CounterPunch: Bush’s Christian Blood Lust

Wayne Madsen: Bush’s “Christian” Blood Cult

…and the Pope don’t like it. Is Georgie the anti-christ? If this buffoon is the anti-christ it makes me wonder what the second coming of Jesus will be personified as. I get images of Carl from Slingblade. “French fried potators, the body, mmm hmmm. mustard on biscuits, the blood, grrrmmmhhhmmmm”

Two North Poles

A Star with two North Poles

NASA Science News
“Normally, our star, like Earth itself, has a north and a south magnetic pole. But for nearly a month beginning in March 2000, the Sun’s south magnetic pole faded, and a north pole emerged to take its place. The Sun had two north poles.”

oh those Cosmic Rays!

from MSNBC?

Israeli Map of WMD

this from MSNBC? watching their newscast I would have never guessed they did much research but this map is incredible.

Space Garden

Space Station Science Picture of the Day: The Physics of Space Gardens

How Homey, houseplants in the windowsill.
or spaceship plants. Wonder how long before Monsanto wants to put a patented “supah plant” in space. iron clad contracts that there will be no other plants in space.
sure hope not, enjoy the picture now though.

HAARP expansion underway

Antenna Products Corporation, a subsidiary of Phazar Corp, has just announced that they’re building 132 antennas for a new HAARP array. These are the same folks who built the existing 48 antenna array. The new antennas are scheduled for delivery in July 2004.

In other HAARP news, Senator Pete Domenici (R-NM) is seeking a $4 million increase in HAARP funding for 2004.

Another view of the Jessica Lynch rescue

Dr. Harith al-Houssona, the Iraqi doctor who treated Pvt. Jessica Lynch while she was a POW, has given his perspective on the American rescue mission to the Times of London.

“There are two faces to Americans,” Dr Harith said. “One is freedom and democracy, and giving kids sweets. The other is killing and hating my people. So I am very confused. I feel sad because I will never see Jessica again, and I feel happy because she is happy and has gone back to her life. If I could speak to her I would say: ‘Congratulations!’”

The Battle for Re-Fuelling

The MoD will soon have decide on whom to choose for their new Refuelling Aircrafts. The same ‘competition’ ran in the US recently where Boeing’s already proven 767 were chosen over Airbus’ A330s, which have yet to be used as Tanker Aircrafts. I mean, this was after it was stopped. Originally it wasn’t a competition, the US had ‘already’ chosen Boeing. Then EADS protested (Airbus’ owners) and it was opened up. Boeing won anyway. EADS might as well have saved them that paperwork.

One major difference is that Boeing will supply used 767 that will be converted to Tanker Aircrafts, whereas Airbus will supply the A330s straight of the production line in Toulouse. We’re talking about a 27 year contract worth approximately £13 billion pounds sterling (US $20 billion). Technically if Airbus were able to build a Tanker version of their very popular A330 model, it would be able to carry a lot more fuel than Boeing’s conversion due to its bigger fuselage size.

One issue that news reports covering this area fail to see, is the fact that this is by no means a choice to be made entirely from technological point of view. By choosing an American product over a European the UK deepens its dependence on the US Military Industrial Complex (Sounds good eh?), whereas an Airbus choice would keep the money and the work in Europe, without depending on the US.

Unfortunately that’s not exactly true, since many parts (MANY) in Airbus’ Aircrafts are produced in the US. Airbus and Lochheed have even talked about opening up a production line of single aisle aircrafts in the US to attract more US customers.

The same discussion is as valid when it comes to the F35 in competition with the Eurofigther, or the US controlled GPS system which is being challenged by European Equivalent.

In other but very closely related news, Boeing is about to challenge EADS on the fact that they have received Government support (Especially from France and Germany), which is said to have helped them in gaining customers. The same could of course be said about the US Defence System choosing Boeing over Airbus, as a way of helping Boeing out of a steep decline in Aircraft orders.

The Changing Face of War: Into the Fourth Generation

A rather prophetic article from the Marine Corps Gazette circa 1989.

Scott Peterson’s Parents Talk

TIME.com: ‘Scott Peterson is Innocent’

you know the story, right? Pregnant Laci went a’missing on Christmas Eve and showed up sans fetus a few days ago. The husband, Scott, has always been the number one suspect and the media has played along.
An interview with Scott’s parents have some very interesting comments. Now of course parents are going to think their kid is innocent but there’s more to it than that.
The guy has already been convicted before he’s even arraigned. Innocent before prooven guilty, folks.

Jack and Rexella online

Welcome to Jack Van Impe Ministries International

Did you know you can watch the Van Impes weekly show online? Oh you’re thinking “why would I want to do that?”. Because. Jack has some of the best Revelations interpretations out there, spooky good entertainment when he gets going. He’s not doing as much alien news as he used to but it gets dropped in from time to time.
and then there’s Rexella….oh, Rexella…..

Howard Dean op-ed piece

Howard Dean has some harsh things to say about Bush’s policy of preemptive war. The piece is also a good introduction to Dean’s campaign platform. Definitely the most buzzworthy Democrat in the 2004 race, and the only one I’ve seen posting stories at Common Dreams.

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