Sign of the times

Sign of the times I logged onto Google News a few hours back. The two Top Stories were the UN debating Iraq and, of course The Sniper. The Iraq story had 919 related links, the sniper story had 2129 –…

Army coup attempt in Venezuela…

Army coup attempt in Venezuela never gets started Venezuela Stays Calm as Army Rejects Revolt Call. Dissident Venezuelan military officers struggled on Wednesday to muster support for their call for a revolt against leftist President Hugo Chavez as the armed…

bin Laden in Saudi Arabia?

bin Laden in Saudi Arabia? DEBKAfile says bin Laden is in Saudi Arabia. So, given the source we assume that Israeli Intelligence certainly wants us to believe bin Laden is there – and that the story may even be credible. Certainly…

US sniper obession

US sniper obession British media wonders what is going on here. The United States will hold elections in two weeks. President George W Bush might have changed his position on whether regime change is necessary in Iraq.  And there have…

Let’s be kind to our…

Let’s be kind to our poor businesses (say what?) Lieberman Pledges To Be Business Candidate In 2004. Sen. Joseph Lieberman (D-CT) “who said he is considering a run for the White House in 2004, attacked President Bush’s management of the…

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Let your computer help researchers! Folding @ Home is free software from Stanford Univ. Download it, and your computer starts crunching numbers in the background, workiing on protein folding sequences. This is distributed computing, which means that tens of thousands of computers are…

my sniper news binge

my sniper news binge After a two day sniper news binge on cable TV, I’ve sworn off.  There’s just not a whole lot of actual news reported, is there? Many talking heads explain it to us – when they aren’t…