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Spy agency in '01 urged greater eavesdropping (Kansas City Star)
"The National Security Agency warned President Bush in 2001 that monitoring U.S. adversaries would require a "permanent presence" on networks that carry messages protected from government eavesdropping. ... The report raised questions about how new global communications technologies were challenging the Constitution's protections against unreasonable searches and seizures. ... But, it adds, leaders must understand that the agency's mission will demand a "powerful, permanent presence" on global telecommunications networks that carry both 'protected' communications of Americans" and the communications of adversaries that the agency wants to make targets."

Humor?: This Modern World: Bush News Network
"Our top story tonight! Iraqi detainees are treated VERY, VERY WELL! I'm here in a penthouse suite at the plush BHAGDAD RITZ with a TYPICAL IRAQI DETAINEE who says he hasn't been mistreated at ALL! -- Far from it! The room service is EXCELLENT and i LOVE the fluffy pillows!"

High Levels of Uranium Found in Troops and Civilians (Project Censored 2005)
"Scientists from the Uranium Medical Research Center (UMRC) studied urine samples of Afghan civilians and found that 100% of the samples taken had levels of non-depleted uranium (NDU) 400% to 2000% higher than normal levels ... Professor Katsuma Yagasaki, a scientist at the Ryukyus University, Okinawa calculated that the 800 tons of depleted uranium used in Afghanistan is the radioactive equivalent of 83,000 Nagasaki bombs. The amount of depleted uranium used in Iraq is equivalent to 250,000 Nagasaki bombs ... UMRC's Field Team found several hundred Afghan civilians with acute symptoms of radiation poisoning along with chronic symptoms of internal uranium contamination, including congenital problems in newborns. Local civilians reported large, dense dust clouds and smoke plumes rising from the point of impact, an acrid smell, followed by burning of the nasal passages, throat and upper respiratory tract. Subjects in all locations presented identical symptom profiles and chronologies. The victims reported symptoms including pain in the cervical column, upper shoulders and basal area of the skull, lower back/kidney pain, joint and muscle weakness, sleeping difficulties, headaches, memory problems and disorientation. ... In a U.S. government study, conducted by the Department of Veterans Affairs on post-Gulf War babies, 67% were found to have serious birth defects or serious illnesses. They were born without eyes (anophthalmos), ears, had missing organs, missing legs and arms, fused fingers, thyroid or other organ malformations. ... The presence of artificial uranium in environmental and biological samples indicates that the bunker buster warheads used in Afghanistan are made of uranium. ... Uranium used in specially designed high velocity liquid metal penetrators can bore through 20 feet of super-reinforced concrete bunkers in classified weapons called "shaped charges" and "explosively formed penetrators""

Global Issues That Affect Everyone (globalissues.org)
Lots of good information on:
Trade Related Issues: The Causes of Poverty, Third World Debt, Free Trade and Globalization, Corporations, Behind Consumption and Consumerism, Sustainable Development, Fair Trade
Environmental Issues: Biodiversity, Genetic Engineering of Food, Human Population, Global Warming, Animal and Nature Conservation, Natural Disasters New Section
Geopolitics: Arms Control, Arms Trade, Conflicts in Africa, International Criminal Court, Middle East, War On Terror, Foreign Policy, Military Expansion, Children, Conflicts & the Military, NATO and Kosovo, Crisis in Chechnya, Crisis in East Timor
Human Rights and Justice Issues: Mainstream Media, Women’s Rights, Racism

So I'm not dead (yet), I haven't been kidnapped, supressed, poisoned with dioxins, or suicided.

I've just been in a terrible mood these past few months.

It started with letting Bush steal *another* election. That kinda ruined my spirits, as I had truely believed he was going to be a one-term "president".

I've also been going through some tough times personally, as I am now going through a divorce. This sucks.

If you're still here and still reading this, I say thanks for your support. I will try to update this as I find things worthy of sharing.

Thanks,
- The Smug Llama

Heightening security was for naught (Gerald Ensley / Tallahassee Democrat)
Some excellent opinion on some of the things gone wrong with new security procedures in this post-9/11 hysteria.