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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: Jumbo Flying Squid!

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Re: Dinosaur kangaroos spotted in Chile

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Re: Strange Animal Caught on Camera

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Re: Evidence of 'jungle yeti' found

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

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Re: Bigfoot Video Sold To U.S. Television Show

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Cornell University - Long thought extinct, ivory-billed woodpecker rediscovered

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Cornell University News Service - Long thought extinct, ivory-billed
woodpecker rediscovered in Big Woods of Arkansas. Multiple sightings, video
footage show bird survives in vast forested areas
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BRINKLEY, Ark. - Long believed to be extinct, a magnificent bird - the
ivory-billed woodpecker - has been rediscovered in the Big Woods of eastern
Arkansas. More than 60 years after the last confirmed sighting of the
species in the United States, a research team today announced that at least
one male ivory-bill still survives in vast areas of bottomland swamp forest.

Published in the journal Science on its Science Express Web site (April 28,
2005), the findings include multiple sightings of the elusive woodpecker and
frame-by-frame analyses of brief video footage. The evidence was gathered
during an intensive year-long search in the Cache River and White River
national wildlife refuges involving more than 50 experts and field
biologists working together as part of the Big Woods Conservation
Partnership, led by the Cornell Laboratory of Ornithology at Cornell
University and The Nature Conservancy.

"The bird captured on video is clearly an ivory-billed woodpecker," said
John Fitzpatrick, the Science article's lead author, and director of the
Cornell Laboratory of Ornithology. "Amazingly, America may have another
chance to protect the future of this spectacular bird and the awesome
forests in which it lives."

"It is a landmark rediscovery," said Scott Simon, director of The Nature
Conservancy's Arkansas chapter. "Finding the ivory-bill in Arkansas
validates decades of great conservation work and represents an incredible
story of hope for the future."

Joining the search team at a press conference in Washington DC, Secretary of
the Interior Gale Norton announced a Department of the Interior initiative
to identify funds for recovery efforts.

Through its cooperative conservation initiative, the Fish and Wildlife
Service has a variety of grant and technical aid programs to support
wildlife recovery.

"These programs are the heart and soul of the federal government's
commitment to cooperative conservation. They are perfectly tailored to
recover this magnificent bird," Secretary Norton said. "Across the Nation,
these programs preserve millions of acres of habitat, improve riparian
habitat along thousands of miles of streams and develop conservation plans
for endangered species and their habitat."

The largest woodpecker in North America, the ivory-billed woodpecker is
known through lore as a bird of beauty and indomitable spirit. The species
vanished after extensive clearing destroyed millions of acres of virgin
forest throughout the South between the 1880s and mid-1940s.

Although the majestic bird has been sought for decades, until now there was
no firm evidence that it still existed.

The rediscovery has galvanized efforts to save the Big Woods of Arkansas,
550,000 acres of bayous, bottomland forests and oxbow lakes. According to
Simon, The Nature Conservancy has conserved 18,000 acres of critical habitat
in the Big Woods, at the request of the partnership, since the search began.
"It's a very wild and beautiful place," Simon said.

The Search and the Evidence

While kayaking in the Cache River National Wildlife Refuge on Feb. 11, 2004,
Gene Sparling of Hot Springs, Ark., saw an unusually large, red-crested
woodpecker fly toward him and land on a nearby tree. He noticed several
field marks suggesting the bird was an ivory-billed woodpecker.

A week later, after learning of the sighting, Tim Gallagher, editor of the
Cornell Lab of Ornithology's Living Bird magazine, and Bobby Harrison,
associate professor at Oakwood College, Huntsville, Ala., interviewed
Sparling. They were so convinced by his report that they traveled to
Arkansas and then with Sparling to the bayou where he had seen the bird.

On Feb. 27, as Sparling paddled ahead, a large black-and-white woodpecker
flew across the bayou less than 70 feet in front of Gallagher and Harrison,
who simultaneously cried out: "Ivory-bill!" Minutes later, after the bird
had disappeared into the forest, Gallagher and Harrison sat down to sketch
independently what each had seen. Their field sketches, included in the
Science article, show the characteristic patterns of white and black on the
wings of the woodpecker.

"When we finished our notes," Gallagher said, "Bobby sat down on a log, put
his face in his hands and began to sob, saying, 'I saw an ivory-bill. I saw
an ivory-bill.'" Gallagher said he was too choked with emotion to speak.
"Just to think this bird made it into the 21st century gives me chills. It's
like a funeral shroud has been pulled back, giving us a glimpse of a living
bird, rising Lazarus-like from the grave," he said.

The sightings by Sparling, Gallagher and Harrison led to the formation of a
search team, which later became the Big Woods Conservation Partnership. On
April 5, 10 and 11, three different searchers sighted an ivory-bill in
nearby areas. The views were fleeting, leaving little opportunity to take
photographs.

David Luneau, associate professor at the University of Arkansas at Little
Rock, said he thought the best chance to film the elusive bird would be to
have a camcorder on at all times. On April 25, Luneau captured four seconds
of video footage showing an ivory-billed woodpecker taking off from the
trunk of a tree.

Frame-by-frame analyses show a bird perched on a tupelo trunk, with a
distinctive white pattern on its back. During 1.2 seconds of flight, the
video reveals 11 wing beats showing extensive white on the trailing edges of
the wings and white on the back. Both of these features distinguish the
ivory-billed woodpecker from the superficially similar, and much more
common, pileated woodpecker.

On three occasions, members of the search team heard series of loud
double-raps, possibly the ivory-billed woodpecker's display drumming. On
Feb. 14, 2005, Casey Taylor of the Cornell Lab of Ornithology heard the
drumming for 30 minutes, then watched as an ivory-billed woodpecker, being
mobbed by crows, flew into view.

In addition, autonomous recording units detected sounds, among thousands of
hours of recordings, which resembled double-raps and possible calls of the
ivory-bill - reminiscent of the sound of a tin horn. Researchers say ongoing
analyses of the recordings have not yet enabled them to rule out other
potential sound sources, such as the calls of blue jays, which are notorious
mimics.

In all, during more than 7,000 hours of search time, experienced observers
reported at least 15 sightings of the ivory-bill, seven of which were
described in the Science article. Because only a single bird was observed at
a time, researchers say they don't yet know whether more than one inhabits
the area.

So far, the search team has focused its efforts in approximately 16 of the
850 square miles in the bottomland forests of Arkansas. Fitzpatrick of the
Cornell Lab of Ornithology said that the next step will be to broaden the
search to assess whether breeding pairs exist and how many ivory-bills the
region may support. To expand the area being monitored and minimize
disturbance to the endangered woodpecker, the team will continue to use
acoustic monitoring technologies as well as on-the-ground searching.
Fitzpatrick said the team will also encourage others to search for the
ivory-bill elsewhere in suitable habitats throughout the South.

Simon of The Nature Conservancy said that over the years, state and federal
agencies, conservation organizations, hunters and landowners have
aggressively worked to conserve and restore the bottomland hardwood and
swamp ecosystem. "Now we know we must work even harder to conserve this
critical habitat - not just for the ivory-billed woodpecker, but for the
black bears, waterfowl and many other species of these unique woods," he
added.

The partnership's 10-year goal is to restore 200,000 more acres of forest in
the Big Woods. The effort will include conserving forest habitat, improving
river water quality, and restoring the physical structure of the river
channels, focusing in locations with maximum benefit in reconnecting forest
patches and protecting river health.

"The ivory-bill tells us that we could actually bring this system back to
that primeval forest here in the heartland of North America," said
Fitzpatrick, who is also a member of The Nature

Conservancy's board of governors. "That's the kind of forest that I hope
some generation of Americans and citizens of the world will get to come and
visit."

For more information about the search and the efforts to save the
ivory-billed woodpecker and the Big Woods, visit .

Click here to view a video news release.

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The Cornell Laboratory of Ornithology is a nonprofit membership institution
with the mission to interpret and conserve the Earth's biological diversity
though research, education, and citizen science focused on birds. From its
headquarters at the Imogene Powers Johnson Center for Birds and Biodiversity
in Ithaca, N.Y., the Lab leads international efforts in bird monitoring and
conservation, and fosters the ability of enthusiasts of all ages and skill
levels to make a difference.

The Nature Conservancy is a nonprofit organization that preserves plants,
animals and natural communities representing the diversity of life on Earth
by protecting the lands and waters they need to survive. To date, the
Conservancy has been responsible for protecting more than 15 million acres
in the United States and more than 102 million acres in Latin America, the
Caribbean, Asia and the Pacific. Since The Conservancy's Arkansas office
opened in 1982, it has worked with the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, the
Arkansas Natural Heritage Commission, the Arkansas Game and Fish Commission
as well as private citizens, corporations, and foundations, to bring into
conservation management more than 120,000 acres in the Arkansas delta.

The Big Woods Conservation Partnership includes the Cornell Lab of
Ornithology, The Nature Conservancy, Oakwood College in Huntsville, Ala.,
Louisiana State University, the University of Arkansas at Little Rock, the
Arkansas Natural Heritage Commission, the Arkansas Game and Fish Commission,
the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, Birdman Productions, LLC, and Civic
Enterprises, LLC.

Contact: Simeon Moss
sfm4@cornell.edu
607-255-2281
Cornell Laboratory of Ornithology

Karen Foerstel
kfoerstel@tnc.org
703-841-3932
The Nature Conservancy

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UK UFO Conference - Living the Field

2005-04-27T09:21:00.000-07:00

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LIVING THE FIELD ANNUAL CONFERENCE 2005
THE SCIENTIFIC EVIDENCE FOR UFOs
Discover the truth behind the most highly classified subject on Earth
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Keynote speakers: Dr Richard Haines, Nick Pope, Timothy Good, Dr Vladimir
Rubtsov, Dr Viktor Zhuravlev

The Speakers: This is a unique and privileged opportunity to hear from some
of the world�s leading experts in this field of study and to ask them the
questions you want answered.

We are delighted to announce the following world-renowned speakers will be
at our conference:

Richard F. Haines, Ph.D.

A former senior NASA research scientist working on numerous astronautical
(Gemini, Apollo, Skylab) and aeronautical projects, he was appointed Chief
of the Space Human Factors Office at NASA where he directed research &
development. A renowned UFO researcher and author, Dr Haines� specialist
topic is sightings by pilots having interviewed many military & commercial
airline pilots & spoken with many air traffic controllers to amass reports
of more than 3,000 sightings.

He is the author of many books including; Justifications and Philosophy of
the Space Age (1962); UFO and the Behavioral Scientist (1979); Observing
UFOs (1980) and Close Encounters of the Fifth Kind (1999).

Nick Pope.

Nick Pope used to run the British Government�s UFO project at the Ministry
of Defence. His investigations were on newly reported UFO incidents and
access to government files on the subject, especially when the witnesses
were military pilots or where UFOs were tracked on radar. He now continues
his research in a private capacity and is recognised as a leading authority
on UFOs and the unexplained. Nick has lectured all around the world, at
academic conferences, museums, military bases and acted as consultant on
several TV documentaries. Nick has written many books on the subject such as
�Open Skies, Closed Minds� which details his official UFO work, while �The
Uninvited� deals with alien abductions.

Nick�s talk will be entitled �The Real X-Files� and it will detail the
history and operation of the British Government�s UFO project.

Timothy Good.

Author, broadcaster & lecturer, Timothy Good is a leading authority on UFOs
and the alien presence. He has amassed a wealth of evidence, including
several thousand declassified intelligence documents. His research has led
him to be invited for discussions at the Pentagon in 1998 and at the
headquarters of the French Air force in 2002. He has been a consultant for
several US Congress UFO investigations. Timothy has written many books
including the best seller �Above Top Secret: the Worldwide UFO Cover Up�,
�Beyond Top Secret: The Worldwide UFO Security Threat� and �Alien Liaison:
The Ultimate Secret.� He is known to millions all over the world and is much
in demand to appear in documentaries, conferences and TV & radio interviews.

Dr Vladimir Rubtsov.

Dr Rubtsov is Director of the Research Institute on Anomalous Phenomena
(RIAP), as well as the editor of it�s newsletter RIAP Bulletin. This
independent scientific-research body was established in Kharkiv (Ukraine) in
1992 by the Ukrainian Aerospace Company �Vertical�. Dr Rubtsov is a member
of the Russian Academy of Cosmonautics, an associate member of the Society
for Scientific Exploration, a member of the Expert Group on Anomalous
Atmospheric Phenomena of the Russian Academy of Sciences, the MUFON
representative for Ukraine, as well as a co-director of the Joint USA-CIS
Aerial Anomaly Federation. Dr Rubtsov has authored more than 100 articles on
ETI and UFOs in the Soviet, post-Soviet and Western press.
His talk will focus on �Soviet Ufology: its birth, life, and afterlife�

Dr Viktor Zhuravlev.

Former Director of the Novosibirsk branch of the Siberian Scientific
Research Center on Anomalous Phenomena, Dr Zhuravlev has devoted his life to
uncovering the truth behind UFOs and has been part of eleven expeditions to
the Tunguska area and written many papers on the subject including the
dispersed substances, it�s trajectory & the geo-magnetic effect of the
Tunguska explosion.

Dr Zhuravlev actively participates in the State Program of UFO Studies, is
one of the leading members of the UFO study group & a Member of the Academy
of Sciences. He has collected first-hand information on anomalous phenomena,
analysed UFO photographs and spoken at many conferences.

His talk will be focused on the investigations of an unidentified flying
object in Severniy district of Novosibirsk region. He will also be
discussing the anomalous aspects of the Tunguska meteorite fall.

�One of the most sensational cases I ever investigated related to an
incident that occurred in the early hours of March 31, 1993. There had been
a wave of UFO sightings that night, culminating in the direct overflight of
two military bases, RAF Cosford and RAF Shawbury. The UFO was described to
me by one of the military witnesses as being a vast, triangular craft only
marginally smaller than a jumbo jet. It flew slowly over the base at a
height of around 200 feet, firing a narrow beam of light at the ground,
before flying off at high speed. � - Nick Pope, one of the UK�s top
real-life X-File investigators, who for three years ran the Ministry of
Defence�s own official �UFO Desk�.

Time: 9am - 5pm
Date: Saturday 11 June 2005
Venue: Friends Meeting House, 173 Euston Road, London, NW1 2BJ
Tickets: �129-25 (includes VAT and refreshments)
Please note: The ticket price does NOT include lunch

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Bigfoot Video Sold To U.S. Television Show

2005-04-27T07:18:00.000-07:00

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Relatives say a northern Manitoba ferry operator has sold an unnamed U.S.
television show his video footage of a large, dark figure that some are
describing as Bigfoot.

Langford Saunders, the uncle of videographer Bobby Clarke, says there were
multiple offers for the two minute, 49 second tape. On April 16th, Clarke
was operating an automobile ferry on the Nelson River when he claimed to
have seen a dark figure walking upright on the riverbank. Clarke says he
grabbed his camcorder and recorded the figure looking directly at him, then
turning around and heading back into the bush.

Relatives say the creature was at least eight feet tall. (Winnipeg Free
Press)

Links below ...

Michigan Author Declares Bigfoot Real
Emediawire (press release), WA - Apr 26, 2005
... Shiel went on to explain how film footage claiming to show a Bigfoot is
examined by experts from many fields, including Hollywood special effects,
to look for ...

'After seeing it, I truly believe it's the real sasquatch' WorldNetDaily,
OR - Apr 24, 2005 ... As WorldNetDaily reported last year, the most famous
footage associated with the Bigfoot legend was revealed to be a hoax. Thirty
...

Calls besiege Manitoba man who shot possible Bigfoot video Grand Forks
Herald, ND - Apr 24, 2005 ... said. Saunders said one Bigfoot expert in
Washington offered to analyze the footage if they'd just turn it over to
him. Saunders ...

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Waiting for Bigfoot

2005-04-27T07:10:00.000-07:00

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Waiting for Bigfoot > The Cryptozoologist > Breaking Story - April 27, 2005
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San Francisco-based American artist Jill Miller is participating in Norwich
Gallery's EAST 05 international exhibition, July 2 - August 20, 2005.
Although she will exhibit a performance work, she will not appear in the
gallery. At least not in the flesh.

Miller's durational performance-installation, Waiting for Bigfoot, will be
located in Northern California (also known as "Bigfoot Country") and will be
delivered to the Norwich Gallery as real-time video via satellite uplink, 24
hours a day. The artist will live at the campsite, situated in the epicenter
of Bigfoot sightings, for the entire duration of EAST 05.

Miller is interested in the philosophical, social and metaphorical
implications that Bigfoot represents. Western culture has long been obsessed
with monsters and the unknown; currently, these obsessions manifest
themselves in horror films such as Nosferatu, Rosemary's Baby, Exorcist,
Night of the Living Dead and myriad maligned "B-grade" horror films.
However, cinematic monsters are not the only creatures that dominate the
psychological landscape of Western culture.

Read the rest of this news story here at LorenColeman.com ...

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SOYLENT GREEN: GM industry puts human gene into rice

2005-04-26T07:52:00.000-07:00

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GM industry puts human gene into rice
By Geoffrey Lean, Environment Editor - 24 April 2005

Scientists have begun putting genes from human beings into food crops in a
dramatic extension of genetic modification. The move, which is causing
disgust and revulsion among critics, is bound to strengthen accusations that
GM technology is creating "Frankenstein foods" and drive the controversy
surrounding it to new heights.

Even before this development, many people, including Prince Charles, have
opposed the technology on the grounds that it is playing God by creating
unnatural combinations of living things.

Environmentalists say that no one will want to eat the partially
human-derived food because it will smack of cannibalism.

But supporters say that the controversial new departure presents no ethical
problems and could bring environmental benefits.

In the first modification of its kind, Japanese researchers have inserted a
gene from the human liver into rice to enable it to digest pesticides and
industrial chemicals. The gene makes an enzyme, code-named CPY2B6, which is
particularly good at breaking down harmful chemicals in the body.

Present GM crops are modified with genes from bacteria to make them tolerate
herbicides, so that they are not harmed when fields are sprayed to kill
weeds. But most of them are only able to deal with a single herbicide, which
means that it has to be used over and over again, allowing weeds to build up
resistance to it.

But the researchers at the National Institute of Agrobiological Sciences in
Tsukuba, north of Tokyo, have found that adding the human touch gave the
rice immunity to 13 different herbicides. This would mean that weeds could
be kept down by constantly changing the chemicals used.

Supporting scientists say that the gene could also help to beat pollution.

Professor Richard Meilan of Purdue University in Indiana, who has worked
with a similar gene from rabbits, says that plants modified with it could
"clean up toxins" from contaminated land. They might even destroy them so
effectively that crops grown on the polluted soil could be fit to eat.

But he and other scientists caution that if the gene were to escape to wild
relatives of the rice it could create particularly vicious superweeds that
were resistant to a wide range of herbicides.

He adds: "I do not have any ethical issue with using human genes to engineer
plants", dismissing talk of "Frankenstein foods" as "rubbish". He believes
that that European opposition to GM crops and food is fuelled by
agricultural protectionism.

But Sue Mayer, director of GeneWatch UK, said yesterday: "I don't think that
anyone will want to buy this rice. People have already expressed disgust
about using human genes, and already feel that their concerns are being
ignored by the biotech industry. This will just undermine their confidence
even more."

Pete Riley, director of the anti-GM pressure group Five Year Freeze, said:
"I am not surprised by this.

"The industry is capable of anything and this development certainly smacks
of Frankenstein."

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AFP-Google lawsuit tests fair use / AP Takes Their Turn Challenging Google

2005-04-25T12:37:00.000-07:00

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AFP-Google lawsuit tests fair use / AP Takes Their Turn Challenging Google
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In a frame grab of a Google news page, an AFP photo of European commission
president, Jos Manuel Barroso, is seen at center left. (AP Photo/Google)

AP Takes Their Turn Challenging Google
By Jennifer Laycock - April 13, 2005

The hard part about winning "king of the hill" is fending off a
multi-pronged attack that comes at you from all sides. Google is finding
that out the hard way and finding themselves faced with yet another
complaint about the way they do business.

On the heels of a lawsuit from French news agency AFP, Google is now facing
a similar complaint from the Associated Press. The L.A. Times ran an article
on Monday that talks about the differences between Yahoo! news and Google's
news search. The article mentioned that the Associated Press is not happy
with Google's collection and use of their material and are "in talks" with
the search engine to try and work out a deal.

There's no mention of a lawsuit, yet, but the articles quotes the AP's Jane
Seagrave as saying "We believe AP content has value online, and we expect to
be compensated for it."

The strange part about this story is that they already are being compensated
for it by the sites that publish their stories. Articles and blog posts that
I've read about this issue often point out that Yahoo! pays a content
licensing fee for the AP content while Google simply picks it up with a
spider and adds it to their index. The problem with this comparison is that
Yahoo! displays the entire text of the article so that a reader can get it
all without leaving the Yahoo! site. The Google news site displays just a
headline, text snippet and thumbnail image of the story. Google news isn't
in the business of providing content, they are in the business of pointing
people toward content.

The Associated Press seems to be making the same mistake that AFP
did...assuming that their clients won't mind if they [AP] take away a major
traffic source. Search Engine Guide documented this exact issue last month
with two articles by guest author Bob Hoffman. Hoffman, an AFP customer
explained how the lawsuit had nearly ruined his own news site and also
pointed out how the move could create long-term damage to the blogosphere.

The Associated Press and other content syndicates make their money by
selling their articles and photos to third party news sites. Those sites
make money by attracting readers which in turn help attract advertisers. By
attempting to force Google to either pay for content, or stop indexing it,
the Associated Press is putting their syndication customers in a precarious
position. While many news sites would still do just fine without being
included in the Google News engine, the reality is that Google News is a
heavy traffic producer for more than a few sites.

Thankfully, some companies seem to get the idea behind Google News. The L.A.
Times quotes Reuters spokeswoman Susan Allsopp as stating "We're very much
trying to drive traffic to our sites. There's no question that Google and
the other [news aggregator] sites are incredibly important."

Google News has just barely cracked the top ten when it comes to news site
traffic levels. According to ComScore Media Metrix Google News was the tenth
most visited news site in February of this year. They trail behind sites
like Yahoo!, AOL, MSNBC and CNN.come. However, their traffic is also up
nearly 90% from this time last year. With the site still in beta and growing
at a steady pace, it's only a matter of time before even more syndicates
start to consider the issue of indexing and traffic from the site.

With past court cases already creating a precedence for the legality of
creating links from one site to another, it seems unlikely that Google's
news service would extend beyond "fair usage" laws. At the same time, the
suit from AFP resulted in Google simply clearing all sites using AFP content
from its news index. It's possible that in the face of a lawsuit, Google
would choose to use the same method to clear AP content from the site. The
resulting loss of traffic to AP syndicates could be substantial, and it's
unlikely that customers would appreciate paying the same amount of money
while receiving less traffic.

It will be a worthwhile story to watch as the future of online news
publication and aggregation could be impacted by what happens in this case.

AFP-Google lawsuit tests fair use
By ANICK JESDANUN

NEW YORK (AP) - In a case that could set limits on Internet search engines,
the French news agency AFP is suing Google Inc. for pulling together photos
and story excerpts from thousands of news websites.

Agence France-Presse said the Google News service infringes on AFP's
copyrights by reproducing information from the websites of subscribers of
the Paris-based news wholesaler.

The issues raised by the case have profound implications for the Internet,
where anyone can be a publisher and web journals, or blogs, are becoming
more frequent destinations for seekers of news.

The lawsuit's outcome will likely hinge on whether Google can persuade the
courts that Google News constitutes permissible "fair use" of copyright
material. Legal scholars say Google could argue that it adds value by
significantly improving the news-consuming experience without greatly
harming AFP's ability to sell its service.

But in seeking at least $17.5 million US in damages, AFP says Google adds
little because its news site looks much like those of AFP subscribers,
albeit one where software and not human editors determine the placement of
stories on a page.

The U.S. District Court in Washington, D.C., where the lawsuit was filed
last Thursday, will ultimately have to balance search engines' desire to
give consumers convenience, selling ads in the process, and copyright
owners' rights to control their works.

"The story (of the Internet) from day one has been one of waves of
liberalization followed by attempts at control," said Jonathan Zittrain, a
Harvard law professor. "It's rightly up to the courts and the government to
figure out where the lines should be drawn."

It's possible, though, for the courts to skirt key issues given Google's
promise this week to remove the AFP items in question, though technically
that's not something that can be done overnight.

AFP lawyer Joshua Kaufman said the lawsuit would nevertheless proceed
because damage already has been done.

The Google News service, which debuted in 2002, scans some 4,500 news
outlets and highlights the top stories under common categories such as world
and sports.

Many stories carry a small image, or thumbnail, along with the headline and
the first sentence or two. Visitors can click on the headline to read the
full story at the source website.

Yahoo Inc. has a similar service, though it uses human editors and pays some
news sources, including AFP and The Associated Press, for rights. Google
wouldn't comment on any similar financial arrangements.

In a statement, Google spokesman Steve Langdon said websites can request
removal though most "want to be included in Google News because they believe
it is a benefit to them and their readers."

In fact, AFP's own website includes a "robots.txt" file that spurns search
engines, essentially telling them to avoid indexing its news pages.

But the case is complicated by the fact that the stories come not directly
from AFP but from its subscribers, some of which might want the rest of
their sites indexed to generate ad-boosting referrals.

The fair use argument will likely draw upon a 2002 appeals court ruling that
thumbnail images serve a different, transformative function as compared to
full-size originals - and thus constitute fair use.

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LibertyThink on RAWstory - 'Jeff Gannon' is the Bush White House Lewinsky

2005-04-24T22:07:00.000-07:00

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"Jeff Gannon" is the Bush White House Lewinsky
Monday, April 25, 2005

Secret Service Gave "Jeff Gannon" Unparalled Access to White House

No two ways around it: "Jeff Gannon" is someone's (or multiple persons')
Lewinsky.

Nothing else makes sense. The Secret Service cannot be that lax. He was
being let in on days when there were no press briefings held and allowed to
leave through multiple exits and without signing out (many long, sweaty
romps, no doubt).

I'm cranking up the e-Rolodex and will fire this one off to hundreds of
thousands, including every newspaper columnist and radio wag extant.

I bet this sick @!#$ is/was stretching Queen George, Rove, Scott McClellan
and Ken Mehlman (and mebbe Andrew Card, who reportedly swings that way). No
other story is hotter and more damaging to the Bush Admin than "Jeff Gannon."

Please e-mail a link to this RAWstory exclusive to everyone you know.

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New Pope Denounced the New World Order

2005-04-24T13:56:00.000-07:00

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20-September-2000 -- Catholic World News Brief
RATZINGER CRITICIZES UN PROPOSAL FOR "NEW WORLD ORDER"

ROME, Sep. 19, 00 (CWNews.com/LSN.ca) - Writing in the Italian newspaper
Avvenire, Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger slammed the UN's proposals for a "New
World Order" targeting for special criticism the UN's goal of depopulation.

The cardinal, prefect of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith,
noted that the philosophy coming from recent UN conferences and the
Millennium Summit "proposes strategies to reduce the number of guests at the
table of humanity, so that the presumed happiness [we] have attained will
not be affected." He criticized this philosophy for "not being concerned
with the care of those who are no longer productive or who can no longer
hope for a determined quality of life."

Cardinal Ratzinger noted that "at the base of this New World Order" is the
ideology of "women's empowerment," which erroneously sees "the principal
obstacles to [a woman's] fulfillment [as] the family and maternity." The
cardinal advised that "at this stage of the development of the new image of
the new world, Christians-- and not just them but in any case they even more
than others-- have the duty to protest."

Ratzinger denouces the "New World Order"

Then Cardinal Ratzinger, wrote the preface to a book by Michel Schooyans
entitled
The Gospel: Confronting World Disorder The book is a kind of Catholic
anti-globalist manifesto.

Ratzinger first denouces the NWO (specifically using the terminology "new
world order") as more or less a culmination of Marxism. He goes on to say
that a Christian is "obliged to protest" against it and that the NWO cannot
"reduce liberty to silence."

Here is the preface in full.

Preface:

From the very beginning of the Enlightenment, belief in progress has always
set Christian eschatology aside and eventually replaced it entirely.
Happiness is no longer anticipated in the afterlife but rather in this
world. The attitude of Albert Camus, who resolutely opposes to Christ�s
words �my kingdom is not of this world, his affirmation that �my kingdom is
of this world,� is emblematic of modern man�s disposition.. If in the last
century belief in progress was still a generic optimism that anticipated
progressive betterment of the world�s condition and an ever closer approach
of a kind of paradise from the triumphant march of the sciences, such faith
in our century has taken on a political turn.

On the one hand, there have been systems of Marxist orientation that
promised the attainment of the desired reign of man by way of their
ideologically-driven politics; an attempt that obviously failed. On the
other hand, efforts to build the future have been made by attempts that draw
more or less profoundly from the source of liberal traditions. Under the
title New World Order, these efforts take on a configuration; they
increasingly relate to the UN and its international conferences, especially
those of Cairo and Beijing that transparently reveal a philosophy of the new
man and of the new world, as they endeavor to map out the ways of reaching
them.

Such a philosophy is no longer utopian, in the sense of a Marxist dream. On
the contrary, it is very realistic: it determines the limits of the
well-being sought from limited means for attaining it. This philosophy
recommends, for example, without seeking to justify itself, not worrying
about taking care of those who are no longer productive nor have any hope of
a quality life. Furthermore, it no longer expects that people, used to
riches and well being, be ready to make requisite sacrifices, on the
contrary, it recommends ways of reducing the number of participants at
humanity�s table, so that at least the so called happiness, already acquired
by some, will not be touched. The typical character of this new
anthropology, which is at the basis of the New World Order, is revealed
above all in the image of woman, in the ideology of �Women�s empowerment,�
proposed at Beijing. The goal is the self-realization of women for whom the
principle obstacles are the family and maternity. Thus woman must be
liberated above all from what characterizes her and very simply makes for
her specificity: this must disappear before �Gender, fairness and equality,�
before an indistinct and uniform human being, in whose life sexuality had no
other meaning than as a voluptuous drug that can be used in any manner
conceivable.

In the fear of maternity that gripped a great number of our contemporaries,
there is something more profound at play. The other person is always, in the
end, a competitor who takes away part of my life, a menace to my Ego and my
free development. Today we no longer have a �philosophy of love,� but only a
�philosophy of egotism.� The notion that I can enrich myself simply in the
gift that I can find beginning with the other and through my
being-for-another --- all that is rejected as an idealistic illusion. But it
is precisely there that man is deceived. In effect, when he is advised
against loving, he is actually counseled not to be man.

And so, at the stage of the present development of a new image of a new
world, we reach the point where the Christian ---not only him but especially
him---is obliged to protest. We must thank Michel Schooyans for having, in
this book, given energetic voice to the protest needed. He shows us how the
idea of man�s rights that characterize the modern epoch, which is so
important and positive in many ways, suffers right at the very beginning
from the fact that it is founded on man alone and therefore on his ability
and his will to carry out the general recognition of these rights. If, from
the start, the reflection of the luminous Christian image of man protected
the universality of rights, new questions arise to the degree that this
image becomes blurred. How will the rights of the humblest be respected and
promoted when our conception of man so often is based, as our author says,
�on jealousy, anxiety, fear and even hate? How can an ideology, that
recommends sterilization, abortion, systematic contraception and even
euthanasia as the price of an unbridled pansexualism, bring men to the joy
of living and loving?� (CH 6)

It is here that we clearly find that the Christian has something positive to
offer in the struggle for future history. In effect, it is not sufficient
that he opposes eschatology to the ideology of �postmodern� constructions of
the future, Certainly he must do this and do this resolutely. But our voice
has become all too feeble and timid in this regard over the last decades. In
fact, in his earthly life mans is but a straw without meaning if our gaze is
turned away from eternal life. The same thing holds true for history as a
whole. In this sense, reference to eternal life, if it�s made correctly,
never has the character of a flight. It simply gives to earthly existence
its responsibility, its grandeur, its dignity. But precisely these
repercussions on the �intermundane� must be articulated. It is certain that
history much never be simply reduced to silence: one cannot, it is not
allowed, reduce liberty to silence. That is the illusion of the utopians.

We cannot impose on tomorrows models, which will then be yesterday�s models.
Nevertheless, we must plan the proposals for a path to the future, proposals
for generally overcoming the new historical challenges. That is what Michel
Schooyans does in the second and third parts of his book. Above all, he
proposes, in contrast to the new anthropology, the essential traits of the
Christian image of man and then applies them in a concrete way to the big
problems of the future world. (especially Chapters 10-12) He thus gives a
concrete and politically realistic and realizable content to the idea of a
�civilization of love,� so often expressed by John Paul II.

Michel Schooyans� book thus goes to the heart of the great challenges to our
historic moment with vivacity and great competence. We hope that it will be
read by people with varying orientations, that it will stir up lively
discussion and thus contribute to prepare the future models worthy of the
greatness of man, as well as insure the dignity of those who are unable to
defend themselves

Joseph Cardinal Ratzinger
Rome, April 25, 1997

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Re: Mystery creature - Do you know what this animal is?

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Guilty by Reason of Silence-GannonGate, 911 Inside Job-Media Conspiracy

2005-04-22T10:55:00.000-07:00

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GUILTY BY REASON OF SILENCE! THE MEDIA CONSPIRACY By: Ted Lang
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It would seem as a challenge to all that have supposedly dedicated
themselves intellectually and professionally to a lifelong career which
demands both competitive motivation and meticulous research. It is a career
where such dedication will be readily rewarded by one�s peers, the best of
the best. It is a career with virtually no limitations or restrictions, save
that of required creativity and the avoidance of plagiarism. I speak of the
professional requirements and demands of the journalist.
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It started for me with the frustrations expressed on both radio and cable
television by Rush Limbaugh, voicing the injustices of an unrestrained media
which was shamelessly "liberal" and "leftist." Once so clearly pointed out
by a refreshing non-liberal voice in the wilderness of pro-Democratic
broadcast and print media journalism, it was easy to see the bias: the
astonishing hissy fits and threatened resignation of NBC�s Tom Brokaw in
trying to squelch the NBC exclusive on the Bill Clinton/Juanita Broadderick
alleged rape; the "wag-the-dog" bombing incident involving a non-offending
pharmaceutical factory in Sudan; the media assault on Special Prosecutor Ken
Starr; the Congressman Gary Condit/Chandra Levy spike by CBS� Dan Rather;
the fraudulent Bush military records, again Dan Rather; and the attempted
spike of a Newsweek exclusive involving President Bill Clinton and a
21-year-old intern that gave rise to Matt Drudge. The creation of Matt
Drudge by Newsweek�s via their shirking of journalistic responsibilities
rewarded a "journalist" that took advantage of a real blockbuster
opportunity and exclusive.

And in addition to Limbaugh�s smashing success with two books, his cable
television show, and his soaring legion of 20 million radio fans, we had
"conservative" follow-on voices such as Sean Hannity, Bill O�Reilly, and of
course the entire entourage of Rupert Murdoch�s FOXNews.

Add to this inspired response driven by the news-starved public in an era of
astonishing information and communications technology breakthroughs, the
written efforts of authors Bernard Goldberg, Mona Charen, and even
pro-gunner Dr. John Lott, Jr., and we have all the ingredients necessary to
unabashedly proclaim the undeniable existence of a "liberal" bias in the
media. And the media icon and news leader, The New York Times, has been
severely discredited by the Jayson Blair scandal with its editorial
repercussions, as well as the attendant criticism of "The Red Lady"
resultant from the Internet focus on the Walter Duranty debacle and Pulitzer
Prize disgrace of 1932. But this is where the continued reference to a
"liberal" media should end.

The dangerous domination and control of mainstream journalism by the Bush
White House, its Pentagon, and its military, is easily the greatest threat
that has been foisted upon the American people. Referring once again to the
Clinton/Broadderick affair, recall Clinton�s response when asked if a rape
took place: "Talk to my lawyer!" Any doubts here as to guilt versus innocence?

Silence is always vigorously pursued by wrongdoers � recall Clinton�s advice
to Monica and Al Gore as regards threatening inquisitiveness. Now, after no
"weapons of mass destruction," after no traces of "yellowcake," after no
ties to either terrorism, Al Quida, 9-11, or Osama, we continue to kill,
maim and torture the very people we are supposed to be bringing democracy to
after having freed them from the horrors of Saddam.

Where is the journalistic curiosity involving the suppression and spiking of
the AIPAC spy scandal? Where are The New York Times headlines as concerns
the Israel to China arms deal behind America�s back, providing enlightenment
to the nation of taxpayers that have sent trillions of our tax dollars in
support of Israel? Why isn�t more being written as regards the Gosch/Gannon
scandal? And while speaking of Gosch/Gannon, what about such a blockbuster
headline if released by the mainstream media? Wouldn�t it render the Bill
and Monica story, as well as the Gary and Chandra story, completely
irrelevant? What a way for the "liberal-left" to retaliate against Ken
Starr, George and Jeb Bush, and the entire herd of Republican elephants! A
ring of pedophilic kidnappers run by the highest elements in the Republican
Party, and our so-called "liberal" mainstream media won�t touch it with a
50-foot pole!

What other possible conclusion can any reasonably prudent, intelligent
person come to other than the fact that ALL the allegations against the Bush
regime are true? And what greater corroboration can possible exist
reflecting upon all these charges than John Pilger�s observation on the
Western media�s "Law of Silence?" Scroll down to the rape of Fallujah
[fourth paragraph from the bottom] to sample the Western media�s greatest
spike in recent times.

Was 9-11 a planned inside job by the highest levels of American government
in cooperation with Israeli intelligence, Mossad? What have you heard lately?

"Published originally at EtherZone.com : republication allowed with this
notice and hyperlink intact."

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Ted Lang is a freelance writer and political analyst. He is a regular
columnist for Ether Zone.

Ted Lang can be reached at: tlang1@optonline.net

Published in the April 22, 2005 issue of Ether Zone.

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Senate OKs $81B for Iraq, Afghanistan

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Senate OKs $81B for Iraq, Afghanistan
By LIZ SIDOTI
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WASHINGTON (AP) - The Senate on Thursday overwhelmingly approved $81 billion
for wars in Iraq and Afghanistan in a spending bill that would push the
total cost of combat and reconstruction past $300 billion.

Both the Senate and House versions of the measure would give President Bush
much of the money he requested. But the bills differ over what portion
should go to military operations.

Bush urged a quick resolution of the differences and passage of a bill "that
focuses taxpayer dollars on providing the tools our troops and diplomats
need now."

The Pentagon says it needs the money by the first week of May, so Senate and
House negotiators are expected to act quickly to send the president a final
bill.

Other issues to be resolved in the competing versions include immigration
changes, a U.S. embassy in the Iraqi capital of Baghdad, military death
benefits and the fate of an aircraft carrier.

"I'm confident we will be able to come back with a product, in the form of a
conference report, which the Senate can support," said Sen. Thad Cochran,
R-Miss., chairman of the Senate Appropriations Committee.

He said the bill gives strong support to troops in the fight against
terrorism and provides needed dollars for the State Department.

Overall, the Senate version would cost $81.3 billion, compared with the
$81.4 billion the House approved and the $81.9 billion that Bush requested.

Congress has passed four similar emergency spending measures for the wars
since the attacks of Sept. 11, 2001. This one would put the overall cost of
combat and reconstruction efforts in Iraq and Afghanistan - as well as
Pentagon operations against terrorists worldwide - past $300 billion.

The nonpartisan Congressional Research Service, says lawmakers previously
approved $228 billion. The latest money is to last through Sept. 30, the end
of the current budget year. Pentagon officials have said they will have to
ask for more money for 2006.

In both the House and Senate, lawmakers struggled to give troops whatever
they needed and pay only for projects deemed urgent. Congress was leaving
other items to be dealt with in the regular budget for the new budget year
starting Oct. 1. In doing so, they were sending a message to the White House
that it cannot expect a rubber stamp from Congress on its emergency
war-spending requests.

Still, as Bush requested, the bulk of the money - about $75 billion - would
go to the Pentagon. The Army and the Marine Corps, the two service branches
doing most of the fighting, would get the most.

The House bill would add money to the president's request for defense
expenses; the Senate's would not. The Senate version would restore some
money the House cut for foreign aid and State Department programs.

The Senate bill also would provide $592 million to build a U.S. embassy in
Baghdad. The House bill does not fund the construction of a fortified
diplomatic compound.

The Senate added a requirement that the Pentagon report every three months
to Congress on how many Iraqi security forces are trained and how many U.S.
troops are needed.

The Senate also put in requirement that the Pentagon keep the Navy's fleet
of 12 aircraft carriers intact. The Pentagon had proposed scrapping one
carrier to save money.

The Senate version would increase a one-time benefit for the families of
soldiers killed to $100,000 from $12,000, regardless of whether the deaths
occurred in combat, and increase life insurance as well. The House version
limits the extra money to survivors of those killed in combat-related duty.

One of the most contentious issues facing congressional negotiators is
whether to include an immigration overhaul in the final bill. The Senate
decided to take up immigration later.

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Forced human hibernation could save lives - Study

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Forced hibernation could save human lives- study
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WASHINGTON, April 21 (Reuters) - Mice forced to breathe hydrogen sulfide --
known best for its rotten egg smell -- go into a kind of suspended
animation, U.S. researchers said on Thursday in a finding that may help save
human lives.

Although hydrogen sulfide gas is toxic in high doses, it may activate some
of the mechanisms that cause other animals to go into hibernation, they
wrote in this week's issue of the journal Science.

Finding a safe way to do this in humans could lead to new ways to treat
cancer and prevent injury or death from blood loss, or help people undergo
and recover from surgery better, said the team at Fred Hutchinson Cancer
Research Center.

"We are, in essence, temporarily converting mice from warm-blooded to
cold-blooded creatures, which is exactly the same thing that happens
naturally when mammals hibernate," said Mark Roth, who led the study, in a
statement.

"We think this may be a latent ability that all mammals have -- potentially
even humans -- and we're just harnessing it and turning it on and off,
inducing a state of hibernation on demand," said Roth, a biochemist.

Bears do it, amphibians do it, and people occasionally hibernate, too. Many
cases have been documented of small children, and the occasional adult,
reviving from near-drownings in icy water after their body temperatures had
dropped and they had stopped breathing for more than an hour.

"Understanding the connections between random instances of seemingly
miraculous, unexplained survival in so-called clinically dead humans and our
ability to induce and reverse metabolic quiescence in model organisms could
have dramatic implications for medical care," Roth said.

"In the end I suspect there will be clinical benefits and it will change the
way medicine is practiced, because we will, in short, be able to buy
patients time."

In the mice, Roth's team tried doing it chemically with toxic hydrogen
sulfide, a colorless gas made by the breakdown of sulfur compounds. In high
doses it kills by stopping cell metabolism.

"When mice were exposed to 80 parts per million of hydrogen sulfide, their
oxygen consumption dropped 50 percent and their carbon dioxide output
dropped by 60 percent within the first five minutes," they wrote in their
report.

"If left in this environment for six hours, their metabolic rate dropped by
90 percent."

Lowering metabolism reduces the need for oxygen. If this could be replicated
in humans, it could help buy time for critically ill patients on
organ-transplant lists and in operating rooms, emergency rooms and on
battlefields, Roth said.

Cancer treatment might be improved, too, he said. If healthy tissue can be
put into suspended animation, it might be possible to raise doses of
radiation to kill tumor cells, Roth said.

"Right now in most forms of cancer treatment we're killing off the normal
cells long before we're killing off the tumor cells. By inducing metabolic
hibernation in healthy tissue we'd at least level the playing field," he said.

Hydrogen sulfide is toxic in high doses but the mice did not appear damaged
in any way, Roth said.

"The cool thing about this gas we're using, hydrogen sulfide, is that it
isn't something manufactured that we're taking down from a shelf -- it isn't
'better living through chemistry' -- it's simply an agent that all of us
make in our bodies all the time to buffer our metabolic flexibility. It's
what allows our core temperature to stay at 98.6 degrees, regardless of
whether we're in Alaska or Tahiti," Roth said.

04/21/2005 15:09
RTR

FLASHBACK - Travelling to Mars and hibernating like a brown bear
29 October 2004

Manned missions beyond the Moon are no longer wild dreams. For example, the
objective of ESA's Aurora programme, after exploring Mars with robotic
missions, is to send astronauts to the red planet.
�
Engineers are already considering the space systems that will be required,
from the spacecraft and propulsion systems to the life support systems, for
journeys that will last 6-9 months.

In the longer term, to destinations further afield than Mars, missions could
take years. During the long coasts between destinations, with automatic
systems in control, astronauts would face the challenge of living in a
confined space with not much to do for an extremely long periods. "Might as
well sleep it off!"

Studies initiated by ESA's Advanced Concepts Team have gone one step
further. Wouldn't it be nice if astronauts could hibernate!

EuroNews has met two biologists who are conducting, as ESA consultants,
investigations into the physiological mechanisms that mammals use to
hibernate. �
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There are marked differences between species. A dormouse goes into a deep
sleep with its body temperature dropping close to zero and its metabolism
dramatically suppressed. During its 'winter sleep', a brown bears hibernates
at near normal body temperature. Its heart rate drops by a quarter and it
will spend 3-7 months in a state of torpor, neither eating, drinking,
defecating or urinating.

For the past two years, Prof. Marco Biggiogera, at the Animal Biology
Department at the University of Pavia in Italy has been studying how an
opiate derivative inhibits the activity of living cells.

"The molecule DADLE is similar to others we have in the human brain and
resembles one of the hibernation triggering proteins in hibernators. It can
reduce the energy required by cells, whether isolated in cultures, or
present in other animals or organisms," explains Prof. Biggiogera.

"We would very much like to understand its basic mechanisms, and with this
knowledge attempt to recreate a state of hypo-metabolism in an animal, and
perhaps even one day in a human, although this is really far away."

Also involved in this study is the University of Verona. There the DADLE
molecule is injected in a rodent, specially equipped with sensors to measure
its body temperature, heart rate and other vital activities. After comparing
the animal's behaviour with that of a normal rat, the test subject's main
organs are scanned to observe any changes.

"Our preliminary results show that four hours after a DADLE injection, the
body temperature drops notably and the rat is considerably less active,"
says Prof. Carlo Zancanaro.
�
"Eventually we could adapt these hibernation triggering processes, using
chemicals or by other means, to animals such as rats who do not normally
hibernate. But concerning humans, we are still at an extremely early stage."

The research could also lead to far-reaching applications in the medical
field such as prolonging the useful life of a transplant organ or even
heart-transplant operations while patients are in a state of hypo-metabolism.

Reducing the physical and psychological requirements of an astronaut crew to
a minimum without jeopardising its safety would greatly simplify many
aspects of a long-duration space mission.

For instance, less food and water would be required, as would the amount of
pressurised space and other environmental features the astronauts would
require to maintain their psychological health. This would allow large
reductions in spacecraft mass, relaxing the requirements on the propulsion
subsystem.

Additionally, the astonaut's ability to hibernate would have a significant
benefit in abort and emergency scenarios. Of course, a suitable and
lightweight 'hibernaculum' to shelter astronauts during their 'long sleep'
would have to be designed.

The concept is not being considered for the forthcoming Mars mission, but
for longer missions to farther destinations such as the outer planets, it
could be a very useful technology. Hibernation for humans is an ethically
controversial concept, and critics may consider it as a mad scientist's
dream. Prof. Biggiogera replied with a smile: "Without such dreamers,
humanity would still be in the Middle Ages."
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EuroNews
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European point of view. Broadcast in 79 countries, EuroNews reaches 144
million households in Europe, the Middle East, Africa, Central Asia and
North and Latin America via cable, digital satellite and through terrestrial
channels. This Space Magazine is produced and broadcast every two weeks,
with a new programme starting every second Friday. Each magazine is four
minutes long and broadcast 21 times in one week, including evening prime
time on Fridays and Saturdays, in order to reach a maximum audience.

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Flashback- 'Silence machine' zaps unwanted noise

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"Silence machine" zaps unwanted noise - 28 March 2002
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You will soon be able to silence the deafening racket of a road drill or the
thumping beat from a nightclub without blocking the sounds you want to hear,
according to Selwyn Wright, an engineer at the University of Huddersfield in
Yorkshire, UK.

He has developed what he calls the Silence Machine. It works by analysing
the stream of sound waves from a noise source, and generating sound that is
exactly out of phase and neutralises the incoming sound waves.

The concept is already in use commercially in noise-cancelling headphones to
wear in passenger aircraft. These cancel out the jet engine noise and let
you hear the in-flight movie in peace. And flat-panel speakers that produce
anti-noise have been fitted to fighter plane cockpits to make them more
comfortable for pilots.

But Wright's system is the first that can block out a particular source of
noise to produce a personal "sound shadow" in which everything but the
unwanted noise will still be audible.

Anti-noise

His patented Silence Machine comprises microphones for sound sampling, a
powerful computer for generating anti-noise, and loudspeakers for blasting
that anti-sound at the incoming noise.

The size of the shadow areas where the sound and anti-sound waves cancel
each other can be varied by changing the number of loudspeakers or their
positions. Any microphones or loudspeakers will work, says Wright, but the
more directional they are in terms of sensitivity the better the result.

Signal processors in the computer measure the frequency of every component
in the noise signal, and use this information to create the anti-noise-sound
with an identical frequency but the opposite phase. This means that a peak
in the noise wave meets a trough in the anti-noise, cancelling out the sound.

Quiet zone

A Silence Machine suitable for use in factories is ready for
commercialisation, says Wright, who has spent two years developing the
machine with the help of a "smart award" from the UK's Department of Trade
and Industry.

While this machine is aimed at cancelling continuous, predictable noise -
such as that produced by compressors, drills and generators - a more
sophisticated version is also on the way. This will require different
software to cope with unpredictable noises such as speech and music. "We are
pretty close, but it will be a year before you can buy it in the shops,"
Wright says.

He expects an industrial-scale Silence Machine to cost around �10,000, while
smaller domestic versions will sell at about �1000. It could be used to
create quiet zones in a garden, for example, or around your house, blocking
out railway, aircraft and motorway noises, without affecting pleasant sound
such as birdsong.

If the machine can be proved to work, "it probably will have some
applications," says Tim Williamson of Britain's National Society for Clean
Air and Environmental Protection. But perhaps there are simpler ways to make
life quieter. "It would seem far easier and more sensible to avoid making
noise in the first place," he says.

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Canada Approves Cannabis-Based Painkiller

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Canada Approves Cannabis-Based Painkiller
By Beth Duff-Brown - AP

Dr. Allan Gordon, a neurologist and director of the Wasser Pain Management
Center at Mount Sinai Hospital in Toronto, said that because Sativex is
administered as a spray, it provides controlled doses and allows the patient
to decide how much he or she needs.

Canada has become the first country in the world to approve a cannabis-based
painkille for patients suffering multiple sclerosis, a move applauded by
those with the disease an proponents of medical uses for marijuana

Health Canada, the federal agency that oversees medical care for Canadians,
announced on Tuesday it had approved the prescription painkiller Sativex,
made from components derived from the cannabis plant that have been shown to
ease pain.

The British drug company GW Pharmaceuticals, which developed the drug, said
Canada is the first country to grant regulatory approval for Sativex, which
will be marketed in Canada by Bayer HealthCare and could be in pharmacies by
summer. The drug can be sprayed under the tongue or inside the cheek,
avoiding the carcinogenic dangers of smoking pot.

New Hope for MS Patients

Medical professionals voice high hopes for the drug's success.

"The pain (of multiple sclerosis) can be absolutely excruciating and very
debilitating," said Judith H. Watt-Watson, a professor at the University of
Toronto's Center for the Study of Pain. "There's an urgent need for more
options."

Many people with multiple sclerosis, an autoimmune disease that affects the
central nervous system, treat their pain by smoking marijuana. But the dose
is hard to regulate and the drug is difficult to obtain legally.

About 50,000 Canadians and 400,000 Americans have MS and some 2.5 million
people are believed to be afflicted worldwide, according to the New
York-based National Multiple Sclerosis Society.

About half of MS patients suffer from chronic pain.

"It's hard to explain to someone who has never felt this type of pain," said
Steve Walsh of Ontario, who suffers from MS and was eager to try the new
drug. "It's like being plugged into an electric socket all the time. At
times, putting on clothes or anything touching me can be too much to take."

He told The Globe and Mail that he's smoked marijuana in an attempt to ease
his pain, but didn't like the feeling of being out of control.

Medicinal Marijuana

Proponents of legalizing medicinal marijuana are hailing the new drug.

"This confirms that virtually everything the U.S. government has told us
about marijuana is wrong," said Rob Kampia, executive director of the
Marijuana Policy Project in Washington, D.C.. The organization is fighting
to have marijuana legalized for medical use. "This product offers patients
and doctors a new option and we hope Americans will have access to it soon."

In the United States, the federal government has classified marijuana as a
drug that is as dangerous as heroin, although 10 states have passed laws
that allow its use under medical supervision.

In 2001, Canada became the first country to adopt a system regulating the
medicinal use of marijuana for people suffering from terminal illnesses and
chronic conditions.

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Snowman Cometh - UC Berkeley Art Students Unearth the Abominable Snowman

2005-04-21T19:52:00.000-07:00

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The Snowman Cometh - UC Berkeley Art Students Unearth the Abominable Snowman
In New Exhibit By CAROLINE PARTAMIAN
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The debate about the existence of the Yeti, the hairy Himalayan creature
commonly referred to as the Abominable Snowman, will continue for as long as
we can foresee. Professionals will continue to argue about this topic, but
we know the Yeti exists, whether he reside at Disneyland, or � Berkeley?
Yes, a handful of UC Berkeley Art students have brought alive the myth of
the Yeti with their exhibit �The Abominable Snowman,� beginning today.

Josephine Zarkovich, a UC Berkeley art student, came up with the theme for
this student-run art show with her best friend Ilsa Brink, a graphic
designer for Berkeley�s California Shakespeare Company. This fascination
with the Abominable Snowman began when the two listened to Jonathan
Richman�s song �Abominable Snowman in the Market.� Another Berkeley art
student, Matthew Siemonsma, suggested that they build a show around this
topic.

Zorkavich, Siemonsma and art student Rona Tadua recruited a group of five
students interested in the myths surrounding the icy beast. The show
includes various art forms ranging from etchings to sculptures to
installation art.

To accompany the exhibit, Zarkovich is running a documentary she produced
about the search for the Yeti in San Francisco, with the goal of proving
that he still exists. In the film, she compares human hair to the Yeti�s
hair, and flakes of a turtle shell to his toenails.

All �evidence� surrounding the Yeti has been placed into plastic bags and
displayed on a wall, with important dates regarding his existence drawn up
on a chalkboard. Zarkovich stresses the Eastern view of the Yeti, in which
he is associated more with religion and faith, rather than the Western
anthropological search for this wonder.

For Matthew Siemonsma, the Yeti represents �an allusive being, something you
can�t quite put your finger on�something you can�t quite capture or contain.
If you could, it would lose its charm.�

Siemonsma�s piece is a replication of a huge crate in which the Yeti was
shipped from Nepal. Evidently the crate was made by a man who knew that
there was no way that the creature could be shipped without breaking free,
but continued to make a shoddy crate in order to conjure some money.

Making use of large wooden panel boards and nails, the artist has simulated
the Yeti�s escape from the crate. �Live Animal� is stenciled onto the
boards, and the artist has crafted footprints leading away from the crate.

Damien Johanson, an art major and exhibit-participant, says his display is a
�presentation of recently discovered Yeti Rock Art.� He comments, �I think
that an Abominable Art Show has been waiting to take place in Kroeber, a
place where art and anthropology come together.�

The artists will present their works tonight, April 21, from 4 to 8 p.m. in
235 Kroeber Hall.

What: Student art exhibition on the Abominable Snowman
When: Up through Tuesday, April 26�time varies by day
Where: 235 Kroeber Hall
Cost: Free

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'Bigfoot' tape thrills northern community

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'Bigfoot' tape thrills northern community - CBC News

NORWAY HOUSE, MAN. � Hundreds of residents of Norway House Cree Nation in
Manitoba are convinced the Bigfoot legend is real after a local man captured
a strange creature on videotape.

Ferry operator Bobby Clarke was taking a vehicle barge across the Nelson
River at the northern end of Lake Winnipeg Saturday morning when he noticed
something on the shore.

He grabbed his camcorder and shot a 49-second clip of a tall, dark
humanoid-like figure moving on the riverbank.

"It's not a bear or human walking around," said Clarke's father-in-law, John
Henry. "You can tell by the features."

People who have seen the video say the figure is three metres tall and
resembles past descriptions of the legendary shy, hairy giant long rumoured
to inhabit remote woodlands in western parts of North America.

CBC ARCHIVES: Tracking Sasquatch

"Couple of my friends and cousins have seen it, and some of them, first
didn't believe in anything like that," said Joey Robertson. "When they seen
the video, it convinced them."

But local residents flocking to Clarke's house to see the video are now
coming away disappointed. The Clarke family has stopped showing the
videotape, saying they're arranging for an expert to enhance the video as
they hold out for the best cash offer from a media agency.

Offers have already come in from places ranging from Florida to Toronto,
they say.

Michelle Baril, a Sasquatch researcher based near Fisher Branch, hasn't seen
the tape, but she's confident the sighting really happened. Barrow says she
has investigated many other sightings, and has found that most people don't
make these claims lightly.

"I find that these people aren't looking for fame or fortune. They're just
looking to unload this. You look at this person, and you see the sincerity
in their eyes and in some cases, they're almost embarrassed to tell you,"
she says.

"I have a general idea of who's telling the truth and who's not. For the
most part, if anybody's going to open themselves up to being heckled and
ridiculed, I really don't think they're going to come up with some kind of
tale."

Linda Queskekavow, one of Clarke's neighbours, says there's nothing to be
worried about even if it turns out that Norway House is home to the
legendary Bigfoot, also known by its Canadian name Sasquatch (meaning "wild
man" or "hairy man" in the Salish language).

"That Sasquatch is not harmful," said Queskekavow, who saw the videotape. "I
think it's scared of people."

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New Pope is a Disaster for the World and for the Jews

2005-04-21T08:14:00.000-07:00

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The New Pope is a Disaster for the World and for the Jews
Jewish Leader Denounces Selection of Cardinal Ratzinger as New Pope
by Rabbi Michael Lerner

Since the days in which he served in the Nazi army in Germany to his role as
the leader of the forces that suppressed the liberatory aspects of Vatican
II and purged or silenced the Church of its most creative leadership
(including German Catholic theologians Eugene Drewermann and Hans Kung,
Brazilian theologian Leonardo Boff, and several prominent American Catholic
thinkers), to the present moment in which he is recognized as the leader
most identified with the forces of reaction and suppression of dissent
within the Church, Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger has distinguished himself as a
man who can be counted on to side with the most anti-humane and repressive
forces, in opposition to those who seek to give primacy to a world of peace
and justice, " said Rabbi Lerner.

Although normally Jews would welcome any choice of leadership by our sister
religion, we have particular reason to comment on this choice.

"Jews have a powerful stake and commitment in ending global poverty and
oppression. We fully well understand that in a world filled with pain and
cruelty, the resulting anger is often channeled in racist, sexist and
homophobic directions. Both as a matter of principle, based on our
commitment to a prophetic vision, and as a matter of self-interest, Jews
have disproportionately supported liberal and progressive social change
movements seeking to end war and poverty.

So it was with great distress that we watched as Cardinal Ratzinger led the
Vatican in the past twenty-five years on a path that opposed providing birth
control information to the poor of the world, thereby ensuring that AIDS
would spread and kill millions in Africa.

And we watched with even greater distress as this Cardinal supported efforts
to involve the Church in distancing itself from political candidates or
leaders who did not agree with the Church's teachings on abortion and gay
rights, prioritizing these issues over whether that candidate agreed with
the Church on issues of peace and social justice. As a result, Cardinal
Ratzinger has led the Church away from its natural alliance with Jews in
fighting for peace and social justice and toward a stance which in effect
allies the Church with the most reactionary politicians whose policies are
militaristic and offer a preferential option for the rich.

We can't help but notice that under Cardinal Ratzinger's tutelage, the
Church began moves to elevate the infamous Pope Pius XII to the status of
saint. Instead of repenting for the failure of the Church to give
unequivocal messages telling all Catholics that they would be prevented from
receiving communion for collaborating or cooperating in any way with Nazi
rule, or for failing to hide and protect Jews who were marked for
extermination, Ratzinger has sought to whitewash this disgraceful moment in
Church history. Many Jews are outraged at a Church that denies communion to
those who have remarried or those who oppose making abortion illegal but
that did not similarly deny communion to those who participate in crimes
against humanity.

In fact, Cardinal Ratzinger publicly praised the fascist movement in the
Church known as Opes Dei and supported canonization of Josemaria Escriva,
the founder of Opus Dei, an open fascist who served in the government of
Spain's dictator Franco, and who publicly praised Hitler.

While many of us agree with Ratzinger's critique of moral relativism, he
extends that critique in illegitimate and dangerous ways, equating
secularism with moral relativism and suggesting that secularism is now
repressing religion. Ratzinger also publicly critiques all those inside the
Church who are tolerant enough to think that other religions may have equal
validity as a path to God. This is a slippery slope toward anti-Semitism and
a return to the chauvinistic and triumphalist views that led the Church,
when it had the power to do so, to develop its infamous crusades and
inquisitions. In 1997 Ratzinger called Buddhism an "autoerotic spirituality"
that offers "transcendence without imposing concrete religious obligations."
Hindusim, he said, offers "false hope," in that it guarantees "purification"
based on a "morally cruel" concept of reincarnation resembling "a continuous
circle of hell." At the time, Cardinal Ratzinger predicted that Buddhism
would replace Marxism as the Catholic church's main enemy.

Ratzinger is being falsely described as a conservative, when in fact he,
despite his publicly genteel manner, is a raging reactionary. Unlike many
American conservatives who oppose gay sexual practices but not their legal
rights, Ratzinger in 1992 argued against human rights for gays, stressing
that their civil liberties could be "legitimately limited.

Those of us in the Jewish world who have enormous respect for Christianity
and for the wisdom and beauty of the Catholic tradition are in mourning
today that the Church has confirmed for itself a destructive direction that
will hurt not only Catholics but all those who seek peace and justice in the
world.

We remain hopeful that the new Pope may return to his original more
progressive positions (pre-1968) and realize that the world needs a church
that can respond compassionately and wisely to what is needed rather than
remain wedded to dogma that is so destructive. In a statement that Ratzinger
made a few years ago, he seemed deeply aligned with TIKKUN's critique of the
selfishness and materialism of the contemporary world. We hope that he stops
blaming that on secularists and comes to understand that secularists too, as
well as people from other faiths, can be allies in the struggle for a new
ethos of love and generosity. We pray that he may find a way to bring a
better, kinder, more loving and compassionate agenda to the Catholic Church.
It is precisely because we continue to feel allied with the Church.

Meanwhile, we reaffirm our solidarity with the many millions of Catholics
who had hoped for a very different kind of Pope who would make the Church
more open to women's leadership, to prioritizing social justice, and to
returning to the hopeful spirit of Vatican II. We can say publicly what many
of you can only say privately-that this new Pope does not represent what is
most beautiful and sacred in the teachings of Jesus.

Rabbi Michael Lerner is editor of TIKKUN and author of ten books, including
Healing Israel/Palestine (North Atlantic Books, 2003) and Jewish Renewal
(Harper Perennial, 1995).

Rabbi Michael Lerner, editor of the world's largest circulation progressive
Jewish magazine, TIKKUN, and rabbi of Beyt Tikkun Synagogue in San
Francisco, took the unusual step of criticizing the choice made by the
Catholic Church for its new Pope, Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger. Lerner was
careful to make clear that he was NOT speaking as leader of The Tikkun
Community, the interfaith organization whch he co-chairs, which has NOT
taken a stand on these issues, but only as editor of TIKKUN magazine.

Published on Wednesday, April 20, 2005 by Tikkun.org

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Re: Friday the 13th, 2029: giant asteroid will narrowly miss earth

2005-04-21T06:23:00.000-07:00

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will i be able to see it if i live in north east of england! That would be
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Re: Mysterious Noise Pollution Is Known As The Hum

2005-04-20T16:04:00.000-07:00

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Hello. I am from Sj�lland in Denmark. I have the same problems as you guys.
I used 10 years to find the source of my problems.
And I found some interesting things. Some years ago I noticed that the noise
was very strong from evening thru the hole night and to early morning. With
this in my mind, and after a very long time, I stumbled over some direct
information about the national power grids delivery of power, hour after
hour displayed. I studied this for months and found out that there were a
connection between the noise and the power delivery. When people stopped
using power from the power grid the noise became very strong all over the
area. I examined most of (in Denmark) 132 kv. and 400 kv power grid
converter stations at night. Some very violent Low frequency vibrations were
being sent out in many directions, in these hours at night. But these
vibration was not the same noise that I head at home. I read a lot about
problems for these stations. They all complain about over currency and over
voltages when people didn�t use the power available. So they installed shunt
reactors (who was using the power at night). They sometimes explode or go in
to fire because the power and the low frequency resonance is very violent.
It also backfires low frequency sound at the converters on these stations. I
read something about sound travelling at long distance under the ground and
it seems that some of the very low sounds will go very far. Especially when
resonance is the same from other power stations, in the vicinity of 20 km. I
studied a isolated power grid converter station, with no stations nearby.
Wow. Bang on target. When I went from a small distance from the station and
out to 13 km circle, the right low frequency sound were present with exactly
the same volume all over in the area. But when I reach 14 km. circle from
this station the sound disappeared. I was astonish. Sometimes the sound went
up to 20 km from this station. Especially the next day, after a rainy day.
(Humidity in the ground). I concluded that it must be ground noise, from
these converter stations, reflecting from ground surface. In Sj�lland almost
every 132 kv and 400 kv converter stations are laying in vicinity of 10 km
from each other. Very bad for us. When maintenance is done on a nearby
converter station 8 km from my house, there is silence in the area. Even
when there is other form of noise sources around, I still can hear the
incredible silence in the background. That�s also a important clue to my
problem.
There is many political interest in the Danish national power grid
company. So they wont listen to my problem.
I am now studying Schumann resonance, who explains the theory about
different wawe length of long distant sounds.
Hope you understand my bad grammer.

Have a nice day. NHH.

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New Pope is Former Hitler Youth

2005-04-19T12:32:00.000-07:00

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Papal hopeful is a former Hitler Youth
Justin Sparks, Munich, John Follain and Christopher Morgan, Rome

THE wartime past of a leading German contender to succeed John Paul II may
return to haunt him as cardinals begin voting in the Sistine Chapel tomorrow
to choose a new leader for 1 billion Catholics.

Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger, whose strong defence of Catholic orthodoxy has
earned him a variety of sobriquets � including �the enforcer�, �the panzer
cardinal� and �God�s rottweiler� � is expected to poll around 40 votes in
the first ballot as conservatives rally behind him.

Although far short of the requisite two-thirds majority of the 115 votes,
this would almost certainly give Ratzinger, 78 yesterday, an early lead in
the voting. Liberals have yet to settle on a rival candidate who could come
close to his tally.

Unknown to many members of the church, however, Ratzinger�s past includes
brief membership of the Hitler Youth movement and wartime service with a
German army anti- aircraft unit.

Although there is no suggestion that he was involved in any atrocities, his
service may be contrasted by opponents with the attitude of John Paul II,
who took part in anti-Nazi theatre performances in his native Poland and in
1986 became the first pope to visit Rome�s synagogue.

�John Paul was hugely appreciated for what he did for and with the Jewish
people,� said Lord Janner, head of the Holocaust Education Trust, who is due
to attend ceremonies today to mark the 60th anniversary of the liberation of
the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp.

�If they were to appoint someone who was on the other side in the war, he
would start at a disadvantage, although it wouldn�t mean in the long run he
wouldn�t be equally understanding of the concerns of the Jewish world.�

The son of a rural Bavarian police officer, Ratzinger was six when Hitler
came to power in 1933. His father, also called Joseph, was an anti-Nazi
whose attempts to rein in Hitler�s Brown Shirts forced the family to move
home several times.

In 1937 Ratzinger�s father retired and the family moved to Traunstein, a
staunchly Catholic town in Bavaria close to the F�hrer�s mountain retreat in
Berchtesgaden. He joined the Hitler Youth aged 14, shortly after membership
was made compulsory in 1941.

He quickly won a dispensation on account of his training at a seminary.
�Ratzinger was only briefly a member of the Hitler Youth and not an
enthusiastic one,� concluded John Allen, his biographer.

Two years later Ratzinger was enrolled in an anti-aircraft unit that
protected a BMW factory making aircraft engines. The workforce included
slaves from Dachau concentration camp.

Ratzinger has insisted he never took part in combat or fired a shot � adding
that his gun was not even loaded � because of a badly infected finger. He
was sent to Hungary, where he set up tank traps and saw Jews being herded to
death camps. He deserted in April 1944 and spent a few weeks in a prisoner
of war camp.

He has since said that although he was opposed to the Nazi regime, any open
resistance would have been futile � comments echoed this weekend by his
elder brother Georg, a retired priest ordained along with the cardinal in
1951.

�Resistance was truly impossible,� Georg Ratzinger said. �Before we were
conscripted, one of our teachers said we should fight and become heroic
Nazis and another told us not to worry as only one soldier in a thousand was
killed. But neither of us ever used a rifle against the enemy.�

Some locals in Traunstein, like Elizabeth Lohner, 84, whose brother-in-law
was sent to Dachau as a conscientious objector, dismiss such suggestions.
�It was possible to resist, and those people set an example for others,� she
said. �The Ratzingers were young and had made a different choice.�

In 1937 another family a few hundred yards away in Traunstein hid Hans
Braxenthaler, a local resistance fighter. SS troops repeatedly searched
homes in the area looking for the fugitive and his fellow conspirators.

�When he was betrayed and the Nazis came for him, Braxenthaler shot himself
because he knew he couldn�t escape,� said Frieda Meyer, 82, Ratzinger�s
neighbour and childhood friend. �Even though they had tortured him in Dachau
concentration camp he refused to give up his resistance efforts.�

Despite question marks over Ratzinger�s wartime conduct, the main obstacle
to his prospects in the conclave � the assembly of cardinals to elect the
new pope � is the conservative stance he has adopted as guardian of Catholic
orthodoxy since John Paul named him to head the congregation for the
doctrine of the faith in 1981.

His condemnations are legion � of women priests, married priests, dissident
theologians and homosexuals, whom he has declared to be suffering from an
�objective disorder�.

He upset many Jews with a statement in 1987 that Jewish history and
scripture reach fulfilment only in Christ � a position denounced by critics
as �theological anti-semitism�. He made more enemies among other religions
in 2000, when he signed a document, Dominus Jesus, in which he argued: �Only
in the Catholic church is there eternal salvation�.

Some of his staunchest critics are in Germany. A recent poll in Der Spiegel,
the news magazine, showed opponents of a Ratzinger papacy outnumbered
supporters by 36% to 29%.

As one western cardinal who was in two minds about him put it: �He would
probably be a great pope, but I have no idea how I would explain his
election back home.�

One liberal theologian,when asked what he thought of a Ratzinger papacy, was
more direct: �It fills me with horror.�

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Japanese Robocop conducts security patrol at Shopping Mall

2005-04-11T13:46:00.000-07:00

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Japanese town gets a real robocop
Tokyo, Japan

The safety of a Japanese neighbourhood was on Wednesday put in the hands --
briefly -- of a robot, which became police chief for the day in a campaign
to promote safe driving.

T63 Artemis, named after the Greek moon goddess Artemis, helped its
subordinate human officers distribute fliers on traffic safety at the train
station after its appointment as head of Hakata station and surrounding
neighbourhood in the southern city of Fukuoka.

The 157cm-tall Artemis, which has two arms and weighs 100kg, can go on
patrol with the help of a battery, police said.

Locally developed Artemis will enter the record books as the first robot
police chief in Japan, where robots are being put to growing use for security.

The World Exposition, a six-month showcase of technology in central Aichi
prefecture, has eight security robots on patrol day and night.

A Hakata police spokesperson said the robot chief "sought to attract
people's attention", particularly because "robots have been a centrepiece in
the World Exposition in Aichi".

Fortunately, the robot was not police chief on March 20, when the Fukuoka
area was rattled by an earthquake measuring 7.0 on the Richter scale that
killed one person and injured hundreds more. -- Sapa-AFP

The Mainichi Dily News today (28Aug) is reporting that T63 Artemis, a robot
gave its first large-scale patrol of a shopping arcade located in Fukuoka,
Japan, Friday night, its developers said Saturday.

T63 Artemis is capable of shining lights and emitting alarms if it spots
anything untoward. On Friday night, it patrolled an 80-meter shopping
arcade, detecting and memorizing car license plates it found in the area.

Revelers who watched the T63 Artemis on its rounds stood by and watched in
amazement as it swept through the arcade. (Mainichi Shimbun, Aug. 28, 2004)

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Anomaly News 050407

2005-04-06T14:13:00.000-07:00

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Anomaly News for the Week of April 7th, 2005
Some of the choice articles from this week's roundup ...

April 6

Fossil Apparently Human Ancestor Associated Press
Toumai. Is a fossil creature that grabbed headlines three years ago really
the earliest known ancestor of modern humans? Or does it belong elsewhere on
the evolutionary tree? And: BBC Audio ; Flesh on Bones of 'First Ape-Man'

Planet (or Is It?) Found Orbiting Star Los Angeles Times
Germans and questionable photos. First it was the Thylacine last month. Now
a team of German astronomers say it has taken the first photo of a world
outside our solar system, but others aren't so sure.

Aliens 'to Attend Royal Wedding' Agence France-Presse
Bookmakers William Hill are setting the odds of aliens landing in Windsor on
Charles & Camilla's wedding day at 10,000-1. Better odds than you winning
the lottery, actually.

Novel Interpretation of 'Monster' Sighting The Courier
Scientists researching famous historical sightings of sea serpents uncovered
more than they bargained for when they realised that a 270-year-old sighting
of a 'most dreadful' monster was more likely to have been an amorous whale.
With pic. Also: Lake Monster Inspires Unusual Wisconsin Brew ; Mystery
Creature is Pike

'Satanic Orgies' Desecrated Graveyard Courier-Mail
Brisbane. Kelvin Johnston: 'We've noticed black candles outside the
gateways, gravel witches' circles inside the cemetery, fish with stakes in
them, gutted black cats with medical gloves nearby, and anatomically
rearranged bones inside a cat carcass. And it's obvious that orgies are
taking place, as the area where they go is littered with used condoms.'
Elsewhere: Exorcist Wants Conviction Quashed

Was Discovery of Body a Coincidence or Psychic Phenomena? Associated Press
Ashburn, Georgia residents are wondering whether it was mere coincidence or
an eerie phenomena that a missing man's body bobbed up in a lake just as an
Iowa psychic drew near.

Eclipse on Pope's Funeral SA
Those who say eclipses herald history-shaping events will find support for
their belief on Friday, when the sun is briefly plunged into darkness on the
day of Pope John Paul II's funeral. Earlier: Saint's Prophecy: Only Two
Popes Remain

A Moving Experience Deep in the City's Vaults Edinburgh Evening News
Holding hands with Richard Wiseman at a recreation of a 19th-century seance
deep in the vaults beneath the Royal Mile. Were spirits contacted, or was it
simply clever jiggery-pokery?

Mother Claims Son Belonged to 'Vampire Cult' Brownsville Herald
A Brownsville mother says her son is involved in a teenage 'vampire cult'
that was recently planning to kill and bathe in their victim�s blood.

Judicial Ghosts May Still Haunt Porter County Courthouse Post-Tribune
The Indiana Ghost Trackers have been busy, lately. And not respected. At a
jail museum, investigators were 'cussed out by the ghosts of former drunk
tank' inmates.

'Something' Found at Ghostly Jail BBC News
Whatever is haunting the Bodmin Jail, it's not quite as articulate as the
cussing inmates of Indiana, judging by the unexplained 'grunt' captured as
EVP.
April 5
Haunted By the Past The Independent
Review, Steven Pile's Real Cities: Modernity, Space and Phantasmagorias of
City Life. Vampires in London? Angels in Budapest? Cities hold hints that we
still believe in the supernatural.

'Michigan Triangle' May Be to Blame for Weird Occurrences Sheboygan Press
Numerous stories have been told of unexplained disappearances, weird
happenings, periods when time seems to slow down or speed up and the
appearance of strange creatures.

Movie Asks If 'Prince of Darkness' is Responsible for UFOs Peru Tribune
What if UFOs were really angels and demons? That's the principal behind the
movie The RUFO Hypothesis. Kenneth Samples, philosopher, theologian: 'Some
say there is a distinct parallel between UFOs and demonology.' Wacky India
Daily: Terrorists Using Reverse Engineered UFO Tech

The Mystery of Postponed Deaths The Telegraph
The evidence is very intriguing, says Dr. James Le Fanu.

In the Spirit of Things New Straits Times
Searching for spirits in Kuala Lumpur.

Tarot Workshop Dispels Myths Clarion-Ledger
Michael Morris: 'I started seeing tarot as a brainstorming tool, like how
psychologists use ink blots.' Includes other views.

The Man Who Will Be President Mmegi Online
The story of Ian Khama, the son of Botswana�s first president Sir Seretse
Khama, is the stuff of fairies. Many youngsters grew up to yarns of the vice
president as a young gifted soldier with supernatural abilities.
April 4
'Miraculous' Fountain Draws Sick Crowd Sun Star
Barangay New Pangasinan. 5,000 people have converged on a miraculous
fountain seeking cures for their ailments. The water is said to have eased
back pain, cured arthritis, and returned swollen human heads and 'balls' to
normal.

Big Cat Caught on Camera Still a Mystery The Hawk Eye
Still no answers to Iowa big cat photo.

Ghost of Diana at Royal Wedding? Reuters
Cold revenge from beyond the grave? Tongues are wagging. Elsewhere:
Oppressive Presence at Bodmin Gaol ; Eerie Wick House ; Vancouver Man Takes
Ghost Hunting Seriously

Of Ghosts & Presidents Nation Online
Willie Zangani, former Press Secretary to former President Dr Bakili Muluzi.
'Some of the best ghost stories I have heard in my life had to do with the
alleged magic powers of the first President of Malawi, Ngwazi Dr Hastings
Kamuzu Banda.'

UFO Symposium Ends in Aztec Farmington Daily Times
The 8th Annual UFO Symposium in Aztec was deemed a success. The event was a
fund-raiser for the Aztec Public Library.

'Ghost Lights of Texas' Under The Spotlight Phenomena Mag
Coming up June 11 is 'The Texas Ghost Lights Conference' in Austin, Texas.
Speakers include Paul Devereux, Nick Redfern, James Bunnell (author of two
books on the Marfa Lights), Rob Riggs, more.

NASA Turns to Mexican Lake for Clues to Alien Life Reuters
Researchers say the calcified clumps of primitive bacteria lurking in pools
in the searing Chihuahuan desert could provide important clues in their
search for extraterrestrial life.

Lanterns Spark UFO Scare Stortford Citizen
Invasive wedding. The release of some 60 to 70 illuminated Thai lanterns
into the night sky over Leez Priory, near Felsted, sparked fears that aliens
were on their way.
April 3
Parapsychology: Fact of S�ance Fiction? Sunday Herald
Academic parapsychologists are in a peculiar position. If they can explain
paranormal phenomena, then they are scientific pioneers like Newton and
Einstein. If they fail, they are the intellectual heirs of the medieval
alchemists, chasing fool's gold.

'Sighting' of Tasmanian Tiger Sparks �1.2m Bounty Hunt The Telegraph
A recap. Also: Ice Age Marsupial Lion Fossil With Big Bite

Who's Counting? Why We're Not Giants ABC News
Why are there are no 30-foot-tall people walking around? Mathematician John
Allen Poulos says it's simply elementary geometry.

Seeking the Supernatural Williamsport Sun-Gazette
Ghost hunting goes mainstream. Contrary to the author's assertion, though,
there are no 'rules associated with hunting down a ghost.'

Amazon Gives Up Deepest Secrets The Observer
New species are being found in record numbers in Amazon River. Now TV
viewers have a chance to name one of them, as part of a new trend. And: Name
This Bloodsucker

Historical Sites Offer Ghost Group Fertile Turf Washington Post
That's too bad. There were absolutely no ghost sightings this night in St.
Mary's County -- not even a long shadow, a spotted suggestion -- of the
'giraffedoman,' with its human face, dog ears, neck and legs of a giraffe,
that's been rumored to prowl the county's dark woods.

Attack of the Psychic Soldiers Daily News
A review of Jon Ronson's "The Men Who Stare at Goats." Another review:
'Goats' may not be true, but it's hilarious .

Labour Minister Unfazed By 'Ghosts' ZW News
"Why do you expect me to see them when they are dead?" The continuing saga
from Zimbabwe.

Porting Extraterrestrial UFO Technologies India Daily
"Reverse engineering extra-terrestrial UFO technologies is what many
countries have used to produce world-class fighter aircrafts, cruise
missiles and ballistic missiles." Sounds like they've been reading Philip
Corso.
April 2
Tall Tales with Witches, Monkey Man, et al. Times of India
Witches, monkey man, Ganesha drinking milk, the deadly munochwa � these are
the stuff of urban legends. A look at recent stories that gripped the public
imagination.

Stargazers Attempt to Identify UFO ABC.au
Alice Springs police say they received more than 20 reports of the
unidentified object tracking across central Australian skies. And:
Astronomers Mystified

Castle Ghosts Spook Staff for Hostel This is North Scotland
The ghosts of Carbisdale Castle help to attract hundreds of visitors each
year, but they may be having an adverse effect on potential staff.

Near-Death Experiences and UFO Kidnappings RRRGroup
"Our point here is to note that the tunnel of light might give a clue to
what is going on in the dying episodes and the UFO kidnapping encounters,
and this might involve offputting scenarios to some: time-travel or parallel
universes."

Mind Control Techniques Used By Extraterrestrial UFOs India Daily
"...provide clues for the ultimate weapon in warfare � mind dominance!"
What's gotten into India Daily?
April 1
Not Even Presidents Know the Truth Phenomena Mag
The U.S. has clueless leaders -- in more ways than one.

Strangely Familiar Scientific American
Researchers are starting to pin down what d�j� vu is and why it arises. But
have you read this already? Maybe you just can't remember.

Ask Him Anything About Crop Circles Shore Publishing
Living in a snug farmhouse in North Guilford is Colin Andrews, the world's
foremost expert on a spectacular phenomenon known as crop circles.

Festival Aims to Scare up Ghosts in Close Evening News
A massive scientific experiment is set to find out just how haunted Close
really is, which as "one of the most haunted places in Scotland," draws
thousands of amateur ghost-hunters into its dark tunnels every year.

Kin, Psychic Keep Up Search for Bowersock's Body The Arizona Republic
The psychic, Dehbra Taylor of Phoenix, said she has searched for the body of
Loretta Bowersock, who has been missing since Dec. 14.

European Cases of the Reincarnation Type American J. of Psychiatry
Review, Ian Stevenson's European Cases of the Reincarnation Type. 'Unusual
... a very rare focus in psychiatric discussion.'

Joke & Folklore Scholar Alan Dundes Dies Washington Post
Obit. 'Dr. Dundes had an ample scholarly range, from Grimm Brothers fairy
tales to the Ten Commandments, from bloodsucking vampires to Cinderella. He
also made a vibrant study of everyday gross-out humor.'

'Horror' Story No Fool's Prank from '66 Vault Orlando Sentinel
The Horror of Holopaw. 'It is five feet tall, hairy, twice as broad as a man
and it walks on two feet.'

New Gadget from Japan Hailed as Ghost Detector Ireland Online
Hailed by the manufacturer, mind you. Yuichiro Saito, on GhostRadar: 'This
detects invisible phenomena and so the system is confidential. This is not a
game. This is a measuring device.'

All Human Beings Receive Extraterrestrial UFO Mind Control Signals India
Daily
UFOs may be communicating with you through Extra Low Frequency waves.

Ghosts, The Mothman & The Highgate Vampire Book of Thoth
Part II. David Farrant, ley lines, orbs.
Best Stories from the Rest of the Week
... And Some We Missed
Black Holes 'Do Not Exist' Nature
George Chapline, Lawrence Livermore Lab, thinks the collapse of massive
stars, which was long believed to generate black holes, actually leads to
the formation of stars that contain dark energy. 'It's a near certainty that
black holes don't exist.'

Bizarre Species Sightings Leave Floridians Perplexed WKMG TV
Something strange is stirring in and around St. Augustine waters.

Ghostly Tours of Nemacolin Castle Connellsville Daily Courier
Linda Davis, Mon Valley Ghost Research Society: 'We have investigated the
castle about 20 times, and every time there is something. Some nights it is
more frequent, but there is always something that happens.'

Ptolemy Tilted Off His Axis Los Angeles Times
Studying a statue of Atlas holding the sky, American astronomer Brad
Schaefer finds key evidence of what could be a major fraud in science
history. 'We have books like The Da Vinci Code about a hero who discovers
lost, ancient secrets. There are very few instances where lost secrets are
actually found. This is one.'

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Men Who Stare at Goats - Military Psi and Terror War Torture?

2005-04-06T12:55:00.000-07:00

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Men Who Stare at Goats by Jon Ronson
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From Publishers Weekly: This exploration of the U.S. military's flirtation
with the supernatural is at once funny and tragic. It reads like fiction,
with plenty of dialogue and descriptive detail, but as Ronson's
investigation into the government's peculiar past doings creeps into the
present-and into Iraq-it will raise goose bumps. As Ronson reveals, a secret
wing of the U.S. military called First Earth Battalion was created in 1979
with the purpose of creating "Warrior Monks," soldiers capable of walking
through walls, becoming invisible, reading minds and even killing a goat
simply by staring at it. Some of the characters involved seem well-meaning
enough, such as the hapless General Stubblebine, who is "confounded by his
continual failure to walk through his wall." But Ronson (Them: Adventures
with Extremists) soon learns that the Battalion's bizarre ideas inspired
some alarming torture techniques being used in the present-day War on
Terror. One technique involves subjecting prisoners to 24 hours of Barney
the Purple Dinosaur's song, "I Love You," and another makes use of the
Predator, a small, toy-like object designed by military martial arts master
Pete Brusso that can inflict a large amount of pain in many different ways
("You can take eyeballs right out... with this bit," Brusso tells Ronson).
Ronson approaches the material with an open mind and a delightfully dry
sense of humor, which makes this an entertaining, if unsettling, read.
Indeed, as the events recounted here grow ever more curious-and the
individuals Ronson meets more disturbing-it's necessary to remind oneself of
Ronson's opening words: "This is a true story."

Product Description:

In 1979 a secret unit was established by the most gifted minds within the
U.S. Army. Defying all known accepted military practiceand indeed, the laws
of physicsthey believed that a soldier could adopt a cloak of invisibility,
pass cleanly through walls, and, perhaps most chillingly, kill goats just by
staring at them.

Entrusted with defending America from all known adversaries, they were the
First Earth Battalion. And they really weren't joking. What's more, they're
back and fighting the War on Terror.

With first-hand access to the leading players in the story, Ronson traces
the evolution of these bizarre activities over the past three decades and
shows how they are alive today within the U.S. Department of Homeland
Security and in postwar Iraq. Why are they blasting Iraqi prisoners of war
with the theme tune to Barney the Purple Dinosaur? Why have 100 debleated
goats been secretly placed inside the Special Forces Command Center at Fort
Bragg, North Carolina? How was the U.S. military associated with the
mysterious mass suicide of a strange cult from San Diego? The Men Who Stare
at Goats answers these and many more questions.

Ronson's Them: Adventures with Extremists, a highly acclaimed international
bestseller, examined the paranoia at the fringes of hate-filled extremist
movements around the globe. The Men Who Stare at Goats reveals
extraordinaryand very nuttynational secrets at the core of George W. Bush's
War on Terror.

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Telescopes see 'distant planet'

2005-04-06T07:27:00.000-07:00

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Telescopes see 'distant planet'
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The new "planet" (right) is seen close to a relatively young star
A European team claims to have obtained the first direct image of a planet
beyond our own Solar System.

The "extrasolar planet" is said to orbit a star called GQ Lup - thought to
be like a young version of our Sun.

Similar claims have been made in the past, but sceptical scientists believe
the pictures merely show objects that share the same view in the sky.

The GQ Lup object is far more certain claims Ralph Neuhaeuser's team in the
journal Astronomy & Astrophysics.

GQ Lup and its companion are located in a star-forming region about 400
light-years away.

The "planet" has been observed by the team since 1999.

The astronomers have used image data from the European Southern
Observatory's (ESO) Very Large Telescope (VLT) in Chile, the Hubble Space
Telescope and the Japanese Subaru Telescope in Hawaii.

Because it is in a young system, the planet is said to be relatively hot.
This helped the team detect the planet in the glare from its host star, the
group says.

The planet is also quite far from GQ Lup - about 100 times the distance
between the Sun and the Earth, which assisted the team in separating the
light from the two objects.

The team models the mass of the companion to be 1-2 times that of our own
Jupiter.

Astronomers have found about 130 exoplanets over the past decade, but most
of these have been detected via the gravitational "wobbles" they induce in
their parent stars.

The limitations of current technology make it very difficult to see a planet
directly.

It is expected that such images will not become routinely available until
new space-borne planet-hunting telescopes are launched in the next decade.

Some scientists have already questioned whether the GQ Lup companion is an
exoplanet. Professor Mark McCaughrean, from Exeter University, UK, said he
had concerns over the mass of the object, which by the team's own admission
could be as high as 42 Jupiters.

"Almost all current theoretical models would peg the mass of this object at
somewhere between 15 and 40 Jupiters: it's much more likely to be a brown
dwarf (a failed star), not a planet", he said.

Professor McCaughrean added that while it appeared to be moving across the
sky with the same velocity as GQ Lup, the companion could be just another
faint object in the same region as the star, without being bound to it by
gravity.

"There is no evidence whatsoever for true orbital motion of the faint source
round the bright one," the Exeter researcher told the BBC News website.

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Major earthquake strikes off Indonesia, tsunami warning issued

2005-03-28T09:31:00.000-08:00

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Major earthquake strikes off Indonesia, tsunami warning issued
ASSOCIATED PRESS / 9:09 a.m. March 28, 2005
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BANGKOK, Thailand � A large earthquake struck off Indonesia's Sumatra Island
in the Andaman Sea late Monday, and the U.S. Geological Survey said it was a
major quake measuring a magnitude of 8.2.

Thai officials issued a warning of a possible tsunami, three months after a
tsunami devastated parts of Indonesia and other countries in the region. The
quake occurred at 11:09 p.m. local at a depth of nearly 19 miles, the USGS
in Golden, Colo., said.

Japan's Meteorological Agency measured the quake at magnitude 8.5.

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Re: Mysterious Noise Pollution Is Known As The Hum

2005-03-27T06:10:00.000-08:00

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I live in Roswell, GA. I just discovered this information on the internet
this morning and am quite relieved to discover that I am not crazy. It has
gotten so bothersome to me that I got up to search the internet for some way
to identify this problem, and found this site. I became aware of "the hum"
about 6 months ago. The first night, I wrote it off to a distant neighbor
running a generator all night, since it is not unusual to lose power after a
storm in this area. The second night, I got out of bed about 4 in the
morning and drove all around the area looking for a source of the noise. Of
course I could find none. I only hear it inside my house. I live alone,
and I have yet to find any other neighbor who can hear it. The hum seems to
be there everynight, but is definitely worse on some than others. There has
been a large amount of developement in the area immediately around my
neighborhood preceding the onset of the hum, so I assume it may have
something to do with that. I have wondered if it is atmospheric conditions
that make it worse on some nights than others, but I haven't been able to
identify any patterns. The only thing that is different about my house
compared to my neighbors is that mine is built on a slab. Who knows, maybe
some how that amplifies the hum inside my house verses the others which are
not. But, I have lived in this house for 12 years and the hum has only been
there for 6 months or so. I agree with what others have said here as to
what it sounds like (i.e. a large truck or train going up a steep grade off
in the distance). However, it is not just that I can hear it, but I can
actually feel it also..., so that makes it more difficult to cover with
white noise for sleep. It is at such a frequency that it kind of "warbols"
my ears, or vibrates them. That's what makes it a little un-nerving to live
with. I also thought it might be ambient traffic noise at first, since so
many trees have been cut down for developement nearby. But have rule this
out, since the hum doesn't vary like traffic would -- it's one persistent
pitch. Also, it is as bad or worse during late hours when traffic would be
low, and I go outside and I can't hear it. If there is anyone else in the
Atlanta area dealing with this I would be interesting in hearing about it.
I will keep revisiting this site for more information.

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Remains of ancient Egyptian seafaring ships discovered

2005-03-24T13:07:00.000-08:00

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Remains of ancient Egyptian seafaring ships discovered
NewScientist.com news service / Emma Young
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The first remains of ancient Egyptian seagoing ships ever to be recovered
have been found in two caves on Egypt's Red Sea coast, according to a team
at Boston University in the US.

The team also found fragments of pottery at the site, which could help
resolve controversies about the extent of ancient Egyptian trade voyages.
But details of the newly disclosed finds remain sketchy.

Kathryn Bard, who co-led the dig with Italian archaeologists in December
2004, has revealed to the Boston University weekly community newsletter that
the team found a range of items - including timbers and riggings - inside
the man-made caves, located at the coastal Pharaonic site of Wadi Gawasis.

According to the report, pottery in the caves could date at least some of
the artefacts to a famous 15th century BC naval expedition by Queen
Hatshepsut to the mysterious, incense-producing land of Punt. This voyage is
depicted in detailed reliefs on Queen Hatshepsut's temple on the west bank
of the Nile, near modern-day Luxor.

Bard declined to speak to New Scientist. But the find is exciting, says John
Baines, professor of Egyptology at the University of Oxford, UK, who has
been in contact with Bard. "These finds put flesh on what we might have
imagined," he says.

Gold and ebony
The pottery finds include items the Italian researchers think could be from
Yemen - a potential candidate for the modern identity of Punt. The ancient
Egyptians sourced a variety of exotic wares in Punt, including gold, ebony
and incense.

"The Yemeni pottery is very interesting because it was suspected that there
were contacts across the Red Sea - and this proves that there were," Baines
says.

The naval artefacts included two curved cedar planks which might have been
parts of steering oars. But linking these to Queen Hatshepsut's famous
voyage might be a little too specific, he says.

"Kathryn [Bard] has told me the pottery is early New Kingdom, and we know of
no other expedition to Punt in that period, so it is a reasonable guess. But
we also have to bear in mind that almost everything from antiquity is lost,
so there could well have been other voyages."

It is not clear exactly why the artefacts were sealed up inside the caves.
But it is possible that they were offerings to the Egyptian gods. "That
sounds very plausible to me, not least because previous excavations found a
structure made of stone anchors that could again be some sort of
thanks-offering," says Baines.

The team plans to return to the caves in December 2005 to continue their
excavations.

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Plants Fix Genes With Copies From Ancestors

2005-03-24T13:03:00.000-08:00

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Plants Fix Genes With Copies From Ancestors
By Rick Weiss / Washington Post Staff Writer
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Plants inherit secret stashes of genetic information from their long-dead
ancestors and can use them to correct errors in their own genes -- a
startling capacity for DNA editing and self-repair wholly unanticipated by
modern genetics, researchers said yesterday.

The newly discovered phenomenon, which resembles the caching of early
versions of a computer document for viewing later, allows plants to archive
copies of genes from generations ago, long assumed to be lost forever.

Then, in a move akin to choosing their parents, plants can apparently
retrieve selected bits of code from that archive and use them to overwrite
the genes they have inherited directly. The process could offer survival
advantages to plants suddenly burdened with new mutations or facing
environmental threats for which the older genes were better adapted.

Scientists predicted that by harnessing the still-mysterious mechanism they
would be able to control plant diseases and create novel varieties of crops.
If the mechanism can be invoked in animals -- as some tantalized scientists
venture may be possible -- it could also offer a revolutionary way to
correct the genetic flaws that lead to cancer and other diseases.

"We think this demonstrates that there's this parallel path of inheritance
that we've overlooked for 100 years, and that's pretty cool," said Robert E.
Pruitt, a professor of botany and plant pathology at Purdue University in
West Lafayette, Ind., who oversaw the studies with co-worker Susan Lolle.

The finding represents a "spectacular discovery," wrote German molecular
biologists Detlef Weigel and Gerd Jurgens in a commentary accompanying the
research in tomorrow's issue of the journal Nature, released yesterday. The
existence of an unorthodox inheritance system does not overturn the basic
rules of genetics worked out by Austrian monk Gregor Mendel in the 1800s,
they noted. But like a newly discovered room in a mansion of treasures, it
opens up a mind-boggling world of possibilities and proves that genetics is
still a young science.

"It adds a level of biological complexity and flexibility we hadn't
appreciated," said Lolle, who is on a leave from Purdue to serve at the
National Science Foundation, which funded the work.

The Purdue team began to suspect that something strange was afoot while
studying a mutation in the mustard family weed Arabidopsis thaliana, a
popular workhorse of plant genetics.

The mutation was in a gene known as hothead -- one of many related genes,
including fiddlehead, airhead, pothead and deadhead, that when mutated cause
abnormalities in stems and flowers.

Arabidopsis plants typically self-fertilize. So when both copies of a gene
are mutated in a plant, its offspring is bound to be similarly flawed -- in
hothead's case, exhibiting the parent's mutant flowers.

Yet in the Pruitt-Lolle lab, a small but steady percentage of hothead
offspring had normal flowers, like their grandparents'. Somehow the mutation
-- a single misspelled "letter" of genetic code in a gene made of 1,782
molecular letters -- was being repaired.

"At first, we assumed there had to be a simple explanation," Pruitt said.
But a series of tests over more than a year eliminated every easy
explanation, such as known DNA repair mechanisms or windblown pollen from
normal plants.

Instead, molecular studies indicated that the plants harbored molecular
"memories" of versions of their genetic code going back at least four
generations -- versions that the plant can somehow use as templates to
correct the spelling of mutated stretches of DNA.

The team has not found the templates, but evidence suggests they are pieces
of RNA, a molecular cousin of DNA that can be inherited separately from the
chromosomes that carry the primary genetic code in cells.

Pruitt said others have occasionally noted the appearance of "revertant"
plants but ignored them, assuming they were the result of sloppy technique
or other errors. By contrast, Pruitt and Lolle took the observation
seriously, said Elliot Meyerowitz, a pioneering arabidopsis researcher at
California Institute of Technology.

"There are different sorts of scientists. Some like to ignore the
exceptions, and others like to concentrate on them," Meyerowitz said, adding
that he suspects the novel gene-fixing mechanism is present in a wide
variety of organisms, including animals. He suspects the trick has been
overlooked because it operates only some of the time and because scientists
have been predisposed to write off the evidence as random events.

The discovery, he said, seems on par with a few others that have
significantly modified scientists' understanding of genetics since Mendel.
Studies in corn led to the discovery of an important gene-shuffling
mechanism that has since been found in other plants and animals, including
people. Studies in insects found a new mechanism for gene regulation that
has since been found throughout the biological world. And a mechanism for
turning off genes, first identified in soil-dwelling roundworms and since
found in humans, too, is now one of the hottest topics in medical genetics
because of its potential to shut down disease-causing genes.

"I won't be surprised," Meyerowitz said, if the new DNA editing mechanism is
present in people, too.

Gerald Fink, a professor of genetics at the Whitehead Institute for
Biomedical Research in Cambridge, Mass., said it would be important to
identify exactly how the mechanism operates and whether it works in all
kinds of genes. But he said he was convinced that "something weird is
definitely going on." The work serves as a good reminder, he added, that the
central genetic code by itself is only part of the mystery of how
inheritance works.

"This gives the lie to the idea that you know everything once you sequence
the genome. You don't."

Lolle said the trick is probably a lifesaver for plants, which cannot run
away from radiation, environmental extremes and other insults to their DNA.
It is probably especially important for self-pollinating plants such as
arabidopsis, she said, which are constantly at risk of becoming seriously
mutated as a result of inbreeding.

She described the mechanism as one that allows a plant to reach back in time
for a version of a gene "that's already been road-tested."

Lolle said she foresees medical benefits as scientists learn to control the
molecular counterpart she suspects is in humans.

"I'm very optimistic," she said. "Once the scientific community takes hold
of this, it's going to work forward at a very rapid pace."

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Welcome To New site for Pocket PC and Palm! (http://pda.net.ua))

2005-03-23T04:46:00.000-08:00

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http://www.pda.net.ua (http://www.pocket.net.ua) - the new site for PDA -
Pocket PC and Palm! There are many programs for Pocket PC, programs for
Palm, library, shop, news and more other interesting information here!

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New technology uses human body for broadband networking

2005-03-22T11:32:00.000-08:00

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New technology uses human body for broadband networking
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By sending data over the surface of the skin, it may soon be possible to
trade music files by dancing cheek to cheek, or to swap phone numbers by
kissing
By Paul Rubens

"I recently acquired my own in-body device -- a pacemaker -- but it takes a
special radio frequency connector to interface to it. As more and more
implants go into bodies, the need for a good Internet Protocol connection
increases."

Gordon Bell, a senior researcher at Microsoft's Bay Area Research Center in
San Francisco

Your body could soon be the backbone of a broadband personal data network
linking your mobile phone or MP3 player to a cordless headset, your digital
camera to a PC or printer, and all the gadgets you carry around to each other.

These personal area networks are already possible using radio-based
technologies, such as Wi-Fi or Bluetooth, or just plain old cables to
connect devices. But NTT, the Japanese communications company, has developed
a technology called RedTacton, which it claims can send data over the
surface of the skin at speeds of up to 2Mbps -- equivalent to a fast
broadband data connection.

Using RedTacton-enabled devices, music from an MP3 player in your pocket
would pass through your clothing and shoot over your body to headphones in
your ears. Instead of fiddling around with a cable to connect your digital
camera to your computer, you could transfer pictures just by touching the PC
while the camera is around your neck. And since data can pass from one body
to another, you could also exchange electronic business cards by shaking
hands, trade music files by dancing cheek to cheek, or swap phone numbers
just by kissing.

NTT is not the first company to use the human body as a conduit for data:
IBM pioneered the field in 1996 with a system that could transfer small
amounts of data at very low speeds, and last June, Microsoft was granted a
patent for "a method and apparatus for transmitting power and data using the
human body."

But RedTacton is arguably the first practical system because, unlike IBM's
or Microsoft's, it doesn't need transmitters to be in direct contact with
the skin -- they can be built into gadgets, carried in pockets or bags, and
will work within about 20cm of your body. RedTacton doesn't introduce an
electric current into the body -- instead, it makes use of the minute
electric field that occurs naturally on the surface of every human body. A
transmitter attached to a device, such as an MP3 player, uses this field to
send data by modulating the field minutely in the same way that a radio
carrier wave is modulated to carry information.

Receiving data is more complicated because the strength of the electric
field involved is so low. RedTacton gets around this using a technique
called electric field photonics: A laser is passed though an electro-optic
crystal, which deflects light differently according to the strength of the
field across it. These deflections are measured and converted back into
electrical signals to retrieve the transmitted data.

An obvious question, however, is why anyone would bother networking though
their body when proven radio-based personal area networking technologies,
such as Bluetooth, already exist? Tom Zimmerman, the inventor of the
original IBM system, says body-based networking is more secure than
broadcast systems, such as Bluetooth, which have a range of about 10m.

"With Bluetooth, it is difficult to rein in the signal and restrict it to
the device you are trying to connect to," says Zimmerman. "You usually want
to communicate with one particular thing, but in a busy place there could be
hundreds of Bluetooth devices within range."

As human beings are ineffective aerials, it is very hard to pick up stray
electronic signals radiating from the body, he says. "This is good for
security because even if you encrypt data it is still possible that it could
be decoded, but if you can't pick it up it can't be cracked."

Zimmerman also believes that, unlike infrared or Bluetooth phones and PDAs,
which enable people to "beam" electronic business cards across a room
without ever formally meeting, body-based networking allows for more natural
interchanges of information between humans.

"If you are very close or touching someone, you are either in a busy subway
train, or you are being intimate with them, or you want to communicate," he
says. "I think it is good to be close to someone when you are exchanging
information."

RedTacton transceivers can be treated as standard network devices, so
software running over Ethernet or other TCP/IP protocol-based networks will
run unmodified.

Gordon Bell, a senior researcher at Microsoft's Bay Area Research Center in
San Francisco, says that while Bluetooth or other radio technologies may be
perfectly suitable to link gadgets for many personal area networking
purposes, there are certain applications for which RedTacton technology
would be ideal.

In the near future, the most important application for body-based networking
may well be for communications within, rather than on the surface of, or
outside, the body.

An intriguing possibility is that the technology will be used as a sort of
secondary nervous system to link large numbers of tiny implanted components
placed beneath the skin to create powerful onboard -- or in-body -- computers.

THE GUARDIAN , LONDON
Sunday, Mar 20, 2005, Page 12

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Thanks to Mac Tonnies PostHumanBlues blog for reminding me of this article
and linking it to the infamous ALIEN AUTOPSY film's alleged hand-print
computer interface panels.

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'Big cat' attacks man in garden

2005-03-22T10:55:00.000-08:00

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'Big cat' attacks man in garden - The victim described a "big black figure"
pouncing on him
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A man has been attacked by a large cat-like animal which jumped out from
bushes in his garden during the night.

Anthony Holder said a 6ft-long black animal pounced, knocked him to the
ground, then mauled him with its claws for about 30 seconds.

He said "I am 6ft and weigh 15 stone and it was considerably stronger and
bigger than me. This thing was huge."

Police were called to Sydenham Park in south-east London and one officer saw
a cat "about the size of a Labrador dog".

'Teeth out'

Armed officers arrived soon after and a search of the nearby railway line
and allotments was carried out.

Mr Holder was looking for his kitten at the bottom of his garden, which
backs onto woodland, when the powerful creature attacked him.

He described how a "big black figure pounced" and he was "in its claws for
about 30 seconds".

"Its teeth were out and I tried to defend myself and eventually I got the
thing off my body."

He was scratched all over his body and suffered swelling and bruising to his
hand and the back of his head.

Police warning

The animal, which Mr Holder is convinced was a panther, then went and sat in
the garden next-door and he called the police

The Metropolitan Police have mounted extra patrols in the area, which is
largely residential and backs on to a railway line.

They have warned people not to approach the animal and to keep pets inside.

The RSPCA and London Zoo are being consulted for specialist advice.

Inquiries are also being made to trace exactly where the animal may have
come from.

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Documentary Confirms Hogzilla's Existence

2005-03-22T10:51:00.000-08:00

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Documentary Confirms Hogzilla's Existence
By ELLIOTT MINOR / Associated Press Writer
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ALAPAHA, Ga. -- A team of National Geographic experts has confirmed south
Georgia's monster hog, known to locals as Hogzilla, was indeed real -- and
really, really big.

They also noted the super swine didn't quite live up to the 1,000-pound,
12-foot hype generated when Hogzilla was caught on a farm last summer and
photographed hanging from a backhoe.

Donning biohazard suits to exhume the behemoth's smelly remains, the experts
estimated Hogzilla was probably only 7 1/2 to 8 feet long, and weighed about
800 pounds. The confirmation came in a documentary aired Sunday night on the
National Geographic Channel; it will be rebroadcast Wednesday and Saturday.

"He was an impressive beast. He was definitely a freak of nature," said
documentary producer Nancy Donnelly. She said Hogzilla's tusks -- one
measuring nearly 18 inches and the other nearly 16 inches -- set a new
Safari Club International North American free-range record.

That wasn't good enough for Ken Holyoak, owner of the 1,500-acre fish farm
and hunting preserve where Hogzilla was shot by guide Chris Griffin.

"I need to stress that they did not have that much to work with, seeing as
how the poor beast had been underground for nearly six months," he said
Monday.

Holyoak said Hogzilla weighed in at half a ton on his farm scales, and that
he personally measured the hog's length at 12 feet while the freshly killed
beast was dangling by straps from a backhoe.

"As with any organic being after death, tissues will decompose and the body
will atrophy, making actual measurements change over time," Holyoak said.
"Have you ever seen a raisin after it was a grape?"

Donnelly said the experts allowed for some shrinkage in making their final
estimate.

Despite the dispute, this town 180 miles south of Atlanta has already
adopted Hogzilla as its own. It went with a Hogzilla theme for its fall
festival, with a parade featuring a Hogzilla princess, children in pink pig
outfits and a float carrying a Hogzilla replica.

"Our insides were just bubbling," said Darlene Turner, who hosted a party to
watch the documentary Sunday night. "At first, I was afraid it might be an
embarrassment. But now I wish everybody could see the documentary. It would
take the doubt out of people's minds."

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Russian Man Grows Penis on Arm

2005-03-22T10:49:00.000-08:00

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Russian Man Grows Penis on Arm
MosNews

Russian doctors have conducted an 11-hour operation to replace a patient�s
deformed penis with one grown on his forearm, the Moskovskiy Komsomolets
daily reports.

The 30-year-old Russian man, whose name was changed in the article to
protect his privacy, had a defect from birth � his penis was crooked,
two-and-a-half-inches long and lacked a scrotum, the newspaper writes.

The doctors had the penis removed and attached to the man�s arm. Using his
body tissue it grew to six-and-a-half inches and was sewn back on to his
groin. Silicone tubes were inserted into the organ to ensure an erection was
possible. Doctors also created a scrotum from the patient�s own skin and
placed silicone testicles in it.

A Moscow surgeon said the man will be able to have sex in a few months. He
added: �Women will never suspect it is artificial.�

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Re: Fireball Phenomena & Associated Festival

2005-03-22T03:11:00.001-08:00

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i hope you get this message that i wrote please throw me a e-mail
jwood81@stny.rr.com i couldn't belive that you live so close i wonder if it
was the same looking i would like more information thank you joe wood

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Re: 1986 Fireball over Johnson City, NY

2005-03-22T03:11:00.000-08:00

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i am from corning new york and my parents live in caton i thought this was
the crazyest thing ever that you live so close to me i seen one also it was
way back when i was sixteen or seventeen when i lived with my parents i
didn't say nothing because i thought people would think i was crazy but i
told my girlfriend and she told me to look it up on the internet i am
twenty three now it all happened when i was outside my window smoking i was
not allowed to smoke at the time so i was leaned out my window and i was
looking up at the stars but one seem to be moving slowly and after awhile it
got closer and closer no lie it got up to the hieight of the line of pine
trees in the yard and moved about as a walking pace(fastness wise) it looked
like that picture but different color it was bigger than a basketball i
watched and it was late prolly 1 or 2 in the morning it was so long ago it
was hard to remember, it moved passed the pine trees around the house so i
ran up stairs and still seen it floating and heading into the woods kindof,
i ran and woke my parents up to see if they had a camera but they said they
had no film my step dad got up but it wasn't there anymore till this day i
think i should of followed it but i was kindof scatred i could of kept up to
it if i did my step dad told me hydrogen burns and it creates a ball but i
didn't know how true that was he also told me in fairy tales they said
fairy's moves in balls of light to but i didn't know what to believe i
didn't tell anyone because i thought if i did that it wouldn't come back and
maybe i was special and it chose me to see it but i never seen it that close
again sometimes i look up and see something moving a little bit and i like
to believe it was that but i have never seen it that close ever again

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The 'Rooftop Madman' Appears in Santa Fe Argentina

2005-03-20T06:07:00.000-08:00

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INEXPLICATA - The Journal of Hispanic Ufology - March 6, 2005
A Mysterious Character Harasses Santa Fe Residents

Local residents say it jumps from house to house, is dressed in
black and has red eyes. After hundreds of complaints, police is
looking for it. Listen to the Sheriff's story on Radio 10.

Santa Fe is jumping. Residents of the southern area are
frightened by the appearance of a strange entity they've dubbed
"the rooftop madman" and who - according to their accounts -
leaps from roof to roof engaging in acrobatics.

Witness claim it stands two meters tall, is entirely clad in
black and wears a balaclava; it sports a cape and its eyes shine
red according to the information received by researchers. This
character is able to cross the streets by leaping from one
rooftop to the next, taking acrobatic leaps that can be of up to
five meters high and ten meters long.

"He looks like the cat man," say some locals. "His outline is
barely visible, his figure. He never showed his face, but they
say they've seen his eyes and that they have a reddish cast."

In an interview with Radio 10, Sheriff Gabriel Legstra
acknowledged that "there is a widespread psychosis. In recent
days we have received hundred of reports at our radio command
center."

"On Tuesday I dispatched 18 units to assuage people's fears. But
ultimately there is no other crime than tresspassing here. The
character goes from one roof to the next, appears inside a
house, has pressed his face against a window but hasn't attacked
anyone."

The psychosis is growing among residents of southern Santa Fe in
spite of having never been attacked. Police confirm that in
recent days calls have multiplied, reporting a man leaping from
one rooftop to the next "like a madman".

According to Diario La Capital, he first appeared in Barrio
Centenario, only meters from the Colon Stadium, but they say he
was seen closer to town, such as in El Arenal, San Lorenzo,
Chalet and Santa Rosa de Lima. This is the area most affected by
the 2003 floods.

In any event, despite the intense combing of the area by dozens
of officers, police were unable to find the character, but
advised the public to remain calm, since there are reports
within the force that some local residents directly tried to
shoot the entity to death.

Mystery grew when several witnesses said that "bullets won't do
anything to it. Its eyes gleam red when it it mocks those who
try to hunt it."

A resident of El Arenal claimed having fired 17 times against it
without bullets having the least effect, while the ghost did
nothing but provoke it, howl like a beast or cry like a child,
making dance steps on the rooftops over which it treads like a
cat.

"People are afraid of being attacked, beaten and robbed by this
man. They fear he will break into their property and are
defending themselves," say those in Regional Unit 1 who in turn
describe the locals as "expectant and armed with knives and
sticks."

Most locals describe a being that appears to have sprung froma
comic book: large in stature, who not only wanders the rooftops
but also crosses the streets in a single bound and can climb
smooth walls up to six meters high. "It's the Devil," say the
bolder or more imaginative ones.

Sheriff Legstra said that a woman told him that "the entity
pointed at her with its finger and left her paralyzed."

Another local woman said that last Monday, during an intense
rain, the phantom managed to jam the car doors of a vehicle with
7 passengers aboard, who were armed and ready to hunt it down in
spite of police warnings.

Others decided to stand guard 24 hours by the doors to their
homes, armed and vigilant. But it has not been possible to
capture it up to now.

Residents of the southern section interrutped traffic, claiming
greater lighting for the area, since may are afraid to leave
their homes alone.

Translation (c) 2005. Scott Corrales, IHU. Special thanks to
Liliana Nunez.

Fecha de la nota: 06/03/2005

Un misterioso personaje causa p�nico en Santa Fe

Dicen que salta de casa en casa, se viste de negro y que sus ojos son rojos.
Tras cientos de denuncias, la polic�a lo busca. Escuche el incre�ble relato
del comisario en Radio 10

En Santa Fe andan a los saltos. Los vecinos de la zona sur est�n
atemorizados por la aparici�n de un extra�o sujeto, al que llaman "el loco
de los techos" y que, cuentan, se la pasa de techo en techo practicando
saltos acrob�ticos.

Los testigos aseguran que mide dos metros, viste todo de negro, usa un
pasamonta�a, lleva una capa y que sus ojos lucen �rojos�. De acuerdo a la
informaci�n recabada por los investigadores, este hombre puede cruzar la
calle, saltando de techo a techo y da saltos acrob�ticos que pueden ser de
hasta cinco metros de altura y diez de largo.

�Parece el hombre gato� aventuran los pobladores. �Apenas se ve su contorno,
su figura. Nunca mostr� su cara, pero s� dicen que le vieron sus ojos y que
tienen un tono rojizo.�

En di�logo con Radio 10, el comisario mayor Gabriel Legstra reconoci� que
"hay una psicosis general. En los �ltimos d�as recibimos cientos de
denuncias en el comando radioel�ctrico".

"El marte mand� 18 m�viles para calmar la sensaci�n de miedo. Pero, en
definitiva no hay m�s delito que el de la violaci�n a la propiedad, el tipo
va de techo en techo, aparece en el interior de una casa, ha posado su cara
en una ventana pero no ha atacado a nadie".

Psicosis generalizada
La psicosis crece entre los habitantes de la parte sur de la ciudad de Santa
Fe pese a que, seg�n dicen, hasta ahora nunca fueron atacados. La polic�a
confirma que en los �ltimos d�as se han multiplicado los llamados en los que
se denunciaban que hab�a un hombre por los techos �saltando como un loco�.

Seg�n publica el diario La Capital, primero apareci� en el barrio
Centenario, a metros de la cancha de Col�n, pero dicen que despu�s se lo vio
en sectores cercanos, como El Arenal, San Lorenzo, Chalet y Santa Rosa de
Lima. Esta la zona m�s afectada por la inundaci�n de 2003.

De todos modos, pese al intenso rastrillaje de la noche del jueves del que
participaron decenas de efectivos, la polic�a no pudo dar con �l pero
recomend� a la poblaci�n mantener la calma, ya que en la fuerza contaron que
hubo vecinos que directamente intentaron matarlo a tiros.

El misterio creci� cuando varios testigos contaron que "las balas no le
hacen nada. Sus ojos se le ponen rojos cuando se burla de quienes quieren
darle caza".

Un vecino de El Arenal, dijo que le dispar� 17 veces sin que las balas le
hicieran el menor da�o, mientras el fantasma no hac�a otra cosa que
provocarlo, aullar como animal o llorar como un ni�o, dando pasos de baile
sobre los techos en los que camina como si fuera un gato.

�La gente tiene temor de ser atacada, golpeada y robada por este hombre.
Temen que entre en su propiedad y se defiende� dicen en la Unidad Regional I
y a su vez describe que los vecinos �est�n expectantes con cuchillos y palos�.

La mayor�a de los vecinos habla de un ser -que parece salido de los c�mics-
de gran estatura, que no s�lo anda por los techos sino que tambi�n cruza las
calles de un solo salto y hasta trepa paredes lisas de seis metros de
altura. "Es el Diablo", se animan a afirmar los m�s atrevidos, o los m�s
imaginativos.

El comisario Legstra cont� que una mujer le "lleg� a decir que el individuo
le apunt� con el dedo y la dej� inmovilizada".

Otra vecina relat� que en la madrugada del lunes pasado, en momentos en que
llov�a intensamente, el fantasma logr� trabar las puertas de un auto con
siete personas adentro que estaban armadas esperando darle caza, pese a las
advertencias de la polic�a.

Varios decidieron montar guardia durante las 24 horas en las puertas de sus
casas, armados y vigilantes, pero hasta ahora no pudieron capturarlo.

Los vecinos del extremo sur interrumpieron el tr�nsito en reclamo de mayor
iluminaci�n de la zona, ya que muchos se resisten a dejar sus casas solas.

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Next generation military ships based on sharks EMF for Nav and Stealth

2005-03-19T15:42:00.000-08:00

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Next generation fighter aircrafts and submarines based on Shark�s
electromagnetic flux for navigation and stealth by Staff reporter
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Scientists and defense engineers have understood that Sharks not only use
electromagnetic flux for navigation but also they use it for stealth.

The Defense researchers are working on prototypes that provide similar
capabilities to next generation submarines and fighter aircrafts. If these
researchers are right, next generation submarines and fighter aircrafts will
be able to disappear from any and all radars or similar devices and be able
to navigate towards a target without any artificial guidance systems as it
is used today.

Shark�s stealth is not useful to evade their positions through human eyes or
electronic or sonar devices but it is capable of making the shark invisible
to other aquatic life forms like fishes and others.

Engineers are using the exact same technology to provide the stealth for the
aircrafts and submarines. Varying the electromagnetic flux characteristics
make it possible to evade other kinds or �eyes� including what we know as
Radar, electronic eves dropping, signal intelligence and satellite sensing.

The team consists of biologists, shark specialists, physicists, electronic
engineers, aeronautics and naval engineers. The goal of the team is provide
the technology that can be used for the next generation warfare.

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Advanced guidance systems from UFO flight patterns and navigation systems

2005-03-19T05:28:00.000-08:00

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Indian space scientists and technologists closely watch the UFO flight
pattern and navigation systems. The extra-terrestrial flight patterns are
quite different from terrestrial systems days the experts.

The flight patterns and navigation systems are input into computer models to
extrapolate points of disappearances. The computer model uses predictive
analysis to interpolate and extrapolate the flight patterns and navigation
systems.

The involved engineers do not like to talk. But they do indicate that
certain surveillance systems can occasionally view these bizarre flight
patterns.

Replicating their navigation systems and flight patterns are impossible. But
there are indications that the UFOs change their propulsion systems from
optical levels to sonic levels after entering the earth�s atmosphere. After
that a new propulsion system, guidance and navigation systems as well as
flight pattern are followed.

The scientists in India working on these projects also mention that the UFOs
have the capabilities of creating illusions and disappearing into the clouds
of electromagnetic flux any time. That complicates the observation and at
that point only the complex computational algorithms can only come to help
of the technocrats.

In a particular case, an UFO was tracked and followed out of earth�s
atmosphere. That follows though extrapolation provided excellent information
on efficient guidance, navigation and propulsion systems.

Again the daunting problem is really believing these flight patterns because
the extra-terrestrial UFOs can create illusions and virtually disappear any
time.

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Underground ET UFO bases all around the world?

2005-03-19T05:08:00.000-08:00

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Underground Extra-terrestrial UFO bases all around the world � a mind
boggling theory
by Staff Reporter

Geologists in the East and West coasts are busy understanding a new theory
that shows possible underground UFO bases all around the world.

According to this theory the UFO bases are along the interface of the seven
large and many small tectonic plates meet each other. According to the UFO
researchers, the underground UFO bases are deep under the ground where
multiple tectonic plates push on top of each other. For example the Indian
plate and Eurasian plates colliding against each other along the Himalayas
makes it an ideal locations.

According to this theory, the UFO bases need to be deep under the ground
because the UFO crafts need to be close to the mantle of the earth.
Servicing of these crafts can be done in that electromagnetic environment
only. In addition according to this theory the crust must be as thick as
possible in that area. That is only available where one tectonic plate moves
on top of another tectonic plate.
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The UFO researchers are now predicting that there are many UFO bases at the
sub-tectonic level. Most of these are in remote areas or under the ocean.

The UFO vehicles according to these researchers are fuelled and serviced in
an environment that has much higher electromagnetic flux.

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Fashion Victims Hit Lisbon Runway

2005-03-18T14:14:00.000-08:00

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AOPA-NYTimes report highly misleading / Nothing new in government security doc

2005-03-18T07:59:00.000-08:00

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New York Times report highly misleading
Nothing new in government security document
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AOPA President Phil Boyer is interviewed by CBS correspondent Bob Orr, in
response to the leak of a security report to The New York Times. Boyer also
interviewed with NBC and explained the report contained nothing new and had
been blown out of proportion.

A New York Times report, which has been picked up and repeated by various
news media outlets across the nation, is highly overstated and misleading
and has no new information, according to both AOPA and government security
sources.

In fact, some of the observations about general aviation originated from a
December 2001 government report to Congress.

"The world has changed significantly since then, and that includes major
improvements to general aviation security," said AOPA President Phil Boyer.
"The Times didn't acknowledge those improvements, nor did it say that the
criticism of security reflected the world as it was three years ago, not
today."

The February 2005 security document, an overview of the aviation sector, was
prepared to "stimulate awareness of law enforcement and investigative
activities designed to counter terrorist and criminal threats to the
aviation infrastructure." It was not supposed to be made public. In fact,
the FBI and Department of Homeland Security prohibited its release to the
media. But somebody leaked it to the Times.

And the Times keyed on two paragraphs out of a 24-page report. "Crimes
targeting civil aviation are not a new phenomenon," the report says. It
devotes just two paragraphs to general aviation, noting that as security is
tightened around commercial airliners, terrorists might turn to smaller GA
aircraft.

"All forms of transportation are vulnerable to one degree or another," said
Boyer. "It is impossible to absolutely secure every transportation mode �
including every airport and every aircraft � from every imaginable method of
attack.

"On the other hand, we reiterate what both we and the Homeland Security
Department have said in the past: The typical general aviation aircraft has
neither the mass, cargo capacity, nor speed to cause significant damage. A
small GA aircraft is not a particularly effective weapon. It presents a
limited risk.

"Nevertheless, the general aviation community has taken significant steps
since 9/11 to enhance security in our segment of the transportation system."

For example, there is AOPA's Airport Watch program .

"Because GA is served by thousands of small airports where pilots and
airport staff know one another, Airport Watch is the best form of security,"
said Boyer. "It does what fences and metal detectors never can � it uses the
eyes and ears of hundreds of thousands of GA pilots and airport staff to
identify and report anything that seems suspicious."

In fact, TSA chief Adm. David Stone has touted the value of AOPA's Airport
Watch program, saying it's an ideal tool for securing GA airports . The
federal government receives dozens of phone calls every day from pilots
reporting what might be suspicious activity.

But it is by no means the only security measure that the general aviation
industry has taken since the 2001 terror attacks. In addition, federal
agencies have begun screening pilot databases, requiring pilots to carry a
government-issued photo ID as well as a pilot certificate, and issuing new
counterfeit-resistant plastic pilot certificates.

Pilot IDs must be verified before beginning flight training, and the federal
government has to approve foreign pilots before they can learn to fly in the
United States.

For larger GA aircraft, like those used for some charter flights, the
Transportation Security Administration has implemented additional training
and security rules. In addition, most larger GA aircraft already operate out
of the same airports served by the airlines and therefore benefit from
perimeter fencing, locked gates, special access requirements, and security
and monitoring devices installed at those airports.

"The general aviation community wants to do its part to ensure that the
horrors of 9/11 are never repeated. But many people don't understand that
what works at commercial airports would be ineffective and cost prohibitive
for most GA airports," said Boyer.

For example, putting fences around all of the nation's GA airports would
cost an estimated $30 billion � more than twice what has been spent on
securing commercial aviation since 9/11.

That's one reason why AOPA is focusing on educating decision makers in
Congress and agencies like TSA about the realities of general aviation � so
that any security requirements are appropriate and effective. As part of
that effort, AOPA has regular security meetings with TSA.

And some lawmakers seem to be getting the message. During recent
confirmation hearings for Homeland Security Department Secretary Michael
Chertoff, members of the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs
Committee testified that security for airplanes has been addressed, and it
is time to move on to improving security for surface transportation.

Chertoff agreed, saying that it is important that the department not focus
on just one segment like aviation while ignoring significant problems in
other areas, such as the vulnerability of the nation's seaports.

Update: March 15, 2005, 6:51 p.m. EST

Your association in action
What started out to be another Monday morning changed quickly when news of a
New York Times story was reported in newspapers, radio, and TV stations
across the country. The Times referred to an FBI-Department of Homeland
Security Overview. It was a report that summarized about three years of
learning; a report that was created for law enforcement officials; it
contained nothing new and was never intended for the media. And it was a
report that the Times badly distorted. Out of 24 pages � all of which
featured heavy use of the words "may" and "perhaps" � hardly more than one
paragraph even referred to light GA aircraft. And even though it was barely
"news that was fit to print," the Times put it on the front page. And that
got everyone talking. And that's when your association jumped into action.
Shortly after lunch on Monday, Phil Boyer began the first of four TV
interviews that were arranged by AOPA's Media Relations department.
Literally meeting the D.C.-based media halfway, Boyer left AOPA headquarters
in Frederick, Maryland, to speak to the media from the ramp of Montgomery
County Airpark (GAI). There he spent about 20 minutes each with NBC network
news, NBC local affiliate news, Hearst TV, and even CBS network news
reporter Bob Orr (see accompanying photos).
While all that was going on, AOPA Government and Technical Affairs SVP Andy
Cebula headed to D.C. to meet with some of the government's top security
people. There he was able to get the full story behind the Overview document
and provide the needed facts and perspective. And that's when the
ePublishing department kicked in to bring you the real story behind the
day's big story.
Both CBS and NBC aired fair and balanced stories Monday evening. ABC, on the
other hand, played it like the New York Times. But like the Times, ABC
didn't talk to the one organization that understands general aviation and
has always prided itself on giving the media the straight story � warts and
all.
(AOPA would also like to thank GAI Airport Manager John Luke for his
generous cooperation and hospitality.)

What didn't get on TV - A look behind the scenes

Sometimes members ask us, "Why didn't you say that?" to the TV reporter. Or
"Why didn't you talk about..." Well, we usually did. But TV time is
precious, and normally all you get is about 15 seconds. (Click here to see
the CBS story.

But this time, we taped all of the interviews with Phil Boyer, four
networks' worth, more than 60 minutes of tape. We won't show it all to you,
but click here to get an idea of what's said versus what gets edited out
(13 minutes; broadband recommended).

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UFO Propulsion System - Bending time and space

2005-03-17T14:27:00.000-08:00

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UFO Propulsion System - Bending time and space by Staff Reporter
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Defense Scientists and Engineers are finally starting to understand the
ultimate propulsion system that can make instantaneous space travel
possible. The UFOs use this propulsion system to travel great distances
instantaneously.

The speed of light is 670,000,000 miles per hour � a number no human being
can ever stand in any craft for a long time. Does that mean UFOs are
unmanned or extra-terrestrial beings are totally different? It is possible
but not likely. Theory of evolution in the Universe says that intelligent
life forms are abundant in the Universe but they have evolved in a similar
way.

Traveling even at the speed of light (670,000,000 miles per hour) is just
not enough to cover distant destinations in the Universe. For example even
at that speed traveling from one constellation to another may take hundreds
of years.

Then how can one travel such great distances in a short span of time? This
is the million-dollar question that has made every country in the world keep
quiet about UFOs and cover up their existence and interaction. Every country
believes they will be the first to uncover the technology of �flash travel�
which is the term used in traveling from point A to point B in the Universe
instantaneously.

To understand the concept, imagine you have to travel from New York to New
Delhi, two points in the opposite sides of the globe. Now think you have the
technology of freezing time and then get back to current time. At 9AM (or
any other time of a particular day), you take the instance of the globe and
freeze it for travel. Now assume the globe is made of paper or some other
flexible material. Now you deform the globe and bring NY and New Delhi touch
each other. Then travel from NY to New Delhi instantaneously because the
distance is really very little since you deformed the globe. After
completing the travel you put the globe back to its original configuration.
And you transfer yourself to the current time.

This may seem complex but actually once the technology is mastered it is
really simple. Another way to understand this is to hold a piece of
rectangular paper in your hand. Bring the two opposite corners of the
rectangular piece of paper together and make them touch each other. Now the
distance between the two opposite corner is really zero.

Bending space and time is the concept where you do not travel to the
destination; you bring the destination close to you. This is exactly how
UFOs travel from one destination to another. That is the reason why those
who are waiting with their telescope in the open sly to find UFOs will never
find them.

Scientists and Engineers are now perplexed trying to understand how that
kind of space travel is possible. The answer lies in using something known
as dark energy. The dark energy allows disintegration or deformation of
space. There are some early indications that dark energy also allows
isolating time dimensions.

Physicists and Engineers are researching the use of dark energy. The purpose
is to understand the process of bending the space and time. That requires
UFO flight patterns; sighting information and a mathematical algorithm to
back calculate their flight positions in a more than three dimensional
geometry. Computer models are helping. We do not have the technologies to
capture or isolate time dimension. Can you draw a block or a cube on a piece
of paper? Yes, you can. It is called an isometric drawing

It is the process of drawing a three-dimensional drawing on a two
dimensional paper. Similarly, complex algorithms are allowing reverse
engineering the UFO Time and Space bending in a medium that is
three-dimensional. The resulting map is showing the space and time (four
dimensions) in a three dimensional environment.

Sometimes you wonder what any one can gain spending so much time and money
to hide and cover up all the UFO information? Why so much ridicule around
something every country in running after since 1890? The answer is the fact
that any one who can master this time and space bending technology will be
ahead of others by many years.

There are early indications that scientists and engineers have got an early
indication to the concept of bending time and space using dark energy.
Interestingly, the whole concept starts with Einstein�s Theory of Relativity.

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Lab fireball 'may be black hole'

2005-03-17T12:44:00.000-08:00

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Creating the conditions for the formation of black holes is one of the aims
of particle physics
A fireball created in a US particle accelerator has the characteristics of a
black hole, a physicist has said.

It was generated at the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider (RHIC) in New York,
US, which smashes beams of gold nuclei together at near light speeds.

Horatiu Nastase says his calculations show that the core of the fireball has
a striking similarity to a black hole.

His work has been published on the pre-print website arxiv.org and is
reported in New Scientist magazine.

When the gold nuclei smash into each other they are broken down into
particles called quarks and gluons.

These form a ball of plasma about 300 times hotter than the surface of the
Sun. This fireball, which lasts just 10 million, billion, billionths of a
second, can be detected because it absorbs jets of particles produced by the
beam collisions.

But Nastase, of Brown University in Providence, Rhode Island, says there is
something unusual about it.

Ten times as many jets were being absorbed by the fireball as were predicted
by calculations.

The Brown researcher thinks the particles are disappearing into the
fireball's core and reappearing as thermal radiation, just as matter is
thought to fall into a black hole and come out as "Hawking" radiation.

However, even if the ball of plasma is a black hole, it is not thought to
pose a threat. At these energies and distances, gravity is not the dominant
force in a black hole.

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Re: Greg Bishop Talks About UFO Disinfo with Art Bell Tonight

2005-03-17T09:46:00.000-08:00

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Thanks for the support. Umfortunately, I did not check this email until
today!

Re: your question about low-flying UFOs-- in the early 1990s, I went up to
the Antelope Valley area of L.A. county to look at a military contractor's
area there. I didn't see anything, but a few people I interviewed claimed to
have seen many unconventional things in the air in the area. There are many
other reports of the "flying triangles" or delt-wing-shaped things flying
near bases. I have found that there are projects to fly lighter-than-air
craft at low altitudes that are not coincidentally triangle- and
delta-shaped and huge. I have seen pictures of these craft (in a magazine
that I have miplaced) and they do indeed resemble things that are reported
(even by Art himself.) They are slow-moving and almost (I repeat almost)
never perform the zippy sort of aerobatics associated with other "classic"
UFOs. This by no means "solves" the mystery, but it may be a clue.

Best,

Greg Bishop

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Re: Pics of USS San Francisco attack sub after it collided with underground moun

2005-03-14T18:10:00.000-08:00

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Bigfoot Hunting Ban in Nebraska?

2005-03-14T15:22:00.000-08:00

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Nebraska senator: Protect Bigfoot, itching, lounging
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LINCOLN, Neb. (AP) � What do Bigfoot, Noah's Ark and Amelia Earhart's plane
have in common?

They're all being used to make a point by Omaha Sen. Ernie Chambers, who is
taking aim at a measure to protect hunting.

In an attempt to mock the proposed change to Nebraska's constitution,
Chambers has filed 35 amendments to protect the hunting of a myriad of other
things, including the missing Earhart plane, the ark, Osama bin Laden and
the Holy Grail.

"This state is not going to ban fishing, hunting and trapping," said
Chambers, who believes the proposal is unnecessary.

While there is no immediate threat, there are animal rights groups that
would like to see hunting, fishing and trapping outlawed, said Sen. Ed
Schrock, who introduced the measure. "I think we should probably get out
ahead of this."

The proposed amendment would add one paragraph to the state constitution
that says fishing, trapping, and hunting are a "valued part of the heritage
of the people and will be a right forever preserved."

Eleven other states have similar protections in law or the constitution.
Rhode Island and California also have amendments protecting the right to fish.

Chambers successfully shot down a similar proposal last year. If he gets his
way, laughing, coughing, itching, scratching, lounging, munching and "being
oneself" also will be protected.

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Re: NASA, Ukraine prepare flights to moon

2005-03-12T19:44:00.000-08:00

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hello,

i am glad to hear that nasa is moving ahead, with all the mishaps, and
problems, still have that strong desire to go to space, i love space, i
understand that these things dont come easy, and there is a risk in going
into space, but its all part of the fun, best wishes to all who make it
possible, keep up the good work,

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News still Hiding Up on Major Mishaps of 1986 and 1987

2005-03-09T23:28:00.000-08:00

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Stock Market Crashes Blamed on "Computer Problems" part of a Big Cover-Up

Between the 9th to 12th of September 1986
there was a sudden dramatic fall in the Dow Jones Industrial Index
of about EIGHT PERCENT or 150 points.

This came about a week after a widely reported statement,
by "Supreme Allied Commander", General Rogers,
that nuclear weapon attacks could possibly be made
against the Muslim in Africa.

Later, on and after the 19th of October 1987, there
was an even greater major collapse in World economic indices,
of almost 35 PERCENT or many hundreds of points.

This came in a period of rabid and raging Anti-Semitism
and destruction of oil platforms, in the Gulf of Iran,
by United States' Government militarist activities,
sometimes known as "gunboat diplomacy".

Deceptively, the News' media attribute these market
heart-attacks to "computer problems".

More rational explanations for the market falls are found in
the unusual events that occurred after the United States'
Government military threats and attacks.

In the first strike of market fright, after the threat of
nuclear-weapon usage was made :

A large commercial passenger plane crashed over
Disneyland, California, the traditional home of "Mickey Mouse"

and

Very strange things happened near rural military areas
in the United States:

UFO's (Extraterrestrial Flying Objects) killed many large animals,
such as cattle and horses!

The second event has been seen before.

It is a type of UFO phenomena frequently visited
on many countries since the 1970's.

Reference to it can be found in books such as

UFO Coverup by Lawrence Fawcett
(Prentice Hall; also once titled Clear Intent).

It often bears the same characteristics :

UFO's are able to enter any air-space,
irrespective of military aircraft or missile attacks.

Then the UFO's descend over animals to perform
hideously grotesque surgical operations!

Over 60,000 livestock have been killed in this way by UFO's
in North America since about 1975, despite a massive News' cover-up.

Could these horribly gruesome operations be implied messages,
of the types of things, Intelligences of the UFO's, do to
Nuclear Nazi activities, such as those threatened by
Government officials in September 1986?

See Chart of Dow Jones Industrial Index September 1986

http://www.geocities.com/intelligences/gifs/chart86.gif

The second World market crash, in 1987, occurred with
direct correlation to violent human activities in the Gulf of
Iran.

It was also accompanied by a major strange activity:
a massive and devastating weather system, resembling a giant hurricane,
that impacted on the south of the British Isles. The
system was noted to be the worst cyclic storm to strike
Royal Britain in recorded history!

Could this Nature Activity be a Message, given the World
Order, that Nature did not like the human militarism (including
naval attacks on oil platforms) that attempted to pollute and
destroy the Gulf of Iran in October 1987?

See Chart of New York, London and Tokyo Market Indices October 1987

http://www.geocities.com/intelligences/gifs/chart87.gif

Perhaps an even more dire warning is to be found in the
translation of "Chernobyl", the name of a Soviet town
having a major nuclear disaster:

In early 1986 the News were whipping the masses of the United
States, Europe, Russia and other countries, into a frenzy,
leading to warfare with the Muslim in many places. Also,
Marxist-terrorist attacks were being made throughout Europe.

Then, in these attempts to start the World Anti-Islamic War,
"Chernobyl" happened, and the focus of the News' media was
forced to change, away from War Propaganda, to a major nuclear
disaster. And the Soviet elite curtailed activities of the
Marxist-terrorist squads!

"Chernobyl" had a Nuclear Energy Fission plant.

Fission can "break-it-up" or "separate" things.

Also, very interestingly, "Chernobyl" can mean "Black and
White" in Russian! (A Black and White TV is called a
"Chern-O-Bily" in Russia).

Yet the News rarely gave translation, to the public,
of the name "Chernobyl", from Ukrainian Russian to other
languages!

(Chern = Black, Byl = White as in Byl-O-Russia).

Could the "Chernobyl" nuclear disaster have been a unique way
of instructing the World Order, that "Black and White"
human races should "break-it-up" or "separate", in
planned war attempts, that profit the major war industries?

Conclusion

People throughout the Planet sometimes realise that
Big Wealthy Humans seek to gain by deviate activities such as

War-for-Gold,
World-Monopolism,
Military-Govern-Mentalism
and
Dangerous use of Super-Natural Forces
(Nuclear Bombs and other High Technology "Advanced" Weapons).

Yet the News rarely give truthful information to Mankind
that would endanger the World Elite, because of course:

The News are the World Elite!

Might the News be hiding certain things from Mankind

Lest the Billions rise-up against the News?

Peace Can Be Healthy

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Kitten Born With Two Faces

2005-03-09T15:34:00.000-08:00

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LAKE CITY, Fla. -- When Teresa Morrison's cat had a litter Tuesday, she
noticed something was different about one of the kittens.

"I thought it had growth on its face," she said. The kitten has two mouths,
two noses and four eyes. She immediately called her veterinarian.

"He said he's never seen it. Never," Morrison said.

The kitten is nursing from its mother, which the vet said is a good sign.

"(She's) feeding off one mouth now; sometimes go to the other one, but he's
not getting it open," Morrison said.

The vet told Morrison he didn't know if the cat has one or two brains, but
having one would give the cat a better chance to survive.

He said if the kitten lives 48 hours, he has a good chance of living a full
life.

Wednesday morning, Morrison named the cat "Deuce."

www.esryle.com
Local News Across The Nation

Kitten Born With Two Faces
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Ex-Marine Says Public Version of Saddam Capture Fiction

2005-03-09T13:09:00.000-08:00

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Ex-Marine Says Public Version of Saddam Capture Fiction
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A former U.S. Marine who participated in capturing ousted Iraqi President
Saddam Hussein said the public version of his capture was fabricated.

Ex-Sgt. Nadim Abou Rabeh, of Lebanese descent, was quoted in the Saudi daily
al-Medina Wednesday as saying Saddam was actually captured Friday, Dec. 12,
2003, and not the day after, as announced by the U.S. Army.

"I was among the 20-man unit, including eight of Arab descent, who searched
for Saddam for three days in the area of Dour near Tikrit, and we found him
in a modest home in a small village and not in a hole as announced," Abou
Rabeh said.

"We captured him after fierce resistance during which a Marine of Sudanese
origin was killed," he said.

He said Saddam himself fired at them with a gun from the window of a room on
the second floor. Then they shouted at him in Arabic: "You have to
surrender. ... There is no point in resisting."

"Later on, a military production team fabricated the film of Saddam's
capture in a hole, which was in fact a deserted well," Abou Rabeh said.

Abou Rabeh was interviewed in Lebanon.

Compare this Information to the Saddam Capture Archive at InfoWars.com...

And From the ParaPolitics.info Archives...

Saddam�s Capture: Was a Deal Brokered Behind the Scenes? by David Pratt
January 4, 2004 When it emerged that the Kurds had captured the Iraqi
dictator, the US celebrations evap
Forum: Ministry of DisInformation

Reuters: "Soldiers tore off a false beard"
Forum: Ministry of DisInformation

Saddam was held by Kurdish forces, drugged and left for US troops
"Dates in December?" Saddam held by Kurds, drugged and left for US troops: re
Forum: Ministry of DisInformation

Congressman says Saddam capture timed to help Bush Admin 12-16-03 08:18
McDermott in Hot Water for Saddam Quip By MATTHEW DALY Associated Press
Writer December 15, 2003, 9:07 PM EST
Forum: ParaPolitics - General

While Saddam was Captured: Stealth enactment of the "Patriot II" legislation
Various Sources While CNN and
Forum: 4th Amendment Threats

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Pentagon Sued for Records on Propaganda, Psy-Ops Against US Civilians

2005-03-09T08:59:00.000-08:00

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PENTAGON SUED FOR RECORDS ON PROPAGANDA, PSY-OPS AND �PERCEPTION MANAGEMENT�
TARGETING U.S. CIVILIANS
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Pentagon Media Consultants Develop �Empower Peace� Internet Site Aimed at
School Children

(Washington, DC) Judicial Watch, the public interest group that investigates
and prosecutes government corruption, announced today that it has filed a
lawsuit in U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia seeking records
under the provisions of the Freedom of Information Act (�FOIA�), 5 U.S.C. '
552, from the Department of Defense concerning Pentagon funded programs
engaged in �strategic influence, perception management, strategic
information warfare and/or strategic psychological operations� through media
consultants, �think tanks,� foreign expatriate political organizations and
Internet sites. Judicial Watch filed its FOIA request with the Pentagon on
March 23, 2004. Following eight (8) requests for a status update, several
phone calls and Judicial Watch offers to accept incremental production of
the requested records, the Pentagon produced only two (2) spreadsheets
listing Defense Department contracts. Judicial Watch was forced to file suit
on February 25, 2005.

Judicial Watch is seeking, among other matters; information on a �peace
movement� Internet site that reportedly was funded and established by the
Pentagon called �Empower Peace.� The site was developed by The Rendon Group,
a media consultancy firm the Pentagon has paid more than $40 million dollars
to since 2001, and targets participation of American school age children,
teachers and schools in what appears to be a �grassroots� peace movement.
The Rendon Group�s relationship with the Pentagon has been reported in the
New York Times and public relations trade magazines. �Empower Peace� offers
�cultural awareness,� interactive web broadcasts between New York and
Jordan, as well as Boston and Bahrain, and interaction with school age
children of Islamic countries. There is no indication on the site that it is
a project of the U.S. Defense Department.

The Smith-Mundt Act of 1948 (22 U.S.C. ' 1461), forbids the domestic
dissemination of U.S. government authored or developed propaganda or
�official news� deliberately designed to influence public opinion or policy.
The Pentagon has made aggressive use of various information warfare
techniques, developing new programs and hiring outside media consultants in
executing their various missions in the Global War on Terror.

�Programs such as �Empower Peace,� in addition to their dubious value, may
be in violation of U.S. law,� stated Judicial Watch President Tom Fitton.

To view a copy of the complaint, click here .

For Immediate Release Mar 4, 2005 Contact: Press Office
202-646-5172

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Strange Animal Caught on Camera

2005-03-08T09:20:00.000-08:00

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Strange Animal Caught on Camera

A strange animal spotted in Harrison County is caught on camera.

A similar sighting in Angelina County was reported a few months ago to the
Department of State Health Services.

Veterinary officials believe it is a coyote that's suffering from hair loss.
They say it may be because

Julie Tam, reporting.

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Re: Encounters With the Elmendorf Beast

2005-03-05T08:09:00.000-08:00

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Anomaly News 050303

2005-03-05T05:02:00.000-08:00

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Anomaly News for the Week of March 3rd, 2005
Some of the choice articles from this week's roundup ...

March 3

Brain Reconstruction Hints at 'Hobbit' Intelligence New Scientist
Analysis of the diminutive cranium of Homo floresiensis confirms it as a
unique species and reveals remarkably advanced features for such a small
brain. And: Virtual Model Points to Separate Species ;
Not a Diseased Human
Musician Can 'Taste Music' AFP
A Swiss musician sees colours when she hears music, and experiences tastes
ranging from sour and bitter to low-fat cream and mown grass. Zurich
neuropsychologists say she is the world's most extreme known case of
synaesthesia.

New Research Opens Window on Minds of Plants Christian Science Monitor
Anthony Trewavas, plant biochemist: 'The attitude of people is changing
quite substantially. The idea of intelligence is going from the very narrow
view that it's just human to something that's much more generally found in
life.'

Scholars to Delve Into Mystery of 'the Spirit Within' Univ. of Chicago
Chronicle
A three-day conference The Spirit Within: Inspiration, Possession and
Disease in the Ancient Mediterranean Basin runs from March 4 - 6. The
question: When and where did the idea of the indwelling demon emerge?

Space 'Burp' Baffles Scientists Reuters
The Burper. A strange and powerful burst of radio waves from near the centre
of our galaxy may have come from a previously unknown type of space object.
Scott Hyman: 'We hit the jackpot.' And: Once-In-A-Lifetime Eureka Moment

Extraterrestrials & the Occult Connection The Book of Thoth
Did occultists evoke the 1947 flying saucer craze through a series of
magickal workings? Are secret societies today using knowledge from ET to
steer the course of human evolution? Check it out.

Mystery of Canine 'Suicides' at Eerie Bridge The Herald
Animal experts admit they have no explanation for a spate of what appear to
be canine suicides � all from the same spot. At least five dogs have jumped
to their deaths from a bridge at Overtoun House in the past six months.

Mouse Has Cast a Glow On Professor's Work Associated Press
An astonishing neon green glow, to be precise. Glowy Nibbles Zimmer is a
symbol of chemistry prof Marc Zimmer's work, highlighted in the
just-published book Glowing Genes: A Revolution in Biotechnology.

Filmmaker Debuts Skunk Ape Documentary Marco Island Sun Times
Nate Martin wants to get it right. He's seeking suggestions for his pet
project, a 59-minute documentary entitled The Ochopee Skunk Ape.

Pursued By Phantom Black Pig Daily Post
'Such unclean creatures,' these associates of the Devil. Welsh tales. Also:
Visits of a Phantom Squirrel

Bighorn Ram is Walworth County Mystery Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
From kangaroos to werewolves, southern Wisconsin has seen it all recently.
Greg Matthews, DNR: 'I keep track in our region of all the exotic animal
spottings. This is the first one for a bighorn sheep. Normally, these exotic
animals get run over down here.' And: Where's Big Al?

Teenagers Special: The Original Rebels New Scientist
The Wild Ones. Q: 'What are you rebelling against?' A: 'What've you got?' A
hotly debated topic in anthro circles is the claim that some researchers
have found evidence of an adolescent phase in fossil hominids, while others
have only seen signs of a more ape-like pattern of development, with no
adolescent growth spurt at all. The story.

Remains of 'Hobbit' Returned to Owners Sydney Morning Herald
No doubt Charles Fort would have delighted in this continuing pissing match
over 'ownership'.

Like Pedder, Tiger Disappears The Mercury
Senator Bob Brown spent a year searching for the Tasmanian Tiger in the
1970s. He's not too excited by recent photos. 'I came to Tasmania to see two
things many years ago -- the original Lake Pedder and a thylacine -- and I'm
afraid they are both gone.'

March 2

Penrose: The Answer's Not 42 Wired
Roger Penrose, author of the 1,099-page opus The Road to Reality: A Complete
Guide to the Laws of the Universe: 'We are nowhere close to an accurate,
purely physical theory of everything.' Elsewhere: One Step Closer to
Ultimate Theory of Everything

Professor Bubb & the Paranormal St. Louis Post-Dispatch
Reprint from May 9, 1988. The famous exorcism that inspired the best-selling
novel and hit movie The Exorcist featured a bit player named Frank W. Bubb
Sr. And: Priest in Exorcist Incident Dies ; 'Wild, Diabolical Laughter' ;
Walter Halloran Dies

Powerful Bursting Radio Source Discovery PhysOrg
Astronomers at Sweet Briar College and the Naval Research Laboratory have
detected a powerful new bursting radio source whose unique properties
suggest the discovery of a new class of astronomical objects.

Postscript from a Strange Land Fort Worth Weekly
John Makeig�s life and death were as bizarre as anything he ever reported.
He was the classic 'Fortean personality' writ large.

The Hobbit Inspires An All-In Academic Brawl Canberra Times
Peter Brown: 'I only take scientific comments when they are peer-reviewed
rather than being published in a small local newspaper or scratched on a
toilet wall somewhere.'

Town Ponders Destroying 'Cursing Stone' AFP
The Cursing Stone of Carlisle was intended simply as an innocent community
art project. Tim Tootle, councillor: 'Many groups and individuals warned the
council that the placing of a non-Christian artefact, based on an old curse
on local families, would bring ill luck to the city. This has [been] seen to
be correct.' And: City Cursed ; Jinx of 'Biblical Proportions' ; End This
Curse!

Spitzer Space Telescope Finds Bright Infrared Galaxies Innovations Report
These newly discovered galaxies are about 11 billion light years away, or 80
percent of the way back to the Big Bang.

Pictures Man As Elusive As Tiger The Mercury
Nick Mooney, wildlife biologist: 'It appears he has been spooked and has
gone to ground. It's still a bit of a mystery.' And: Genuine Thylacine
Spotters Earn Their Stripes ; Photos to Thrill ; Spotters 'Sadly Mistaken' ;
Opportunity in Tiger Tales

God Under a Microscope Sydney Morning Herald
Programmed to believe? In a test, V.S. Ramachandran found that patients with
temporal lobe epilepsy responded very differently from others. Violent words
such as 'beat' and sexual terms produced no reaction, but religious icons
and the word 'God' evoked a big response.

March 1

Ancient Sky Map or Fake? The Guardian
One of Germany's most acclaimed archaeological finds - a 3,600-year-old disc
depicting the stars and the planets - is at the centre of a dispute
following claims that it is a modern forgery.

Japan Scans Skies for Alien Life AFP
Two Japanese observatories have started a probe to find signs of
extraterrestrial life using radio and optical telescopes.

Vampire Rabbit Mystery Unravels BBC News
Pass the Holy Hand Grenade. A vampire rabbit with long red nails is just one
of the bizarre exhibits in a new display charting the history and
archaeology of Tyne and Wear. And: Not So Sanguine Vampire Rabbit Pic ;
Elsewhere: Travel: Chile's Straits of Chacao's Vampire Squirrels & Giant
Serpents

Mystery Squid In Gulf Associated Press
It took only a minute for scientists to discover a new deep-sea species, a
6-foot squid of a type never before photographed, with an experimental
infrared camera and light-emitting artificial lure.

Houston Couple Fights 'Demons' With Christianity KPRC TV
Alice Smith: 'I saw a demon my first time when I was 7 years old and it was
in my room. At the time what I saw had yellow eyes. Shiny, but I have also
seen in the demonic realm, it looks leathery, almost like it has fur.' With
video.

Extinct or Not Extinct? That is the Question Sapa-AFP
How do you catch a supposed extinct eastern cougar? You set a sex trap.
Elsewhere: Surprising Footprints in Old Sand

Is Something Lurking in Lake Washington? Seattle Post-Intelligencer
Shannon Gibson, Medina police: 'The people said they saw something that
seemed to be a small alligator. The one report said "head of an alligator".'

State Constitution May Protect Bigfoot Associated Press
Grandstanding state senator Ernie Chambers has filed 35 amendments to the
Nebraska constitution to protect the hunting of a myriad of things,
including the missing Earhart plane, Noah's ark, Osama bin Laden, Bigfoot,
and the Holy Grail. And: Hunting Protection

Tiger Photos Sought By State The Mercury
If March comes in like a tiger, will it go out like a lamb? Tasmanian acting
Environment Minister Steve Kons is urging the photographer to 'break his
silence'. And: Tracker Insists Tigers Alive ; Speculation Mounts

February 28

Ontario Priest Continues to Defy Church with Crusade Buffalo News
The Rev. Nicholas Gruner contends that Vatican leaders, including the pope,
are covering up the 'Third Secret' of Fatima, causing grave harm to the
spiritual salvation of Catholics worldwide. He also dispenses 'miraculous
Fatima water' to believers.

Residents Tire of Protruding Coffins New Straits Times
Residents of Jalan Sultan have been staring at two coffins sticking out of a
hillside for fifteen years. They've seen apparitions, felt cold spots. They
finally want an end to it all. Elsewhere: 'Jesus' Appears on Tree

Leaking Gravity May Explain Cosmic Puzzle Space.com
The theory that the accelerated expansion of the universe is caused by
mysterious 'dark energy' is being challenged by physicist Georgi Dvali. He
thinks there's just a gravity leak.

Invisibility Shields Planned by Engineers National Geographic
Tech. That Romulan cloaking device is nearer than you think. Electronic
engineers at the University of Pennsylvania are researching a device they
say could make objects 'nearly invisible to an observer'.

Could Common Scents Snuff Out the Superbug? Western Mail
Essential oils have been used for over 5000 years. Research conducted at the
University of Manchester has found that three oils usually used in
aromatherapy destroyed MRSA and E.coli bacteria in two minutes flat.

Ancient Earth Drawings Found in Peru Associated Press
Archaeologists have discovered a group of giant figures scraped into the
hills of Peru's southern coastal desert that are believed to predate the
country's famed Nazca lines.

Unweaving the Song of Whales BBC News
Christopher Clark has been eavesdropping on the ocean. His bioacoustics lab
is now able to pinpoint the location of individual singers, and determine
the length of their song. 'They have voices that span an entire ocean.'

Russian Church, Parliament Team Up Against Occultism Novosti
Authorities fear 'mass confusion brought forth (by) thousands of self-styled
witches and magicians.'

Is Anyone Missing A Marsupial? Associated Press
No one has claimed the mystery kangaroo found wandering southwest Wisconsin
in early January.

The Riddle Grows Hobart Mercury
Tassie tiger photos. Nick Mooney, wildlife biologist: 'It is clearly more
likely a thylacine than any other animal, but the authenticity of the
picture does pose some issues.' And: Excitement Over Tasmanian Tiger Sighting

February 27

Some Heart Recipients Report Strange Changes Arizona Daily Star
Jaime Sherman, 28, never liked sports or Mexican food until her heart
transplant. 'Now I love football, baseball, basketball. You name it, I
follow it. And Mexican food is by far my favorite.'

Camera, and Song, Catch Rare Bird Los Angeles Times
Armed only with a song, two naturalists flushed what may be the world's
rarest bird from the steep slopes of the Himalayas, a species never before
seen alive in the wild, the rusty-throated wren-babbler.

Earth Magnetic Field Reversal Pure Energy System News
Scientists have been observing changes in the direction of earth's magnetic
field. It's not only the direction but also the strength of this magnetic
field that is causing a concern.

Literary Sleuths Probe Medieval Mystery Miami Herald
The Voynich Manuscript. Review, Lawrence and Nancy Goldstone's The Friar and
the Cipher: Roger Bacon and the Unsolved Mystery of the Most Unusual
Manuscript in the World. 'An amusing dispute.'

Indian Archaeologists Discover Ancient Port City AFP
The archaeologists learned of the structures after locals reported spotting
a temple and several sculptures when the sea pulled back briefly just before
deadly tsunamis smashed into the coastline. Elsewhere: Massachussetts Town
Seeking Protection for Mysterious Manmade Cave

Raymond Investigators Take Ghost of a Chance Union Leader
Kathleen Chamberlain: 'We've heard some rumors in town from people who think
their houses are haunted. We're believers to begin with. We're not gullible
. . . but we know there are true stories out there.' Elsewhere: Ireland's
Demon Chaser Questions TV Exorcism ; Carole Wilson Sees Dead People, Solves
Crimes ;
Students Haunt Theater to Hunt Down Ghosts
Reeves' Encounter with the Devil Contact Music
Keanu: 'I was on my motorbike when I drew up alongside a car at an
intersection. ... I felt like I had looked at a wraith, like I'd looked at
the devil.' And: Keanu Sees Dead People ; Also: Was She an Obeah Woman?

Tiger Mystery Sunday Tasmanian
A German visitor to Tasmania has taken several photographs of what appears
to be a Tasmanian tiger in the Lake St Clair region.

Hunt on for the Black Panther Sydney Morning Herald
A television crew is hoping to prove the existence of a mystery feline
creature that has been haunting Blue Mountains residents for decades.

The Road to Reality: A Really Long History of Time New York Times
Review, Roger Penrose's A Complete Guide to the Laws of the Universe. 'This
is the book alien archaeologists may study for a rigorous, comprehensive
view of how the 21st-century inhabitants of the third rock from the sun
believed the world worked.'

Anglers Called to Eel Melbourne Herald Sun
Gary Wales, farm manager: 'The challenge of catching a world record is what
they want more than the money.'

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Hunter Thompson friend confirms was on to White House callboy story

2005-03-04T08:55:00.000-08:00

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Via LibertyThink.com - Check out this short partial transcript below and
this audio file (link below) from Thursday's Alex Jones show. The audio clip
has material not in the transcript. Jones' sites may or may not plan to post
more complete audio.

ALEX JONES: We're talking to a renowned journalist and writer, Paul William
Roberts. Wrote a story for The Globe & Mail up in Canada where he talked
about Hunter S. Thompson before he died mysteriously a few weeks ago, saying
he believed the government may have been involved in 9/11, and he was
concerned. He lived basically in a little armored compound... now they're
saying he committed suicide.

But Paul has also interviewed people like Saddam Hussein; has written on the
subject -- just this whole global empire...

CALLER "Scott from Texas": I was just wondering if you guys might be able to
clear up something I heard through the journalist Sherman Skolnick. He is
reporting that another story or book, I don't remember exactly which, that
Hunter S. Thompson was working on was about this gay prostitution ring in
the White House and supposedly that was another touchy topic that he brought
out, and the whole...

JONES: Had you heard that from Hunter?

PAUL WILLAM ROBERTS: Yeah, I had heard that quite a lot from Hunter. It goes
back to Kissinger, I believe.

JONES: Wow.

Now that's a big confirmation. Now for those who don't know, We have
Washington Times articles from 1989, you know -- 'underage call boys in the
White House', and so this is serious . .. Hunter was working on that?

ROBERTS: Yeah, in fact Lyndon LaRouche published some stuff about that. And
although, you know, a lot of his material was not that trustworthy, in this
particular case there were a lot of sources cited and there was no lawsuit.
And where there's no lawsuit you can be almost guaranteed that it's true.

CALLER: And I'm wondering if that might not be a hotter issue otherwise,
because you get into the Jeff Gannon case and the whole gay prostitution and
that's a national security issue.

JONES: Well, Skolnick is saying that now, we're talking about some of the
fake reporters, and we know that ... again I haven't confirmed that part of
the story but i'd like 2 get some conf on that

CALLER: And also it's interesting too because it dovetails with Jeff Gannon
possibly being the leak that leaked the story about Valerie Plame...

JONES: Well let me just add this. I mean, we have the New York Post: 'Top
gay porn star services moguls at Bohemian Grove... I mean I have Parade
magazine articles, Spy magazine articles from the 80s where, as I said they
bus in the gay prostitutes like Beluga caviar for our "Christian
conservative" leaders... And is that what Hunter S. Thompson was on to?

ROBERTS: He certainly knew all about that and I believe had written about
it. I don't know wheher there was a book in the works, but he certainly had
published columns on it...

JONES: Well it certainly looks pretty suspicious. Man let me tell you.

[LATER IN THE PROGRAM]

CALLER "Thomas in Colorado": I never met Mr. -- Dr. Thompson myself, but we
had a muutal friend and I'm still friends with this guy and through this
mutual friend, I passed on to him about a year ago some of your vidoes. So
Dr Thompson watched your videos, I know this for a fact and through my
friend I heard that he was impressed and he said something to the effect,
"Yes, that's the way it is" or "That's the way things are."

PERMA-LINK:

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Re: Greg Bishop Talks About UFO Disinfo with Art Bell Tonight

2005-03-04T00:07:00.000-08:00

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Greg,

Just wanted to congratulate you on what I found to be one of the top 5 Coast
to Coast AM programs of all time! That's saying a lot coming from me; I've
been a faithful listener since 1996. I don't know how you convinced Richard
Doty to step forward, but it was a major breakthough for UFO research. Your
experience in radio was also in evidence during this program. You knew just
when to help Art with a question, keep Richard on track, and add your own
insights to the discussion. I swear, it almost sounded like you and Art
were in the same studio being co-ordinated by a producer.... brilliant work!

I have now listened to that program on streamlink 4 times, and I get
something new out of it everytime I hear it. It really needs to be
transcribed at some point for posterity and research. You guys threw so
many crumbs out that it will take me forever to follow-up on all of them!!

John Cauthen
Rock Hill, SC

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Re: Magnetic missiles attractive to Navy

2005-03-03T11:31:00.000-08:00

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I was in a band a few years ago with a guy who worked at the J.Pickel
research center in north Austin on secret DOD Rail Gun technology. Here is a
Spaceman article alluding to this.

This seems to be the same kind of thing.

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Austin American-Statesman -- April 6, 1998

Research on electric weapons generates buzz for UT institute
By: Dick Stanley

In the early 21st century, electricity won't just run the television,
computer and hair dryer.

It will form shields like those on Star Trek'' around ground combat
vehicles, power high-technology guns and run super-quiet engines.

They'll run over you before you hear them coming,'' University of Texas
physicist Harry Fair said.

It's not science fiction but Army research, some of it secret and all of it
maturing at UT's 8-year-old Institute for Advanced Technology, which Fair
directs.

UT won the institute -- which the Army finances for $10 million a year -- in
a late 1980s competition with the University of California and the Los
Alamos National Laboratory in New Mexico.

UT won because it had been doing groundbreaking engineering research for
more than a decade on a prime international military interest: revolutionary
electric guns and the advanced electric generators to power them.

The weapons, which were first developed in the Star Wars missile defense
program, also are being researched by the European and Russian militaries.

They are being considered for arming all-electric combat vehicles, to defend
against aircraft and missiles, for artillery with the unprecedented range of
155 miles (almost 20 times that of conventional artillery) and to supplement
cruise missiles.

The UT institute is near the J.J. Pickle Research Campus in North Austin,
but its lab is miles away, northwest of the city in a former furniture
factory in Leander.

In the lab's main room last week, Fair, 61, explained the unclassified
workings of what looked like a black bridge beam. A test model of an
electric gun, the 21- foot-long beam is the centerpiece of UT research into
the guns, generators and highly classified electric armor, which could make
the raise the shields'' command used on the starship Enterprise a reality.

Behind the test gun were floor- to-ceiling electric generators that UT's
Center for Electromechanics, in cooperative research, is working to reduce
to the size of a garbage can.

The smaller generator, dubbed a compulsator, also would be a battery, with
an internal flywheel to store the electricity it produced for running
electric engines as well as powering the guns and electric armor.

Both the room-size and small generators can deliver 900 million watts --
roughly the daily electric power consumption of Travis County -- in pulses
lasting a tenth of a second.

The pulses would fling 12-inch- long, thin tungsten darts from the copper
rails of an electric gun at velocities of almost two miles a second -- three
times the speed of a deer rifle's bullet and almost twice as fast as the
explosive shells of the Army's front-line battle tank, the M-1 Abrams.

X-ray studies of the nonexplosive darts show that, at electric gun
velocities, they strike steel with a flash of light and penetrate more than
6 inches before being vaporized by the energy created by the impact.

The darts could shred enemy tanks and troop carriers, disabling them and
killing the troops inside. The idea is for (the enemy) to run out of armor
before you run out of projectiles,'' said Don Berry, an institute researcher.

Although electric guns are being tested in cannon and machine gun forms,
none yet approaches the people-sized one that Arnold Schwarzenegger carried
in the 1996 movie Eraser''.

Fair, who is acting as a host to a growing number of visiting Army generals,
expects the military's logistics branches to become the biggest backers of a
conversion to electric guns. Unlike conventional ammunition, the
nonexplosive darts aren't dangerous to store or transport.

UT researchers are far less open about electric armor, which is being
researched by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration as well as
the Army and Marine Corps.

The technology, according to military journals such as International Defence
Review, uses electric generators to form strong electromagnetic fields
inside steel boxes. Attached to the exteriors of combat vehicles, the boxes
slow down a missile or another weapon long enough for the electric fields
inside to deflect them.

NASA is considering using electric armor to shield the new International
Space Station from potentially dangerous collisions with space debris.

You can provide extraordinary protection electrically,'' Fair said.

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CONFIRMED: Hunter Thompson WAS to Xpose 911WTC Explosives and PedophileSexRings

2005-03-03T10:42:00.000-08:00

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CONFIRMED: Hunter S. Thompson WAS Writing eXpose Articles on 911 WTC
Demolitions and Washington DC's Pedophile-Sex-Rings

Today, Alex Jones interviewed Toronto Globe and Mail journalist, Paul
William Roberts, confirmed that his recent article, Alexander Pope in a
prose convertible (Saturday, February 26, 2005, Page F9), WAS NOT SATIRE.

Hunter Thompson was working on WTC collapse story before mysterious sudden
death
Tuesday, March 01, 2005

Toronto Globe and Mail February 26, 2005
:

He'd been working on a story about the World Trade Center attacks and had
stumbled across what he felt was hard evidence showing the towers had been
brought down not by the airplanes that flew into them but by explosive
charges set off in their foundations. ..

Hunter S. Thompson ... was indeed working on such a story.

Now check out this February 25 Associated Press story about Thompson's
death. Sounds a lot like a professional hit with a silencer:
"I was on the phone with him, he set the receiver down and he did it. I
heard the clicking of the gun," Anita Thompson told the Aspen Daily News in
Friday's editions.

She said her husband had asked her to come home from a health club so they
could work on his weekly ESPN column...

Thompson said she heard a loud, muffled noise, but didn't know what had
happened. "I was waiting for him to get back on the phone," she said.

(Her account to Rocky Mountain News reporter Jeff Kass is slightly
different: "I did not hear any bang," she told Kass. She added that
Thompson's son, who was in the house at the time, believed that a book had
fallen when he heard the shot, according to Kass' report.)

Mack White sums up the questions well:
Thompson's family says he was not depressed, nor was he in enough pain to
kill himself. In fact, by all reports, he was quite happy. He was talking on
the phone to his wife, getting ready to work on his column, when he decided
it would be wise to kill himself, so that he could go out (we are told)
while "still at the top of his form," even though this would mean not
finishing his column or his expose on 9/11 (potentially the most important
thing he would ever write) (?)...

Libertythink Perma-Link

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Ray gun can drop rioters from 2km

2005-03-03T08:54:00.000-08:00

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A RAY gun which can deliver a bout of excruciating pain to rioters from a
distance of more than two kilometres is being developed by weapons experts
in the United States.

Although the gun is meant to leave the victims unharmed, the development has
aroused fury among pain researchers, who claim their work to limit and
control pain has been hijacked to create a weapon.

They say the new technology, which is intended to replace the existing last
line of defence against rioters, for example water cannons and tear gas,
could be used for torture.

A report in the New Scientist magazine reveals that the research came to
light in documents unearthed by the Sunshine Project, an organisation based
in Texas and in Hamburg, Germany, that exposes biological weapons
developments and advances. The papers were released under US freedom of
information legislation.

One of the documents, a research contract between the Office of Naval
Research and the University of Florida in Gainsville, examines the effects
of what are termed Pulsed Energy Projectiles (PEPs), which fire a laser
pulse that generates a burst of expanding plasma when it comes into contact
with something solid, such as a human body.

Although it is not expected to be ready until 2007, the weapon could be used
to knock rioters clean off their feet.

A review of non-lethal weapons in 2003 by the US naval studies board, which
advises its domestic military forces, declared that PEPs produced "pain and
temporary paralysis" in tests on animals. It is believed that the effect
results from an electromagnetic pulse produced by the expanding plasma that
triggers impulses in the nerve cells.

The study aims to concentrate this trigger effect in human nerve cells, and
asks those working on the research to look for "optimal pulse parameters to
evoke peak nociceptor activation". Roughly translated, this means maximising
the amount of pain caused by the pulse. Experiments will seek to identify
how much pain can be inflicted before the subject is injured or killed.

Dr John Wood, of University College London, is an expert in how the human
brain perceives pain and believes that the researchers should be condemned
by the international scientific community.

He said: "It could be used for torture. The researchers must be aware of
this."

www.esryle.com
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Students Haunt Theater to Hunt Down Ghosts

2005-03-01T12:58:00.000-08:00

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Hum along, now:
Bum pa-da, bum pa-da, bum pa-da, bum pah -

Bum pa-da, bum pa-da, bum pa-da, bum pah!

Something weird in your neighborhood?

Better take a class - Ghost Hunters.

Actually, the first-time Lane Community College course is called "Ghost
Hunting 101." And it's proved frightfully popular, drawing 15 students from
as far away as Brownsville and Roseburg.

After six weeks of classroom instruction on how to invite and document
paranormal manifestations, the Lane students did their first investigation
Saturday at Eugene's Bijou Art Cinemas.

Sarah Townsend takes photographs Saturday in the empty Bijou Art Cinemas in
search of paranormal activity. The investigation was part of a Lane
Community College class.

A picture snapped by a student Saturday inside Bijou Art Cinemas appears to
show an apparition. In the large photo (above), a figure appears in the
foreground, in front of the projection screen. In an enlargement, the figure
appears to be wearing a necktie and cap. Instructor Martina Baker suggested
it may be the ghost of a mortician who once worked there.

The atmosphere was perfect. Cobwebs draped the chandeliers. Rooms inside
were dark, drafty and musty. Plus, the place is rife with rumors of ghost
sightings past, said manager Louise Thomas.

Lore holds that a local restaurant owner once felt a ghostly presence here,
Thomas said. And former employees reported unnerving incidents, such as
items falling off shelves and walls as they walked into empty rooms.

But Thomas attributes those to former Bijou worker Jerry Wolkski, who
delighted in booby-trapping rooms to scare his more superstitious colleagues.

"I've spent the night here working, and I've never seen or heard anything,"
she said.

Undeterred, the fledging ghost hunters in Martina and Todd Baker's class set
to work with cameras, electromagnetic field detectors, temperature probes
and tape recorders.

"We're here doing a paranormal investigation," Sarah Townsend of Eugene
announced as her group of four students entered Theater No. 1, once a
mortuary. "If anyone would like to be recorded or have their picture taken,
please speak up!"

Her four-student posse scoured the room. They snapped pictures in the
seemingly empty theater, occasionally capturing what they called "auras" -
circles of white or colored light.

They also complained of ghosts draining their camera batteries.

"They tend to draw energy from you," said student R.J. Herb.

"You guys! I felt a cold spot on the stairs," exclaimed Lisa Carpenter.

But classmate Ann Jenson painstakingly combed the room with a tiny
temperature probe and never found the 10 degree drop that Todd Baker said
signaled a ghost.

Baker, an archaeologist who with his wife runs the Portland-based Pacific
Paranormal Research Society, carried a large, "tri-field" electromagnetic
meter to seek moving spirits in "hot" areas.

"Normally, these are used to read things like the electrical wiring, radio
waves and microwaves in your house," he said. "But this one blocks
everything out except for movement energy."

Throughout the three-hour Bijou investigation, he reported several energy
"spikes."

The morning's top find, however, was by student Katherine Krohn.

"I think I've got an apparition here!" she exclaimed. Excited classmates
clustered around her camera's tiny digital display.

Sure enough, the screen showed a cluster of lights near the stage that could
be interpreted as a man wearing a white shirt and tie. (The image also bore
the date 1/1/2001, which Krohn attributed to camera malfunction.)

"Are you sure it's an apparition?" asked one dubious student.

"Hell, yes!" affirmed Martina Baker, who speculated that the ghost's attire
suggested he was a mortician who once worked in the building.

The ghost hunting class was created by LCC's coordinator of part-time
instruction, Carl Horstrup. What possessed him to launch the noncredit course?

It's part of a quest to introduce interesting new classes, he said.

He spotted a similar course in a California college's catalog and invited
the Bakers down to teach the class after visiting their Web site,
www.nwpprs.com.

Ghost Hunting 101 has been so popular, LCC will offer it again spring and
summer terms, Horstrup said.

Martina Baker welcomes all comers, true believers and skeptics alike.

"I mainly want to educate people who've had an experience they can't
explain, so they're not afraid," she said.

www.esryle.com
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TvWeek.com - Independent Press WAS a Target in Iraq

2005-03-01T09:24:00.000-08:00

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Independent Press Was a Target in Iraq
by Danny Schechter
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With CNN's Eason Jordan silent, or silenced, the right brain of the
blogosphere has nailed a new media scalp to its belt. Mr. Jordan, who had
been with CNN for 23 years, said during the World Economic Forum in
Switzerland that a dozen journalists covering the war "not only [had] been
killed by U.S. troops in Iraq but they had in fact been targeted," according
to press accounts. Mr. Jordan quickly tried to back off his statement, but
the reverberations led to his resignation. Now the issue he raised seems
destined to disappear, with many believing that since he didn't offer
backup, there is nothing to the story.
Not true.

Mr. Jordan's remarks about the targeting and killing of journalists were not
invented out of whole cloth, even if he did do what executives often do:
attempt to dampen a controversy that turns out to be too hot to handle.

Fox News commentators said that even raising the issue of targeting
journalists was "sliming our troops." Like the Pentagon's efforts, this was
a way to dismiss the issue, even though there is evidence to make such a case.

The reality is that Jordan's concerns have a background and context that
were under-reported in our media. Before the war, the Pentagon issued
warnings that sounded like threats, saying it would not guarantee the safety
of journalists who were not officially "embedded" into assigned U.S.
military units.

Pentagon publicist Victoria Clarke, around the time the war began, said that
journalists who went out on their own were "putting themselves at risk."

On March 8, 2003, 12 days before the invasion, Kate Aidie, then a war
correspondent for the BBC, said on RTE radio in Ireland that she was told by
Pentagon officials "that any [satellite] uplinks by journalists would be
fired on" by coalition aircraft.

What they were doing was creating an environment of intimidation and threat.
This was a ploy to ensure that the reporters who did go to Iraq without
Pentagon cooperation would be blamed when anything happened.

This was part of a larger strategy to keep the media in line. It was no
secret that an administration that insisted "You are with us or against us"
was determined to keep the media "on message" by implementing an intrusive
"information dominance" strategy to monitor coverage and "manage perceptions."

The roots of this policy go back to the war in Vietnam, which many in the
military felt was lost because of negative news coverage. The Pentagon was
determined not to let that happen in Iraq.

In his plan for the Iraq war, according to published reports, Gen. Tommy
Franks explicitly referred to the media as the "fourth front." This was an
obvious reference to the "fourth estate." The Pentagon intended to win the
battle of the media as well as the shooting war. To do so, it set the rules
for the media.

Sadly, out of patriotic correctness, the major U.S.-based news networks went
along. Jingoism often displaced journalism. Flag-waving replaced objectivity.

It takes courage just to address the issue. Consider CNN's Christiane
Amanpour's gutsy but controversial condemnation of "disinformation at the
highest levels." Or Ashleigh Banfield's public criticism of "sanitized"
coverage that probably cost her her job at MSNBC. They made clear there was
an official determination to control the news at all costs.

In this atmosphere, it was inevitable that there were incidents involving
journalists. Ask ITN in London what happened to the late Terry Lloyd and his
team, who were driving in a clearly marked TV vehicle shot up by U.S.
soldiers, who at first denied it. ITN officials said they "got nowhere" with
military officials when they tried to investigate the facts surrounding the
incident.

How bad was it? Ask BBC veteran John Simpson, who, accompanied by a military
liaison, was nearly bombed into the next world by a U.S. jet in the North of
Iraq, even when the military knew they were there. Two of his colleagues
were killed.

In an article by Tim Gopsill of Britain's National Union of Journalists, Mr.
Simpson is quoted from the book "Tell Me Lies," edited by David Miller: "The
independent journalists are upholding a great tradition, but my goodness
they are taking a hammering. The system that allows this to happen, even
encourages this to happen, is stupid and despicable."

Adds Nik Gowing of BBC World: "The trouble is that a lot of the
military-particularly the American military-do not want us there. And they
make it very uncomfortable for us to work. And I think that this is leading
to security forces in some instances feeling it is legitimate to target us
with deadly force and with impunity."

Mr. Gopsill also said that "U.S. forces detained and badly mistreated two
journalists, one Portuguese and one Israeli, who they believed were spies."
According to the NUJ, they were beaten. The incident was not widely
reported. (Yes, Iraqi forces also harassed and mistreated journalists. They
killed two foreign embeds with a missile attack.)

After two journalists died April 8, 2003, at Baghdad's Palestine Hotel when
a tank shell was lobbed into a building known by the Pentagon as a site
where numerous Western media were based, Reuters called for an independent
investigation. The International Federation of Journalists angrily demanded
a real probe.

Phillip Knightley, a respected historian on war and media and author of "The
First Casualty: The War Correspondent as Hero and Myth-Maker From the Crimea
to Kosovo," correctly said, "There will be no investigation." He added, "I
believe that the occasional shots fired at media sites are not accidental
and that war correspondents will now be targeted."

As a former CNN producer, I find that the Jordan incident chilled debate and
diverted us from the real issue of how the U.S. military spun media coverage
and why networks went along. A number of journalists covering Iraq-not just
Jordan-continue to believe journalists were targeted.

The citizens-initiated World Tribunal on Iraq, which met in Rome in
February, asks a question that can't be deflected: "Are Mr. Jordan's claims
accurate?"

In its report, it joined "the calls by international media groups and the
families of dead journalists for a full independent investigation by an
international team of journalists who should be given the right to question
members of the military."

"If independent journalists can be killed with impunity," said the report,
"and executives forced out for asking about it, aren't we facing something
more serious than has been raised so far?" n

Danny Schechter, executive editor of MediaChannel and VP and executive
producer of Globalvision, has been a producer at CNN and ABC. He most
recently directed the documentary "WMD: Weapons of Mass Deception," about
media coverage of the war in Iraq. See www.wmdthefilm.com

Published on Monday, February 28, 2005 by Television Week

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Re: Greg Bishop Talks About UFO Disinfo with Art Bell Tonight

2005-03-01T06:56:00.000-08:00

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Hi Greg

I'm Cpt Spike Mike, an administrator of the Fantastic Forum website. Every
night, I moderate a nightly running thread titled the Original Radio Room,
where we listen to Coast-To-Coast AM nightly as well as comment & discuss
the night's show. We're all fans of Art and will be there tonight. Here's a
link, if you're interested;

http://www.fantasticforum.com/1res/index.php

If you are able to use your computer while on the phone tonight with Art,
you may find some helpful information, comments & questions for tonight's
show. I'm not asking for a plug here, just letting you know about us. :-)

I also have a question; in your research, have you come across many military
(or non-military) witnesses who have seen very-low-flying UFOs over known
military bases/training areas/land?

Thank you for your time, and good luck with tonight's show.
we'll be listening,
Michael "Cpt Spike Mike" Fisk
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'Brain pacemaker' may help worst cases of depression: study

2005-03-01T06:09:00.000-08:00

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TORONTO - Deep electrical stimulation of the brain may help alleviate
severe, chronic depression in patients who don't respond to other
treatments, researchers in Ontario have found.

To test an experimental surgery, doctors placed a device in the brains of
six people who had all been treated for depression with drugs and talk
therapy, and in some cases, electroshock therapy.

When neurosurgeons applied an electrical stimulation to the implanted
electrodes, four of the six patients showed remarkable improvement in mood
and sleep, the study's authors reported in the journal Neuron.

The researchers hypothesized that by targeting an area of the brain's
sadness centre, they could treat depression.

The sadness centre, called Cg25, is thought to play a critical role in
sadness and mood. People with depression may have too much activity in the
part of the brain, scientists speculate.

"We thought that one strategy might be to go in and try to turn down the
activity in these areas and to see whether that would have any benefit,"
said Dr. Andres Lozano, a neurosurgeon at Toronto Western Hospital.

The improvements were immediate and lasted beyond the six months of the
trial. One patient, Jean Harris, said she now thinks she might be able to
return to work.

The results of the experiment need to be repeated in more patients to make
sure the effect wasn't a fluke. Other questions still need answers.

"Who will it be good for, who will it not?" asked Dr. Claire O'Donovan, a
psychiatrist and director of the Mood Disorders Clinic at the QEII Health
Sciences Centre in Halifax. "How long will it take before it has any
clinical impact?"

Since surgery always carries risks, psychiatrists say deep brain stimulation
will likely only be an option for the most serious cases of depression.

www.esryle.com
Local News Across The Nation

'Brain pacemaker' may help worst cases of depression: study
http://www.cbc.ca/story/science/national/2005/02/28/neurosurgery050228.html

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