Marcello Truzzi, one of the founders of CSICOP, has allowed this essay to be reprinted on an important new website, www.ufoskeptic.org. This website is part of a sea-change now taking place in science over the UFO question. The physical evidence is no longer being ignored or dismissed out of hand by serious scientists, and the fact that denial is not skepticism is being recognized.

“On Pseudo-Skepticism”

by Marcello Truzzi

Founding co-chairman of CSICOP
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Our New Resource Crisis

By Peter Phillips

Monsanto plans to earn revenues of $420 million and a net income of $63 million by 2008 from its water business in India and Mexico.

Monsanto estimates that water will become a multibillion- dollar market in the coming decades.

Imagine, that we are beyond the energy crisis-in that we are used to paying double or triple prices for what in the previous century was a small part of the family budget. But now we are faced with a new shortage that taps another precious resource. Water only comes through the tap four hours a day and we are forced to pay ten to hundred times what we paid in the 90s.
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This story appeared in the January 25, 2001 edition of UFO Roundup (Vol. 6 no. 4) It is especially interesting in view of the fact that it has been revealed in the Robert Hanssen spy investigation that the FBI has been using tunnels under the Russian Embassy in the same immediate area as the tunnels described in this article. Thanks to UFO Roundup for permission to publish. In January, Hillary Rodham Clinton vacated the premises at the White House, located at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue in Washington, D.C. But the former First Lady turned Senator from New York state still has a home in the District of Columbia.
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The full text of this article, which concerns the apparent preparation of Australia as a refuge of some sort, is available at Rumor Mill News.

THE PURPOSE OF PINE GAP

Some of the following information was derived from an impeccable scientific source who, up to the time of his retirement occupied a key position among the Australian scientific elite. Due to his position he was fully informed about all joint government scientific programmes and was often asked to advise on technical and intelligence matters relating to them, He agreed to comment on some American activities in Australia providing he was not identified by subsequent use of the information.
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