The term "canary in the coal mine" refers to miners who used to take canaries in cages with them underground. If the bird expired, they would be warned that oxygen was running low and it was time to go back to the surface. When it comes to global warming, Alaska is the canary in the coal mine, because problems are showing up there first.

Lynn Melling reports for KTUU-TV that "From wildfires to floods to lightning strikes, it seems the weather this summer has been a hodgepodge of unusual events. Is it just circumstance, or a trend of things to come?"
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Every once in a while, a rumor comes along saying we have captured Osama bin-Laden. Then an audio or video tape is released by al-Qaeda, proving he’s still alive and free. Some of these tapes are more convincing than others. Now a U.S. congressman has hinted that we have Osama in captivity.

WorldNet Daily says that in a speech in India, reported by the Indo-Asian News Service, Rep. Jim McDermott (D-Wash.) said, “There are already rumors circulating that Osama bin Laden is being held somewhere already and it’s only that they are trying to decide what day they should bring him out.”
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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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