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Alone among world religious leaders, the Dalai Lama has been excluded from the UN Millennium Peace Summit, despite being the winner of the 1989 Nobel Peace prize.

Pressure from the Chinese has forced this exclusion and as usual, the U.S. hasn’t protested. These days, our government seems to be run by people whose main interest is trading with the Chinese, to the exclusion of any and all moral concerns. When I look at our leading presidential candidates, I know this will only get worse in the future.

For fifty years after World War II, we supported one terrible dictatorship after another, in order to stop the spread of Communism. Latin America is just now beginning to recover from this policy. Africa may not make it.
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This crop circle appeared on July 22nd in Avebury Trusloe near Avebury, Wiltshire on July 22nd. This phenomenally complex and beautiful formation joins a number of others that have appeared this season that are so intricately constructed that they would seem beyond the skill of even the most spectacular hoaxer, and impossible to create without continuous observation from above. The crop circle makers are creating an event in the fields of England that appears to be separating interested parties into two camps: those who accept that they are a genuine mystery; and those who are emotionally unable to face that fact. Science and the media continue to be unable to face the awesome reality that is unfolding before us.
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It now appears that an epidemic of human mad cow disease is in its initial stages in Great Britian. If this is true, experts estimate that as many as 500,000 Britons could die of the disease over the next 30 years. Fourteen Britons have died of the disease this year, and five others are dying of it. “I am worried about this year’s figures,” Dr. Roy Anderson, a zoologist from Oxford who has studied the epidemic, told the London Independent this week. He explained that the disease has a long incubation period, and that cases being seen now were caused by exposure to contaminated beef in the early 1980s. Later, cases start appearing in a trickle, rising slightly each year until the rate of increase become exponential. “That’s what you expect in an epidemic,” Dr. Anderson said.
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A red UFO of a type that was christened “Bubba” during the many hundreds of sightings that took place in Gulf Breeze, Florida has appeared five times in recent nights over Phoenix. If you live in the Phoenix area, you can participate in the skywatch and report your observation. To report, call the National UFO Reporting Center at 206-722-3000.

To participate in the skywatch, you need a video camera. Should you see the UFO (it is a bright, extremely red light and it may engage in extraordinary manuevers, emit rings or change colors) tape it preferably using a tripod. Do not use digital zoom, and set your focus on infinity rather than use autofocus. After your sighting, take a wide-angle reference shot from exactly the same position.
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