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Updated 2/15/02: Far from reporting to the Security Council yesterday that Iraq was refusing to co-operate, UN Inspector Hans Blix instead said that Saddam Hussein appeared to be becoming more co-operative. In addition, Unknowncountry.com has learned that the US will not be fully prepared to execute its war plan until at least another three to four weeks have passed.

This means that there will be ample time for more diplomacy and a settled solution to the crisis that insures that Iraq does not have weapons of mass destruction.

The US Office of Homeland Security did not reduce the terror alert level, however, and both government pronouncements and media coverage led to a heightened leve of fear in the US.
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A document drafted by Attorney General John Ashcroft called the “Domestic Security Act of 2003,” which has been leaked to the media, calls for laws that will expand the Patriot Act to give the government the right to read private e-mail messages and monitor web surfing. “I think that the average web surfer is not going to notice a thing. That’s what is so scary,” says Lee Tien of the Electronic Frontier Foundation.
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The famous prehistoric construction of Stonehenge in the U.K. is fascinating because, like many other megalithic structures, no one knows exactly how or why it was built. It’s in the part of Great Britain that has become famous for elaborate crop circles every spring, meaning it might be the site of some sort of Earth energy. Archeologists now think it may have been commissioned by the early Swiss or Germans, because they’ve found a 4,000-year-old grave of a wealthy archer from the Alps nearby who was from the area that is now modern Switzerland, Austria or Germany.
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Talking on cellphones is the leading cause of crashes caused by driver distraction, according to the California Highway Patrol. Maybe this is because new evidence shows that cellphones may trigger the early onset of Alzheimer’s disease. Studies of rats in Sweden found that radiation from mobile phones damages areas of the brain associated with learning, memory and movement, but so far, no one has found conclusive evidence that cellphones damage the human brain. It’s a long-running debate between people who want to talk and drive and other drivers who wish they wouldn’t, and people who say cellphones are safe to use and others who think they’re turning our brains into Swiss cheese.
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