Weapons of Mass Stupidity -- What hope, a cynical friend teased me, for a country where 70 percent
believe in angels, 60 percent believe in literal, biblical, blazing Armageddon, and more than half reject Charles Darwin?
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The Moron Majority -- It's now official: Most Americans are idiots.
The microscopic shall inherit the Earth -- Scientists tracking how antibiotics are fed to farm animals and
then flow through the food chain say the meat on people's plates is helping to weaken the effectiveness of one of the world's most
powerful class of medicines.
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White-collar jobs may be departing U.S. forever -- It's good for American consumers
and bad for American workers. Unfortunately, they tend to be the same people." And more bad news...
American corporations are firing their own customers. Lou Dobs (US News and World Report)
Planet Earth has passed its peak of oil production --
All the big deposits have been found and exploited." So while there may be more oil and gas in the ground, it is just too expensive
to get it and use it. Thus comes the conclusion that the end of hydrocarbons basically means the end of economic growth.
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Study: Species extinction under way --
A steep decline in birds, butterflies and native plants in Britain supports the theory that humans are pushing the natural world into the
Earth's sixth big extinction event and the future may see more and more animal species disappearing.
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Privacy lost, the Pentagon's Terrorism Information Awareness Program. --
The government is quietly pressing ahead with research into high-powered data mining technology without the two most advanced
privacy protections developed to police those terror fighting tools.
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And speaking of privacy, or lack of it: The government of the People's
Republic of China censors Internet access. And who helped them perfect their internet censorship? CISCO and
other US corporations eager to make a buck. Think it can't happen here?? Current US Government web sites are now are
just "public relations" (propaganda) extolling the virtues of Bush administration policies. A few clicks of a
mouse and MoveOn.org or ACLU web sites become inaccessible. Read the Open Net report and see how China
with help from American "know how" keeps their citizens off the back roads of the Information Super Highway.
(God, I hate that phrase!)
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Other stuff that's way "too strange" to classify:
Crime Watch - Courtesy of the local newspaper...
Proof that Astrology is bunk - I'm still waiting for this day to happen.
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