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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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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...
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...
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.
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.
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.
Eye
of the Phoenix: Secrets of
the Dollar Bill
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3 of Secret Mysteries of
America's Beginnings
Award
winning Adullam Films'
director, Christian J. Pinto
has completed work on the
new film, Eye
of the Phoenix: Secrets of
the Dollar Bill,
which is the third volume in
the “Secret Mysteries of
America's Beginnings”
series. Read
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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."
"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.
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.
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
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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...
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.
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.
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.
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.
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."
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
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."
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...
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.
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."
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."
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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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."
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.
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.
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...
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.
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
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.
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’.
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.
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.
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.
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...
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.
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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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.
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
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...
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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."
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.
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.
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.…
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.
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.
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.
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,
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
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...
NEW
5-HOUR AUDIO SERIES BY TOM
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As
It Was In The Days Of
Noah: The Return Of The
Nephilim
The
new 5-hour CD set has been
called "The Best Ever
Series" by popular
radio personalities Tom
Horn and Steve Quayle.
This is a fascinating and
sometimes frightening
expose on little known
passages from the Bible
and Apocryphal texts,
which speak of an alien
agenda, great deception
giving rise to the
Antichrist, and in the
last two parts of this
series, the most
incredible information
ever revealed over the
airwaves about the return
of the giants in the last
days. Tom's newest
revelation from the Book
of Enoch left Steve Quayle
speechless for several
seconds and led to
newshounds seeking
additional information and
a feature editorial at
WorldNetDaily, the world's
#1 online news site. LEARN
MORE HERE!
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."
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.
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.'
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.”
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.
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.
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...
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.
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.
"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".
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.
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...
Eye
of the Phoenix: Secrets of
the Dollar Bill
Part
3 of Secret Mysteries of
America's Beginnings
Award
winning Adullam Films'
director, Christian J. Pinto
has completed work on the
new film, Eye
of the Phoenix: Secrets of
the Dollar Bill,
which is the third volume in
the “Secret Mysteries of
America's Beginnings”
series. Read
all about it here!
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...
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.
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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