On:

Even administration apologists pretty much admit the fact that our war on drugs is a failure, since we have more addicts than ever. Mexico’s president Vincente Fox recently proposed decriminalizing drugs in his country, but quickly backpedaled when our government objected, fearing that even more drugs would flow over the border. Canadians have considered legalizing marijuana. Some state have legalized pot when it is used as medicine. But the liberal drug laws that were passed in Switzerland ten years ago have led to an 80% decline in the number of addicts there. Maybe the war on drugs is a war we should stop fighting.
read more

On:

A description of either a remarkable dream or experience has been received by unknowncountry.com, and is published with the kind permission of its author. It could be that actual movement through time might feel something like this. Click here to read this incredible letter.

NOTE: This news story, previously published on our old site, will have any links removed.read more

On:

This description of either a remarkable dream or experience was received today, and is published with the kind permission of its author. It could be that an actual movement through time might feel something like this.
read more

On:

Global warming is a sad fact: NOAA weather satellite data collected from 1979 through 2005 show that the earth’s tropical zone has been steadily expanding since 1979. Researcher Thomas Reichler says, “It’s a big deal. The tropics may be expanding and getting larger. If this is true, it also would mean that subtropical deserts are expanding into heavily populated regions.”

Reichler adds, “The possible expansion of the tropics may be a totally new aspect of climate change. We don’t know for sure what triggered it. My research is investigating whether it is related to global warming or not. One can certainly think of various mechanisms of how global warming-related changes in the atmosphere could induce the changes we see.”
read more