100,000+ year-old human skull found

An almost complete human skull fossil that could date back 100,000 years was unearthed in Henan last month, Chinese archaeologists announced this past Tuesday. » Read more

Archaeologists find 5,500+ year old Plaza in Peru

Lima - A ceremonial plaza built 5 500 years ago has been discovered in Peru, and archaeologists involved in the dig said on Monday carbon dating shows it is one of the oldest structures ever found in the Americas.
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Top Censored Story: Halliburton Sold Nuke Components to Iran

According to journalist Jason Leopold, sources at former Cheney company Halliburton allege that, as recently as January of 2005, Halliburton sold key components for a nuclear reactor to an Iranian oil development company. Leopold says his Halliburton sources have intimate knowledge of the business dealings of both Halliburton and Oriental Oil Kish, one of Iran’s largest private oil companies. » Read more

Karl Rove Accidently Emailed 500 Deleted Emails to Reporter

Greg Palast of the BBC has uncovered over 500 emails sent by Karl Rove from GOP and RNC servers that were later deleted to inhibit a justice department investigation. What Palast has uncovered is a preliminary plan to ‘cage’ black voters out of the 2008 election. » Read more

White House ‘puzzled’ by ex-aide bashing Bush

The White House Wednesday said it was “puzzled” by a former spokesman’s memoir in which he accuses the Bush administration of being mired in propaganda and political spin and at times playing loose with the truth. » Read more

Conspiracy “theory” becomes reality, Bush passes NAFTA bill

Bush signs up for North American Union without vote or consulting congress and against all
recommendations of congress.
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Star watch - Archaeologists discover a “cosmic clock”

Overcrowded in their lower reaches they might be, but the Canary Islands still possess some solitary mountain wilder-nesses, places little visited thanks to their rugged inaccessibility, and which have hardly changed since they were frequented by the pre-colonial aboriginal islanders. » Read more

Ancient camel fossil unearthed in Arizona

Mesa, Arizona - When paleontologist Robert McCord comes to Gilbert, he knows he’ll probably dig up something interesting. As chief curator of natural history at the Arizona Museum of Natural History in Mesa, McCord has been called in at least twice to excavate prehistoric fossils unearthed at Gilbert constructions sites. » Read more

Microsoft to pay users to search

REDMOND, Wash. — Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates today said the future of search will not only include simple, intuitive user interfaces and results based on rich semantic data but it will also reward consumers for their engagement. » Read more

American Drug War: The Last White Hope

The War on Drugs has become the longest and most costly war in American history, the question has become, how much more can the country endure? Inspired by the death of four family members from “legal drugs” Texas filmmaker Kevin Booth sets out to discover why the Drug War has become such a big failure. Three and a half years in the making the film follows gang members, former DEA agents, CIA officers, narcotics officers, judges, politicians, prisoners and celebrities. Most notably the film befriends Freeway Ricky Ross; the man many accuse for starting the Crack epidemic, who after being arrested discovered that his cocaine source had been working for the CIA. AMERICAN DRUG WAR shows how money, power and greed have corrupted not just dope fiends but an entire government. More importantly, it shows what can be done about it. This is not some ‘pro-drug’ stoner film, but a collection of expert testimonials from the ground troops on the front lines of the drug war, the ones who are fighting it and the ones who are living it.

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