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Forbes: Debate Rekindled in Homosexual Brain Research

2005-05-12T20:25:00.000-07:00

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Health - Debate Rekindled in Homosexual Brain Research
By Steven Reinberg / HealthDay Reporter
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TUESDAY, May 10 (HealthDayNews) -- The latest research indicating that at
least some aspects of homosexuality may be "hard-wired" into the brain has
once again fanned the flames of debate.

Swedish scientists claim that chemicals called pheromones that affect our
sense of smell are different for gay men and straight men, providing another
biologic basis for different sexual orientation. Adding fuel to the fire is
the finding that gay men's brain reactions to the chemicals were similar to
women's reactions.

All the researchers say is, "These findings show that our brain reacts
differently to the two putative pheromones compared with common odors, and
suggest a link between sexual orientation and hypothalamic neuronal
processes."

Pheromones are chemicals that send sexual messages as often undetectable
odors to individuals of the same species. In their study, the researchers
found that a pheromone in the perspiration of homosexual men causes a
similar reaction in other gay men and heterosexual women.

According to the report in the May 10 issue of the Proceedings of the
National Academy of Sciences, the research team looked at compounds that
include a testosterone derivative called 4,16-androstadien-3-one (AND), and
the estrogen-like steroid estra-1,3-5(10),16-tetraen-3-ol (EST).

The researchers found that AND activated the hypothalamus in homosexual men
and heterosexual women, but not heterosexual men. Additionally, EST
activated the hypothalamus only in heterosexual men.

"The regions of the brain involved have been found to be involved in sexual
behavior, based on animal studies," said Brian Mustanski, from the
department of psychiatry at the University of Illinois at Chicago. "Some
previous studies also found differences between gay and straight men in
these brain regions," he added.

Mustanski noted that this study suggests a link between sexual orientation
and brain processes, specifically in the hypothalamus. "Another study, to
soon be published in Psychological Science, found differences in the odors
of gay and heterosexual men," he said.

Taken together, these studies suggest that sexual orientation has a
biological component related to body odor and possible pheromones, Mustanski
said. "It also helps to demonstrate that sexual orientation is not a simple
choice -- how could such a choice influence the production of and response
to body odors?

"These studies converge with previous research using family studies, twin
studies, and molecular genetic studies to show that sexual orientation is at
least partly determined by biology," he said.

But other experts see it differently.

"This study says nothing about homosexuality being innate," said Dr. Jeffrey
Satinover, a psychoanalyst who has written about homosexuality and lectured
on its social consequences. "There is an automatic knee-jerk assumption that
if there is a difference in the brain, that difference has to be innate," he
added.

Changes in the hypothalamus could be caused by repetitive sexual behavior,
Satinover said. "The brain is extremely plastic, like a muscle," he said.

"There have been dozens and dozens of studies attempting to show a genetic
or biological basis for homosexuality," Satinover said. "Not one has ever
succeeded in doing so."

Warren Throckmorton, an associate professor of psychology at Grove City
College, a Christian-based college in Pennsylvania, finds the study
intriguing. "It does show that there is some involuntary reaction on the
part of the brain to a stimulus that is imperceptible to the person," he said.

But like Satinover, Throckmorton believes that the sense of smell is
partially learned. "The brains of the participants may have acquired a
sexual response to these chemicals as a result of past sexual experiences,"
he said. "So, learning could be implicated here in a way the subjects
wouldn't have been aware of."

From a political perspective, whether homosexuality is innate or learned
misses the point, according to Winnie Stachelberg, a vice president at the
Human Rights Campaign Foundation, an umbrella organization for gay and
bisexual causes. "How we treat people should be based on principles of basic
fairness and not on scientific evidence," she said

"This study adds to the scientific evidence around sexual orientation. It
points to the need for continued research in this area," Stachelberg added.
"In addition, studies like this help people understand each other and
alleviate fear."

More information

The Council for Responsible Genetics can tell you more about genes and
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Back to the saucers - Scientists reDiscover Lazar's Element 115?

2005-05-12T13:42:00.000-07:00

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Back to the saucers
Thursday May 12, 2005 / The Guardian
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In February 2004, a team of Russian and American physicists discovered two
new elements, glimpsed for split seconds at the Joint Institute of Nuclear
Research in Dubna, Russia, and the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory in
California.

Led by Russian Yuri Oganessian, the physicists made their announcement in
the journal Physical Review C. While their findings have yet to be repeated,
they are considered highly reliable. The two new "superheavy" elements, 113
and 115, provisionally named ununtrium and ununpentium, excite physicists
who think they are generated by exploding stars, and could provide clues to
the origins of the universe.

But this was not the first time Element 115 had made the headlines.
According to another group of perhaps less reputable researchers, it might
be the key that ultimately brings the stars to us.

In 1989, a Las Vegas TV station broadcast an interview with self-professed
scientist Bob Lazar. He claimed to have worked at a top secret facility
called S-4, just south of Nevada's infamous airbase Area 51, and caused a
sensation when he described seeing nine extraterrestrial flying saucers
stored at S-4.

Lazar, who claims to have studied at the Massachusetts Institute of
Technology and worked at Los Alamos National Laboratory, states that his job
at S-4 was to "back-engineer" the reactor of one of the flying discs and
find out how it worked. While there, he was briefed on the history of ET
interaction with humankind, and watched a short test flight of the single
operational craft.

According to Lazar, the saucer flies using "gravity amplifiers" to create
"an intense gravitational field" that could "distort space/time", "bringing
the destination to the source and allowing you to cross many light years of
space in little time". The power to do this is generated in the craft's
reactor, which is fuelled by ... Element 115.

Whether or not he's telling the truth, Lazar has stood by his claims and
left the UFO scene behind. As well as running a lab equipment repair
company, he is currently developing a hydrogen fuel generator for home use
and is involved in an ambitious plan to terraform a Martian environment in
an underground nuclear missile silo.

And, if Element 115's existence is confirmed, perhaps one day it will be
called lazarium.

Mark Pilkington

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'Oddball rodent' in Laos takes scientists by surprise

2005-05-12T13:36:00.000-07:00

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'Oddball rodent' in Laos takes scientists by surprise
By John Noble Wilford The New York Times
THURSDAY, MAY 12, 2005
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They live in the forests and limestone outcrops of Laos. With long whiskers,
stubby legs and a long, furry tail, they are rodents but unlike any seen
before by wildlife scientists.

They are definitely not rats or squirrels, only vaguely like a guinea pig or
a chinchilla. And they often show up in Laotian outdoor markets being sold
for food. There, visiting scientists came upon the animals and determined
that they represented a rare find: an entire new family of wildlife.

The discovery was announced Wednesday by the Wildlife Conservation Society
and described in a report in the journal Systematics and Biodiversity.

The new species in this previously unknown family is called kha-nyou
(pronounced ga-nyou) by local people.

Scientists found that differences in the skull and bone structure and in the
animal's DNA revealed this to be a member of a distinct family that diverged
from others of the rodent order millions of years ago.

"To find something so distinct in this day and age is just extraordinary,"
said Robert Timmins of the Wildlife Conservation Society, one of the
discoverers. "For all we know, this could be the last remaining mammal
family left to be discovered."

Naturalists had trouble recalling when a new family of mammals was last
identified. It may have been when, in the 1970s, a new family of bats was
found in Thailand. The most active period of finding and classifying new
species and families was in the 19th century, when explorers and settlers
moved into remote interiors of the continents.

Timmins said in an interview that he first came on the animals laid out on
market tables. Local farmers and hunters trapped or snared the animals,
slaughtered them and rushed them to market. As far as he knew, Timmins said,
no Western scientists have ever seen a kha-nyou alive.

The encounter occurred in the late 1990s, about the same time that another
scientist, Mark Robinson, independently collected several of the carcasses
as specimens. The adults have bodies about a foot long, or 30 centimeters
with a tail that is not as bushy as a squirrel's. They knew immediately that
this was, as Timmins said, "an oddball rodent."

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Students get sick while watching video

2005-05-12T13:34:00.000-07:00

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Students get sick while watching video
ADAM LYNN; The News Tribune / LUI KIT WONG/THE NEWS TRIBUNE
Three Rogers High students had to go to the hospital Monday in Puyallup.
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School will not be back in session today at Rogers High, a day after
officials sent everyone home early when three students came down with a
mysterious illness while watching a science video.

Officials still don�t know what caused the illness and want another day to
continue testing for clues, said Karen Hansen, Puyallup School District
spokeswoman.

Neither a fire district hazardous materials crew nor a private environmental
firm hired by the district could find anything wrong in a science classroom
where three students took ill Monday morning.

�That�s why we�re taking another day to investigate,� Hansen said. �We�re
going to continue to test and hope school will be open Wednesday.�

Teachers, however, will report to school today. �We will be working with
them outside of the affected area,� Hansen said.

The three juniors were in the same room when they got woozy, said Matt Holm,
assistant chief at Central Pierce Fire & Rescue.

The first student reported feeling ill about 10 a.m. and received permission
to step outside, Holm said. She later fainted, Holm said.

A few minutes later, another student reported feeling light-headed. Soon
after, a third.

Authorities don�t think the trio was in cahoots to avoid class, Holm said.

�Their teacher got concerned and notified the school administration, which
called the sheriff�s office,� he said.

The three students were taken to Good Samaritan Hospital in Puyallup as a
precaution, he said.

The scare first prompted school officials to evacuate all students to the
gymnasium then to send all students home for the day, Hansen said.

�We decided to err on the side of caution,� she said.

A Central Pierce hazardous materials crews inspected the room but found
nothing amiss, Holm said.

The district then hired a private environmental firm to test air quality in
the school, Hansen said.

Adam Lynn: 253-597-8644
adam.lynn@thenewstribune.com

Staff writer Daniel Thigpen contributed to this report.

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Re: Mary sightings around the world

2005-05-12T07:42:00.000-07:00

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Re: Panther sighting in Mississippi?

2005-05-10T23:47:00.000-07:00

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I live in Lowndes County Mississippi, and during the summer of 2001, while
carrying a friend home we both seen the rear quarters of a large black cat
cut across the road in front of us. All that I remember seeing, is the rear
quarter and a large black tail. We where probably a mile and a half from his
house, on a back country road.

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Re: Panther sighting in Mississippi?

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I live in Columbia , SC and my husband saw a large black "panther" about
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same thing- I had not mentioned any of this to them. What do you think? I
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US 'torpedoed Kursk nuclear sub'

2005-05-10T07:22:00.000-07:00

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US 'torpedoed Kursk nuclear sub'
Daniel Stacey, London / May 09, 2005

A FORMER British military official has backed a sensational claim that the
Russian nuclear submarine, the Kursk, was torpedoed by US forces in August
2000.

An official inquest concluded that the disaster � in which all 118 crew
drowned in the Barents Sea, 135km off the Russian coast � was caused by an
accidental explosion of an onboard torpedo.

But Maurice Stradling, a former torpedo engineer and a key figure in the
original investigation, believes a new French documentary, The Kursk: A
Submarine in Troubled Waters, should change world opinion on the sinking.

"On the balance of probabilities, the Kursk was sunk by an American MK-48
torpedo," said Mr Stradling, formerly a senior member of the British Defence
Ministry.

BBC editor Nick Fraser called the claim a "pack of lies" and has refused to
air the documentary, which attracted a record audience of more than 4
million when it screened on French TV.

The BBC used Mr Stradling as its main authority for a documentary it made in
2001 � What Sank the Kursk?, in which Mr Stradling theorised that the
sinking was caused by the malfunctioning of an old-fashioned HTP torpedo.

Mr Stradling, who also appears in the new French documentary, said: "At the
time (2001), that was a perfectly reasonable film, given the facts as we
knew them then, when there seemed to be no third-party involvement,"

The new explanation for the Kursk's downing is based on film footage of a
hole in the side of the vessel, and evidence placing US submarines in the
area at the time it was sunk.

The French film shows stills of the Kursk raised above the water after being
salvaged, with a precise circular hole in its right side. The hole clearly
bends inwards, consistent with an attack from outside the submarine.

A US military source in the documentary declares the hole to be the
trademark evidence of an American MK-48 torpedo, which is made to melt
cleanly through steel sheet due to a mechanism at its tip that combusts
copper.

The film suggests the attack happened while two US submarines, the Toledo
and Memphis, were shadowing the Kursk in a routine military exercise.

The documentary says the Toledo accidentally collided with the Kursk, at
which point the Russian submarine opened its torpedo tubes, leading to an
attack from the Memphis, which was protecting the damaged Toledo while it
retreated.

The cause of the sinking was covered up at the time in an act of diplomacy
between then US presidents Bill Clinton and Russian President Vladimir Putin
� a deal that included the cancellation of $US10 billion ($12.5 billion) of
Russian debt, the film states.

After the documentary received its only public broadcast in Britain, some
claimed the Russian navy had drilled the hole and fed doctored footage to
the film-makers to create a false impression.

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What exactly was the 'Dover Demon?'

2005-05-09T09:24:00.000-07:00

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What exactly was the 'Dover Demon?'
By Mr. Know-It-All / Sunday, May 8, 2005
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Dear Mr. Know-It-All, friends were recently telling me about the ghost
stories at John Stone's Inn in Ashland, but wasn't there a report of a UFO
in this area a while back? T.W., Westborough

Methinks you're referring to the mysterious Dover Demon, T.W.

Let's set the stage. The year is 1977. Jimmy Carter is in the White
House. "Stars Wars" makes its debut. Elvis permanently leaves the building.
The Yankees win another World Series. And an alien visits the tony town of
Dover. Maybe.

To describe what allegedly transpired, we turn to the book "Creatures
of the Outer Edge," penned by cryptozoologists Loren Coleman and Jerome Clark.

The bizarre tale begins at 10:30 p.m. on April 21 as three
17-year-olds, Bill Bartlett, Mike Mazzocca and Andy Brodie, are driving
north on Farm Street. Bartlett, who's behind the wheel of a Volkswagen,
spots something creeping along a low wall of loose stones on the left side
of the road. At first he thinks the image is a dog or a cat until his
headlights shine on it and he realizes it's nothing he's ever seen before.

The figure slowly turns its head and stares into the light, its two
large, round, glassy, lidless eyes shining brightly "like two orange marbles."

Its watermelon-shaped head, resting at the top of a thin neck, is the
size of the rest of its body. Except for its oversized head, the creature is
thin, with long spindly arms and legs, and large hands and feet. The skin is
hairless and peach-colored and appears to have a rough ure. "Like wet
sandpaper," Bartlett subsequently tells Coleman.

Standing no more than 3 1/2 to 4 feet tall, the figure is shaped like
"a baby's body with long arms and legs." It had been making its way along
the wall, its long fingers curling around the rocks, when the car lights
surprised it.

Unfortunately, neither of Bartlett's companions sees the creature. The
sighting lasts only a few seconds and, before Bartlett can speak, the car
leaves the scene.

"I really flew after I saw it," Bartlett recalls. "I took that corner
at 45, which is pretty fast. I said to my friends, 'Did you see that?' And
they said, 'Nah, describe it.' I did and they said, 'Go back. Go back!' And
I said, 'No way. No way.' When you see something like that, you don't want
to stand around and see what it's going to do.

"They finally got me to go back and Mike was leaning out of the window
yelling, 'Come on, creature!' And I was saying, 'Will you cut that out!'
Andy was yelling, 'I want to see you!'"

But the creature is gone. Bartlett drops his friends off and goes to
his Walpole Street home. Visibly upset, he walks through the door and his
father asks him what's wrong. Bartlett relates the story and later sketches
what he's seen.

The creature then makes another appearance.

Around midnight, 15-year-old John Baxter leaves his girlfriend Cathy
Cronin's house at the south end of Millers High Road (we assume the authors
mean Miller Hill Road). Anyway, Baxter starts walking up the street on his
way home. Half an hour later, after he has walked about a mile, he observes
someone approaching him. Because the figure is short, Baxter assumes it's an
acquaintance of his, M.G. Bouchard, who lives on the street.

John calls out, "M.G., is that you?"

No response.

But Baxter and the figure continue to approach each other until finally
the latter stops. Baxter then halts as well and asks, "Who is that?" The sky
is dark and overcast and he can only see a shadowy form.

Trying to get a better look, Baxter takes one step forward and the
figure scurries off to the left, running down a shallow wooded gully and up
the opposite bank. As the figure runs, Baxter hears its footsteps on the dry
leaves.

He follows the figure down the slope, then stops and looks across the
gully. There, he sees the creature, standing in silhouette about 30 feet
away, its feet "molded" around the top of a rock several feet from a tree.

The creature's body reminds Baxter of a monkey's, except for its dark
"figure-eight"-shaped head. Its eyes, two lighter spots in the middle of the
head, are looking straight at Baxter, who after a few minutes begins to feel
uneasy. Realizing he has never seen such a creature before and fearing what
it might do next, he backs carefully up the slope, his heart pounding. He
then "walks very fast" down the road to the intersection at Farm Street.

There, a couple passing in a car pick him up and drive him home.

The next day, Bartlett tells his close friend Will Taintor, 18, about
his sighting.

Can you guess what happens next?

Around midnight, Taintor is driving Abby Brabham, 15, home when an
encounter with the creature takes place. As they pass along Springdale
Avenue, Brabham spots something in the headlights on the left side of the
road. The "something" is a creature crouched on all fours and facing the
car. Its body is thin and monkeylike but its head is large and oblong, with
no nose, ears or mouth.

The creature is hairless and its skin tan or beige in color. The facial
area around the eyes is lighter and the eyes glow green. Brabham insists
this is the case, even after investigators tell her that Bartlett had said
the eyes were orange.

Taintor sees the creature only momentarily and has the impression of
something with a large head and a tan body. He doesn't know what it is but
he does know that it's not a dog.

Frightened, Brabham urges Taintor to speed up so they can get away.
Taintor claims that only after they leave the scene does he recall Baxter's
sighting. His own had been so brief and unspectacular that he probably would
have thought little of it if Brabham had not been with him.

He asks her to describe the figure, deliberately phrasing misleading
questions about aspects of the creature's appearance he knew not to be true
in order to check her story against Bartlett's, which he did not mention to
her. Abby sticks to her story.

On April 28, Coleman, then living in neighboring Needham, visits the
Dover Country Store where a store employee, Melody Fryer, tells him about
Bartlett's sighting and sketch. She promises to get him a copy and two days
later provides him with two drawings. The next day Coleman interviews
Bartlett. On May 3 he questions Baxter and Brabham and on the 5th talks with
Taintor.

Two weeks later, Coleman asks Walter Webb of the Aerial Phenomena
Research Organization, Joseph Nyman of the Mutual UFO Network and Ed Fogg of
the New England UFO Study Group to join the investigation. Although none of
the witnesses had reported seeing a UFO in connection with the Dover Demon,
the ufologists are struck by the creature's apparent resemblance to humanoid
beings sometimes associated with UFOs.

So is the Dover Demon a hoax? The investigators conclude that's
possible, but express doubts. There's nothing in the witnesses' backgrounds
to suggest they might be pranksters and much to suggest they were honest,
upright individuals.

As Webb observes, "None of the four was on drugs or drinking at the
time of his or her sighting so far as we were able to determine.... None of
the principals in this affair made any attempt to go To The Newspapers or
police to publicize their claims. Instead, the sightings gradually leaked
out. Finally, the teenagers' own parents, the high school principal, the
science instructor and other adults in Dover whose comments were solicited
didn't believe the Dover Demon was a fabrication, implying the youths did
indeed see 'something.'

"As for the idea the witnesses were victims of somebody else's stunt,
this seems most unlikely, chiefly due to the virtual impossibility of
creating an animated, lifelike 'demon' of the sort described."

But if the Demon was real, what was it? A UFO being? Perhaps, but then
nothing precisely similar has ever been reported before, according to Ted
Bloecher, who has collected more than 1,500 UFO accounts for the Center for
UFO Studies.

On the other hand, maybe the Demon is a member of a curious race known
to the Cree Indians of eastern Canada as the Mannegishi, the authors write.
The Mannegishi, naturalist Sigurd Olson says in his book "Listening Post,"
are supposed to be "little people with round heads and no noses who live
with only one purpose: to play jokes on travelers. The little creatures have
long spidery legs, arms with six-fingered hands, and live between rocks in
the rapids...."

This report comes via the BookRags.com Web site.

The Unexplained Mysteries Web site, meanwhile, opines that "like many
sightings of this nature, it seems unlikely that this is some form of
undiscovered natural species, but more of a genetic mutation or hybrid of
some sort. There is also the possibility that what these people saw was some
kind of alien being, as the case bares striking resemblance to many reports
of such creatures at the sites of UFO activity. Unfortunately, there is
really no way of finding out for sure."

The Eye's Behind Web site notes that Martin Kottmeyer, an expert on UFO
stories, claims that the Dover Demon witnesses simply saw a baby moose and
misidentified it. "While misperception may have played a role in what they
saw, it is hard to imagine mistaking a moose for the creature that they
described," the site states.

According to Coleman, 1977 was an unusually eventful year for strange
occurrences. UFO and creature sightings were abnormally frequent and often
seemed to be connected; they often occurred in closely related times and
places. Many of the creature sightings involved mysterious monsters with
human-like forms. People wondered if some of these creatures were from outer
space.

In a 1996 article in the Needham Chronicle, John Horrigan, a debunker
of the paranormal, said that while some people took the teen's reports
seriously, later investigation threw strong doubt on their credibility.

By the way, a local newspaper dubbed the creature the "Dover Demon."

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Super Mice Teach Scientists the Secret to Aging

2005-05-07T21:42:00.000-07:00

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Scientists learn the secret of ageing
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Scientists have managed to stave off the ageing process in mice, a discovery
that might pave the way to longer, healthier living in humans too.

Experiments at the US-based Washington University School of Medicine showed
that protecting the body of mice against highly reactive chemicals called
free radicals - long suspected as a cause of ageing - gave them longer
lives, reports the Scottish daily Scotsman.

Mice given higher levels of an enzyme that breaks down free radicals had
about a 20 percent increase in their average and maximum lifespan, about
four and a half months.

They also had healthier hearts than other mice.

The experiments suggest that people could live longer and be free from many
age-related diseases if they were protected from free radicals.

"This study is very supportive of the free radical theory of ageing. It
shows the significance of free radicals and of reactive oxygen species in
particular in the ageing process," said lead researcher Peter Rabinovitch.

"People used to only focus on specific age-related diseases because it was
believed that the ageing process itself could not be affected. What
we'rerealising now is that by intervening in the underlying ageing process,
we may be able to produce very significant increases in 'health-span', or
healthy life-span."

Rabinovitch and his colleagues studied the enzyme catalase, which helps
breakdown hydrogen peroxide - a waste product of the body's metabolic
process - into water and oxygen.

Hydrogen peroxide can be a precursor of free radicals.

The damage they cause can, in turn, lead to further flaws in cells' chemical
processes, which lead to more free radicals being produced.

Free radicals can create unnecessary chemical reactions, which damage
cells,including DNA. Some scientists believe they are major factors in heart
disease, cancer and other serious conditions.

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Pope was investigating Knights Templar before his election

2005-05-06T11:10:00.000-07:00

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Pope was investigating Knights Templar before his election
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The new Pope, Benedict XVI, was actively investigating secret societies
including the Knights Templar and the Illuminati, it was revealed yesterday.
Details were exposed by a local newspaper in Hertfordshire, England.
Cardinal Ratzinger was head of the Inquisition, the arm of the Church set up
to investigate, persecute or eliminate heretics. But the curious thing is,
we now know that he started his investigation shortly before he was elected
as the new Pope. Did he know something? He certainly made no secret of his
ambition to become Pope.

Pope�s probe into Hertford�s Templars

THE NEW POPE has reportedly made inquiries into a secret society in
Hertford, the Knights Templar.

He is thought to have contacted a top Hertfordshire historian and a records
officer at County Hall in Hertford.

The inquiries follow the Templars� demand last December for a papal apology
by 2007 for their persecution by the Vatican almost 700 years ago.

The demand � which the Vatican was said to be �seriously considering� � made
international headlines after it was exclusively revealed by the Mercury.
The news also appeared in national newspapers, including The Times, The
Independent, and The Guardian.

Now we have received new information that Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger made the
calls prior to his election as Pope Benedict XVI earlier this month.

A source told the Mercury that the German cardinal contacted local history
expert Dr Alan Thompson at the University of Hertfordshire. The anonymous
source also pointed out that the Pope�s homeland, Bavaria, where he became a
memeber of Hitler Youth, is also the homeland of a mysterious secret
society, the Illuminati.

After we asked him to confirm the claim, Dr Thompson said: �I was contacted
some time ago by a previous cardinal ... but I don't want to talk any more
about it.�

Tim Acheson, a modern-day Templar, commented: �The professor may not want to
give anything away, but there is an important clue in his reply. The
�previous cardinal� can only refer to one man � Ratzinger.�

In Dan Brown�s best-selling novel, Angels and Demons, the Illuminati takes
revenge on the Vatican. Mr Acheson speculated, �Ratzinger is on record
suggesting that Freemasonry was set up to persecute Christianity. Perhaps it
is the revenge of the Templars that the Church fears, since the origin of
Freemasonry is rooted in the persecution of the Templars by the Church.�

Before he became Pope, Cardinal Ratzinger led the Vatican committee once
known as the �Inquisition�. Among its roles is to consider apologies to
groups persecuted by the church.

Such groups include the Knights Templar, a secretive Order of warrior monks
who were persecuted by King Phillip IV of France and Pope Clement V from
October 13, 1307.

The Mercury�s source also claimed that the cardinal contacted Herts County
Council's environmental records officer, Alison Tinneswood.

Ms Tinneswood would not comment this week and, seeking refuge in the �Data
Protection Act�, a Herts County. Council spokesman refused to confirm or
deny that a member of staff had been contacted by the Vatican.

A press officer for the Holy See pledged to look into the matter.

Mr Acheson observes an ironic historical connection between the Templars and
the name of the new Pope.

He added, cryptically: �The pontiff chose Benedict as his papal title, a
name with special significance for the Knights Templar. The Rule of the
Templars, which is like a code of conduct for the Order, was originally
known as the Rule of Benedict.�

SOURCE

Hertfordshire Mercury, �Pope�s probe into Hertford�s Templars�, page 25, 29
April 2005.

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Spying on the government - UC Berkeley geographer maps Area51

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Tonopah Test Range as seen through Paglen's telescope. Tonopah photo by
Trevor Paglen.

Spying on the government: A UC Berkeley geographer maps the secret military
bases of the American West � where billions of dollars disappear into creepy
clandestine projects.
By A.C. Thompson

IT STARTED WITH an e-mail inviting me to join an expedition to Area 51, the
secret military site in the Nevada backcountry.

"Let me be clear about this," wrote Trevor Paglen, the 30-year-old
geographer leading the trek. "The trip will not be easy. It might not even
be that fun, depending on your attitude, how well-prepared you are, and what
you consider fun. The weather is unpredictable � it could be really hot or
really cold, or (most likely) both.... If you are not in reasonable shape,
or are without proper equipment, you will die. Seriously."

Despite the less-than-inviting invitation, I was intrigued. For five decades
Area 51 has been the military's heart of darkness, the core of its "black
world" of classified research and development, a place that appears on no
maps, and, officially, has no name. The U.S. government will divulge nothing
about the site, except that it's an "operating location" overseen by the
U.S. Air Force. Everything else � including the most seemingly mundane facts
� is classified in the name of national security.
The territory in question sits deep in a colossal, small country-size, 3.1
million acre Air Force base northwest of Las Vegas. Built on Groom Lake, a
dry lake bed, Area 51 is bisected by a 27,000-foot runway, studded with
massive hangars and communications towers (which look something like
offshore oil rigs topped by giant scoops of vanilla ice cream), and
patrolled by a platoon of camouflage-clad private security personnel with
orders to kill intruders.

Despite the government's omerta-like code of silence, aerospace experts have
concluded the isolated, mountain-ringed rectangle of desert served as an
incubator for some key cold war machinery, aircraft like the U-2 spy plane
and the black-winged, radar-deceiving F-117A stealth fighter.

UFO-heads, of course, have other ideas. For them, Area 51 is the locus of
fevered, conspiratorial speculation, a remote and incredibly well-guarded
location where the government has hidden a fleet of alien spacecraft.
According to this line of thinking, the mysterious lights sometimes spotted
blipping across the night sky over Nevada are hot rods from another planet.

After doing a little reading on the place, I knew I had to see it for
myself.

. . .

Paglen is steeped in the lore surrounding Area 51, the twin currents of
secrecy and weirdness that swirl around the place like powdery desert dust.
Clandestine military installations are the subject of his doctoral
dissertation in geography at UC Berkeley, an endeavor that's propelled him
across the American West, mapping the archipelago of bases that dot the
landscape. "The whole thing is about getting people to see the world around
them differently," Paglen says. "The amount of land devoted to this stuff is
gigantic."

To Paglen, a good-humored Air Force brat with a Woody Woodpecker-ish laugh,
Area 51 is many things. It's a pop-culture trope, served up by the X-Files
and the 1996 flick Independence Day. A testament to the supremacy over
American life of the Pentagon and the Central Intelligence Agency and their
corporate pals. A fount of disinformation.

One tactic used to shroud zones like Area 51, he argues, "is to make those
places very visible in the wrong way � all the UFO stuff at Area 51, for
example. Area 51 is far from secret. It's a clich�. But the fact that it's a
clich� also hides it."

Declassified CIA documents, Paglen notes, suggest Langley fomented UFO
rumors during the 1950s and '60s as a way to deflect attention from the very
real flights of experimental aircraft, including the U-2 and A-12 Blackbird
spy planes.

I met Paglen about 10 years ago when we were both hanging out at East Bay
punk gigs. He's still got a punkish edge, favoring dark jeans and cowboy
boots and punctuating many of his comments with slang and obscenities. All
this camouflages, to some degree, his eclectic braininess: Before pursuing
geography, Paglen earned degrees in religious studies (with a minor in
musical composition) and art. As you read this, the Lab, a San Francisco
gallery, is displaying Paglen's solo show "Recording Carceral Landscapes," a
chilling commentary on California's leviathan prison system.

In addition to his academic explorations, Paglen also gives informal tours
of classified America, journeying to places like the Tejon Ranch Radar Cross
Section range (where Northrop tests bleeding-edge aircraft), the
headquarters of Science Applications International Corp. (the no-profile
defense contractor tapped to set up a TV propaganda network in Iraq), the
San Diego docks that are home to the Sea Shadow (a classified Naval
watercraft), and the Classic Bullseye listening station (a heavily guarded
collection of National Security Agency eavesdropping equipment). He's posted
graphics, reports, and pics from all these expeditions on his Web site,
paglen.com.

In mid-March I spent three days probing the dark side with Paglen and a crew
of 10 other sightseers.

. . .

"Uh, guys, we need to be up there," Paglen says, gesturing to the
snow-encrusted peak looming above us, "and we're heading downhill."

We're somewhere near the base of Tikaboo Peak, a treacherous 8,000-foot-tall
pile of prehistoric rock stippled with scrubby trees. To get to Tikaboo, the
vantage point closest to Area 51, we've driven about 120 miles north from
Vegas, following a dirt road through the desolate yet gorgeous Nevada wilds,
surrounded by an ocean of scrubby vegetation and grainy, sunburned soil.

So far, getting up the mountain has been quite a task � on top of our, ahem,
navigational issues, one member of our crew has already vanished (apparently
he took off to take a dump), and we've lost any trace of the trail we're
supposed to be following. The conditions on this frigid afternoon aren't
especially favorable, either. The temperature is dropping rapidly, daylight
is dwindling, and three-foot-deep swatches of snow speckle the mountain.

I've managed to pull a Homer Simpson move, leaving my heavy, waterproof coat
back in San Francisco. Plus, I'm wearing DC skate shoes, which are already
soaked thanks to the snow.

"Have you ever seen any people out here?" one of the expeditioners asks
Paglen.

"Only once, and it was really crazy," replies Paglen, a charming character
with an expansive sense of humor. "We ran into this group of cops from Waco,
Texas. They had all these telescopes and high-tech gadgetry."

Cops from Waco, the nexus of myriad conspiracy theories springing from the
carnage-laden Branch Davidian debacle, descending on Area 51, the hub of UFO
conspiracy theories? Yeah, that's a tad weird.

We tromp on, and by 5:01 p.m. we hit our first stopping point, a peak
several hundred feet below the summit. Robby Herbst, the guy who disappeared
to make like a bear in the woods, has resurfaced. He's weary from the
ascent. "I'm ready for the aliens to take me," says Herbst, an itinerant art
professor from Los Angeles, clad in an amazing pair of '70s-era striped
jeans. From here the trek gets totally Lord of the Rings, as we traverse an
exposed ridgeline punctuated with boulders and begin a steep ascent. At this
elevation we're encircled by sky, not trudging beneath it.

After a two-hour scramble up the mountain, we hit the summit with the sun
hanging low and look out over a vast plain lined by a few unpaved roads.
Dust billows up from one of the roads. Paglen figures it's a government van
ferrying Area 51 workers around the base.

Unfortunately, we can't see much more. Our view of Area 51 � which would've
been limited anyway � is further obscured by charcoal-colored clouds
pregnant with rain and a thick layer of floating dust. "Can the government
make haze?" jokes one guy who flew out from Chicago for the trip.

Paglen has lugged a powerful telescope up with him, so we take turns peering
through it, able to make out a handful of structures on a mountainside about
25 miles away. He snaps a digital camera onto the scope and shoots some
photos.

The whole deal is fairly anticlimactic; we drove hundreds of miles and
dragged ourselves up a fucking mountain, only to be thwarted by Mom Nature?
@!#$.

Until 1995 you could get substantially closer to Area 51 by ascending White
Sides Mountain or Freedom Ridge. Then UFO freaks and stealth-plane watchers
began circulating detailed photos of hangars, fuel tanks, runways, and radio
towers they'd shot from the two mountains, and the Air Force decided to
annex more acreage around Area 51, pushing tourists like ourselves further
away.
From our perch atop Tikaboo, Paglen dives into the history of Area 51, a
locale lacking an official name but endowed with an abundance of enigmatic
nicknames including Dreamland, the Dark Side of the Moon, the Box, the
Container, and the Ranch.

By any name, the site is testimony to the cozy relationship between the U.S.
government and its corporate contractors. "It was originally called the
Ranch, and it was started by Lockheed in 1955 because they were developing
the U-2 spy plane," Paglen says. "Francis Gary Powers" � the ill-fated pilot
shot down by the Soviets in 1960 � "trained here to fly the U-2."

Lockheed (now Lockheed Martin) had been blueprinting and building new planes
at the Skunk Works, the company's covert Burbank R&D lab, and testing the
experimental craft at Edwards Air Force Base, in the Mojave Desert near
Palmdale. But the U-2, a joint project of the CIA and the Air Force,
demanded a more private proving ground. The vehicle was an international
incident waiting to happen: a camera-equipped aircraft capable of going to
the upper regions of the stratosphere (up to 74,000 feet) and bringing home
snapshots of the evil empire.

From the start, everything was cloak-and-dagger. The Agency bankrolled the
base by writing $1 million in checks to Skunk Works director Kelly Johnson
and mailing them to his Encino home. Johnson in turn made sure Lockheed's
fingerprints wouldn't be on the project by creating a phony front company, C
and J Engineering, which hired builders who erected the basic Area 51
infrastructure in a matter of months.

The next radar-eluding craft developed at Area 51, Paglen explains, owed its
existence to a set of 1870s-vintage physics formulas. Those formulas,
devised by Scottish physicist James Clerk Maxwell and known simply as
Maxwell's equations, predict how a surface will reflect electromagnetic waves.

In the 1970s they became the basis for the F-117A stealth fighter when
Lockheed engineers used state-of-the-art computers to tweak and extrapolate
the equations, hunting for shapes that would scatter and diffuse radar
waves. The result was a chunky, flat-angled, Star Wars-esque vehicle,
weighing 52,500 pounds (loaded) and measuring nearly 63 feet from nose to
tail. It had the "radar signature" of a small bird.

Paglen says, "The stealth fighter became the most secret project since the
Manhattan Project. Ronald Reagan was particularly interested in magic-bullet
technology" like stealth planes and Star Wars missile defense.

In Paglen's estimation, the historic road to Area 51 goes through the labs
of Los Alamos, N.M., where J. Robert Oppenheimer and company begat the
A-bomb. The Manhattan Project, Paglen writes in an essay for a forthcoming
book, was the "first highly-classified, multi-billion dollar [military
research] effort.... The Manhattan Project had to manage the thousands of
people working on the weapon at any given moment, while restricting the
knowledge of the project's true purpose to a very small number of people."

The strategies devised in New Mexico were transplanted to Area 51 and
further refined, he says. In some ways the connection between Oppenheimer
and Area 51 is even more direct: Area 51 abuts the Nevada Test Site, where,
between 1945 and 1992, the government detonated 1,021 nuclear weapons,
sprinkling radiation across a vast swath of the Southwest.

. . .

Enough about the past. What the hell is going on out here now? Even the
experts have few clues.

John Pike directs GlobalSecurity.org, a Beltway think tank, and has been
scrutinizing the Pentagon for 25 years. He says that during the Reagan
years, analysts could figure out � in broad terms � what the key classified
projects were, despite all the secrecy. "Twenty years ago, when there was a
big increase in classified spending, we pretty much knew what the programs
were," Pike says. "We knew there was a stealth fighter. We knew there was a
stealth bomber."

In 1990, he notes, a New York Times reporter was able to pen a 273-page book
on the "black budget," the money funneled into clandestine military and spy
programs with little congressional oversight.

These days, Pike admits, he's baffled. The military is far more successful
at keeping things under wraps. Whatever is going on at Area 51 and similar
spots is truly a mystery at this juncture.

"It's certainly a testament to Rummy's ability to keep a secret � that
they've been able to spend this money without anybody noticing," Pike says.

And they're spending plenty. The black budget is blimping out to new
dimensions. Estimates by the Center for Strategic and Budgetary Assessments,
another nonpartisan Washington, D.C., think tank, put the total spending for
classified weapons programs at $26.9 billion for 2005; for 2006 the
Department of Defense has asked for $28 billion.

That's up from a comparatively paltry $11.7 billion a decade ago.

Pike figures a chunk of the increase can be attributed to surging spending
on hardware for the intelligence agencies. "You can probably explain half of
that from growth in the intelligence budget," he contends, explaining that
spook outfits like the CIA and the National Reconnaissance Organization
disguise their spending by sticking it in the Air Force's budget.

And at least some of the loot is going into Area 51. Pike was one of the
first people to post overhead satellite photos of Area 51 on the Web, paying
a Russian company for pics of the territory shot in 1998 and 2000 and
comparing them to some rare 1968 pics taken by the U.S. Geological Survey.
(Apparently, all images captured by U.S. satellites after 1972 have been
deleted from the National Archives.) From looking at the photos, it's
obvious there's been massive expansion at the site, with new runways and a
gaggle of new buildings doubling the size of the installation.

At the Federation of American Scientists, Steven Aftergood has a couple of
ideas about what kind of toys the government is blowing our money on. "To
start burning up lots of money, you have to be building hardware, and if
it's space-based, that's a plus," he says sarcastically.

He points to the outburst of West Virginia senator Jay Rockefeller, who in
late 2004 publicly shredded an unnamed covert R&D effort, describing it as
"totally unjustified and very wasteful and dangerous to national security."
Intelligence analysts quickly connected the dots, theorizing that
Rockefeller was pissed about a stealth spy satellite project, an
eavesdropping device that, like the F-117A, can avoid detection.

"I think it was mainly supposed to be stealthy in regards to radiation and
ground-based detection," says Aftergood, director of the FAS's Project on
Government Secrecy.

An earlier project, code-named MISTY, apparently relied on a shield that
would "make it difficult or impossible for hostile enemy forces to damage or
destroy satellites in orbit." Analysts uncovered that language when the
Defense Department stupidly decided to patent the invention in 1994.

In this time of ballooning black budgets, Aftergood says, "first and
foremost" we need Congress to watchdog the spooks and warriors. "I think
there are legitimate reasons to classify advanced military research. But if
they classify it, they need to receive more, not less, scrutiny, even if
it's behind closed doors."

. . .

Read the rest of the article here ...

More links ...
Geographer Trevor Paglen's site:

The Federation of American Scientists's Area 51 page:

Military analyst John Pike's site:

Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory's site:

Livermore anti-nuke activists:

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panther sighting in Mississippi

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I am trying to find anyone that lives in or around the Meridian Ms area. I
have family there that have informed me of large cat sightings '" black
panther" term used. I have done some research and there is information these
cats do exist in this part of the southern states.

I wanted information from anyone that has seen or heard of any sightings as
my family described to me.

Would appreciate any information. I also would like to know if there is any
truth to the example of what my granddaughter was told to do . Undress and
leave the clothing behind. I don't think if a big cat is around it is going
to be standing looking at you waiting for anyone to disrobe.

My thoughts are it would already be on the attack not standing and
looking. These cats are predators and don't wander around looking at
people. They are hunters in my book this answer was totally bogus.

Can anyone help?

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A proposal by a small shareholder to withhold approval from the Board of
Directors for failure to investigate signs of insurance fraud on 9/11 has
been published on the website of the Allianz Group, one of the world�s
largest insurers, in preparation for its May 4th annual meeting.

Shareholder Proposal: Insurer to Investigate 9/11

A proposal by a small shareholder to withhold approval from the Board of
Directors for failure to investigate signs of insurance fraud on 9/11 has
been published on the website of the Allianz Group, one of the world�s
largest insurers, in preparation for its May 4th annual meeting.

(PRWEB) May 2, 2005 -- Allianz Group published a shareholder proposal on
April 20th faulting management for ignoring signs of insurance fraud on
9/11/2001. Allianz carried a significant portion of the insurance coverage
on the WTC, and stands to pay a corresponding portion of the $3.5 billion
payout currently being litigated in New York. In his proposal, shareholder
John Leonard, a California native and a publisher of books on 9/11, pointed
to reports that building WTC 7 apparently collapsed by demolition, and for
no plausible reason related to the 9/11 attacks. Management replied that it
relied on official US government reports which made no mention of such
evidence.

The Allianz Group is incorporated in Germany and has approximately 570,000
shareholders. Under German Stock Companies law, publicly held companies are
required to publish shareholder proposals that meet certain criteria.

The text of the shareholder proposal, which may also be viewed at the
Allianz website, , is reproduced below.

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Countermotion (Shareholder Proposal) to the General Meeting of Allianz AG to
be held May 4th, 2005

From Shareholder:
John-Paul Leonard,
P.O. Box 126,
Joshua Tree, California 92252

Re: Agenda Item 3, Approval of the actions of the members of the Board of
Management, I propose that approval not be granted.

Re: Agenda Item 4, Approval of the actions of the members of the Supervisory
Board, I likewise propose that approval not be granted.

Reasoning:

The managing and supervisory boards have taken a passive attitude toward the
insurance claims and the suspicious aspects of the WTC insurance loss.

The investigation of insurance losses and insurance damage claims against
the Company is naturally one of the chief duties of the management of every
insurance firm.

The WTC catastrophe was doubtless one of the biggest insurance incidents in
history. A significant portion of the multi-billion dollar loss is expected
to be borne by Allianz.

Numerous observers and researchers find the WTC case very suspicious. For
example, in a public opinion survey, 49.3% of respondents in New York City
agreed that �some of our leaders knew in advance that attacks were planned
on or around September 11, 2001, and that they consciously failed to act.�
[Source: .]

When this belief is so widespread among unrelated parties, haven�t the
affected insurance companies ever asked whether perhaps the US Government
instead of the insurers is responsible for the damages, or whether the
possibility of insurance fraud has been investigated?

From reports in the media about the trial in New York between the insurers
and the insured WTC leaseholder, no sign of such motions has been made
public. The dispute has been mainly over the question, whether to pay out $7
billion or �only� $3 billion, whereby the shareholders are supposed to be
relieved at the latter sum as a victory of the �lesser of two evils.�

Nor has there been any lack of critical and analytical voices in Germany.
Several books in the last few years have posed sharp questions to the
official WTC scenario. In 2003, Deutsche Welle published an article
entitled, �9/11 Conspiracy Theory Books Dominate Debate at Frankfurt Book
Fair.� ( .)

Anyone who is interested can quickly obtain similar materials from the
Internet free of charge, as well as continuing researches of the background
of 9/11 by independent journalists.

Two German-American writers, Jim Hoffman () and Eric Hufschmid, have
contibuted greatly to the theory of the dynamiting of the Twin Towers and
Building WTC-7. Hufschmid�s work was translated and published in German ().
They claim that never in history has the structure of a steel building ever
been destroyed by fire, and that on the contrary, the evidence points to a
controlled demolition. I could find no evidence to gainsay their thesis
anywhere.

WTC-7, as is well-known, was never struck by airplanes, and photographs of
it show only insignificant fires ( ). Nevertheless, the 47-story building
at WTC 7 suddenly collapsed at around 17:28 on 9/11/2001. This fact was not
even mentioned in the report of the official 9/11 commission. ( )

How can an insurer take such an extreme case simply and casually as business
as usual?

There is plenty more such evidence that would be useful in the
billion-dollar lawsuit, which every citizen with an Internet connection can
confirm. Why aren�t Allianz (and the other insurers) able to?

When the managing and supervisory boards take no action to join the
investigation of a case as huge and notorious as the WTC, how are the
shareholders to know that other cases, too, for whatever reason, are not
paid out without being properly investigated?

There is already a private lawsuit against US government officials in
connection with the events of 9/11, see .

RELATED: WTC 7 Imploded by Silverstein, FDNY and Others

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Weather Control - Russian pilots vs clouds at V-day parade

2005-05-04T14:36:00.000-07:00

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Russia's Defence Minister Sergei Ivanov says he is sure the Air Force will
repel any hostile clouds looking to rain on next week's Victory Day parade.

Russian pilots are past masters at seeding clouds to make rain fall away
from major state events, and Mr Ivanov says they will repeat the feat for
the Red Square party celebrating the 60th anniversary of the Allied victory
over Nazi Germany.

The party is due to be attended by more than 50 world statesmen and Mr
Ivanov says he will guarantee it will be held under a clear sky.

"Only the Defence Ministry can physically ensure a clear sky," he said in an
interview with official daily Rossiskaya Gazeta to be published on Wednesday.

However, Russian meteorologists have suggested his pilots might be up
against it, amid predictions of rain for the weekend and most of next week.

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Re: Ron Paul Warns of American Community Survey National Census

2005-05-04T13:33:00.000-07:00

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Anomaly News 050505

2005-05-04T12:53:00.000-07:00

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Anomaly News for the Week of May 5th, 2005
Some of the choice articles from this week's roundup ...
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Project Beta & Underground Bases Phenomena Mag
Review, Greg Bishop's Project Beta. Nick Redfern: 'The book is arguably one
of the finest and most important published contributions to the subject of
UFO research.'

South Korean Salamander Find Surprises Scientists Reuters
A new species of salamander has been discovered under rocks in South Korea
but scientists said Wednesday they don't know how it got there. David Wake,
amphibian expert: 'It's so utterly unexpected, so completely unexpected.'

'Stranger Than Strange' Dinosaur Found In Utah ABC News
Meet the therizinosaurs. Tom Holtz, paleontologist: 'They're like dinosaurs
designed by committee. They have bits and pieces that are similar to a whole
range of species so they look like a weird amalgam of dinosaur groups.' And:
Dinosaur Embraced Vegetarianism

Let's Help Keep the 'Woods' in 'Woodpecker' Portland Press Herald
And let's help keep the 'peck' in ... Phil Hoose, author of The Race To Save
the Lord God Bird, reacts to the recent ivory-bill discovery.

Brain-Injured Fireman's Recovery Takes Science Into Murky Area N.Y. Times
Little is known about people who enter a state of subdued awareness and then
abruptly awaken a decade or more later. For example, Donald Herbert broke 10
years of virtual silence on Saturday by announcing that he wanted to speak
to his wife.

Manitoba Bigfoot Video A Current Affair
Get a sneak peek at the video here. And: Fox's A Current Affair 'Outs'
Bigfoot Video ; Bigfoot or Big Scam? ; 'Impressed' with Footage

Spying on the Government San Francisco Bay Guardian
A UC Berkeley geographer, Trevor Paglen, maps the secret military bases of
the American West � where billions of dollars disappear into creepy
clandestine projects.

Derren Brown Has His Mind on the Job This is Local London
Interview with Derren Brown, illusionist: 'Encouraging people to question
things is valuable. I work in areas which are allied to paranormal areas,
and I know a lot about how they work and the techniques people use.'

Earthlings Extol Landers Rejuvenation Machine Hi-Desert Star
New historic monument: 'The Integratron is the creation of George Van Tassel
and is based on the design of Moses' Tabernacle, the writings of Nikola
Tesla, and telepathic directions from extraterrestrials.'

May 3

The Inexplicable Survivors of a Widespread Epidemic New York Times
Long-term H.I.V. positive survivors have stayed alive, symptom free, for
years without the benefits of treatment. Dr. Mike McCune: 'We just don't
know why they do what they do.'

New Book Suggests Jack the Ripper May Have Been a Sailor Monsters & Critics
Trevor Marriott even thinks he has identified the ship the killer arrived
on, the Sylph, a 600-ton cargo vessel that arrived in Britain from the
Caribbean in July 1888.

Gamma Rays from Thunderstorms? SpaceRef
Steven Cummer, assistant prof of electrical & computer engineering: 'All of
this comes as a huge surprise. These are higher energy gamma rays than come
from the sun. And yet here they are coming from the kind of terrestrial
thunderstorm that we see here all the time.'

The Mind Can Extend Life, Study Suggests Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
One of the first long-term studies of Transcendental Meditation has found
that the practice was associated with significantly lower rates of death.

After Death Communication - Love from the 'Other-Side'? Book of Thoth
Jacky Newcomb says 'after death communication (ADC) is far more common than
you would think.'

Is It a Monster? No It's a Mystery Marsupial Kent & Sussex Courier
Jane Belle: 'It was jumping up and down and it looked at me through the
kitchen window. It had quite round ears like a kangaroo and before we could
take a photo, it jumped up and ran away at a great lick.' Earlier: Missouri
Marsupial Remains At Large

Researchers Study Origin Of Brown Mountain Lights NBC 17
Joshua Warren, LEMUR: 'When there is a rainy spell, water runs through
mountain -- we found big holes where you can look in and see water rushing
through. As the water runs through the mountain, it builds up a charge on
these layers of quartz and magnetite.' With video.

Close Encounters on Rise as UFOs Seize Imagination of Chinese AFP
Meng Zhaoguo: 'She was three meters (10 feet) tall and had six fingers, but
otherwise she looked completely like a human. I told my wife all about it
afterwards. She wasn't too angry.' And: Sun Shili Drawings

Is Abandoned Prison Haunted Or Just Spooky? NBC 10
Spooking about the Burlington County Prison. No naked skeptics among the
South Jersey Paranormal Research group, that's for sure. With video and
slideshow. Also: Queenstown Inn Ghosts ; Update: Devil Booted Out of Satan
Wood Drive

Newest Bigfoot Video on TV Edmonton Sun
The Bigfoot video shot by a northern Manitoba man a few weeks ago will air
on the Fox-TV program A Current Affair Wednesday night. Tonight: Bigfoot
Roundtable ; Big Foot, Big Money

It Came From the Deep Los Angeles Times
Twenty-two miles long and 12 miles wide, Lake Tahoe harbors many legends.
But perhaps most persistent is the myth of a humped-backed, scaly serpentine
the locals call Tessie.

May 2

Time Traveler Convention Planned for Saturday, May 7 LiveScience
On Saturday, May 7, 2005, the first Time Traveler Convention will be held at
MIT. Amal Dorai, grad student: 'Of course the odds are against us, but
imagine the scientific discovery we would have on our hands if a time
traveler shows up.' Makes you wonder. Will Dr. J. S. Strauss from the year
2282 be in attendance?

Town Gets a Ghost of a Chance Enid News & Eagle Progress
Welcome to Avard, Oklahoma. Home to 28 humans, and possibly a dozen
otherworldly being.

When Do They Call an Animal Extinct? Slate
They used to wait 50 years. Who declared the ivory-billed woodpecker extinct
in the first place? No one ever did, officially. Also: Angola's Symbol Lives
On and False Woodpecker Sightings Generating Calls

Scientists: Life on Mars Likely Wired
Ian Wright, astrobiologist: 'The life on Mars issue has recently undergone a
paradigm shift, to the extent now that one can talk about the possibility of
present life on Mars without risking scientific suicide.'

Debunked! ESP, Telekinesis, & Other Pseudoscience Physics Today
Review, Georges Charpak and Henri Broch's Debunked! ESP, Telekinesis, and
Other Pseudoscience (2004). Randi: 'One of those books I wish I'd written.'

Family Invites People to See Virgin Mary, Jesus on Rock WKYC TV
Robert Hartman says he's made a miraculous discovery in his garden. With
pics.

New Dino Species Found in S. Dakota Reuters
A flat-headed vegetarian. Robert Bakker, paleontologist: 'When my colleagues
saw a CAT scan of the new fossil, they tore up their family tree diagrams
and said, "Back to the drawing board!" ... We never suspected such a
creature existed.'

Paris Hilton Took Psychic Guidance to Find Lost Dog Hollywood News
Paris Hilton could use a lot of guidance, of all kinds.

The Mystery of the Mayanup Poltergeist Cheers Mag
Mysterious showers of stones materialised out of thin air in front of
hundreds of amazed witnesses during the three-year reign of the Mayanup
Poltergeist 45 years ago.

Farmers Left Shocked as Mystery Beast Strikes Western Daily Mail
Mark Penfold, farmer: 'I have seen deer, badgers, rabbits, hares - I know
what animals are out there - but not this. I have seen dead cows a lot of
times, but never a whole calf gone in one night.'

Scientists Watch for Calamari That Bites Back Toronto Globe & Mail
Gudmund Gudmundseth, sports fisherman on his weird catch: 'What the hell? I
didn't know it was a Humboldt squid. A man-eater.' It's the first time in
recorded history that a Dosidicus gigas has been captured for study from the
temperate waters of the northeastern Pacific.

Stigmatized Homes Make Buyers Beware NBC4i
Art Russo, realtor: 'Every time I had to tell someone that the person killed
themselves, a suicide in the house, people shied away from it.' James
Willis, paranormal researcher: 'With ghosts, it could drop -- or go up --
because there are people like myself that like the idea of living in a
haunted house.' Elsewhere: Foul-Mouthed EVP at Culzean Castle

Hunt for the Killer Worm Metro
It spits corrosive yellow saliva and can generate electrical blasts powerful
enough to kill a camel. But the Mongolian Death Worm may have finally met
its match in Exeter-based cryptozoologist Richard Freeman.

Venezuela: the Marian Apparitions of Betania ReligiScope
The popularity of The Virgin of Betania took off after 1984 when over a
hundred people claimed to see her on the anniversary of her apparition.

Far-Off Healing Los Angeles Times
Many Americans pray for the health of loved ones; others turn to shamans or
reiki. Now science is putting these practices to the test.

May 1

Acupuncture Activates the Brain Nature
Acupuncture has a measurable, if mysterious, effect on the brain, UK
scientists have found.

The Haunting of the Ancient Ram Inn The Book of Thoth
Part I. David Farrant, president of the British Psychic and Occult Society,
looks into the haunting of a 700 year old English Inn.

Conservationists Struggle to Find Convincing Explanation The Telegraph
Exploding toad theories abound. On the grassy banks of Hamburg's
newly-dubbed Pond of Death, Werner Smolnik is surveying the aftermath of
amphibian Armageddon.

Tim Boucher: Occult Investigator Tim Boucher
Tim Boucher: 'Hey Everybody! Since I became an occult investigator, my life
has turned into one non-stop party! I'm having so much fun, and learning all
kinds of cool things about myself and the world. It's really an absolute
blast!' Elsewhere: Being a Party Animal Is Good for You

Scientific & Spiritual Significance of NDEs Studied San Diego Union-Tribune
When Deb Foster died in a La Jolla hospital, she found herself on a stairway
surrounded by cats and dogs and mesmerized by a celestial blue sky, the
likes of which she had never seen on earth.

Revelation! 666 is Not the Number of the Beast The Independent
Oops. Best cancel renumbering all those roads, street addresses and phone
numbers. A newly discovered fragment from the Book of Revelation reveals the
number of The Beast is actually ... 616. Elsewhere: Norwegians Revealed as
'Sons of Satan' ; Urdu Book Spews Satanic Verses

Illusion Creation? India Daily
Some UFO researchers believe aliens are use creating illusions to provide
stealth and camouflage their bases under the earth's crust.

Fighting the Devil in Rome Deutsche Welle
Father Piedro Barahan gives a power-point presentation on the theology of
demons. 'Most of these people here are priests and most of them in their
pastoral work deal with people who feel that they have a problem of
possession and they don't know whether it's really supernatural or
psychological.'

Expert of the Weird a Perfect Contributor to Book Appleton Post-Crescent
The Anomalist news editor moonlights as 'a purveyor of the weird and
wonderful in Wisconsin.' Elsewhere: Weirdness All Around Florida ; Watch Out
for Orkney Selkies

Ghost Hunters Visit Area Haunt Post-Tribune
Spooky goings-on at the Porter County Courthouse in Valparaiso. And:
McDowell Sees & Experiences 'Evil' ; Pays to have a good press agent: even
more: A Ghost of a Chance

Ivory-Bill Sighting A Reality Check Tampa Bay Online
Editorial. 'Does nature have other secrets, hidden in the deep woods and the
remote mountains, that she might be waiting to reveal to watchful and
appreciative eyes?'

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Gannon attended White House Christmas parties -- but who invited him?

2005-04-29T14:17:00.000-07:00

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Gannon attended White House Christmas parties -- but who invited him?
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Former Talon News Washington bureau chief and White House correspondent Jeff
Gannon (aka James D. Guckert) attended at least two invitation-only events
in Washington, D.C.: the 2003 and 2004 White House press Christmas parties .
Gannon has been discredited by numerous charges -- most notably that he is a
Republican activist who has reproduced sections of Republican Party and
White House materials verbatim in his own "news reports," and not a true
news reporter. So the question arises: who invited Gannon to these exclusive
events?

In a February 11 interview with Editor and Publisher, Gannon claimed that
"The only connection I had with [White House press secretary] Scott
McClellan was when he got married and I sent him a card." McClellan told
Editor & Publisher that Gannon was not issued a permanent White House press
corps pass, but obtained only daily passes. And according to a February 18
New York Times article , McClellan said that White House "credentialing is
all handled at the staff assistant level."

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Re: Waiting for Bigfoot

2005-04-29T04:08:00.000-07:00

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why waiting for bigfoot he may can kill you?

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Re: Jumbo Flying Squid!

2005-04-29T04:06:00.000-07:00

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a flying squid! that can be strange and is could be danger?

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Re: Dinosaur kangaroos spotted in Chile

2005-04-29T04:04:00.000-07:00

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Re: Strange Animal Caught on Camera

2005-04-29T04:03:00.000-07:00

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I think is a dogs like greyhouse that could run fast and chase rabbit in
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Re: Evidence of 'jungle yeti' found

2005-04-29T04:01:00.000-07:00

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this may not be that it maybe a ape that could walk like us?

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Re: Woman says 'skunk ape' stood up beside highway

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