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PLO-U.S. Connection: Time to Make or Break
By Nicola Nasser*
Several indicators have shown recently how fragile has been the “connection” between the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) and the United States. And because Washington could deliver but won’t and the Palestinian people could not be held forever hostage to waiting for the American Godot, time seems ripe to make or break this futile connection.
To the disappointment of the PLO leaders the “connection” never developed to (…)

http://www.metatronics.net/lit/geo2.html
from Stanford Environmental Law Journal January, 1998

http://riverbendblog.blogspot.com/2006_07_01_riverbendblog_archive.html#115264752348608248
It promises to be a long summer. We’re almost at the mid-way point, but it feels like the days are just crawling by. It’s a combination of the heat, the flies, the hours upon hours of no electricity and the corpses which keep appearing everywhere.
The day before yesterday was catastrophic. The day began with news of the killings in Jihad Quarter. According to people who live there, black-clad (…)

“Phil Berrigan took the Gospel...personally!” - Martin Sheen
Baltimore, MD - The Rev. Billy Graham, now 87 years old and once a crony of the disgraced President, Richard M. Nixon, was in town recently doing his evangelical thing. He rallied the faithful at Camden Yards, located near Harborplace, over a three day period. Graham’ call, according to his PR flacks, brought crowds estimated at 83,000 to the baseball facility, including about 3,200, who made the big decision to “dedicate their (…)

Climate Change and Geoengineering ‘intentional large scale manipulation of the global environment’
by Wayne Hall One element that is missing from ecological and social movement discussion about climate change is ‘geoengineering’. ‘Geoengineering’ is one of the words used for techniques being proposed more and more frequently by scientists and commercial journalists as a ‘politically realistic’ remedy for climate change.
An article recently published in the magazine Popular Science (…)

By Carsten Volkery and Björn Hengst
US President George W. Bush starts a two-day visit with German Chancellor Angela Merkel on Wednesday in her parliamentary district near the Baltic Sea. The two leaders will talk foreign policy and hope to bond during an expensive country barbecue.
At first glance, nothing distinguishes the visit by US President Bush to eastern Germany from his earlier trips: Mysterious airplanes land at regional airports, commando divers examine the local pond, a (…)

Take a deep breath, back off cool down, and look at the world the way a Zen philosopher does.
Good Stuff is happening, or should I say Bad Stuff is NOT happening...sort of.
Afghanistan isn’t yet back in the hands of the Taliban, and Karzai is still asking for foreign investment and promising to stop the drug trade.
Israel hasn’t nuked Lebanon or Palestine yet. AND, that soldier may yet be alive!
Iran has quieted down for a spell. No threats to bomb Israel or attack the USA.
North (…)

Let’s pictures talk. The world most expensive barbeque: 12 million Euro official, but 45 million Euro in reality.

(San Francisco Bay View) Dr Mishra described June 29th to June 6 as "A week from Hell." International radiation expert Leuren Moret talked to Dr Mishra, a famous surgeon from India, the afternoon of July 7, 2006. Dr. Mishra’s report was grim. I had tried to reach him by phone and email for a week. I was concerned about his safety. On July 10 Dr Mishra stated "I will not be cowed down."
Mishra reported "Threats at the hospital, three weird phone calls claiming ’we have you under (…)

John McCain: L’Enfant Terrible Posted by SusanUnPC Sunday, 09 July 2006 at 12:39 We have one enfant terrible — envoy John Bolton — at the U.N. Then there’s the Senate’s petulant John McCain. Stories about the perennial presidential candidate’s "irrational, explosive" temper and ugly anger and "foul language" regularly circulate in Washington whispers and, now, in the MSM.
I just sent this e-mail to Other Lisa, a regular here, who is something of an expert — compared to most Americans — (…)