Optimism is good for the heart, a study said on Monday.
The most optimistic among a group of 545 Dutch men age 64 to 84 had a roughly 50 percent lower risk of cardiovascular death over 15 years of follow-up, according to the study published in the Archives of Internal Medicine.
Previous research has suggested being […]

WASHINGTON - U.S. President George W. Bush said his 2004 re-election victory over Sen. John Kerry was inadvertently aided by Osama bin Laden, who issued a taped diatribe against him the Friday before Americans went to the polls, The Examiner newspaper reported on Tuesday.
Bush said there were “enormous amounts of discussion” inside his campaign […]

The U.S. news media is experiencing a cognitive meltdown as it tries to hold onto the traditional view of the United States as a beacon for human rights while facing the new reality in which George W. Bush has plunged the nation into the dark arts of torture, assassination and “disappearances” more common in “death-squad” […]

The study of Mind Control reveals that Jonathan Edwards discovered a method of affecting change during a religious crusade in 1735. World Newstand reports that by inducing guilt and acute apprehension and by increasing the tension, the "sinners" attending his revival meetings would break down and completely submit. Technically, what Edwards was doing was creating […]

With the ABL project so far behind schedule, it looks like the US military has other plans for long range laser systems.
DefenseTech has an interesting article about the status of air and space borne lasers in the US military. The primary laser system for the US, the Airborne Laser project, is a modified 747 […]

Secret Mysteries of America’s Beginnings unfolds the fascinating history behind the founding of America, and exposes the esoteric underbelly of its design. Why is Washington D.C. build on the 77th Meridian? Are the Revolutionary War cities really built in perfect alignment with Stonehenge? If America was founded as a Christian nation, why are many of […]

Pauline Hanson recently announced on news radio that her political views have been “vindicated” ; she cited the overt racist attitudes of John Howard and Peter Costello as proof of her claim. Who could deny it? Hanson’s imprisonment on trumped-up charges was an act of political assassination instigated by Howard but executed by his then […]

Americans seem to have forgotten why the Founding Fathers prohibited government from spying on them. Public opinion polls show that a rising percentage of Americans approve of the warrantless National Security Agency wiretaps of Americans that Bush ordered.
But such blind faith in government simply ignores the lessons of U.S. history. When the feds have unleashed […]

Has Tony Blair, the minuscule Caesar, finally crossed his Rubicon? Having subverted the laws of the civilised world and brought carnage to a defenceless people and bloodshed to his own, having lied and lied and used the death of a hundredth British soldier in Iraq to indulge his profane self-pity, is he about to collude […]

By Jultra
The fetishisation of Gordon Brown knows no bounds, and doting Labour MPs just could not resist indulging in their perverse Brownophilia by supporting him over the ID cards vote to assist in his long-arranged smooth transition. But today the Telegraph reiterates what we have already long known:
the government’s pro-slavery statistics were a lie.
In a […]

The German government’s claim that it did nothing substantial to support the Iraq war appeared to be in tatters yesterday, after evidence came to light that its agents supplied the US military with key Iraqi defence plans before the country was invaded.
An explosive report, published in yesterday’s New York Times and based on a […]

WASHINGTON - Republican governors are openly worrying that the Bush administration’s latest stumbles - from the natural disaster of Hurricane Katrina to those of its own making on prescription drugs and ports security - are taking an election-year toll on the party back home.
The GOP governors reluctantly acknowledge that the series of gaffes threatens to […]

WASHINGTON - Military interrogators posing as FBI agents at the U.S. detention center at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, wrapped terrorism suspects in an Israeli flag and forced them to watch homosexual pornography under strobe lights during interrogation sessions that lasted as long as 18 hours, according to one of a batch of FBI memos released Thursday. […]

Some very rapid changes are taking place that threaten the world order as we know it. In addition to Congressman Paul’s speech and discussion of our budget deficits, several headlines caught my attention this past week that illustrate these changes.
For example, we see China Daily reported on Friday that China is seeking to quickly […]

Conflicts are often about money. One factor that might account for the Bush administration’s hostility toward Iran is Iran’s plan to open a bourse - an oil exchange - in March in which Iranian oil will be sold for euros, not dollars.
Now, a short, oversimplified history of money is in order. At the end […]