News in Science 28/2/2003 Captured stardust reveals our ancient past You are a mixture of a whole bunch of stars, and wouldn't it be nice to be able to say most of me came from that star there, and you could point to it out there in the sky," he mused. "We still can't do that, but with all this nice new evidence, we're starting to be able to do that. That's important because it's kind of like knowing who your grandparents are, except you're talking about stars rather than human beings."

GN Online: Pentagon to White House: Iraq invasion will cost $85b This official said that during recent interagency meetings, White House budget aides "put their hands over their ears and said, "We're not listening."

GN Online: Comment: War could bomb your pocketbook, jolt economy U.S. economy has not fared well over the last two years. Almost two million private sector jobs have been destroyed; a $3 trillion, 10-year non-social security surplus has been turned into a $2 trillion deficit; and if the U.S. President's proposals succeed, these deficits will balloon, with deficits as far as the eye can see, even when the economy returns to full employment.

Scientific American: New Gravity Measurements Constrain String Theory Forces

Democrats Denounce White House on Cost of War (washingtonpost.com)

Guardian Unlimited | Special reports | Advisers tell Bush climate plan is uselessbush will be the death of us all!!!!!!!!!!!!

BBC NEWS | World | Europe | European press review So "while at the UN and elsewhere people are racking their brains to imagine a post-Saddam Iraq", the paper concludes, "the French have no choice but to imagine a post-Bush America and hope it will not be long in coming".

Bush cuts holes in federal safety net It has suddenly dawned on the hapless Democrats that Bush has a massive credibility problem. Party leaders have documented many misleading statements -- promises he doesn't keep, fibs about who benefits from his tax cuts, distortions about the economic impact of his proposals. Even the administration's rationale for war is on a shaky ground.
Is Bush so blinded by his pro-business, pro-millionaire bias that he doesn't understand the economic risks of his radical schemes to cut holes in the federal social safety net? Or is he so cynical he doesn't care?
George W. is on his way to making Slick Willie look tongue-tied

Reuters AlertNet - Bush administration shows sang-froid on Iraq mission

Fears of Terror a Complication for Art Exhibits

Not Just Genes: Moving Beyond Nature vs. Nurture

U.S. Crackdown Sets Off Unusual Rush to Canada

PROTEST PHOTOS

Computer Made from DNA and Enzymes

Scientific American: New DNA Computer Functions sans Fuel

Colombians call U.S. captives POWsColombia is not Afghanistan, it is not Iraq,� Petro told Radionet. �With the type of violent conflict we�re living here, what the United States is going to get tangled up in is a new Vietnam.�
Petro said FARC members undoubtedly are content with Bush�s decision to send more American troops to the region.
�This is precisely what they wanted,� Petro said. �Now they can transform their senseless war into some sort of patriotic war.�

Circles of HatredPossibly just weeks away from a U.S. invasion, tensions are rising fast in northern Iraq�but between two U.S. allies rather than Saddam and his enemies. The war of words between Kurds and Turks is part of the price George W. Bush is paying to make war against Saddam. He�s forking over a premium: under a deal being negotiated between the United States and Turkey, Washington has agreed to permit tens of thousands of Turkish troops to occupy most of Iraqi Kurdistan. That�s in addition to at least $15 billion in loan guarantees and grants promised to Ankara, a hefty jump from what Turkey gets in U.S. aid now. In exchange, Ankara will allow Bush to deploy at least 40,000 U.S. troops inside Turkey as part of an Iraq invasion force.

Bush faces poor image overseas

MSNBC Cover The Sun is in Pisces and the Moon is in Scorpio. If you're stumbling over your own two feet, get help from a loved one nearby. That person can get through and do what's needed, and he or she won't mind helping out.

Guardian Unlimited | The Guardian | Operation regime change

IOL : K-bot the sociable cyborg is wired to smile

Alien memories leave real scarsi know what i saw in 1978

State's Past Could Be History: From The Tampa Tribune www.floridahistory.info/ petition

Inflammation may spur diseases

Toyland expands its boundaries

Did Rumsfeld impede Iraq coalition?fire the whole lot of the fuckers, all of the bush fuckers

I DREAMT THIS TO PREVENT THIS THING
THIS WAS A DREAM OF PROPHECY
TO PREVENT THE END OF TIME

even the grass was torn up, from the inspections
and the hoves of horses
the writing on the top of the train had changed it original
positive meaning, it was now backwards in meaning and in terse
i had started the train backwards, in the wrong direction, i had failed
it was catostrophic
i was to blame, is this a warning, like daniel to the king of this dream
or is it just a nightmare, from too many black forest chocolates on valentines day
and staying up too late all night

why a dream about a train, and why so real
james woke me up, and i woke up yelling, dont let me start the train
they all have died, it all went backwards!

it was not just the train went off the track and went the wrong direction
the writing on the canopy above the train changed its meaning and its actual words
the actual words changed when the train either backed up or went backwards
in the wrong direction (is this all about my life, any my failures?)

where once there was poetry and words of wisdom
i now read words of dome

(or is this just about the times, and the impending george w bush war
the nature of the orange status of our state of terror, my fears
this is a dream about the times, this is a dream about world war three
i am daniel, and i stand to warn all who will listern,

DO NOT START THE MACHINE, DO NOT START THIS WAR

when i awoke i was clutching my body
the train had gone backwards
even the writing on the train had changed its meaning backwards
i assume all were dead
i assume the train was now off the tracks
i had done something backwards
and it ended in pain
this mornings saturday morning dream

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Aquarius
� The Sun is in Aquarius and the Moon is in Leo. You're a powerful person, but in a friendly, objective way. A person who finds you attractive is about to figure that out.

i stand outside looking up at the full moon
trevors moon
this febuary of this year, my age, my life
looking up
sorrow for the children i left behind
sorrow for my past, my pain
might i now step forward, with a new breath
guided by all that is light
might i now step forward, with a new heart
to find my way
to make my way
to find happiness, to create happiness
to find art, and to create art
to find love, and to create love
to offer all that i am, to offer all that i will be tomorrow
to offer all that i am, to offer all that i was,
to be myself above all things
to find that golden child of my youth
to laugh again
to believe in hope, love, and joy again
to believe in all that i wanted myself and my life to be
to drive into my future, to drive today
with and without tears
i ask for time, lots of time
i ask for many years in front of my path
i have so much to do
i have so much to make
of all my dreams

Terror �trifecta� is threat-level spur One intelligence official said, only slightly tongue-in-cheek, �If the American people knew what we knew, they would be sleeping in shifts.�

Billboard Ban

Astrobiologists Say Prometheus Jupiter Mission Should Have Landing Craft

NASA E-mail Discussed Landing Disaster Scenarios

Blood pressure study sows confusion

U.S. troops already working in Iraqthe bastard bush has started world war three while we americans sleep and hide in our homes in fear

Dispute emerges over bin Laden tape

News-Journal Online - News Phoenix Gym owner Manny Sotirin is encouraging young weightlifters at his Seabreeze Boulevard business to hurry up and buy as many of the supplements as they can.
After this spring, "if they like it, they might as well try to get it on the black market, because" according to his distributors, "they won't be able to get it off the shelves any more," he said.
For years, Sotirin ingested up to 400 milligrams -- four times the daily maximum recommended by the state Department of Health -- before each workout. He says he stopped using the substances recently when he cut back on his weightlifting regimen.

Perspectives�These seconds are always spinning around in my head... One second is like 20 years. I can�t explain it. It�s hell, hell in the sky.� Eliezer Wolferman, father of Israeli astronaut Ilan Ramon, on learning that the Columbia astronauts likely knew they were going to die between 60 and 90 seconds before the craft disintegrated

Hidden Agenda?

CNN.com - Bush proposes erasing renting cap for federal housing assistance - Feb. 11, 2003But low-income housing advocates contend President Bush's plan places even more of a burden on struggling families, and unfairly shifts more of the financial responsibility of supporting public housing from the government to poor residents themselves.

IMPEACH BUSH

CNN.com - Duct tape sales rise amid terror fears - Feb. 11, 2003

CNN.com - U.S. intelligence: Iraq moves Scud launchers - Feb. 11, 2003

States Raise Tuition to Balance Budgets ``Just about every state out there, except for a couple, is dealing with significant budgets shortages,'' said Julie Bell, the education program director with the National Conference of State Legislators. ``And almost every state is looking at higher education either through a budget cut or a tuition increase.''

IMPEACH GEORGE BUSH

Maine Lawmakers Approve Iraq Resolution AUGUSTA, Maine (AP) -- After an emotional and lengthy debate, the state House approved a resolution Tuesday night urging President Bush to disarm Iraq through the United Nations and without military intervention

Greenspan Throws Cold Water on Bush Tax PlanBecause of Mr. Greenspan's enormous stature as a spokesman on economic issues, his comments today were a serious blow to the Bush administration. At the same time, the president met with some lawmakers at the White House to press his proposal.

In a cautious assessment of the economy, Mr. Greenspan said the biggest obstacle to faster growth was uncertainty about a likely war with Iraq. Though expressing optimism that the economy would strengthen once those uncertainties disappeared, he suggested that the Fed would not raise interest rates any time soon.

STOP THE MADNESS, IM PREACH BUSH

Head Start Plan Worries Supporterswhere will it all stop, bush is destroying this nation, starting with the poorest and youngest, to the
oldest, and then to us, we will have no social security when we are old, why in hells name is the american public allowing this madness, this war, this budget, this insanity to continue, will it take madness to wake up
the american public, that they voted for a rich kid who has no idea how to run a nation, and now that rich kid is taking this proud country to war, with no good plan on how to feed four teen million irag citizens when
the war starts, what is wrong with america? we are all going to suffer
for what bush is doing, will do, has done, and for world war three.

Officials Push Use of a 20-Minute H.I.V. TestA survey of nearly 3,000 affluent gay men who often recruited partners through the Internet found that many commonly had unprotected anal sex despite their high level of education, said Dr. Sabina Hirshfield of the Medical and Health Research Association of New York City.

Most participants in the survey said they had had from 1 to 50 sexual partners in their lifetimes, but 7.5 percent said they had had from 501 to more than 1,000

Human Trial of AIDS Vaccine Starts in Uganda

U.S. military maps out postwar Iraq �Is the U.S. military really prepared to feed more than 14 million people that the U.N. says are dependent on international aid?� asked Sandra Mitchell, of the International Rescue Committee. �And is the U.S. military prepared to protect the lives of more than 23 million Iraqis if they invade?�

U.S. military maps out postwar IraqWHAT BUSH WANTS TO DO
AFTER THIS WAR IS INSANE, THERE CAN NOT BE A MUSLIM
DEMOCRATIC STATE, IT WILL NOT WORK, THIS WAR AND AFTERWARDS WILL BE SO MUCH MORE WORSE THEN VIETNAME, THIS IS INSANE, OUR GOVERNMENT AND OUR
PRESEDENT HAVE LOST THEIR MINDS.!!!!!!!

Exile leaders fault U.S. postwar plan

Text: Excerpts From NASA's Final Communications With the Columbia

The Oldest Light in the Universe

HIV once again on the rise in U.S.i used to be an hiv case manager, a social worker, i am thinking about doing that again, perhaps this blog will be about more then me as a person and as an artist, perhaps i will write about what i have learned to help stop the spread of hiv and aids..........

GayWired.com - The Leading Gay & Lesbian Online Entertainment Community Travel opportunities could appear out of the blue. Since you detest cold weather, think sand, surf, and suntan lotion. If your budget sucks, hit the sauna and fantasize about tropical beaches. With Mercury entering your sign, you are filled with wanderlust. You need variety and change in your daily environment. At the very least, you might want to re-arrange your furniture so that your bed and couch face a different way. A fresh way of viewing the world will perk you right up.

The Tax Cut Ate Granny�s CheckYou can argue that moving from income taxes to consumption taxes is a good thing�but let�s debate it publicly. Let�s also debate how best to stimulate the economy, and whether it needs stimulus at all�or will recover on its own. Radical economic changes shouldn�t be imposed by stealth, no matter how convinced proponents are of the soundness of their thinking

Terror alert advice gets personal Ranking officials of the Department of Homeland Security told reporters at a briefing that Americans must take some responsibility for protecting themselves, but stressed that people should not feel panicked or abandoned by the government.

Rivalry rises for eyes of Arab world

idleworm: home

Online game simulates Iraq warO�Connor said �a constant pressure and drum beat� for war was clouding American perspectives on what could happen after an initial conflict and he felt the �worst case scenario� charted in his game offered an accurate reflection of the potential perils of attacking Iraq.
�I don�t see how (the Bush administration) can do it without creating a mess,� he said. �I just don�t see that the war is worth the risks.�

14 pilgrims trampled in Saudi Arabia

New terror threat details revealed

Caught between Iraq and a tax planThe thing that everyone in this town is excited about is to get him on the record regarding the Bush tax plan,� said Greg Valliere, chief strategist for Schwab Washington Research Group.

Anti-Americanism rising in Europe

Widening the international rift

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Aquarius
� The Sun is in Aquarius and the Moon is going from Taurus to Gemini. You're back in the groove - effective, smart, attractive and creative. Accept a challenge. You're up for it.

the metallic ape by dave hell

i am fourty eight today,
i start my life all over, from scratch
to live the life of an artist
and to find my love, to find my way
to heal all my wounds

i think of kwame and how much tina hurt him
and how linda covered it all up
and how sheila covered it all up
some day kwame will take them to court
as will kevin, dexter, corey, all of them
and will hold kids in distress accountable
will hold linda accountable, but today, i put all of this behind me
i can not forget it, but i put all of this behind me

i will write another day, when my own physical pain is less

i am fourty eight today
and this is a sad day, not a glad day
i am in pain, even after a year, my right knee is just killing me
i have chronic pain now, and i am having to live with it
kids in distress got off easy, well just wait till
i write my book, and the world will know what
a horrible place that is for abused children
i still cry for corey, who is drugged out now, they
can no longer deal with him since john, irene, and i left

i am fourty eight today
my prayers have been answered
the lawsuit with kids in distress is over
and i won
and the money is on its way
i can give james a lot
and get well

i am fourty eight today
a week ago seven died
fourty eight years ago i was born
bush is a mad man, and is taking us to war world three
he is going to ruin our nation, and ruin social security and medicare
he is the anti christ

Bush $2.2 trillion budget creates record deficitsProviding $16 billion to combat the spread of AIDS in the United States, a 7 percent increase over current levels. Bush will also ask Congress to triple AIDS spending in Africa and Haiti to $15 billion over five years.

Bush $2.2 trillion budget creates record deficits

WASHINGTON, Feb. 2 � President Bush will send to Congress on Monday a $2.2 trillion budget for fiscal 2004 that will slash taxes, pour money into defense and produce record deficits, setting the stage for a battle over tax and spending priorities in the run-up to the 2004 election.

Remains of astronauts discovered

MSNBC Coveraquarius 1/20 - 2/18
The Sun is in Aquarius and the Moon is in Pisces. Reality rears its ugly head as you start to figure out the costs. Don't look at it like there's only so much. Leave room for a few miracles.

Iraqis Call Shuttle Disaster God's Vengeance (washingtonpost.com)Saturday, February 1, 2003; 3:24 PM



BAGHDAD (Reuters) - Immediate popular reaction in Baghdad on Saturday to the loss of the U.S. space shuttle Columbia and its seven-member crew -- including the first Israeli in space -- was that it was God's retribution.

"We are happy that it broke up," government employee Abdul Jabbar al-Quraishi said.

"God wants to show that his might is greater than the Americans. They have encroached on our country. God is avenging us," he said.

God on our side?

MSNBC : Shuttle tragedy

god , what a day, seven lifes vanish in the sky above us
death is not the enemy, but it is so sad
james johnson called and lifted my spirits
he tells me to get happy again
james g is irritable at bedtime, did not even say good nite
i think the best thing for me to do is to move out when i am ready with a job
to find a nice little apt near james johnson, so we can see each other a lot
and use my kiln, use my car, make my art, grow my mushrooms

to be on my own might just be the best way to go
will need phone, lights, first and last, security, and i can do all that
will need tv, music, dvd, stuff to cook and stuff to sleep on and sofa
i can do that
it would be nice to be alone again, but i am open to the spirits
it would be fun to live with james g if he would just not get mad at me
when im cold, i seem to irriate him so easily, it might just be best to move

dave hell

bring me my money spirits of light, bring me the money to see
doctor jackson, to get my fce, to move on