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Where We Are; Where We're Headed -- The Road to 2012
On June 25th, Saturn made its final pass opposite Neptune, and that is very meaningful. Our collective disillusionment, social malaise, and the longstanding sense of being lost in confusion while sinking in quicksand are peaking right now after almost four years of Saturn-Neptune's scandalous revelations, endless deception, and fantasies polarized to realities.
Drug Cartels, Managed Violence and the Russian 9/11, Part 1
Drug trafficking from Afghanistan is the main source of support for international terrorism today. Did an international drug cartel affiliated with a Saudi billionaire, Russian banks, and US and Russian intelligence services conspire in the Moscow bombings of 1999?
Who's Spying Now?
Writer Dashiell Hammett could never have dreamed up private investigator Joseph Seanor. Unlike a fast-talking, streetwise gumshoe who spends his nights pounding the pavement, Seanor does his research pounding on a keyboard. Each week he dons a virtual reality headset and spends 100 hours online. . .
BAD COMPANY: Part 1 - How Spooks, Speculators and Con-Men Helped Build the Bush Dynasty
How Speculators, Spooks, and Con Men Helped Build the Bush Dynasty: Bush's legendary talent for moral flexibility and political spinelessness, which surfaced in a career built on professional coattailing, appears to be a family trait, an identifying characteristic--the way the Kennedy clan will always be associated with hot sex and rum-running.
BAD COMPANY: Part 2 - How Spooks, Speculators and Con-Men Helped Build the Bush Dynasty
Making Money the Old-fashioned Way-- Dealing With the Yakuza and Building Golf Courses in China -- The same year George Bush was running for president on a platform attacking Willie Horton, denouncing flag burning, and extolling family values, his brother "Pres" Bush was doing deals with Japanese gangsters and Chinese dictators.
Have Guns, Will Travel
Who Is Richard Brenneke and Why Is He Saying Those Terrible Things About George Bush and the October Surprise?
The Trillion Dollar Hole in America's Stocking Part 2
Over the Past Decade a Republican White House, With the Help of a Democratic Congress, Has Dismantled FDR's Vision of the American Dream. Now We're in for a Dickens of a Christmas.
Virtual Networks Tame Cyberspace
CommerceNet, Media Park and DRUMs give businesses secure trading posts on the Net.
Mr. Greenspan's Sleight of Hand
Depending on how money is defined, the nation's supply is either flat or running out of control. The confusion may be intentional.
Is Bad News Good for the Net?
The dot-com bubble has burst. The Nasdaq bear refuses to go into hibernation for the winter. “Geek chic” suddenly looks as tired and dated as those Priceline PCLN ads with William Shatner that looked so cool only a few months ago, when Priceline’s stock was soaring.
The Bankruptcy Reform Act of 2001
The coalition of unions, consumer and women's groups who have been fighting the bankruptcy law are just about out of ammo. Both houses of Congress are expected to pass the measure this week, and President Bush has said he's ready to sign it into law.