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Did we fool you on April 1? Not too many of you, judging from all the appreciative email. Our site has four times the number of users it did last April 1, so we did manage to hoax a few good souls. As always, we?ve saved some of the best angry, confused and concerned emails, with our replies.

?This story about the moon deflating is scientifically impossible. If the methane leaked out, the moon would crumble, not “deflate” as you say. It is made of hard material like rock, not something soft like a tire. Also, we would not hear the hissing on earth because sound does not travel through a vacuum. Please get your science straight. These things are elementary, my friend.?

Our reply: It?s not methane but nitrogen that inflates the moon. Our mistake!
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OPEC is planning to cut back on oil production, meaning the price of gas will continue to rise. One reason behind this move is that Saudi Arabia is in the same situation as Texas: they’re having trouble extracting the remaining oil from the ground. Oil expert Matthew Simmons says, “The easy oil era is over.

“The small number of great but old oil fields in Saudi Arabia that created ‘the miracle’ are now facing challenges…The entire world assumes Saudi Arabia can carry everyone’s energy needs on its back, but if this turns out not to work, there is no Plan B. And if conventional wisdom is wrong, the world faces a giant energy crisis.” Subscribers: Learn the truth about the upcoming oil crisis when Whitley interviews Matt Savinar on this week?s Dreamland!read more

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American Online is running a sweepstakes in which the prize is a 2002 Porsche Boxter seized from “a guy who by our estimates made more than a million dollars from spamming,” according to AOL executive Randall Boe.

Anick Jesdanun writes that AOL got the car as part of their settlement in a lawsuit against the spammer. Boe says, “We’ll take cars, houses, boats, whatever we can find and get a hold of.”

The sweepstakes can only be entered online and is open until April 8. In order to enter, you must have been an AOL subscriber before the sweepstakes opened Tuesday.
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Sibel Edmonds, a former translator for the FBI who speaks Azerbaijani, Farsi, Turkish and English and has a top-secret security clearance, says the claim by Condoleezza Rice that there was no information about al-Qaeda planning airplane strikes before 911 is “an outrageous lie” because she provided that information to the government herself, a few months before the attack.

Andrew Buncombe writes in the Independent that Edmonds told this to the government panel investigating 911 during a 3-hour closed session. She told them the FBI had information in the spring and summer of 2001 that an attack using airplanes was only months away and the terrorists were in place in the U.S. The Bush administration has tried to silence her.
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