 New Daily High-Temp Records, Tie 15 Old Ones maybe it's the sunspots

IMF to cut global outlook

Nikkei marks fresh 17-yr closing low, banks tumble: ``We are possibly facing one of the worst periods, with profit warnings likely to come out some more, and banks and corporations are stepping
up unloading of cross-held shares into September''

Foot and mouth outlook now 'ominous'

Heavy Video Game Use by Kids May slow Brain Development

Global GM Food Market Starts To Wilt

IMF to cut global outlook

Price of gas hits the pedal near $2

Is Earth's Magnetic Field Failing?

Bush Aide: Recession Might Justify Tapping Surplus it's amazing that the very people whose social security money their stealing are going to vote them back into power in 2002

CNN.com - Congress predicts $9 billion taken from Social Security

Wave of High-Tech Failures Could Become Deluge

Near Vast Bodies of Water, The Land Lies Strangely Parched: People who live at the emerald edge of this Chicago suburb have noticed that something seems out of whack this year. maybe it's the sunspots

New U.S. orders for durable goods fell in July to the lowest level in three years, led by decreases for computers and semiconductors, a government report there's something seriously wrong when this news is followed by a 200 point jump in the Dow Jones

CHINA is facing an Aids epidemic that has led to the infection of 80 per cent of the population in some areasHIV first arrived in China a decade ago near the Golden Triangle. From the border town of Ruili, heroin is transported along the main lorry route to the north-east, via Henan to Beijing. Along this “road of death”, as it is known, heroin needles are sometimes shared among hundreds, providing the virus with a perfect vehicle to reach all of China.

Global Warming Cannot Be Stopped, Russian Ecologist Says: "Man has unbalanced the climatic system; it is looking for a new balance, and the system's characteristics during a transition period are always much wider than in the state of balance" the air temperature on the Earth may
increase by two to six degrees by the end of the century, which Danilov-Danilyan said may have catastrophic consequences. this has been my position for ten years

Leakey Warns Of Mass Extinctions: "It is the acceleration of species loss through human activities today that is significant and unless the present trend is reversed, the planet could lose approximately 55 percent of today's species over the next 50 to 100 years. Such rapid catastrophic losses to biodiversity have happened before, and these catastrophes have always had far reaching consequences for the surviving species" say, we're a species

Milosevic Defiantly Defends His Role in Kosovo Conflict foxnews gives him a fair hearing!

"Many Iowa producers and business owners who depend on agriculture for their livelihood are suffering because of the cold and wet spring weather," Vilsack said. "The weather kept many farmers from planting earlier this year. Those farmers who were able to plant crops were hurt by spring flooding and cold temperatures." maybe it's the sunspots

How the U.S. Intentionally Destroyed Iraq's Water Supply we're looking for a joint chiefs chairman who can think in new ways about military engagement

Declassified documents point to US war crimes in Iraq: The United States is knowingly violating Article 54 of the Geneva Convention which prohibits any country from undermining "objects indispensable to the survival of (another country's) civilian population," including drinking water installations and supplies no wonder they want to be exempt from the hague tribunal

According to Daniels's sunny spin, the surplus is fat and happy, and will more than cover the America's spending needs. Daniels said that the "nation has entered an era of solid surpluses" faith based economics

THE threat of a wider Middle East conflict is growing as the Egyptian government considers sending its 3rd Armoured Army into the Sinai peninsula if Israel moves into Palestinian territories.

Who Owns the Earth? - DuPont Pollutes With Impunity: The people claiming that DuPont's wells had polluted their property were none other than the McFaddins -- one of the most prominent families in Texas. A McFaddin had fought at the Battle of San Jacinto, which had helped win the state independence from Mexico. A McFaddin owned the land under Spindletop dome, the location of the 1901 oil strike that put Beaumont on the map oh look, texas oil barons complaining about greedy capitalists polluting their drinking water

Prairie drought beginning to affect wildlife: in many areas this is the fifth consecutive dry year. While Cormier knows what has happened to the weather he has no idea why it's been so dry for so long. maybe it's the sunspots

Congressman Paul Denounces Unauthorized Airstrike Against Iraq a publican comes out against bombing

Coca-Cola, The CIA, And The Courts

Microsoft funds letter-writing campaign gee, it works for the republicans

Number getting jobless benefits jumps earlier this week they claimed no rise in unemployment in part leading to a jump in the markets

Japan Developing Micro Nuclear Reactor For Apartment Blocks

Productivity growth can sometimes mark a recession: "In a strong economy, hours and output can both grow, so long as output grows at a faster rate, thus resulting in productivity growth," said Thacher Tiffany and Jared Bernstein, the article's authors. "But... productivity can also grow in a slowdown or recession, when a decline in hours outpaces weak or nonnexistent output growth."

Warning over disappearing forests: "Short of a miraculous transformation in the attitude of people and governments, the Earth's remaining closed canopy forests and their associated biodiversity are destined to disappear in the coming decades." who needs em

a young woman found dead in a powerful congressman's office was actually killed by a blow to the head — contrary to earlier official statements that said her body bore no marks whatsoever — and the medical examiner in charge of the case had previously had his license revoked for reporting false information moscow times, home of a free press

The U.S. index of leading economic indicators rose in July for a fourth straight month, suggesting the economy will strengthen by the end of the year. bullshit

uk - Motorists vent fury on speed cameras

Iran's Battles Severe Drought: "Our paradise is dying" maybe it's the sunspots

UK: up to 15 per cent of people aged 15 to 21 are functionally illiterate. By contrast, a report by school inspectors in 1912 said only two per cent were unable to read or write

EU's secret network to spy on anti-capitalist protesters: personal information on people who have done no more than take part in a legal demonstration may be entered into a database and exchanged.

Risks Of Stocks/Equity Crash High Says Leading German Bank told you

Taking offense at the leak of information is simply political posturing on the part of anti-dredging types and ignores the communities who are affected by PCBs ''I think it is the height of arrogance to exploit the symbol of a farmer to take advantage of people who have come from farmers. They cannot trade off GE's corporate rights as if it's equal to human rights -- PCBs are in our bodies because of our culture, and they cannot clean that up.'' FAIR's allegations are a non-issue it's unFAIR to corporations not to allow them to poison your children

Council blasts elections board precinct actions: They also claimed that the board had incorrectly dropped 32,000 residents from the city's voter registration list when it recently purged inactive voters from its database. and where do you suppose they learned that trick?

Police in the future may be armed with energy beams that inflict a burning sensation on skin without causing permanent damage, or even painlessly and temporarily immobilize a rioting demonstrator. Waves of sound and light could disorient mobs, and sticky foam could trap them like flies on a strip they skipped the new stink bomb. thank god bush will only use these things on rioting demonstrators. otherwise we would vote him right out of office.

Germ warfare negotiations end

Social Security commission to have closed meetings in what critics say is part of a growing attempt to govern by secrecy

The Justice Department has declined to investigate allegations that Speaker Dennis Hastert (R-Ill.) and House Majority Whip Tom DeLay (R-Texas) sold access to Bush administration officials in exchange for campaign donations to GOP Congressional committees. It is not a criminal violation for government officials to accept payments in exchange for help in setting up meetings with other government officials.

Study To Examine ‘Soft Money’ In State Politics: Although several current campaign finance reform proposals before Congress would eliminate or cap “soft money” at the federal level, none would ban it at the state level

Oil Exploration On Great Barrier Reef Under Considerationoh well, it's dying anyway

U.S. Military Aid to Latin America Implicated in Human Rights Abuses

ON MISSILE DEFENSE / A pattern of deception

The U.S. probably recorded a budget deficit in July, compared with a surplus a year ago, as the government reduced income tax withholding rates, the Treasury distributed advance refund checks, and the cooling economy cut into tax collections

Cornell News: Heat Wave 2001 maybe it's the sunspots

Argentina's bonds staged their biggest drop in three weeks yesterday on concern that any announcement of new money from the IMF may still be days or even weeks away

Catastroika has not only been a disaster for Russia: Far from opening the way to emancipation, these changes led to beggary for most citizens, ushering in the most cataclysmic peacetime economic collapse of an industrial country in history

Bacteria rife in supermarket chickens

Ford plans to slash 10% of U.S. white-collar force

Fire Crews Battle Western Blazes

PlanetRice.net - World Water Shortage May Cause Unprecedented Global Crisis

Klamath Convoy On The Move - Water War To Heat Up

Mysterious death of Lake Erie fish puzzles scientists

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Checks & Balances: Can't seem to save

Canada Dry spell could be worse than 1961 drought

Kosovo - The Ugly Truth?

Exxon Settles Suit Over MTBE Poisoned Lake Tahoe Water

Poll: Economy in Bad Shape

More College Students Drop Out Than Graduate.