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World Renowned Writer Michael O'Brien Warns About Antichrist New World Order

It is in the nature of secular messianists to believe that if mankind will not cooperate, then mankind must be forced to cooperate- for its own good, of course. They recognize that the leap from an era of nation-states to an era of one world government will not be achieved without conscious effort and a good deal of chance. They would be blind not to see the grave problems in the present world as opportunities, as necessary creative disintegration, as the catalyst in the transforming experiment. In such a situation, management by crisis overrides authentic exercise of human freedom and responsibility. But this alone will not achieve their goals. They must also capture the popular imagination with a new global ethic, one that sweeps aside the protests of those who adhere to traditional morality, consigning us to 'the garbage heap of history,' and establishing a dangerously self-righteous moralism in its place (for example, environmentalism as eco-spirituality, or the negation of gender as 'liberation'... The history of oppressive governments is the history of politicians attempting to save the world on their own terms, cut off from the guiding principles of moral absolutes. ….If we seek to understand our times with any proximate coherence, we should understand this: Every system of totalitarian rule, including and between the poles of brutal tyranny and soft-spoken control, have this in common: 1) the rejection of binding moral absolutes established by a transcendent Being; and thus: 2) the minimizing of the absolute value of human life, and 3) the elevation of the State (malignant and seemingly benign alike) as the final arbiter of good and evil... The truth is that all systems that seek to rule the Family of Man with either total or selective contempt for some portion of that family, in the end will destroy the family itself. Such systems are inherently anti-human, and thus they are also anti-Christ.

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ONE WORLD Banking – ONE WORLD Order – ONE WORLD Leader

World leaders are calling for a ONE WORLD banking system with a global currency. Eschatologists suggest this could lead to a ONE WORLD order with a ONE WORLD leader. Is the Antichrist about to arrive on the world scene and implement the cashless society foretold to come in Revelation 13:16-17? He causes all, both small and great, rich and poor, free and slave, to receive a mark on their right hand or on their foreheads, and that no one may buy or sell except one who has the mark or the name of the beast, or the number of his name. Was the apostle John attempting to describe a computer technology that exists today? Furthermore Middle East events are heating up as Israel’s new Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu tells president Obama, that if America doesn’t stop Iran from acquiring a nuclear weapon Israel will. Frank Pastore the popular host of KKLA 99.5 interviews Bill Salus about these topics and more on this week’s Prophecy Update Radio program...

With 'Atlas Shrugged,' Hollywood May Have Its First Anti-Bailout Movie

Although it was written a half-century ago, producers say that the book’s themes of individualism resonate in the era of Obama, government bailouts and stimulus packages -- making this the perfect moment to bring the 1,100-page novel to the big screen. “This couldn’t be more timely,” said Karen Baldwin, who along with husband Howard is producing, with film industry consultant John Logigian advising on the project. “It’s uncanny what Rand was able to predict — about the only things she didn’t anticipate are cell phones and the Internet.” Baldwin may be on to something -- love it or hate it, "Shrugged" is seeing a resurgence, with book sales spiking as debates rage in Washington and around the country about the government's role in a faltering free-market economy. The author’s final novel offers an embattled railroad company as a metaphor for a society that Taggart (and Rand) sees as succumbing to socialism at the expense of individual creativity. Its backbone is a 50-page speech by the mysterious but major character John Galt in which he lays out the Rand principles of Objectivism, which argues for an aggressive free market and against government activism. Let's just say it's probably not on the president's nightstand...

The First Bricks In A New World Order

Some useful progress, but still a way to go. That must be the conclusion of the Group of 20 summit in London. Gordon Brown, UK prime minister and chairman of the meeting, set out a six-point plan to save the world. This reflected some real achievements: a generous increase in funding for the International Monetary Fund, a new issuance of special drawing rights and a boost for trade finance. He sounded disappointingly thin on other key areas - notably cleaning up banks and future fiscal stimulus. More detail would have been reassuring. Mr Brown cast the G20 meeting as part of a co-ordinated "fight back against the global recession" and said the "global crisis requires a global solution". We may doubt aspects of the solution, but the crisis is undeniable. World growth is expected to decline this year for the first time since the second world war. The World Trade Organisation expects that trade will fall by 9 per cent - a worrying prospect. It has also become clear that this crisis will not simply burn itself out. Part of the genius of John Maynard Keynes was his explanation of how economies could be caught in low growth traps. The longer the recession, the greater the destruction of happiness. An extended downturn will also increase the risk of the crisis expanding and deepening far beyond its current spread. In new democracies, whether in Africa or central and eastern Europe, this is a moment of genuine peril. In some poorer countries, it could even lead to war and famine.

Obama Hails The New World Order

Gordon Brown declared that a $1 trillion package to stimulate economic growth agreed at yesterday's G20 summit in London will ensure that the world pulls out of recession more quickly. Speaking after the one-day summit of the world's richest nations in the Docklands, the Prime Minister said there were "no quick fixes", adding: "Today's decisions will not immediately solve the crisis. But we have begun the process by which it will be solved." He said: "This is the day that the world came together to fight back against the global recession, not with words, but with a plan for global recovery and for reform and with a clear timetable for its delivery." The US President Barack Obama played a key role in brokering the agreement, resolving tensions between China and France on tax havens. The $1trn will be made available to countries that run into trouble via the International Monetary Fund (IMF), the World Bank and World Trade Organisation, which will all be beefed up. Half the money will come from IMF loans, with $250bn to finance trade deals and a further $250bn from the IMF's currency reserve. Mr Brown and President Obama originally wanted the G20 summit to call for higher government spending and tax cuts, but they ran into opposition from European nations, led by Germany and France. However, the summit kept open the option of such action in 2010 if the $5trn fiscal stimulus scheme does not work. The IMF will have a new role in monitoring whether countries are doing enough to help the world economy grow at about 4 per cent a year. G20 leaders will meet again to review progress, probably in New York in September, to coincide with the annual meeting of the United Nations General Assembly.

G-20 Makes Six Pledges Toward New World Order

In a press conference after the plenary session the British PM Gordon Brown read the communique of the G-20 leaders where the heads of the states have agreed to make six pledges to improve the world economy and emerge a "new world order." Brown says that the world leaders have pledged to take global actions together and that a consensus is reached. One trillion dollars will be made available through the International Monetary Fund to boost the world economy. G-20 will take essential actions to rebuild confidence and trust in the financial system. There are no quick fixes, but the leaders pledge to act together to work things out. The leaders will regulate credit rating agencies so they provide better pictures of economies and companies around the world helping investors to make wiser decisions. The leaders will end tax heavens and will bring end to banking secrecy. Banking secrecy must come to end, says Gordon Brown. Tough standards and sanctions will be taken against those who don't come to light in the future. IMF and the world bank will have a major role to play in the new world order and in the rebuilding of the world economies. IMF will provide the early warning mechanisms in the future. G-20 leaders have agreed to implement new rules on executive pay and bonuses. The countries will encourage corporate responsibility. G-20 takes action toward cleaning the banks and make them to act more responsibly. G-20 pledges to restore global growth and hasten recovery to combat unemployment. These actions will create confidence. IMF is called to monitor their progress and warn when needed. Leaders pledge to stengthen the independence of international financial and economic institutions. The pledge also includes giving emerging markets and developing markets greater responsibilies. The heads of the international institutions should be named based on merit.

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U.S. Signals New Era for Global Economy

On the eve of a global economic summit here, President Obama delivered an unusual warning Wednesday for an American leader: The "voracious" U.S. economy can no longer be the sole engine of global growth. The statement signaled a recognition of a new economic era with a less dominant U.S. role. Although Obama said the United States should not miss "an opportunity to lead" the way out of the crisis, he suggested he would not be the globe's financial decider. "I came here to listen," he said, "not to lecture." His message also amounted to a challenge to world leaders that highlights the core differences expected at Thursday's summit. As more than 20 heads of state write a plan to combat the crisis, major European powers are firmly resisting calls to further open their coffers and cut taxes to spur the global economy. Such resistance may not have mattered as much in the past. In previous downturns -- including the Asian crisis in the late 1990s -- the United States was by and large the driving force of global recoveries. But in the wake of the current crisis, Obama said, Washington will have to deal with "our long-term fiscal position" and the notoriously low consumer savings rates that for years drove Americans further into debt even as U.S. imports soared. This time, he said, the rest of the world cannot depend on the "United States being a voracious consumer market."

North Korea 'Has Deployed Multiple Nuclear Warheads' Ahead Of Launch

"I received the information from the national intelligence agency of a certain country that they believe North Korea has deployed nuclear warheads at two underground facilities for Rodong missiles," Daniel Pinkston, senior analyst at the International Crisis Group, told The Daily Telegraph from Seoul. "We estimate that North Korea has as many as 320 Rodong missiles, which can be launched from mobile transporters anywhere in the country, and we are assessing the threat these pose," he said. North Korea's deployment of nuclear weapons will heighten tensions in the region, already strained due to Pyongyang's determination to go ahead with the launch of what it claims is a rocket carrying an experimental satellite. Tokyo, Washington and other countries in the region believe the projectile is a long-range missile. The launch is scheduled to take place between April 4 and 8. The intelligence reports suggest that the warheads are made from plutonium extracted at the Yongbyon nuclear complex, which North Korea has promised to dismantle in return for fuel assistance but has been stalling on completing. The regime in Pyongyang has also threatened to halt the dismantling of its nuclear programme if another country interferes in the launch of its satellite or the United Nations imposes sanctions on it.

Terrorists Could Bring Down Jumbo Jet Using Microwave Cannon

A deadly 'microwave cannon' capable of bringing down aircraft can be built using information and parts available on the internet, a terrorism expert has warned. The device would fire a high-energy electromagnetic pulse, frying the electronics of a plane as it comes in to land. It raises the chilling prospect of attacks at transport hubs like Heathrow, capable of killing hundreds of people living in the flight paths. The warning came from Yael Shahar, director of Israel's International Institute for Counter Terrorism think-tank. Her research has shown the parts needed to built such a weapon can be bought online, or cannibalised from gadgets such as digital cameras. 'These are technologically unchallenging to build and most of the information necessary is available,' she told New Scientist magazine. Electromagnetic pulse (EMP) weapons work by creating a powerful and concentrated electric field that knocks out any electronic circuits within range. Mrs Shahar told the Directed Energy Weapons conference in London earlier this year that, while aircraft can be built to protect against EMP cannons, manufacturers are increasingly using carbon-fibre in fuselages, which offers little protection.

Aircraft Could Be Brought Down By DIY 'E-Bombs'

Electromagnetic pulse weapons capable of frying the electronics in civil airliners can be built using information and components available on the net, warn counterterrorism analysts. All it would take to bring a plane down would be a single but highly energetic microwave radio pulse blasted from a device inside a plane, or on the ground and trained at an aircraft coming in to land. Yael Shahar, director of the International Institute for Counter-Terrorism in Herzliya, Israel, and her colleagues have analysed electromagnetic weapons in development or used by military forces worldwide, and have discovered that there is low-cost equipment available online that can act in similar ways. "These will become more of a threat as the electromagnetic weapons technology matures," she says. For instance, the US and Russian military have developed electromagnetic pulse (EMP) warheads that create a radio-frequency shockwave. The radio pulse creates an electric field of many hundreds of thousands of volts per metre, which induces currents that burn out nearby electrical systems, such as microchips and car electronics.

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Robot Scientist 'Adam' Solves Genetic Problems

A robot has become the first of its kind to make a scientific discovery by solving a problem that human researchers have failed to crack for decades. The robot, called Adam, was able to work out where an important gene would be located and to develop experiments to prove its theory. It had been challenged to identify a gene in yeast for which its human counterparts had been searching since at least the 1960s. The robot, devised at Aberystwyth University, was able to identify the gene, which controls an enzyme crucial to the production of lysine, an amino acid essential to growth. It is thought that robots like Adam, and its successor, Eve, which is soon to be switched on at Aberystwyth, offer new hope in the battle against disease. Professor Ross King, who led the project, said that malaria and schistosomiasis, an infection caused by a parasitic worm, were among the diseases that robots should be able to help to defeat. Adam’s discovery, he said, was likely to play an important role in developing new treatments for fungal diseases such as athlete’s foot...

Robotic Scientists Make First Discoveries

In recent decades, robots have replaced millions of manual laborers; now they're moving in on scientists, too. A fully automated robotic laboratory can design its own molecular biology experiments and has even made its first discoveries, a multidisciplinary team reports this week. Meanwhile, a team of computer scientists has developed a robot that can independently come up with the “laws of motion” for a dynamical system such as interconnected pendulums. Robots are doing ever more of the physical labor in laboratories--from analyzing DNA samples to handling data tapes from massive particle-physics experiments. And scientists increasingly rely on computers to analyze their data. But the highest-level thinking--the formulation of hypotheses and designing of experiments to test them--has remained the preserve of humans.

Hillary Clinton Receives Award Named For Famed Eugenicist

When Secretary of State Hillary Clinton received Planned Parenthood's highest honor, it came in the name of a woman who promoted eliminating "the unfit" from the human race. The Planned Parenthood Federation of America (PPFA) presented Clinton with the Margaret Sanger Award at its annual awards dinner March 27 in Houston, Texas. Sanger founded an organization in 1916 that became Planned Parenthood. Receiving the award is a "great privilege," Clinton said after the presentation. "I admire Margaret Sanger enormously, her courage, her tenacity, her vision.... I am really in awe of her," Clinton said. Sanger, however, was a eugenicist, a fact that goes unacknowledged by Planned Parenthood and certainly was not mentioned by Clinton in her speech at the awards ceremony. "Planned Parenthood will try to say that she wasn't [a eugenicist], but they pull her quotes out of context," said Angela Franks, author of "Margaret Sanger's Eugenic Legacy: The Control of Female Fertility. Sanger "completely embraced eugenic ideas," Franks told Baptist Press. Franks cited a quote from Sanger's writings as evidence. Birth control "is nothing more or less than the facilitation of the process of weeding out the unfit, of preventing the birth of defectives or of those who will become defectives," Sanger wrote.

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Iraqi Archaeologists Discover Babylonian Treasures

A team of Iraqi archaeologists have unearthed about 4000 artifacts dating back to Babylonian times. The findings include royal seals, talismans and clay tablets bearing Sumerian cuneiform inscriptions. According to the Iraqi Tourism and Antiquities Ministry, the artifacts were discovered after two years of fieldwork in 20 different sites between the Tigris and Euphrates rivers. This region was known to the ancient Greeks by the name of ‘Mesopotamia’. Among the discoveries, a series of ancient Persian and medieval Islamic artifacts have also been unearthed. Archaeologists said that these artifacts are of priceless value and very significant. Two talismans have been unearthed from which one bears a carved face in Sumerian style accompanied by a triangle. The other talisman has a running antelope carved into it, Reuters reports. A number of clay tablets bearing Sumerian cuneiform inscriptions have also been found. Cuneiform is the oldest known form of writing, dating back 5,000 years. The writing originated in southern Mesopotamia and was created in the Sumerian culture and to write the Sumerian language. Later, however, it was used for Akkadian, Babylonian and Assyrian as well. The cuneiform script was deciphered in mid 19th century.

Apollo Astronaut Joins UFO Conference At End Of Obama’s First 100 Days

The 2009 X-Conference, held in the Washington DC metro area from April 17-19, will encourage the Obama administration to move forward with disclosure of X-Files on UFOs and extraterrestrial life. Several Presidential Memoranda and the inclusion of former Clinton era figures in Obama’s government are cited by participants as reasons why President Obama will positively respond. The conference comes at a pivotal time in the Obama administration. Obama’s first 100 days in office ends on April 30, soon after the X-Conference. Apollo 14 astronaut Dr Edgar Mitchell will be among conference speakers discussing why the Obama administration needs to declassify X-files held by various federal agencies and departments. The annual event is unique among UFO conferences insofar as it features speakers who specialize in public policy aspects of evidence concerning UFOs and extraterrestrial life - an approach known as ‘exopolitics’. This flagship event for the rapidly growing exopolitics movement will cast light on whether or not the Obama administration is poised to end a sixty year truth embargo on the extraterrestrial origins of UFOs.

SETI Chief Astronomer: "Humans Predicted to Make Contact with an Extraterrestrial Civilization Within Two Decades

Some leading astronomers are quite confident that mankind will make contact with intelligent alien life within two decades. The search for extraterrestrial life will leap forward next year when NASA launches the Kepler space telescope. The instrument will be constantly scanning the same 100,000 stars over its four-year mission with the exciting objective of discovering Earth-sized planets in the habitable zones around suns. This will allow SETI to home in on where the odds of life are possibly greatest. Currently, SETI’s mission to find life on other planets is like trying to find the proverbial needle in a haystack. But now, whenever Kepler identifies planets most likely to sustain life, the team at SETI will be able to focus in on those solar systems using deep-space listening equipment. This will be a huge upgrade from their present work of randomly scanning the outer reaches of space for some kind of sign or signal. Also, upping the ante, is the recent discovery of Earth-like planets outside our solar system, which has led astrophysicists to conclude that Earth-like planets are likely relatively common in our galaxy. "Everything has caused us to become more optimistic," said American astrophysicist Dr Frank Drake in a recent BBC documentary. "We really believe that in the next 20 years or so, we are going to learn a great deal more about life beyond Earth and very likely we will have detected that life and perhaps even intelligent life elsewhere in the galaxy."

2012 May Bring The “Perfect Storm” – Solar Flares, Systems Collapse

Long scorned as “mysticism” and “parascience,” concern about the year 2012 has now surfaced in a mainstream NASA report on the potential impacts on human society of solar flares anticipated to peak in 2012. The Obama administration and other national governments are not aggressively focused on contingency preparations for the 2012 solar flare impacts, or on introducing available anti-gravitic, new energy sources that would transform centralized high-power electrical grid systems into de-centralized, anti-gravitic and quantum process energy sources. These new energy sources are less vulnerable to destructive solar storms, have no negative environmental impact, and could unleash unprecedented economic and social transformation. Mainstream scientific concern about 2012 has grown since a recent National Research Council report funded by NASA and issued by the National Academy of Sciences, entitled “Severe Space Weather Events: Understanding Economic and Societal Impact” which details the potential devastation of 2012 solar storms on the current planetary energy grid and because of the inter-linkages of a cybernetic society, on our entire human civilization. According to New Scientist, science’s concern is a repetition of the 8-day 1859 “Carrington event,” a large solar flare accompanied by a coronal mass ejection (CME) that flung billions of tons of solar plasma onto the earth’s magnetosphere and disrupted Victorian-era magnetometers and the world telegraph system. The New Scientist states, “The report outlines the worst case scenario for the US. The ‘perfect storm’ is most likely on a spring or autumn night in a year of heightened solar activity - something like 2012. Around the equinoxes, the orientation of the Earth's field to the sun makes us particularly vulnerable to a plasma strike.” The next solar maximum is expected to occur in 2012. New Scientist reports that Mike Hapgood, head of the European Space Agency's space weather team states, "We're in the equivalent of an idyllic summer's day. The sun is quiet and benign, the quietest it has been for 100 years," "but it could turn the other way."

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The Sun Is Resting Up For 2012

The sunspot cycle is behaving a little like the stock market. Just when you think it has hit bottom, it goes even lower. 2008 was a bear. There were no sunspots observed on 266 of the year's 366 days (73%). To find a year with more blank suns, you have to go all the way back to 1913, which had 311 spotless days: plot. Prompted by these numbers, some observers suggested that the solar cycle had hit bottom in 2008. Maybe not. Sunspot counts for 2009 have dropped even lower. As of March 31st, there were no sunspots on 78 of the year's 90 days (87%). It adds up to one inescapable conclusion: "We're experiencing a very deep solar minimum," says solar physicist Dean Pesnell of the Goddard Space Flight Center. "This is the quietest sun we've seen in almost a century," agrees sunspot expert David Hathaway of the Marshall Space Flight Center... All these lows have sparked a debate about whether the ongoing minimum is "weird", "extreme" or just an overdue "market correction" following a string of unusually intense solar maxima. "Since the Space Age began in the 1950s, solar activity has been generally high," notes Hathaway. "Five of the ten most intense solar cycles on record have occurred in the last 50 years. We're just not used to this kind of deep calm."

2012: Science or Superstition

Timewave Zero is the theory postulated by author/philosopher Terence McKenna that calculates the rise and fall of novelty (dynamic change) in the universe. When McKenna graphed it over time, he found that it reached infinity on Dec., 21 2012, the end of the current Baktun cycle of the long-count calendar of the ancient Mayas. Since the concept was introduced in the 1970s by McKenna and Jose Arguellos, speculation has been rampant as to what the world might look like when it approaches its omega point, and there have been a plethora of books and films on the subject in recent years, the most anticipated being Roland Emmerich's film "2012" due in October. A recent direct to DVD documentary, "2012: Science or Superstition," directed by Nimrod Erez, explores the meaning of the Mayan Calendar's end date and what it might mean for the world and does so with restraint and intelligence. Talking heads discuss whether 2012 will bring a singular catastrophic event, a gradual transition to a higher level of consciousness, or nothing at all. The documentary features discussion by such unconventional thinkers as Graham Hancock, author of the major international bestsellers "The Sign and The Seal," "Fingerprints of the Gods," "Supernatural" and "Heaven's Mirror"; John Major Jenkins, an independent researcher who has devoted himself to reconstructing ancient Mayan cosmology and philosophy; Daniel Pinchbeck, author and lecturer who in 1994 was chosen by The New York Times Magazine as one of Thirty Under Thirty destined to change our culture; Alberto Villoldo, PhD, a medical anthropologist; and Anthony F. Aveni is the Russell B. Colgate Professor of Astronomy and Anthropology and is considered one of the founders of Mesoamerican Archaeoastronomy...

Russian News: It's Time To Settle The UFO Question

So do UFOs with little green men inside exist or not? CNN supposedly filmed a UFO moving at a great speed from the right to the left during the inauguration of President Barack Obama. (But those who watched the replay say it was a bird.) After that, former President Clinton's White House Chief John Podesta, now one of Obama's closest associates, demanded that the thick UFO files be made public. The number of UFO sightings has dramatically increased in recent times. According to Britain's Ministry of Defense, there were supposedly 285 UFO sightings in the UK in 2008, double the figure for 2007, when the number of alleged UFO sightings was reckoned at 137. The defense departments of the United States and the Soviet Union scrupulously registered alleged sightings of UFOs for decades. American ufologists say that the U.S. authorities were quite serious about the UFO question in the 1940s through 1960s. Project Blue Book, terminated in 1969, had two goals: to determine if UFOs were a threat to national security, and to scientifically analyze UFO-related data. The USAF concluded that UFOs are not a threat to national security. Paradoxically, the military still refuse to provide information about UFOs for security reasons. Ufologists insist that the USAF must give them access to certain documents, such as Project Moon Dust and Project Blue Fly. Project Moon Dust was started in 1953, ostensibly to recover "returning space debris." Operation Blue Fly was launched to facilitate expeditious delivery to Foreign Technology Division of moon dust and other items of great technological intelligence interest. It is assumed that they were in fact connected with UFOs. According to ufologists, the U.S. military also have kept the bodies of extraterrestrials who died in spaceship crashes over the United States.

Satan Scribe's Eerie Death

Did black magic and a curse play a role in the death of Ronald Tavel -- the Obie-winning playwright and Andy Warhol collaborator who mysteriously died aboard a Thailand-bound jet last week? Tavel, 68, who was returning to his Bangkok home from an art conference in Berlin on March 23, "drank and over-drank and became dehydrated during the flight, and then his heart just stopped," a source told us. Fellow playwright and friend Larry Myers says Tavel -- who penned the Obie-winning "Boy on the Straight-Back Chair" and "Bigfoot," and scripted Warhol's "Chelsea Girls" -- had been on a downward spiral ever since becoming fascinated by the dark arts, which he began weaving into his avant-garde work in the late '80s. "He wrote one about Satanism and black magic for Theater for the New City and everything went wrong," Myers told us. "The actors got sick, pages from the script vanished, scenery crashed, the lights went out. He told me somebody had put a curse on him. It completely creeped him out and it [bleep]ing freaked me out. And right after that, he packed up and moved to Thailand."

Witchcraft Continues Strong Growth In USA

While most other major religions lost ground, Wiccan -- whose members, Wiccans, sometimes refer to themselves as witches -- and other so-called "New Religious movements" grew by more than a million members since the last ARIS survey was published in 2001. They're now an estimated 1.2 percent of the adult population. In Chicago -- home to an unknown number of Wiccan covens (congregations) and independent practitioners --there's even a Witch School. An outgrowth of the nationally popular and long-active Web site witchschool.com, the Downstate Rossville-based organization currently offers three monthly courses and returned to town earlier this month after a five-year absence. "One of the things that we found is that people frequently did not have access to information and wanted to learn more about Wicca and metaphysics," said the school's chancellor and one of its owners, the Rev. Don Lewis. "And we went into online teaching in order to make it more accessible to people. But it was never our intention that [the site] should replace real-time teaching." Local classrooms include the Occult Bookstore in Wicker Park and the Life Force Arts Center in Lake View. Lewis said there's talk of expanding to St. Louis and "a number of different regions." On a recent Friday night, Witch School CEO Ed Hubbard visited the Occult Bookstore to talk on the topic of "Magick for the Masses."

London News On Arrival Of Obama: "Otherworldly... A Divine Presence Coming Down To Earth"

It says a lot about a man, how he makes his big entrance. A motorcade says brute power, as everyone stops to make way for The Leader and an arrival that no one can ignore. But a helicopter out of the night sky? An other-worldly presence coming down out of the starry heavens, bright lights cutting through the darkness as the divine presence comes down to earth? That is how Barack Obama arrived in London last night, with a deafening chugga-chugga of helicopter engines as he landed by the US Ambassador’s residence in Regent’s Park. This is how the Second Coming will be, if the Lord chooses to make His appearance in a VH-3D helicopter fitted with anti-missile flares. Only an American president can make such an entrance. Not only would it be grandstanding with anyone else, but other countries do not have the advantage of an ambassadorial residence set in 12 acres of prime London parkland. Landing a helicopter in Mayfair or Kensington just isn’t the same thing. Down below, a small crowd of the faithful craned their necks to get a better view. “Is that him? Is that him?” asked someone excitedly. A girl in the crowd took a photograph with her mobile phone: she wasn't too sure, and at that distance a helicopter is just a helicopter, but you cannot be too careful.

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Geithner On Ousting CEOs, Reviving Economy

Days after GM's CEO Rick Wagoner was forced out by the Obama administration, Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner left open the possibility that such moves could happen again. In an interview with CBS Evening News anchor Katie Couric, Geithner acknowledged the government has had to do "exceptional things" – citing AIG as well as Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac. "We have changed management aboard," he said. "And where we've done that, we've done it because we thought that was necessary to make sure these institutions emerge stronger in the future." When asked if he would leave open the option to pressure a bank CEO to resign, Geithner replied: "Of course." In a separate interview with ABC News, Geithner said there was no difference in the way the administration has handled the auto and finance industries. As world leaders convene in London to address the global economic crisis, an increasingly confident Geithner predicted the "strongest coordinated global response" in generations would help revive the world's fractured economy. Citing initial commitments given by other countries, he said he was confident that broken financial systems would be fixed by growing trade and ensuring markets are expanding. "You're gonna see the strongest consensus on coordinated global stimulus you've seen in generations," he said. "A very powerful consensus on the kind of 21st century rules of the road for our financial systems."

Treasury Won't Disclose Bank Bailout Details

The massive programs designed to rescue the nation's financial sector are operating without adequate oversight, with vague goals and limited disclosure of their details to the taxpayers who are paying for them, government watchdogs told a Senate panel Tuesday. The Troubled Asset Relief Program, or TARP, was launched in the midst of last fall's collapse of the nation's banking system and is designed to get loans flowing to businesses and individuals. But "without a clearer explanation" about parts of the program, "it is not possible to exercise meaningful oversight over Treasury's actions," said Elizabeth Warren, a Harvard Law School professor who leads a special congressional oversight panel monitoring the TARP program. Her comments came in a Senate Finance Committee hearing on the bailout program.

World Leaders Agree To Anti-Protectionism Pledge

Prime Minister Stephen Harper won a key commitment for Canada at the G20 summit, getting world leaders to agree to extend for 12 months a pledge not to raise new trade barriers. "The biggest single thing that could turn this recession into a very long, extended depression would be global protectionism," Mr. Harper said in a television interview Wednesday. "In our recent budget in Canada, we actually lowered tariffs on imported machinery and equipment. It's important that we start to see some initiatives push in the other direction, to push towards trade liberalization." Canwest News Service has also learned that G20 leaders will announce Thursday they will give the Washington-based International Monetary Fund an additional $500 billion US, which the IMF needs to help countries in the developing world make it through the recession.

G20 Leaders Close To Global Deal

Leaders began the day with a working breakfast. They took their seats at 1045 BST to start what is expected to be four-and-a-half hours of talks. Different drafts of the final communique are circulating at the summit, reflecting differing proposals on a number of issues. The leaders of the world's largest economies are expected to announce measures in the following key areas: IMF boost: $500bn of additional money for the International Monetary Fund, the emergency lender for countries in financial trouble, in addition to the $250bn already pledged. Its resources have been depleted in recent months by having to help a number of Eastern European nations Tax havens: Treasury minister Stephen Timms says the G20 have agreed to impose sanctions on tax havens that refuse to sign up to OECD rules to fight money laundering and tax evasion, although discussions are continuing over whether unco-operative havens will be named and shamed Global trade: There will be about $250bn committed to boost international trade, UK Chancellor Alistair Darling confirmed...

CNN Analysis: Crisis May Lead To New World Order

The men and women called together in London by UK Prime Minister Gordon Brown to counter an economic slump are politicians -- just at a time when the world's electorates are demonstrating their lack of faith in governments and in their ability to understand, let alone sort out, the economic mess. Thirty, 20, even 10 years back there used to be some belief that getting the power-players together could solve problems, or at least give others a push in doing so. But it was once said of a former U.S. Secretary of State, "There was never any world situation so bad that a few well-chosen words from John Foster Dulles couldn't make it a hundred times worse." The main task of this London summit may be simply to avoid doing that. The British talking down of expectations over the past few days has been significant. Up front, on camera, ministers make optimistic noises. Behind the scenes diplomats warn of a potential lose-lose scenario. If the summit fails to agree, it will destroy what is left of any confidence in the world's trading centers... Brown's hope is that China, worried about the safety of its money invested in the U.S., will be ready to commit extra funds to fighting the world recession. But if he agrees to do so, President Hu Jintao will surely exact a price. Already the G-8 countries have seemingly conceded that the world's current problems are too big for them to solve and that G-20 is a more appropriate forum. If China comes up with the money to help, it will need assurances that it will in the future enjoy greater power within such multilateral institutions as the IMF and the World Bank. The U.S. and Europe, who have dominated the G-8, now have little option too but to accept a new world order.

New DARPA Surveillance Blimp Runs 10 Years Uninterrupted

A blimp that hovers at 65,000 feet and stays aloft for a decade is what the Air Force hopes within five years will revolutionize its intelligence gathering. Early estimates put the price at $400 million, according to the service’s chief scientist, Werner J.A. Dahm, who is overseeing the project. The 450-foot-long airship would be a “potentially game-changing” addition to intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance capabilities because of its 10-year flight time and a radar unit so massive it wouldn’t fit into any aircraft now in the service’s fleet, Dahm said. “It would allow us to observe remarkably fine details over very long periods,” he said. “That lets us better understand how an adversary operates, how to anticipate their actions, how to interpret their intent, and many other things that we need today, tomorrow and beyond.” The radar would track coalition and enemy movements on land, sea and air, advancing the capabilities provided by satellites and unmanned aerial vehicles, such as the Predator and the Reaper.

Rutgers Gets Homeland Security Research Grant

Rutgers University will conduct research for the U.S. Department of Homeland Security on analyzing information to help detect national security threats. Rutgers will partner with Purdue University in developing the DHS Center of Excellence for Command, Control and Interoperability. Rutgers and Purdue will receive up to $5 million per year over a period of six years. Rutgers will be the lead institution for research in the data sciences through its Center for Discrete Mathematics and Theoretical Computer Science. Purdue will be the lead for research in the visualization sciences. The new grant will continue work begun at Rutgers under grants awarded in 2006. Rutgers researchers have been working on computing technologies that find patterns and relationships in public data that can quickly identify such things as emerging diseases or possible terrorist activity.

Calls For US Gov To Double Budget For Terrorism

Pakistan has suffered economic losses amounting to $6 billion during 2007-08 while supporting the global war on terror, Dr Hafiz Pasha, heading a panel of Planning Commission economists, said on Wednesday. Addressing the Pakistan Institute of Development Economists’ (PIDE) 24th annual general meeting, Pasha said the calculation of losses was based on a US model Washington was using to work out terror war expenses in its own country. “This loss to the economy, according to the government of Pakistan, is over $8 billion,” said Pasha, adding that the US should double the funds being given to Pakistan for its support to the war on terror in view of the massive losses. He said the prevailing economic situation was ‘not very positive’, as tax collection had fallen, imports were very high, real effecting exchange rate was functioning at the level pf last-year and the ministries’ expenses had increased by Rs 100 billion. He, however, said the expenses of Prime Minister’s House had fallen by 35 percent. About the International Monetary Fund (IMF), Pasha said its programme for Pakistan focussed on stability rather than growth, “which is not good for Pakistan in the long run”. “Pakistan paid a heavy price for stability at the cost of growth during the previous regime’s tenure ... and [Pakistan] should not repeat the same mistake.” Privatisation Minister Naveed Qamar later told journalists that the environment was ‘not conducive’ for privatisation because of the prevailing global economic situation, and the government was acting ‘very cautiously’.

Obama Admits: Attack On US Soil Likely

President Barack Obama admits that al-Qaeda network is planning fresh raids on the United States from the militants' safe havens in Pakistan. Obama said Wednesday the US would chase and defeat the terrorist organization wherever it is present in the world. Pakistan and Afghanistan would not be allowed to become a safe haven for al-Qaeda and its allied groups, the US president said while addressing a joint press conference with British Prime Minister Gordon Brown in London. Obama's remarks followed a threat by Tehrik-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) leader Baitullah Mehsud, who said his group was planning a terrorist attack on the US to 'amaze' the world. "Soon we will launch an attack in Washington that will amaze everyone in the world," Baitullah Mehsud said Tuesday, giving no further details. US intelligence officials are increasingly concerned that Mehsud could eclipse even Osama bin Laden as a threat to America. Obama further urged Pakistan to demonstrate its commitment to rooting out al-Qaeda and Taliban along its troubled border with Afghanistan. The US president had earlier unveiled a new strategy for Afghanistan and Pakistan, saying the top goal was to destroy al-Qaeda. "Al Qaeda and its allies are cancer that risks killing Pakistan From within," said Obama on Friday The warnings come after multiple intelligence estimates warned that al-Qaeda is actively planning attacks on the US homeland from its safe-haven in the violence-hit Pakistan. Al-Qaeda's top leaders are believed to be hiding in tribal areas along the Pakistan-Afghanistan border, where their Taliban allies have strongholds. The insurgents have regrouped in the tribal areas after a US-led invasion in late 2001 toppled the Taliban in Afghanistan and sent militants to border areas with Pakistan. American officials say the mountains along the Pakistan-Afghanistan border threaten the US and its western allies' security in the western countries. On September 11, 2001 a series of attacks were launched on New York and the pentagon by suspected al-Qaeda insurgents, killing 2,973 people.

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Arguments For Depopulation, Genetically Modified Foods To Save Future

There are already too many people living on Planet Earth, according to one of most influential science advisors in the US government. Nina Fedoroff told the BBC One Planet programme that humans had exceeded the Earth's "limits of sustainability". Dr Fedoroff has been the science and technology advisor to the US secretary of state since 2007, initially working with Condoleezza Rice. Under the new Obama administration, she now advises Hillary Clinton. "We need to continue to decrease the growth rate of the global population; the planet can't support many more people," Dr Fedoroff said, stressing the need for humans to become much better at managing "wild lands", and in particular water supplies. Pressed on whether she thought the world population was simply too high, Dr Fedoroff replied: "There are probably already too many people on the planet." GM Foods 'needed' -- A National Medal of Science laureate (America's highest science award), the professor of molecular biology believes part of that better land management must include the use of genetically modified foods. "We have six-and-a-half-billion people on the planet, going rapidly towards seven. We're going to need a lot of inventiveness about how we use water and grow crops," she told the BBC.

Neuroscientists Propose Project To Comprehensively Map Mammalian Brain Circuits

In an age in which the genomes of many organisms, including that of humans, have been fully sequenced and can be accessed instantly by anyone with a computer, anywhere in the world, it is astonishing to consider that "we have, as yet, not been able to compile a whole-brain map of the circuitry that underlies the functioning of our own brains," notes Professor Partha P. Mitra, Ph.D., senior author of the paper and leader of the ongoing Brain Architecture Project at CSHL, funded by the WM Keck Foundation. To help address this knowledge gap, Mitra organized a series of meetings at the CSHL Banbury Center in 2007 and 2008, from which this proposal grew. The neuroscience community's "sparse knowledge" of mammalian neuroanatomical circuitry is "perhaps the largest lacuna in our knowledge about nervous system structure," Mitra and colleagues observe in their paper, which appears in the March issue of PLoS Computational Biology. The case for committing resources to assembly of a whole-brain circuit map is particularly strong, they say, because it almost certainly will provide insights about what goes wrong in brain dysfunctions spanning a range of neurodevelopmental illnesses including autism, schizophrenia, and perhaps mood disorders such as depression, bipolar illness, and obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD). Further, the authors argue that technological advances along with decreasing computational and data-storage costs have made such an effort feasible now, when it could only be dreamt of even in the recent past.

Manpackable Laser Weapons on the Way for U.S. Military's Future Soldiers?

There's a scene towards the end of the movie Congo (1995) where Laura Linney's character, Dr. Karen Ross, slices through an attack force of homicidal and generally-disagreeable grey gorillas with a diamond-based portable laser weapon like a Ginsu knife through a ripe tomato. It's scenes like this that excite the minds of U.S. military/DoD (Department of Defense) weapons developers, and encourage them to make them a reality. But lightweight, manpackable solid-state weapons-grade lasers a.k.a. weaponized lasers a.k.a. laser weapons have so far been relegated to the realms of science fiction and entertainment, but thanks to companies like Northrop Grumman and Boeing, they very well may become a reality in our lifetimes. It's being reported that Northrop Grumman has successfully developed a seven-laser-chain 105.5 kW solid-state laser called "Firestrike" that's scalable up to 120 kW by adding an eigth chain. Firestrike's scalable "building-block" approach was apparently the...

Recovered Ship Of Blackbeard Unveils Treasure

In a recently recovered ship of the well-known 18th century pirate Blackbeard, archaeologists have discovered a treasure trove of artifacts. The ship was discovered in 1997 by marine archaeologists from the North Carolina Department of Cultural Resources, which lies 7 meters underwater and a few miles off Beaufort, North Carolina. During research, archaeologists have found clues that suggest the ship belonged to Blackbeard. “We feel pretty comfortable that that’s what this is”, said Marke Wilder-Ramsing, director of Queen Annes Revenge project of the North Carolina Office of State Archaeology, as cited by ANI. Blackbeard was the most feared pirate of The Golden Age of Piracy (late 17th – early 18th centuries). Accounts suggest that most of his victims would surrender without a fight just by seeing him. According to researchers, Blackbeard was a tall man with a beard that covered his face. He would strike fear into the hearts of his opponents by adding cannon fuses under his hat and lighting them during battle. Blackbeard was reported to wear a crimson coat, two swords at his waist and a multitude of pistols and knives across his chest. In March 2009, marine archaeologists found various artifacts of priceless value. Among them are the highly valued navigational instruments which were favored by pirates because they could be easily sold or traded. Two iris flowers, the royal symbol of France, and an apothecary weight were also discovered. According to researchers, Blackbeard has captured the French ship Le Concorde and renamed it Queen Annes Revenge in 1717. A French surgeon from the Le Concorde was forced to serve in Blackbeard’s crew who might have owned the weights, made for pharmaceutical purposes. However, researchers suggest that the weights could have been used by the pirates to measure gold dust as well.

Brown Makes Overt Call For Religious Faithful To Join Push For 'New World Order' In Sermon At St Paul's

Divine strength: Gordon Brown, in St Paul's Cathedral, talking about faith and the global economy. Gordon Brown today made an overtly religious call for a new world order based on the 'deep moral sense' shared by all faiths. Making the first speech by a serving Prime Minister at St Paul's Cathedral in London, Mr Brown quoted from scripture as he said people could come together to forge a new 'global society'. The world economy and society should be rebuilt around a Zulu word for hope - themba - which also stands for 'there must be an alternative', the Prime Minister suggested. It was an extraordinary break from his predecessor Tony Blair, whose spin doctor Alastair Campbell, famously declared that 'we don't do God'. At Westminster it was also seen as high risk for a Government mired in allegations of sleaze to put morality and faith at the centre of its political and economic message. Mr Brown, asked about his decision to discuss religion so openly, declared: 'I think politicians have got to be very careful that they don't turn out to try to be bishops. 'But what we do and what we say reflects the views that we have, the belief we hold, the faith we were brought up in and the faith we believe in.' Mr Brown, whose father was a minister in the Church of Scotland, is not a regular churchgoer, but aides said last night that he believed in God. The Prime Minister, on a platform with his Australian counterpart Kevin Rudd and the Bishop of London Richard Chartres, admitted unsupervised financial markets had 'crossed moral boundaries'. He said market forces should be replaced by those of the 'heart' because it was now clear they could 'become the enemy of the good society'. 'We can now see that markets cannot self-regulate but they can self destruct,' he added.

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Brown: London Can Lead New World Order

Writing exclusively in the Evening Standard, the Prime Minister called on the City to adopt his agenda of better regulation and closer supervision, setting new standards for the world to follow. "It is fitting that we are seeking to agree new rules for global financial markets here in London," he wrote. "Getting this right can provide a platform for a reformed City to secure its place as the world's leading financial centre in a more responsible, better supervised global system that our economies so urgently need." Mr Brown is urging a stronger role for the Financial Services Authority, an end to the short-term bonus culture, a crackdown on tax havens and greater clarity of the risks taken by banks. His comments gave a strong hint that a reformed City would enjoy greater Government support. Expressing sympathy for City workers, in contrast with his condemnations of greedy bank bosses, Mr Brown said: "I know that ordinary City workers are feeling the pain of the worldwide financial collapse that has triggered this global recession." However, Mr Brown's article notably made no call for a big global deal to inject more money into the world economy to beat the recession, making clear that the ambition has been effectively dropped from the G20 agenda because of a lack of European support.

Obama Tries To Rally World To Cope With Downturn

President Barack Obama sought Wednesday to rally the world's top and emerging powers to help cope with a global economic downturn, saying, "We can only meet this challenge together." The president also disputed criticism that the United States was feuding with other nations about the need to pump more money into economic stimulus policies, saying any differences are "vastly overstated." "I am absolutely confident that this meeting will reflect enormous consensus about the need to work in concert to deal with these problems," Obama said ahead of the G-20 economic crisis summit. Obama prodded nations to spur growth and work together on regulatory reform, and not fall into the kind of protectionism and other mistakes that helped fuel the Great Depression. "That is a mistake that we cannot afford to repeat," Obama said alongside British Prime Minister Gordon Brown. Obama called the world's economic challenge the most serious one since World War II. He said he came on behalf of the United States to "listen, not to lecture."

Russia To Insist On New Reserve Currency Debate At G20

Russia will insist at the upcoming G20 summit in London that discussions are initiated into the possibility of creating a new world reserve currency, a Kremlin economic adviser said on Monday. "There are nuances in relation to the priorities of particular topics. For example, Russia is proposing to initiate discussions on reserve currencies while not all are ready for that. We'll insist that these discussions are necessary in subsequent months at all levels - academic, political and professional," Arkady Dvorkovich said. Russia earlier put forward a suggestion to the G20 summit which would see the IMF examining possibilities for creating a supra-national reserve currency, and also prompting national banks and international financial institutions to diversify their foreign currency reserves. "We believe it is necessary to consider the IMF's role in this process and also define the possibility and the need to adopt measures allowing for Special Drawing Rights (SDRs) to become an internationally recognized super-reserve currency," Russia's proposals read. Dvorkovich said that these discussions should result either in a draft proposal or the conclusion that the current financial and payment system "is adequate and sufficient." Dvorkovich earlier said there was an understanding that...

CFR Unveils Global Governance Agenda

The Council on Foreign Relations, often described as the "real state department", has launched an initiative to promote and implement a system of effective world governance. The program, titled "The International Institutions and Global Governance Program," utilizes the resources of the "...David Rockefeller Studies Program to assess existing regional and global governance mechanisms..." The initial funding for the program came with a $6 million grant from the Robina Foundation, which claims that the grant is "...one of the largest operating grants ever received in Council history." The IIGG program, launched on May 1st, 2008, is the latest manifestation of an agenda that has existed since and before the founding of the Council on Foreign Relations. Former CFR member, Rear Admiral Chester Ward, stated regarding the group, "The most powerful clique in these elitist groups have one objective in common - they want to bring about the surrender of the sovereignty and the national independence of the United States. A second clique of international members in the CFR comprises the Wall Street international bankers and their key agents. Primarily, they want the world banking monopoly from whatever power ends up in the control of global government." The International Institutions and Global Governance Program identifies several "global issues" that require a system of world governance. Environmental issues, terrorism, the global economy and energy are all mentioned. The project then states that a system of "universal membership" could be pursued, or alternatively a regional organization, such as the European Union model.

Obama Faces High-Stakes China, Russia Meetings

Stepping onto the world stage for the first time in his two-month presidency, Barack Obama is holding face-to-face talks with the leaders of the two nations-Russia and China-most aggressively challenging the U.S. position atop the global order. But first up for Obama was a sit-down with British Prime Minister Gordon Brown, the host of the London summit of the world's top 20 economies. The U.S. president and first lady Michelle Obama arrived Wednesday morning at 10 Downing Street, where Brown and his wife, Sarah, greeted them and the four smiled broadly.

Obama's Faustian Bargain

The assumption that the Obama administration's diplomatic initiative to our enemies will enhance America's image in the world has yet to be proven. What should concern us more however is the price our enemies will exact from us as part of that rapproachement, and whether it is really and truly worth the cost? As Barry Rubin of the Global Research in International Affairs Center in Israel wrote recently: "In the Middle East, it is not so useful to think yourself popular and show yourself to be friendly. You have to inspire fear in your enemies and confidence in your friends. And if you don't inspire fear in your enemies - if you're too nice to them - then you will indeed foment fear among your friends." That is because the culture of the modern Arab/Persian world has not descended from the Reformation, the Enlightenment, John Locke, Thomas Paine and Thomas Jefferson, but from radical jihadi Salafists like Ibn Tamiya in the 15th century and Muhammad ibn 'Abd al-Wahhab (Wahhabism) in the 18th century whose descendants now seek to return Islam and the world back to the Dark Ages.

Surveillance Towers Planned for Detroit, Buffalo

The U.S. Border Patrol is erecting 16 more video surveillance towers in Michigan and New York to help 'secure' parts of the U.S.-Canadian border, awarding the contract to a company criticized for faulty technology with its so-called "virtual fence" along the U.S.-Mexico boundary. The government awarded the $20 million project to Boeing Co., for the towers designed to assist agents stationed along the 4,000-mile northern stretch. Eleven of the towers are being installed in Detroit and five in Buffalo, N.Y.

Taliban Threatens 9/11-Like Attack On US

The leader of Taliban in Pakistan has threatened to target the White House, saying that the terrorist attack is aimed to 'amaze' the world. "Soon we will launch an attack in Washington that will amaze everyone in the world," Baitullah Mehsud told The Associated Press by phone Tuesday, giving no further details. In his latest comments made during an interview with local Dewa Radio, Tehrik-e-Taliban (TTP) Pakistan leader had referred to the White house as a potential target.

Taliban Leader's Washington Threat Is Credible, Analysts Say

Baitullah Mehsud, commander of the Taliban in Pakistan, told The Associated Press in an interview Tuesday that his group was responsible for Monday's attack on a police academy in his country that killed seven police officers and injured more than 90 others. He also said, chillingly: "Soon we will launch an attack in Washington that will amaze everyone in the world." In an interview with local Dewa Radio, which was obtained by The Associated Press, Mehsud identified the White House as one of the targets

Taliban Chief Vows 'Amazing' Attack on Washington 'Soon'

The commander of the Pakistani Taliban claimed responsibility Tuesday for a deadly assault on a Pakistani police academy and said the group was planning a terrorist attack on the U.S. capital. Baitullah Mehsud, who has a $5 million bounty on his head from the U.S., said Monday's attack outside the eastern city of Lahore was in retaliation for U.S. missile strikes against militants along the Afghan border. "Soon we will launch an attack in Washington that will amaze everyone in the world," Mehsud told The Associated Press by phone. He provided no details. Mehsud and other Pakistani Taliban militants are believed to be based in the country's lawless areas near the border with Afghanistan, where they have stepped up their attacks throughout Pakistan. The Taliban leader also claimed responsibility for a suicide car bombing that killed four soldiers Monday in Bannu district and a suicide attack targeting a police station in Islamabad last week that killed one officer. Such attacks pose a major test for the weak, year-old civilian administration of Pakistani President Asif Ali Zardari that has been gripped with political turmoil in recent weeks... The Pakistani Taliban has links with Al Qaeda and Afghan Taliban militants who have launched attacks against U.S. and NATO forces in Afghanistan from a base in the border region between the two countries... Monday's highly coordinated attack highlighted that militants in the country pose a threat far outside the border region. It prompted Interior Ministry chief Rehman Malik, Pakistan's top civilian security official, to say that militant groups were "destabilizing the country."

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Military Escalation and Obama's "War on Terrorism"

Echoing Bush administration pronouncements, Obama told diplomats and soldiers headed to Afghanistan, "I want the American people to understand that we have a clear and focused goal: to disrupt, dismantle and defeat al-Qaeda in Pakistan and Afghanistan." Employing rhetoric designed to sell the war to a sceptical public, Obama went on to say: "Multiple intelligence estimates have warned that al-Qaeda is actively planning attacks on the US homeland from its safe havens in Pakistan." As I reported March 7, with a recently concluded agreement amongst Pakistani Taliban fighters and their Afghan counterparts, the prospects for a bloody spring offensive are a nettlesome reminder that U.S. regional plans are so many illusions soon to be cast to the four winds. Orchestrated by Afghan Taliban chieftain Mullah Mohammed Omar in coordination with Baitullah Mehsud's Tehrik-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP), North Waziristan commander Hafiz Gul Bahadur and South Waziristan "emir" Maulvi Nazeer--grouped under the banner of the Shura Ittihad-ul-Mujahideen (Council of United Holy Warriors, SIM)--the United States and their NATO allies face the prospect of ferocious multi-front attacks.

Quest To Sniff Out Terrorists

Law enforcement agencies are seeking scientists to develop an artificial nose that can detect the smell of fear as terrorists pass through security at airports. The US Department of Homeland Security is advertising for specialists to devise airport scanners that will sniff out “deceptive individuals”. The technology builds on recent breakthroughs in finding human scent-prints which, many researchers believe, may be as unique to individuals as fingerprints. Body odours also change perceptibly according to mood. Researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology have already produced a gel that acts like the smell receptors in the human nose. Now they are trying to create a version that can isolate the tangy smell of adrenaline, the stress hormone, so that nervous passengers or those with a guilty conscience can be singled out. Homeland Security wants a device that automatically compares odours with scents collected from crime scenes and held in a “smell bank” which, like DNA or fingerprints, could be used in court.

Film Sheds Light On Shadowy World Of Germ Warfare

In 2001, an attack involving several letters laced with deadly anthrax bacteria killed five people in the U.S. The incident prompted filmmaker Bob Coen to undertake an investigation of the shadowy world of biological weapons, their deadly history and their role today as part of a growing and profitable industry. Coen spoke to CBCNews.ca about the resulting documentary, Anthrax War. The film, which he directed and co-wrote, will have its world premier on CBC Newsworld's The Passionate Eye on Sunday, March 29. It actually goes back earlier than that. I grew up in Zimbabwe when it was still colonial Rhodesia, and I came of age at the height of that war. Years later, I was working as a journalist correspondent at CNN International … [I] got involved in covering the wars in Mozambique, Angola, the struggle against apartheid in South Africa, and in my research, I uncovered that biological weapons had been used in the Rhodesian War. And, in fact, the largest outbreak of anthrax in modern history took place in Rhodesia at the height of the war … Between 1978 and 1980, there were 10,000 cases of human anthrax in the country and more than 180 deaths.… So that's where my interest began … I was aware of this clandestine use of biological weapons, …and when the anthrax attacks happened [in the U.S.], I was very curious that perhaps there was some kind of connection.…

Mysterious Plague

A mysterious illness is causing calves to bleed to death on German farms. Veterinarians are stumped over what is causing the deaths: vaccines, genetically modified feed or perhaps even the first mother's milk? What can a cattle farmer do when he sees blood running from his calves like water, when they become lethargic and febrile and, by the next morning, are lying dead on the floor, their coats covered in blood? "Our calves from last summer looked like they had been beaten," says farmer Robert Meyboom, who is still shocked and perplexed today. "The animals' bodies were covered with drops of blood, and their eyes were bloodshot." The veterinarian tried everything, he says, including administering vitamins and blood-clotting agents. But nothing worked, and "within two or three days, they were all dead." Meyboom, a farmer from Wesel in the Lower Rhine region of western Germany, has lost seven animals since the first calf bled to death in his barn in October 2007. The last calf died an agonizing death only a few weeks ago. Farmers refer to the victims as "blood sweaters," alluding to the way blood seems to seep from the pores in some of the calves. A mysterious disease is rampant in Germany's cattle barns. The afflicted two-to-three-week-old calves begin bleeding massively and are often dead within hours.

Cybernetic Enhancement Of Humans Under Development

In Robot Madness, LiveScience examines humanoid robots and cybernetic enhancement of humans, as well as the exciting and sometimes frightening convergence of it all. Return for a new episode each Monday, Wednesday and Friday through April 6. People who talk with one-eyed filmmaker Robert Spence may find it creepy to realize they're staring into a bionic eye camera – and that's the entire point of the "EyeBorg" project. Spence wants to raise awareness of concerns in an increasingly networked society, by using a wireless video camera disguised as a natural eye to create a documentary. The purpose, he says, is to highlight privacy issues raised by technologies which have become hidden in modern life. This goes beyond Google Maps catching embarrassing images of sunbathers, or surveillance cameras recording pedestrians 24/7 in cities such as New York and London. It's about "smart" or "ambient intelligence" systems embedded in everything from store goods to human bodies, and often hidden from obvious view. Such systems provide a smorgasbord of information that can help stores move goods more efficiently or doctors better treat their patients, but also challenge traditional ideas of privacy. For instance, Wal-Mart and other major retailers have already tested how to track consumer habits with radio frequency identification (RFID), by embedding RFID tags in the products such as lipstick.

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Brain-Machine Interface Technology To Allow Control Of Friendly Robots By Human Thought Alone

Honda Research Institute Japan Co., Ltd. (HRI-JP), a subsidiary of Honda R&D Co., Ltd., Advanced Telecommunications Research Institute International (ATR) and Shimadzu Corporation have collaboratively developed the world’s first Brain Machine Interface (BMI) technology that uses electroencephalography (EEG) and near-infrared spectroscopy (NIRS) along with newly developed information extraction technology to enable control of a robot by human thought alone. It does not require any physical movement such as pressing buttons. This technology will be further developed for the application to human-friendly products in the future by integrating it with intelligent technologies and/or robotic technologies. During the human thought process, slight electrical current and blood flow change occur in the brain. The most important factor in the development of the BMI technology is the accuracy of measuring and analyzing these changes. The newly developed BMI technology uses EEG, which measures changes in electrical potential on the scalp, and NIRS, which measures changes in cerebral blood flow, with a newly developed information extraction technology which enables statistical processing of the complex information from these two types of sensors. As a result, it became possible to distinguish brain activities with high precision without any physical motion, but just human thought alone.

International Artificial-Intelligence Team Builds Human Brain on a Silicon Chip

Artificial intelligence investigators have built a fully silicon scale simulation of the human brain. The artificial neurons operate faster than the organic model, are built to learn and adapt, and even have a cool movie-style acronym, FACETS. One thing seems clear: AI researchers watch Terminator daily. The Fast Analog Computing with Emergent Transient States project takes a different approach to other electronic intellect endeavors. Research like the Blue Brain project run vast software simulations of virtual brains, which allows them to tinker with the conditions and wiring of the brain with the tap of a keyboard. On the downside, you're running a layer of simulation of a parallel system on top of an utterly sequential computer system, which slows things down. The FACETS hardware instead builds direct silicon similes of synapses and neural circuits, creating a real hardware brain which can operate in parallel just like the human mind. Sure, it's more of an American Idol mind at the moment, with only two hundred thousand neurons compared to hundred billion in your head (a factor of five hundred thousand).

NeuroSky to Launch Brainwave-Based Technology for Stereo Headsets for Personal Computers

NeuroSky, Inc., a bio-sensor technology company in Silicon Valley, announces today the launching of the MindSet(TM), a brainwave-reading (EEG) and mental state translational technology for a wireless Bluetooth(R) headset that operates with most personal computer (PC) products. With Uncle Milton, a toy company, announcing the Force Trainer(TM) product in January, 2009 (under a Lucas Licensing deal) incorporating the NeuroSky sensor, this announcement represents the first Brain-Computer-Interface (BCI) peripheral that can be integrated in the mainstream of personal computer users. The MindSet headset resembles a pair of headphones with one distinct difference--an electrode-laden arm that is in contact with the user's forehead. The electrode reads the electrical potentials found on the skin's surface and induced by the neuron activity occurring in the frontal lobe of the user's brain. Various "mental states" of the users, for example their level of focus and relaxation, can be deciphered from the brainwave patterns. That information can be passed to a variety of PC-based applications for entertainment, health, wellness, education, and training.

Transhumanists Explore Posthuman And Technological Themes In Watchmen

Transhumanists and speculative AI theorists consider the emergence of an SAI—an entity with intellectual capacities that are radically more advanced than the human mind (such an intelligence could emerge from an AI or as an outgrowth from a highly modified human brain). Such discussions have evoked images of god-like intelligences capable of reworking human affairs and even the fabric of the Universe itself. Because we lack the proper terminology or frame to envision such an intelligence, many have referred to this potential AI as being ‘god-like.’ Doctor Manhattan encapsulates many of these characteristics. He is the reluctant god, one who is largely indifferent to human affairs. Manhattan lives in the quantum universe and does not perceive time with a linear perspective, something that alienates him even further from those around him. Consequently, his interests and intellectual endeavors lead him to a different mind-space altogether; he is primarily concerned with the inner workings and unfolding of the Universe. His ability to relate to humanity recedes with each passing day, almost to the point where he can no longer distinguish between a living and dead human being. This is a fear levied by some futurists as they worry about the emergence of a poorly programmed or indifferent SAI. Indeed, how and why would an intellect that runs at a radically increased clock-speed and expanded/alternative mind-space relate to unaugmented humans? It’s an open question. In Watchmen this problem nearly results in human extinction...

Flashback: Did Ancient Biotech Create Nephilim? Will Modern Science Bring Them Again?

Not to be outdone in this regard by the National Institute of Health, DARPA and other agencies of the U.S. military have taken inspiration from the likes of Tolkein's Lord of the Rings. In a scene reminiscent of Saruman the wizard creating monstrous Uruk-Hai to wage unending, merciless war, we find billions of American tax dollars have flowed into the Pentagon's Frankensteinian dream of "super-soldiers" and the "Extended Performance War Fighter" program. Not only does the EPWFP envision "injecting young men and women with hormonal, neurological and genetic concoctions; implanting microchips and electrodes in their bodies to control their internal organs and brain functions; and plying them with drugs that deaden some of their normal human tendencies: the need for sleep, the fear of death, [and] the reluctance to kill their fellow human beings," but Chris Floyd in an article for CounterPunch a while back quoted the Daily Telegraph and Christian Science Monitor, saying "some of the research now underway involves actually altering the genetic code of soldiers, modifying bits of DNA to fashion a new type of human specimen, one that functions like a machine, killing tirelessly for days and nights on end.... mutations [that] will 'revolutionize the contemporary order of battle' and guarantee 'operational dominance across the whole range of potential U.S. military employments."

Special Investigation: How My Genome Was Hacked

Intimate secrets hidden in your DNA could be stolen without you even realising. By taking a glass from which you have drunk, a "genome hacker" could obtain a comprehensive scan of your genome, revealing DNA variants that help determine your susceptibility to a wide range of diseases, from a common form of blindness to Alzheimer's disease. That's the disturbing finding of a New Scientist investigation, in which one of us - Michael Reilly - "hacked" the genome of the other - Peter Aldhous - armed with only a credit card, a private email account and a home address. You might have thought that genome hacking requires specialist skills, and personal access to sophisticated equipment. But in recent years, some companies have started to offer personal genome scans to the public over the internet. Other firms routinely analyse genomes on behalf of scientists involved in human genetics research. In theory, both types of service are vulnerable to abuse by a genome hacker determined to submit someone else's DNA for covert analysis. Until our investigation, it was not clear whether this would be possible.

British Couples Hoping To Buy Immortality

It sounds like the loopiest science fiction, but - like Simon Cowell - scores of middle-class couples are paying £10 a week for their bodies to be frozen when they die. So can you really buy immortality for the price of a pizza? When Adele Cosgrove Bray decided to share her hopes for the future with her husband, it was not quite the reaction she was looking for. 'I'd never seen anyone laugh so much,' she reflects ruefully. 'It took me a good 15 minutes to convince him I was serious.' In fairness to her husband, Richard, these weren't your bog-standard dreams of a move to the country or a home in the sun. Adele's plans are far more long-term than that. Permanent, if you like. As she puts it: 'I told Richard that I wanted to be frozen when I died, with a view to eventually being brought back to life to experience the future.'

Genetic Modification Of Humans And The Dawn Of Designer Babies

Many parents in the United States have been using sex selection techniques since 1999. This technology was the foundation for PGD. Sex selection however, has allowed another family, the Collines, to pick the sex of their child therein avoiding a deadly genetic disease called X-linked hydrocephalus, or water on the brain, which almost always affects male children with the gene. Researchers at the Genetics & IVF Institute in Fairfax were the first to develop this technology, where they adapted a technique previously used on livestock. They took advantage of the fact that females have two X chromosomes and males carry one X and one Y, divided amongst sperm cells. By staining the sperm’s DNA with a nontoxic light-sensitive dye, the researchers were able to sort sperm by gender before using them in artificial insemination. While this advancing technology has much potential to rid humanity of disease and illness, many ethical questions arise. So far, the technology has been used for health-related purposes, for couples who have a high chance of transmitting a genetic disease to their potential child and for “Family Balancing,” which is offered to families with more children of a particular gender. The potential for abuse by countries like China who have a long history of female infanticide is debated. Another controversial type of genetic manipulation is called “Germ Line Therapy.” GLT is the process of altering genes in eggs, sperm or embryos. This procedure actually allows scientists to manipulate any of the 20,000 genes found in the human cell, which could potentially lead to “designer babies.”

Genetic Armageddon + The Ahriman Gate

U.S. Unveils Orion Spacecraft To Take Crew To Mars

NASA gave visitors to the National Mall in Washington a peek at a full-size mock-up of the spacecraft designed to carry U.S. astronauts back to the moon and then on to Mars one day. The U.S. Navy-built Orion crew exploration vehicle will replace the space shuttle NASA plans to retire in 2010, and become the cornerstone of the agency's Constellation Program to explore the moon, Mars and beyond. "We're just very proud to build this, do some testing and demonstrate to America that we're moving beyond the space shuttle onto another generation of spacecraft," said Don Pearson, project manager for the Post-Landing Orion Recovery Test or PORT. NASA plans to use Orion to carry astronauts to the International Space Station by 2015. The capsule will rotate the crew at the station every six months "to work out the kinks" before heading to the moon and Mars, Pearson said. Trips to the moon are scheduled for 2020, while a journey to Mars is believed possible by the mid-2030s.

Mar's Impact Crater: The Largest in Solar System Sparks Intense Scientific Interest

Recent analysis of the Red Planet's terrain using NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter and Global Surveyor spacecraft observations revealed what appeared to be by far the largest impact crater ever found in the solar system. NASA’s Viking orbiters observed in the 1970s that the bottom two-thirds of Mars was about two miles higher in altitude than its top third. Planetary scientists have since bandied about two hypotheses to explain the dichotomy: either some odd internal dynamics of Mars generated a thicker planetary crust in the south, or the northern surface was blown away by a mega-meteor impact. NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter and Mars Global Surveyor have provided detailed information about the elevations and gravity of the Red Planet's northern and southern hemispheres. A new study using this information may solve one of the biggest remaining mysteries in the solar system: Why does Mars have two strikingly different kinds of terrain in its northern and southern hemispheres? The huge crater is creating intense scientific interest.

Flashback: Is The Vatican Easing Humanity Toward ET Disclosure?

Vatican chief astronomer Father Jose Gabriel Funes in a long interview with the L'Osservatore Romano newspaper this week made news by saying there is a certain possibility of intelligent life elsewhere in the universe, and that such notion "doesn't contradict our faith." "How can we rule out that life may have developed elsewhere? Just as we consider earthly creatures as 'a brother,' and 'sister,' why should we not talk about an 'extraterrestrial brother'? It would still be part of creation," he said. The statements by Funes are the latest in a string of recent comments by Vatican astronomers confirming a belief that discovery may be made in the near future of alien life, including intelligent life, and that this discovery would not unhinge the doctrine of Christ. In 2005, another Vatican astronomer, Guy Consolmagno tackled this subject in a 50-page booklet, Intelligent Life in the Universe, in which he concluded that chances are better than not that mankind is facing a future discovery of extraterrestrial intelligence. Approximately 7 years ago Monsignor Corrado Balducci made similar news when he said ETs were actually already interacting with earth and that some of the Vatican's leaders were aware of it. Before his death in 1999, maverick Catholic theologian Father Malachi Martin hinted at such more than once. In 1997, while on Coast to Coast AM radio, Art Bell asked him...

Are We On the Brink of Finding a Second Earth? NASA/Harvard Teams Say "It Could Happen Anytime Now"

To date, Planet hunters have spotted more than 200 planets beyond our solar system, but the vast majority are hot, Jupiter-sized planets that would dwarf the Earth and are almost certainly lifeless. Astronomers may be on the brink of discovering a second Earth-like planet, a find that would add fresh impetus to the search for extraterrestrial life, according to the US journal Science. Astronomers from six major centers, including NASA, Harvard and the University of Colorado, outline how advances in technology suggest scientists are on the verge of being able to detect the presence of small, rocky planets, much like our own, around distant stars for the first time. The planets are considered the most likely habitats for extraterrestrial life. One technique relies on observing the shift in light coming from a star as a planet swings around it. Until recently, this "radial velocity" method has only been sensitive enough to pick up planets far more massive than Earth, but improvements now make the discovery of a second Earth highly likely, said Dave Latham, a co-author on the paper at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics. "It could happen almost any time now. We have the technological capability to identify Earth-like planets around the smallest stars even now," he said. Earlier this year, the world's largest and most prolific team of planet hunters, the Anglo-Australian, California and Carnegie Planet Searches ( AAPS), reported their findings of 37 exoplanets that have been discovered over the past couple of years, 7 of which were previously unreported brown dwarfs.

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Super-Laser Project Poses Challenges

Ed Moses talks of the “grand challenge” that has consumed him for the past five years, comparing it to trying to hit the strike zone with a baseball from 350 miles away or tossing a dime into a parking meter from 40 miles. “That’s the precision we have to have,” says Moses, the director of a high-energy physics adventure to produce the world’s most powerful laser — one that scientists hope will create in a laboratory the energy found at the center of the sun. In a building the size of a football stadium, engineers have assembled the framework for a network of 192 laser beams, each traveling 1,000 feet (300 meters) to converge simultaneously on a target the size of a pencil eraser. The trip will take one-thousandth of a second, during which the light’s energy is amplified many billions of times to create a brief laser pulse 1,000 times the electric generating power of the United States. The goal is to create unimaginable heat — 180 million degrees Fahrenheit (82 million degrees Celsius) — and intense pressure from all directions on a BB-size hydrogen fuel pellet, compressing it to one-thirtieth of its size. The result, the scientists hope, will be a fusing of atoms so that more energy is released than is generated by the laser beams, something scientists call fusion ignition. It is what happens when a hydrogen bomb explodes.

China Sees Electronic Spying As Area Where It Can Defeat America

"Thanks to modern technology, such as the development of information carriers and the Internet, many can now take part in fighting without even having to step out of the door," noted Wei Jincheng, a military strategist, in the Liberation Army Daily newspaper in 1996. While China cannot compete with the US in defence technology or conventional warfare, Mr Wei foresaw that the country's 300 million internet users could be marshalled into armies of hackers. "The rapid development of networks has turned each automated system into a potential target of invasion. The fact that information technology is increasingly relevant to people's lives means that those who take part in information war are not all soldiers and anybody who understands computers can become a 'fighter' on the network. The public can participate," he said. His idea was adopted by the highest levels of command. Major-General Wang Pufeng, the former director of strategy at Beijing's military academy, noted: "In the near future, information warfare will control the form and future of war".

Farmers To Cut US Planting

US farmers are set to sow fewer acres this spring with crops such as corn and wheat, breaking a string of four years of increases in a move likely to support agricultural commodities prices through the economic crisis. The US Department of Agriculture will reveal its first acreage estimate on Tuesday in its Prospective Plantings report. Because the country exports half the world’s corn, a third of world soyabeans, and a fifth of the world’s wheat, changes in acreage and hence in output have a huge impact in global food prices. Traders anticipate a drop in almost every major crop with the exception of soyabean, bringing the country’s cropland to about 248m acres, down 2 per cent from last year. Farmers are planting less because reduced profitability on the back of current low prices and high cost for fertilisers. The overall acreage fall would be the first since 2005 when US farmers started to expand their cropland to cash in on high prices brought by strong consumption from the nascent ethanol industry and developing countries such as China.

World Bank To Create $50 Billion Global Trade Liquidity Program

The World Bank announced a $50 billion program on Tuesday to counter a decline in global trade and Britain called on G20 leaders to supply "the oxygen of confidence" to save the world economy from recession. Leaders of the world's largest and developing economies meet in London on Wednesday and Thursday to try to chart a way out of the worst global crisis since the 1930s, caused by a freeze in credit after bank loans went bad. The scale of the problem was underlined by the OECD, which said the economies of its 30 members would shrink by 4.3 percent this year, shedding 25 million jobs this year and next. Japan, the world's no. 2 economy, announced plans for its third stimulus package and Japanese media predicted it would aim to create 60 trillion yen ($612 billion) worth of demand and 2 million jobs. The OECD's chief economist Klaus Schmidt-Hebbel said international stimulus measures taken so far should restore growth in 2010 -- a forecast that echoed a line in a draft G20 communique obtained by Reuters on Monday. The draft shows leaders want to agree to avoid currency moves and protectionist measures that would damage other economies. It also repeats existing promises to get economies back on track, but does not contain any specific details...

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From Freedom to Servitude - Part 1: The Power and Perversions of Laws

During the Nazi occupation of Norway (1939-1945), my father joined the Norwegian resistance movement and was willing to die for his country. But when the post-war years brought creeping socialism, he became increasingly disillusioned. Finally he chose to immigrate to America, which shone like a beacon of freedom and opportunity across Europe's war-torn lands. Entering New York's harbor some years later, we gazed in awe at the Statue of Liberty. But even as we ate our first hamburger soon afterwards, America was changing. Dwight D. Eisenhower, our war-time hero, was now president. John Foster Dulles -- a founding member of the Council of Foreign Relations (CFR) -- was his Secretary of State. Like most Americans, we had no idea what was happening "behind the scenes." We didn't know that Dulles had been a Trustee of the Rockefeller Foundation -- or that he collaborated with Alger Hiss, an active member of the Communist Party, and had helped draft the preamble to the UN Charter back in 1945. Nor did we realize that our Secretary of State had chaired a 1942 Federal (later renamed National) Council of Churches conference. In an article titled Conforming the Church to the New Millennium, I summarized the conference report. While Hitler's armies were ravaging Europe, the Council used that devastating crisis as an opportunity to promote its agenda...

Scared Cheney Puts His Head In The Noose

Obama is about as far from apolitical as you can get; and while he is a decent fellow, he is also a lethal Chicago pol. His greatest achievement in this respect was the total implosion of Bill Clinton around this time last year: Hillary was next. Then came John McCain, merrily strapping on the suicide bomb of Sarah Palin. With the fate of all these formidable figures impossible to miss, one has to wonder what possessed Dick Cheney, the former vice-presi-dent, to come lumbering out twice in the first 50 days of the Obama administration to blast the new guy on national television. Growling and sneering, Cheney accused the new president of actively endangering the lives of Americans by ending the detention and interrogation programmes of the last administration, and vowing to close Guantanamo Bay. It’s hard to overstate how unseemly and unusual this was.

Making the A-List – How To Achieve Christian Author Acclaim: The Bill Salus Success Story

In this day of busy Literary Agents and Publisher’s that refuse to accept unsolicited works from upstart authors, how does a good writer get his or her foot in the door? If you are a new or struggling author having a hard time finding an open door to advance your "Diamond in the Rough" manuscript through, don’t despair, this is a story that is sure to bring you HOPE! Resembling these above remarks was a virtually unknown writer who had faithfully poured six years of his life into a book about Bible prophecy. It was his first attempt at writing; however through time his diligent studies graduated from notes into chapters and low and behold a BEST-SELLER made its way to bookstore shelves. The author is Bill Salus, the book Isralestine: The Ancient Blueprints of the Future Middle East, and the success story reads as follows: After knocking upon door following shut door, Salus resigned himself to the thought that self or subsidized publishing was the only way left to go. Unfortunately he realized that both of these options were costly and lacked guarantees. Learning the ropes the hard way Bill had become frustrated by manipulative money hungry literary agents. Thinking he had no way left to turn, he submitted his book summary and synopsis online through a manuscript submission service and then the doors began to open.

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