http://exploration.vanderbilt.edu/news/news_cannib...Interesting discussion on why it benefited colonising empires of the 15th, 16th and 17th century to label the foreign natives as cannibals.
..when Europeans invaded the New World, they saw cannibalism as the quintessential expression of savagery and evil, and used this as a justification for employing violent means to subjugate native people.Maybe this mirrors aspects of the modern War On Terror? Except you replace the word 'cannibal' with the word 'terrorist'; Israel sucessfully used this tactic to justify the invasion of Lebanon in July of this year.
http://www.bibliotecapleyades.net/vida_alien/esp_v...Very long article that discusses 'evidence' for alien occupation of the moon, UFOs following spacraft from Earth, buildings on Mars and all that other good stuff.
Begins with supposed transcripts from astronauts Armstrong and Aldrin observing aliens during the moon landing:
- ASTRONAUTS: “I say that there were other spaceships. They’re lined up on the other side of the crater.”
- MISSION CONTROL: “Repeat...repeat!”
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/england/kent/60...Hay, this is just a reminder that you're nothing but meat in the eyes of your pets (^_^)
http://www.thedailyitemoflynn.com/news/view.bg?art...In 1853 a Unitarian Minister attempted to piece together a pile of magnets, various steel shafts and spheres, zinc and copper plates and a dining room table into what he called the New Messiah.The machine was apperently brought to life during a ritual that lasted several days, but was abruptly destroyed by local farmers in a Frankenstein-esque riot.
http://www.cyber-heritage.co.uk/cutaway/Archive of technical drawings from public information leaflets.
http://politics.guardian.co.uk/iraq/story/0,,18924...Gordon Brown offered unequivocal public support for the 2003 invasion of Iraq in the final five days, only after deciding that Tony Blair would sack him if he did not, David Blunkett has claimed.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-DsgZ4JXXB8Puny mortals, call in with your fleeting concerns and inconsequential questions for the mightiest of the Old Gods, Cthulhu. 
http://online.wsj.com/public/article/SB11605289678..."Since March 2003, an additional 2.5% of Iraq's population has died above what would have occurred without conflict," the report said. The country's population is roughly 24 million people...Human Rights Watch has estimated Saddam Hussein's regime killed 250,000 to 290,000 people over 20 years.This new report by the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health gives an estimated number of deaths since March 2003 based in a survey of 1,849 randomly-picked housholds. Other estimates range from 50,000 - 150,000. GWB himself said "30,000 or less" in December.
http://www.alternet.org/story/42774/Who knows? But I thought this was a nice little primer on the views of the Christain right in the US regarding The Rapture and the current situation in the Middle-East.
Hay read it and then have a chuckle, but remember GWB claimed that God told him to invade Iraq so don't laugh too much 
http://comment.independent.co.uk/commentators/arti...Ever since Pyongyang in 1993 declared it would leave the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty, the White House has wrestled how to deal with the challenge posed by North Korea, as a nuclear armed state that would threaten not only America's close ally South Korea, where up to 37,000 US troops are based, and whose new weapons would raise the spectre of a wider nuclear arms race in east Asia.Nice background on the events leading up to N. Korea's aquisition of nuclear weapons technology, and where things go from here.
