1. Water found on Saturn’s
moon suggests life in outer space. NASA announced today that its
Cassini spacecraft has found evidence of liquid water on Enceladus,
rekindling hope in the existence of life outside planet Earth.
High-resolution images snapped by Cassini confirmed the eruption
of icy jets and giant water-vapor plumes from geysers resembling
frozen Old Faithful’s at Enceladus’s south pole. www.chinaview.cn
2006-03-10 www.xinhauanet.com 2. The Moon has the element of hydrogen in its soil. Scientist
believe that this is the “smoking gun” and where there’s
hydrogen, there’s water. Others believe that it is only a
trace of the element within the soil and there is little hope for
finding liquid water there. Astronomy Magazine 3. The Halliburton subsidiary KBR announced on Jan. 24 that it
had been awarded a $385 million contingency contract by the Department
of Homeland Security to build detention camps. Both the contract
and the budget allocation are in partial fulfillment of an ambitious
10-year plan. According to a Homeland Security document on the
plan, called ENDGAME its goal is the capability to “remove
all removable aliens,” including “illegal economic
migrants, aliens who have committed criminal acts, asylum-seekers
(required to be retained by law) or potential terrorists 4. The Maldives Nation occupies a group of islands only eight feet
above sea level. The seas are rising and the old timers point to
a myriad of changes that are resulting. The government is already
moving some of the inhabitants to higher ground. They may be the
first country in the world to be destroyed by drowning. Some believe
that this is a result of global warming. U.S.A. Today 5. Last month we reported an apparently newly discovered mammal
sighting in Bornio. The animal appeared larger than a domestic
cat, dark red, and with a long muscular tail, believed to be carnivorous.
BBC News Website. Fate Magazine ran a story in a recent issue about
just such an animal spotted in Texas by a rancher just after the
beast raided his hen house. His sketches were eerily like the photos
on the BBC News web site. He said he had never seen anything like
it before. Strange… 6. Our own contributing writer, Jonathan Bethel, has been in China
on business for an extended period of time. He has tried repeatedly
to email his stories out, but to no avail. His attempts were thwarted.
This month, his story was dictated to his Mother here in the states,
who emailed it in. Thankfully he can still speak freely by phone. 7. Congress just passed the “Uniformity in Food Labeling
Act”. H.R. 4167, a bill heavily supported by junk food manufacturers
that -- believe it or not -- makes it ILLEGAL for States to protect
their citizens from food products containing heavy metals, cancer
causing chemicals, aspartame and other dangerous ingredients. Find
out who voted for it and vote against them in the next election!
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