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A former Canadian Minister of Defence and Deputy Prime Minister under Pierre Trudeau has joined forces with three Non-governmental organizations to ask the Parliament of Canada to hold public hearings on Exopolitics -- relations with “ETs.” By “ETs,” Mr. Hellyer and these organizations mean ethical, advanced extraterrestrial civilizations that may now be visiting Earth. On September 25, 2005, in a startling speech at the University of Toronto that caught the attention of mainstream newspapers and magazines, Paul Hellyer, Canada’s Defence Minister from 1963-67 under Nobel Peace Prize Laureate Prime Minister Lester Pearson, publicly stated: "UFOs, are as real as the...

In a move that divided the city's famously left-leaning politicians, the Santa Cruz City Council on Tuesday voted to create a city department to distribute medicinal marijuana. If it eventually comes into being -- something that is doubtful at this point -- the Office of Compassionate Use would become the first such municipal office in the country. The vote marks the latest salvo by the council in a long-running battle over medicinal pot. Three years ago, the council allowed medicinal marijuana to be given away on the steps of City Hall as journalists from around the world recorded the moment.

Just heard from a guy I trust that the Pentagon will be releasing information regarding Able Danger in the not too distant future. The short version: Don't expect any bombshells. Thank you, Congressman Weldon, for getting just enough of this story right (the existence of Able Danger and its mission) to get folks like myself and lot of others to take you seriously. Those others weren't just bloggers, by the way - I'm talking about the New York Times, the AP, the Bergen Record... And thanks a [really bad word] heap for getting more than enough wrong that we look...

Because they can do things beyond your wildest imagination.

ROCHESTER, Minn. - The decision to literally turn the lights out on Rochester public high school baseball this spring was not a school district issue nor a city of Rochester issue. It was complying with federal law, specifically Title IX. That, Rochester school officials say, was the reason all home baseball games for Century, John Marshall and Mayo must be played under natural light exclusively for the first time in years. A couple of weeks ago Mayo players were the first to experience the baseball blackout when their game was suspended because of darkness. Despite the Mayo Field lights being...

The Smiths of Halfway, Mo., are currently the world's most famous collection of human cannonballers. Those openings are only so wide, which gives the Smiths a business reason for remaining trim. The family's dedication to physical conditioning, as with cannonballing, starts with David Smith Sr. That meant the patriarch had some training ideas when his son Russell, seventh of nine children, decided he wanted to become a seriously competitive wrestler. Russell succeeded to the point that his record stands at 45-0 after three victories in Thursday's opening competition in the Minnesota high school wrestling tournament, although first there was this:...

A Glimpse Ahead Timothy Snodgrass The Impossible Will Come Alive In 2005 01/28/05 In January of 2004, as we began to intercede for the New Year the Holy Spirit gave us the prophetic slogan, "The Seas will Roar in 2004". This year we were given a new slogan, "The Impossible will come Alive in 2005". As the veil of darkness begins to come down over nations and regions, along with great shakings will come great breakthroughs; signs, wonders, healings and a spectacular release of miracles in impossible circumstances. This year, although we are ultimately poised to gain much ground, there...

PRAGUE, Czech Republic - Targeting elderly customers, a Czech company has started manufacturing extra large cellular phones, an official said Monday. advertisement The company, Jablotron, said it had noticed older people sometimes have difficulties when using cell phones, which tend to be smaller and smaller.

What's the deal with all the dead scientists?

On Nov. 2, 54,079 San Franciscans voted for President Bush, and it may be only a slight exaggeration to say that Mike DeNunzio knows most of them by name. The chairman of the San Francisco Republican Central Committee has a job so lonely the Maytag repairman would blanch at it: leading political conservatives in a city where politics is dominated by the left wing, where the same-sex-marriage supporting, picket-line-walking, tax-increase-happy Mayor Gavin Newsom may be the most conservative elected official in town, where most politicians' only complaint with the city's enormous, intrusive bureaucracy is that it seems to be modeled...

A Supreme Court justice once said that he couldn't define pornography, but that he knew it when he saw it. Gregory Welch just wants to see it. Welch, a convicted sex offender, has sued the Minnesota Department of Corrections, claiming the prison ban on inmates' receiving sexually explicit magazines and books violates his First Amendment rights. "Just because publications of sexually explicit material may have a negative impact on some inmates in Minnesota prisons does not make it fair for the Minnesota Department of Corrections to ban publications of sexually explicit material from all inmates in Minnesota prisons," Welch says...

Imagine a hypothetical situation where a team of vicious thieves plots an exceptionally violent bank robbery in the downtown financial district of a major city. Numerous anomalies are noticed during the commission of this crime. The bank tellers are not able to send out an alarm to the police even though banks have numerous hidden silent alarms for foiling robbery. The guards at the bank somehow take much longer to call the police for assistance than they have done on previous occasions, raising questions among bank customers whether orders were given to the the guards to "stand down" and not...

PUNA, Hawaii (Wireless Flash) -- Dolphins may have the power to alter our DNA and switch our genes "on" and "off" to help us heal. That's the fishy claim of dolphin researcher Dr. Michael Hyson, who says that the mammals can generate sound and electromagnetic fields that can have a positive effect on human DNA to help treat diseases like autism, cerebral palsy and depression. Although Hyson can't explain how dolphins know which genes to turn "on" and "off" to treat humans and admits "it's a hypothesis," he claims dolphins have treated humans this way for thousands of years. In...

Psychic dogs belonging to actor Sylvester Stallone's mother have projected President George W. Bush the winner in the November 2 election, the Los Angles Times reported Monday. The paper said that the dogs forsee the president will beat the Democratic challenger John Kerry by 15 percent.Jackie Stallone says the animals predict California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger will take advantage of a future constitutional amendment allowing foreign born US citizens to serve as president, and take on Kerry's running mate John Edwards in the presidential campaign of 2008.However, the dogs can't tell who will win that race. The Times said Mama Stallone's...

Wesley Clark's political career: Born 2003, died 2004. A little while ago, I compared Wes Clark's roman candle of a presidential campaign to inexplicable and regrettable momentary fads, like flash mobs, the XFL, Tickle-Me-Elmo, or New Coke. Wes Clark's just-barely-in-primetime address Thursday evening was like an edition of VH1's "I Love The 80s." For a brief moment, it was "I Love September 2003," the month Clark's campaign with a photo on the cover of Newsweek. But Clark's campaign destructed. He was the one who invited Michael Moore on stage with him, where the filmmaker could ignite the empty "deserter" attack....

Posted from Union Leader ************************************ OF ALL PEOPLE, liberal New York Times columnist Maureen Dowd christened Al Gore, Howard Dean and their compatriots “the wackadoo wing of the Democratic Party.” She did this yesterday, after Gore gave a ranting, Deanesque speech denouncing George Bush on Wednesday. “John Kerry’s advisers were surprised and annoyed to hear that Mr. Gore hollered so much, he made Howard Dean look like George Pataki. They don’t want voters to be reminded of the wackadoo wing of the Democratic Party,” she wrote. “They would like Mr. Gore, who brought bad karma to Mr. Dean with his...

LONDON (Reuters) - From the Polish undertaker caught smuggling cigarettes in a hearse to a pair of one-legged Brazilian prisoners skipping jail, the weird and wacky reigned supreme around the world in 2003. Oddball tales abounded with Canadian prisoners being offered fruit-flavoured condoms, Cambodians being urged to eat more dogs and China axing haemorrhoid TV ads during meal times. Tales of love gone sour were plentiful. A Filipino housewife wreaked revenge on her hapless spouse by cutting off his penis while he slept, after she discovered text messages from another woman on his mobile phone. Not to be outdone, an...

1 On January 14th, Eleanor Clift will stick a wet finger in her toaster, and the resulting shock, while not fatal, will weld her fillings together, forcing her to shut up until early May. Her replacement on the McGloughlin Group will be Ann Coulter, wearing a Doris Kearns Goodwin face mask. 2 George Steponallofus will on Valentines Day, announce his engagement to Peter Jennings. The couple will wed in Syria in June. Robert Mugabe will be the best man....(Snip) Click Here For Immediate Link To Full Article

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Is it Time to Physically Remove the illegal Bush Military Junta ?.. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Reply to: anon-9537884@craigslist.org Date: 2003-03-18, 10:47AM What would Happen .... If George W. Bush, the first unelected President of the United States appointed by the Supreme Court, succeeds in driving the United States government to attack a nation that offers no threat to the United States... If George W. Bush continues to ignore the cries for peace from millions of people in the United States and throughout the world... If George W. Bush continues to preside over the destruction of human rights and the shredding of the...