A plastic replica of a 40,000-year-old

Officials in Washington, D.C., plan to use the July Fourth crowd watching fireworks on the National Mall to test the city's emergency evacuation system
http://www.sciencedaily.com/upi/?feed=TopNews&article=UPI-1-20050702-20222400-bc-us-fireworks.xml

Scientists have said a more explosive eruption, possibly dropping ash within a 10-mile radius of the crater, is possible at any time.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20050703/ap_on_re_us/mount_st__helens

The move follows a six-month trial in Leeds using 20 modified Skoda Fabias, which found that volunteer drivers paid more attention as well keeping to the speed limit. More than 1,000 lives a year could be saved if the system was fitted to all Britain’s cars, say academics at Leeds University, who ran the trial on behalf of the Department for Transport (DfT).
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,2087-1678707,00.html


A radical Egyptian cleric allegedly kidnapped from Italy by the CIA once provided the American spy agency with valuable information about Islamic militants in Albania, according to a published report.

The Chicago Tribune, citing the former second-ranking official of the Albanian intelligence service, reported in its Sunday editions that Moustafa Hassan Nasr, also known as Abu Omar, was a valuable source of information in the mid-1990s to the CIA about the close-knit community of Islamic fundamentalists living in exile in Albania, a formerly communist county in the Balkans.
http://ap.tbo.com/ap/breaking/MGBI2E4BOAE.html

Genoa police have arrested the two leaders of a neo-Fascist unofficial intelligence and "anti-terrorism" police network in Italy and have conducted searches of homes throughout the country in a major crackdown on a group that recruited police and intelligence agents to their cause. The two neo-Fascist leaders -- Gaetano Saya and Riccardo Sindoca -- who reportedly have close ties to both the P-2 (Propaganda Due) Masonic lodge and a secret Cold War network known as Gladio, were arrested. Some 25 members of the regular state police, the Carabinieri, the Frontier police, and the Prison police were placed under official investigation. Tens of searches, including two houses in Genoa, were conducted by police in nine Italian regions: Liguria, Piedmont, Lombardy, Emilia Romagna, Tuscany, Lazio, Molise, Sicily and Sardinia.  The investigation may soon extend to members of the Italian intelligence service SISMI. In 2004, Saya and Sindoca established the Department of Strategic Anti-Terrorism Studies, which reportedly had links to both the Bush administration and Ariel Sharon's Likud government in Israel.
http://www.waynemadsenreport.com/diplomatic/foreign.htm

Brazil may build $100 laptops
http://edition.cnn.com/2005/WORLD/americas/06/30/brazil.laptop.ap/

Oil prices could rocket to $100 within six months, plunging the world into an unprecedented fuel crisis, controversial Texan oil analyst Matt Simmons has warned.
http://www.rense.com/general66/100.htm

He congratulates "our fiscal agents Messrs Pierpont Morgan & Company" for "putting this country into the war." They exert "widespread influence on newspaper policy" through advertising and lent $200,000,000 to Japan to build a fleet to compete with America (making the U.S still more dependent on England.)
http://www.rense.com/general66/rit.htm

Defense officials who flew over the area in a helicopter said the surface of the water appeared red where the column was reported, which could indicate underwater volcanic activity, Shirai said.
http://aolsvc.news.aol.com/news/article.adp?id=20050703105409990001&ncid=NWS00010000000001

Hundreds of thousands of people are set to defy the government by refusing to carry ID cards, despite the risk of imprisonment.

Campaigners say that a network of anti-ID card groups, ranging from hackers to anarchists, plans a series of assaults in the coming months to try to block the scheme. A £1 million fund is being raised to help pay legal fees if, as expected, prosecutions are brought once the cards become compulsory, probably in 2010
http://observer.guardian.co.uk/politics/story/0,6903,1520163,00.html

It gets shadier when we learn that although it was started three years ago, military officials only filed a notice about it a month ago, which is apparently a violation of the federal Privacy Act.

But why would that bother anyone in this administration?
http://morningsentinel.mainetoday.com/news/local/1753648.shtml

CEAUSESCU'S PLOT TO BREED RACE OF CAMOUFLAGED COMMIE SUPER-DOGS!
http://www.weeklyuniverse.com/2005/commiedog.htm

A plastic replica of a 40,000-year-old, size eight foot has shattered previous theories of the identity of the first humans to walk in the Americas.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2005/07/05/wfoot05.xml&sSheet=/news/2005/07/05/ixworld.html

Forget bungy-jumping, base jumping and street luge. The world's weirdest extreme sport has been discovered: yak skiing.
http://www.nzherald.co.nz/index.cfm?c_id=500835&ObjectID=10334155