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I recently saw Michael Moore’s incendiary documentary film “Fahrenheit 911.” There are plenty of comments on the film in the media already, so why should I add mine?– because I disagree with many of the film’s ideas, yet feel it is eminently worth seeing.

One of the recent trends that most upsets me is partisanship: the idea that I’m totally right, so you’re totally wrong. Anyone with half a brain realizes that both sides have ideas that are worth listening to. Good leaders listen to everyone before they make up their minds. Yet we now have partisanship at the highest levels, such as when the President and his cohorts didn’t listen to the CIA’s information that Saddam had no ties to al-Qaeda, because they didn’t want to believe it.
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Due to a technical error, the Jim Hickman report referred to in our special newsletter supplement has not been available on the website until today. You can listen to the report by clicking on the word “Dreamland” on the right side of our masthead and navigating to the last show in the list.

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In her latest Diary, Anne Strieber writes: “I recently saw Michael Moore’s incendiary documentary film ‘Fahrenheit 911.’ There are plenty of comments on the film in the media already, so why should I add mine??because I disagree with many of the film’s ideas, yet feel it is imminently worth seeing.”

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The strange “beach blobs” that have been washing up on the shores of beaches worldwide have finally been identified.

Jon Copley writes in New Scientist that the “Chilean Blob” and other similar gobs of goo found on beaches are the remains of whales.

In July 2003, a 13-ton blob washed ashore in Chile. Since it contained no bones, marine biologists thought it might be the body of a new species of giant octopus. But eventually they found unique glands that only belong to sperm whales inside the blob.

Researcher Sidney Pierce used electron microscopy on the blob, that revealed the tough collagen fibers in whale tissue. Also fragments of its DNA match that of a sperm whale.
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