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Ford today celebrates the company’s 350 millionth vehicle (Photo credit: Ford APA)

Apr 24 2009 U.S. troops may fight drug war in Mexico
We knew this was coming but it's still jarring to see and it is the dead wrong approach to combating Mexico's drug problems.
The Pentagon and Homeland Security Department are developing contingency plans to send National Guard troops to the U.S.-Mexican border under a $350 million initiative that would expand the U.S. military's role in the war on drugs
Joy Olson, executive director of the Washington Office on Latin America, which promotes democracy and human rights in the region, said the request lacks the accountability provisions...."They may say that this is for the National Guard, but the way it's written it is really a blank check for the Defense Department to do whatever it wants on counter-drug issues at the border -- and it doesn't say which side of the border"

Scott Beale - Yesterday 18:45 (edited) - Public

My wife +Lori Dorn, who has breast cancer, tells her story about a TSA agent at JFK on Friday who required her to submit to a pat down due to her breast implants, even though she had an identification card for the implants that is used to prove that the implants are an actual medical device. The TSA agent would not let Lori show her the card.

At what point does the need for security eclipse... | Lori Dorn

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My new friend Chris reads #OccupyWallStreet newspaper http://twitgoo.com/4kzek9 :) #OWS #OccupyTogether

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Live Blog of #OccupyWallStreet: Day Fourteen, AFL-CIO President Richard Trumka Expresses Support

“I think being in the streets and calling attention to issues is sometimes the only recourse you have because, God only knows, you can go to the Hill, and you can talk to a lot of people and see nothing ever happen."

Bloomberg

The protesters are protesting against people who make $40-50,000 a year and are struggling to make ends meet. That’s the bottom line. These are the people that work on Wall Street in the finance sector. Most of these companies are no longer on Wall Street. We just use that as a catch-all term. And people in this day and age need support for their employers. We need the banks. If the banks don’t go out and make loans, we will not come out of our economic problems. We will not have jobs. So, anything we can do to responsibly help the banks do that encourages them to do that is what we need.

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	Middle East Popular Uprisings Coverage of protests in Libya, Iraq, Bahrain, Yemen, Egypt and more
Obsolete Glenn Greenwald on the extrajudicial execution of Anwar al-Awlaki. American Leftist U.S. approved content on Al Jazeera A Sunday Afternoon at the Library .....encourage people to deprive themselves of medical care because no one can know the cost with certainty prior to requesting it. It places people in the impossible position of diagnosing their condition before seeing a doctor. Home Invasions the US stages approximately 40 raids every night ( Afghanistan ). Porter states that the number of raids in neighboring Pakistan is kept secret ( ! ) ( It occurs to me that the AfPak area has one great military attraction compared to the jungles of southeast Asia...no need for defoliant ! Agent Orange being in bad repute. )	Private Bradley Manning Investigating the inhumane conditions of Private Manning's detention

Myanmar halts China-backed dam project
Education nation or education corporation?

Five lessons learned from Palestinian UN bid

The statehood bid didn't change the occupation, but it did force international players to show their cards.

The false promise of the nation-state

Libya's toxic Gaddafi legacy

Tons of dangerous chemicals, including radioactive 'yellowcake', found at sites around Libya.

( Snort ! Yellowcake was the substance lying around all over Iraq...used to make fertilizer ! It was the chimera exposed by the Arms Control Wonk that would have been refuted by CIA agent Valerie Plame/Wilson, except she was 'blown' so as to let Cheney's lies go forward unopposed. Lying to War is what Scooter Libby went to jail to protect.)

Appalachia Coal Decline: Industry Faces Steep Challenges

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In Praise of Extremism

What good did bipartisanship ever do anybody?

Rick Perry might have been computer-generated to check every box in a shrill liberal fund-raising letter: a gun-toting, Bible-thumping, anti-government death-penalty absolutist from Texas. A desperate and angry country is facing the specter of a double-dip recession with zero prospects of relief from a defunct Washington

He’s anathema to Mitt Romney, Karl Rove, and many conservative pundits no less than to liberals. Whether Perry snares the big prize or not, he could prove a shock to the system tantamount to Barry Goldwater in 1964

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AFL-CIO Secretary-Treasurer: “Youth Face An Abyss Now”

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FAIR Blog » Blog Archive » Did the NYT Coverage of Occupy Wall Street Just Get WORSE?

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Lowe's, Walgreens Tackle Electric Car Charging Dilemma in the U.S.

The U.S. retailers are bringing garage-friendly car chargers and recharging stations to the public—crucial solutions to help beat consumer 'range anxiety.'

Anonymous Comment

Charge it fast and shorten the time it will take when you will need to buy a ginormous new vastly expensive car battery. http://www.plugincars.com/eight-tips-extend-battery-life-your-electric-car-107938.html.
Electric vehicles are not the savior of the environment as marketed. They just change the scapegoat. Now it is oil. EVs still command a considerable amount of electicity, which means more power plants, stressed grids, and filling landfills with huge old used car batteries. California's electricity grid already is stressed to the max - there were blackouts just two weeks ago. Let's plug in a bunch of cars into it! Smart.

Surge of Lobbying Fuels Keystone XL Pipeline Project

Google Invests an Additional $75 Million in Residential Solar Power

More on Google's Clean Energy Investments
Google Invests $55 Million in California's Massive 1,550MW Alta Wind Farm
Google Invests $168 Million in 392MW Mojave Desert Solar Thermal Plant
Google Invests $100m in What Will be the World's Largest Wind Farm (845 MW)

Cold feet?
Massive Underground Coal Fire Started in 1962 Still Burns Today

( Global Warming ? :) )

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You might laugh at the headlines, but it’s no joke

Unemployment in Saudi Arabia is over 10% and rising, complicated by cultural restrictions on what jobs are available to which demographic groups, including distinctions according to gender and citizenship. As the Saudi government, desperate to head off the potential threat posed by a large and rapidly expanding population of over-educated, under-employed youth, overhauls labor and visa laws to require employers to meet certain quotas for citizens on their employment rolls, there are still whole sectors of employment most citizens won’t touch. This includes most domestic positions. Instead, those positions are filled by Indonesians, Filipinos, and other foreign workers – soon to include a larger contingent of Moroccan women if the government has its way.

Michael Moore: Wall Street protests will spread

last night on CNN's Piers Morgan Tonight show.

Moore took on capitalism, the runaway problem of Wall Street greed, and a bunch of other economic woes hitting America right now.
The most interesting bit, however, had to do with the Occupy Wall Street protests that are gripping lower Manhattan, and picking up some serious media steam as well as Hollywood star power (both Susan Sarandon and Alec Baldwin are on the case).
On CNN, Moore warned that the protests — now in their 11th day — are a sign of things to come:

"We got rid of slavery in 1863 in this country. It wasn't until the 1960s that you saw the large marches and the voting rights and the civil rights act being passed. Women couldn't vote until 1920, and then you didn't have the real women's liberation movement until the '60s and '70s.

Things take time. This won't take that long. This won't take 100 years for people to respond because Wall Street has overplayed its hand. They have come down too hard on too many people, especially people in the middle class who used to believe in Wall Street.

Forty-six million people living in poverty right now in the United States. That's an absolute crime, it's immoral. And these guys are just posting the largest profits ever this year."

Resistance in Libya: Imperialism will be buried in Africa

U.N. Resolution 1973, which authorized a “no fly zone” that was without regard for international law, which is not difficult since there is no international law, immediately turned into a regime change operation. Under the pretext of protecting civilians, NATO has murdered thousands of Libyans and other African civilians and now, as I write, they have surrounded the people of the small desert town of Bani Walid to commit more murder.

This war, under the banner of the U.N., has once and for all exposed this organization’s fraudulent and criminal nature. On the one hand they have declared 2011 as the “International Year of People of African Descent.” It is more aptly designated as the “International Year for the Destruction of Africa.”

Introducing Timeline

The CFIA launched a sampling and testing strategy to monitor radiation levels of imported food from Japan, domestic milk and domestic fish off the coast of British Columbia. More than 200 food samples were tested and all were found to be below Health Canada’s actionable levels for radioactivity. As such, enhanced import controls have been lifted and no additional testing is planned.

Most imported foods contains inaccurate nutritional info

In 2008-09, CFIA tested 285 samples and found a 75 per cent non-compliance rate in the quality category, according to data released under access to information legislation.
The following year, the non-compliance rate for quality was 74 per cent and rose to 84 per cent in 2010-11

Read more: http://www.canada.com/health/Exclusive+Most+imported+foods+contains+inaccurate+nutritional+info+inspections+show/5409835/story.html#ixzz1YG0ErgFT

With the snap of Stephen Harper's fingers, half a century of research into the ozone layer will disappear.

Environment Canada will be shutting down the country's ozone-monitoring system after 45 years. The British science journal Nature says scientists around the world have been told that the monitoring system will in all likelihood be cut starting next year, as will a massive archive of data on ozone research from the past half century. Researchers from around the world are criticizing the Canadian government for axing one of the most critical parts of the global ozone-monitoring network, as Canada has so far played an integral role in gathering and interpreting data on ozone levels in the Arctic.

Yemen's Saleh to Remain in Saudi Arabia

How Americans Are Screwing Us This Week

The Vancouver Sun condemns the Internal Revenue Service's practice of hunting down Americans with dual citizenship and forcing them to file U.S. tax returns and to turn over bank account information. As the Sun notes, between 600,000 and a million Yanks live here, many of them with Canadian citizenship. If they fail to report their “foreign” bank accounts to the IRS, they can be slapped with “harsh, arbitrary and unjust” penalties. “The choice facing Canadians with dual citizenship is to remain as scofflaws or come forward and give up a significant portion of their life savings,” writes the Sun, even if they haven't lived or worked in the United States for decades. And the matter is only going to get worse once a law passed by Congress that requires all non-American financial institutions to hand over Americans' account records comes into effect in 2013. The Sun urges the federal government to stand up to the U.S. over the IRS' witchhunt. Yeah, we're not expecting that to happen any time soon, either.
( Nice to see the U.S. legislating Canadian domestic banking practices and privacy rights. They've done so marvellously well at it for themselves !
Who wants to bet they maintain walls between government and corporate and criminal information access ? As if they could, let alone had any interest in such a proposition.
It's called 'contracting out' because they take no responsibility for administration. )

Torture and the Abuse of Executive Power

Like the Bush administration before it, the Obama administration is using some of the very checks-and-balances principles that were designed to protect individual liberties and human rights to attack them

Standing in the light

Boswinkel dove into Popp’s work, searched in vain for information on biophotons in the physics literature—“There wasn’t any then and there isn’t any now,” he growls—and began studying homeopathy and acupuncture. Using his acquired knowledge, he built his first machine in 1983 to measure and repair a body’s light emissions. His first experimental case involved a terminal liver cancer patient in New Zealand. “I measured and treated, measured and treated, and after about twelve sessions, the man was clearly improving,” Boswinkel recounts. And it was no accident, as his subsequent successes with AIDS patients proved.
Nearly 30 years later, Boswinkel’s instrument is on its sixth generation and he’s done enough “miracle working” that scientific recognition for his therapy is beginning to trickle in. The Medical University of Graz in Austria added Boswinkel’s biophoton therapy to its complementary medicine curriculum in 2007. In Wageningen, the Netherlands, researchers are investigating the effect Boswinkel’s therapy has on growth in plants and fowl. In addition, the first, limited observational studies are being conducted on people, and there are mainstream doctors using Boswinkel’s machine in their practices.
When organs or glands are exhausted, the immune system no longer functions optimally, and the body develops a receptivity that bacteria can exploit.To Boswinkel, there’s a connection between Crohn’s disease and chronic appendicitis, between asthma and whiplash and between an enlarged prostate and a potassium deficiency. He sees the cause of liver cancer in pituitary malfunction, and that’s also where treatment begins for alcoholism caused by the pancreas in overdrive—because the pituitary gland influences the pancreas.
An observational study conducted by two therapists who completed the training program in Graz illustrates the effect of Boswinkel’s therapy. Twenty patients of different ages with a variety of chronic complaints—from allergies and skin problems to sleeping disorders and fatigue—were treated for two weeks. After three months, symptoms had disappeared or radically diminished for 90 percent of participants. A test like this one doesn’t meet strict scientific standards, but it does indicate promise that invites more rigorous double-blind, controlled studies.

SeaWorld Goes on Trial

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Russ Baker talks with RT about the reasons for Western intervention in the Middle East

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Libyan authorities to vet African migrants: IOM

Erdogan in Libya hails sacrifice of martyrs

Military ruler leads Nasser son funeral

NASA Announces Two Game-Changing Space Technology Projects

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Star Blasts Planet With X-rays

NASA Hosting First West Coast Launch Tweetup for Earth-Observing Satellite

UPDATE: The human right to water in the Mexican Constitution–One Step Closer

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Court poised to free 2 Americans, Iran diplomat says

Statesman Investigates: Austin hired Ott friend for newly created position

Newsmakers: Stars prep for Emmys; Dr. Oz under fire from FDA

Zayed City home to Filipino school

5.2-magnitude quake hits Philippine Islands region -- USGS

Palace sees trust rating rising over time

Ngcobo tipped to head arms deal probe

President Jacob Zuma wants former chief justice Sandile Ngcobo to head the commission of inquiry into the controversial arm deals, a report says.

Sandi Majali haunts the ANC

Info bill will protect 'silly leaders'

The conscience of television: Lauren Zalaznick on TED.com

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Belum forest clearing shocks greenies, MB orders probe

Malaysian deaf artist set to become US reality TV star

Down-to-earth tycoon

E&E: OCEANS: Coastal senators form new caucus

Coral-list: WPBT’s “Lionfish & Panko Thyme” film short

Keysnet.com: Dredging plan gets public airing Wednesday

Face of Evangeline Maid bread dies at 92

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The Oath Accountability Civil Action

Donations First, Safety Last: White House Pressure for a Donor?

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Wear That Dress or Else!

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New Hawaiian certificate explodes birther theories

Energy Efficiency Drives Economic Growth

Editorial: GOP vs. Mother Nature

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Wood and steel rocking furniture from Shiner

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Peter Gleick: Water as a Weapon — Qaddafi’s Last Desperate Gamble

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House G.O.P. Leaders Find Some Things to Like About Obama's Jobs Plan (Jennifer Steinhauer/New York Times)

Obama Tax Plan Would Ask More of Millionaires (Jackie Calmes/New York Times)

Constitution Has Its Day Amid a Struggle for Its Spirit (Kate Zernike/New York Times)

If you’re talking jobs or GHGs, alternative scenarios matter

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Income Inequality in Canada Rising Faster than the U.S.

Graphs in Conservative Changebook misleading

Obama cozies up to Central Asian dictator

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Big Oil group plays race card on Solyndra

Bachmann: It's ok to spread lies about vaccines because I never said I'm a doctor

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40 Years After Attica Rebellion, New Tapes Reveal Nixon, Rockefeller Praised Deadly Crackdown

Troy Davis's Sister: "The Fight for Troy Has Brought Us a Whole New Family All Over the World"

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Weekly Address: Passing the American Jobs Act

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Possible link between two Type 2 diabetes drugs and pancreatic cancer, suggested by new research

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Gaddafi loyalists under siege in Sirte

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Palestinian anger at US fuels diplomatic crisis

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Rebels 'advance' in Sirte battle

Libya's interim government forces say they have captured the airport at Sirte, a stronghold of forces loyal to Col Muammar Gaddafi.

New Obama plan to tax wealthiest

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Eleanor Poling, Daughter of Former Vice President, Dies at 51 - New York Times

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Birth Control Pill Recall: 1.4 Million Packages May Not Be Effective - International Business Times

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Apples And Pears Can Reduce Stroke Risk By 52% - Medical News Today

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Hospital births saving babies in China - Boston Globe

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'I was ... preparing to die,' witness at Nevada air race crash says - CNN

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By the CNN Wire Staff Reno, Nevada (CNN) -- The number of people killed when a pilot lost control of his vintage plane and crashed into spectators during an air race over Reno, Nevada, rose to nine Saturday. Seven people died on the tarmac, ...

Obama to seek higher tax rate for the rich - CBS News

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Diplomatic efforts to prevent PA turn to UN continue - Jerusalem Post

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Search team looking for missing nursing student finds body - Los Angeles Times

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2 American hikers' sentences may be commuted in 'the near future' - Salt Lake Tribune

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Obama subject of unflattering book - UPI.com

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US ambassador says evidence links Pakistan to militant group - CNN International

MiamiHe...

By the CNN Wire Staff (CNN) -- The US ambassador to Pakistan accused the government there of having links to the H

Libyan NTC troops forced to retreat - Sydney Morning Herald

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Diplomatic efforts to prevent PA turn to UN continue - Jerusalem Post

Ha'...

US ambassador says evidence links Pakistan to militant group - CNN International

MiamiHe...

By the CNN Wire Staff (CNN) -- The US ambassador to Pakistan accused the government there of having links to the Haqqani network, a pro-Taliban militant group that US officials blame for this week's attack on the US Embassy and NATO command center in ...

Pro-Russia Party Wins Snap Latvian Election - NPR

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by AP Enlarge AP Latvian President Andris Berzins casts his ballot paper at a polling station in Drabesi, Latvia, Saturday, Sept. 17. 2011. Voting opened Saturday in Latvia's snap parliamentary election that could see a pro-Russia party emerge the ...

Anti-gov't protesters storm Yemeni university - CBS News

Fox New...

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Syrian opposition holds talks in Damascus - Aljazeera.net

CTV.ca

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Thai Violence Kills 4 - Voice of America (blog)

The Age

Windows 8 Tablet Market Might Dodge Apple's iPad - Secaucus New Jersey News

Financi...

Windows 8, Microsoft's latest version of its legendary operating system is already out. The reviews are coming and the PC Magazine notes are showing a lot of them on Twitter. The new suite is “radically different,” according to ABC News, which gave the ...

Scientists discover 12 new frog species in India - Forbes

Fox New...

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Infographic: How Bump's 10 Million Users Pound Fists and Share Content - PC Magazine

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By David Murphy Bump's premise is simple: You fire up the mobile app, you pick a piece of content, and you fist-pound a friend to transfer that content between your two devices. So what, exactly, are people sharing via this physical-turned-digital ...

Microsoft Cracks Live Migration Problem - PCWorld

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By Joab Jackson, IDG News With the next release of Windows Server operating system, Microsoft has conquered one of the thorniest problems in virtualization: moving an operational virtual machine (VM) across a wide area network (WAN). ...

Facebook joins forces with Twitter - SlashGear

CNET	In a move that can only be described as rather familiar, Facebook has announced (rather silently) that their users will soon be able to update their Twitter feeds directly from within their Facebook profile. Remember when MySpace opened its doors to ... ... View related stories »

Is Google's CEO nonplussed by Google+? - CNET

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Who, therefore, could be surprised that social networking isn't quite as vital to his being as, say, burying the whole of Facebook in a very large vat of custard? The difficult thing is that everyone believes the whole world will soon be social--that ...

iPhone 5 hand-wringing leaves 3G enabled iPod touch 5 in launch limbo - Beatweek Magazine

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by Bill Palmer Another day, another round of hand wringing over the iPhone 5 at Apple headquarters: the issues which made it miss its summer debut are still holding it back, and now it's gumming up the works across the board. ...

35 Years Ago: NASA Unveils First Space Shuttle, 'Enterprise' - Fox News

Namaste: If Not Now, When? Chapter 18 Your Consciousness Is Not Trapped Inside Your Head (Part 2)

Frederick Leatherman

Robert Jahn and his colleagues at the Princeton Engineering Anomalies Research Laboratory (PEAR) have been investigating the possibility of mind-matter interactions for many years. They published a review in 1997 of the experiments they had conducted in their lab during the preceding 12 years in which more than 100 volunteers first attempted to intentionally influence RNG results to drift above the average results attributable to chance and then attempted to influence the results to drift below chance. During the third effort, they stopped attempting to influence the results in order to establish an RNG baseline, or control condition.
The results were astonishing.

America's Energy Future : Changing the Endgame
Changing the Endgame will revisit the Gulf––and other communities disproportionately bearing the cost of America’s fossil fuel dependancy––to unite Americans in a serious commitment to transitioning away from fossil fuels and confronting the dangerous expansion of corporate power.

Cities in Flight
http://templetongate.tripod.com/cities-in-flight.htm
Many of the assumptions in this novel are dated now (there is no USSR, the government of this country did not become more repressive due to the cold war, etc), but, though some of them jar on our senses today, they are really of little moment, because the primary purpose of this novel is to set us up for the succeeding works. It does that by laying out the development of two technological advances. The bridge on Jupiter, though seen as a boondoggle by MacHinery and others, is actually a research project which culminates in the development of a "gravity polarizer" or anti-gravity device, promptly nick-named the "spin-dizzy," which has the interesting side-effect of also allowing faster-than-light travel. The other technological advance, on the pharmaceutical front, ostensibly deals with antibiotic (anti-life) research, but actually develops anti-agathic (anti-death) drugs, thus insuring virtual immortality to those to whom the drugs are administered. These two discoveries combine to make space travel beyond our solar system possible -- and that is virtually the entire reason for this book

Hutchinson Effect
John has remained independent regardless of multi million dollar offers to conceal his findings from the general public. N.A.S.A. is among the agencies he has turned down, as well as both the superpowers offerings to privatize and or militarize his inventions. John believes in a world of free energy and the marvels of anti- gravity for the general public, not just those in positions of power. He also remains hopeful his inventions one day will ease the burden and suffering, and enrich all of mankind all around the world, rich or poor.
Crystal battery

UFOs : Generals,Pilots and Public Officials go on the record
On February 26th, Leslie Kean received the 2011 "Researcher of the Year" Award from the International UFO Congress, an annual convention that met in Phoenix, Arizona. Produced by Open Minds.TV, this 5-minute video was shown at the awards banquet and covers the highlights of Kean's career as a journalist and author covering UFOs.

Welcome to the Coalition for Freedom of Information Website
http://www.freedomofinfo.org

UFOs and the Main Stream Media

This machinima film is a fictional message from a post apocalyptic and pro sustainability future world to the current day Venus Project and its founders.
http://www.youtube.com/user/osheaad

King Arthur's Summer Solstice
http://www.youtube.com/user/CelestialElf
J.L. Stanley's Catechism For A Witch's Child;
When they ask to see your gods, your book of prayers,
show them lines drawn delicately with veins on the underside of a bird's wing,
tell them you believe in giant sycamores mottled and stark against a winter sky,
and in nights so frozen stars crack open spilling streams of molten ice to earth,
and tell them how you drink a holy wine of honeysuckle on a warm spring day,
and of the softness of your mother who never taught you death was life's reward,
but who believed in the earth and the sun and a million, million light years of being.

Village Works Canada - tranquility

The Venus Project
The Venus Project is asking for donations to do a major motion picture depicting life in a resource-based economy. The film is designed to reach the general public throughout the world to introduce an exciting sustainable new social direction depicting a vision of what our future can be if we intelligently apply science and technology with environmental and human concern--a future where war, poverty and hunger could be but a distant memory

Jacque Fresco-Technology & Unemployment-Dec.12, 2010