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Oil companies have said that energy shortages are caused by a lack of refineries and have blamed excessive environmental regulation and local resistance for the problem. But newly-revealed oil industry documents obtained by Senator Ron Wyden show that five years ago, companies were looking for ways to cut refinery output so they could boost profits.

It takes about 4 years to build a large refinery, so they would have had to start building in the mid 1990s in order to avoid shortages now. But in the mid 1990s, according to the documents, oil companies had no interest in building new refineries and were even discussing the need to curtail refinery output in order to increase profits.
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The New York Times reported today that Governor Jeb Bush of Florida attacked a report the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights as ?intellectually dishonest.? The report stated thatthousands for Floridians were deprived of the chance to vote in the Presidential election by outdated equipment, improper purging of voter rolls, language barriers and inadequate access to voting booths and that black voters were especially disenfranchised. Bush said that the report ?needlessly fosters racial disharmony? and adds, ?The time for meaningless and divisive finger-pointing over last year?s election is over. We need to move on.?

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When we read about Korea in the morning newspaper, we usually learn about tensions between North and South. Something that?s rarely mentioned is that South Korea is a hotbed of UFO activity.

An internet search of Korean websites will reveal hundreds of home pages dedicated to UFO sightings. So far there have been no Roswell-type crashes and no reported abductions.

Researcher Seo Jong-han has been studying UFOs for 20 years. By day, he works as a computer game developer; in his spare time, he?s a member of the Korean UFO Research Association, KUFORA.
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The Gallup Poll has recently updated its audit of American?s beliefs in a variety of occult phenomena. The results suggest a significant increase in belief in a number of these experiences over the last decade, particulary in haunted houses and ghosts. Only devil possession has shown a drop in belief since 1990. Half or more of Americans believe in psychic or spiritual healing and ESP and a third or more believe in extraterrestrial visitations.

Here are some of the results of that poll. The replies are listed in percentages according to ?Believe/ Not Sure/ Don?t Believe.?

That extraterrestrial beings have visited earth at some time in the past33/27/38

Psychic or spiritual healing or the power of the human mind to heal the body54/19/26
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