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way to ensure its troops in battle need never go hungry - with dried food that can be rehydrated using dirty water or urine. The meal comes in a pouch that filters out 99.9% of bacteria and most toxic chemicals, says New Scientist magazine....

Without the social contract, we become wolves to one another. Rousseau's idea is replaced by Hobbes' "natural order". The might is right delusion and the warrior mentality replace Kant's vision of eternal peace and the UN's passion to outlaw war....

This bay area reader told them so! Over and over I tried . . .UFPJ *always* f**king caves! Wake up and organize without them!! Hurry while there's still time!...

On June 1st I was evicted, arrested, jailed, and banned from the Reservation, all without a warrant or court order. Then the judge gives my house to the thief and prevents me from getting my things....

This letter is in response to today's posted article on Common Dreams - Jeff Cohen: Nader's "Grassroots" Campaign...Courtesy of GOP......

Colonialism changes form, but continues unabated as it has for over five hundred years. While reading King Leopold's Ghost, I was greatly impressed by the similarities between the fabrications and lies used by Leopold to justify his actions with those used by George W. Bush to justify the Iraq war. The economic motivation and incredible hypocrisy of both men are also similar....

Trinity, Hiroshima & Nagasaki Anniversary Events Held Nationwide: Communities Call on National Leaders to Take Precautionary Action & Prevent Nuclear Weapons Hazards. “Support Safety & Security: Clean Up, Don’t Build Up” is a series of seventy-two events being held in twenty states across the country to commemorate the 59th anniversaries of the Trinity atomic detonation and the Hiroshima and Nagasaki atomic bombing. A diverse coalition of environmental health, nuclear weapons, toxic waste ...

The American-Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee (ADC) has noted a recent wave of reports from across the country indicating that FBI agents are contacting Arab and Muslim Americans, including citizens, for what has been described as voluntary interviews. ADC would like to remind members of the Arab, Muslim, and Arab-American communities that equal protection and due process rights are afforded to everyone, including non-citizens, in the United States....

"We may not agree on other policies, but we are unifying against these ridiculous ballot access laws in Illinois," says Jeff Trigg, Libertarian Party of Illinois Executive Director. "The facts are that Illinois Democrats are challenging Nader, but they bent over backwards to let President Bush blatantly ignore deadlines in election law. This Bush favoritism shows you who the Democrats think their political enemies are, and it isn't the Republicans. Their enemy is voter choice, ...

Welcome to the final countdown for the DNC. We have just released our "Welcome to Boston" guide at: http://blackteasociety.org/bostonguide/...