Billions of bees vanish without a trace. (More serious than you think)

Go to work -- and vanish without a trace.Billions of bees have done just that, leaving the crop fields they are supposed to pollinate, and scientists are mystified about why.The phenomenon was first noticed late last year in the United States.....



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Army Sgt. Questions Why American Flags Lowered for VT, but not troops

But I find it ironic that the flags were flown at half-staff for the young men and women who were killed at VT yet it is never lowered for the death of a U.S. servicemember.



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“I Don’t Care What the Judge Said!” Marijuana user found Not Guilty

Juries in the United States have the power to effectively change law. In this case against a man for his 3rd possession of marijuana, a brave jury member stands up for marijuana users everywhere and convinces the jury to give him a 'not guilty' verdict.



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How U.S. farm policy makes us fatter and sicker

Why are Twinkies and sodas cheaper than fruits and vegetables? Commodity farmers get checks based on how many bushels they can grow. The result is a food system awash in added sugars and added fats.



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Bush to terrorists: Here is a map of our troop movements

Using photographs and maps displayed on monitors, President Bush on Friday offered a detailed defense of his strategy to increase the U.S. troop presence in Iraq. The president delved deeper into details of his Iraq strategy than he usually does in such appearances, using the monitors to illustrate troop movements.



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Man kept of flight because of book he was reading

A guy was kept off his flight to Disneyland with his family because of the cover of a book he was reading.



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Tillman killed by friendly fire - Army's immediate response: Cut off phones

Within hours of Pat Tillman's death, the Army went into information-lockdown mode, cutting off phone and Internet connections at a base in Afghanistan, posting guards on a wounded platoon mate, and ordering a sergeant to burn Tillman's uniform.



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University VP of Information Services Uses Patriot Act Against Students

University of Portland VP of Information Services has used the Patriot Act against several students. One student wrote a program to bypass Cisco Clean Access and distributed it to a select few. The programmer was suspended for a year and essentially told he was a terrorist. The VP of IS wasn't even able to recognize the code used. It was C++.



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Vermont Senate: Impeach the President

Vermont Senate Adopts Resolution Seeking Impeachment of Bush, Cheney. The non-binding resolution was approved 16-9 without debate all six Republicans in the chamber at the time and three Democrats voted against it.



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Pentagon Confirms: Bush Hyped False Iraq Deadline

The Associated Press has a major story out confirming that President Bush has been hyping a false Iraq spending deadline.



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(Video) Sen. Tom Coburn (R-OK) Tells Gonzales To Resign To His Face

A intense moment from the Senate hearing today, where Coburn tells Gonzales that he should suffer the same fate as the U.S. Attorneys he fired.



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Exclusive: Cheney impeachment articles due Wednesday, April 25th

Rep. Dennis Kucinich (D-OH), the former mayor of Cleveland who is seeking the 2008 Democratic nomination for president for the second time, has selected a date to introduce articles of impeachment against Vice President Dick Cheney. A source who asked to remain anonymous told RAW STORY that the articles of impeachment would be introduced next week.



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Wave farms are the hot new alternative energy source

After sputtering along for nearly a decade, marine power appears poised to join the alternative energy juggernaut, though the technologies are still in the early stages and have no guarantee of success.



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McCain sings 'bomb bomb bomb, bomb bomb Iran'

Sen. John McCain, in a "what was he thinking?" moment threatens Iran to the tune of "Barbara Ann." Is McCain is becoming the Sanjaya of this Presidential race?



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The history of cannabis and 4/20

Many people assume that marijuana was made illegal through some kind of process involving scientific, medical, and government hearings; that it was to protect the citizens from what was determined to be a dangerous drug. The actual story shows a much different picture. Those who voted on the legal fate of this plant never had the facts, but were de



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Noninterference vs Mass Broadcast

--We live in sad times. After two students are shot in the face and no one was caught for it, VA Tech decided it was best to send out emails to warn the students instead of a using the Public Address system to warn of the danger.
--Pre 9/11 there was a ton of information on Bin Laden using our planes against us, USA waited till after the attack then went to war with a different country, instead of making our airlines more secure. It cant be too difficult to make sure everyone going on a flight has proper identification and no metal objects.
--Thailand's tsunami is another example. A huge earthquake hit at 07:58:53 local time. Sensors around the world knew it hit 22 minutes after the huge quake. The first waves started hitting at around 10:00:00 local time. Between the 2 hours, there could have been MASS broadcasting to all coastal areas to get to higher grounds.

Why doesn't this occur? I have a few thoughts on it.

Leaders would rather have dead people on their hands then to be wrong, cause a mass panic, and be sued by everyone. Also, even though we can transfer data at light speeds around the world, the peoples airwaves have been stolen from them from the "leaders" who set up the system. And since the system has been divided up unequally between too few, nothing works together and at its no way near its full potential. The people on this planet need an awakening and it will never happen, we love competition, being better then other people, and having power over others. That's why when these events happen, it makes me angry at society for being so secretive. To exist in society (my job, my health, my food...not my private life), there should be NO encryption, which doesn't bother anyone other then the people in charge who have secret corporations, and money under the desk deals. We as a people should outlaw EVERY PRIVATE SECTOR and have a free and equal society. Every closed circuit, every government deal, every bandwidth should be out in the open for the world to see.

Please comment on how you feel, how you can improve this society, or why I am a total jackass.

"Plan to hijack an aircraft by Islamic radical" pre 9/11 report by France

French secret services produced nine reports between September 2000 and August 2001 looking at the al Qaeda threat to the United States, and knew it planned to hijack an aircraft, the French daily Le Monde said on Monday. One document prepared in January 2001 was entitled "Plan to hijack an aircraft by Islamic radicals",



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Bush rejects any Iraq pull-out deadline

US President George W. Bush, ahead of talks with lawmakers pushing for an Iraq withdrawal timetable, warned Monday that he would reject a pending war-funding bill if it comes with a deadline. Bush accused Democrats of trying to "legislate defeat in this vital war."



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Free ride is over: IRS taxing online sales

As if there wasn't enough to complain about with the IRS, add this to the list. The US Treasury Department is making a charge at forcing Internet auction sites to turn over the identities and social insurance numbers of their users to the IRS so they can keep tabs on income made through these types of sales.



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FIFTY PERCENT of CIA hired since 9/11

CIA Director Michael V. Hayden, after nearly a year as head of the nation's premier intelligence agency, says his biggest challenge is absorbing all the newly hired analysts and the case officers who have been hired since the attacks of Sept. 11, 2001.



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