MILITARY MATTERS
GIS IN IRAQ SCOFF AT RE-ENLISTMENT BONUS
US Army offers $10,000 bonus to soldiers if they will
re-enlist: "Man, they can't pay me enough to stay here."
http://www.macon.com/mld/macon/news/7654566.htm
SOLDIERS AT MY FRONT DOOR
A National Guard unit headed for Iraq taunted a pacifist
priest in a small town in New Mexico. The
priest's letter, printed in a Toronto newspaper:
http://www.thestar.com/NASApp/cs/ContentServer?GXHC_gx_session_id_=4c6952554a7cff46&pagename=thestar/Layout/Article_PrintFriendly&c=Article&cid=1072134611109&call_pageid=991479973472
THE ENVIRONMENT
REVEALED: HOW GLOBAL WARMING WILL CAUSE
EXTINCTION OF A MILLION SPECIES
The study, in
the journal Nature, investigated 1,103 species of
plants, mammals, birds, reptiles, frogs, butterflies and other insects living
in six areas - Europe, South Africa, Australia, Brazil, Mexico and Costa Rica.
http://news.independent.co.uk/world/science_medical/story.jsp?story=479080
HYDROGEN'S DIRTY DETAILS
Once again, I like to quote the VILLAGE VOICE. They did a series on the Bush family back in
1992 that should have put most of the family in prison. In this article, they examine hydrogens
link to oil companies.
http://www.villagevoice.com/issues/0401/mbaard.php
ARREST OF GREENPEACE'S RAINBOW WARRIOR
CREW
This was in the news awhile back, but this is what
Greenpeace has to say about it.
http://www.greenpeace.org/international_en/features/details?item_id=366539
IN-DEPTH ANALYSIS OF SUPERFUND CLEAN-UP
SITES & LEVEL OF CLEANING
http://www.cleanuplevel.com/
FARM-RAISED SALMON LINKED TO POLLUTANTS
Farm-raised salmon contain
significantly more dioxins and other potentially cancer-causing pollutants than
salmon caught in the wild, says a study that could confuse consumers long told
the fish is heart-healthy.
After seeing the wild salmon in the
Pacific when we visited Alaska (http://www.alaska.com/akcom/v-css/),
I have not bought Atlantic salmon (http://www.pressherald.com/news/state/031228endanger.shtml).
http://www.sunherald.com/mld/sunherald/news/nation/7662467.htm
POLITICS
SENATOR KENNEDY SPEAKS OUT ON THE
LEADERSHIP OF TOM DASCHLE
Buzzflash has relentlessly criticized Tom Daschle,
usually unjustly; he would do much better with a 2/3rds majority on his side.
http://www.buzzflash.com/contributors/03/12/con03390.html
THE NRA'S BLACKLIST
This is interesting; for one thing, the entire Zappa
family made the list, as did the St Louis Rams, among many others.
http://www.nraila.org/Issues/FactSheets/Read.aspx?ID=15
THE ECONOMY
U.S. FISCAL POLICIES AND PRIORITIES FOR
LONG-RUN SUSTAINABILITY
Transcript of a
Tele-Conference Press Briefing on an Occasional Paper by the International
Monetary Fund by Charles Collyns, Deputy Director of the IMF's Western Hemisphere
Department; Christopher Towe, Assistant Director and Chief of the Western
Hemisphere Department's North American Division; and Martin Mühleisen, Deputy
Chief of the North American Division.
http://www.imf.org/external/np/tr/2004/tr040107.htm
SBA HALTS 7(A) LOAN PROGRAM
The U.S. Small
Business Administration [http://www.sba.gov/]
has said "effective immediately and until further notice," it will
not approve requests for guarantees in its 7(a) loan program.
http://southflorida.bizjournals.com/southflorida/stories/2004/01/05/daily44.html
HUMOR
GEORGE BUSH: LORD OF THE RIGHT WING
A little humor (hint: Stay with it, even
after you think it's over):
http://flash.bushrecall.org/
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