This Stimulus Plan Pushes the Wrong Buttons
Tax breaks aimed at business investment won't work because of existing overcapacity. What's needed is a way to buck up consumers

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A NEW DEAL FOR OUR NEW ERA
America's Leaders Are Failing the Leadership Test in the Current Crisis

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Terrorism

Backyard terrorism
The US has been training terrorists at a camp in Georgia for years - and it's still at it.

"If any government sponsors the outlaws and killers of innocents," George Bush announced on the day he began bombing Afghanistan, "they have become outlaws and murderers themselves. And they will take that lonely path at their own peril." I'm glad he said "any government", as there's one which, though it has yet to be identified as a sponsor of terrorism, requires his urgent attention.

For the past 55 years it has been running a terrorist training camp, whose victims massively outnumber the people killed by the attack on New York, the embassy bombings and the other atrocities laid, rightly or wrongly, at al-Qaida's door. The camp is called the Western Hemisphere Institute for Security Cooperation, or Whisc. It is based in Fort Benning, Georgia, and it is funded by Mr Bush's government.

Until January this year, Whisc was called the "School of the Americas", or SOA. Since 1946, SOA has trained more than 60,000 Latin American soldiers and policemen. Among its graduates are many of the continent's most notorious torturers, mass murderers, dictators and state terrorists. As hundreds of pages of documentation compiled by the pressure group SOA Watch show, Latin America has been ripped apart by its alumni.
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How's the war going?

Mistake to declare this a 'war'
Sir Michael Howard, the eminent historian, has delivered a brilliant analysis of the terrorist crisis - and an indictment of its handling - which is likely to prove highly influential in this country and abroad.

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Allies study options for full-scale invasion
Attack possible in spring if bombing and subversion fail

US bombs knock out dam, "imperil thousands", in heaviest raids yet

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Comics

This Modern World

Last year, due to a quirk in their election laws, our interdimensional counterparts accidnetly elected a SMALL CUTE DOG as PRESIDENT!

Tom the Dancing Bug
Profiles in Courage

Today, we salute a uniquely patriotic group, as several Rich White Guys speak out about the sacrifices they are willing to make for the War on Terrorism.

Information that no educated person should be without

Where is your Birthday in PI?

This document will tell you where in PI your birthday first occurs.

E.G., If you were born Feb 20th 1969 search for: 22069

For those that don't remember, PI is the big number that begins with three

My birthday, August 24, 1944 (82444), starts at the 46,717 digit of Pi. Where is your's?