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Mitch Battros
We convince ourselves that life will be better
after we get married,
have a baby, then another.
Then we are frustrated
that the kids aren't old enough
and we'll be more content when they are.
After that, we're frustrated
that we have teenagers to deal with.
We will certainly be happy
when they are out of that stage.
We tell ourselves that our life will be complete
when our spouse gets his or her act together,
when we get a nicer car,
are able to go on a nice vacation,
when we retire.
The truth is, there's no better time
to be happy than right now.
If not now, when?
Your life will always be filled with challenges.
It's best to admit this to yourself and decide to be happy anyway.
One of my favorite quotes comes from Alfred D. Souza. He said,
"For a long time it had seemed to me that life was about to begin - real life. But there was always some obstacle in the way, something to be worked through first, some unfinished business, time still to be served, or a debt to be paid. Then life would begin. At last it dawned on me that these obstacles were my life".
This perspective has helped me to see that there is no way to happiness. Happiness is the way. So, treasure every moment that you have and treasure it more because you shared it with someone special, special enough to spend your time...and remember that time waits for no one.
So, stop waiting until you finish school, until you go back to school, until you lose ten pounds, until you gain ten pounds, until you have kids, until your kids leave the house, until you start work, until you retire, until you get married, until you get divorced, until Friday night, until Sunday morning, until you get a new car or home, until your car or home is paid off, until spring, until summer, until fall, until winter, until you are off welfare, until the first or fifteenth, until your song comes on, until you've had a drink, until you've sobered up, until you die, until you are born again to decide that there is no better time than right now to be happy.
Happiness is a journey, not a destination.
Something To Ponder!!!
Work like you don't need money,
Love like you've never been hurt,
And dance like no one's watching.
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Mitch Battros
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(NASA) The second Blue Moon of 1999 can been seen this Wednesday night when the moon becomes full at 2200 UT. To see the moon simply go outside shortly after sunset. It will be shining brightly just above the eastern horizon. By midnight it will rise high in the southern sky and illuminate the landscape with bright moonlight.
The moon won't appear to be blue on Wednesday. It's called a "Blue Moon" by astronomers simply because it will be the second full moon in the month of March. The moon has assumed a bluish color at times in the past, for example after the eruption of Krakatoa in 1853 filled our atmosphere with obscuring dust, but such events are unrelated to the term "Blue Moon" as it is used today.
According to research by folklorist Philip Hiscock the term "Blue Moon" is at least 400 years old, but its popular meaning has shifted many times. The earliest known references to a blue moon were intended as examples of obvious absurdities. If a 16th century person asserted "That's as likely as a Blue Moon", they meant that it simply couldn't be. As time passed the expression evolved to mean something that rarely or never happened. Hence the expression "Once in a Blue Moon" which is still popular today. A second, modern definition of a Blue Moon as the second full moon in a calendar month was apparently introduced to popular culture by a mistake in the magazine Sky & Telescope 53 years ago. (The author recommends this month's excellent article in Sky & Telescope on the history of the Blue Moon.)
With Spring beginning in the northern hemisphere and the nights growing warmer, this week should be a pleasant opportunity to view the second Blue Moon of 1999. While Blue Moons may not be as rare as commonly thought, they can be like all full moons a sight of rare beauty.
This post was from Johari. On the North India earthquake. And the devastation.. Scalar plasma waves anyone.. Now why would they be doing this except pop control.. ?? And ideas.. ah ho Wio It was just another day when about half the population of the country was tuned into the biggest blockbuster of all time in India - A film highly awaited was on TV on Sunday night. At about 12:45 a.m. - The movie nearing the end - A Volcano erupted in the Higher northern regions of the highest populated state of India (UP). The state I live in. The intensity of the Volcano was not very much - However - The earthquake that followed the eruption shook the Entire North India!!!! One of the Biggest Earth quake to hit North India and certainly the biggest in the state of UP(Uttar Pradesh) - Has left 100's dead and 1000's buried under the rubble as rescue work still continues. The quake measured differently around different areas of North India and recorded at 6.8 at the Richter scale at the epicenter. Around 6.5 in my Town. Fortunately for us - Out town survived damage. Besides everything you could set your eyes on was moving - Nothing was damaged. It was not so in the northern regions as massive destruction took place. Me and family were watching the film as our bed started to shake terribly - my brother realized the first that it was a quake - we stood in disbelief as it calmed down a bit - suddenly it came again with a greater velocity when we could see everything moving and rushed outside the house and on to the road!! Soon we could see all the resident around u son the road at about quarter to One at night. Everyone stood in disbelief as this was the biggest quake ever felt in my small town!! It was only today that we got to know about the eruption and the entire scenario which was worse then our biggest nightmares!!!
Namaste, Rahul S. Johari
N E W D E L H I, India, March 29 — A severe earthquake struck a seismic hot zone in India’s Himalayan foothills today, toppling houses, causing landslides and killing at least 87 people. It was the strongest earthquake this century in the quake-prone mountains, with a magnitude of 6.8 and lasting nearly 40 seconds, India’s seismological department said, according to the Press Trust of India news agency. The epicenter was in a remote area of the Kumaon hills in the state of Uttar Pradesh, 185 miles northeast of New Delhi near India’s border with China. More Victims Expected Police said scores were injured and the number of victims was likely to rise. Reports of casualties and damage were sketchy long after the quake, which jolted northern India just after midnight local time (2:05 p.m. EST Sunday). Telephone lines to the area were knocked out. Many of the villages in the region have no communications at all and can be reached only by dirt paths. A 10-mile stretch of road leading to Chamoli, the town nearest the epicenter, was blocked by landslides. Some 600 road workers were rushed to the area to begin clearing the debris. “It looks like half the mountain had come off,” said district magistrate Uma Kant Pawar, Chamoli’s top appointed official. “We were watching a Hindi movie on television when chairs, wardrobes and beds started toppling over,” he said, reached by telephone. “Before we could realize what was happening, the electricity went off and the whole area plunged into darkness.” Pawar said he heard a deafening rumble of rocks and earth crashing down the nearby mountain slope. Seriously Injured Evacuated A column of army soldiers and 20 medical teams left for the area to help the victims, but it was not clear if they could get through, B.M. Vohra, commissioner of the Dehra Dun district, told The Associated Press. Three army and state government helicopters flew into the district shortly after sunrise to survey damaged villages, evacuating the most seriously injured to the city of Dehra Dun. The area is known as a seismic danger zone.
The Himalayas, one of earth’s youngest mountain ranges, are still growing and unstable. Eight tremors have been recorded this century measuring more than magnitude 6. One quake in 1991, measuring 6.1, killed more than 1,000 people near the town of Uttarkashi. Last year, the same area was shaken by dozens of landslides, including one that wiped out a camp of Hindu pilgrims. More than 200 people were killed. Pawar said 41 bodies were recovered from Chamoli, a town of simple stone and mud buildings that were mostly destroyed or badly damaged. Altogether, 58 people in Chamoli and 15 in nearby Rudraprayag were killed, officials said. Among Chamoli’s victims were five prisoners in the district jail which collapsed. The quake also rocked the other side of the Chinese border, but there were no immediate reports of casualties, said the Xinhua news agency. A series of aftershocks followed the temblor. India’s most lethal earthquake in recent times killed nearly 10,000 people in western India in 1993. The most powerful quake was in 1950 in Assam in eastern India, measuring 8.5.
SEOUL, South Korea (AP) - North Korea has completed 10 missile launch sites and is churning out 100 Soviet-type Scud missiles a year in four factories, a South Korean newspaper reported Friday. The Korea Herald quoted an unidentified government source as saying at least four other missile factories are suspected to exist. Concern over North Korea's missile capabilities increased after the country launched a rocket that flew over Japan and crashed into the Pacific last summer. North Korea insisted that it launched a scientific satellite. But Japan believes North Korea was test firing a multistage, liquid-fuel Taepodong missile that could hit any target in Japan.
While there are any number of organisms that bioterrorists could use as weapons, smallpox and anthrax are the big two that are capable of causing disease and death sufficient to cripple a city, even a country, experts say.
Take anthrax: Given appropriate weather and wind conditions, 50 kilograms of anthrax released from an aircraft along a 2 kilometer line could create a lethal cloud of anthrax spores that would extend beyond 20 kilometers downwind. The aerosol cloud would be colorless, odorless and invisible. And given the small size of the spores, they are as likely to infect people indoors as those on the street. The cost of treating and responding to an anthrax attack could reach $26-$30 billion for each 100,000 people exposed.
An analysis by the Office of Technology Assessment of the U.S. Congress estimated that 130,000 to 3 million deaths could occur following the release of 100 kilograms of aerosolized anthrax over Washington D.C., making such an attack as lethal as a hydrogen bomb.
An extremist attack using biological weapons is a growing possibility that the United States is unprepared to meet, experts told Congress Thursday. Because symptoms can take days, or even longer, to develop, such an attack might not be evident until weeks after the initial infection. And by then, the silent microbes could have spread to thousands, killing many in their wake.
IF THE biological agent was infectious, it could jump, silently, from person to person, infecting millions of unknowing victims. Air travelers would spread the microbe across the nation — and thousands could die within weeks. While such a full-scale attack has not yet occurred, it could. And it “could create an unprecedented medical emergency,” Margaret Hamburg, assistant secretary for planning and evaluation at the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, told a Senate panel. While the risk of a biological attack is extremely small — you’re much more likely to be hit by a car, for example — the United States is woefully unprepared should an attack occur, she said.
The initial response to such an attack, unlike an attack with a more conventional weapon, would fall to the public health community rather than law enforcement, the experts said. The experts appeared before a Senate Health subcommittee chaired by Tennessee Sen. Bill Frist, a Republican who said the panel was exploring ways to bolster the public health infrastructure to diagnose and respond to such threats.
Subject: Be carefull!!!!
HIV/AIDS Alert!
This is sad, please watch out !!
This is really a sad comment on today's mental condition!
Please read this and pass it on to your friends and family.
Subject: Safety Bulletin
For your information, a couple of weeks ago, in a Dallas movie theater, a person sat on something sharp in one of the seats. When she stood up to see what it was, a needle was found poking through the seat with an attached note saying, "you have been infected with HIV."
The Centers for Disease Control in Atlanta reports similar events have taken place in several other cities recently. All of the needles tested HAVE been positive for HIV.
The CDC also reports that needles have been found in the coin return areas of pay phones and soda machines. Everyone is asked to use extreme caution when confronted with these types of situations.
All public chairs should be thoroughly but safely inspected prior to any use. A thorough visual inspection is considered the bare minimum.
Furthermore, they ask that everyone notify their family members and friends of the potential dangers, as well.
Thank You.
The previous information was sent from the Dallas Police Department to all of the local governments in the Washington area and was interdepartmentally dispersed.
We were all asked to pass this to as many people as possible.
Barbara Gaskins Wallace
National Naval Medical Center
Patient Administration
Cheryl Miller
Administrative Assistant
Cornell Institute for Public Affairs
WASHINGTON (AP) - Preparation, not panic, is the way to respond to the Year 2000 computer problems and the relatively minor inconveniences they will cause, emergency experts say. "There's so much disinformation and hype about Y2K," Mike Walker of the Federal Emergency Management Agency said at a House hearing Monday. "But there's no need to head for the hills. The national structures are in good shape." Walker and other emergency planning experts said that while many local emergency networks, such as 911 telephone emergency services and fire departments, need some upgrading, the more serious threat on Jan. 1, 2000, is that people will overreact to fears of social chaos.
Mitch Battros
Producer - Earth Changes TV
http://www.earthchangestv.com/mainmenu.htm
LONDON (AP) - An aerosol spray containing a healthy gene could help alleviate one of the dangerous abnormalities that appears in cystic fibrosis, a study says. The rare inherited disease is caused by a flaw in a gene that makes a protein that controls the transport of chloride ions - electrically charged atoms - across cell membranes. If the gene is faulty, it inhibits the movement of chloride. This causes thick mucus to form in the bronchial tubes, clogging airways and causing lung infections. In Friday's issue of The Lancet, a British medical journal, a team led by Dr. Eric Alton described how it administered the gene - known as Cystic Fibrosis Transmembrane Conductance Regulator - combined with a natural fat in an aerosol spray.
Tropical Cyclone Vance, packing winds of up to 290 kilometers per hour (174 mph) in its core, tore off roofs and ripped down powerlines Monday as it pounded the sparsely populated northwest coast of Australia. The cyclone brought widespread flooding and forced many residents to evacuate. The cyclone swept down Exmouth Gulf before heading over land, and was expected to bring heavy rain to inland areas for several days.
TRENTON, N.J. (AP) - An overhaul designed to protect New Jersey's main welfare computers from the so-called Y2K bug may have caused a glitch that enabled thousands of food stamp recipients to access their April benefits a week-and-a-half early. Technicians were scrambling Sunday night to correct a computer error that incorrectly credited the electronic accounts of thousands of recipients with money that should not have become available until April 1. State officials did not know how many people actually withdrew funds posted to their accounts in error. An estimate will not be available until Monday. About 90% of the 200,000 families who receive food stamps in New Jersey participate in the electronic program. Human Services spokeswoman Jacqueline Tencza said the state's main welfare computer underwent an upgrade and overhaul two weeks ago to improve its capabilities and protect against the so-called "millennium bug," a situation in which computer systems may interpret the last ! two digits of the year 2000 to actually be 1900, causing unpredictable consequences.
"The scientists discovered that an S-shaped structure appears on the sun in advance of a violent eruption. The S is called a sigmoid, a twisting of the sun's magnetic field."
I know in my gut this is the SAME 'S-swirl' that appears in the centers of our CropCircles! ( Pictures posted on our "Sun Flare page at: http://www.earthchangesTV.com/solarflares/index.html )
It's a 'plasma cue', in the Circles, it's where the 'Call' from The CircleMakers for Earth's Energies originates (in the 'center' of a Formation). It's the BlackHole/WhiteHole 'seed' that erupts thru into THIS density from 'out there'. In both the Sun and The Circles, t's a presage of things to come, of MAJOR Energies coming together. On the Sun, they foretell a CME; in a Circle, the Formation is 'built' (literally) around it.
This is most exciting confirmation! :-)
- ilyes
(See ilyes article on the "S-swirl" on her page at:
http://www.cropcircleconnector.com/ilyes/P20t.html
(ENN) By John Roach As if Y2K weren't enough, there's another millennial menace to dread: solar storms.
Scientists expect a violent solar storm—perhaps the worst in a century—to strike sometime between now and January 2001. It may fry the insides of satellites, knock out power supplies, and generally wreak havoc on a technology-dependent society.
It will all start with a coronal mass ejection—a violent discharge of electrically charged gas from the sun's outer atmosphere. The explosion will hurl some ten billion tons of gas into space at speeds up to a million miles (1.6 million kilometers) an hour. Four days and 93 million miles (150 million kilometers) later, the storm will tear through Earth's magnetic field.
WORRIES AND WARNINGS
Solar storms have struck hard before. On March 13, 1989, a solar storm caused a power outage in Quebec, Canada, that left six million people without electricity. Last year a smaller storm was blamed for bringing down the Galaxy 4 satellite, halting news transmissions and pagers across North America for days. Fortunately, NASA space scientists announced on March 9 that they have found a way to forecast solar storms a few days in advance, giving satellite and power companies time to prepare for potential trouble.
The scientists discovered that an S-shaped structure appears on the sun in advance of a violent eruption. The S is called a sigmoid, a twisting of the sun's magnetic field. "Early warnings of approaching solar storms could prove useful to power companies, the communications industry, and organizations that operate spacecraft, including NASA," said a statement from George Withbroew, a NASA scientist. "This is a major step forward in understanding these tremendous storms."
With advanced warning, satellite companies can turn off high voltages on their satellites before the plasma cloud hits them, and power companies can briefly turn off parts of the grid until the surge of current passes.
A paper on the S-shaped sigmoids was published in the March 15 issue of Geophysical Research Letters.
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WASHINGTON (AP) - Science needs to preserve laboratory specimens of the smallpox virus to make sure there is a way to make vaccines should the deadly disease ever be used as a bioterrorism weapon, a committee of experts says. After more than 1,000 years of causing disease, death and disfigurement, naturally occurring smallpox was wiped out in 1980 in a worldwide inoculation effort. Only two laboratory caches - in Russia and in the United States - remain and the World Health Organization has recommended that they be destroyed in June. But bioterrorism experts have said in recent months they believe the virus has been distributed to other spots in Russia, perhaps in places with less effective security controls.
WASHINGTON (AP) - The most common technique used to fix computers vulnerable to Year 2000 failures is only a short-term remedy, and even advocates of the method acknowledge it will require other expensive repairs or replacements within a generation. The temporary fix, using a sophisticated twist of logic to fool computers, is highly controversial among insiders because it's intended to work for only a few decades - typically 30 years. One expert describes computers already fixed with the technique as "little ticking time bombs waiting to go off." The Clinton administration and industry analysts estimate the method is being used to patch 80% of computers in the worldwide repair effort expected to cost $300 billion.
WASHINGTON (AP) - Smallpox has been eradicated worldwide, but U.S. experts say laboratory specimens of the virus should be preserved to make vaccines in case the deadly disease is ever used as a bioterrorist weapon. Smallpox cursed humanity with disease, death and disfigurement for more than 1,000 years but was wiped out as a naturally occurring disease in 1980 after a worldwide inoculation effort. The World Health Organization has recommended destroying, by this June, two small caches of specimens that were believed to remain, one in Russia, the other in the U.S. But bioterrorism experts have said in recent months they believe the virus has been distributed to other spots in Russia, perhaps in places with less effective security controls.
Pasadena, Calif. (AP) - Astronomers canvassing the sky for asteroids that could threaten Earth stumbled upon a supernova in a galaxy 650 million light-years away, Jet Propulsion Laboratory researchers say. The supernova was photographed by NASA's Near Earth Asteroid Tracking system Feb. 18. The images captured the star's appearance as it looked just a few weeks after the ancient explosion occurred. The star was unknown to astronomers before the accidental discovery. The supernova, named 1999am, was a white dwarf star in orbit with a companion star before it exploded. The white dwarf captured so much material from the companion that it became too massive to support itself.
Let's hold Whitley to his word. I could not agree more, that we need to bring ourselves together, rather than tear each other apart. I wish Whitley would have held true to this idea BEFORE he wrote this letter. Maybe it is an ego thing, "to get the last lick in". With Whitley and I being from San Antonio Texas, I understand this mentality rather well.
I am sure Whitley is not suggesting all those with a differing opinion than
his (or anyone else), is a hateful person out to do harm.
With that in mind, LET US ALL MOVE ON.
Mitch Battros
Producer - Earth Changes TV
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Dick Hoagland's heart attack
by Whitley Strieber
On March 8, 1999, Richard Hoagland had a massive and life- threatening heart
attack. Dick is
familiar to everybody who listens to the Art Bell program as one of the most
sophisticated scientific
and intellectual adventurers of our era. He has recently been suffering assaults
of extreme vitriol. His
very human sensitivity has made him vulnerable. Emotional upset can lead to
physical illness,
especially with regard to the heart. Whether this is what happened to Dick or
not I don't know, but
I do know, from personal experience, just how painful this sort of thing can
be.
It is my profound hope that Dick not only recover, but that he recover into
a changed community,
one that has recognized the evil that lies behind the sort of denunciations
that he has been enduring,
and condemns it by ignoring it and rejecting those who spread it.
Skepticism, both personal and institutional, has a valuable role to play
in our community. Its
existence is an important reason why edge thinkers can feel safe even when going
as far as possible.
The willingness of our public to question us is what makes it possible.
But the mistaken assumption on the part of some that the public is stupid and
gullible and needs to
be protected is the best of the motives that have led to the present situation,
where hatemongers are
being given sway in very visible places, and treated to notice by people who
are also asking our
community's respect.
The public is neither stupid nor gullible. And beyond the false motive of "protecting
the integrity of
the culture," there lies a level of jealous hatred and spitting, neurotic
evil that is sick indeed.
Individuals afflicted with this disease feel that, to build themselves up, they
must tear others down.
There also seems to be an element operating at this level for the intended purpose
of spreading fear,
hate and dissention. What their motives may be I do not know, but that there
is a professionally
designed and orchestrated quality to their activities is hard to deny.
The techniques of harassment, hatemongering and intentional obfuscation of
the truth that they use
within the UFO community were in recent years repeated within the community
of people fighting
for recognition of Gulf War Syndrome, and I have little doubt this level of
hate, as it is being applied
to us, emanates from somewhere within the intelligence community. Recently,
the government
accepted a level of responsibility for investigating Gulf War Syndrome, and
the attacks on those
investigators ceased.
When will the same thing happen for us? We cannot keep running and fighting
forever, none of us.
A warrior has fallen down. If he lifts himself back up, lets welcome him into
a community refreshed
by the expulsion of the dark spirits whose venom has harmed his heart.
--Whitley Strieber
Hello all, I hear that several messages are circulating RE my remarks concerning Hoagland. I want to set the record straight.
I have said nothing about Hoagland in my book or in any advertisement. I've made only one significant public statement of any kind RE Hoagland, and it was posted on Sightings.com. It was simply a statement of my appraisal-to-date of most of Hoagland's signature assertions. I played no role whatsoever in Stephens' "200 questions" except in confirming that Stephens should have the opportunity to ask them, and that many of Stephens' points were indeed quite factual. The challenge of another's assertions is the natural process of how fact is separated from mistake or fiction, and Hoagland is not exempt from this process (nor is Stephens, nor me).
Hoagland's views on Cydonia, his particular vision of hyperdimensional physics, the alleged geometric "glass" enclosures spanning lunar craters, and many (though not all) of his other claims, are not supported by the evidence that can be found on his site or in his books. There may indeed be some interesting anomalies that relate to domains Hoagland and countless others study (such as the extensive list of unusual lunar data and observations), but I have not seen compelling evidence for such on EnterpriseMission.com or in Richard's books. I remain perfectly willing to stand corrected on anything I've said as evidence dictates.
But, this is really not the time to be having this debate. I was saddened to hear of Richard's recent heart attack. Richard is as much a human being as any one of us, and deserves our heartfelt concern.
Joe Firmage
AUSTIN, Texas (AP) - Gov. George Bush declared an emergency Thursday in 167 of Texas' 254 counties because of a year-long drought. Last year's lack of rainfall caused cropland to parch and sparked hundreds of wildfires around the state.
U.S. banks should be ready and able to deal with any computer glitches that arise when the year 2000 arrives, Federal Reserve Governor Edward Kelley said Wednesday. He said U.S. regulators were pressing banks to make sure their computers operate normally after Dec. 31, 1999. Kelley said federal regulators were completing their second inspection of all 10,600 U.S. banks and thrifts to make sure that customer records will be secure and cash will be on hand at year-end.
We will see.....Mitch Battros
Explosions on Sun May Cause Problems On Earth Communications And Power Systems At Risk...NASA Says It Can Predict Giant Sun-Storms
LOS ANGELES (CBS)
What could be the storm of the century is brewing millions of miles out in space on the surface of the sun. And when the fiery explosions called "coronal mass ejections" reach Earth, they could wreak havoc on power and communications systems, reports CBS News Correspondent Sandra Hughes.
John Kappenman, a geomagnetic storm expert says, "It's somewhat similar to a very large hurricane hitting the North American continent all at the same time." When the storm hits Earth, it could tear through the magnetic field, knock out power supplies and fry the insides of satellites. George Withbro, a NASA solar scientist says, "the force is equivalent to a billion megatons of TNT." And if you've been worried about what Y2K, the millenium bug, will do to the nation's power grid, this could be worse. We're at the beginning of a peak sun-storm season that comes once every 11 years.
Last time, the sun belched out a coronal mass ejection so strong that it cremated the power system in Quebec, Canada. They went from full power to a complete blackout in just 90 seconds. A smaller storm was blamed for bringing down the Galaxy-4 satellite last year, turning some news transmissions to hash and knocking out pagers across the country.
NASA scientists Tuesday said they think they've found a way to predict these giant solar storms. A simple letter-S marks the spot of the super storm before it explodes. The S is called a sigmoid, a twisting of the sun's magnetic field.
Richard Canfield, a Montana State University physics professor says, "We have a tool here that we feel will be very useful in forecasting space weather." Which means we may get a few days notice, but experts warn that a force like this may still be too much for our technology dependent society to prepare for.
by: Mitch Battros (ECTV)
Art Bell over the last two days has lashed out at anyone who criticizes Richard Hoagland for any reason. Understandably, we can have sympathy for a person who is upset and concerned for a dear friend over a life threatening situation, but Art's methods have disturbed many. Below are some of Art's public statements. The most disturbing to this writer was Art Bell's accusation that those who have differed with Richard Hoagland "Caused His Heart Attack, It Is Their Fault". In my humbled opinion, this had crossed the line. Not withstanding, we at Earth Changes TV, continue to wish Richard Hoagland a speedy recovery. Our official statement is at the bottom of this page.
artbell@aol.com Art Bell wrote:
" I thought Jeff Rense was a good guy until he started to be a method for you to spread your poison. That puts him in the same portion of the food chain as you. Rense does not wish Richard well. He wishes R.A.M. Stevens well and on a regular basis Publishes on his web site the kind of thing you see above."
" If you examine the nature of the attacks against Richard by Robert and his PUBLISHERS at Sightings (Jeff Rense)"
" You are nothing but a Liar and Fraud (referring to Robert Stephen's), a very small person who attacks people when they are down. So give me your best shot, personal or public."
"Jeff Rense and others who take up with him only sink to his level.(of a bottom feeder)"
"Jeff Rense at Sightings made that decision some time ago. Richard may be many things, but he is not the bottom feeder this guy is."
Below are some of many response to Art Bell
Again, why this incessant 'grouping' and what are 'levels'?
I fully support Judith Dale, Robert Stephen's, Ralph Greenberg, Amargi Hillier, and several others on Rowland Net BBS for their legitimate questions regarding proof of any of Richard's claims.
Jeff Rense also provided me with a venue to challenge Richard Hoagland alongside Steven Greer and Greer camp has since answered the questions and treated me very kindly and decently.
I doubt that had my article not been posted on Jeff Rense site, Greer camp may not have seen the necessity to answer and clarify.
They did; and very convincingly.
So please leave Jeff Rense or any other Journalists, Reporters out of this squabble.
While you are at it, why don't you also involve Michael Theroux? His site posted the Amargi Hillier claims too.
To everyone else, If Robert chooses to use derogatory wordings, it is his choice.
That does not render his legitimate questions anymore unanswerable.
His wordings would be very influenced by the treatment he has received thus far.
Or am I the only one to point out rationality?
Kind regards to all here.
Ron Bach
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ArtBell@aol.com wrote:
Judith I provided Robert with 1 hour of radio time. Go listen to what he did with it and send me your comments. If you view his latest e-mails as even close to rational.....
Well Hello Art,
I heard the whole thing the night Robert was on your show. Up until that time, I had been intrigued by the information Robert was bringing forth, and a nightly listener to 'Coast to Coast'. I was very much looking forward to hearing him on your show. I wanted to learn more. Quite frankly, I was appalled by your treatment of Robert. I did not then, nor do I now, think he behaved irrationally. If anything, my impression was that you were left speechless, and Richard confused. Then the accusations began to fly, all three of you were involved, then....suddenly no more Robert. This was followed by a rather relentless character assassination of Robert, by both you and Richard. And so, we all know what has occured since. Actually, about 2 weeks after the show in question, I went to the archives, and listened to the show again, via Real Player. I came away with the same impression I'd had at first.
Art, I don't know that I can find the words to adequately relay to you how upset and disappointed I was, with you over that fiasco. So much so, that I rarely listen to your show now. I used to listen every night. In addition, I increased the level of investigation I'd been doing on Richard Hoagland's data and information. I don't think Robert Stephens is the one with problems being rational. I will say, that I don't always agree with his choice of words, or tone of his communications, today. He even sounds a bit angry. I think I would be, too, if someone had blamed me, over national radio, for having a part in causing a person to suffer a massive heart attack.
Anger's a harsh emotion. An emotion that is quite capable of momentarily altering one's ability to be calm and clear in communicating. So, under the influence of anger, the words used may be quite inflammatory, nez pa? This is very common, and normal, though perhaps not the wisest.
I get the impression that you don't like Robert very much, that is your perogative. The issue here, really, remains the same as before. Many people, not just Robert, are questioning the veracity of Richard's work, data, and claims. What you are doing, is throwing up a Huge Red Herring, in an attempt to turn our attention away from the real issues.
I think you've been mistaken in trying to shoot the messenger, sent in the person of Robert Stephens. Terribly mistaken.
I wish Richard well. It is only his work I have questions about. Frankly, what he does with his personal life is none of my business, and not for me to judge.
Rather long answer, I suppose. I do tend to be quite long winded.
Cordially,
Judith
P.S. I'm sending this to all on the list, because your question of me, was posted to the list.
J
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Mr. Bell,
I have been following this debate with halfhearted interest for the last few months, and for the most part I support Mr. Stephens. I have seen proof (enough for me at any rate) of Mr. Hoagland's fraudulent claims of discovery and don't approve. In the long run though, I think that everyone (including myself) is wasting their time, at this point, with this ridiculous email warfare. The fact of the matter is that Hoagland hasn't even typed one word (that I am aware of) in response to Mr. Stephens' challenges. No matter how you cut it, it is an absolute cop out. Fine.
The point is that this whole thing is so beaten to death that everyone is beginning to sound like little cry-babys in each vindictive email. I am shocked that someone as busy as you must be (with your own radio show), is even in on this stuff. I'm shocked that with a name as big as yours, you would even come out to defend the likes of Hoagland.
At any rate, phrases like "bottom feeder" are not worthy of your reputation, especially when you accuse Mr. Stephens of personal attacks. What I am trying to say is that this constant bickering, and belaboring minute points is turning all of us into hypocrites. I think it it is about time that we put this thing to bed. We need to start acting like adults.
Quite sincerely,
Donald T. McCoy Jr
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Art,
Heart attacks are not the fault of anyone, except perhaps the person who has one. Even then, the fault is only present if that person engaged in the behaviors known to put one at high risk for a heart attack. Ofcourse, there are those times when one's heart pulls a fast one due to bad genes, or fright, or some such. The implication that the heart attack was due to someone else's activities is quite repugnant, and low down. Further, to cosign such accusations, by saying that Robert 'deserved it', is an awful thing. That is like saying, that any of us would deserve such blame, if we questioned the veracity of someone's claims with the same vehemence that Robert has of Richard.
Cruel comment on your part, IMHO.
Cordially,
Judith
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Dear all,
We all wish the best to Richard C. Hoagland and hope he recovers soon.
Mr. Bell, I have personally suffered from two heart attacks in last 5 years. During one of these I was walking alone in a Shopping Mall and with great difficulty I walked back to my office.
On both events I have been treated and the doctors have suggested I go for operations. I have refrained as I am stubborn.
But further to some email postings and web postings, even I am worried why the doctors would insist on operating on Richard so soon. Please consult more than one Surgeon before operations.
Secondly, alongside others, even I am extremely dissatisfied that you should end up blaming others. If you believe that Robert is responsible for his condition, then that is very naive of you.
Robert started asking questions almost 3 months ago. Ralph (Dr. Greenberg) has also been asking questions since a long time. Then the only obvious 'new player' is Amargi.
I have read Amargi's reply to Keith and the entire group and I do not see his reply offensive at all.
Please do not turn this in to a 'ratings' thing again.
Kind regards to all here.
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Earth Changes TV stands by it's original statement posted 03/08/99
Earth Changes TV, and all it's staff, give it's deepest regrets and condolence to Richard Hoagland as a result of a life threatening misfortune. We wish him a speedy recovery filled with blessings and warmth. It was never Richard the man under ridicule, it was simply his message and actions.
Response to Art Bell's comments directing "shame" to those who have been critical of Mr. Hoagland and holding him responsible for his actions, I say this...Art Bell, you should be ashamed of yourself for using this time to lash out with spite and vindictiveness, when compassion and stillness are needed. Your comments tell more of your true essence, than any other. It is you who so often reflect statements such as " I am filled with revenge, I go after someone until there is nothing left of them, I am vengence"....One needs only to reflect what you did to Courtney Brown and Robert Stephen's among others. You seem to always gang up on people. I've noticed your two favorites are Whitley Strieber and Richard Hoagland when you selectively strike out and "attack"....Sorry Mr. Bell, I will not follow your lead.
Most Sincerely,
Mitch Battros
Producer - Earth Changes TV
(AP) - Schools closed and traffic slowed to a crawl from the Great Lakes all the way south into Georgia Tuesday, as a storm dumped more than a foot of snow in places along with layers of ice. It was the first major snowstorm of the season for Washington, D.C., leading the House to postpone all floor votes, delaying flights in and out of Dulles and Ronald Reagan National airports, and delaying a memorial service for the late Supreme Court Justice Harry A. Blackmun. Air travel suffered across the Midwest as airport crews cleared runways. Sixteen inches of snow piled up at the Minneapolis-St. Paul airport, with 14 in Iowa, 10 in Indiana, Ohio and Maryland and a foot possible by Wednesday in the West Virginia mountains. In the Southeast, a layer of ice under 2 inches of snow created havoc Tuesday in northeastern Georgia. "The roads aren't closed but they're impassable," said Deputy Sheriff John Keener in Rabun County, Ga.
Earth Changes TV, and all it's staff, give it's deepest regrets and condolence to Richard Hoagland as a result of a life threatening misfortune. We wish him a speedy recovery filled with blessings and warmth. It was never Richard the man under ridicule, it was simply his message and actions.
Excerpt from Art Bell's Website:
On Saturday morning, March 6th, Richard C. Hoagland, the founder of The Enterprise Mission, suffered a major heart attack in Miami, FL. He was with friends at the time and was rushed immediately to a Miami hospital. Richard was then moved to a Miami area cardiac critical care facility and continues to be in critical condition and is being helped with life support devices. Richard will most likely be undergoing some kind of heart surgery shortly, in an effort to improve his condition.
This is Very Serious. Richard is not out of trouble yet.
Please do not call or fax the New Mexico numbers, or try to contact Richard in Miami. Richard's close family members are at his side and the best we can do is to keep him in our thoughts and prayers. More information will be posted here as soon as we can. Keith Rowland, webmaster
As far as Art Bell's comments directing "shame" to those who have been critical of Mr. Hoagland and holding him responsible for his actions, I say this...Art Bell, you should be ashamed of yourself for using this time to lash out with spite and vindictiveness, when compassion and stillness are needed. Your comments tell more of your true essence, than any other. It is you who so often reflects statements like " I am filled with revenge, I go after someone until there is nothing left of them, I am vengence"....Sorry Mr. Bell, I will not follow your lead.
Many of those who are sensitive to what is going on with the Earth, like myself, are no doubt feeling pretty strange. You are having severe headaches, with a stabbing pain in the left eye. Intense aching, hollow pains in the middle and lower part of your back. Pains in the hip and sacrum. Women's menstrual cycles are completed goofed up, with their periods either coming twice a monthat an accelerated rate or not at all for months at a time, then with a very light flow, with their bodies gaining weight in what appear to be phantom pregnancies.
Many of you have been tired, listless, unable to sleep, unreasonable irritable and suffering from fits of panic, anxiety and severe depression. Sound familikar? Maybe it's just the holidays. But you are NOT IMAGINING (his emphasis) the bizarre frequencies that are coming from out of the planet. They are not theoryor conjecture, but checkable, scientific fact."
Sean David Morton
By Robert Stowe
England Washington Weekly Exclusive
WASHINGTON -- Pennsylvania Republican Representative Curt Weldon claims that the Central Intelligence Agency has determined that North Korea already has the capacity to launch from its homeland a low-weight warhead that could reach any part of the entire mainland United States -- from California eastward to Maine and southward to the Florida keys.
Weldon says the CIA finding is based, among others things, on its analysis of data generated by the August 31 launch by North Korea of the Taepo Dong 1 missile. The three-stage rocket was fired north of Japan. Its final stage failed to successfully launch a tiny satellite into orbit.
"The projections which the CIA have done, which are classified . . . actually show that when you project out the distance, that this particular North Korean rocket, with a light payload . . . could hit the mainland of the United States," Weldon says.
The Taepo Dong 1 could deliver "a chemical, biological or a small nuclear device," Weldon says, giving North Korea a cataclysmic new tool in its arsenal of terrorist weapons. The missile is not very accurate, Weldon says, but this should give the U.S. little comfort. "It's not the case of having pinpoint accuracy. It's being able to have the ability to launch a rocket and a payload that can hit our mainland that we can't defend against. It's a very crude capability, but they have it," says Weldon.
If Weldon's claims are true, under a doomsday scenario North Korea might be able to launch a surprise terrorist attack and deliver Hiroshima level casualties and destruction on a large American city, such as New York, according to national defense analysts. The new assessment about North Korea's missile capability reclassifies the Taepo Dong 1, originally seen as a missile for theater or regional defense, into an intercontinental ballistic missile or ICBM, when a third-stage rocket is attached. North Korea has claimed that the three-stage rocket was fired to launch a satellite and that it was not intended for military use. It has contradicted this explanation with warnings it might use its new missile capabilities to harm the U.S. and its allies.
A former mayor of Marcus Hook, Pa., Weldon is sponsoring a bill in Congress to declare that it is U.S. policy to deploy a limited national missile defense system. He is chairman of the House Subcommittee on Military Research and Development. The White House disagrees with Weldon's claims about the North Korean missile threat. "Based on this one launch, that is not a correct assessment," says P. J. Crowley, a spokesman for the National Security Council. North Korea does not now have an intercontinental missile capability, Crowley says.
On background, however, a White House source concedes that North Korea is expected to eventually have the ability to launch an ICBM. "Once they demonstrated the capacity to put a third stage on the Taepo Dong I, as they did, one of the future policy assumptions is that they will essentially perfect that ability," the White House source says. Starkly at odds with Weldon's claims, President Clinton claimed at a press conference Friday that North Korea and other nations developing missile programs would not have the capacity to launch missiles at the U.S. for ten to twenty years. President Clinton's claim is also at odds with the findings of a Congressionally-authorized bipartisan panel, the Rumsfeld Commission. The commission concluded in a report last summer that North Korea and other nations with missiles programs could develop an ICBM capacity within five years of a decision to do so. The report also warned that the U.S. may have little or no warning that a nation may be developing an ICBM.
Interestingly, the Rumsfeld Commission also included a reference that now seems to corroborate some of Weldon's claims. "Lightweight versions of the [larger and heavier] Taepo Dong 2 -- [meaning the Taepo Dong 1] -- could fly as far as 10,000 km. (6,200 miles), placing at risk western U.S. territory in an arc extending northwest from Phoenix, Arizona to Madison, Wisconsin," the report stated The Rumsfeld assessment about the potential of the Taepo Dong 1 places more than a third of the U.S. mainland within the range of the Taepo Dong 1 -- making Weldon's claims seem less of a stretch. In retrospect, the Rumsfeld Commission's statement looks prescient, having been made more than a month before the launching of the Taepo Dong 1 by North Korea. North Korea has not yet launched the Taepo Dong 2, although State Department briefer James Rubin suggested Feb. 3 that North Korea might launch the more powerful Taepo Dong 2 sometime this year. The Rumsfeld Commission has stated this missile could reach Hawaii and Alaska. It can also carry heavier and more powerful nuclear weapons. A White House source, however, dismisses the potential for a Taepo Dong 2 launch this year. "We do not see any sign of a preparation for a second launch," says the source. Despite White House rejection of his claims, Weldon is adamant that North Korea has an ICBM capability now. "Yes," Weldon says, "based on the test they did on August 31, I think they have it now for a low-weight payload." The Taepo Dong 1 missile has the ability at the present time to reach "the entire United States," he says.
by: Rob McConnell, Host & Executive Producer, The 'X' Zone Radio Show On August 12, 1997 Bruce Cornet accidently video taped a near miss between a missile and a Boeing 767 just after it turned towards Kennedy airport on a landing approach, three days after the Swissair 127 incident that was reported in the newspapers in Canada on Friday, March 5, 1999. Bruce Cornet has the video tape from which he made the video gif.
Bruce told me in an email that the FBI took a special interest in his video tape, which they have, and Bruce has copies. According to Bruce, "the missile apparently misfired as it passed the jetliner, bursting into flame. Had it exploded, it might have brought down that flight. The missile landed in a salt marsh next to the intercoastal waterway at Sea Bright, NJ. After the missile burst into flame, you can see it turn and glow as it falls slightly sideways to Earth. Its shape is unmistakable."
Bruce Cornet told me that after the FBI was sent a copy, he received a vsist form the NSTB / FBI team that worked on TWA Flight 800. Cornet said, "I am amazed that after all this time, pilots are now beginning to come forward with stories which imply that our skies along the East Coast of New Jersey and New York were not safe between June and August 1997."
I would like to thank Bruce Cornet for bringing this video gif and his story to THE 'X' ZONE.
Bruce Cornet can be reached at: email: bcornet@monmouth.com.
Bruce's reply was in regards to the following story: Object Nearly Hit Airliner Near TWA Crash Site Canadian Press - Friday, March 5, 1999 by Stephen Thorne
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By Harry Dunphy
The Associated Press
WASHINGTON (AP) -- The threat of a cyberattack -- an electronic Pearl Harbor -- is the most immediate, compelling danger facing the United States, former government officials and defense experts told a Senate panel Friday.
Their other concerns include the proliferation of missiles capable of mass destruction among rogue states and terrorists developing their capability to use chemical and biological weapons.
At the first meeting of the Senate Armed Services Committee's new panel on emerging threats and capabilities, witnesses were asked what ``good grief situations'' kept them awake at night.
Robert Ellsworth, former deputy defense secretary, said his main fear was a cyberattack against critical information infrastructures. Among them, systems that control medical services, electric power generation, telecommunications, banking and finance and oil and gas production.
``This is the most important, most compelling danger and one to which we should apply our resources immediately,'' Ellsworth said. In particular, Ellsworth warned against cyber-based attacks disguised as Y2K computer problems. Many computer systems worldwide are expected to malfunction on Jan 1, 2000 because some computers will fail to recognize the change in century.
``Disruptions may result from the malicious embedding of code in existing programs by programers ostensibly 'fixing' software to make it Y2K compliant, '' Ellsworth said.
Former U.N Ambassador Jeane Kirkpatrick said one of her preoccupations was missile proliferation, particularly by a ``psychotic'' nation such as North Korea. She said China also was busy developing the capacity to deliver weapons of mass destruction and passing that technology on to Iran and Syria.
Andrew Krepinevich, head of the Center for Strategic and Budgetary Assessments, a Washington-based defense think tank, warned about terrorists learning ``to alter toxins so they could develop a weapon that could target a specific group-- a genetically engineered Holocaust.'' Congress and the Clinton administration have increased their attention and resources on counterterrorism. In January, President Clinton proposed spending $1.4 billion for the coming fiscal year to enhance domestic readiness in the event of a chemical or biological terrorist attack.
by Associated Press OTTAWA (CP) -- A Swissair pilot reported his Boeing 747 jet was nearly hit by an unidentified flying object, possibly a missile, near the area off New York where a TWA airplane crashed in 1996, The Canadian Press has learned.
Swissair Flight 127 was cruising at 23,000 feet on Aug. 9, 1997, when the pilot interrupted an address to passengers to report the near miss by a round white object, says a report by the U.S. National Transportation Safety Board. ``Sir, I don't know what it was, but it just flew like a couple of hundred feet above us,'' he radioed Boston air traffic control. ``I don't know if it was a rocket or whatever, but incredibly fast, opposite direction.'' ``In the opposite direction?'' asked the controller. ``Yes sir, and the time was 2107 (Greenwich mean time). It was too fast to be an airplane.'' The controller asked another aircraft if its crew saw anything like a missile in the area. The reply was negative. He then asked the Swissair pilot again how far above the plane it was. ``It was right over us, right above, opposite direction, and, and I don't know, two, three, four hundred feet above. All that I can tell, 127, is that (we) saw a light object, it was white, and very fast.'' Investigators interviewed the captain and first officer on Aug. 10, 1997. The flight engineer hadn't seen the object and was not interviewed. The report, filed under NYC97SA193, said the flight was opposite John F. Kennedy Airport at 5:07 p.m. Eastern time -- near the area where TWA Flight 800 went down July 17, 1996, after taking off from JFK; 230 died. Some believe a missile caused the midair explosion of the TWA Boeing 747 off Long Island, N.Y. Authorities have reached no official conclusion but have been leaning toward faulty wiring in the plane's fuel tank. The transportation safety board report said the Swissair captain saw the cylindrical object for less than a second. He did not see any wings and was not sure it was an aircraft. ``He had never been so close to other traffic before,'' said the report. ``It passed over the cockpit, slightly right of centerline. If it had been any lower, it would have hit the aircraft. ``As the object passed by, there was no noise, no wake turbulence, and no disruption or anomalies with any of the flight or engine instruments.'' The plane was flying in clear weather to Boston from Philadelphia at the time. The sun was at the pilot's back. He apparently did not have time to take evasive action. ``There was no exhaust or smoke, no fire, and he could not accurately discern its size. The captain reported his total time as 15,000-plus flight hours. He had never seen a missile in flight.'' The first officer, whose flight time totaled 7,500 hours, said he was bent over to adjust the volume on his headset when he looked up and saw the object pass overhead ``very quickly. ``It was close enough that he ducked his head because he thought it would hit them.... He thought it passed about 100 to 200 feet above the airplane and between the right side of the fuselage and the No. 3 engine.'' The first officer said no markings were visible and the object appeared to be the size of a thumbnail held at arm's length. He said he had previously encountered a weather balloon over Italy, and the object did not look like the balloon. He had witnessed missile launches from the ground previously, the report said. The report said the nearest weather balloons are launched from Upton, N.Y., 43 nautical miles northeast of JFK twice daily, at 7 p.m. and 3 a.m. Eastern time and usually take 25 to 28 minutes to reach 23,000 feet. Balloons are light tan or brownish, or black and red, said the report, adding the wind was blowing from the north, almost at right angles to the aircraft. Investigators also checked radar data and plotted the plane's flight path. ``There was no evidence of an opposite direction target, either beacon or non-beacon,'' said the report.
(Sightings-web site)
From Ralph Greenberg
Professor of Mathematics
University of Washington
Seattle, WA
Dear Mr. Rense,
I've noticed that you have provided a forum on your website about
Hoagland's claim of credit for the Abydos glyphs. There is another
issue that should be brought to the attention of the public.
As you may know, I have written a long and well-documented article
on the history of the idea that Europa might have an ocean. Over the
years, many people have been misled by Richard Hoagland to
believe that he was the originator of that idea, as well as the idea that
life might develop in such an ocean.
It has given him a tremendous amount of undeserved credibility.
Since June of 1997, I have been trying very hard to correct this
distortion of history. I've informed a relatively small number of
people about my article. I would like to bring it to the attention of as
many people as possible. If I wrote a relatively short piece pointing
out how Hoagland has distorted this history, would you consider
providing a similar forum for that?
You can find my article on my homepage here:
http://www.math.washington.edu/~greenber/Europa.html
It will be obvious how much work I put into writing that article. It is
not intended to criticize Hoagland at all. I just wanted to set the
record straight.
But my fax to Art Bell, which you can find there, will give you an
idea of my futile attempt to get some honesty about this issue onto
his show.
--Ralph Greenberg
Professor of Mathematics
University of Washington
Seattle, WA
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Fax To Art Bell Asking For Remedy
The following is the text of a fax sent to Art Bell on December 15th,
1997. A similar fax had been sent to him on December 4th, 1997
and also a few days later, all with the hope that he would at least
partially read one of them to his audience.
In February and March, 1998, I sent several other faxes to Art Bell
which were much shorter and which were mostly a copy of part of a
letter that I received from Arthur C. Clarke.
Art Bell has never shared any of these faxes with his audience.
Dear Art,
On December 4th, 1997, Richard Hoagland was a guest on your
show. I was very dismayed to hear him make the claim that he was
the first person to write a "scientific paper" proposing the ideas
that
Europa might possibly have a global liquid water ocean and that life
might possibly develop in such an ocean. This is a rather misleading
and factually incorrect statement. I feel that your audience deserves
to hear an accurate version of the history of those ideas and hope
that you will share the following brief summary with them.
In the 1950s, the astronomer G.P.Kuiper discovered evidence that
the surface of Europa and some of the other satellites of Jupiter
seemed to be covered with water in the form of ice or frost. This
was finally confirmed in the early 1970s. In an article published in
1971, John S. Lewis proposed and studied the possibility that
Europa and other ice-covered bodies in our solar system might
actually have a liquid water ocean under a crust of ice. This idea was
explored in a number of articles by various scientists during the
1970s.
One important one which appeared in 1976 by John S. Lewis and
G.J.Consolmagno gives rather detailed estimates of the possible
thickness of the ice crust and the possible depth of an ocean that
might exist on Europa and other moons of Jupiter. These estimates
are based on various sets of assumptions about the early history and
the composition of those bodies. For example, in one of their
models, they estimate that Europa might have an ice crust 70-km
thick covering an ocean of water 100-km deep, all of this over a
rocky core 1400-km in radius. The underlying idea is that radioactive
decay in the core might produce enough heat to maintain a liquid
water ocean.
In 1979, another idea was proposed which focused attention
specifically on Europa. Two NASA scientists--P. Cassen and
R.T.Reynolds--together with a physicist S.J.Peale from the
University of California wrote an article entitled "Is there liquid water
on Europa?" Their idea was that the gravitational forces which
Jupiter and Ganymede (another of Jupiter's moons) exert on Europa
might generate enough frictional heat to maintain a liquid water
ocean on Europa. Under one set of reasonable assumptions, they
estimate that Europa might have an ice crust under 10-kms in
thickness covering a liquid water ocean with a depth of about
90-kms.
In 1979, there were two Voyager missions to the Jupiter system.
This article about Europa was written about one month before
Voyager 2 started sending back high resolution images of Europa in
July, 1979. At the end of their article, the authors expressed hope
that such images might provide some evidence, one way or the
other, concerning the existence of an ocean on Europa. I think that
there can be little doubt that this article was widely discussed around
NASA because these very same scientists had published another
article just a few days before Voyager 1 passed by Io (another moon
of Jupiter) in which they made a very startling prediction that
extensive volcanic activity should exist on Io. Within a few weeks,
the images from Voyager 1 confirmed that their prediction about Io
was correct.
The idea that a liquid water ocean under a thick crust of ice might
exist on Europa and some of the other moons of Jupiter seems to
have become rather widely known by the end of the 1970s. I have
even found several books written for the general public at the end of
that decade which discuss that possibility. To me, it seems quite
obvious that the possibility of such an ocean would lead many
people to speculate about the existence of life in such an
environment. In fact, Carl Sagan had already included Europa and
Ganymede in a short list of bodies in our solar system which he
believed had some potential for the existence of life. This was in an
article he wrote in 1971. He included Europa and Ganymede
because of the evidence that they might have water in the form of
ice or frost on their surfaces. The possibility of an ocean of water
would certainly be far more encouraging. However, one obvious and
serious issue is the fact that, under a thick crust of ice,
photosynthesis would probably be a very unlikely possibility. There
would have to be an alternative basis for the chemistry of life that
could evolve in such an environment.
I have found several cases where various individuals presented such
speculations to the general public or to the scientific community. The
first that I found was in Scotland. There is a very active group of
amateur and professional astronomers in Scotland, called ASTRA,
which sponsors public lectures and discussions about all aspects of
astronomy. In 1976, some of their members proposed various ideas
about how life might develop on Europa and Ganymede . For
example, they suggested that complex molecules might be
synthesized by electrical storms in the thin atmospheres of these
bodies, that such compounds might seep down into liquid water
reservoirs or oceans under the surface, and that volcanic activity
deep down might provide an alternative energy source to light. These
ideas are reported on in a book written by Duncan Lunan, entitled
New Worlds for Old, published in 1979.
In a delightful book entitled Life Beyond Earth, Gerald Feinberg and
Robert Shapiro propose some general ideas about the chemistries
which could be a basis for life in unearth-like environments. Feinberg
presented some of these ideas in a lecture that he gave at a
conference Extraterrestials--Where Are They? at the University of
Maryland in November, 1979. In their book the authors discuss
Europa, Ganymede, and Callisto based on the models proposed by
Lewis and Consolmagno in 1976. They write that if life is to develop
in the putative oceans of such bodies under a thick crust of ice, it is
crucial that some energy sources exist which can provide heat in
concentrated form. They mention the possibility of volcanic
eruptions or upwellings of hot gases from the core. They compare
such environments to those which were discovered in 1977 on Earth
at places on the ocean bottom where hot springs emerge providing
sites which have an abundance of living creatures. Their book, three
years in the writing, was published in 1980.
Another scientific conference occurred at NASA's Ames Research
Center in June, 1979, which was called Life in the Universe. The
exobiologist Ben Clark gave a lecture at that conference where he
also discussed the possibility of life developing in buried liquid water
reservoirs or oceans on Europa, Ganymede and some other
ice-covered bodies. Inspired by the 1977 discoveries of small,
isolated ecosystems near hot springs at ocean bottoms here on Earth,
he suggested that something similar might happen on such bodies.
But he pointed out that photosynthesis does in fact play some role in
these ecosystems on Earth. He proposed some specific alternative
chemistries, based on Sulfur, which might provide a basis for life in
the possible oceans of Europa and other bodies without
photosynthesis.
Finally I will mention the imaginative and inspiring article written by
your frequent guest Richard Hoagland. His article, entitled "The
Europa Enigma" appeared in the January, 1980 issue of Star & Sky .
In that article, Hoagland discusses the possibility that an ocean might
have existed and might still exist under an icy crust, summarizing
some of the scientific articles that had appeared on this topic. He
speculates about how complex organic compounds might develop
and that undersurface volcanic activity might provide a possible
energy source for life to evolve. There are many interesting ideas in
that article. As many people in your audience might know,
Hoagland's article inspired Arthur C. Clarke to use Europa as a
background for his novel 2010: Odyssey 2.
I would like to quote one paragraph from a letter which I received
recently from Arthur C. Clarke concerning Hoagland's article and the
ideas that Europa might have an ocean and that life might develop
there. "I am also grateful to him [Dick Hoagland] for the excellent
1980 article he wrote--my first introduction to the idea. Since then I
have become aware of the fact that many others had thought of it
first, as you point out."
What I've written above is a summary of a much longer survey of
the history of these ideas about Europa which I wrote last May and
circulated among various scientists and journalists. I also sent a copy
to Arthur C. Clarke and to Richard Hoagland. I sent a second copy
to Hoagland in September. Perhaps you can understand why I was
quite disturbed by Hoagland's statement on your show a few weeks
ago. I would be very appreciative if you could take the time to read
what I've written.
Sincerely yours,
Ralph Greenberg
Professor of Mathematics
University of Washington
Seattle, WA
by Amargi Hillier I was disappointed to hear Richard Hoagland on the Art Bell radio show talking about a new discovery he has made. On the Enterprise Mission website, it suggests that Hoagland has discovered some most interesting and unusual set of hieroglyphs found in Abydos, Egypt. These glyphs depict, what seems to be, a helicopter, flying craft of sorts and more. On the Enterprise Mission website, these glyphs are referred to as "Hoagland’s Abydos discovery".
If many of you remember the old Amargiland site way back when, we had posted photos of these glyphs almost 3 YEARS AGO. I tried to contact Mr. Bell and Mr. Hoagland at that time, but was ignored (or lost in the heap of others who write them). If anybody should get credit for bringing worlwide attention to these glyphs, it should go to Bruce Rawles. Mr. Rawles took the original photos that appeared at my web 3 years ago.
I urge those of you interested to contact Mr. Hoagland and Art Bell and make sure the Mr. Bruce Rawles be recognized for making this info public; images that were posted on the net years before Hoagland posted his on the Enterprise Mission website yesterday. Is Mr. Hoagland appropriating the research of others and claiming the fame? Here is our website that features the glyphs, with an update:
The Mysterious Glyphs Of Abydos Egypt http://www.projectduat.com/mysterious.glyphs/
Warm Wishes,
Amargi Hillier
(ENN) Airborne studies of Greenland's ice sheets show that glaciers in the southeast region of the country are thinning and their lower elevations may be particularly sensitive to climate changes, according to NASA scientists.
The researchers believe that the thinning, by as much as 30 feet over five years in some locations, is the result of increased discharge speeds of glaciers flowing into the Atlantic Ocean. In the March 5 issue of Science, researchers report the glacial thinning is too large to have resulted from increased ice-surface melting or decreased snowfall.
"The results of this study are important in that they could represent the first indication of an increase in the speed of outlet glaciers," said Bill Krabill, principal investigator at NASA Goddard Space Flight Center's Wallops Flight Facility, Wallops Island, Va. An outlet glacier acts as a major ice drainage region for an ice sheet.
"The excess volume of ice transported by these glaciers has had a negligible effect on global sea level thus far, but if it accelerates or becomes more widespread, it would begin to have a detectable impact on sea level," Krabill said.
Krabill said surface-melt water might be seeping to the bottom of glaciers. Such seepage may be reducing the friction between the ice and the rock below it, enabling the glaciers to slide with less friction across the bedrock and thus allow more ice to slip off into the ocean, according to Krabill.
"The results of this study are significant because they provide the first evidence of widespread thinning of low-elevation parts of one of the great polar ice sheets. The results also suggest that the thinning outlet glaciers must be flowing faster than necessary to remove the annual accumulation of snow within their basins," said Krabill.
"Why they are behaving like this is a mystery," said Krabill, "but it might indicate that the coastal margins of ice sheets are capable of responding quite rapidly to external changes, such as a potential warming of the climate."
In 1993 and 1994, NASA researchers surveyed and measured the thickness of the entire Greenland ice sheet using an airborne laser altimeter flown on a NASA P-3 aircraft. Ten of the 1993 southern Greenland flight lines were resurveyed in 1998. The flight lines in northern Greenland flown in 1994 will be resurveyed in May 1999. Throughout the study, pilots have used a Global Positioning System and other navigational equipment to fly the same flight path some 400 meters above the ice surface.
The results showed three areas in the south that accumulate snow at rates of up to 10 inches a year. These areas located in the internal sections of Greenland are in regions of high snowfall.
In the outer regions of the ice sheets, the researchers reported large areas of thinning, with the rate of thinning increasing rapidly toward the ocean. The most rapid thinning rates (more than three feet a year) were observed in the lower depths of east coast outlet glaciers, the researchers reported.
The researchers noted that the areas of thinning in the east also saw warmer than normal temperatures for 1993 to 1998. "However, we also observe areas of thinning near the west coast, where many locations were cooler than normal," the researchers reported.
These surveys have established baseline data sets that will be extended with information from NASA's ICESAT spacecraft. The ICESAT satellite laser altimeter will be launched in 2001 to measure ice surface elevations in Greenland and Antarctica.
For more information, contact David Steitz, NASA, (202)358-1730.
(MSNBC) The federal government has already declared 1998 the warmest year since temperature recordings began 120 years ago, but several researchers say other evidence “strongly suggests” 1998 was the warmest of the last 1,000 years. Using tree rings, ice cores and other indicators, the scientists also dubbed the 1990s the warmest decade of the millennium.
THEIR STUDY, published in the upcoming journal Geophysical Research Letters, adds to a growing body of evidence that the global climate has been getting steadily warmer — especially the last half of the 20th century. “Temperatures in the latter half of the 20th century were unprecedented,” Raymond Bradley of the University of Massachusetts said in a statement describing the research.
‘PROXY INDICATORS’ USED Because human climate records only go back a few hundred years, and do not cover the whole globe, the team at the University of Massachusetts and the University of Arizona looked at measurements other scientists have made of tree rings, ice cores and other “proxy indicators” that record climate variations.
Mitch,
It is unprecedented for the Northwest. I was scheduled to talk about earthquakes this morning on K101-FM at 07:30. At 9: the producer called, to apologize and explain. He was practically in tears as he described the damage. I am now scheduled for tomorrow morning.
Beware the Tides of March. The last time we had Blue Moons in January and March was 1980. That was when Mt. Saint Helens began to erupt and there were 47 quakes around the peak of at least 4M during that month.
job
Jim Berkland's web site: ahttp://www.syzygyjob.com/index.shtml
for the latest in earthquake activity.
by Mitch Battros - ECTV Main traffic arteries such as the Evergreen 520 Bridge, have been closed due to 70 mph gust winds. Power outage for more than 250 thousand people. Structural damage to bridges. Schools closed, power lines down, trees ripped from their roots. Seattle residents have stated " I have lived here all my life, and I have never seen it like this before". State officials have asked residents to "stay home" until the storm (hurricane) diminishes.
When viewing the weather report on the local news, you could clearly see a "funnel" formation which looks exactly like any hurricane one sees in the Atlantic or Caribbean seas. Waters off the Washington Coast have risen up to 45 feet. Massive erosion has occurred. Sever mud slides expected.
It is unprecedented for the Northwest. I was scheduled to talk about earthquakes this morning on K101-FM at 07:30. At 9: the producer called, to apologize and explain. He was practically in tears as he described the damage.
I am now scheduled for tomorrow morning. Beware the Tides of March. The last time we had Blue Moons in January and March was 1980. That was when Mt. Saint Helens began to erupt and there were 47 quakes around the peak of at least 4M during that month.
Jim Berkland's web site: http://www.syzygyjob.com/index.shtml for the latest in earthquake activity.
Doctors May Be Key to Bioterrorism
By LAURAN NEERGAARD The Associated Press ARLINGTON, Va.
(AP) -- It will fall to doctors -- not the military or police to recognize when bioterrorists have struck and to react in time to stop thousands of Americans from getting sick or dying, experts told the first medical conference on the danger Tuesday. Imagine a truck driving by a football stadium during a fall game. It sprays a mist that drifts over the stadium. Nobody notices. Two days later, hundreds show up with sniffles and fevers that doctors believe is the flu. But five days later 300 people are dead before a local scientist solves the mystery: It's not flu, it's anthrax.
Johns Hopkins University used that fictional scenario to tell doctors that the danger is real -- and the nation isn't yet ready to handle it. ``To remain unprepared is to invite disaster,'' said Hopkins' Dr. D.A. Henderson, who led the world's eradication of smallpox and now is mobilizing health workers and the government against bioterrorism.
Policy-makers know how to respond to bombs, but have ``an almost total lack of understanding of the implications of epidemic disease'' that bioterrorism would cause, Henderson said.
The average American is far more likely to die in a car crash than ever face a bioterrorist attack, other experts reassured the conference. But the threat is real, so the government is starting to prepare doctors and hospitals. ``We must not be afraid, but we must be aware,'' said Health and Human Services Secretary Donna Shalala, whose office is spending $158 million this year, and has asked Congress for $230 million next year, to prepare.
Currently, there is no national stockpile of treatment or vaccines. And doctors must be educated how to spot unusual symptoms and then what to do. They may not know, for example, that anthrax can't be spread person-to-person but that smallpox is highly contagious.
A huge attack like the Hopkins' anthrax scenario is unlikely, but possible, said Col. Gerald Parker, the U.S. Army's chief of infectious disease. The worst agents would be anthrax and smallpox, which are highly deadly and can be manipulated into weapons that victims inhale.
A more likely scenario is small attacks, said former National Security Council member Jessica Stern. Americans already have experienced one: In 1985, a religious cult poisoned Oregon salad bars with salmonella, making 750 people sick.
Germs are the ultimate sneak attack. Leave a germ-tainted package in a subway, and the terrorist is long gone before anyone knows there's a problem. Publicly, the most feared germ weapons program has been Iraq's.
But the Japanese cult that released the nerve gas sarin in a Tokyo subway in 1995 attempted bioterrorism first, said terrorism expert Kyle Olson of Research Planning Inc.
Four times before the nerve gas attack, the cult attempted to spray botulism toxin and anthrax around Japanese government buildings, he said. Although there were some reports of pet deaths, the attempts apparently failed to sicken any people, for unknown reasons, Olson said.
And nobody knows what has happened to the former Soviet Union's vast stockpiles of weaponized germs, including smallpox, said Christopher Davis of ORAQ Consultancy, who investigated Soviet bioweapons for Britain.
But terrorists don't have to dispense germs to cause terror, Stern said, pointing to a spate of anthrax hoaxes starting last year that have so far affected more than 5,000 Americans.
A typical case: An abortion clinic opens a letter mixed with powder that says, ``You have just been exposed to anthrax.'' The local fire department makes everyone in the clinic take a decontamination shower, and the hospital doles out antibiotics, which can prevent anthrax if taken soon after exposure.
All the threats so far have been hoaxes, but investigating can cost up to $100,000 and repeated false alarms mean some cities don't take the threats seriously anymore, Olson said. `It's the 'cry wolf syndrome,''' he said. ``The danger, obviously, is we're going to miss something.''
If local doctors spot unusual symptoms, alerting the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention quickly could help health officials mobilize drugs to stop an epidemic. Antibiotics can prevent anthrax if people take them soon enough after exposure, for instance. But more research is needed, Henderson said. Smallpox vaccination hasn't been given anywhere in the world for years; there are only enough vaccination doses left for 6 million people and no factory left to make more.
For futher information, and a Nostradamus Prophecy regarding Smallpox, missles & satellites, go to http://www.earthchangestv.com/predict/nostrabobus.htm
(ENN) Seattle areas most prone to earthquake damage are being mapped by scientists from the U.S. Geological Survey and the University of Washington.
It has been 35 years since a major earthquake hit the Seattle area and scientists warn that another may occur at any time. Recent research shows that the Seattle Fault, which runs from Bainbridge Island through downtown Seattle and east toward Lake Samamish, has experienced large earthquakes in the past.
"That fault wasn't even recognized 40 years ago when the existing Seattle geology map was produced," said Derek Booth, a professor of geological sciences and civil and environmental engineering at the University of Washington.
The new maps are being created as part of Seattle's Project Impact to help prepare the city for an earthquake. Using geographic information system technology, the geologic maps will contain basic information on the materials that make up the region's hills and valleys.
"The result will be highly detailed three-dimensional maps showing the subsurface layers under Seattle," said Kathy Goetz Troost, a geological sciences researcher at the University of Washington.
The maps and an accompanying database will be a resource for city agencies and the public seeking up-to-date geological information, Troost said. They also are necessary to predict how different areas of the city with different soil types and varying geology will shake during an earthquake.
U.S. Geological Survey seismologists, who have been collecting ground motion data from small earthquakes in Seattle for the last several years, will analyze the data.
"Combining the geology with the ground motion data will produce a much better estimate of shaking effects in Seattle than is now available," said Craig Weaver of the federal agency. That will result in a second set of maps that chart where ground motion will be most severe during a large earthquake, maps that could be useful in picking sites for new critical facilities and in setting priorities for seismic retrofitting.
The geological data also will be used by the state Department of Natural Resources to re-evaluate Seattle's susceptibility to liquefaction, and by the U.S. Geological Survey to produce landslide susceptibility maps for which ground shaking, rather than intense rainfall, is the landslide trigger.
(CNN) -- The object, about 165 feet (50 meters) across, was discovered February 10 by an automated asteroid-hunting Linear telescope in New Mexico, New Scientist magazine reported Wednesday.
After six nights of observations, Gareth Williams of the U.S Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics calculated that it circles the sun every 1.09 years at distance just 9 million km (6 million miles) beyond Earth's orbit.
Astronomers said such a path is extremely unusual, as comets and asteroids that cross the Earth's orbit normally have eccentric orbits, the magazine said. Astronomers said that the new object, between 30 and 50 meters across, is too big to be the final stage of a rocket. "The most likely explanation is that it's a chip off the Moon," Brian Marsden of the Harvard-Smithsonian Center was quoted as saying.
Astronomers hope perform an analysis of the mysterious object's composition that could cast light on its origins.
ATLANTA (AP) - The federal government began a three-day conference Sunday on "Gulf War syndrome," where doctors, scientists and veterans' advocates hope to develop recommendations for future research. In the eight years since the Persian Gulf War's end, thousands of soldiers have complained of chronic, unexplained maladies such as fatigue, joint pain and memory loss. To date, researchers have been at a medical loss, unable to scientifically link the symptoms of those who served in the 1991 war to any particular disease or biological agent. The government has acknowledged the illnesses are real, but claims that a lack of solid diagnoses or evidence of clear causes have hampered the path toward remedies.
by: Dante
I have been working in the Denver Metro area (COLO), as a paramedic for about 9 years now. In that time I have never seen the rash of sick people that I have seen in the last 4 months. It is epidemic proportions. It is generally manifesting as "flu" symptoms that seem to settle in to the lungs, resulting in respiratory problems. We generally treat the respiratory problem with albuterol sulfate (common beta stimulator drug used for asthma and other respiratory problems that need the bronchial tree to relax), which temporarily relieves the respiratory distress, only to have it return. Physicians are having harder and harder times treating these problems with traditional (antibiotics) therapies. In Denver, the 14 hospitals are going on Emergency Room divert several times a day. This only occurred occasionally (about once a month per hospital). However, in the last three months, I have seen these hospitals going on divert 2 or 3 times a week. The patients that are overloading these hospital ER's, are mostly being treated for the symptoms I just listed.
WASHINGTON, (Reuters) - Smallpox once again poses a serious global health threat but this time as a biological weapon, according to a U.S. medical expert who helped stamp out the virus more than two decades ago.
Writing in Friday's edition of the journal Science, Johns Hopkins scientist Donald Henderson warned that the United States was ill-equipped to deal with "bio-terrorists" who could easily use smallpox and the disease anthrax in their wars.
"Of the potential biological weapons, smallpox and anthrax pose by far the greatest threats," wrote Henderson, who heads Johns Hopkins Center for Civilian Biodefense Studies.
Unlike a chemical attack, biological weapons are usually invisible, silent and odorless and their appearance only becomes clear when patients go to emergency rooms with rarely or never-before-seen symptoms.
"Just as in the 1980s, the medical community rallied to educate policy makers about the dread of a nuclear winter, the same needs to be done for the remote -- but real -- threat biological weapons pose," wrote Henderson.
Smallpox, he said, posed an unusually serious threat because nearly everyone was susceptible to it as vaccinations had stopped worldwide more than two decades ago with the eradication of the disease.
The virus, in an aerosol form, could survive for 24 hours or more and was highly infectious even at low dosages, he said, adding it was unlikely the disease would be identified quickly enough for a vaccination program to be effective.
Few doctors had ever seen smallpox or received training in its diagnosis and mass vaccination would be difficult because of a shortage of the vaccine.
"Best estimates indicate that substantial additional supplies could not be ensured sooner than 36 months from the initial outbreak," said Henderson.
Like smallpox, he said an anthrax epidemic could be released via aerosol and could drift through a building or even a city without being noticed.
After two or three days, victims would appear in emergency rooms with nonspecific symptoms such as fever, cough and headache. Patients would probably die within 24-72 hours.
Henderson said the threat to U.S. cities as targets for biological weapons was highlighted by recent disclosures of the massive biological weapons industry in the former Soviet union, Iraq's smaller program and bioweapons research in 10 other countries.
While planning was underway by the military and intelligence communities to predict and forestall such attacks, he said these efforts generally excluded frontline staff such as doctors, hospitals and public health workers.
Henderson urged the private sector, federal, state and local governments to provide resources for training emergency room doctors and nurses to recognize symptoms caused by biological weapons.
(AP) Wheat growers in Arizona have been trying to cope with a federal quarantine of their crop for three years. The government just made their hardship worse. The quarantine restricting the shipment of Arizona wheat was imposed after Karnal bunt was found in some of that state's fields. The fungus is not harmful to humans, but it can reduce yield and give wheat a fishy odor. Now the state's wheat industry has learned that seeds carrying Karnal bunt spores may have gone to fields free of the fungus.
An embarrassed Arizona Department of Agriculture said Thursday that its lab since October has improperly tested some 232 tons of wheat seeds, potentially fouling fields in southern Arizona ."We are not pleased that our staff apparently misused filtering equipment and we are working to ensure this is an isolated incident," said Sheldon R. Jones, the department's director.
The U.S. Department of Agriculture, which mandated the quarantine, is now scrambling to figure out where the seeds were planted. Farmers are being warned their spring harvest could face stringent testing and analysis.
by: Ian Xel Lungold
The Maya need help to rebuild their civilization. From the centuries of genocide, abuse and neglect by their own governments and the Catholic Church. Now the Evangelicals are raging against these people and their "PAGAN" ways. The article, Why the Mayan Calendar, should clear up the reasons to save this wonderful information that, but for incredible fortitude on the Mayans part, would be lost to the world already. These guys took it in the teeth for generations to protect and preserve the calendar. Their civilization was shut down some 525 years ago to await these times. Now, our culture is racing along at about 2600 RPM and accelerating all the time while there culture is running at about 260 RPM. This is going to make the interfacing of the two tricky. The Mayan Calendar is the transmission between the two cultures but somehow we need to create a clutch plate. We need to be able to help them come up to speed while not running them over or stripping the gears or blowing out the rear end. This is what I need professional help with.
On the surface we have this way cool astrology that is fun and very interesting to most folks. What a personal connection to the Mayan calendar does for each Western culture individual is to bring them to a closer alignment with the "Natural" cycles of life and helps them slooww doowwwn. Most of us want to do that. Here is that atricle Why the Mayan Calendar.
Why the Mayan Calendar?
Why should anyone be interested in the Mayan calendar? We don’t need another calendar do we? Maybe, yes. We have all been seriously slighted on information about the grand civilizations that arose in Central America. What information we have gotten about the Mayan or Aztec civilizations was, to varying degrees, twisted to suit the messenger, not the truth. Not a new story is it? But what those cultures left us, as clues, carved in stone and grown over in the jungles, are a new and very important story.
Our culture, as opposed to indigenous cultures, is cut off from our natural surroundings and to the "Natural Cycles" of life. One could say we are fixated or even addicted to convenience and glitz. Probably less than 5% of the people you know could tell you what phase the moon is in. Why not? They are not paying attention. What are they paying attention to?
If you want to have a good relationship, say, with your mother. You have got to pay attention to her. If you talk to your garden and love the plants they will grow bigger and better. Quantum physicists have now proven that all of our reality is set up on the principle of "As above so below." Repeating patterns of creation form microscopic to galactic.
Which then says; "What is good for your garden and your mother is good for Mother Earth." So how do you pay attention to a whole planet? By watching the timing of the natural cycles. By just noticing the natural cycles you are paying reverence to those cycles. Some would call this "counting your blessings" as indeed these are our blessings.
Our mental disconnection from these underlying timing patterns of our evolvement as the human race has caused an increasing unbalance of emotion. We exhibit this with crime, pollution and wars, Mother Earth’s upset is expressed with "Weird Weather", earthquakes and volcanoes. All simply because… WE AREN’T PAYING ATTENTION ANY MORE. If we seriously want to heal our relationship with Mother Earth, as more and more of us do… We must spend some "quality time" paying attention to these natural cycles. Doing things like, watching a moonrise, sitting through a sunset or finding North, South, East and West from where you are now, these are natural cycles. Not too tough a duty is it?
The Mayan scared calendar, The Tzolkin, describes the timing of every cycle we can detect.
From an electron’s frequency of orbit around it’s nucleus, to the musical scale, to our own 26,000 year orbit known as the procession of equinoxes, this calendar system does it all. This marvelous ancient invention actually weaves the Binary and the Fibernaci sequences together. These two number sequences have been shown to be the base patterns for all of biology and chemistry. The Mayan sacred calendar blends these frequencies into a ratio of 13:20. Our physical existence on this planet is tied directly to the ratio of 13:20. There are 13 cycles of the moon in one year. The human reproduction cycle follows this moon cycle. 13 is the number of major joints in your body. You have 20 fingers and toes. There are 20 different amino acids that make up the codons of your DNA. 13 x 20 = 260. There are 260 days in the Tzolkin calendar. 260 days are 9 months, the gestation period of the human being. Your own study of the Mayan calendar would unfold many more examples then we have the time or space to mention here. Suffice it to say, these Maya guys "got somthin goin on" with their calendar.
By simply following the days on the Mayan calendar, you become entrained or synchronized, with the natural cycles that are timed by this calendar. Thus your time becomes more natural and less mechanical. No sweat, no strain, just a flow of attention on what day it is. You will start to notice more and more of these cycles. Sort of like all those "Red Volkswagens" you are now going to notice on the road just because we brought up the subject.
The Mayan calendar was left here for us to use. It is a tool, to gently and naturally recalibrate our mind set for the changes we all feel must come if life is to continue on this planet. Yours, a simple tinker.
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Hi Robert,
I would like your input/reflections of story on Asteroids and near misses. Does NASA know or not know of the number of NEAR's, and are they telling us everything they know.
Thanks, Mitch
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Dear Mitch,
Good question, Mitch. Firstly, oddly, quoting from the movie Armageddon, NASA's look-out budget for object collision is paltry at best. It is very very small to be considered at all.
It must be remembered too that apocalyptic event possibles have not been part of our global lexicon for very long in our global consciousness. Sadly, this may be something that perhaps could allow events out side the pale of our being to come to visit. This is not a statement announcing it is; only that it has happened before, it will happen again. The question isn't then 'what if', but 'when'.
Specifically, NASA 'does not' know all or even a small part of the possible incoming to Earth location. Tangent incoming are even more fleeting. They do not have the budget, the hardware, the personnel, or the overall logistics to look out, garner factual tracking, report and compile, predict, then warn accordingly. Sadly, and I personally think it is a gross error on this nation's collection part in strong measure, NASA is a funding backwater compared to the rest of Government.
This is a mistake. Now and later.
I have devoted 21 years of my life to NASA and space. I know alot. But I also am dumb in areas I simply cannot get information on that may have some larger canvas of effect on our being. The door is closed. 90% of NASA is the same. They can't get clear data either. It is NASA who is out there, it is NASA that understands the protocol of intercept for an incoming bolide. It is NASA that would be best to understand the resulting effects should we come into close interface with one of these bolides. Thus, their hands are tied by the lack of interagency protocol and funding from congress, the latter a reflection of what people deem important.
This speaks for itself.
NASA would not hold back on anything pertinent to space. It is the one issue I will yell at and will continue to dissent at those that claim otherwise within the public field of query.
NASA tells all. However, have you noticed here of late that more and more government sites on the net now have encrypted certificate notices denying entry to their once open sites. This too speaks for itself.
If NASA were to locate an incoming bolide the size of California at say 1 light day out from Earth, incoming on a trajectory course for catastrophic intercept, they would tell everyone. If they discovered same and it meant a warning of a few hours, they would tell all. Period. If it was the end of all things and there were 5 hours left, they would issue a press release.
It is what the government, the people, the media, Everyman, would do with the warning. Not whether NASA would cover up the issue.
And it has been just that all along since we stopped the moon program. NASA needs funding. It is launching the world's first true space ships, reaching out on the last frontier. It is the agency that represents the most esoteric of our adventurous conduct. It deserves better. It deserves more to do what it does. It does not lie. Yet, Everyman finds a more interesting use of funding like saving moss that may become extinct.
We may come to a point in our being when we will look back at this dark warning and have great cause to reflect that it would have been better to have more funding for this agency to look out at our place. Since there are things out there that should they come to visit by default, bode bad things to our being, our home.
NASA does not know all things that are coming. They'd like to though. At least to do a better job of such--looking out.
A warning then of things to come. Rather than the question is NASA lying or not divulging all they know, sadly, they know little about this--what they do know, they tell all. Any lack of data beyond this, then, his is a result of the whims of Everyman.
Behold.
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MOSCOW (AP) - A Russian volcano on the Pacific Rim's "Ring of Fire" has erupted, spewing ashes 5 miles high, a news report said Thursday. The Bezymyany volcano, located on Russia's remote Kamchatka peninsula, erupted Wednesday night. It sent enough debris into the air to pose a threat to planes flying through the region, the Interfax news agency said. Flights between Russia and Alaska pass over Kamchatka. The eruption did not endanger the nearest communities - Kozyrevsk, located 18 miles from the volcano, and Klyuchi, 30 miles away. Bezymyany is the site of one of the century's biggest volcanic eruptions in 1956.
BUENOS AIRES, Argentina (AP) - The power blackout crippling parts of Buenos Aires entered its 10th day Wednesday amid opposition criticism of the government and the utility. Leaders of the Alliance coalition blamed President Carlos Menem's government for granting the lease for electric distribution in the capital to Edesur in 1992. "The government is simply not trustworthy when it comes to decisions over the defense of consumers," Carlos Alvarez charged in comments published Wednesday by local newspapers. Critics from all sides called on Menem's government to hold a new round of bidding for the power contract. Edesur said Wednesday it would have power restored before Thursday to thousands of residents, who have protested the blackout with nightly pot-banging protests and tire burnings.
LANDECK, Austria (AP) - Rescuers mounted a last-ditch effort Thursday to find survivors from two killer avalanches that slammed into neighboring villages in the Austrian Alps, but the death toll rose to 32 and hopes dimmed for six people believed still buried. One bright spot emerged amid the tragedy: A 4-year-old Austrian boy who was dug out of the snow Wednesday by a rescue dog in the hamlet of Valzur and pronounced "clinically dead" was resuscitated and able to communicate at a hospital in nearby Zams. "When he arrived at the hospital he had a pacifier in his mouth, and he even smiled a little," Dr. Alois Schranz told the Austria Press Agency.
Seth Borenstein Herald Washington Bureau
WASHINGTON -- A dangerous asteroid will whiz by Earth today in a cosmic close call. Similar near misses are expected March 2, 18, 26 and April 1.
Astronomers are discovering potential killer asteroids at a record pace.
The public's flirtation last year with fear of menacing space rocks -- fueled by two fictionalized movies and one widely reported threat -- has faded. But astronomers scanning the sky with new technology are finding more asteroids than ever.
There are almost weekly additions to science's official list of ``potentially hazardous asteroids.'' In 1998, scientists found 55 of the would-be killers -- more than in the previous six years combined. Now the all-time list is at 163 and growing.
None of these rocks is expected to hit Earth directly. But they are too close for comfort.
``It's crazy,'' said University of Arizona astronomer Tim Spahr, scientist for one of three teams of sky searchers. ``It's not even active, it's just insane.''
Caution, read with care!!!!
Here are a few recent examples:
This afternoon, a half-mile-wide asteroid discovered in January will whiz by Earth at a distance of 3.4 million miles. That rock, called 1999 BJ8, is expected to give Earth its closest call in the next 22 months, according to the ever-changing list of dangerous objects.
On Feb. 4, 30-foot-wide rock came incredibly close to Earth. It was only 632,000 miles away (2 1/2 times the distance from here to the moon), and scientists didn't notice until it had already passed and was moving away.
For a few brief hours Feb.16, it looked as if a two-thirds-of-a-mile-long asteroid discovered in January could come even closer than that -- maybe even hit us in 2066 or 2073. But new photographs showed that the rock with an unusual orbit would be close, but not that close.
The biggest reason that astronomers are finding more of these near-miss asteroids is the redirection of Air Force technology from tracking killer satellites to spotting killer rocks.
Massachusetts Institute of Technology's Lincoln Laboratory, a federally funded national security research center outside Boston, changed the asteroid tracking world last March when it began using Air Force technology to scan the sky with a telescope based in New Mexico. The lab's program, called LINEAR, has found 38 of the last 59 asteroids.
``We have it down to a point where we're in a groove,'' LINEAR chief Grant Stokes said.
But even as new threats are being found much more frequently than before, ``we're way behind,'' said Don Yeomans, manager of NASA's Near Earth Object program.
That's because last year, NASA set a goal of finding most potential asteroid threats within 10 years. Asteroids are considered a threat if they are bigger than half a mile wide and are going to come within five million miles of Earth.
Astronomers guess there are 2,000 such asteroids out there, and so far they have found about 8 percent of them. So even though the number of asteroids being found is soaring, it's not growing fast enough, experts said.
NASA, which spends $3.5 million a year on asteroid tracking, is speeding up the process. A second LINEAR program goes on-line this spring. With a second LINEAR, astronomers should find 90 percent of those killer rocks in about 16 or 17 years.
The last time a big asteroid hit was 65 million years ago. That was the asteroid that landed in the Yucatan and is thought to have wiped out the dinosaurs.
Of course, there are millions of others that could cause major disasters, like a 150-foot-wide one that exploded over Tunguska, Siberia, in 1908 and leveled thousands of square miles of forests.
``If you were going to find every object that's going to threaten the Earth with a Tunguska, you're talking millions, not thousands,'' said researcher Jeff Larsen of the University of Arizona's Spacewatch tracking program.
LANDECK, Austria (AP) - A new avalanche 45-feet deep thundered down the mountainside outside the stricken village of Galtuer Wednesday, burying 10 people in its path, the Austria Press Agency reported. Four of the 10 who were swept away were pulled out of the snowslide - shaken but alive - by rescuers. Six remained missing, Austrian state radio said. Just hours earlier, Austrian soldiers had taken advantage of a break in heavy snowfall to search for victims of an avalanche Tuesday in the Alpine town - relieving villagers who dug with bare hands to reach the missing. Sixteen people were confirmed dead.
Hi Folks,
It's here. Confirmation of the opening of the lost tombs in Egypt, coming March 2nd at 8PM EST on FOX Go To:
http://www.fox.com/egypt/main.htm
Earth Changes TV is putting together a historical panel to follow the "Live" unveiling of the tombs. We hope to have Gregg Braden, Dannion Brinkley, Zecharia Sitchin, John Hogue, Dr. Chet Snow, and Boris Said. We will keep you informed as events unfold.
PASS THE WORD!!!
Mitch Battros
Producer - Earth Changes TV
http://earthchangesTV.com
(NASA) Sky watchers will be treated to a celestial show tonight, the likes of which hasn't been seen in 25 years. Venus and Jupiter, the two brightest planets, will nearly converge in the western sky just after sunset. The planets will appear to be closest at 19:43 Universal Time (UT) when Venus passes approximately one-tenth of a degree from Jupiter.
How does one see the show?
How does one see the show? "You simply can't miss it," says NASA astronomer Dr. Tony Phillips. "Just after sunset go outside and look west-southwest, not far above the horizon. The planets look just like two closely-spaced, very bright stars. Even city-dwellers have a chance to see them. They're so bright that they should be visible despite urban light pollution." The brighter of the two planets is Venus. It is 11 times smaller than Jupiter, but Venus is much closer to the sun and, thus, reflects more sunlight than the distant gas giant.
The event should be spectacular viewed through a telescope, with binoculars, or simply seen with the naked eye. At closest approach both planets will easily fit inside a telescope's low power field of view. Venus will appear to be about one-third the size of Jupiter and will resemble a tiny gibbous Moon. Jupiter's four largest moons, Io, Europa, Ganymede, and Callisto, should also be visible through a telescope or good binoculars. Europa, Callisto and Io will be the three moons to the west of Jupiter's disk, and Ganymede will appear close to the disk on its eastern side.
.c Kyodo News Service
WASHINGTON, Feb. 23 (Kyodo)
China is sharing space technology with North Korea, a move that could boost Pyongyang's long-range missile program, the Washington Times reported Tuesday, quoting White House and Pentagon officials.
The space cooperation was discovered by the National Security Agency late last year and revealed to senior officials of President Bill Clinton's administration recently in an intelligence report, it said.
China and North Korea are working jointly to develop space satellites, the newspaper quoted officials familiar with the reports as saying. The cooperation involves exchanges of scientists and technology, a senior national security official reportedly said. The official said there are worries about the cooperation, but so far U.S. intelligence agencies have not confirmed that the space technology is linked to the development of North Korea's Taepodong missile, which was test-fired for the first time Aug. 31, it reported.
Chinese Embassy spokesman Cui Jianjun called reports of space cooperation with North Korea ''groundless,'' the paper said.
OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) - Oklahoma State University researchers would like nothing more than to put an end to a worldwide disease and give U.S. enemies one less option during a war. A research group in the College of Veterinary Medicine is developing a vaccine for brucellosis, one of the most serious diseases of livestock and a potential agent in biological weapons. In livestock, the brucellosis bacteria causes cows to abort, makes calves sick, decreases milk production and interrupts breeding cycles. Through eradication efforts in the United States, only six affected herds of cattle exist in Texas, Missouri and South Dakota, down from 124,000 nationwide in 1956. But the disease still affects tens of thousands of livestock and people worldwide.
MAKHACHKALA, Russia (AP) - An earthquake with a preliminary magnitude of 5.5 on the richter scale struck southern Russia, killing one person and injuring 20 others, officials said Monday. The Sunday night earthquake had its epicenter 40 miles west of Makhachkala, a city on the western coast of the Caspian Sea, the Ministry for Emergency Situations said. Several homes in the Kizilyurt region were badly damaged, and the area was left without gas and electricity. Five of those injured were hospitalized, and one later died, the ministry said. The Caucasus Mountains in southern Russia are the site of frequent earthquakes.
From Holly Deyo 2-20-99
Dear Building Community Family,
"Contrails" have so filled Stan's and my mailboxes, we thought this issue should be addressed again. A few messages ago, Stan first put forth the idea of mass inoculation for the US public who have witnessed the jets flying overhead in repeated crisscross-cross patterns expelling "something". For those of us outside the US, please read on, as this same activity will probably be coming to a country near and dear to you - yours.
Let's backtrack a bit. Two years ago, there was the outcry from Larry Harris on threats of anthrax. Many people fluffed it off. Also, two years ago, Stan spoke with Mr. Harris so we had a pretty good understanding of his case, but at the time, we spoke little of it. Anthrax threats became a hot topic for a while on the Internet and the radio talk shows, then the dust settled.
Shortly after Harris' initial newsbreak, there were numerous reports of Iraqi women found in the mid-West U.S. with vials of the anthrax virus hidden in their vaginal tracts. Next came quiet reports of intermittent contrail activity, still two years ago. Now, over the past month, the contrail spraying is in full force over the US and other countries like Canada, Australia, the United Kingdom will probably see this as well.
OK, what is being sprayed? Flat out, we don't know, but let's look at this logically. Communities are being sprayed and people are becoming quite ill. One friend from this group wrote saying she's rarely sick, but now she's got this flu which she describes as being hit with "four different illnesses one right after the other." First it hit her respiratory system and she literally couldn't breathe, then she was delirious, then dizziness and vomiting, with aches, pains and swollen glands. Not exactly a picnic is it...
Many folks have expressed the opinion that it is something our government is doing to us and not for any good purpose. The question we must ask is WHY would our governments intentionally kill off great masses of its population and its livestock? This makes no sense. Now before you stop reading right here and feel compelled to send us an email, read the rest of the commentary.
This is OUR OPINION, not gospel, OK? The contrails and other things are depositing organics across America. BUT, these things are being done to protect Americans from an almost unavoidable biowarfare attack which will come from the Middle East.
To inoculate the entire population officially, and out in the open, would not be a good idea for several reasons:
1) There isn't enough time to inject every living thing including livestock (which can and do carry anthrax).
2) There isn't enough time to manufacture enough antibiotic DNA material to save everyone so some folks must be sacrificed.
3) The public would panic if they knew the risks. Thus they would start to break into anarchy and the American business and industrial complexes would tumble before the biowarfare even started.
4) Panic-buying of food, water purification, weapons and survival gear would overload the manufacturing capability of America and would create social unrest that would lead to the anarchy.
5) Society breakdown would precipitate fighting as soon as the anarchy stage started to become evident. More than likely you would see tribal groups rebuild along religious, racial and economic lines.
There are more reasons, but these are the main ones. The only way to effectively TRY to beat a biowarfare attack on America, or any country, would be to inoculate through the water or air or food chain or all of the preceding. To reach the animals, it would have to be by air. This would put the antibiotic DNA strands into the food chain from the lowest levels.
In anticipation of the public outcry over the planes flying overhead with heavy white contrails, I would invent a cover story which accused my government of using a sub-standard JP4 fuel or something like that. This would give the people an enemy they could deal with: Big Brother. They could demand the flights convert to a safer fuel to avoid making folks sick. This would allow the people to be immunized without knowing it and it would allow them to complain and apparently win the argument... then return home to TV and normal life....
Yes, some folks will suffer negative reactions to the immunization processes. This is unavoidable. In war you will have casualties; this is a constant. The flu-like symptoms are a by-product of the mass airborne immunization program. America cannot afford to kill off its own people; it needs her people to stay intact! Just because America has an untrustworthy president doesn't mean the entire civil service and military are all going to follow him blindly.
Please don't let this become a divisive issue among everyone. We truly must remain united each within our own country. This contrail issue will probably be a matter we ALL have to deal with.
The last time we addressed this scenario, one person suggested we were "wimping out" on our normally hard stance on issues. When have you ever known us to not call a spade a spade? Even though many of us have reacted poorly to the spraying and the CHOICE TO PARTICIPATE was never an option, it may be the action that saves our lives. Since we don't know the spraying agent used nor the reason for it, we emphasize the aforementioned message is opinion-based, but it's the only one that makes sense to us.
By Dale Hurd Reporter - CBN
CBN News has uncovered more satellite evidence that North Korea is working to perfect a rocket capable of hitting the United States mainland-something that has been confirmed by Japan's defense agency this week.
Despite a continuing famine, this week North Korea pledged to build up its military even further. Now, a report by the Congressional Research Service explains where the North Koreans are getting some of the money for their military. Starvation has killed as much as ten percent of North Korea's population in the past three years, yet North Korea continues to advance its nuclear missile program, and threatens to annihilate the United States.
How does the North Korean regime manage not only to survive, but add to its military power? The answer is crime. North Korea is raising huge sums of cash by selling home grown opium and methamphetamines around the world, and by passing millions in counterfeit U-S currency-even as it scares the west into giving it food and cash. "The North Koreans know how to play brinkmanship. It's always to get concessions. They know how to play Washington, D.C., the Clinton Administration, and they continuously get concessions," says Dr. William Taylor, one of America's foremost experts on North Korea.
It's estimated that North Korea brings in about 100-million dollars a year by drug dealing, smuggling and other criminal enterprises. South Korea says the North prints 15-million dollars in counterfeit U-S currency each year. And criminal proceeds undoubtedly helped fund the Taepo-Dong I intermediate range missile, under development. Work also continues on a longer range missile, the Taepo-Dong II, which someday could hit targets in the western U-S. Satellite imagery shows a very large wind tunnel complex, almost the size of a football field, for testing a very large rocket. It also shows a launch pad with a road leading underground where missiles are stored.
Last year CBN News reported on an underground nuclear complex near Yongbyon where North Korea is hiding a revived nuclear weapons program. It's 25 miles from the nuclear production facility in Yongbyon. Under a 1994 agreement, this plutonium production site was supposed to be shut down. But photos from 1997 show the same type of pollution in the river as it did before the treaty. An expert has concluded the plant was still in operation.
While North Koreans starve, and the U-S gives tens of millions of dollars in food aid, it's reported that Pyongyang has been using farms to grow poppies for opium, rather than food crops. "It's a country that is starving. It can exist, the regime can exist, only on the largesse of the United States, Japan, South Korea, none of whom want a war on the Korean Peninsula," says Taylor.
So aid continues to the North, and Dr. Taylor warns that it has become the number one threat to our national security. "The North Koreans are known to have - this is clear - chemical and biological warheads. The CIA says they have already extracted enough fissionable nuclear material to build one or two nuclear devices. They are away by about three years, from being able to hit anywhere among the U-S 50 states. And we have no missile defense.
The North Koreans understand all this, and they're playing it for what it's worth." Taylor says, too, if the world would only cut off the aid, the North Korean government would fall. But that's unlikely, because of North Korea's campaign of intimidation, and the world's fear.
By DANIEL ZADUNAISKY
Associated Press Writer
BUENOS AIRES, Argentina (AP) _ For Maria Urquiza, electricity means more than light and water. Without it she cannot move around in her wheelchair or teach her students. The 44-year-old painter and art teacher is among the 300,000 people who have gone five days without electricity in Argentina's capital, now enduring a scorching southern hemisphere summer. With temperatures soaring daily into the 90s, many are already burned out by the lingering blackout that has plunged several neighborhoods into darkness in central and southern Buenos Aires. ``I've had to limit my movements because I can't recharge my wheelchair's batteries,'' Urquiza told AP Television. ``Without light I can't paint or teach my students, which means I have no income.'' The power outage in parts of the capital has led hundreds of residents to protest nightly, banging pots and pans while some lit automobile tires on fire. A fish shop owner said she lost three truckloads of fish, worth about $30,000. Restaurants complained of food spoiling after refrigerators went down. Elderly people remained isolated in high-rise apartments, relying on younger neighbors to bring up food and supplies from the street. Army soldiers helped dole out fresh water after pumps failed. The trouble began on Sunday: a mysterious fire knocked out a power station run by the private utility company Edesur. Edesur first announced that service would be restored Wednesday, then Thursday, then Friday. On Friday, an Edesur company spokesman said power would be restored by Sunday. Also Friday, the company issued its one statement to residents, saying they would be kept posted of developments. Cristina Luquez runs a homeless shelter for 300 people near downtown Buenos Aires, funded with the proceeds from a delicatessen. ``I had to close the shop because all the food spoiled,'' she said, taking a break from banging a pot with dozens of other protesters on a street corner. ``And I had to send the people back to the street because the fire department says candles are dangerous in the shelter,'' she added. Luquez said she felt ``ashamed'' to be banging a pan in the street. ``But we are telling the company and government officials that we are not satisfied.'' Edesur, which provides electricity in south and some of central Buenos Aires, is controlled by a consortium composed of Enersis SA and Chilectra Metropolitana SA, both of Chile; U.S.-based Energy Corp.; and Perez Companc SA of Argentina. Fedecamaras, a small retailers organization, said its members lost $750 million in damages and lost revenue by the blackout. The organization's president, Ruben Manusovich, told a news conference he would seek compensation. But utilities analyst Carlos de Leon of Deutsche Morgan Grenfell said Edesur would suffer little in the way of financial harm. ``Apart from it being a total disgrace that just seven years after privatization Edesur could leave people without energy for this length of time, the company is going to lose no more than small change,'' he said.
(Associated Press) Temperatures plunged across the Northeast and Great Lakes early today, while gales and heavy rain approached the Pacific Northwest and thick snow developed over the Plains.
RAIN AND snow clouds rumbled over the eastern third of the nation. Light snow was falling in Massachusetts and Rhode Island while flurries were possible in northwestern Pennsylvania and northeastern Ohio. The rest of the East were forecast to have mostly clear skies but cold temperatures as high pressure builds. Clouds were predicted to work into the lower Ohio Valley by evening. A storm system was moving through the Plains, bringing significant snowfall from North Dakota and eastern Minnesota south into Nebraska and western Missouri. The heaviest snow was expected from southeastern South Dakota through western Iowa and eastern Nebraska and into northeastern Kansas. As much as 8 inches of snow could be seen by evening. Winds also could be quite strong throughout the central and northern Plains with gusts up to 30 mph, creating very low visibilities and dangerous drifts. The Rocky Mountains were forecast to be snowy, too. Snow was expected from Montana and Idaho through Colorado and heavier amounts were forecast in the higher elevations of eastern Idaho, western Wyoming, and northern Colorado. A high pressure system was forecast to keep much of California, Nevada, Arizona and New Mexico dry. Rain was expected from Washington to Northern California. The high temperature Sunday in the Lower 48 was 82 degrees in Tucson, Ariz., while the low was minus-17 recorded at Ely, Minn., and Silver Bay, Minn. Highs today were forecast to reach the teens in northern New England and the northern Great Lakes; the 20s and 30s across the Plains, the mid-Atlantic states and the southern Great Lakes; the 40s in the Tennessee and Mississippi valleys; the 50s and 60s in the West, Southeast and Gulf Coast states; and the 70s in the Southwest, and parts of Florida and Texas.
We announce on our web site in the next few days Robert A. M. Stephens' much awaited data on the Silver Veil. Last fall Robert appeared on a number of talk shows culminating with an abortive interview on the Art Bell show. Stephens, a NASA contractor of many years' experience, brought to light a number of new concepts to a community which purports to seek the truth about contact with extraterrestrials.
What we are bringing out in the next few days is exactly what Robert said all along. We are presenting the first, if only, look at the Silver Veil anywhere on the web. He talked about it. Now we are ready to present it. The real details we are providing, although of course sketchy due to the classified nature of most of the projects involved, promise extrordinary insight. Before Robert no one in the UFO community was discussing Silver Veil. Now it and a number of other projects such as X-60 and SoL (Speed of Light Technologies) are surfacing.
The NORAD Silver Veil, we quote from Robert's documentation: "...is the main Management and Primary Vehicle on orbit in the Fence program. It oversees all Intruder Assessment, Diagnostic for Targeting, reporting primary to ground control,and is the primary sourcing for reconnaisance in space. It functions as a coordinator with the 8 other cousins in the Fence Parameter Battle Earth Space Protocol Regimes (FPBESPR). Stage 4 will consits of the next level of technological packaging with more advanced reconnaisance capability. "
Robert A. M. Stephens, after witnessing his curious debacle/abortive interview on the Art Bell show and preemptive discussion on others, demonstrates here on his web site that what he has said is true. After numerous calls, national and international, regarding Stephens' validity, his apparently cynical approach to the facetious, if arrogant talk show community is here vindicated. When an insider lets out a little information it is much more than all the speculation that the channellers and what he labels as the "Strange" community can muster.
On the web site then in the next couple of days is the first release, if sketchy, of the Silver Veil. We hope that it is the first of much more, although, given the cynical response of "Who Cares" by some, we wonder if the talk show community would be better off continuing to huckster its empty , simplistic wares. We close then with this quote again from Robert encouraging you to stay tuned to :
The question then is, and Robert Stephens ask this with the most conviction, "what are we looking for in space?" This comes from someone who is directly involved in failure assessment, documentation, and modifcication work involving this very subject. Good question then we must all ponder. We close again with Robert A. M. Stephens' own words:
It lends also the gravity of Stephens military like assessment of this culture that unless we clean ourselves up, no one is going to be told anything. If the very people who work on this technlogy like Stephens are in question of it all, then it stands that we must raise the level of query to the same standard as we see in the technical acumen revealed in these very documents.
I guess we are forewarned."
By Teresa Aguayo
Associated Press MIAMI (AP)
Commissioners of Miami-Dade County have decided to go to court to take over a riverfront site where a developer wants to remove 500- to 700-year-old Indian ruins to make way for apartments. The commissioners voted 10-1 on Thursday to ask a judge to allow them to seize the 2.2-acre site from developer Michael Baumann through eminent domain. ``I'd rather be on the side of preserving history than on the side of destroying history,'' Mayor Alex Penelas said. ``I think the history books will demonstrate that this is a government with a lot of courage.''
City leaders would like the 38-foot-wide stone circle left as is instead of being moved or forced to share the site with waterfront apartments. Archaeologists say the ruins could be part of a ceremonial temple built by the Tequesta, a tribe of about 10,000 Indians who lived in the area before war and disease wiped them out in the1500s.
To qualify for an eminent domain ruling, the county would have to prove the site serves a public interest. If the county successfully makes its case, a judge would authorize seizure. The price would be determined by a jury. Penelas said the commission would meet again next week to examine how to fund a takeover. Baumann bought the land for $8 million last year, but he considers it worth $50 million because he has the permits to build his planned twin apartment towers. Baumann has said he will only consider a ``quick taking'' by the county that would give him compensation as if the complex were completed.
by William Thomas
SEATTLE, Washington, (ENS) - Contrails spread by fleets of jet aircraft in
elaborate
cross-hatched patterns are sparking speculation and making people sick across
the
United
States.
Washington
state resident William Wallace became ill with severe diarrhea and fatigue after
watching
several multi-engine jets spend New Year's day laying cloud lines in an east
to west
grid
pattern. A neighbor working outside came down with similar symptoms. But their
wives,
who
remained indoors, suffered no ill effects from the inexplicable maneuvers which
observers
liken
to high-altitude "crop-dusting" by unidentifed multi-engine aircraft.
Condensation
trails, called contrails, are generated at altitudes high enough for water droplets
to
freeze in a matter of seconds and not quickly evaporate - typically where the
temperatures
are
below -38 degrees Celcius.
Contrails
can form through the addition of water vapor to the air from the jet engine
exhaust.
Even
tiny nuclei released in the exhaust fumes may be sufficient to generate ice
crystals, and
hence,
condensation trails.
Wallace
wonders if ethylene dibromide, a highly toxic component of JP-8 jet fuel, is
making
people
sick. Similar incidents over Las Vegas last year prompted a US Air Force spokesman
to
explain that the military aircraft were "dumping fuel" before landing.
But
the strange spray patterns are being reported repeatedly over towns in Tennessee,
Connecticut,
New Hampshire, New York, Nevada, Idaho, Mississippi, Montana, Michigan,
Texas,
Oklahoma, Washington state and California.
Wallace
has been watching formations of high-flying jets weave grid-like contrails above
his
home
since last summer. Each time, "We get a taste in our mouth," he reports.
He and his wife
Ann
get "kind of tired and sick," having "no energy to do anything."
After
plants began dying around his mountain cabin, "I got real sick for about
three weeks,"
Wallace
relates. "My eyes watered. Fluid came out of my nose. I could hardly move
my arm
up
above my head to comb my hair for about a week."
Wallace
and his wife are not alone in their plight. In March, 1996, Dr. Greg Hanford
bought
an
expensive camera and binoculars to keep an eye on jets spraying white bands
above his
Bakersfield,
California home. Hanford has counted 40 or 60 jets on some "spray days."
"Everybody
seems to be getting sick from it," Hanford told ENS. "Hackin' and
coughin' when
you
really get nailed with this stuff." The dentist, many of his patients and
two receptionists
have
repeatedly contracted severe respiratory infections. Hanford's illness lingered
for five
months
despite courses of four different antibiotics.
"It's
really weird," Hanford says. "You think two jets are going to hit
each other - and then they
make
an X." The dentist says he has sometimes seen "furry globular balls"
spread downwind in
a long
feather from the high-flying aircraft.
Unlike
normal contrails, which dissipate soon after a lone jet's passage, video taken
by
Wallace
and Hanford show eerily silent silver jets streaming fat contrails from their
wingtips in
multiple,
criss-cross patterns. But instead of dissipating like normal contrails, these
white
jet-trails
coalesce into broad cloud-bands that gradually occlude crystal clear skies.
"Passenger jets don't make contrails that stay and become clouds," Wallace observes.
Government
officials deny that anything unusual is taking place. When Hanford called the
local
airport,
tower personnel told him there was nothing going on." The jets were "just
commercial"
undergoing
"international flight training."
But
a skeptical Hanford responded, "Is the FAA going to allow two jets to come
at each
other?"
Pseudo-color,
multispectral images taken April 20, 1994 by a NOAA satellite, reveal a
number
of contrails over Oklahoma and Kansas. X'es, overlapping W's and the Roman
numeral
XII are among the patterns flown by the mystery aircraft. Last June, Hanford
watched
four
aircraft spraying in circles to form a perfect bulls-eye. Through his Swaroski
binoculars,
Hanford
could see what "looked like a 737" painted all-white on top with an
"orangish-red"
underbody
and red engine cowlings. Another 727-like aircraft was painted "all-white
with a
black
stripe up the middle of fuselage." None of the planes carried identifying
markings.
Pat
Edgar has been watching the jets spraying over eastern Oklahoma since a sunny
day in
October,
1997 when as many as 30 contrails gradually occluded the sky. "They look
like
they're
playing tic-tac-toe up there," he says. "You know darn well it's not
passenger planes."
Edgar
says he has watched "cobwebbing stuff coming down" from the zigzagging
jets flying "all
day
long, line after line, back-and-forth, like furrows in a farm field."
Edgar
adds that "There is a lot of Lupus in the area now. A lot of women have
come down
with
it."
Edgar's
father-in-law, a former judge, and three or four other close friends were hit
hard in
their
immune systems. Symptoms include swollen hands and legs, night fever and shortness
of
breath.
Retired
Oklahoma state judge Bill Ed Rogers now runs out of breath after walking 20
feet to
the
bathroom. Climbing stairs, he says, "is directly out of the question."
Rogers,
does not attribute his strange malady to the mystery jets. But neither he nor
his
doctors
can explain his breathing difficulty, which began shortly after spraying began
in
November,
1997, and is getting worse. The 57 year old former judge says he thought he
was
experiencing
congenital heart failure when he was admitted into the Mayo clinic last January.
But
after being diagnosed with severe inflamation in his right lung, a team of top
surgeons were
unable
to pump an unidentified "jello-like" fluid from his lung.
Edgar,
Wallace, Hanford and other eye-witnesses are uneasy over the ongoing aerial
"experiments
and the secrecy surrounding them. "They're gettin' ready, practicing,"
Edgar
believes,
for some kind of mass population cull.
Before
Edgar sold his restaurant, customers came in complaining of airplanes "flyin'
around all
night"
over a remote area of Oklahoma. In the morning, they could see "stuff comin'
out of their
wings."
Edgar says he knows four-dozen witnesses who have "come down violently
ill,
coughin'
up blood for two weeks - or [with] real bad nosebleeds." As far as he's
concerned,
"it
had to be something in that doggone plane that was spillin' out in the middle
of the night."
Edgar
joins witnesses across the U.S. who worry that whoever is behind the mystery
spraying
just
has to "come up with something a little stronger later on. It's just a
guess," he says. "But it
sure
seems weird. They have a mission. They go back and forth all day. Hey man I'm
talkin'
hundreds
of contrails in a day! It's unbelievable."
U.S.
Air Force aerial tankers may be causing and seeding clouds to modify the weather.
The
condensation
trails and chemicals spread by these aircraft could be what is making some
people
sick in Tennessee, Connecticut, New Hampshire, New York, Nevada, Idaho,
Mississippi,
Montana, Oklahoma, Washington state and California.
Tommy
Farmer, a former engineering technician with Raytheon Missile Systems, has been
tracking
patterns of jet contrails phenomena for more than a year. Farmer has "positively
identified"
two of the aircraft most often involved in the aerial spraying incidents as
a Boeing
KC-135
and Boeing KC-10. Both big jets are used by the US Air Force for air to air
refueling.
A Boeing T-43 used for navigation training and mapping may also be involved.
Confirming
reports from eye-witnesses across the United States, Farmer reports that all
aircraft
are painted either solid white or solid black with the exception of two KC-135s
which
were
in training colors - orange and white. No identifying markings are visible.
Farmer
has collected samples of what he calls "angel hair" sprayed by the
mystery aircraft on
six
occasions since February, 1998. Four samples have been taken since November,
1998.
Farmer
says that globular filaments resembling ordinary spider webs, "usually
fall in clumps or
wads
ranging from pencil eraser size to the size of a balled up fist."
Winds
often whip the cobweb-like material into filaments as long as 50 feet (15.3
metres).
Farmer
told ENS that the sticky substance "melts in your hands" and "adheres
to whatever it
touches."
Farmer
urges caution to collectors after becoming ill after his first contact with
the "angel hair."
Like
Bakersfield, California dentist Dr. Greg Hanford and other ground observers
exposed to
the
spraying, Farmer's ensuing sore throat and sinus infection lasted several months.
After
repeatedly observing aircraft spraying particulates "in front of and into
cloud systems,"
Farmer
is "fairly certain the contrail phenomena is one part of a military weather
modification
weapons
system."
He
notes that because the chemical contrails allow much more moisture to form inside
cloud
systems,
severe localized storms result from the aerial seeding while surrounding areas
that
have
surrendered their moisture to the storm cells experience drought.
The
huge Xs being traced by formations of tanker jets in the sky can be tracked
by satellite
and
coordinated with the crossed-beams of ionospheric heaters to heat the upper
atmosphere
- changing
its temperature and density and enhancing the storm's effects.
Based
in Gakon, Alaska, this unclassified joint U.S. Air Force and Navy project known
as the
High
Altitude Auroral Research Project (HAARP) has for the past several years been
using
phased
array antennas to steer powerful beams of tightly-focused radio waves "to
stimulate,"
heat
and steer sections of the upper atmosphere.
Awarded
in 1985 to MIT physicist Bernard Eastlund, HAARP's commercial patent claims
that
directed
energy beams of more than one-billion watts can be used for "altering the
upper
atmosphere
wind patterns using plumes of atmospheric particles as a lens or focusing device"
to
disturb weather thousands of miles away.
In
an interview with this reporter, Eastlund admitted, "I had looked at using
this intense beam,
which
can be angled, to do some experiments in terms of guiding the jetstream, moving
it from
one
spot to another. I presume it is possible, which might lend credence to these
other things."
In
a U.S. Air Force research study, "Weather as a Force Multiplier" issued
in August, 1996,
seven
U.S. military officers outlined how HAARP and aerial cloud-seeding from tankers
could
allow
U.S. aerospace forces to "own the weather" by the year 2025. Among
the desired
objectives
were "Storm Enhancement," "Storm Modification" and "Induce
Drought."
According
to the Air Force report, "In the United States, weather-modification will
likely
become
a part of national security policy with both domestic and international applications."
Within
30 years, the Air Force foresees using Weather Force Support Elements with "the
necessary
sensor and communication capabilities to observe, detect, and act on
weather-modification
requirements to support U.S. military objectives" by using "using
airborne
cloud generation and seeding" techniques being developed today, the 1996
Air Force
report
says.
But
on its HAARP website, the U.S. Navy says, "The HAARP facility will not
affect the
weather.
Transmitted energy in the frequency ranges that will be used by HAARP is subject
to
negligible
absorption in either the troposphere or the stratosphere - the two levels of
the
atmosphere
that produce the earth's weather. Electromagnetic interactions only occur in
the
near-vacuum
of the rarefied region above about 70 km known as the ionosphere."
Still,
according to the Air Force's 1996 report, other routine weather-modification
missions
will
deploy "cirrus shields" formed by the chemical contrails of high-flying
aircraft "to deny
enemy
visual and infrared surveillance."
When
it is completed, the HAARP antenna array will consist of 180 antennas on a total
land
area
of about 33 acres. The final facility will have a total transmitter power of
about 3,600
kilowatts.
When
the HAARP facility is completed, the transmitter will be able to produce approximately
3.6
million watts of radio frequency power, the HAARP website states. The Air Force
says
HAARP
transmitters have been designed to operate "very linearly so that they
will not produce
radio
interference to other users of the radio spectrum."
Farmer
guesses that besides its obvious tactical military applications, aerial-seeding
of
contrail-clouds
aligned in HAARP's characteristic grid-patterns could be part of a secret U.S.
government
initiative to address the global weather crisis brought about by atmospheric
warming.
The
aircraft spraying that has sickened Americans across the country may not be
confined to
the
United States. On August 11, 1998, "USA Today" reported dozens of
residents of
Quirindi,
Australia "swearing they saw cobwebs fall from the sky" after unidentified
aircraft
passed
overhead.
by
William Thomas
SEATTLE, WA.... As formations of unmarked tanker aircraft continue to criss-cross
American skies on a mission authorities refuse to disclose, an environmental
laboratory has identified an extremely toxic component of the spray drifting
over cities and countryside.
ENS has learned that samples of oily fallout collected by farmers, truck drivers and pilots in Maryland and Pennsylvania were tested by Aqua-Tech Environmental of Marion, Ohio in September, 1997 and found to contain ethylene dibromide (EDB). An extremely hazardous pesticide, EDB was banned by the US Environmental Protection Agency in 1983.
But in 1991, the composition of jet fuel used by commercial and military jet aircraft in the U.S. was changed from JP4 to somewhat less flammable JP8. A Department of Defence source says the move "has saved some lives" in air crashes. Ethylene ibromide is a key component of JP8.
The 1991 Chemical Hazards of the Workplace warns that repeated exposure to low levels of ethylene dibromide results in "general weakness, vomiting, diarrhea, chest pains, coughing and shortness of breath, upper respiratory tract irritation" and respiratory failure caused by swelling of the lymph glands in the lungs. "Deterioration of the heart, liver and kidneys, and hemorrhages in the respiratory tract," can also result from prolonged contact with JP8.
According to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's hazardous materials list: "Ethylene dibromide is a carcinogen and must be handled with extreme caution." A seven-page summary of this pesticide's extreme toxicity notes that EDB may also damage the reproductive system. According to the EPA, "Exposure can irritate the lungs, repeated exposure may cause bronchitis, development of cough, and shortness of breath. It will damage the liver and kidneys".
Mark Witten, a respiratory physiologist at the University of Arizona in Tucson where an official US Air Force study on JP8 was carried out, told Scientist in March, 1998 that crew chiefs "seem to have more colds, more bronchitis, more chronic coughs than the people not exposed to jet fuel."
EDB is 6.5-times heavier than air. Unlike normal contrails, the thick white streamers being sprayed from downward-pointing tailbooms over at least 39 states does not dissipate, but spreads into an overcast that refracts a purple color in sunlight and appears suddenly as an oily film in puddles and ponds.
Hundreds of photographs and videotapes made by ground observers show pairs or larger formations of aircraft spreading a white mist that thickens and drifts toward the ground. More than 200 eye-witnesses - including police officers, pilots, military and public health personnel - have provided detailed accounts of aerial spraying in characteristic "X"s and east-to-west grid patterns, followed by occluded skies - and acute auto-immune reactions and respiratory infections throughout affected regions.
"I keeps coughing phlegm that tastes bad," 50 year old Mary Young of Sallisaw, Oklahoma told ENS after an aircraft sprayed her home at rooftop level one night last January with something that struck the windows like sand. "My eyes hurt, my joints hurt. I'm not catchin' my breath right. I can't get rid of this cold. I've had this bad headache - it's not just a headache. My eyeballs hurt so bad - way in the back - I just wish they would fall out."
Severe headaches, nosebleeds, shortness of breath, joint pain and a dry hacking cough "that never leaves" are being reported by countless Americans jamming hospital Emergency Rooms from coast to coast. While December and January are traditionally bad months for asthma sufferers, patients, doctors and nurses across the U.S. report hospital wards filled to overflowing with bronchitis, pneumonia and acute asthma admissions at up to twice normal winter rates.
Early last month, The News and Observer of Raleigh, North Carolina reported that respiratory admissions to Durham regional hospital jumped from the usual 184 patients a day to 247. Ambulance drivers were told that the hospital was not receiving any more patients.
In New York City, doctors are calling a flood of respiratory cases an epidemic. "We have people double- and triple-parked in the ER on stretchers," Dr. Elliot Friedman, associate director of emergency medicine at Jamaica Hospital Medical Center in Queens, told the New York Times on January 31. "And there have been times when upwards of 40 people have been admitted but are waiting for someone to be discharged," Friedman added.
"This high fever is not typical of other flus," Dr. Sigurd Ackerman, the president of St. Luke's-Roosevelt Hospital Center told the 'Times shortly after a TV cameraman panned up to frame lingering "X"-shaped contrails over Times-Square. Dr. Robert Saken, a partner in the Soho Pediatrics Group, told that newspaper, "It was surprising to me how sick they got and how quickly it happened." Dr. Ilya Spigland, Montefiore hospital's director of virology, doesn't know the reason for the sudden epidemic of respiratory cases. It is, Spigland told the New York Times, "very possible that the increase in respiratory infections may not be due to the flu."
That same day in Lake Havasu, California, headlines in Today's News Herald announced: "Victims curse unnamed bug, but can't call it the 'flu'." MD Mary Lou Callername told the Herald "that a nameless virus is bringing at least 10 patients a day into her office and driving some into the hospital, but laboratory tests show only a few are suffering from Type A or other identifiable strains of influenza."
The previous weekend, after San Francisco resident Curtis Schumann noticed "sky grids in the making," and Melanie Zucker watched nine contrails being woven over Berkeley, local TV stations reported Bay area emergency rooms inundated with flu-like cases.
In Seattle - where a resident reports "I've lived here for 26 years never seeing this number of contrails at once" - pneumonia patient Lowell Barger told ENS that in the hospital where he was admitted in late January, "their respiratory ward was overflowing with people, and they were having to put respiratory patients in other wards." At that time, a resident of Spokane listening to a police radio scanner told ENS he heard "many rescue calls for people with breathing difficulties." In Palmyra, New Jersey, shortly after Lucrecia Moon watched unusual lingering contrails from a McDonald's restaurant, a nurse reported "many people ill." In Las Vegas, Nevada, TV news coverage told of area hospitals being filled with people experiencing breathing problems.
After a resident of Lexington, Kentucky watched helicopters circling the city for several days, flying low overhead at 3 a.m., "the sky looked like a giant checkerboard from the planes criss-crossing it, and the air still had the steel mill smell." According to this eye-witness, "Everyone here is sick. So far six counties have closed all the schools because all the students were sick with 'flu-like symptoms'. I've been having headaches, a sore throat, and an annoying, hacking cough for the past four months and it seems to get worse after I see these aircraft circling the area."
Similar "chem trails" sightings continue to be reported over Phoenix, Arizona. The January 28, 1999 edition of Arizona Republic reported that "The incidence of bronchial problems in Phoenix this month is 237 hospitalizations vs. last year at 160 or so."
At the same time, hospitals in Portland, Oregon; Marietta, Georgia; Chandler, Arizona, Bakersfield, Santa Cruz, Redding and Salinas, California - and other cities across the nation - were jammed with bronchitis, pneumonia and other acute respiratory cases after repeated spraying and cobweb-like fallout was reported in those regions.
"We're getting sprayed real heavily with the contrails," a south Pennsylvania resident told ENS. "It's just total saturation." As overfilled Pennsylvania hospitals were forced to divert respiratory emergencies to other facilities with bed space, another south-central Pennsylvania resident, Deborah Kammerer, looked out her window and watched aircraft "flying and dispersing over the city. It was supposed to be a clear sunny day. It became more overcast as the day progressed. I observed how the white trails widened out and settled down creating a haze over everything."
South Florida resident Karen Okenica told ENS she has watched on several occasions as contrails "criss-crossed or ran parallel to each other. They did not dissipate but got thicker and stayed in the sky for quite a while." Okenica says she became frightened after gazing through Nikon binoculars and noticing an all-white jet with "plumes" coming from the rear of the plane. In early December, local newspaper reported that Bethesda Memorial and Delray Community hospitals were full and could not accommodate any more patients.
The January 7 Philadelphia Daily News reported that "Emergency Room patients overflowed into the hallways at West Jersey Hospital in Berlin, New Jersey, and ambulance crews were temporarily diverted to other institutions as a wave of respiratory illnesses swept the area." At Northern Westchester County Hospital, "there was a 24 hour waiting period to get in."
In Manitou, Michigan, Registered Nurse Kim Korte was driving north on M52, when she noticed "stripes" in the sky. "It appeared as if someone took white paint on their fingers and from north to south ran their fingers through the sky. These contrails were evenly spaced and covered the whole sky!" from east to west.
Within 24 hours, Korte became very weak and feverish. After her boyfriend told her that "many in his family started coming down with the same complaints," the RN "started noticing alot of my patients and their family members were coming down with these symptoms at the same time." On checking with her colleagues, the former hospital supervisor learned that other nurses and physicians were complaining "of being extremely busy with respiratory diagnoses."
In Austin, Texas - where Richard Young reports that "The skies here are filled almost daily with trails crossing each other" - a school nurse told a worried parent that she had seen over 100 sick children in a single day.
Where is the mass media's reporting of this mass phenomenon? Indications of a concerted cover-up came on February 11, when a retired Southern Baptist preacher named Everett Burton finally succeeded in reaching C-span. After voicing his opinion on the Clinton impeachment trial, this former minister told Americans to get a copy of the Constitution and read it to realize what they have lost. Rev. Burton then advised viewers not to take his word for what was happening in the US - but to "just look up in the skies as the planes regularly spray contrails across the skies, spraying people and making them ill." At this point, Rev. Burton was cut off. The screen flipped from C-span to the Tennessee state seal, remained silent for several minutes.
Americans are not alone in their anxious bewilderment and suffering. In England, after lingering contrails and cobweb-like fallout were reported over London and Birmingham, the BBC reported on January 14 that more than 8,000 people - mostly elderly - died from pneumonia and other respiratory complications in the last week of December and the first two weeks of January, 1999.
According to the BBC, in early January of this year, more than 97,100 people in England and Wales were stricken with respiratory ailments in a single week - almost double the usual rate. Ambulances in the Greater Manchester and Mersey region were each dealing with more than 1,000 calls every day - almost twice the norm. Norfolk and Norwich suffered such an unexpected increase in deaths, a refrigerated semi-trailer capable of holding 36 bodies was pressed into service as a temporary morgue.
by Declan McCullagh
(Wired News)
White House officials fear federal agencies that advise employees to begin personal Y2K preparations could unduly alarm the public. The problem of what to tell workers has quickly become a thorny one for government officials who are trying to balance candor with discretion.
The Central Intelligence Agency last May told employees to prepare for Y2K by paying bills early and stockpiling cash, and some private firms have offered similar advice. At a closed-door meeting of the White House's Y2K council in January, council members debated what agencies should tell their workers. John Koskinen, the council's chairman, warned the audience of about 30 officials that they should expect any advice offered internally will fall into the hands of the media. A representative from the State Department cautioned against "double standards," saying the agency as a rule doesn't withhold information given to employees from the public. One member of the council, who spoke with Wired News on condition of anonymity, said it's too early to determine how significant -- or insignificant -- Y2K problems will be.
Fear of public overreaction to the Year 2000 problem is commanding an increasing amount of attention from government and corporate officials, some of whom now say any computer glitches will amount to only minor disruptions. Koskinen has entered into discussions with a public relations firm to devise a media strategy designed to thwart overreactions to Y2K, including the possibility of bank runs and stockpiling-sparked shortages. Making life more difficult for executives and bureaucrats is their desire to be frank with employees -- though not necessarily the public -- a problem compounded by uncertainty about Y2K's impact and what preparations, if any, are necessary.
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CRYSTAL CITY, Va.
A lone terrorist creates a designer microbe deadly enough to annihilate most of Manhattan. After it’s unleashed into the air, the virus will jump, silently, from person to person, infecting millions of unknowing victims. Air travelers will spread the microbe across the nation — and thousands will die within weeks. It hasn’t happened yet, but it could, public-health experts said here Tuesday — and more importantly, America is woefully unprepared for such an attack.
THE COMPELLING tale is indeed fiction, but presents a potentially very real scenario, said U.S. Health and Human Services Secretary Donna Shalala, who gave the keynote address here Monday at the start of a groundbreaking meeting on bioterrorism. More importantly, novels such as Richard Preston’s “The Cobra Event” raise a logical question that has not been adequately answered: “How do we successfully contain and combat the emerging threat [of bioterrorism]?” Shalala asked the audience of political leaders, physicians, scientists and intelligence experts gathered to talk about what to do should an assault be launched on civilians in the United States. While experts here stressed that the risk of a biological attack is extremely small — you’re much more likely to be hit by a car, for example — they said the United States is woefully unprepared should an attack occur. Bioterrorism presents unique challenges, they added. The effects of chemical warfare are often obvious immediately after an attack, allowing public-health officials time to mobilize and clean up the area within hours or days. But a biological attack might not be evident until weeks after the initial infection. And by then, the silent microbes could have spread to thousands, killing most in their wake. “Release of smallpox into the general population would be one of the most serious threats to mankind,” said Dr. D.A. Henderson, director of the new Johns Hopkins Center for Civilian Biodefense Studies, which sponsored the meeting. “Unfortunately today, that is a very real scenario.”
By Robert Bazell
NBC NEWS
It is a terrifying scenario — a world where antibiotics no longer protect us from common life-threatening infections. But it is a prospect growing ever closer. “We think it is a very important public-health problem both in the United States and throughout the world,” says Dr. William Jarvis.
IN THIS WEEK’S issue of The New England Journal of Medicine, Jarvis and other scientists from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in Atlanta published extensive details of the first cases of Staphylococcus (or “Staph”) bacteria, the most common source of human infection, that are resistant to all antibiotics — even vancomycin, the one powerful drug that always worked when all else failed. “With the emergence of these strains we now have a crack in that wall,” Jarvis says. So far, there are four known cases worldwide of Staph partially resistant to vancomycin — but no one thinks that is the end of it. “We feel that may be only the tip of the iceberg,” Jarvis says. Why do bacteria become resistant? The answer is natural selection — survival of the fittest. In the presence of drugs that should kill them, the bacteria mutate until a few survive that can withstand the attack of the antibiotic.
What can be done? At St. Vincent’s Hospital in New York, Anne Marie O’Brien, a nurse, heads infection control. Her greatest fear: resistant germs. “It adds a heightened consciousness and more vigilance on our part,” O’Brien says. O’Brien and her staff meticulously follow infection-control procedures. If the hospital’s lab detects antibiotic resistance, isolation rooms stand ready to make sure the infection does not spread. And most important, the medical staff follows CDC guidelines to try to keep antibiotic use to a minimum — to give the germs less of a chance to grow resistant. So far such measures are paying off — the CDC found no evidence that the first resistant strains spread. But even with continued vigilance, we face the peril of infections we cannot treat.
A fictional account that could become reality
By Charlene Laino
MSNBC CRYSTAL CITY, Va.
Working out of a truck, a terrorist group unleashes a cloud of anthrax over a football stadium in the town of Northeast. It will be days, and they will be miles away, before public-health officials know what happened.
WHILE A fictional scenario, the tale of Northeast illustrates just how real the threat of bioterrorism is, said Dr. Thomas Ingelsby of the Johns Hopkins Center for Civilian Biodefense Studies in Baltimore. At a meeting here Tuesday, he presented “Anthrax: a possible case history” to the audience:
Nov. 1: Bioterrorists release anthrax over the stadium.
Nov. 3: Northeast experiences a city-wide surge in what appear to be flu-like symptoms, with about 400 residents seeking out medical care. Because influenza has been on the rise over the past two weeks, doctors do not suspect anything out of the ordinary. Patients are sent home with a prescription to get plenty of bed rest and drink plenty of fluids.
Nov. 4: Some young, otherwise healthy patients are sicker than one would expect from a flu, leading physicians to contact local health officials. Laboratory tests prove the patients have been infected with the class of bacteria known as Bacillus, but no one does further testing to determine what type of Bacillus. (Note: Some Bacilli are relatively harmless.) The first deaths are reported, prompting urgent calls to the state and local health officials. They, in turn, contact the federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in Atlanta. By the end of day, 1,200 are ill, 80 of whom have died.
Nov. 5: Health officials begin considering the possibility of a highly virulent microbe, such as the deadly Hong Kong flu. As the number of cases double, isolation of patients is recommended to prevent further spread. During a press conference, the mayor appeals for calm, but looks visibly surprised when asked about the possibility of a bioterrorist attack. Patients begin experiencing even more severe symptoms, including high fever, low blood pressure and septic shock. There is still no diagnosis. Physicians are told to wear protective gear, but it turns out there are only 24 hoods in the entire town of Northeast. The football stadium has now been identified as the center of epidemic, with many of the ill reporting they had attended a game there on Nov. 1. By the end of the day, the CDC has hit upon the diagnosis: anthrax, one of the deadliest microbes known to man. The mayor is outraged when she finds out there had been an anthrax threat on her town the week before, but that the FBI had failed to inform her. She is also told that a limited amount of vaccine exists, but no one knows if any will be made available to her town. As for treatment, antibiotics are recommended, but they need to be given early in the course of infection. Everyone who attended the Nov. 1 football game is urged to take prophylactic antibiotics. However, there are not enough drugs to go around, so several police stations are set up as distribution centers. By the end of day, 2,700 are ill, 300 of whom have died.
Nov. 6: By early morning, no antibiotics are left. Fifty thousand people have reportedly received doses, but no one knows whom. Gyms and shelters are opened for the ill. The media reports that the antibiotics were distributed unfairly, prompting violence. Also, doctors realize that not everyone who has been stricken was at the football game; the weather condition are now judged to have been such that the anthrax spores may have infected everyone within eight miles to the east. More panic. Despite an assurance that anthrax is not contagious, traffic is disrupted as bus drivers from other towns refuse to cross Northeast’s lines. By the end of day, 3,200 are ill, 900 of whom have died.
Nov. 7: A federal shipment of antibiotics arrives. The FBI reports that a truck was the source of the attack, but has no further details. The CDC announces that all bodies must be cremated, promoting outrage by some religious groups. More panic. By the end of day, 4,000 are ill, 1,600 of whom have died.
Nov. 8: Most health-care workers are calling in ill, and public transport is barely operational. Schools are closed. By the end of day, 4,800 are ill, 2,400 of whom have died.
In all, 20,000 people were infected in this scenario, Ingelsby said, with 4,800 becoming ill and 4,000 dying. Some were in other cities and states. The FBI never did find the culprits, but are still looking. The area downwind of the stadium became known as The Dead Zone, abandoned by homeowners and businesses alike.
Although 250,000 people received antibiotics, no one know who or how much, he said. The cost of treating everyone with a course of antibiotics would have been less than $100 per victim; the cost of having enough vaccine, less than $1 per person.
“While this is a truly horribly scenario, it could be real,” Ingelsby said, “and thus presents an enormous challenge.” Relatively modest preparation efforts could have made a difference, he said.
by Paul Anderson
The contrail controversy continues to grow; according to William Thomas, the independent journalist who has brought this issue to national attention (yet still not being reported in the mainstream media it seems) the "contrails" have been reported now in at least 40 US states. Many reports and photographs are now available, many on various web sites. Please note that what is being repeatedly reported, by many people now, are "contrails" left in the sky by military aircraft, ranging from a couple at a time to sometimes a dozen or more crossing the sky in bizarre cross-hatch or "x" type patterns. These "contrails" do not dissipate like normal contrails, they remain for hours at a time, very slowly spreading out into a "haze". In the same areas, and (as can so far be determined) in the same time frame, residents are increasingly reporting cases of sudden, sometimes severe illnesses, ie. upper respiratory problems. While this may sound sound like a B-movie scenario, the number of reports now warrant investigation. Theories range from weather modification to biological warfare testing. Not in America? If the government can conduct (and eventually admitted to) secret nuclear weapons related testing on unknowing groups of its own citizens in previous decades, then perhaps we shouldn't be too surprised at what they may be up to now...
MSNBC
By Charlene Laino
CRYSTAL CITY, Va.- Scenarios in which virulent biological agents are unleashed into the air, infecting and killing thousands, are no longer the stuff of science fiction, attendees agreed as the First National Symposium on Medical and Public Health Response to Bioterrorism drew to a close. And if the United States is going to prepare for the inevitable, some drastic changes are needed: new vaccines, emergency response plans and, first and foremost, education, they said here Wednesday.
“WE MUST move forward with some sense of urgency if we as a nation are going to respond to a bioterrorist event,” said Dr. Margaret Hamburg, assistant secretary for planning and evaluation at the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. “We have a lot of work to do,” Hamburg told the political leaders, physicians, scientists and intelligence experts gathered to talk about what to do should an assault be launched on civilians in the United States. “And that starts with planning and coordination,” she said, summing up two days of sessions in which attendees heard the disastrous outcomes of one doomsday scenario after another. So where do we go from here? According to the experts, priorities include: Education of health-care professionals and the public alike.
“People must understand the reality of the threat,” Hamburg said. “At the same time, we have to ensure that we don’t overreact, as that can fuel hoaxes.” While bioterrorist events carry high potential consequences, she stressed, their probability of happening is extremely low.
Gregory Moran, an emergency medicine and infectious disease physician at the University of California, Los Angeles, agreed. Should a smallpox attack occur today, the first reaction would be to “kick in the hospital door. Anyone who has ever had a zit will think they’re dying.” But with education, people will realize that staying clam is the best possible response, Moran said. The best tactic: “stay inside, listen to the news and listen to public-health recommendations.
Train health-care workers to recognize the symptoms of the biological agents. “Most health-care workers simply don’t even consider a diagnosis of smallpox or anthrax,” Moran said. Since the early symptoms mimic those of the flu, victims are often sent home and told to drink fluids and rest. And even when the characteristic rash of smallpox develops, most physicians think “chickenpox,” he explained.
SEOUL, South Korea (AP) - North Korea's population has shrunk by as many as 3 million people in the past four years because of famine, South Korean intelligence officials said Wednesday, citing a classified North Korean survey. The survey by the North's Public Security Ministry confirms widespread Western reports that more than 500,000 North Koreans have died of hunger each year since 1995, they said. Massive floods swept much of North Korea in 1994, aggravating the country's chronic food shortage caused by decades of inefficient collective farming. Bad weather, including droughts, in successive years caused the food shortage to become acute, forcing the country to turn to the international community for help.
TOKYO (AP) -- Japan's Defense Agency said Tuesday that North Korea has the technology to launch a long-range ballistic missile capable of reaching parts of the United States, according to Japanese news reports. The North has made significant progress in developing its Taepodong-2 liquid-fuel missiles, Japan's semi-government television network NHK quoted unidentified Japanese defense sources as saying. Taepodong 2 is believed to be capable of carrying heavy payloads to Hawaii and Alaska and lighter-weight weapons to parts of the U.S. mainland. Kyodo News agency said an unidentified agency official predicted that Pyongyang will test-launch the missile within the year, as indicated by the United States earlier this month. On Feb. 3, State Department spokesman James Rubin said North Korea, which has been believed to be building the Taepodong-2, may test it this year. NHK said Japanese defense officials confirmed the North's capability to launch a long-range missile. Agency spokesman Kazushi Tanaka said the agency would not comment because of security reasons. ``We do not expect North Korea to conduct a test-firing of the missile anytime soon,'' Tanaka said. On Aug. 31, a North Korean rocket flew over Japan and landed in the Pacific Ocean in what Japan says was a test-launch of a Taepodong. North Korea says it was a satellite launch. Japan and the United States have agreed to research a missile defense system to protect them against a possible missile firing by North Korea. In 1993, North Korea tested a Scud-based Rodong-1 missile, which has a range of 625 miles, far enough to reach Japan.
ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 16 (UPI) -- Intelligence experts say the United States needs a new sense of urgency in preparing its public health and medical systems for the growing danger of a terrorist attack using biological weapons.
``To remain unprepared is to invite disaster,'' said D.A. Henderson, director of Johns Hopkins Center for Civilian Biodefense Studies, during a National Symposium on Medical and Public Health Response to Bioterrorism, sponsored by Hopkins. More than 1,000 public health, military and medical professionals gathered today for the first national forum to examine what the United States can do to protect itself from terrorists who use deadly biological weapons, such as anthrax, smallpox or the plague.
Henderson said a bioterrorism attack will be very different from the massive, powerful and quick attacks most Americans associate with a military battle. A bioterrorism attack may come silently, and the release of smallpox or the plague may go undetected at first, until victims seek medical help. Victims may not show immediate symptoms and could end up seeking treatment anywhere in the country, at clinics or hospitals where antidotes are not readily stockpiled. ``The suffering and deaths will continue for weeks, even months,'' Henderson said of such an attack.
Health and Human Services Secretary Donna Shalala said the government is aware of its shortcomings and is working to make the medical and public health communities the front line of defense against any biological weapons attack on U.S. soil. This fiscal year, the government is spending $158 million to build a new bioterrorism infrastructure, and President Clinton has proposed an additional $72 million, for a total of $230 million for fiscal 2000. ``We must not be afraid, but we must be aware,'' Shalala told the forum in the keynote address. ``The key is the public health infrastructure.''
Shalala called for an expanded public health network with complementary medical response capabilities at the local and national levels. She said the United States needs a national stockpile of pharmaceuticals on hand at all times to respond to attacks within 24 hours. She also called for additional research on likely bioterrorism agents.
As the U.S. builds its infrastructure, however, a key question is whether an attack would come from international terrorists, from a rogue country with biological weapons -- such as Iraq -- from domestic groups or even from individuals. Jessica Stern, a fellow with the Council on Foreign Relations and formerly with the National Security Council, suggested the real threat comes not from international terrorists attacking with an agent like anthrax, but from terrorists within the United States, who could mount a simpler, low-tech attack, such as contamination of a popular food or soft drink.
WASHINGTON (AP) - National Guard units around the country are being trained to deal with phone-system outages and other chaos that could result from computer crashes when the year 2000 begins. In Washington state, half of the guard's ground troops will be on duty Dec. 31 and Jan. 1. Other states plan to have units on standby in case of blackouts, looting or other problems that might occur if computers shut down because they can't comprehend the date 2000.
A unique camera that will take some of the first pictures of Earth's invisible magnetic shield is being
A unique camera that will take some of the first pictures of Earth's invisible magnetic shield is being prepared for flight on Feb. 15, 2000. The mission, called IMAGE, will explore a region of space where the aurora is energized.
"It's exciting to be in a position where you know you're going to stumble onto things you didn't suspect were there," said Dr. Dennis Gallagher at NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center.
That's because in the 41 years that scientists have been studying the magnetosphere - the immense cloud of ionized gas formed by Earth's magnetic field - scientists have never gotten a picture of it. Somewhat like being in a massive fog, they have taken countless measurements throughout the magnetosphere, and taken pictures of its effects on the upper atmosphere. But the overall shape of the magnetosphere can only be inferred from those data.
Stepping back for a better view
Dr. Gallagher is a co-investigator for the Imager for Magnetopause-to-Aurora Global Exploration (IMAGE) satellite scheduled for launch from Vandenberg Air Force Base, Calif., on Feb.15, 2000. IMAGE will be the first satellite that will let scientists step back and take pictures of the magnetosphere as it changes shape.
The Earth's magnetic field acts as a buffer between the terrestrial environment and the solar wind. The two best known effects of the magnetosphere are the aurora borealis and the Van Allen radiation belts.
The aurora is caused by electrons and ions zinging back and forth along the magnetic field lines and reversing course when they hit a "mirror" point. When energized by a solar storm, these particles can punch through the mirror points and hit the outer atmosphere, causing the aurora's enchanting glow. The Van Allen belts, named for discoverer James Van Allen, can disrupt the electronics of satellites.
(ENN) Scientists have linked this past year's extreme weather events to subsequent outbreaks of infectious diseases. This correlation has spurred them to hone their ability to predict and track climate variability and related infectious disease outbreaks. "If the primary manifestation of climate change is more severe and unstable weather, then we have begun to see firsthand how a changing climate impacts our health and the international economy," said Paul R. Epstein from the Harvard Medical School Center for Health and the Global Environment.
Several thousand patient records at the University of Michigan Medical Center inadvertently lingered on Internet sites for two months until a student discovered the problem. “Luckily, we were notified and able to stop it this time before real damage was done,” spokesman Dave Wilkins said. “Still, on all fronts, we’re taking it very seriously.” The problem was discovered Monday when a university student searching for information about a doctor on the medical center’s Web site was linked to files containing private patient records. The records contained names, addresses, phone numbers, Social Security numbers, employment status, treatments for specific medical conditions and other data. The information was used to schedule appointments, Wilkins said. No one accessed the records until Monday, he said. “I’m certainly not happy about it,” said Cary Johnson, a nurse at the medical center whose 2-year-old son’s record was online. “I guess technology is helping us to do some things and hurting us in other ways.”
PART PROBLEMS
This isn’t the first time patient privacy has been broached. In Florida, a health-care worker leaked a confidential list of AIDS patients to newspapers. A medical student in Colorado sold medical records to malpractice lawyers. Medicaid clerks in Maryland sold computer printouts of patient’s financial records to managed care companies. And in Massachusetts, a convicted rapist used someone else’s password to rifle through nearly 1,000 patient files, using phone numbers culled from those files to make obscene calls. Currently, there are few regulations limiting access to a patient’s medical records. Insurance companies, employers and even marketing firms can access medical records with a few quick keystrokes — and it’s all legal.
EVEN MORE FEARS
And as managed care companies stockpile medical records, some privacy experts fear that the data may be used in ways that could eventually harm some patients. For example, many patients do not know that their employers have access to health records, says Dr. Denise Nagel, a psychiatrist and executive director of the National Coalition for Patient Rights in Lexington, Mass. These records can include details of abortions, sexually transmitted diseases and psychiatric illnesses, Nagel adds. Adding insult to injury, there is little to stop an employer from acting on information gleaned from an employee’s health record when it comes to promotions and job terminations.
WASHINGTON (AP) - The 1918 flu that killed more than 20 million people may have quietly percolated for several years, maybe even trading back and forth between pigs and people, until suddenly growing strong enough to become the world's worst pandemic. That's the latest theory from the Armed Forces Institute of Pathology, which reported Monday that researchers for the first time have completely analyzed a critical gene from the killer influenza virus. The gene likely "was adapting in humans or in swine for maybe several years before it broke out as a pandemic virus," said molecular biologist Ann Reid, lead author of the study published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.
From: Steamshovel Press
Richard Sauder, author of Underground Tunnels and Bases,
surfaced a report that the late
Commerce secretary Ron Brown owned a patent for an AIDS-like retro-virus.
In his role as
a GATT negotiator, Brown worked to consolidate patents under one
global system. A
business associate of Brown's, a man named Ferrat, died on Flight
800. Initial reports
about the 800 crash warned people away from the rescue area because of
the possible
existence of AIDS-tainted blood packets. The medical personnel
who suggest (courtesy
of the Scaife-connected reporter Chris Ruddy) that Brown's skull
may have been penetrated
by a .45 calibre bullet, work for the Armed Forces Institute of
Pathology. That office recently
found RNA residue of the 1918 Spanish flu epidemic from the long-buried
body of the Inupiat
Eskimo. A similar team of Canadian scientists, headed by a man
described as a former classmate
of Adnan Khashoggi, recovered similar residue from bodies in Norway. Khashoggi
is the uncle
of Dodie Fayed and architect of the al-Yamama defense contract
umbrella--which embodies the
Cripple Factor discussed in the essay above--that recently was expanded
to include bio-chemical
firms. Word has also recently reached Steamshovel that a Dr. Lo,
also of the Armed Forces
Institute of Pathology, owns a patent on mycoplasma fermentans incognitus,
a microbe
thought by some to cause Gulf War Syndrome.
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From: Della P.
Hi Mitch...
Read the article today in the PI (newspaper). Caught my
eye because my husband is just
recovering from a very bad flu virus and he said he hadn't been
this sick and
miserable since he had polio in college. I couldn't help think,
as we were
looking out at a surreal clouded day) about the program Art Bell
had on about
the "contrails" (I don't have the guest's name at my
fingertips right now, but
you probably know who I mean). I mentioned it to my husband about
these
planes flying around making these strange contrails...and about
if it is a
government thing to drop biological material to help immunize
us against a
real biological warfare (that Pres. Clinton loses sleep over) or, as in
the
program, a plan to "cull" some of the more sickly humans
(which is a chilling
thought). At any rate, the doctor told my husband the strains
of flu are
indeed getting stronger which doesn't come as a surprise, does it?
Hope you don't mind my throwing in my thoughts as these things
seems to be so
"synchronistic" I believe is the popular word being
used now. What do you
think?
Della P.
Seattle
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From: Suresh Kumar
I'AM A SCIENCE GRADUATE IN MICRO/BIOTECHNOLOGY/GENETICS
I WATCHED A PROGRAMME ON THE BBC (ENGLAND UK), WHERE A DOCTOR
SHOWED A SMALL NEWS ITEM ON THE NUTRIENT SELENIUM. IT SHOWED THAT ONCE THE UK
USED TO IMPORT CROPS (WHEAT) FROM NORTH AMERICA WHERE THE SOIL CONTENT HAD A
HIGH SELENIUM CONCENTRATION.
FOR THE PAST NEAR DECADE THESE CROP IMPORTS (PLUS VEG. & FRUITS)
HAVE COME FROM EUROPE WHERE THE SOIL HAS A VERY LOW SELENIUM CONCENTRATION.
THE RESULT: PEOPLE HAVE VERY WEAK IMMUNE SYSTEMS.
CHINA HAS IN THE PAST SUFFERED DREDFUL DISEASES DUE TO A LACK
OF SELENIUM IN THEIR DIET. AN EXAMPLE IS THE FLU VIRUS ITS SELF, (I HAVE
NO DATES, AS I WATCHED IT UNKNOWINGLY THAT YOU WOULD BRING UP THE TOPIC) THAT
KILLED ALOT OF PEOPLE, DUE TO IT SEEMINGLY BEING HIGHLY VIRULENT.
WHEN A NATIONAL EFFORT WAS MADE TO SUPPLEMENT SELENIUM IN THE
DIET, SOME OF THE DISEASES HAVE NEARLY BEEN ERADICATED. THE FLU HAS NOT
STRUCK BACK WITH THE SAME STRENGHT.
DOCTORS IN BRITIAN ARE JUST ONLY NOW UNDERSTANDING THE LINK BETWEEN
NATURAL EARTH MINERALS (+ VITAMINS) AND VIRUSES. ALSO A VIRUS IS CAPABLE OF
"OPPORTUNISTICALLY - HIBERNATING", SO TO SPEAK, IN PLANTS AND ANIMALS
BEFORE PICKING THE "RIGHT" MOMMENT TO ATTACK ITS HOST OR FOREIGN BODY.
ITS NATURAL, ITS HOW COMPLEX VIRUSES BEHAVE.
THE IMPORTANT QUESTION IS:- HAVE WE DILUTED THE RICHNESS
OF OUR DIET SO MUCH, THROUGH MECHANICAL PROCESSES AND MANUFACTURING PROCESSES,
THAT NATURE ITSELF DETECTS US OUT OF BALANCE TO ITSELF?
HAVE WE BECOME THE FOREIGN BODY IN GAIA!
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From: Axenolit
My Moms mom (Nanny, all grandparents are still alive, thank you God...) lost her mother, 2 or 3 siblings and a grandfather to that. Saw a program on PBS awhile back that described the dead carts (ala black plauge) moving through eastern cities for people to pile on loved ones. Very virulent, took mainly the young and strong, much respiratory distress (frothing blood at the mouth)...
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From: D Mcintosh
Hi Mitch,
Got your message about the killer flu. is there anything to it
or is it just something people are talking and worrying about? You must know
some little thing your not telling me for you to bother to send me such a message.
If it is a threat it is coming from our very own sweet government. I know what
they are up to. They keep spraying us from the air and people all over the country
are very sick with illnesses doctors
never heard of and people are actually dying from this stuff.
Only the strong shall survive. So maybe they think it's time to spray us with
that killer flu virus I know their going to get around to it soon.I talk to
people all over the country and I have found out a lot.They have got to reduce
the population greatly to be able to not meet up with to much resistance to
the new world order coming soon and they know Americans are heavily armed so
that's the only way to get rid of them. I read and listen to a lot of information
on this stuff all the time.I hope it kills us quick that's all I got to say
.
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From: William Thomas
Tell everyone to STAY
INDOORS when contrails are being woven
overhead. I've got a BBC photo of a freezer-semi filled with dead
bodies in
England - all from sudden respiratory ailments. We're talking
(according to
the BBC) 6,000 deaths from respiratory failure in two weeks.
People are VERY SICK
here. And spraying continues after heavy
spraying last Friday over Asheville, Knoxville, Dallas and other
US centers.
I have this morning received reports of "many deaths" from a
"cough that
never leaves" in Louisiana.
This is big. This
is real. I have positively verified that Emergecny
Rooms are overflowing with acute respiratory cases from coast
to coast.
Doctors are telling
the New York Times that this is NOT the flu.
People are dying they say far more quickly and at rates far beyond
"flu".
The only lab test
I have shows JP8 present in soil samples after
spraying. The ethylene dibromide in JP8 is banned by the EPA as
a known
carcinogen and an extremely toxic substance that attacks the respiratory
system at very low doses of exposure.
There may be a viral
component to the spraying, as well. I am
tracking this and will get back to...
STOP PRESSES! I have
just this minute received a call that confirms
my worst fears. According to a source within the Canadian Intelligence
Service, heavy spraying taking place over Victoria, BC (near me) and other
population centers throughout North America are classified "tests".
I now
know what the "tests" are aimed at achieving. And it
is not pretty.
This is a MAXIUMUM
RED ALERT for everyone on your list, John. TAKE
COVER! Stay indoors during spraying. This is NOT "woo-woo".
This is NOT a drill.
Check my website for upadtes: www.islandnet.com/wilco
Good luck to all of us,
William Thomas
This goes beyond any flu the government hs been able to develop.
JAKARTA, Indonesia (AP) - A strong earthquake rocked a provincial town on Sumatra today, but there were no immediate reports of damage or casualties, the Meteorology and Geophysics Agency said. The magnitude 5.3 quake shocked the Aceh capital of Banda Aceh, about 1,100 miles northwest of Jakarta, for several seconds, said the agency's Jakarta office. It said the quake was centered beneath Indian Ocean, about 100 miles southwest of Banda Aceh.
Ron Corbett
The Ottawa Citizen
You've likely heard many possible Y2K horror stories by now. The global banking system will collapse. Telephones will go dead. Satellites will fall out of orbit. Although it isn't as apocalyptic, here's a Y2K problem you've never heard of before. And there's nothing possible about it. It's already happened.
The Ontario Ministry of the Attorney General, in what it admits is a Y2K gaffe, has recently sent out hundreds of notices of fines for traffic infractions that, according to the government, will occur nearly 100 years in the future. The up side is you also have 100 years to pay the ticket, but it's still a rather neat trick.
"We have received a number of phone calls about this," says Ministry of Attorney General spokesmen Brendan Crawley. "We have met with our technical people, and they have met with the company that produces our notices, and we have identified the problem. "It occurred on a production run while the company was working on making itself Y2K compatible. "No one caught the mistakes, and the notices went out."
Funny notices they turned out to be. One of the recipients of the Back-to-the-Future speeding ticket was Agatha Herwig of Mountain. She works at the Children's Hospital of Eastern Ontario, and received her Y2K letter just before Christmas. "It was from the Attorney General, and when I opened it there was a notice inside about a speeding ticket I had received," says Ms. Herwig. "I looked at the offence date and it just floored me.''
"Everyone I've shown the letter to has just roared when they've seen the dates on it." You should realize here, in case you've never received this sort of notice from the provincial government, that these letters are basically a threat. In the form letter you are threatened, if you do not promptly pay your moving vehicle offence, with everything from suspension of your driver's licence to liens on your house to garnishment of your wages to court arrest, the full government monty.
KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) - The ruling Taliban militia said Friday an earthquake with a preliminary magnitude of 5.5 killed 50 people in central Afghanistan and wounded about 200 others. But aid workers and residents of the area said four people were killed and 10 people were injured in the earthquake that struck on Thursday night about 40 miles southwest of the beleaguered capital of Kabul. The death toll was reported on Radio Shariat, which is controlled by the Taliban. All the victims lived in Maidan Shahr, about 20 miles from Kabul, near the epicenter.
WASHINGTON (AP) - A review of what has been done to determine how Agent Orange and other herbicides affected Vietnam veterans confirms earlier studies linking them with several diseases but leaves unanswered painful medical questions. Thursday's report by the Institute of Medicine offers no new evidence affecting benefits for Vietnam War veterans or their offspring, but the Department of Veterans Affairs said the study will be valuable for further research. Despite continuing investigation into links to birth defects, diabetes and a list of other illnesses, no scientific studies over the last two years has provided enough information to draw significant new conclusions about whether herbicides are linked to any condition.
CHAMONIX, France (AP) - A snowslide damaged a chalet before being stopped short of smothering a tiny French hamlet Thursday - a fresh reminder of the high risk of more deadly avalanches. The new slide came as rescue workers dug out the frozen body of the 11th victim of a powerful avalanche that occurred three days earlier and just a few miles away. After nightfall, rescuers suspended their search for a 12th person, missing and presumed dead. A massive anti-avalanche barrier held disaster at bay in Les Houches, six miles west of Chamonix. A chalet was slightly damaged and a modern hotel trembled from the shock. As a precaution, officials ordered about 300 people to leave the village.
ATLANTA (AP) - Twenty-one people were hospitalized after an unidentified man sprayed a mysterious substance on a local commuter train during the Thursday evening rush hour. The fumes caused chest pains, respiratory problems and eye irritation among the victims, who were given oxygen and then washed down with a water and bleach solution before they were transported to a hospital. All but one of the victims, who included the train driver and five paramedics, were released. A 14-year-old boy remained in guarded condition in intensive care with breathing problems. Several hours after the incident, the substance that was sprayed was still unidentified.
(NASA) Two weeks ago one of the most powerful cosmic explosions ever recorded bathed the earth in gamma rays. The gamma-ray burst -- called GRB990123 -- was so intense that its visible light could have been seen through common binoculars. Since then the optical counterpart to GRB990123 has faded until it is 4 million times dimmer that it was during its peak.
Yesterday astronomers released a new Hubble photograph of the gamma-ray burst's fading optical counterpart. The relic fireball appears to be embedded in a faint, irregular galaxy.
A Hubble telescope image of GRB 990123 taken between Feb 8 1999 23:06 UT and Feb 9 1999 03:21 UT. The image is of a square region about the gamma-ray burst, 3.2 arcseconds on each side. The optical counterpart, a point source at the center of the image, is seen to be superposed on an irregular galaxy, which could perhaps be an interacting system
MEXICO CITY (AP) - One of Mexico's most active volcanoes erupted three times Wednesday, emitting plumes of steam and toxic gases more than three miles into the air. Ash rained down along its slopes and three nearby villages were evacuated. Civil protection agencies in both Jalisco and Colima states said there was no damage aside from grass fires caused by a small flow of lava near the crater. The 12,533-foot mountain, located 300 miles west of Mexico City, straddles the border of the two states. Jaime Arturo Paz Garcia, director of the Jalisco civil protection agency, described the first explosion as "quite powerful" and the second and third as less strong.
WASHINGTON (AP) - Corporate America has fallen far behind in disclosing its readiness for the Year 2000 and how much the preparations and computer upgrades have been costing, the chief accountant of the Securities and Exchange Commission said Tuesday. A check of financial reports that publicly traded companies must submit to the SEC shows "many companies are still not complying" with Year 2000 disclosure requirements, Lynn Turner said at a conference organized by the District of Columbia Bar association. He said more than half the companies in an unspecified sample failed to disclose how much it is costing them to get their computer systems ready for the millennial change.
MEXICO CITY (AP) - An explosion shook the crater of the Volcano of Fire in western Mexico early Wednesday, releasing lava, gas and ash and forcing officials to evacuate some nearby residents. The government's Notimex news agency said the village of Juan Barragan at the base of the volcano was being evacuated due to a cloud of gas released by the 2 a.m. explosion at the volcano, part of the Colima Volcano complex. Diego Hernandez, a radio operator at the Colima state civil defense department, said several other villages also were being evacuated. But he said "there are no great risks" to human life.
WASHINGTON (AP) - Springlike weather patterns produced a record 163 tornadoes over the United States in January, the most ever for the first month of the year. The total is more than three times the previous record for January - 52 - set in 1975. The January tornadoes were caused by an unusual weather pattern for the month, said Harold Brooks, meteorologist with the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's National Severe Storms Laboratory in Norman, Okla. He said the storms were caused by a southerly flow of wind from the Gulf of Mexico, which brought in moisture at low levels, and then combined with a strong upper air pressure, which causes wind at about 30,000 feet.
The Kresge Foundation, an independent, private foundation created by the personal gifts of Sebastian S. Kresge, has awarded a Science Initiative Grant of $500,000 to the Vatican Observatory Foundation (VOF). The grant, awarded on 9 December 1998, is for the purchase and installation of new equipment designed to stabilize the Vatican Advanced Technology Telescope (VATT) and for an increase in the endowment of the VOF for the maintenance and operation of the VATT in perpetuity.
The VOF is required to raise an additional $1,250,000 by 1 December 1999 in order to meet the challenge of The Kresge Foundation Grant. As of this date $270,000 of the required challenge has been met and the VOF is conducting a campaign to raise the remaining funds from foundations, the business community and private individuals.
The VOF recognizes this grant as a unique and significant challenge. The Kresge Foundation wishes specifically to sustain activities that have already demonstrated their effectiveness and where the grant recipients have already raised initial funds before submitting a proposal to The Kresge Foundation. By responding to the challenge of The Kresge Foundation Science Initiative Grant the VOF will stabilize the VATT, will increase its endowment fund so as to assure efficient and financially responsible operation of the VATT into the future and will increase the circle of friends who by their benefactions help to support the exciting research being conducted with the VATT.
Since its inauguration in September 1993 the VATT, a joint project of the Vatican Observatory, near Castel Gandolfo, Italy, and The University of Arizona's Steward Observatory, has produced extremely sharp optical and infrared images from a 10,500 foot elevation on Mount Graham in southeastern Arizona. Its two parts are the Alice P. Lennon Telescope, which has a very fast focal ratio (f/l) 1.8-meter primary mirror, and the adjoining Thomas F. Bannan Astrophysics Facility, which houses the observers' control room and computer stations, office space and living quarters. The VATT is the prototype of a series of new technology ground-based telescopes being developed by The University of Arizona and its collaborators whereby scientists are learning how to utilize very fast mirrors capable of producing extremely sharp images -- tasks critical to the construction of the next generation of the world's largest telescopes.
Given the Vatican Observatory's outstanding record in using advanced technology to conduct innovative research projects, the VOF is committed to moving forward to meet the projected growth needs and secure the necessary funds for this leadership role. The Kresge Foundation Science Initiative Grant is a significant challenge to helping the VOF meet this goal.
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More information about the Vatican Observatory is available at the WWW site: http://clavius.as.arizona.edu/vo/
A MESSAGE FOR THE PEOPLE OF THE WORLD
His Majesty King Hussein I
"I recall in discovering past events over many years, and one thing that remained with me throughout those many years was a total commitment to the cause of peace. We quarrel, we agree; we are friendly, we are not friendly. But we have no right to dictate through irresponsible action or narrow- mindedness the future of our children and their children's children. There has been enough destruction. Enough death. Enough waste. And it's time that, together, we occupy a place beyond ourselves, our peoples, that is worthy of them under the sun, the descendants of the children of Abraham."
Hussein I King of the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan 1935-1999
The earthquake was located in the general area of: Santa Cruz Is. Near 12.8S, 166.7E.
(Stormweb) TSUNAMI BULLETIN NUMBER 1; NO, REPEAT NO, WATCH OR WARNING IS IN EFFECT. WEST COAST AND ALASKA TSUNAMI WARNING CENTER/NOAA/NWS
This is a Tsunami Information Bulletin for Alaska, British Columbia, Washington, Oregon, and California only... EVALUATION: based on location and magnitude the earthquake was not sufficient to generate a tsunami damaging to California, Oregon, Washington, British Columbia or Alaska.
Some areas may experience small sea level fluctuations.
Earth Changes TV
http://www.earthchangesTV.com
By Robert Windrem
NBC News Producer Fears that North Korea may produce viral weapon lead to renewed study Smallpox, which once claimed millions of victims a year and but was then declared eradicated in 1979, is back at the top of a Centers for Disease Control and Prevention watch list — this time as the leading biological terrorism threat to the United States. Intelligence reports and other evidence have led CDC officials to conclude that North Korea and other potential adversaries may have harvested smallpox for use in weapons, threatening to revive a plague for which vaccines are no longer produced.
POTENTIALLY DEVASTATING WEAPON
Ironically, the danger smallpox would pose to a targeted population stems in part from the success medical science has enjoyed in battling the virus. A global program of inoculations led the World Health Organization to declare the virus eradicated in 1979. Since then, the major question facing medical science has been whether the final publicly acknowledged stores of the virus — held in labs in Russia and at the CDC’s own labs in the United States — should be destroyed. (MSNBC)
Earth Changes TV
http://www.earthchangesTV.com
URGENT - WEATHER MESSAGE
(EXTRACT)
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PORTLAND OR
1055 AM PST FRI FEB 5 1999
Southwest Washington: A series of strong Pacific weather systems will bring strong winds to the coast through Saturday. The system this afternoon will also bring high winds to portions of southwest Washington. High Wind Warning continues for the south Washington and north and central Oregon coasts for this afternoon through Saturday... South winds will increase early this afternoon to 30 to 40 mph with gusts to 75 mph near coastal headlands...and gusts to 60 mph in coastal communities. The wind will subside a little tonight...but will redevelop Saturday morning.
URGENT - WEATHER MESSAGE (EXTRACT)
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SEATTLE WA
1015 AM PST FRI FEB 5 1999
High Wind Warning for all of Puget Sound - including the southwest interior A High Wind Warning remains in effect for the remainder of western Washington - excluding the Oympics and Cascades... Winds are expected to steadily increase - peaking late afternoon on the coast and early evening throughout the interior. Along the coast and in the northern interior southeast winds of 40 to 50 mph with gusts to 60 mph are expected. For the Puget Sound area and southwest interior south winds of 30 to 40 mph with gusts to 50 mph are expected early this evening.
RECOMMENDED SAFETY ACTIONS FOR THESE POTENTIAL HIGH WINDS INCLUDE ENSURING ALTERNATE POWER SOURCES ARE OPERATOINAL AND CONVENIENT - FASTENING DOWN OUTDOOR ITEMS - COMPLETING TRAVEL AS SOON AS POSSIBLE.
CATANIA, Sicily (AP) - The Mount Etna volcano spewed smoke and lava for a second day Friday and scientists announced they have discovered a crack along one side of its crater. International experts discovered the fracture on the crater's southeastern flank soon after lava began gushing down Etna's slopes Thursday afternoon, state-run RAI-TV said. The crack apparently means the crater is changing shape. The volcano, 20 miles north of Catania, was being watched closely for signs of a possible eruption.
By James Risen
WASHINGTON
North Korea is on the verge of developing ballistic missiles capable of hitting the continental United States, the director of central intelligence, George Tenet, told Congress on Tuesday.
North Korea's communist government appears to be working to produce nuclear weapons covertly and to extend the range of its ballistic missiles in ways that have surprised U.S. intelligence agencies, American officials have said.
In a review of threats to U.S. national security, Tenet told lawmakers that North Korea was working on a new generation of missiles that could soon "be able to deliver large payloads" to the continental United States.
North Korea's accelerated weapons programs comes against a backdrop of famine and increasing instability in the country, making its government's actions dangerously difficult to predict. "I can hardly overstate my concern about North Korea," Tenet told the Senate Armed Services Committee. "In nearly all respects, the situation there has become more volatile and unpredictable." Tenet's comments concerning the threat from North Korea caps a remarkable reversal by U.S. intelligence agencies in the last few months.
In July a bipartisan commission headed by former Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld concluded that countries it described as rogue states could hit the United States with ballistic missiles with little or no warning. The CIA publicly disputed that finding and stood by its earlier analysis that the threat was probably several years in the future. But in August, soon after the debate over the Rumsfeld report, North Korea caught the CIA off guard by testing a three-stage missile, putting that country much closer to having an intercontinental ballistic missile, or ICBM in military lingo, than agency analysts had predicted.
In December, Robert Walpole, the national intelligence officer for strategic and nuclear programs, conceded in a Washington speech that the CIA had not anticipated North Korea's flight testing of a three-stage missile. The third stage of the missile was not successful in the flight test. Yet the test forced the CIA's analysts to embrace the assessments of the Rumsfeld panel that they had just dismissed as alarmist. That change in the intelligence outlook has encouraged the Clinton administration to set aside its longstanding doubts about anti-ballistic missile systems.
Last month, the administration announced plans to spend $6.6 billion over five years for such a system. Tenet's testimony was one of the few detailed accounts of the threat posed by North Korean ballistic missiles given to Congress in public session by a high-ranking Clinton administration official. He said the August test of a three-stage Taepo Dong 1 ballistic missile had "demonstrated technology that with the resolution of some important technical issues would give North Korea the ability to deliver a very small payload to intercontinental ranges -- including parts of the United States -- although not very accurately." But he said North Korea was also working on a more advanced two-stage missile, the Taepo Dong 2, which could deliver larger payloads as far as Alaska and Hawaii, and smaller payloads to the continental United States.
While the Taepo Dong 2 has not yet been flight-tested, it could deliver large payloads to the continental United States if North Korea is able to convert it into a three-stage rocket like the Taepo Dong-1 tested last summer. "The proliferation implications of these missiles are obviously significant," Tenet observed. Over the past year, the United States and North Korea have been negotiating over whether North Korea will allow inspections of a suspected underground nuclear facility.
The Clinton administration is hoping to salvage a 1994 agreement with North Korea that guaranteed international aid in return for a promise that North Korea would freeze its nuclear-weapons development efforts. Tenet's warning was in effect an admission that North Korea has failed to abide by the agreement. He also warned Congress that Russia has been backsliding on its earlier commitments to the United States to curb the transfer of advanced missile technology to Iran.
For several years CIA officials have viewed the Russia-Iran connection as one of the most worrisome proliferation channels in the world. The Clinton administration has imposed sanctions on a range of Russian companies and other institutions since last year in order to curb the trade, but Tenet's testimony made clear that the sanctions policy is not working. "There were some positive signs in Russia's performance early last year but, unfortunately, there has not been a sustained improvement," Tenet said. "Especially during the last six months, expertise and materiel from Russia has continued to assist the Iranian missile effort in areas ranging from training to testing to components. "This assistance is continuing as we speak, and there is no doubt that it will play a crucial role in Iran's ability to develop more sophisticated and longer-range missiles."
Bara,
Re: The Inmates
You are lying. Those who dissent are inmates of nothing. Dissent is not insanity.
Regarding the '200' questions, you are not Hoagland, he needs to answer them. They are debate topics and questions. Period. Your opinion about Joe Firmage is irrelevant, your assailing of me is irrelevant, your assailing of radio shows is irrelevant, your defense of Hoagland is irrelevant. The remaining 56 questions on the list are answered by the NWS and NOAA. If Richard wants to argue with the answers he can contact them.
An example of the conundrum you and others have painted for yourself. The 'Shard' on the moon is a photo problem, as shown here on your page:
http://www.vgl.org/webfiles/lan/L3-84m.htm
Since this 'shard' would be highly visible in HST photo results, and it is not revealed in resulting HST photos of the moon, this is a case in point. According to you, by me making this statement of dissent and correction, and possible error, however, I am an idiot.
Yet, you and Hoagland can say there is a 'one mile high' tower on the moon and this is to be taken as fact. Odd, this.
You belong to, and traffic with, a new religion called 'strange' in circles representing Everyman. New arrivals to this place, ufology, are not allowed to dissent lest they be burned--according to you and Hoagland and Bell et al. Nothing will come to light under this venue. The doors that hold the cards for which we are forbidden to see will remain closed under this papalage. This is immutable. You may stomp your little collective new age emotional feet all you wish at this statement of fact, but its truth remains. All things on balance, you can call me anything you wish and rail at my dissent. I will continue unabated. Every web site that states 'fact' for strange is subject to dissent and quesion. Brace yourself.
I will be in Santa Fe in 30 days on assignment for Sandia Labs. I will seek to find Richard Hoagland. I will attempt to have him at least answer his charges about our being, first hand, if he has not addressed them beforehand, online. I will report publicly online Richard's answers to the questions.
Richard C. Hoagland is not above query of dissent. Neither are you. I am here now. Get used to it.
(Help me on this: Richard's home phone number is 505-771-0761 and his email address is enterprise@sprintmail.com. Call me any time and correct me on this if need be. Thanks. I wish to invite him to dinner for a visit while in Santa Fe.)
Sincerely,
Robert A.M. Stephens
NASA Documentation Program
Stillwater Mills Contractor-Aerospace
406-745-3818
sti3818@montana.com
http://198.116.116.10/gallery/arts/samples.html
WILLIAMSBURG, Va. (AP) - State and local governments are on the front lines of the nation's defense against terrorism, U.S. Attorney General Janet Reno told participants at the start of a national terrorism policy summit. The FBI is the lead federal agency for anti-terrorism efforts, but "that doesn't mean I'm going to tell you what to do," Reno told 200 representatives from 48 states and territories as well as the federal government. Federal authorities cannot just swoop into a region after a crisis and take over, she said Tuesday. To prevent turf wars and make sure emergency management efforts run smoothly, officials at all levels must share information. "Key to it all is listening to you who are on the front lines," Reno said.
Hi Folks, This article got my attention. Could this be what President Clinton was talking about when he stated last week "germ warfare are being targeted" also stating "this is not a time to panic". When someone makes a statement like this, I take a very keen watch. I have a feeling we will be hearing more on this story. MB
U.S. agency fears a smallpox weapon...02/02/99
By Robert Windrem NBC News
Producer Fears that North Korea may produce viral weapon lead to renewed study Smallpox, which once claimed millions of victims a year and but was then declared eradicated in 1979, is back at the top of a Centers for Disease Control and Prevention watch list — this time as the leading biological terrorism threat to the United States. Intelligence reports and other evidence have led CDC officials to conclude that North Korea and other potential adversaries may have harvested smallpox for use in weapons, threatening to revive a plague for which vaccines are no longer produced.
POTENTIALLY DEVASTATING WEAPON Ironically, the danger smallpox would pose to a targeted population stems in part from the success medical science has enjoyed in battling the virus. A global program of inoculations led the World Health Organization to declare the virus eradicated in 1979. Since then, the major question facing medical science has been whether the final publicly acknowledged stores of the virus — held in labs in Russia and at the CDC’s own labs in the United States — should be destroyed. (MSNBC)
(Darn you Peter Gersten. Okay, here we go. But, I say
right now, it will do no good to this man or anyone like him to reanswer these
questions because I'll work real hard on these when I need sleep and his answer
will be: "xxxx you stephens, you're a xxxx liar." It's what everyone of these
people say and I've learned my lesson 2 months ago. Its religion to these folks
and what I say is not what they want to hear. I think you are troubled
(Note to JM: In my mail to you in answer to you tonight, I posted it would do no good to answer any of these because you'll just call me a liar after I work on them for you. I still very much believe this. Peter Gersten thinks there is some good points in this mail of yours so I will counter my assessment and answer these to the best of my ability. At least consider them before you respond with a one liner that I'm lying to you. I think Peter is a part time dentist at times and uses no Novocain nor does he have the vaguest compassion for a fellow lifeform such as me.)
Okay, JM, whoever you are, at the request of Peter Gersten, here goes. All my answers are in blue. Hope your email program is advanced a little so you can see color since this is not in HTML but in 'Plain Text' format in case you want to pass it on and discredit me on biblical proportions that I am lying with my answers. Let 'er rip, then.
To Mr. Robert A. Stephens:
Good start. No calling me a 'xxxxsucker'. Thank you.
It seems that you have taken in upon yourself to defend NASA from Richard Hoagland and his claims.
No. He attacks NASA. I take issue. On balance, this is fair.
Hoagland is an interesting figure, with some valid arguments about Mars and the Moon,
None. He immutably states a fact. He uses the very source (NASA) as his proof, but this is strange since this is the source that is lying about Mars and everything else. He needs to take his own photos then, instead of using the 'liars' photos. This is a conundrum he has painted himself into.
and some off-the-wall ridiculous propositions, like Hale-Bopp and the December 7th landing. Your attacks on him focus on his faults(which are many) but forget to mention some obvious points.
1.While Hoagland is the most recognized proponent for the artificiality of structures on Mars, he is not the first or the most scientific. The proponents include:Dr. Erol Torun; Professor Thomas Bearden; Vince DiPietro and Gregory Molenaar; Dr. Mark Carlotto; Dr. James Erjavec
You fail to mention the folks at JPL who first mentioned this when the photos were coming in 1976. I mention no faults. The personal data against Hoagland are from people who requested for me to use their data in my debate on Bell since they have failed to ever get a voice after repeated requests to do so. I have accommodated them as best as possible. They do not want to use their names publicly as they are physically afraid of what Richard C. Hoagland has said to them in the form of threats. I personally don't subscribe to this--which by now should be rather obvious If I was threatened by anyone, any place, I'd go and see the accuser up front and personal and asked where is the beef. Simple. I still fail to see a face in the latest photos from JPL. I still hold, rationally I believe, that the vote must hold off until we stand on Cydonia with a few backhoes and such and see for ourselves what is there. This is fair since there is 143 million miles between us and Mars and this distance effects what we are able to see for certain with our eyes. At 6 miles from my home is a 'Face' on the side of the Mission Mountain Range to my east. We all see this everyday. It is not artificial. It looks like a human face in broad daylight at 6 miles distance. It is a rock formation. It is entirely possible the varved escarpment on Mars at Cydonia is a varved escarpment, based on what we know and what we have to look at for reference on Earth.
2.Why does NASA, a supposedly open government agency hoard the use of our resources and give exclusive use to its hand-picked friends in the private sector(i.e. "Principal Investigators")? The Hubble Telescope, IRAS and all of NASA's other toys are the property of the American taxpayer. When was their ownership signed over to Dan Goldin, Michael Malin and their clique?
I do not understand this question. Dan Goldin is the Administrator of NASA. Malin is a free agent contractor as myself. NASA went and took pictures of Cydonia as requested. The results are at JPL. Where is the beef? I pay very hefty taxes too since I am self employed. All NASA workers including Goldin pay taxes also. So does Malin. This statement you've made escapes me.
3.Why does NASA no longer carry LIVE broadcasts from the Shuttle?
Because they are the smallest government agency and they do not have the funding to carry all feeds from Whitesands transponder and the other on orbit relay feeds. The USAF has also raised the fees for this service to use their hardware and NASA could not get congressional budgeting for it on a regular basis. To you and other serious people who rely on this service for keeping in touch with on orbit activities this is a rotten loss. Within NASA, they have a fund tank for folks to contribute to the public interface since so many NASA employees have families that want the live feed. They rely on mission tapes now, most of the time. This feed was also how mission crew families were able to watch their loved ones on orbit. Now, they get either the tapes or still photos. If you want it back, write congress since they are the funders.
4.Why does NASA only release a trickle of images from Hubble, IRAS and MGS when these instruments are in almost constant use by NASA?
Hubble is in use 24 hours per day, 7 days per week, all year long and is never ever down unless for repairs or new plugins. Actual usage by NASA and its centers is on a sign up basis. This means for 36 hours the University of Hawaii may have look time reserved. Next, maybe the University of Tokyo. Then, NASA's Goddard may have 4 hours reserved, then some other private venture. NASA's actual on air usage of HST is about 10-15% of the time at most. The waiting sign up list is long. Anyone can reserve air time on Hubble. A list is available for requesting reserved time. What others do, which is 85% of the users of the device, is up to them regarding photos. NASA elects to post all photos from HST publicly. However, this is a small percentage of the returned images that could be offered for viewing.
5.Why was NASA obsessed with the constellation Orion(as correctly pointed out by Hoagland), and why did the original Apollo logo carry a prominent image of Orion?
Hoagland pointed out nothing. This statement that he did is a oxymoron in and of itself. Think about this statement. If it was there for all to see, it was then posted there for all to see. Period. Be logical. The forerunner of NASA, NACA, 1958, designated Greek symbols for space flight because this made more sense than naming or referring to mission and other flight off Earth by names of flowers, or plants, or bridges. There was no metaphysical tie in to symbolism in this. Few know that if you talk to visual astronomers, which are few in number, they do not go by constellations for stellar reference but by star locator mapping and celestial dynamics.
6.Why do many scientists believe that NASA is withholding images of Mars?
I don't know. I watched them come in by vector from here on my other Mac set up for such via link (not the photos, but the digital numeric vector) and they all came in as sent by number. It would have been impossible to 'delete' something coming in all at the same time from space selectively. I wanted to see how many photos were coming and I could not get resolution time to JPLs database to see the pictures as they came in for resolve since I have nothing o do with JPL work wise, but the numbers of those that got developed and the vector signatures for numbers of photos gelled to the number. No bombs or errors or missing photos.
Florida Today, October 10, 1998
Scientist Says New Mars Photos Being Withheld
Speaking at the Space Coast UFO Conference at the Hilton Hotel in Cocoa Beach,
Florida
Friday, October 9, 1998
Vincent DiPietro, who worked for NASA's Marshall Spaceflight Center for 23 years, claimed recent photographs taken by the Mars Global Surveyor were being withheld from the scientific community. DiPietro, a scientist who was first to evaluate photos of the surface of Mars taken by the Viking landers in 1976, cited a September Space News report on the growing number of planetary scientists disgruntled over the slow release of photographic data from the Mars Global Surveyor and "suggested that new images were being consciously withheld.
This is a fabrication. Their is a 6 month waiting for selective review of all photos by the prime contractor. This is for all government contracts made with the public. Malin or whomever is the prime contractor has exclusive rights to make any financial gain from any data so garnered. On the art side, I have every right, even though NASA owns the original oil, to get any proceeds from the exposure of my paintings in any fashion I deem plausible and useful to my benefit. This is not uncommon---its the way it is done. The prime contractor can release the photos the second they are developed or the last second of the 6 month grace period. This isn't a NASA rule. This is all government in all agencies.
Images are radioed to Earth and downloaded by Malin Space Systems, Inc. of San Diego, California, NASA's contractor. DiPietro criticized MGS camera operator Michael Malin, whose (NASA) contract gives him a six-month proprietary embargo on the images. He and other scientists reported Malin had taken numerous photos of the so-called Face on Mars, other than the single one released by NASA in April, that appeared to reflect natural terrain rather than artificial features. "This leads me to believe that we are not getting all the facts from Malin Enterprises," DiPietro said.
See above. By law, Malin can do whatever he wishes. Within that 6 month period.
7.Why does a private company get a 6-month exclusive "review period" for images taken by a half-billion dollar satellite belonging to the American people?
Congress set and passed this law.
What possible commercial or other value does Malin gain in those six months?
I don't know. Ask him. He is a very profound and solid man. I trust him implicitly. He has worked very hard on this project and I do admire him greatly.
Does he get to make his own line of Martian t-shirts or breakfast cereal? Science is supposed to an open process where all people can participate. Scientists in various disciplines should have immediate access to these images.
Then bring this up to Congress. I agree.
8. Why does NASA orchestrate an unscientific and blatant attack on the Cydonia researchers?
They do not ever. They postulate over and over. Think this through. Are you referencing Hoagland's Space Program photos of Cydonia, or NASA's. Since I'm nearly certain it is NASA's photos, since I don't think Hoagland has a space program personally, then they have taken the stand it is a geo-physical structure until proven otherwise. I agree. This is as fair as if someone categorically stated "it is NOT a face." I think we have to hold off until we get there. Is this remotely fair in your mind. If there was no NASA photos, we wouldn't even have this discussion. Isn't that at least to be considered?
Why does NASA, to this day, maintain the ridiculous argument that the Face is a trick of light and shadow?
Because at 6 miles away the rock formation the Mission Range is a trick of shape, light, and shadow. If this anomaly occurs here, and it does millions of times on this planet, it stands to reason it occurs elsewhere. But I'm talking a religion here. I have no further explanation but what I offer and since you and the rest are the real experts, somehow at 143,000,000 miles you can do what I cannot. See a face in the latest photos. I see a varved eroded escarpment in very sharp relief with water effect and wind and erosion. It shows a heavy encroached area by wind and storms in the 22 years since we were there before.
I have studied Cydonia under pretty well founded conditions and I do not find NASA's assessment ridiculous at all.
Dr. Stanley McDaniel has tracked NASA's peculiar and unscientific behavior in regards to Cydonia and makes several important points. First, Dr. Sagan did a propaganda piece in Parade magazine, which showed a deliberately distorted version of the Face "which had been processed using false color in such a manner as to diminish the resemblance to a face. This doctored image was then used to refute the reality of the facial appearance by claiming it was an image in which the face disappears."
I would use the doctored photos on Richard Hoagland website of the latest photos of Cydonia to see if there is a artificiality to it. My art side says no. Even when I have played with it on Richard's site. In the 1976 photo it looks just like a face, with the photo grainy, strong obtuse lighting, and the high altitude photo resolution. Close up, the hillock looks more for what it is.
Second, Dr. Michael Malin posts an article on the web that seeks to disprove the existence of "teeth" in the Face, as shown by Dr. Mark Carlotto. Malin, like Sagan before him, concocts distorted images in an attempt to discredit the artificiality of the Face. "No matter how the article is interpreted, there is a very strong appearance of impropriety." Malin also refused to respond to McDaniel's queries about his hack job, and why he makes no reference to the work of Dr. Carlotto directly, but merely to an unnamed "tabloid". Third, when it comes to image analysis of Cydonia, NASA puts in the least effort possible: "Neither NASA nor JPL have ever conducted a serious study of the Cydonian objects. NASA refuses to acknowledge the work done by independent researchers. Apparently many NASA personnel are not aware of the work that has been done. Now we find an NSSDC[NASA Space Science Data Center] scientist using low-end personal computer software and bad contrast control to provide a crude enhancement of the Cydonian Face in an article that is supposed to be informative to the public."
I am confused by this above. I use a PPC Mac with a link to a high end SGI box to get my CAD and other high end resolutions. I know that Malin uses even better hardware firmware. I don't know how to answer this charge by you.
Science is supposed to follow the evidence, not make pre-judgements or offer biased and tampered evidence, which is exactly what Sagan and Malin have done. So, my question to you, Mr. Stephens, is how can we trust NASA at all based on those who represent it and their deceitful and misleading actions?
Since this is your conviction without more concrete proof by you I would say if it vexes you so badly and you're so convinced of this deceitful act, I'd go to work for this agency and find out for sure. I did. I have. I say you are in error. Too, I have stayed out of civil service and will never work this element so I can be free to do what I want. (Like when I would not have anything to do with the agency after STS-51L for nearly 2 years)
9.Your own views on UFO's and NASA are contradictory. On the one hand, you say that NASA and the military have reams of records of UFO's entering and leaving Earth's atmosphere, of strange objects buzzing military installations.
You are in error. I only pointed out the DoD data that we are basically forbidden to see. NASA, to my best judgment, after nearly 20 years of intimate involvement, has no data of intruder vehicles. If they did, the NRO or OIA would take this data away from NASA and they have in the past during test flights of STS.
On the other hand, you claim that NASA is honest and truthful to the public.
NASA lied during and after STS-51L. I will never forgive them for this. I do not know them to lie since then or now. Ever.
If NASA is honest, then why hasn't Goldin gotten in front of the press and shown any of this evidence?
What evidence?
This should be front page news all over the world.
What news?
Where are the videos of the objects, the testimonials of astronauts, military people, the Fence data that you claim to have seen? Why does NASA seek to censor all information and only occasionally throws a bone to the public?
I do not understand any of these rapid fire questions above. Fence is NORAD, not NASA. What are you referencing?
10.Why does NASA distort and suppress IRAS data? Why does NASA stay well away from the 1983 discovery of another planet in our solar system? Washington Post Mystery Heavenly Body Discovered, a front page story 31-Dec-1983
A heavenly body possibly as large as the giant planet Jupiter and possibly so close to Earth that it would be part of this solar system has been found in the direction of the constellation Orion by an orbiting telescope aboard the U.S. infrared astronomical satellite. So mysterious is the object that astronomers do not know if it is a planet, a giant comet, a nearby "protostar" that never got hot enough to become a star, a distant galaxy so young that it is still in the process of forming its first stars or a galaxy so shrouded in dust that none of the light cast by its stars ever gets through. "All I can tell you is that we don't know what it is," Dr. Gerry Neugebauer, IRAS chief scientist for California's Jet Propulsion Laboratory and director of the Palomar Observatory for the California Institute of Technology said in an interview.
The most fascinating explanation of this mystery body, which is so cold it casts no light and has never been seen by optical telescopes on Earth or in space, is that it is a giant gaseous planet, as large as Jupiter and as close to Earth as 50 billion miles. While that may seem like a great distance in earthbound terms, it is a stone's throw in cosmological terms, so close in fact that it would be the nearest heavenly body to Earth beyond the outermost planet Pluto. "If it is really that close, it would be a part of our solar system," said Dr. James Houck of Cornell University's Center for Radio Physics and Space Research and a member of the IRAS science team. "If it is that close, I don't know how the world's planetary scientists would even begin to classify it."
The mystery body was seen twice by the infrared satellite as it scanned the northern sky from last January to November, when the satellite ran out of the supercold helium that allowed its telescope to see the coldest bodies in the heavens. The second observation took place six months after the first and suggested the mystery body had not moved from its spot in the sky near the western edge of the constellation Orion in that time. "This suggests it's not a comet because a comet would not be as large as the one we've observed and a comet would probably have moved," Houck said. "A planet may have moved if it were as close as 50 billion miles but it could still be a more distant planet and not have moved in six months time.
Whatever it is, Houck said, the mystery body is so cold its temperature is no more than 40 degrees above "absolute" zero, which is 459 degrees Fahrenheit below zero. The telescope aboard IRAS is cooled so low and is so sensitive it can "see" objects in the heavens that are only 20 degrees above absolute zero. When IRAS scientists first saw the mystery body and calculated that it could be as close as 50 billion miles, there was some speculation that it might be moving toward Earth. "It's not incoming mail," Cal Tech's Neugebauer said. "I want to douse that idea with as much cold water as I can."
I have no data on this at all. But I would definitely get ahold of the HST team and find any data you can on this. This is compelling and I've heard reference to this before. However, NASA would be the first to talk about this sort of thing, not hide it. This would a scientific windfall. Since everything I say is a lie and this whole thing is a waste of both of our time, then, why not yourself begin an adult dialog with the HST team and find out about this. Do a research project on the topic. Then, report online your findings.
If it is a galaxy, it is at least 2 million LY from us. If its a proto planet, at these temps, which is a puzzle to me for data as far as celestial mechanics go since there is no reasonable way for it be this cold, it remains a mystery, if true. At 50 billion miles (over 500 AU) and with a mass that of Jupiter it is beyond the fringe of the outer solar gravitational influence.
Go find out. If you don't start right off with HST as Hoagland would, they will love to answer this as best they can.
Why do various NASA satellites go "out of service" at very convenient times and then suddenly get "fixed" months later?
I don't agree with this assessment by you. Generally the perception is in reverse of fact. Meaning, like NEAR, it glitches at the last firing before coming close to EROS. This isn't some trick, it is a failure because the craft fired the RCS for the first time after long dormancy and then failed. The failure is because it fired, not because of location. If logic is not part of the issue, then "gee, look there, that craft got to where it was suppose to be, fired its engine for entry, and screwed up. Damn, NASA's always doin' that."
No. It failed because it fired, not because of where it was.
In short, Mr. Stephens, Hoagland is a flawed character whose data should certainly be taken with several grains of salt. NASA, however, has done far worse in misleading and lying to the public and denying them their right to knowledge.
You are a liar with this statement. Sorry. I was there--still am for 20 years.
Knowledge which was paid for by them
It was paid for by you and me and Hoagland and all Americans.
and should by all rights be available to all Americans. You, Mr. Stephens, could do a far better service to us by telling what NASA really knows and thinks than on hounding Richard Hoagland.
I disagree with this last statement. I have told what I know. There is a hell of a lot more. Its good stuff. I have a tougher hide. If NASA got this above they'd trash it for the same reason I told you in the first mail.
Hope this wasn't too much of a waste of time for you.
Okay, Peter, best I can do.
Sincerely,
Robert A.M. Stephens
NASA Documentation Program
Stillwater Mills Contractor-Aerospace
406-745-3818
sti3818@montana.com
http://198.116.116.10/gallery/arts/samples.html
1,000 Die in Colombia Quake ARMENIA, Colombia (AP)
The death toll surpassed 1,000 today from a powerful earthquake that destroyed nearly two-thirds of all the buildings in this western Colombian city. But as Colombians reeled from the worst earthquake to strike this seismically active country in more than a century, citizens cheered in the streets of downtown early today when the Red Cross rescued three men trapped overnight in the rubble of a wrecked four-story building.
Stunned residents in Colombia's coffee belt chose to wait out the night around bonfires rather than venture back into their crumpled homes following the magnitude 6 quake, which injured hundreds. The earthquake flattened cities and towns across western Colombia on Monday afternoon, rattling buildings as far away as the capital, Bogota, 140 miles from the epicenter.
Hundreds of the dead lived in Armenia, a city of 220,000 residents where entire neighborhoods were reduced to rubble and left without water or electricity, and where residents say relief has been slow to arrive. Capt. Ciro Antonio Guiza, the city's deputy fire chief, said rescue workers were so strapped that many bodies remained on the streets uncollected. "There are more than 1,000 dead, perhaps more than 2,000 in Armenia alone," he said.
Hundreds of bodies were trapped in 25 buildings that collapsed, he said. In one 10-story apartment building alone, an estimated 60 people were crushed to death, Guiza said. Some 700 buildings were destroyed and 180,000 people left homeless in Armenia alone, Colombian Red Cross official Carlos Gilberto Giraldo told The Associated Press. The injured were being evacuated by air to Bogota, Medellin and Cali, and by road to nearby Manizales, he said.
Without refigerator trucks to store the hundreds of rotting corpses, epidemics could break out, worried Giraldo. Iliana Patricia Vega, 26, paced the working-class Brasilia Nueva district in tears, her bright red dress torn, her right shoulder naked to the cool night. "Oh, my baby, he was so beautiful," she said of her 10-year-old son, Jon Alexander. She was on the second floor with her son and 6-year-old daughter when everything collapsed, killing the boy almost immediately. "Does anyone have any medicine? Can I get some medicine?" she cried, fretting over a nasty gash to the little girl's forehead.
Across the street, Pedro Maria Londono, 46, and the rest of his four-member family were miraculously saved when every room but the one they were in was destroyed. "In 12 seconds, I lost what took 20 years to build," Londono said.
Just up the street, the corpse of Elda Rincon, 54, was covered with a white sheet. "We're going to incinerate my mother first thing in the morning," said 15-year-old Kevin Arboleda, one of the five sons she left. Guiza said 60 percent of the city was destroyed.
Worst hit were the poor southern districts. Some 340 bodies were collected at a makeshift morgue but it would be hours before hundreds more could be recovered, he said. "There's no way to measure this crisis," said Alvaro Patino, Armenia's mayor.
As Colombians reeled from the worst temblor to hit the country since a 1994 earthquake killed 800 people, relief efforts continued through the night. To applause from a crowd in the center of Armenia, Colombian Red Cross workers early today excavated three men who were trapped on the first floor of a four-story building for more than 13 hours. The men were having coffee in a first-floor pawn shop and saved themselves by ducking between a large safe and the wall just before the floors above came down on them.
President Andres Pastrana toured the disaster zone Monday, vowing more federal aid after daybreak and urging his countrymen to chip in. Heeding the call, donors formed long lines at Bogota blood banks and rang telethons. Landslides -- which had slowed the arrival of rescue equipment and supplies -- were cleared, and convoys of government vehicles with cranes and other heavy equipment converged on the disaster zone. An air force plane shuttled rescue equipment, medical supplies, food and blankets to the region late Monday.
Schools and stadiums were converted to makeshift shelters and morgues. More than 350 people were treated at the Southern Hospital in Armenia, where blood smeared the floors and walls and patients spent the night huddled on rusted gurneys. Doctors said at least 40 people had been pronounced dead at the facility. Armenia's three-story fire station tumbled in pieces onto its 14 vehicles. At least nine people were killed when the building's concrete floors and pillars came crashing down. Officers were also feared killed in the collapse of a police barracks. Five members of the Colombian professional soccer club Atletico Quindio -- three Argentines and two Brazilians -- were also feared dead in the ruins of a hotel in downtown Armenia. "There isn't a point in the city's geography which was not affected by this horrific tragedy," Patino told RCN radio. "We need everything ... medicine, clothes ... electric generators," he said, urging Colombians in the United States to send aid. Monday's quake was the deadliest since 1875, when about 1,000 people died in a tremor near Cucuta, a border city with Venezuela.
Colombia's worst disaster was a 1985 volcanic eruption in central Tolima state that destroyed an entire town and killed 23,000 people.
Citizens in Armenia, the provincial capital of Quindio province, were tearing at rubble of concrete and twisted metal with their bare hands, sledge hammers and shovels in a desperate bid to free survivors from the wreckage, said a Reuters photographer in the heart of the disaster zone.
Television footage showed fires raging in the streets of Pereira, capital of neighboring Risaralda province, as rescue workers pulled the partially clothed bodies of victims from beneath the debris.
`We're overwhelmed by the magnitude of this earthquake,'' said Alberto Parra, head of Colombia's Civil Defense network, giving a partial death toll of 253 dead and more than 900 injured.
The National Seismological Institute said the quake, which struck at 1:19 p.m. EST (1819 GMT), measured 6.0 on the Richter scale and was classed as being capable of causing serious damage in a populated area.
The worst-hit area was this provincial city perched in the Andes mountains and surrounded by lush coffee plantations. Parra said at least 200 people had died in Armenia, with a further 30 killed in the adjacent community of Calarca.
At least 23 others died in Pereira and 17 outlying towns and villages covering five separate provinces.
By nightfall, ushered in by a series of powerful aftershocks, the final toll was still uncertain amid reports that at least two villages in southwest Valle del Cauca province had been wiped off the map by the quake.
The quake was the worst to hit Colombia since early 1983 when the colonial city of Popayan, also nestled in the Andes mountains, was wrecked by a tremor that killed more than 300 people and injured over 1,200.
President Andres Pastrana had been due to attend a World Bank meeting in Munich Tuesday but broke off that leg of a high-profile European trip to fly to the disaster zone.
A six-story building, a top hotel, a theater and a police station were leveled in Armenia, while a church and scores of shops and homes collapsed in ruins in nearby Pereira.
Officials declared a dusk-to-dawn curfew in both cities to allow rescue teams to work unhampered and the military set up an emergency field hospital and rushed in army ambulances from the southwest city of Cali to attend the wounded.
Authorities were also reported to have cut off power supplies, fearing that electricity could spark further fires in damaged buildings.
The tremor caused numerous landslides along the main routes leading in and out of Quindio and Risaralda provinces, officials said.
The National Coffee Growers' Federation said it had no immediate reports of damage to Colombia's prized coffee crop, the country's No. 2 export earner, but conceded that phone communications to much of the quake-hit area had failed.
Television images showed the force of the quake had smashed open crypts and sent old skulls and bones spilling out into a graveyard in the town of Cajamarca, in central Tolima province, where one fatality was reported.
Tremors are common in this Andean nation, but most are located so deep beneath the earth's crust that they do little or no damage.
Colombia's National Seismological Institute, however, said that Monday's quake was less than 20 miles (30 km) below the surface -- far less than normal -- and that the epicenter was located in a mountainous region 115 miles (180 km) southwest of Bogota on the borders of Tolima and Quindio provinces.
The institute reported at least 10 aftershocks, the largest of which measured between 5.5 and 5.6 on the Richter scale, but it was not immediately clear if these had caused any additional damage.
By Jared Kotler Associated Press Writer
Monday, January 25, 1999; 5:18 p.m. EST BOGOTA, Colombia (AP)
An earthquake struck western Colombia on Monday, killing at least 87 people and injuring nearly 850 as it toppled buildings across the country's coffee-growing heartland, police and radio reported.
The early afternoon quake had a preliminary magnitude of 6, according to the U.S. Geological Survey in Golden, Colo. Its epicenter was located in western Valle del Cauca state, 140 miles from the capital, Bogota.
The death and damage toll appeared to be highest in Armenia, Pereira and Calarca -- three cities near the epicenter. ``There's no way to measure this crisis,'' said the mayor of Armenia, Alvaro Pulido. Radio reports said several buildings on the city's main plaza, including a bank and the police barracks, had collapsed. He said thousands of people were left homeless. In Armenia, there were at least 50 dead and more than 500 injured, according to the Colombian Red Cross. Radio reports put the death toll there as high as 100.
One city hospital alone had received more than 500 injured, RCN radio reported. Television footage showed residents frantically trying to extract victims trapped below the debris of a fallen building in the city, the capital of Quindio state. In Calarca, 90 miles west of Bogota, 30 people died and 250 were injured, RCN reported, citing local authorities. Several aftershocks were felt in the town but it was not clear if they added to the damage. In Pereira, a city of 550,000 people and capital of Risaralda state, at least seven people died and 70 were injured, police said. Mayor Luis Alberto Duque declared a 12-hour curfew to aid rescue efforts and said the death toll was likely to rise.
About 200 houses were damaged and some crumbled beneath the impact of the powerful temblor, police said. Television images from Pereira showed several demolished buildings, a taxi flattened under fallen debris and the body of a woman trapped under the rubble. Offices and apartments rattled and swayed in Bogota, where the quake was felt for about 15 seconds. Landslides caused by the earthquake blocked access to some rural areas affected by the quake. President Andres Pastrana delayed a trip to Europe and was en route by helicopter from the capital to Pereira, his office said. The earthquake was felt in most of the country, but the majority of the victims and damages were concentrated in 17 municipalities.
Hello everyone,
We have been presented in the past few weeks with a spectacle remarkable even on the scale of the ridiculousness common to UFOlogy. Robert Stephens emerged some months ago and began to share some provocative information concerning the subject of UFOs. He was about to be engaged in a debate on Art Bell's radio program covering 200 questions concerning claims made by Richard Hoagland, when his participation was cut from the air. In the midst of the firestorm of debate that followed, he bowed out in a "confession" that labelled himself a "Fraud". Many have said, with some justification, that Stephens' final radio comments were somewhat disjointed, though others have reported that he was particularly cogent in his other appearances. In any case, he has taken his agenda to the written word, and is publishing the "200 questions" he's been talking about.
What is Stephens' agenda? According to him, it is to expose Richard Hoagland as a fraud. Now, I have committed myself not to descend into personal or institutional attacks so common in this domain, as I have far more interesting and productive things to do with my time. But this case is different than the rest. I have volunteered to comment on Stephens' assertion, so let me make six brief points:
1 - If you read my book, you will find no mention of "hyperdimensional physics", "tetrahedral geometry", "19.5", "Cydonia", "Face on Mars", or basically any of Hoagland's signature claims, and I have studied his claims insofar as that is possible from two meetings and numerous reviews of his web site. The reason you won't find any of his claims in my book is because I do not believe Hoagland's evidence supports his assertions. I am and will remain open-minded to all good evidence on any and all subjects, but I have not seen good evidence from Mr. Hoagland up to this point. Generally speaking, that portion of his data that I have seen would not hold up in a pre-trial hearing, let alone in front of a jury.
2 - When I quietly entered this domain a year ago, I began providing private grants to a number of researchers over time, including Hoagland, to see if there was any "there" there. In the case of Hoagland, I have seen nothing of productive value in return.
3 - I can personally witness to the whole "December 7th" craft landing claim, as Richard communicated similar information to me. I listened but chose to ignore it, again for lack of a shred of good supporting evidence.
4 - Do I find evidence that Hoagland conducts fraudulent "science"? My experience with Richard Hoagland suggests Stephens is correct. I have no personal agenda against Richard Hoagland. I am simply stating the truth as I see it.
5 - I do not know Robert Stephens except through a brief dialog concerning my views on Mr. Hoagland. In my dialog with him he has been a careful and clear-headed thinker. I cannot vouch for all of his claims one way or the other, but I can and will support them where I personally am in a position to discriminate fact from fiction. Stephens' point regarding the NRO is likely accurate. I have separate confirmation that our global tracking systems do observe many "unknowns" each month. I agree with his view that the secret to super-luminal propulsion is to be found in systems that will influence time through electromagnetic means. Stephens' questions of Hoagland are extremely serious and should be answered by Hoagland. If they are even mostly true, we will have a crystal-clear picture of why the "guvmint" could never work with the field of UFOlogy in its present state. If Robert's claims are not true, then Hoagland should be able to put this to rest and acquit himself rather efficiently and emerge all the stronger for it.
6 - I cannot speak in any informed way on the alleged "troika" between Hoagland, Bell, and CAUS. From my perspective, I have seen no good evidence that Art Bell is anything but a good entertainer with a broad and effective reach, with an open forum for all kinds of ideas, and perhaps too little discretion on what he chooses to broadcast. In the case of Peter Gersten, though his over-aggressive defense of Hoagland in various venues is mystifying, I have seen his hard work in a thankless task, with a good heart, surrounded as we all are by a swamp of fiction. His work with Corso was significant. A signed affidavit was no small victory.
Whether you agree with Stephens' tactics or not, his points are well grounded, and this is a critical issue and must be addressed for the health of our movement. I thank him for his diligence and courage to confront our weaknesses. Those of us who seriously study the UFO issue are convinced that it is the most important single question facing humanity at this moment in time. It is far too important to have the entire UFO community subjected to derision from Hoagland's unchallenged and unsupportable claims.
If this domain cannot police itself, then it doesn't deserve to be trusted with astoundingly far-reaching and fundamental data. Let us commit ourselves to truth, plain and simple.
J O S E P H F I R M A G E
Founder & Chairman
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International Space Sciences Organization
Prepared from sources that have interfaced and had experiences with Richard C. Hoagland. In addition, personal questions gleaned from 22,400 emails--phone calls over a period since 10-20-1998 to 1-20-1999 to Stillwater Mills, my company.
Prepared also from the Enterprise Mission web site from 12-1-1998.
Questions 144 through 200 have been omitted since they were pertinent and exclusive too NEXRAD weather data as featured on the Enterprise Mission Web site, and answered by representatives from the National Weather Service. For a full report, you may consult Borderlands Research Foundation, at http//:www.borderlands.com for answers to the false claims made on the Enterprise Mission Web site.
(note: all references to events not related to the Enterprise Mission can be, and in cases, have been already, verified by the individuals-agencies involved)
1. Why did you tell a Dr. Richard Sauder that Washington D.C. was going to drop nuclear weapons on itself?
RICHARD HOAGLAND LIED. DR. RICHARD SAUDER VERIFIED HE WAS LYING.
2. Why do you allude that you get your reference from an inside Pentagon source, which would mean, pertinent to the above verified question, that you are taking information from a lying traitor?
3. If you knew this information from this source, why did you not tell and warn others besides Dr. Richard Sauder?
4. If you did not tell or warn others about this impending nuclear strike, and said strike had occurred, this would have lent you to being accessory to wholesale murder on a gargantuan scale. How do you reconcile this gross felonious incrimination of yourself?
5. You wrote the book regarding structures on Mars in the LA county jail. Can you explain this?
6. Why were you in jail?
7. Are you still referring to the Pentagon insider who is a traitor to the United States of America?
8. You claimed the United States, during the summer of 1997, that in the city of Phoenix, Arizona, was going to thermonuclearize itself to get the gold that somehow lies underneath. Can you explain this?
9. What source of information did, or do you have, to make such a claim?
10. Is your source an inside Pentagon source?
11. If you had this information and only warned the few people who got your Enterprise Mission handout in various malls and other outlets where you were passing this information out, did you try and warn authorities, your fellow Americans, that this imminent event of horrific proportions was about to come visit them?
12. If you did not, and the nukes fell on Phoenix, this would make you an accessory to murder on a gargantuan scale. How do you reconcile this gross felonious incrimination of yourself?
13. Your warnings to Dr. Joe Gill, for which I stand corrected in detail, consisted of warning him to leave the state of Hawaii since an asteroid was going to go down inside the volcano there and blow up the island. How did you get this information of warning?
14. If you had this information of early warning, did you tell others so they would not also die?
15. If you did not, why didn't you warn others besides Dr. Gill?
16. If you did not warn others of this impending asteroid going down the throat of the volcano and killing everyone in Hawaii this would have made you accessory to murder on a gargantuan scale. How do you then reconcile this gross felonious incrimination of yourself?
17. For the destruction of Washington D.C., the destruction of the state of Hawaii, and for the destruction of the city of Phoenix, what special equipment and early warning devices do you have that gives you this strategic edge to apocalyptic events?
18. Why did you loose your accreditation to all NASA centers in the world for yourself and the Enterprise Mission? NASA reports, and this information was on your web site on 12-1-1998, that is was because you lied to them?
19. Why did you misrepresent yourself to NASA after they gave you access to the KSC site in good faith?
20. Why did you attempt to destroy the life of Dr. Bruce Cornet after Dr. Cornet gave you exhaustive good service in research and other endeavors?
21. For what motivation would you do something like this to this man and his family?
22. Why is there a plethora of unsolicited mails and phone calls to my place of residence, origin to over two dozen professional people in the UFO community, who fairly wish to litigate you and from a personal level, want to do extreme harm to your person for what you have allegedly done to them in every way imaginable, financially, economically, theft of information, defamation, theft of moneys, loitering, embezzlement, and verbal assault on their professional character?
23. After talking to Walter Cronkite (Hudson Institute, alumni reporter brief), why does he not recollect you whatsoever nor does he remember you whatsoever at KSC or at any other NASA function?
24. The Washington Post of March 22, 1996, called you a, "a flake, fake, liar, a nutcase, a fruitcake, etc". Please explain why they would say this to the general public?
25. Exhaustive research shows there is no Angstrom Medal. Explain this?
26. A Mr. Joe Firmage in part, funded a grant to you to disclaim or prove that your claims were true or false. You disappeared and to my knowledge, this research endeavor has yielded nothing for the money you were so entrusted to deploy. Explain this?
27. Goddard Space Flight Center wants your hide. They inform me and others, particularly an LA Times reporter who wishes to remain anonymous, that he was there when you were there also At Goddard. You photographed copied photos from the moon flights and other space missions, while the pictures were laying there on copy tables under glass. Thus, the natural reflection is now what you are claiming is structures and such on the moon and elsewhere. Your photos and claims are fakes and frauds. Why have you done this?
28. The very photos on your Enterprise Mission site, in general, when checked with the photo archive at NASA-JSC, shows that they are crystal clear and have not the reflections as the Goddard photos have that you have used. Goddard says the day in question they were in a hurry and the photos had reflections. They regret this. You have exploited a falsehood. Why have you done this to the public at large?
29. Why do you not wish to be on any other radio show to debate these very questions organic to your world online, but only on Art Bell?
30. It is perceived by many that you are involved in collusion with Art Bell as an entertainer and nothing more . Respond to this?
31. Are you under paid contract with Art Bell and Jacor Enterprises as an entertainer and thus conclusive to such an agreement in normal practice thus precludes you from answering questions to your claims, and appearances on any other shows other than Art Bell? Explain this perception and charge by many?
32. You have a page sequence of 'Fireballs Over Turret Peak'. The photos you have used are taken from various NASA archives and are solid rocket motor exhaust plumes from vehicles on ascent from either KSC or from Vandenberg AFB. The craft in each case has been removed with a graphic software program. Why have you lied and presented falsified photos to the public at large in the attempt to deceive them?
33. You have never worked for NASA. You are known as being insane. Explain?
34. You post no NASA release statement for all these falsified photos, no different than I had to have Michael Theroux do at borderlands when he hosted my page and had the Smithsonian-NASA link to my painting sample at NASA Headquarters. In this case, I painted the painting, yet, legally, I had to post the copyright and ownership data for the public at large that it was NASA's. Why haven't you done this too for all these falsified and stolen photos on your website?
35. For the Pegasi star signal, what special equipment and early warning devices do you have that gives you this strategic edge to an impending landing on Turret Peak Arizona for the morning of December 7, 1998, over assets owned and operated by NORAD and DoD and other strategic agencies that were immutably not aware of this star signal?
36. Did you have another inside source at DoD or elsewhere that brought this revelation of exclusive data to your attention?
37. If you had this information, and knew of it, why did you only notify the public online, rather than NASA and other agencies that did not have this information and could have assisted you in this finding?
38. Why is it that the high school you attended, and the man you stole his name and identity from for the Pegasi hoax, a one named Paul Dore, have such similar names. The mathematical coincidence is too great for serendipity for this conundrum. Justify this?
39. Why would you elaborate on Paul Dore, using and stating his person, when he asked you to quit using his name?
40. Why does the whole Pegasi event trace itself back to you and you exclusively along with crude assistance from Terry Tim Rogers?
41. You harp incessantly on the 'Masonic' connection and its activities regarding NASA when in fact, it is the Mormon connection that is the prime issue back before 1986. Yet, this is never mentioned. The Masonic nonsense is basically a lie. The Mormon connection is far more compelling and a fact. Why do you selectively ignore one for another?
42. What registration wave did you deploy to confirm the Pegasi signal?
43. What was the Heim-Wave coefficient for determining the artificial nature of the Pegasi signal?
44. What part of NORAD's Fence Database did you have access to, to confirm the landing was going to be on Turret Peak, Arizona, or that registered such?
45. Why do you not embrace all number recurrences over and above 19.5 and 33 for your highly strange and peculiar postulations?
46. Why do you not use the more common and stranger recurrence numbers like 22, 77, 4.5, 99.7, 50, .125, 37.5, etc. which show up far more frequently than 19.5 and 33 in even stranger places and occurrences in our lexicon?
47. You have only a high school education. Explain?
48. At what point did you gain full registration for the Pegasi intruder space ship?
49. Why do you hide behind the anonymity of the Internet to make your claims which are fraudulent, then prohibit anyone from contacting you for further information?
50. Why do you postulate hyper dimensional physics claims, but use false and gross error of math, or no math at all, to substantiate your claims as is normal conventions of protocol in science?
51. You postulate hyper dimensional physics. Thus, then, explain the mathematics fact, called an argument, of the simple equation of +SOL><-SOL/E-squared. Which is the baseline for anything that is a warping of our space time place?
52. What is the interfacing of Femptophoton research in relation to hyper dimensional physics?
53. Under Turret Peak, you state that some machinery was turned on in very large caves and tunnels. Dr. Richard Sauder, the foremost authority on this anomaly, strongly refutes your statement. Explain or counter Dr. Sauder's assessment?
54. I had Model Railroad friends, which is my indoor hobby, and whom live in Phoenix, go up to Turret Peak to explore for old railroad and narrow gauge mining data. They are not UFO people or know anything about you or the Pegasi ship. They reported back to me on the 7th, and the 8th of December, 1998, that there was nothing up there out of the norm at all. Explain this?
55. You talk and postulate a lie of demented fashion about horizontal snow, occurring with no wind, and that it is falling somehow, which for anyone living in snow prone areas, roughly 80% of the country, reacts to your stated claim as if you are a clown and is laughable by such a postulation as you present such on your web site. How do you reconcile this strange statement and the public's reaction to such inaccuracies?
56. Why did the police have to be called on you by the family of Laura Lee and her husband who threatened you with law enforcement intervention if you would not move out of their home and not leech off them any more. Explain this?
57. You discuss some metaphysical connection to all our being with regard to six sided snow flakes. This is a scientific lie. Explain?
58. Why have you and Mike Bara stolen, non copyrighted material on your websites from The Weather Channel, Unisys, Accuweather, and other copyrighted and not for repost data?
59. Why do you use triangles and other symbols on the blurry, stolen, Mars images on your web site to justify your peculiar postulations?
60. Why do you omit the clear, recent photos of Mars, to also try and lend to your postulation of faces and cities and such on Mars--which in these latest photos we see what appears to be a varved, geophysical escarpment by natural conditions. Explain this?
61. What you have on your web site looks like blurry photos of a checkerboard game. What is it we are suppose to see in these?
62. Why do you have such a long running record with being found afoul with the law?
63. Define the Moon for rotation around the Earth and its own axis--in known orbital mechanical terms?
64. Define the Earth for rotation around the Sun and its own axis--in known orbital mechanical terms?
65. You claim and postulate items that are not science but gibberish. In this, please define high school level astronomy terms. One would be, define a light minute?
66. Define a light day?
67. You postulate that you know a great deal about space and NASA. Why is it that you have never ever worked for NASA, any more than I have, yet you claim you have?
68. You've never been a consultant either, Why do you claim this?
69. Why are there so many people who claim you've taken their money from them and ran away and never paid them back or did what you were suppose to do with said finances and are charged by these people as being a felonious malicious person?
70. Why do you insinuate NASA lies all the time, when multitudes want desperately to prove it is you that is the pathological liar and out to commit extreme malice toward those around you---but they somehow are never given a voice by Art Bell to counter these claims and acts by you against them. Explain this?
71. It is asked why I would pick on you. This is quite inane for a question, but for debate sake it is simple. You attack NASA and NASA cannot respond. I can. I do. I have. It is you who is a loud child of the macabre', that writes letters to the Whitehouse, NASA, and other agencies with claims that leaves no one a response. The result is that the entire UFO culture, just and unjust alike, is lumped in together. I take issue with that, now that I am here, and the plethora of lies that you postulate but insulate yourself under the entertainment skirt of Art Bell and anonymity on the internet so no one can confront your claims. You are a double standard in every move you make. For that, I take issue. I have left myself wide open. I have seen others take me to task and prove with data my claims and offerings are the truth. You do not operate under that protocol. The next question proves this immutably. Respond to this truth of charge at your person and volitional operation?
72. Regarding Mars and Cydonia, on your web site, you state categorically, "It's A Face". Since there are over 143,000,000 miles separating us from Cydonia, the very outfit that provided you and I with those photos for you to make that claim disagrees with you, how then can you make such a conclusion?
73. Since Cydonia 'Is A Face!!' in your convicted assessment, then, what extra machinery and equipment and technology do you have or are using to derive this absolute conclusion?
74. Would you share this technology that allows you to formulate a statement of fact that Cydonia is a face with other agencies or parties such as NASA?
75. Are you able to know the difference between a statement of fact and the ability to formulate a premise?
76. Your radar ring claims on your web site are lies and fabrications as proven by representatives of the NWS. How do you explain this? 7
7. How do you attack me on STS-48 and STS-80, when this is my line of work and I say that what is seen in these two videos, and all other STS flights, is the same anomaly of normal in flight, on orbit, operations. Regardless of Kasher or any other 'expert'. I am the expert on this issue and everyone in this field will call me, not that I am in error, but a liar. You are the liar of fact. Defend this rightful charge. How can you lie on a subject when you do not have the means or technology to prove the claim?
78. What technology do you deploy to attain the musical signal from Pegasi, a system of stellar objects that are rife with conditions that would be quite difficult to sustain or nurture any form of non radioactive life form, let alone one that can play music?
79. You not only erred but are a liar in response to the Black Duck Minnesota Submarine ELF array, even when provided with the commanding officer of the facility that you could call or email or fax and verify that it is a real facility. Explain this patent falsehood on you part, exhibited twofold, which you did not, have not apologized for?
80. You uttered that my question on the Art Bell show was character assassination against you. How can a question as to why our nation's capitol was going to nuke itself, as claimed and stated by yourself and verified, constitutes character assassination?
81. Why does Art Bell insulate you from inquiry?
82. Why do you insulate yourself from inquiry?
83. Why did Arthur C. Clarke call you, "his highly imaginative fictional friend"?
84. You falsely allude that gravity, the weak force in this time-place, has something to do with multi dimensional events, when in fact it is the manipulation of time and +SOL that is the true effect. Explain this falsehood as claimed by you?
85. Being absolutely objective, how in God's name can you possibly be among the "pioneering top ten' in space, or anywhere else?
86. When you categorically lie to the public, and are proven as such, why do you not issue a retraction when caught, like what I have revealed about you and what the borderlands research group has revealed?
87. You state categorically that NASA killed SOHO. You claim this is circumstantial. That NASA would blow up its own spacecraft. You are lying. Refute my charge with facts?
88. You state lies incessantly about everything. Then if anyone calls you to task about the lie, which is normal and fair, you then attack them with malice rather than stating your proof. Explain this juvenile and baseless one sided ignorant string of self induced logic on your part?
89. Your insanity is slowly encroaching upon you like a virus consuming a host. Instead of going out and getting a job, where do you intend to go with your macabre' claims of the absurd that are so quickly disproven openly by so many?
90. Have you ever really looked up the word, "Arcology"?
91. You show photos of skyscrapers on Mars on your web site. On the page in question you show one photo that is Mars, and another that is Cairo, Egypt. Nice move. If you vector both photos the same they show the same photograph. There are no skyscrapers on Mars then. Explain this proven lie?
92. Regarding the face and Cydonia. Are you really clear what a 'rectified' photo is verses an 'unrectified' photo?
93. Do you have a clue what you are espousing with statements pertaining to question 92?
94. You state that NASA somehow has purposely ignored certain 'geometry' in relation to Cydonia images. What grounds do you have for these charges?
95. Again, since you have access to technology applications that NASA does not, rather than faulting NASA, wouldn't it be prudent to share your technology with NASA to help them see the truth?
96. Why are copyrighted photos from NASA blank for association and copyrighted by the Enterprise Mission. This is illegal?
97. Do have any notion, in lucid fashion, what your tetrahedral claims of everything NASA really conjures. Explain this endless loop of virtual misinformation?
98. Does NASA do ANYTHING right or constructive or inducive to the mission at hand--beyond providing you with photos to self interpret?
99. ABC is furious at your linking and name dropping of their corporation. Explain this?
100. Do you have a separate unmanned space program aside from NASA and the United States' space effort, for which you are able to derive your 'data' for claim and presentation?
101. How many books did you write while in jail?
102. There is a recurring theme in your overall disposition regarding anything astronomical and NASA related. You insinuate that NASA spends all 'our' money (mine too, since I pay heavy taxes for being self employed), on these massive and very daunting undertakings off Earth. At the very last second, they: blow up their own space craft, hide the possibility of new planets, destroy evidence, wreck proof, fake photographs, change data, fake launches, hide faces on foreign planets, sneak all sorts of strange things past everyone including you, lie incessantly about everything they do, won't go and do what you want, does foolish things within mission profiles rather than look at cities and things which are obviously there for the beckoning, bases every move on the next Mason meeting outcome, Launches spacecraft only and after a thorough clearing of all Egyptian symbolism, and tries its darndest to do the most outlandish thing our species is engaged in--exploration of the last frontier, only to quench out the findings at the last minute. Then, have you ever gone to asked the fundamental question: WHY?
103. For 1-20-1999, you claim a shot over the bow of.....what. That NASA and the occultic involvement they have is such that they shot a meteror at HAARP. This is a lie. Defend this?
104. Why do you claim the fact of all things Europa and oceans? When in fact John Lewis stated this hypothesis back in June of 1971, when you barely were a lurid spark in Arthur's eye. Explain this false claim by you?
105. Why do you claim the 'face' enigma when this was first stated by NASA and JPL people as the first photos were coming in and they even posted the 'face' anomaly on the first released prints, attributing the 'face' effect due to poor camera resolution, altitude, sunlight angle, speed of orbital passing, etc., in 1976. Explain this?
106. In contacting NASA headquarters, they never received that self serving, prolix, letter addressed to Dan Goldin, pertaining to the Cydonia revisit, you have posted on your site. Explain this?
107. Why do you have the NASA logo backwards on your page, yet you have all these photos taken from NASA and not one attribute in thanks for providing the photos in the first place. This would be normal professional venue in other 'rational' formats. Explain this contempt for the very source of your being and life?
108. In the Space anomalies area you have purported photos of two objects related to the STS-80 mission flight. In one and the other you show anomalies that register bigger than the city of Seattle and San Francisco combined. That would be objects that are an aggregate 455 square miles. Large objects. Yet, in no Fence database registration during the mission flow of STS-80 is objects of any proportions are shown in any other venue for this period. Defend this lie?
109. How can objects of these proportions escape anybody's registration that are on your 'map' overlay of the western third of America?
110. In fact, these objects you purport on your space anomalies page, would be visible to the naked eye on Earth in broad daylight. Yet, there is no report of these anomalies by anyone but you. Explain this?
111. Why is there not a reference for these maps, as would be in any disclaiming revelation process?
112. Along with being furious with you, ABC and Ted Koppel want to know why his picture is on your web site in the fashion it is. Explain this?
113. On 4-17-1997, you claim there will be more analysis on STS-80. It has been 21 months. There is still not any mention of 'new' analysis by you. When will this additional analysis be forthcoming?
114. Being redundant, how do you have the technology and math deduction skills, along with Art Bell, Kasher, and others to make the deductions you do and claim, when the assets at NASA and its contractors cannot make he same deductions as you. Explain this awful discrepancy that effects me personally and my work with NASA?
115. Why do you not have a secret source in the NRO, since that would preclude needing one in the Pentagon, since the Pentagon is akin to a giant clerk's office in administration, not the harbinger of facts?
116. You claim that my attack of you and your data is unfounded and I'm stupid. Yet my claims against you and that others have made against you, have shown to be fact, no subjectivity to it. Then, when you are shown to be wrong, you resort to this is all some disinformation and slander campaign. How can this be inquiry on one side and that is okay, and slander on the other. This is illogical so explain this?
117. When you redundantly lie as you do, on nearly everything on your website and in public statements, and are found out, you run your mouth in convolution rather than admit the wrong and move onward. Why?
118. You are perceived as a liar, a charlatan, a bahl mahl, a faker, a phony, a criminal, a jerk, a man on the border cusp of insanity. These are not subjective conjectures made by otherwise mean people. These conclusions are made by people in this field of study as your self, at times being in this far longer than yourself. They are made strictly by the assessment of your chosen demeanor and actions. The question then is why this chosen venue of personal presentation?
119. Since you will not admit you are a lair and an agent provocateur of trouble, and yet others when mistaken admit such or when they are so bold to discredit themselves, they rely on others to re-verify them and their claims, why do you not subscribe to the same truth of revelation.
120. John Pike is the preeminent NASA watchdog scientist. He is utterly brilliant. In his often scathing criticisms of NASA he errors, as we all do. In these events he rushes to the fore showing and admitting and apologizing for his error, then moves on to the next topic. I had to do the same when not being aware of Mr. Czarnik. Finally, there was such a man and I posted accordingly my error. But in your venue, this was not a venue for further credibility, no, that meant that everything about me past and current and future was in error too. Under this strange protocol, which is a strong percentage of the UFO Field of Practices, then, being fair, you sho
uld be tarred and feathered by this same group. How come the selective endorsement of people and data? 121. You are a horrific pathological liar in the eyes that have dealt with you and the agency's you have slandered. Journalists that are aware of you say, "Richard Hoagland is a shameless man named 'Strange'. He embraces a form of scientific terrorism--mixing a little tiny grit of truth, with a mind filled macabre'". (Lennis Bee-Iron, The Village Voice, 1998, the preeminent gay publication in America today, science page). Since this is an accurate assumption, and I would agree with this, how can you justify the claims you make in general to the mainstream and other fringe elements such as the Village Voice in continued practice?
122. My data, claims, statements, revelations, and activities have been proven all true by outside parties from my self. This should be the outcome. In your case, when out and out lying is proven to be the fact, you do not acknowledge this same outcome of revelation about yourself. Why?
123. You show signs of dementia, and it is worsening, how do you intend to rectify this anomaly coming upon your person?
124. Dr. Steven Hawkings is an astrophysicist, among other things. He makes far wilder claims about our time-place and our being than yourself. Yet, since he bases his outlier postulations on known science as a baseline, he is highly respected. In your case, since you take the road of entertainment and tabloid type venue, you are perceived as a 'NUT'. Why have you chosen this latter route, rather than the former?
125. You have threatened people with intimidation and worse. It is why the very 24 or so people that have come forward to provide information on you, wish to remain anonymous, for which I do not agree with them at all and I have stated it to every person who has contacted me. In this, however, should you continue in this felonious behavior, someone will finally take you to task. What will you do when you find yourself surrounded by the very public you have deceived, and they want the truth from you, or at least an apology?
126. You discredit NASA at every turn. It is my long standing agency I've been intimately involved with. Thousands of times greater than your involvement with this same agency. Neither of us work for NASA directly. You never have. I have come along and wish to defend this agency against your stated lies. Why then is my action, to seek truth and divulge lying by you and Art Bell and others, and confirm this, is called somehow 'bad' by you and this industry. But it is perfectly 'good' for you to continue to traffic lies unchecked. Explain this conundrum of selective moral center?
127. At the bottom of the rational food chain, you could resort to, "I'm having fun", or, as Art Bell does when trapped, says, "it's entertainment". If this is the case, and it is, why can't I and others like me also indulge in this practice with the same unquestionable endorsement you enjoy?
128. The attorneys representing the family members of the dead regarding the Hale-Bopp comet fiasco hold you and Art Bell in part, responsible, for inciting macabre' claims of ships and other vehicles riding the plume veil of the comet itself. They are amassing a massive lawsuit against you and others suspected of perpetrating this heinous disinformation juggernaut that may have led to these people to take their own lives. Explain this?
129. What is your technology you have garner to which allows you to assess the Hale-Bopp data you espouse that NASA and other agencies do not have at their disposal of deploy?
130. With this technology you have, and since you are able to garner data that no else can, would you be willing to share this special technology with others so they may know what you know?
131. You seem to be alone in your endeavors of discovery. Science and discovery learned is accomplished by cooperation among all assets available. You are the only one on the planet who approaches this from a singularity. How can this be?
132. How can you be the only one privy of this data you espouse, and with such selfishness, you will not share this findings of new data with the very agencies that could and would substantiate your claims as fact. Explain this peculiar thing?
133. Within the mind of an Art Bell and yourself, you become 'confused' with straight questions of verifiable fact. But when a guest is asked, "how many times did you hit the alien", this is past off as 'truth'. How can this be the case in your mind if someone then comes forward and asked to verify these claims, as has been done with me?
134. If NASA lies at everything they do, which you strongly suggest, why do you rely on anything from them, like photos and such, at all?
135. For 4-9-1997, you indicate that there is proof of some connection to hyper dimensional physics to this page presentation. There is none. Explain this?
136. For 4-18-1997, you postulate with odd graphics and photos from NASA archives, nebulous, vague, insinuation about comet Hale-Bopp having a companion, an ulterior motive for being what it is. Why would you use NASA photos and data, who is a proven perpetrators of lies by your assessment, to substantiate your claims. It is one liar using the data from another liar to tell us a truth. Explain?
137. For 5-1-1997, you post why NASA would not come on air with Art Bell and yourself to debate the Hale-Bopp topic of data for which NASA tried to have Art Bell present NASA findings with the same fairness as the claims made by you and others. NASA steadfastly refused which incensed you. The reason NASA would not appear is because Art Bell, protecting you, his boy, would have cut off and censored NASA. In light of recent circumstances, you want o dispute this statement made by me?
138. For 6-17-1997 you claim to have proof of scientific origins of reverse speech revelations that somehow suggest that NASA is further lying. When this page is accessed, it is gone. Explain this?
139. For 1-20-1999 you still persist that NASA is ensconced with masonic worship. This page in particular about the 'bow shot' is blatant. I work for the agency in question for detail data with STS and other work. I have known and have provided links for proof to NASA directly that you are lying consistantly. Why do you persist on deceiving the public at large?
140. For 4-21-1997, you divulge a proof of statement that somehow a physical mechanical entity, the Hubble Space Telescope, is ensconced in hyper dimensional physics. In contacting the management of HST they not only do not have a clue what you are saying, but say it is not even in the paucity of science as it is known and does not make sense. Explain this?
141. For 4-22-1997, you divulge and demand that an investigation be summoned to examine NASA's proven lies about 'artifacts' on Mars. NASA did this with the latest photos. It shows Cydonia to be a varved geo-eroded escarpment. Until we set up a few backhoes up there, at 143,000,000 miles distance, this assessment is at least fair. NASA put its money where it was charged to do so. Why haven't you?
142. For 12-4-1997, you claim there is a connection of some sort between Saturn and the Sun in hyper dimensional physics. All things on balance, I say you are full of crap. Please defend that I am in error?
143. For 5-6-1998, you asked rhetorically when is a crater not a crater. You then show a very normal, abrupt edged geologic formation that is abundant my the million of occurrences on our own planet (I look at one of these anomalies out my upstairs window in the graphics room up on the side of the 10,000 foot elevation of the Mission Mountain Range---it's in the form of a 'face'). You then take this natural feature and claim it is artificial. You are lying. Explain this?
144. Questions 144 to 199 pertain to the claims and statements made by Richard C. Hoagland of the Enterprise Mission regarding NEXRAD radar and other weather related data, which has been proven to be false, lies, misinformation, and other unfounded claims, by elements of the National Weather Service and NOAA with the assistance of Borderlands Research Foundation. The latter site has the answers to the intended questions herein. 200. In your various claims I challenge them on all, all subjects. You have failed to prove them to be what you claim. You have been refuted at every turn. You persist to lie and present falsehoods. In my case, I postulated I was a fraud. It was proven to be not so--that I am in fact, who I say I am. Outside parties have proven this. Others still came forward on my behalf, taking issue with the spurious claims against me. From the beginning two names and addresses appear on nearly every mail from me. In each case these two individuals are Scot Bowlin and Michael Osborne. Scot Bowlin goes back with me for 15 years. He worked at NASA and has since moved on. I'm not sure what he is up to currently. I did asked him to monitor my mails and involvement in this 'field' of study. He verifies my personal claims as best as he is able to on his own volition. I did not asked him to come forward. Michael Osborne is an Advanced Photo Interpreter for the National Reconnaissance Office. He is, in essence, a spy. He has been watching this too from the beginning and has made no comment publicly. He will verify me if needed. He has divulged no secrets or anything else pertinent to the security of the United States of America. This event amuses him greatly. There, now, that is some facts. My last question, then, since this list of questions is going up the chain way above NASA, is, will you admit you have lied repeatedly to this online and off line community pertaining to the UFO culture, claims about NASA and other statements filled with pathos. Will you admit this, since I did the same pertaining to myself when it wasn't true, to get others to defend me on their own, which they did. Will you answer these questions now? If not, and others within this 'field' allow you to do what you do, then this undustry needs to be kept right where it has put itself. The 'giggle' factor of choice for Everyman everywhere.
(CNN) WASHINGTON- Terrorist cyber threats and germ warfare are being targeted by PresidentClinton under a $2.8 billion plan to safeguard the nation. Clinton said that terrorists, recognizing they cannot defeat the United States with military force, are seeking "new tools of destruction."
We must be ready -- ready if our adversaries try to use computers to disable power grids, banking, communications and transportation networks, police, fire and health services of military assets," the president said.
He also warned of the damage a biological attack could have. "We have to be ready to detect and address a biological attack promptly, before the disease spreads."
Clinton said terrorists were seeking new ways to strike and the U.S. must be ready for potentially crippling attacks against computer networks.
Clinton speaks to the National Academy of Sciences. He urged spending $2.8 billion more to safeguard the nation.
"This is not a cause for panic," the president said. "It is a cause for serious, deliberate, disciplined, long-term concern." He said that "we have a better than good chance of success."
Clinton spoke of cyber-era threats in a speech before the National Academy of Sciences, dwelling on a subject of deepening concern and anxiety in the White House. Four years ago, the world was shocked by a nerve gas attack in the Tokyo subway; more recently there has been a rash of anthrax hoaxes in the Los Angeles area.
"We do not know of any imminent attack being planned in the United States using chemical or biological weapons or using cyber attack techniques," said Richard Clarke, the president's national coordinator for anti-terrorism programs.
"But we do want to raise consciousness ... that such attacks are growing increasingly likely," he said at a White House briefing with Attorney General Janet Reno and Health and Human Services Secretary Donna Shalala.
CNN) Numerous tornadoes ripped through several southern states Friday, less than 24 hours after dozens of tornadoes killed eight people and injured dozens more. There were reports of tornadoes in Louisiana, Texas, Arkansas, Mississippi, Alabama and Tennessee. Most counties in Mississippi and Alabama were under tornado watches for much of the evening. To the north, in Kentucky and Indiana, tornado sightings were reported.
LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (AP) - Tornadoes ripped across the South for the second time in less than a week, a punishing storm system that killed eight people in two states and left thousands of people without power early Friday. Wave after wave of twisters hit central Arkansas late Thursday afternoon and evening, collapsing roofs, knocking down power poles and leaving trees strewn about the grounds of the governor's mansion. Seven people died. In Tennessee, a tornado touched down in Clarksville this morning, ripping roofs off buildings. No deaths were reported there but one woman died elsewhere in Tennessee. Just last Sunday, tornadoes killed nine people in the state.
Source: West Central Tribune [Willmar, MN] ATWATER
While most of Atwater's residents slept Sunday morning, at least one resident heard a thundering roar that ripped through the early dawn hours, rattling windows in a senior citizen apartment complex. Startled by the horrific noise, an elderly resident stumbled out of bed, peered out the window and noticed a dark hole, fringed with strange star-shaped lines, in the ice of a small lake. What caused it?
Maybe a meteorite, says Atwater Police Chief Reed Schmidt, who has been investigating the sonic-boom-type noise ever since the report was first made to his office Tuesday. Schmidt thinks the hole in Tadd Lake was apparently caused by an object that plummeted from the sky. Schmidt said the elderly woman, who was reluctant to report the incident and insisted on remaining anonymous lest her friends found out and questioned her sensibilities, said she was awakened early Sunday by a loud noise and a vibration that shook the windows. When she got up she noticed a hole in the ice, just 12 feet from shore and just 30 feet from the apartment building on Fourth Street on the southwest side of town. Schmidt examined the site, took photos and placed a weight and float in the 2- to 3-foot circle of open water.
Admittedly fascinated by what may have plunged into the mucky bottom of the 5-foot deep lake, Schmidt called the National Weather Service to find out if there'd been meteorite shower over the weekend. The weather service referred him to the University of Minnesota astronomy department, which referred him to the university's geology department, which said the object probably was a meteorite. Schmidt was given the name of a professor in that department, and, as of Wednesday night, was still waiting for the professor to call back. Schmidt said it doesn't appear the object was a piece from an airplane. He said it appeared that the object "must've been very hot" when it landed because it didn't make a crash impact on the ice, but made an "unusual imprint." He said the object created a level area of open water with a "beautiful star-shaped pattern" around the edges.
Marc Rosa, Atwater's assistant fire chief, saw the hole and said, "My first thought was it was something that fell off a plane. I'm intrigued to find out what the heck it is." If the professor is interested and decides to retrieve the object, Schmidt said it'll likely be intact, because the bottom of Tadd Lake is very muddy. "There's a good possibility that it would not be destroyed or broken," he said. Atwater Fire Chief Greg Tauer said he was not all that curious about the mystery object until he saw the hole in the ice. "Something from the sky made it," he said. "How did it get there? What caused it? We want to find out what it is." Tauer said unless somebody objects, divers from the Atwater Fire Department are scheduled to dive into the hole at 1 p.m. Saturday.
If the object doesn't generate interest from the geological realm, Schmidt said he'll continue to explore the site by using a metal detector. Although he's "extremely curious to find out what's under there," he said he may wait to retrieve the object until spring. "It's driving me crazy wondering what's there and not be able to see it," he said. "But if it's something that's valuable for them (the geology department), I don't want to mess up their possibilities of finding it." Schmidt said the town's residents are starting to speculate on what the object might be. "It's kind of a fun thing to find this close to us." Schmidt said he's relieved that, whatever the mystery object is, landed in the lake and not on someone's roof. "It would've been really devastating if it had hit there."
(Discovery Online) A new volcanic island emerged near Tonga's capital Nuku'alofa, spewing lava and steam into the sky on Monday. Authorities say the island is about 1,000 feet (300 meters) long and 130 feet (40 meters) wide, and is located 30 miles (48 km) northwest of the capital. Tongan officials have issued warnings to vessels traveling near the area.
Tonga has a history of islands suddenly appearing and disappearing. One island emerged several years ago and was named after a Tongan-descended rugby player Jonah Lomu. His fame continues, but the island recently isappeared.
Mt. Hood under very close watch. Several earthquakes occurring.
http://www.goodnet.com/~ej76707/cerupt.htm
Emails to Kent Steadman regarding a meteor hitting in Alabama
99-01-17 00:36:25 EST
Good evening Kent,
My husband called me this evening shortly after he drove into Birmingham, Alabama traveling south on State Highway 79.He sighted what he believes to be a meteor. He said it was the largest he had ever seen and it was in broad daylight between 4:30PM and 5:00PM CST. It was as large as his fist on his extended arm. The body of this fireball itself was a brilliant white color and it had a red and green tail. It was traveling from north to south and was about 45 degrees above the horizon. He also said that while it did appear to be falling, it was still traveling in a more straight forward than downward direction.
This sighting took place in an area called Tarrant City, just outside of the Birmingham city limits to the northeast. Was just wondering if there had been any other sightings from anywhere else today.
Thanks.
99-01-17 19:19:27 EST
Hello Kent:
Enclosed is the screen capture of the double EMP which was detected Saturday, January 16th.
Please note the similarity between this detection and the other photos of the meteor EMPs which occurred in Georgia and Alaska.
This possibly could be a recording of the meteor which was sighted in Alabama.
Charlie Plyler
Elfrad Group
Interesting Footnote:
Earthquakes
99/01/17 18:38:04 36.87N 83.69W 5.0 3.0Lg TENNESSEE
99/01/18 07:00:54 33.35N 87.39W 1.0 4.0Lg ALABAMA
Tecumseh & the New Madrid Earthquake
He raised his eyes skyward, but the prayer died aborning as a huge meteor suddenly plunged into the atmosphere and burst into brilliant greenish-white flame. It streaked across the heavens from the north in an awe-inspiring spectacle which lasted fully twenty seconds.
Monday, December 16, 1811
At 2:30 A.M. the earth shook.
This was the earthquake which occurred where no tremor had ever been recorded before; where there was no scientific explanation for such a thing happening; where no one cold possibly have anticipated or predicted that an earthquake could happen.
No one except Tecumseh.
Kent Steadman
ORBIT
http://members.aol.com/phikent/orbit/orbit.html
]Mitch Battros Producer
Earth Changes TV
http://www.earthchangesTV.com
Hi Folks,
Just received an email from Joe Firmage.
I agree with him. We should let it happen. Let the cards fall where they may.
Joe Firmage wrote:
"I, for one, believe this debate should occur."
Joseph P. Firmage
jfirmage@uswebcks.com
Mitch Battros
Earth Changes TV
http://www.earthchangesTV.com
by: Robert Stephens
Hello everyone. Since it has been universally disclosed and concluded that I am a fake and a charlatan and a liar---in essence, a Fraud, it should be fitting to close the last final chapter on this debacle in true, revealing fashion in the same venue as my undoing was set in motion.
So, with that fact stated, that last little item is still those vexing 199 remaining questions I was invited to debate with Richard C. Hoagland, esteemed plank owner of The Enterprise Mission, but was deprived from asking.
And since there seemed to be a problem in understanding my syntax of language, which is English, and through this confused state, Mr. Hoagland was unable to answer question number 1, its only fitting to be fair to Richard Hoagland to answer that question on his own venue with no interruptions to his own satisfaction. Then, on to question number 2 and so on, until all 199 have been addressed.
So, with all due triumph in mind for the winning team of Hoagland-Bell & Co. in round one in which if you don't like the question, shut off the questioner, this time, we just go straight to question number 2. This and all others are based solely on The Enterprise Mission web site. No tricks.
And it stands to reason that since question number 1 proved to be correct, and since the ‘host’, Art Bell, would not allow the question to be asked or answered, it is then easy to assume the other 199 questions are also true in charges of being lies. Consider.
Then a re-engagement is in order. To tidy up loose ends. To ferret out all 'Fraud'.
This is simple. I and the other 20 million Bell listeners and the others out there who still have all these questions need addressment. This is only fair in light of the awesome ‘truth’ endeavor that Bell-Hoagland & Co. is under in coming forth with said ‘truth’.
Conditions of debate:
1. Debate will be as originally outlined by Art Bell himself in his phone call to my home.
2. Art Bell moderates Stephens ‘Fraud’ verses Richard Hoagland. Debate title: ‘Fraud’ vs. Richard Hoagland.
3. Debate runs all 4 hours as promised.
4. Debate is comprised of 200 questions based solely on the Richard Hoagland Enterprise Mission web site from 12-10-1998.
5. No cut off by Bell because he doesn't like ‘Fraud’s’ questions to the debatee.
6. If all 200 questions are not answered to the satisfaction of Richard C. Hoagland then another show will be dedicated for Richard C. Hoagland and Fraud to conclude the debate format in due venue.
7. After the debate has concluded, the moderator, the debater, and the debatee are allowed to voice there assessments within a reasonable time limit. Art Bell will use no 'clickers' or other editing or cancellation tools unless the debaters get unruly or use profanities. Art Bell will not distort or edit 'Fraud' or Richard C. Hoagland.
8. Art Bell will read no phony preamble, secret agent crap from Tom Bearden or any other strange savant from the UFO community to dramatize the issue as he did in the first 15 minutes on 12-30-1998. Another words, no phony crap. The two debaters present should be all the 'strangeness' required for showmanship and ratings.
Simple conditions. And since Art Bell’s ratings have dropped since 12-30-1998 this is an opportunity for Bell to rescue his show a little bit.
Errata --------
If Art Bell and Richard Hoagland refuse to assent to the re-debate, then a national press release will be issued pertaining to the fact that Art Bell is not interested in fair reporting, but rather is interested in tabloid journalism in its worst form with the intent to deceive. This, of course, is in keeping the integrity of the UFO regime intact publicly for complete intended credibility.
Too, since Robert A.M. Stephen’s sanity is questioned two more conditions should be considered at this time: First, a professional medical report can and will be publicly issued testifying that ‘Fraud’s’ mind is in fact, sound, ready to deploy in planned debate which was aborted by Art Bell. Second, if this is still a question, then a neutral debater will be brought to bare under the title of ‘Fraud’ verses, Richard Hoagland. Same format, different debater. The debatee, Richard C. Hoagland, can then have the choice to indulge in the unusual luxury of either debating the original ‘Fraud’ or a surrogate ‘Fraud’ in name only.
Just as we found out that Robert A.M. Stephens is a virtual ‘Fraud’ in every way a person can be a fraud, it is only fitting, and being absolutely objective, that the UFO Culture weed out ALL ‘Fraud’ for the betterment of the whole culture and field of endeavor combined. Under the present circumstances, only the first element of the ‘Fraud’ has been revealed, ala Robert A. M. Stephens. The second possible Fraud concerned with this issue remains illusive, by choice.
The field of UFOs and everything under this umbrella of study must not let this immutable unanswered clarity go unchallenged, or, then, everyone and anything having a connection to it comes to question. Or, put in even clearer terms, this UFO field of study then must conclude upon itself that it is infected with a form of ‘selective disinformation’. And that further testifies to itself that what is good for forcing the ‘guvmint’ to come clean, is not the same protocol that is implemented for the UFO culture and its ‘own’, like Richard C. Hoagland and Art Bell and others, to come ‘clean’ too. One must then serve the other or all is lost. And since like Stephens' lie was found, there was also the first 'lie' that was found out in the beginning 'debate' on the Art Bell show made by Richard Hoagland, then it stands that the other possible 199 lies need to be revealed also.
Quite logical, actually. Quite fair too, for credibility sake.
Since that then becomes an immutable fact, it brings us back to the first post I ever mentioned on the Montana UFO: “if the field of UFO studies does not police itself in the eyes of the investigator, all parties, then how be it any doors of disclosure will ever come about from outside the UFO regime itself.
This assessment still, then, stands as a glaring beacon of immutable truth.
Let the re-debate then be so scheduled.
Far and wide, let the Art Bell-Richard Hoagland entertainment juggernaut note your feelings on this subject with emails as soon as possible after you figure out what you should do for yourself.
You should direct all demands for clarity and disclosure to the great UFO cultural triad: Art Bell, Richard C. Hoagland of the Enterprise Mission, and CAUS. Do not tell me your thoughts, since I am publicly answering this already herein.
And lastly, should Bell-Hoagland & Co. refuse the re-debate, along with the press release, the 200 questions will also be released on the internet for the UFO community itself to then present to the parties of concern for answering on their own. Of course, I will answer them on the release before hand since no one will counter them and thus, it will then be up to the great Triad to respond with why they aren't lies.....
....and then prove it.
Imagine. 200 possible lies as perpetrated by long standing savant's of the UFO community. One lie was already proven to be a fact by the esteemed Dr. Richard Sauder. And that was only question number 1.
199 to go fellas.
Make your voices of truth intent heard.
‘Fraud’ has. So should you.
As mentioned in my last previous public post, this should ‘cover’ about everything.
Robert A.M. Stephens
'The Fraud'
406-745-3818
sti3818@montana.com
(MSNBC) NASA data concludes 1998 set record ‘by wide margin’. Leading weather and climate scientist are meeting this week for their annual convention, but what sets this year’s apart is the data that serves as a dramatic backdrop: NASA measurements that show 1998 was the warmest year in 138 years of record keeping.
NASA’S LATEST data confirm monthly reports in the second half of 1998 that showed nearly every month had broken the previous record. “Global surface temperatures in 1998 set a new record by a wide margin,” NASA researchers said in a recent report. The average global temperature last year was 0.34 of a degree Fahrenheit warmer than the previous record, in 1995, they added. The researchers noted too that a warming trend since the mid-1970s exceeds that of any previous period of equal length since the collection of weather data began about a century ago.
In the United States, it’s clear that 1998 did not match the record warmth of 1934 — a Dust Bowl year — but last year was the warmest in at least 40 years, the researchers at the Goddard Institute for Space Studies said. “The warmth is beginning to hit home; the United States this year is experiencing its warmest year in the past several decades,” they wrote. The report is among the latest data being digested by top meteorologists meeting this week in Dallas for the annual American Meteorological Society meeting, where the theme is “Climate and Global Change.”
TIME.com Home TIME Daily From TIME Magazine Scandal Interruptus A bit less Jefferson in William Jefferson Clinton
NEW YORK: Bill Clinton has been dogged for years by the rumor that in Arkansas he fathered a child of an African-American prostitute. In 1992 the tale was flogged by the tabloid Globe. But it really took off last week when news leaked that the tabloid Star was conducting DNA tests to confirm or refute the rumors once and for all, provoking a frenzy of speculation in Washington after the story leapt, in the usual fashion, from the Drudge Report to the New York Post to papers around the world.
Using the Starr Report's FBI analysis of Clinton's DNA as its reference, Star paid former prostitute Bobbie Ann Williams, the source for the Globe article, and her 13-year-old son for their story and blood samples. And the result: "There was no match. Not even close," says a Star source. (The Starr Report contains sufficient data to make a valid DNA comparison to rule out paternity.) But if the tabloid was disappointed by the results, it's putting up a good, Brill's Content-ready front. Says editor in chief Phil Bunton: "We investigate dozens of stories every week, and if they don't prove to be true, we don't run them."
-- TIME SENIOR REPORTER ANDREA SACHS
Hi Folks,
It appears a meteor hit in Alaska last night. Below are some accounts. If you were a witness or have more information, please send to this email address.
Sincerely,
Mitch Battros
Producer - Earth Changes TV
http://www.earthchangesTV.com
Mitch,
My daughter just sent me an email about a large blue flash over the night skies
in Anchorage. She stated that it was like an explosion which was felt 50 miles
northeast (all the way to the Mat-Valley) in the towns of Palmer and Wasilla.
She indicated the military is up to something.
Could you check on this one.
M.
I was just watching the local news out of Anchorage Alaska. Their lead story was about a strange light flash and minor earthquake that followed the flash of light. One of the persons that they interviewed said that he saw what appeared to be a " ball of fire falling from the sky that was trailed by a stream of light and when it impacted the ground there was an immense flash of light and a minor earthquake." According to the Alaska Tsunami Warning Center there was a 2.2 earthquake approximately 65 miles north of Talkeetna Alaska. This might be worth checking into for your website.
May the Force Be With You !!
Ron Buller
buller@ptialaska.net
Mitch,
My daughter reports the streak in the sky was a meteorite falling over Willow,
Alaska. Willow is 100 miles northwest of Anchorage, and this blue explosion
was felt rattling windows from East Anchorage all the way north in the Matanusaka
Valley and up the Parks Hwy to Willow and beyond.
Now I took the initiative to email the news room at KTUU the ABC Anchorage affiliate to ask about this event. KTUU has a video cam which captures 4th Avenue in downtown Anchorage and very visibly angles to the North east displaying a magnificent view of the Chugach Mountains range and SKY. They should have an image of this anomalous blue streak shooting through the air.
What have you heard?
Marcie
Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) officials are urging the emergency management, fire and emergency services communities and the public to get ready now for Y2K. "It is very important that counties, municipalities, school districts and other organizations that have not yet begun to work on Y2K issues, start now," FEMA Deputy Director Mike Walker said. "While some failures will be minor annoyances, some may have more serious consequences."
The Y2K issue is worldwide and refers to electronic and computer system problems that may occur because of the inability of date-sensitive devices to compute "2000" when systems move from 1999 to the Year 2000 (Y2K). Virtually all systems that rely on computers or electronic devices that refer to date and time may be affected by Y2K in one way or another. This includes power, dispatch and communications systems, 911 systems, microcomputers, and much more.
In a recent FEMA survey of state emergency management directors concerning Y2K issues at the state and local levels, the directors reported that although Y2K fixes are well underway in state-level emergency preparedness offices, the emergency service systems of many counties and municipalities remain untested. "Generally states and the larger local governments are aware of and making some progress toward resolving Y2K issues, however, many smaller local governments as well as some state and territorial governments seem not to be aware of the problem," Walker said. "Clearly the most serious potential for problems is at the local level, and this is what we are concerned about."
In February and March, FEMA will conduct Y2K Consequence Management workshops around the country to identify critical issues, assess vulnerabilities, review contingency plans and consider policies and decisions that need to be taken to deal with possible Y2K consequences. Participants will include state Y2K emergency coordinators, emergency managers and state fire marshals as well as regional representatives of FEMA's Federal Response Plan partners.
Many states also reported that they have not developed contingency plans specifically for Y2K problems; instead they plan to address problems under existing emergency plans or they expect to have their systems Y2K compliant in time. Most states expressed some level of concern over the possibility of power failures, especially where power is provided by smaller utilities. Other areas of concern cited by the states include limited or lack of resources to assess, test and validate systems and fixes for Y2K problems. "Every community, every organization and every individual has an obligation to learn more about their vulnerabilities and take action to prevent potential problems before they occur." Walker said. "Potential problems need to be identified and addressed now."
As chair and coordinator of the Emergency Services Sector (EES), FEMA is one of 34 sector coordinators working with the President's Council on Y2K Conversion, headed by Presidential Advisor John A. Koskinen. The EES group is working to make sure that all segments of the nation's emergency management community operate normally through the cross-over period from 1999 to the Year 2000 and beyond. FEMA's website: http://www.fema.gov
National Guard exercises unprecedented since World War II set for May Y2K
test By David M. Bresnahan
© 1999 WorldNetDaily.com
The National Guard is planning its first national mobilization of troops since 1940 in preparation for civil unrest resulting from the Y2K millennium bug, WorldNetDaily has learned.
The National Guard Bureau in Washington is currently formulating plans for a mobilization test, in conjunction with the Federal Emergency Management Agency. If Y2K causes a complete shutdown of all communications, the National Guard will need a way to mobilize troops, according to several officers who believe their careers would be at risk if their names were made public. These officers spoke separately with WorldNetDaily. Each is in a position to know about the plans at a national level within the National Guard Bureau. "What's driving this thing are the folks underneath the senior leadership," said one officer. "Some of the IT guys and command and control guys are the ones who are driving this because they see what the problem is," one of the sources told WorldNetDaily in an exclusive interview.
The plan as it is now being designed, will be a mock mobilization of all 480,000 members of the National Guard in all 54 states and territories. Exercise COMEX/MOBEX will be conducted without telephone, radio, or television to get the word to all guard members. "This will be a simulated COMM-Out," explained another member of the group. "In other words, the standard method of recall, the telephone, will not be an option. The driver for this exercise is Y2K," she added.
Concern about potential panic and unrest over Y2K failures of communications, power, and transportation has prompted the National Guard Bureau to plan for the worst. If such a scenario occurs, the guard will need to be mobilized through some means other than standard electronic communications. Exercise COMEX/MOBEX will be a test, not an actual mobilization. Guard members will be contacted, but they will not actually have to report.
WorldNetDaily spoke with several full-time guard members who work at the national level. Each is an officer, and each is concerned that the public is not being properly informed of the extent and seriousness of problems -- including civil liberties issues -- associated with the Y2K computer bug. "I've taken an oath, and I don't see some of the senior folks following through on their oath," explained one officer of his reasons for making this known. "Not only is my oath to the Constitution, but it's to the people. As far as I'm concerned, the faster and sooner people are educated on this stuff the less panic will ensue." Another officer is equally concerned and agreed. He pointed out that people panic when they are caught unprepared and unaware. He says the Clinton administration should be doing more to prevent panic. "No one with any leadership has stepped forward and said we need to take prudent steps," he explained. "The Canadians are way ahead on this. They've already told their folks. They're doing a good job of letting their people know what's going on."
WorldNetDaily has also learned that all military and civilian federal employees are scheduled to be paid a little differently in December 1999. Payroll for January 2000 will be paid a month early. One of the officers says that is to place guard members in a situation where they cannot refuse duty in the Y2K crisis because they will have already been paid in advance."Our guess is, we've been paid so if we don't show up we're defrauding the government. I think that's what the rationale is, although they'll tell us it's to keep the troops happy. Bull. People won't be able to get their money out of the banks anyway," predicted one of the officers.
The Defense Department is reported to be far behind in preparations for Y2K compliancy. It is working only on mission-critical systems, according to Sen. Bob Bennett, R-UT, chairman of the Senate Special Committee on the Year 2000 Technology Problem. The National Guard is no exception. "The field units are way behind," explained one source. "There's no way in hell we're going to be compliant by March 31, 1999 (the target date announced by the National Guard)."
A letter from the National Guard Bureau will soon be in the hands of every adjutant general. The letter will inform the guard leaders of each state about COMEX/MOBEX and how it will be conducted. Although the exercise, tentatively scheduled for May 1 and 2, will be no secret, the various aspects of the exercise will be kept under wraps until the mobilization begins. "Everyone knows it's coming, but there's going to be scenarios written into it," explained one officer. "There will be as many different things they can throw into it at once to see how the command-and-control structure handles it."
by Mitch Battros, ECTV
It appears the Federal Government, mainly the Emergency Management Office, surprised local stations around the nation with the strange and new (E.A.S.) Emergency Action Service announcement that read "A CIVIL AUTHORITY HAS ISSUED A REQUIRED TEST" which was scheduled for 30 minutes as opposed to the 30 second test we are all familiar with. It was reported by James Heecock, Program Director of the local NBC affiliate KING 5 television in Seattle, Washington "This was a new Emergency Announcement System that was implemented in January 1998. It took us by surprise. It appears they want to WHIP US INTO SHAPE".
Similar stories from ABC, CBS, and FOX came in. John Walters, Engineer Director of CBS affiliate KIRO channel 7, also in Seattle stated "part of the new system allows E.A.S. to occur over cable stations without notice, which was not in effect until this month. This was part of the problem and what caught us off guard ".
Having spoke with other stations in the area as well as emails from all over the nation, it did in deed catch many affiliates unprepared. Many questions still go unanswered. 1) Is there an increase threat to our nation, whether it be Y2K, Earthquakes, Volcanoes, or Terrorist Threats. One thing is for sure, we have not seen the last of an ongoing intense effort to increase notification of disaster, in perhaps our very near future.
Mitch Battros
Producer - Earth Changes TV
http://www.earthchangesTV.com
Robert Stephens - A Special Agent Operating Under Contract?
By Jeff Rense
1-5-99
During Mr. Stephens' several appearances on my program, he has generally spoken eloquently and with clear substance of knowledge about the STS program and other intriguing issues. Certainly, some of his statements have been factually and technically innaccurate; however, it appears, at this point in time, that Robert Stephens may be anything but a fool.
His 'confession' now posted on my website which praises various people reads as a contrived, mocking, and sarcastic piece designed to neatly remove him from the UFOlogy venue. It fits the profile of a classic 'extraction' operation: Mr. Stephens completed whatever it was he came to do...and has now gone.
There is much more to Robert Stephens than we now know. Research has demonstrated who he is NOT...but just who and what IS he?
To further underscore this analysis, we received the following outstanding post from Sue Kovios via Errol Bruce-Knapp's excellent "UFO Updates - Toronto" list this morning:
(updates@globalserve.net From: Sue Kovios)
Date: Tue, 05 Jan 1999 07:39:53 -0500
To: UFO UpDates - Toronto bradford@globalserve.net
Subject: Re: Robert A.M. Stephens Exposed as a Fraud?At 04/01/99 11:49 PM -0500, Michael Theroux wrote
After the Art Bell show appearance, I began to do a more thorough investigation into his background. I emailed some of the contacts he said he had at NASA. One of them, declared a "buddy" by Mr. Stephens, wrote back saying, "I have never met or talked to Robert Stephens to my knowledge, and I have no idea if he is a Space Shuttle contractor as stated in his e-mail." He then went on to say, "I was simply responding to his e-mail in the spirit of public mail to NASA, and am a bit chagrined that he has termed me his "buddy" and that he posted my e-mail to him to the Web without asking me if he could do so." This NASA spokesperson asked that I do not forward or post his mail without permission - I am awaiting his permission.
I then went after the SEAL Team-3 claim. There are many sites on the internet hosted by former Navy SEALs which enjoy exposing those who make such false claims. Here is a list:
theroux@borderlands.com
Director - Borderland Sciences Research Foundation - Since 1945
http://www.borderlands.comJanuary, 04 1998
Michael TherouxWell, I've done searching myself
I started with: http://www.geeksquad.com/agents/66bio.htm (Dossier on Robert Stephens)
Over a three year period, he rose to become head engineer of the lab while earning scholarships from the U.S. Navy and the FAA for research into virtual reality and construction of a computer-based flight and driving simulator. It was also during this time he started a computer consulting business. In April 1994, after three years at the University, he formed Geek Squad, Inc. with $200. Now four years old, The Geek Squad is a 24-hour on-site rapid-response computer task force with eighteen Special Agents. The Geek Squad has over 3500 clients, including 3M, General Mills, IBM, Cargill, Twentieth Century Fox, Warner Bros, and The Rolling Stones. Now 29, Robert lives in Minneapolis.
Look at the other titles of the 'Special Agents' and their portfolios.
And...I checked out: http://www.geeksquad.com/aboutus.htm
Special Agents
Sacrificing any normal social life, Special Agents are the highly trained specialists that are on-call for you 24-hours a day, seven days a week. Modeled after such elite groups such as the Navy SEALS, NASA, and the Secret Service, Special Agents are skilled in crisis management, rapid problem solving, and adaptability. They operate successfully in hostile environments. When you're in trouble, these are the people you need on your side.
I checked out: http://www.artic.edu/saic/ats/courses.html which are numerous courses in the Arts & Technology field Mr. Stephens and others may have taken (including holography and 3-D animation
I think these 'Geeks' have been toying with the ufological community. Stand at attention guys. What do you think? Perhaps they've been 'contracted' by NASA and the Navy SEALS on a computer-consulting basis. Perhaps that's why no one wants to comment.
Sue Kovios
Other Comments
Date: Tue, 5 Jan 1999 11:29:17 -0500
Subject: RE: SIGHTINGS/Stephens' Confession
Stephens was being sarcastic. Sarcastic confession, get it? It's pretty funny when you think of it that way, haha. A guy named Stephens does have artwork on the NASA site. So is that him or not? Should we take his lies seriously or not? Perhaps it's not even important what Stephens said, but our reaction to him and what he said that is the real information here.
Pat
To: "'eotl@west.net'"(eotl@west.net)
Subject: Stephens the Fraud?
Date: Tue, 5 Jan 1999 10:16:11 -0500
MIME-Version: 1.0Dear Jeff:
I think Mr. Stephens may have decided that the UFO/internet community is not worth fooling with and he has said "Thats it! I am outta here!" His posting was too tongue in cheek to have been real. Who is he, or better, who WAS he? I do not know but he is not the buffoon that he made himself out to be in that final posting. He portrayed himself as a person who lied about EVERYTHING and I don't think anyone could BS that well. The way that he was treated by ART and RCH... and then he describes them like they are brilliant? We know better...it just doesn't make sense to me. OK. I am the most gullible person in the world, I admit...but I am not buying this one.
What do you think?
Rich in Tulsa OKlahoma
Date: Tue, 05 Jan 1999 10:07:46 -0700
Subject: > no subject
From: "Jeffrey Learned/Jessica Kozel"(ahimsa@sdc.org)
To: eotl@west.net
Regarding Mr. Stephens:
Boy, did I take it- hook, line and sinker! I emailed you earlier about him, stating that I thought he was a refreshing addition to the show. I have to admit though, I really did enjoy him! Who is that guy, anyway? I have to admit, he WAS good!
Jeffrey Learned
Date: Tue, 5 Jan 1999
From: Scott LeGrand > varelse@best.com
To: updates@globalserve.net
Subject: High Weirdness in MontanaNow that we have reached the likely end of the Robert Stephens phenomenon, let us add in a few final tidbits to insure that no one here is ever quite sure what or who he really was. First stop, www.borderlands.com, where we can thank Michael Theroux for pointing out first that Mr. Stephens has an official association of some sort with NASA at least as an artist at: http://www.nasa.gov/hqpao/library.html/arts/samples.html
So, one can safely conclude that Mr. Stephens's statement to Jeff Rense that "All proofs of my insidious lies from any type of involvement with NASA, the military, the art program information, my resume, artwork, art collections, numbers assessment, my work of any kind thus claimed is categorical lies in every fashion." is indeed a CATEGORICAL LIE since the artwork is indeed genuine. Now I know you guys have already seen this part, but now if one checks out the macintosh-related links on this page, one will obtain one of Mr. Stephens's email IDs, robert@digisys.net, an ID which gave me a strange sense of Deja Vu. Next stop, www.dejanews.com where a keyword search on robert@digisys.net turns up some very interesting stuff from 1996! Try http://x4.dejanews.com/getdoc.xp?AN=188428431&CONTEXT=915562946. 455475212&hitnum=6 wherein Mr. Stephens claims both prior UFO experience and membership in SEAL Team 3 (and this post stuck in my memory enough to trigger the above Deja Vu, weird). or http://x4.dejanews.com/getdoc.xp?AN=185612418&CONTEXT=915563677. 455475401&hitnum=7 wherein Mr. Stephens claims to be a NASA contractor and debunks MJ-12 a little based on its writing style.
Have a wonderfully paranoid day, guys!
Scott Le Grand
By Richard Sauder, PhD
There are valid, technical points begging to be made with regard to the Richard Hoagland NEXRAD weather radar allegations. First of all, ELF (extremely low frequency) transmissions have nothing to do with weather radar or any other kind of radar, which operates at very high frequencies.
http://www.osf.noaa.gov/nnow.htm
Secondly, the NEXRAD technical briefs (see URL just above) suggest that NEXRAD operators are having some problems with electronic return from ground clutter and anomalous propagation. In other words, like any complex electronic system, it may have some glitches and bugs. I wish that Art Bell would have Michael Theroux of Borderlands Science Research Foundation on the air to debate Richard Hoagland on these issues. Hoagland has no degrees or technical training/competence in either meteorology or broadcast electronics-- so why should anyone presume he has informed insight into the operating characteristics of weather radars? In fact, I do not presume he has such expertise or insight. I would like to hear from someone who does!
Art Bell could quite easily ask the designers and operators of this system, or other meteorological experts or electronic engineers with relevant technical and professional expertise to come on the air and shed some light on this topic-- yet he does not/ has not done this.
Why not?
There is a glaring, factual misstatement on Hoagland's website (Question: what is the difference between a blatantly false statement and a lie?). He strongly implies (comes close but doesn't quite directly state) that there is secret tunneling going on at Turret Peak in Arizona.
He also makes a cryptic reference to a possible ancient facility underground there:
"As TEM Principal Investigator Richard C. Hoagland pointed out on the Friday December 4th Art Bell show, the tunneling that had been spotted around central Arizona indicated the presence of a secret, perhaps ancient facility. He speculated that the whole purpose of the December 7th event might be to 'flip the switch' on whatever was hidden underneath the mountain."
"So HAARP was probably generating the "cover" for whatever was going on up there in the form of a ready made snowstorm. But it was this same snowstorm which made it possible to track operation of whatever device the 'insiders' have either found or spirited away in the vast tunnels under the mountains north of Phoenix."
http://www.enterprisemission.com/did_haarp.htm
"I have researched the tunneling activity in Arizona. Every tunneling project I have researched indicates the presence of aqueducts and/or hydroelectric projects. I probably have the most extensive files on underground tunneling and underground bases of any UFOlogy/conspiracy researcher in the United States and I have seen no hard evidence of a "secret, perhaps ancient facility" beneath Turret Peak, Arizona, or of "vast tunnels under the mountains north of Phoenix."
I certainly want to see that information. I really do. I suggest that if Richard Hoagland has such hard data from a reliable source that he present it immediately so that it can be peer reviewed. Then we will see for ourselves what's what and who's who. Interestingly, Richard Hoagland did have a page up on his website (evidently now removed-- I can no longer find it) that contained links to a United States Bureau of Reclamation (USBR) website as evidence of secret tunneling under Turret Peak.
The URL for the USBR website follows.
http://www.usbr.gov/wcg/tunnels/tdata.html#Arizona
As I said, I also have researched the tunneling in Arizona; that is why I have this URL in my files and recognized it instantly when it appeared on his website. In fact, on 30 October 1997, more than one year ago, I downloaded this identical Bureau of Reclamation file for which Hoagland provides the URL as evidence of present-day, secret tunneling under Turret Peak. (Hoagland made this statement on one of the links on his website that are suddenly inoperable, as of late morning 2 January 1999, Eastern Time.) I carefully examined the information on the USBR website and could not identify any tunnel closer than 12 miles north of Sun City, Arizona-- that would be about 30 miles from Turret Peak, not at all under Turret Peak, as Hoagland alleges. And the tunnel is only 3,686 ft. long--scarcely a "vast tunnel."
Further note that the following URL for Hoagland's reported "two fireballs" (one over Turret Peak, Arizona, allegedly at sunset 7 December 1998 with no supporting documentation) appears to have been removed from his website. I have tried to access this page and repeatedly received a message saying the server cannot find it. Why has it disappeared?
http://www.lunaranomalies.com/side_by_side.htm
Another linked page appears to have been removed from his website.
http://www.lunaranomalies.com/december_7th.htm
I tried to open this URL repeatedly and received a message saying that the server could not find it. It is the page he calls "Landing Site Updates." (You know, the "extraterrestrial landing" that was actually a snow storm with "horizontal snow"-- for more on which see below.)
Note from Mitch Battros:
Upon posting this article, I checked the above links and found that they ARE in fact dead links, however, the articles referenced from Hoaglands webpage do have live links now. It seems as though that the links have been renamed to be a part of the www.enterprisemission.com domain.
Hoagland's website breathlessly reports a horizontal snowfall!! Yes!!: "The intensity of the storm in central Arizona December 6th and 7th was unprecedented and attempts to get through to the 'landing site' went mostly for naught as snow and dense fog blanketed the area. Route 17, the main highway into the area, was closed by the state patrol. There were reports of the snow falling horizontally despite the near complete absence of wind." and... "Remember that horizontal snow in the absence of wind? It's the key."
http://www.enterprisemission.com/did_haarp.htm
Indeed, it "is" the key to this whole inane, insane episode. I agree completely with Hoagland on this central, "key" point. It is the key that reveals the unfortunate absence of logical mental faculties. If something is moving horizontally, i.e., at 90 degrees to the vertical plane, by definition it cannot be falling! Therefore, horizontally falling snow is a logical absurdity. If something is falling it is not moving horizontally, and vice versa. Moreover, it simply is not true that it is "unprecedented" (does, repeat) to have snow in December in central Arizona. I lived in Arizona for a year and a half and it does sometimes snow in Arizona in December. Maybe not like in Buffalo, New York or St. Paul, Minnesota. But it can and does sometimes snow in central Arizona. That is factual truth. And Turret Peak is 5,800 ft. tall. In other words, it is a fairly high elevation.
Anyone who has lived in the Southwest knows that it snows more on the mountains than in the valleys and desert floors, due to the higher elevation. Therefore, it is entirely possible that it snowed on Turret Peak and not in the surrounding countryside, which is at a lower elevation.
There is no extraterrestrial mystery here whatever. It is simply an ordinary meteorological phenomenon that any casual observer will notice. Now, as for the "landing" of an "alien probe" on Turret Peak, Arizona on 7 December 1998, it simply did not happen.
Let me repeat: it simply did not happen.
Ergo, Hoagland's interpretation of the "Samson" speech reversal, December 7th speech reversal, the EQ Pegasus "alien probe" (did, repeat) and his mysterious Pentagon source were all completely, 100% wrong. Incorrect. He was wrong on each and every point.
And finally, on Art Bell's show, in response to a direct question from Robert A.M. Stephens, Richard Hoagland replied ambiguously when asked if he ever told me (Richard Sauder) to move out of Washington, DC because the U.S. government was going to nuke itself. Technically, his reply was correct (though in a Clintonian sense)-- I actually live in the Washington, DC metro area. So he did not ask me to move out of Washington, DC itself, since I do not actually live in Washington, DC (just nearby).
However, hear me well: Hoagland did tell me to pull my money out of the bank, pack my car and flee to West Virginia just before Hallowe'en in 1997, because (according to him) his information and calculations indicated an imminent nuclear strike against Washington, DC by the United States government itself. (Go figure.)
So, did Richard Hoagland tell a lie on the Art Bell show, in response to Mr. Stephen's question?
W-e-l-l.... not by Clintonian standards. But his answer was extremely, extremely misleading. And Richard Hoagland absolutely knew that he was being misleading when he answered that question. From my personal standpoint I consider it so misleading and evasive an answer that it amounts to a lie.
In other words, in rebutting Mr. Stephens' allegation that Richard Hoagland is a pathological liar, Richard Hoagland uttered a Clintonian response that many, perhaps most people would consider a lie, if they knew the full context. I do not desire to appear on the Art Bell show to rebut lies and factually incorrect nonsense and assorted piffle from Richard Hoagland. My comments in this forum constitute my response.
I hope that we can very quickly move on to matters of real substance and leave the Art Bell and Richard Hoagland circus to wither quietly on the vine. UFOlogy deserves better. Conspiracy research deserves better. Even NASA deserves better. We all deserve better.
May I take this occasion to wish everyone a very prosperous and joyful New Year! May God bless us all in 1999.
(CNNS, 01/01/98) -- Speculation is rampant concerning an anticipated story by Internet sleuth Matt Drudge. On or about Dec. 29, 1998, Drudge reportedly stated he will break the "biggest story ever broken" in two weeks, which would date the anticipated blockbuster Drudge Report as breaking on or about Jan. 12, 1999.
Drudge, a fairly credible journalist, has broken several stories in the past which later turned out to be true.
Drudge, according to an article in Ufoseek News, is on record as saying his ANTICIPATED STORY "has nothing to do with politics" and that it will "shake up the whole world." ("Matt Drudge To Break 'Biggest Story Ever'", Ufoseek News, 12/30/98)
The obvious guess is Drudge's lurking story will have something to do with Unidentified Flying Objects -- UFOs.
The next-most-obvious guess is that Drudge's fanfared story will prove to be a let-down or will even fail to materialize.
Yet hope springs eternal in the human breast. Maybe Drudge's Anticipated Story will be so explosive that it will rattle and even bring down the walls of the EDIFICE OF LIES which surrounds us.
Maybe Truth is about to erupt in a big way. Maybe Jesus Christ has phoned Drudge, tipping him off on Christ's imminent return. ("Okay, Jesus," replies Drudge. "I'm all booked up right now, but I can schedule the story for, say, Jan. 12? How does that sound?")
At this moment, the latest cryptic press release from Drudge states that "the White House [is] bracing for possible shocking and new revelations that could rival 1998's scandal scars." ("New Year's Eve Nightmare?", Drudge Report, 12/31/98)
Drudge's "New Year's Eve Nightmare" cannot be "The Anticipated Story" previously dramatically announced by Drudge. "New Year's Eve Nightmare" is clearly a politically-related story and hence misses a key qualification that the earlier-announced Anticipated Story "has nothing to do with politics."
There is now some confusion between the "Anticipated Story" and "New Year's Eve Nightmare," due perhaps to Drudge's own sometimes-breathtaking style of reportage. It can be difficult to take a moment to calm down and collect your thoughts when you have been handed "hot" information. Many have been misled into equating "New Year's Eve Nightmare" with "The Anticipated Story."
Now, with the release of "Anticipated Story #2" -- "New Year's Eve Nightmare?" -- there is DOUBLE ANTICIPATION. (1) What will Anticipated Story #1, due on or about Jan. 12, reveal? (2) What will Anticipated Story #2, "New Year's Eve Nightmare", disclose?
It is feared that, before either of the anticipated stories get released, Drudge may issue an "Anticipated Story #3."
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"It did that on mine a couple of days ago. I live in CT."
"I'm in the Graham area of Pierce County and the test came across the same way."
"Hi Mitch - just wanted to let you know that, last night at about 10:30 the same thing happened on my cable (MediaOne, Southern California Orange County). For about a minute, there was a message almost exactly like the one you described, and that funky "Emergency Broadcasting System" tone they play now. I didn't think much of it, or I'd be more descriptive, but now that I consider myself to be pretty intelligent, but sometimes I begin to wonder who's conning who here. Is our government so a) monolithically powerful or b) stupid, that they would play with things as life-threatening as the weather, etc., without taking the well-being of their own citizens into account? I've been reading lots of ugly stuff on artbell.com, etc. and even I, the permanent cynic, am starting to become alarmed. What is going on?"
"As you may or may not know, the government requires that ALL licensed commercial stations must be connected and test the old National Emergency Broadcast system. I was rather intimate with it in the old days at the White House. We worked with them often (FEMA now)... used to be Civil Defense. Anyway, that is a requirement for them to do this. However, what you saw is NOT what I would call classic notification. So, with that in mind.. I'll be watching here in Colorado for you. If, indeed this is the type of broadcasting they are doing now... then I would susepct something BIG is up... and soon. You WILL know for sure, if they do more than one test in a couple of weeks. You will also know if other stations are doing the same kind of notification. If multiple stations do this, then rest assured, it was indeed government directed."
"Here in San Luis Obispo County in Central Coast California, during the Rosie O'Donnell show, we were interrupted with a blank screen several times. We had no such visuals. Indeed, our programming all afternoon has been interfered with on all channels. We have five TV's and they all were on, with different programs. Everything went black several times since 1500 hours today. It would be good to start orienting yourself to the 24 hour day like the military. It leaves no room for error with AM and PM. No matter how you don't like the military, but the way they do things is a standard that will help with time that is going to be very important. Love, light, learning and laughter, big amen on the laughter"
"Mitch, this must be a new FCC ruling, what have you found out. It sounds to me Washington is preparing her citizens by desensitizing them early. Back in the 70's in Spokane every Wed. at noon the civil defense sirens would blast, signaling it's lunch time. This unified signal must correspond to the kids are out of school, prepare."
"According to our local cable company, a federal law was passed that went into effect today that all cable company had to be able to issue a warning on all cable channels. Because of this new law, they must test this every week. Ours came at 5:10 EST and stated that we could turn to channel 6 for a full description of the test. I think this is a good thing. When tornados are in the area, there is no way for you to know if you are watching CNN, now you will know. I also think you are right about the Y2K thing. I think we are going to have a great deal of terrorist threats in the near future and this can help people seek shelter." Happy New Year!!!!!
"I have no specific knowledge of what is behind such an announcement, but having been in broadcasting for 30 years I'm going to take a guess and speculate that this was a routine test message meant to be seen only internally that inadvertently wound up on the air. A test, as I'm sure you know, even the new style, is accompanied by electronic tones and the message is quite different. I could be wrong and there could be something more to it, but that might be the simplest explanation."
"I was watching NW Afternoon - Channel 4 today and saw the same message you noted below. I've seen test stuff before but nothing like this. Let us know what you find out."
"Mitch, regarding your last message. Yes, one day last week, we got the same message. Very strange. Thanks for letting us all be aware of this rare message."
"Around 4pm on channel 21 "Great Chefs", the familiar conelrad test sound came on for appx. one minute. However..only the sound came on..the program continued..with the test sound in the background. Channel 21 is a community type station. I live in San Clemente, CA."
"I wrote earlier from San Luis Obispo County, Ca. I was told by several people that at approx. 1702 hours, a striped signal came across the national channel AMC. It was accompanied by the irritating air raid siren. There were no letters to say this was the EBS. Nothing, just the signal that entered programming for approx. 30 seconds. I do not know if that was a direct feed link or if it was a delayed link that had been shown earlier at 1500 hours."
"The radio station I was listening to did the alert thing at about 3:35 PM, It was 1000 AM. I swiched to 570 AM but they were not effected. SEATTLE"
"A similar thing happened here (O.C., CA) -- lasted about two-three minutes; 30 seconds of uniform static, then blackness -- on ALL channels (exactly the same), but sans the message. The cable rep with whom I spoke denied seeing the incident."
"At about that time here in California I logged on to the internet and everything went dead. I'm on webtv and all I got was my name and nothing would work, so finally gave up and decided they must be upgrading the system.That happens about every 6 mos. Maybe it was related to what was going on in your area.Usually we get a notice. Thank you for the New Years message. Have shared already with many people."
"On Channel 5, I believe, there was the emergency warning signal which I could hear, but on another channel, 4, I think, there was no sound. I don't know if this is what you are talking about, but I thought it rather strange. Please keep us informed. Thanks."
"On December 11, at 11:41 PM Central time one of the local stations (Tyler, Texas), conducted a "Test" of the Emergency Broadcast System. There was no sound and no regular video. Just a blue screen with red banner running across the top. What on earth??? My ex husband worked for TV stations the entire 14 years we were married. Not once did they conduct a test of EBS at night. Is this something new?? "
Hi Folks, Something just happened that I have NEVER seen before (3:10 PM PST). A warning came across all television channels of which sound was cut OFF. On some channels, the whole screen was shut down except for the message. The message reads as follows:
"A CIVIL AUTHORITY HAS ISSUED A REQUIRED MONTHLY TEST FOR THE FOLLOWING COUNTIES/AREAS: ALL WASHINGTON AT 3:05 PM ON JAN. 4, 1999 EFFECTIVE UNTIL 3:35 PM."
Could this be related to Y2K and civil unrest. Or is it more about Earthquakes and Volcanos. I will try to interview someone at the local CBS, NBC, ABC affiliates. Also I will contact the Emergency Management Office.
Please report if this has happened in your area.
Sincerely,
Mitch Battros
Producer - Earth Changes TV
http://www.earthchangesTV.com
A message sent to me regarding Robert Stephens interview with Art Bell and Richard Hoagland on 12/30/98
Robert,
You had one full hour to put some real issues on the table. What you did do was cause me to wonder about your mental stability. I have interviewed some pretty strange people over the years but you take the cake.
Had I let that insanity go for more then 1 full hour, somebody would have taken ME off the air, and with good reason. Your phone number was sent to me by Peter Gersten at the top of your Published piece in the CAUS letter. I thought Peter meant for me to call you and let you challenge Richard on the air. It was a well written piece by you and sounded SANE. What the hell happened when you got on the air? You may have good and bad days, that was a very bad one.
Art Bell
Robert Stephens response:
Art,
You may discredit me all you wish. You were to be a moderator, a host, per se, not a judge under the solicted venue. You and Hoagland revealed what you represent. It is not subject to further debate.
Sorry, Ropers and DataWatch international media survey disagrees with your above assessment. In fact, it is about to be seen that was your worst day. You erred.
Reap the Whirlwind Bell
Robert A.M. Stephens
Contractor, NASA
Shuttle Documentation Program
KSC-PA/PIB-codeMSF/shuttle
sti3818@montana.com
406-745-3818
Mitch Battros
Producer - Earth Changes TV
http://www.earthchangesTV.com
The alleged Matt Drudge report that was originally touted as being the breaking story of the year "and not have anything to do with politics" is nothing more than just that, more politics. Many had thought it may have to do with asteroids or meteors or something earth moving. It is rumored to be just the politics Matt says it is not, more trashing of our President. It is reported to have something to do with President Clinton having an illegitimate child named Danny from a prostitute named Bobbie, who is African American, back when he was governor of Arkansas.
Here is the url: http://www.freerepublic.com/forum/a80854.htm
I am getting pretty sick of this sensational garbage and trashing of our President. It sure makes the understanding of Hopi prophecy stating the end of the world, as we know it, more wanting. The Hopi's call it "The Purification". Let's hope so.
Mitch Battros Producer - Earth Changes TV
My God man!, you did not make sense. You totally contradicted yourself. You did NOT discuss the real issues. What the hell happened to you? I have had THOUSANDS of e-mails saying something VERY different.
Art
From: Robert Stephens to Art Bell.
What you read in the beginning of the show is the issue.
I was virtually lucid. Had you moderated I would have 'bailed' Richard out the same time as making him defend his data. I would have been good for your protocol. You took sides and you erred. Now, I believe you will reap that whirlwind.
To promote NOAA's fouled up nexrad firmware without even an explanation or link or data of OLD NOAA postings which are not nexrad (next generation) is stupid. Its not science or anything else. That was the issue. To then base, on glitched NOAA firmware, DoD intent of 'some evil' motion at play then takes the first claim up to insanity at worst, selective irrationality at best. Asked Peter to send the last mail I sent him before the show and that I asked Peter to resend to Richard if he had a way to get in touch with Richard.
Richard has never ever done anything whatsoever to hurt me or write me or in any way to assault or attack me in any fashion. Peter Gersten did, and I offered to pay him to use me. Peter changed
Richard is probably quite serious about the question that vexes us all. My next thing I was going to say on air was that Hoagland is one of the few people who offers the time he does and not one time ever does he try to screw people by charging money for his work like others. That speaks for Richard Hoagland quite strongly for character. Period!
Richard Hoagland Data
1. His data is flawed I will verify this claim is any venue in
any court on Earth, if he so wishes.
2. His data against NASA on lies is pathological with intent to do harm to people
(like me) who are innocent. NASA can't sue. I can. And why I will never work
civil service ever! I am free to run 'me' without having to answer to a bunch
of government non-sense.
3. My mails I quoted (of people I haven't a clue who they are) are fact by those
that have written them. I have them. I have resent them and I ask why Hoagland
would propose these things.
Thus:
1. Asteroid on Hawaii. Where is this data from. That is not a
bad question.
2. nuke Washington. Where is this data from. That is not a bad question.
3. 19.5 and 33. False claims. Where is this data from. That is not a bad question.
4. Turret peak. Had a non 'culture' team mate I got to go up there the whole
day and night (ex-seal friend). No nothing up there. Thus, where is this data
from. That is not a bad question.
5. Hiding news of new planet in solar system. No. Where is this data from. That
is not a bad question.
6. NASA lies. Where is this data from. That is not a bad question. NASA has
lied one time. I was going to reveal that.
Summation
I was not going TO HURT RICHARD!
I was going to QUESTION HIS DATA IN HARD FASHION THE WAY I HAVE TO DEFEND ME
WHEN I MAKE STATEMENTS ON SHUTTLE HARDWARE FAILURE AND HAVE TO DEFEND MYSELF
WITH FACTS AND VALIDITY---THAT IS ALL!
Richard as a person is not the issue. His pathos in stating data that is false and can be proven as such, is.
What's the Point then Robert?
Get Richard, like Peter, using his civilian experience, to then head in the right direction for what in the world is happening to us. Those sources are, to begin, the NRO and OIA.
ME
I have been invited to appear on 5 shows since you cut me off. From light shows like Earth Changes to PBS. I will divulge exactly what was done to me by you on these shows.
It was in error.
Richard's data is misguided and headed off into areas that are groundless. Re-read your man's anonymous mail, if it is real, and study what he portends.
That is the issue.
I am sorry you had to cut me off. If your supporters endorse this behavior then more power to you and your show's format. My data can be released elsewhere This culture is not my venue. I was asked to enter. The data I have offered like NORAD /Fence is new. The powers that be have had 80 days to tell me to cease and desist. They have not.
I am not the enemy.
I am just as busy as Richard Hoagland. Yet, if I'm going to run my mouth then I will post my phone and email so people can grill me on my data. That is why I took my issues that still remain with Hoagland on the net in open fashion, not attacking him, but his data, since he is unreachable.
Why Attack Richard then?
Because he is the loudest child. He writes outlandish letters to NASA, NSA, DoD, etc, and then can't figure why the vice of information is shutting down tighter. The loudest voice, then, needs to be corrected or shut up or sent on a new mission that is fruitful. He lost his accreditation from NASA headquarters because he lied to NASA and he is hated at the agency for his lies, understandably. Facts, Art. Call 'em!
Again, sorry you had to cut me off. Don't ever try and twist your statement to incriminate me or other guests again. Stupid. It was you that got caught in your own bullshit since you didn't even know how contracting works and neither did all knowing Hoagland. Think! You guys screwed yourselves. Fine.
I will now let the culture, your followers, judge how incoherent I am. We will see how many other 'shows' cut me off too. None have so far. Just you.
The public will surely judge now. 20 million people. Think.
Behold.
Robert A.M. Stephens
Contractor, NASA
Shuttle Documentation Program
KSC-PA/PIB-codeMSF/shuttle
sti3818@montana.com
406-745-3818
Mitch Battros Earth Changes TV
http://www.earthchangesTV.com
Last night on the Art Bell Show (12/30/98), Richard Hoagland and Robert Stephens NASA consultant were discussing Pegasus as well as other items Mr. Hoagland claims to have discovered. When Mr. Stephens began to challenge Richard Hoagland with contradictory information, Art Bell "cut" Robert Stephens off the air, stating "This interview is over". Many have reported that Art Bell favors Richard Hoagland and appears to protect him from scrutiny. This is very different then the time Art Bell went after Courtney Brown during the Hale-Bopp debacle. At the time, Courtney Brown announced and produced photos of a "Companion" to Hale-Bopp which was meant to be a space craft. Art Bell found contradictory information and proceeded to "Attack" Courtney Brown. Then Art Bell solicited Whitley Strieber to partner up with him, and the two of them proceeded to gang up on Courtney and destroy his reputation.
What is different now regarding Richard Hoagland's assertion of having the "Smoking Gun" regarding Pegasus as well as other anomalies Richard Hoagland claims to be the pioneer of discovering. You make the call.
Below is an email from Robert A.M. Stephens stating his view of last nights showdown.
ART BELL AND RICHARD HOAGLAND CUT ME OFF AT 2:04 AM MST ON 12-31-1998 WHEN I ASKED ART TO ASK ME QUESTIONS FROM RICHARD SINCE RICHARD WAS INCOHERENT AND WOULD NOT ASK ME ANY MORE QUESTIONS.
THEY WOULD NOT ANSWER THEIR CHARGES OR THEIR OWN QUESTIONS.
I HAD AGREED WITH EVERYTHING THEY SAID.
I HAD AGREED WITH ALL CHARGES MADE.
I HAD POINTED OUT THAT HOAGLAND WAS FINE. HIS DATA IS A LIE.
I HAD TRIED TO BEGIN MY CHALLENGE OF HOAGLANDS DATA WHICH IS A LIE.
THEY CUT ME OFF.
These men are somehow part of a disinformation campaign to keep the truth from getting out in normal, real, science based fashion. Both appear to be fraudulent and charlatans and I have contacted the legal councils required in such a case.
Robert A.M. Stephens
Contractor, NASA
Shuttle Documentation Program
KSC-PA/PIB-codeMSF/shuttle
sti3818@montana.com
406-745-3818
http://www.borderlands.com/rams/rams.htm
Mitch Battros
Producer - Earth Changes TV
http://www.earthchangesTV.com
A FULL-SCALE emergency was declared at a Scots nuclear station when fierce winds knocked out the power to cool its reactors. Last night, the plant remained shut after bosses pressed the alarm button on Sunday. They couldn't restart the back-up generators, vital to keep the reactors' two cores from overheating.
Frightened staff were called from their homes and battled for five hours to manually try to reset the safety systems before the cores went "critical". A boss was also rushed under police escort to Hunterston B, in Ayrshire, it was claimed. The astonishing situation - sparking fears of a Chernobyl-type reactor meltdown - happened after storms took out the national grid twice in the space of 12 hours. The first time - at 11pm on Saturday - the emergency back-up generators in the nuclear plant switched on automatically. But there were not enough staff on duty to manually reset them before the grid went down a second time at 11am on Sunday - leaving plant bosses helpless.
An investigation is being carried out by the Nuclear Installations Inspectorate. A spokeswoman said last night: "Two of our inspectors were called in as soon as the alarm was raised on Sunday and our investigations continue. "There was no power to the system that cools the reactor for a number of hours and we do consider this a serious incident." It's a major embarrassment for Scottish Nuclear, who claim their safety systems cover all eventualities.
Roseanna Cunningham, the SNP's environment spokeswoman, said: "Holiday period or not, you can't afford to take risks with nuclear energy. "Questions must be answered on why Hunterston B was understaffed." Earlier this year, the back-up at Dounreay, in Caithness, failed when a digger cut power cables. That disaster was one of the reasons Scots Secretary Donald Dewar ordered the plant be closed.
A Hunterston worker, who asked not to be named, said the situation had been terrifying. He said: "The sirens were sounding all over the plant and there were police, fire and ambulance crew arriving. We didn't know what was going on. "It is the most serious incident I have ever seen." Kevin Dunion, director of Friends of the Earth Scotland, called for a full inquiry into the role of the management. He said people would be "astounded" to find fail safe procedures hadn't been worked out for the holiday. A spokeswoman for Scottish Nuclear said at no time was any member of the public or staff at risk. Meanwhile, after days of bad weather, Hogmanay revellers have been warned to wrap up to avoid tragedy at this year's huge outdoor parties. The alert comes after Perth teenager Sally Greig froze to death walking home from a festive party.
Ambulance services are on standby amid fears that temperatures could plunge to as low as 2C (34F). Police urged party-goers to make sure they wear layers of warm clothes on Edinburgh's streets. Around 150,000 people are expected to crowd the city-centre party, which is ticket-only. Weather experts say Edinburgh will be colder than Glasgow, where temperatures will reach around 3C (36F). Last night, north Scotland was battered by more storms, with the islands, Aberdeen and Dundee being worst hit with winds of up to 65mph. And more than 4000 families were still without electricity yesterday as power bosses faced calls to quit. Today, the weather will be dull across Scotland, with strong winds, particularly in the north-east. It will be mild everywhere.
Received this information from a major bank VP and thought it
may be of interest.
by: Jonathan David Boyne
email: boyne@hawaii.edu
Inability of a computer application to recognize, in an unambiguous manner, a specific date primarily, but not always, because of the use of two position date fields. Concerns center on the following dates:
April 9, 1999 - (this is day 99 in the year 99 for systems using the Julian Calendar or 9999 file termination).
September 9, 1999 -(this is 9999 for systems using the Gregorian Calendar or file termination).
January 1st, 2000 - (two position year field may cause system to think it is January 1, 1900).
February 29, 2000 - (leap year divisable by 100 and 400, Years divisable by 100 are not leap years).
January 3, 2000 -(it's the first business day of the year).
January 10, 2000 -(first day to require a seven-digit date field (1/10/2000. Old systems were designed with limited space for the date field).
October 10, 2000 -(First day to require an eight-digit datefield (10/10/2000).
December 31, 2000 and January 1, 2001 - Some failures may happen because many programs might be inadequately programmed to close out the year.
September 8, 2001 -(UNIX systems idenify this date as 999,999,999 - this is also used to identify and end of file situation.
No matter whether you "love" or "love to hate" Ed (Dr. Doom) Dames, he may have nailed this one!
By Keay Davidson
EXAMINER SCIENCE WRITER
Sunday, December 27, 1998
Solar storms could wreak global havoc.
If you thought San Francisco's mega-blackout was bad, just wait until mid-2000, when our old friend the sun turns against us.
Like Norman Bates in "Psycho," the sun goes a little crazy now and then by hurling million-degree fireballs and star-sized, electrically charged clouds toward Earth. Its next celestial fit is likely in mid-2000 -- possibly even next summer -- and could bring continent-sized power outages, global cell-phone screw-ups and other techno-mishaps that could make the Dec. 8 blackout look like a burned-out refrigerator light bulb.
"We're more vulnerable (to such electrical cataclysms) than we used to be because of the increasing interconnection of society," warns solar physicist Don J. Michels of the Naval Research Laboratory in Washington, D.C. He is one of many scientists who study the sun's 11-year bouts of manic-depressive behavior. Consider the new power grids used by deregulated utilities seeking cheap electric power. The lines extend thousands of miles, linking Canadian hydroelectric dams to Southern California. "The bigger they are, the harder they fall," goes an old saying -- and nothing illustrates that better than these super-long power lines, which could go as dead as dried noodles during a big solar "storm."
The results? Imagine being stuck in a Muni tunnel for hours or eating melted ice cream from an on-the-blink fridge -- all because the sun has just undergone one of its periodic nervous breakdowns. Its next peak of violence -- technically known as "solar maximum" -- is expected in mid-2000. But the breakdown has already started: "In the last two years, you can easily see an increase in solar activity.
The (solar) magnetic field lines are breaking apart," says Steve Hill, a researcher at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Md. NASA and the Defense Department are scrambling to launch satellites that can give advance warning of incoming solar storms. The military is especially concerned because of the possible failure of reconnaissance satellites -- the ones that watch Saddam Hussein's troops, for example -- during a military engagement. Other scientists hope to better understand the sun's structure and behavior by launching satellites such as HESSI, the High Energy Solar Spectroscopic Imager, now being designed at UC-Berkeley. Planned for launch in mid-2000, during Solar Maximum, HESSI will study X-rays and gamma rays from solar flares and "coronal mass ejection's," vast clouds of ionized (electrically charged) particles, says Jay Trimble, HESSI integration test manager.
On reaching Earth, the particles warp Earth's magnetic field. The field gyrations induce electrical currents in power lines that can short-circuit them. The longer the line, the greater the electrical surge -- so long-distance power lines are especially vulnerable. A consortium of scientific agencies is trying to spread the word about the coming threat from what they call "solar weather." At the American Geophysical Union conference in San Francisco this month, NASA, the National Science Foundation, the Boulder, Colo.-based Space Science Institute and others distributed a slick, colorful brochure that begins: "THE FORECAST? Look for Storms, Gale-Force Winds, and Plasma Blobs." ("Plasma" refers to clouds of electrons and ionized particles.) A harbinger of what may come during Solar Maximum occurred in May, when a powerful solar storm tripled and quadrupled electrical currents in the ionosphere, the thick envelope of ionized air overhead, says researcher Daniel Baker of the University of Colorado. The greater the electrical current, the greater the risk to sensitive electronic gear, communications systems, power lines and other societal infrastructure. The Dec. 8 outage, which afflicted much of the Peninsula and nearly all of San Francisco, was caused by humans, not by the sun. But "that is the kind of thing that makes the concern about solar events seem real," Michels says. "When one substation goes down, it ripples through the whole system."
The solar breakdown might come sooner than expected -- perhaps as early as the middle of next year, says U.S. Air Force scientist Richard C. Altrock. He expects the solar storms to peak in mid-1999, a year earlier than other forecasts, based on his observations of a solar phenomenon whimsically known as the "Rush to the Poles," he said at the American Geophysical Union meeting.
At a solar observatory in Arizona, Altrock has observed solar gases rich in ionized iron steadily flowing toward the sun's north and south poles. Such flows have preceded the last two solar maximums by an average of 15 to 17 months, he says. The current "rush" began in February 1997, he says, suggesting solar maximum could come as early as the summer of 1999. Whenever the sun reaches maximum violence, he adds, the show is starting: "Already we're starting to (detect) quite large (solar) flares and mass ejection's that are impacting our Earth."
Hi Folks, I hope it is not as serious as it appears. I received this email from a viewer named Matt. He makes a compelling point.
Mitch, I have a report I think you should read and post on your site. We've been told time and time by our government and the banks that they would be 100 % complaint and there would be no problems with the banking industry. Well, answer me this question? Why is the FFIEC (Federal Financial Examination Council) issuing a year 2000 contingency plan for the banks. I have already, but I would recommend people pulling some or most of there money out of the banks before it is to late. Even if Y2K is not that bad, I predict the the media (after they've dragged the Clinton trial out) will whip the American people into a frenzy & cause a bank run by August 1999. I'm glad I've spent the last 2 years preparing.
Here is the FFIEC Web site - I suggest you read it ASAP. http://www.ffiec.gov/y2kqa.htm
Matt
email: MWattles@aol.com
Hello,
I am an engineering manager for a cellular support organization and can provide some technical responses/opinions. I'll respond in caps;
Mitch Battros wrote:
Hi Folks, I am pleased and honored with the response I have received from the clergy of the Catholic Church. I had no idea how open they would be. Earth Changes TV stands firm without affiliation to any denomination or sect. We believe a person should follow their own truth as it rings true for them. These are times of inclusion, not exclusion. I remember the training I received from the Emergency Management Office; "When the time comes of great disasters, let the people you will be training know, it will not be government officials they will be depending on for help, It Will Be Your Neighbor."
Could one of you answer the good Fathers' question below.
Best Wishes,
Mitch Battros Producer - Earth Changes TV
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Subject: Info on cell phones
Date: Sat, 19 Dec 1998 15:13:46 -0600
From: Richard Gant
To: earthcng@earthlink.net
Dear Mitch,
One of our brothers here at the Society of Our Lady of the Most Holy Trinity (SOLT) is a visionary and locutionist. The other day, Our Lady (the Blessed Virgin Mary) told him to tell me that I need to get a cellular phone, because soon the phone lines are going to be down.
CELLULAR PHONES USE INTERCONNECTIONS TO THE PUBLIC SWITCHED TELEPHONE NETWORK TO COMMUNICATE WITH NON CELLULAR TELEPHONES. SO, IF YOU INTEND TO COMMUNICATE WITH ANY ONE WHO IS NOT A CELLULAR USER ON THE SAME SYSTEM AND "THE PHONE LINES GO DOWN" YOU WILL NOT BE ABLE TO COMPLETE YOUR CALL. IF THE DISASTER IS MORE SEVERE THAN THE DISABLING OF PHONE LINES AND EXTENDS TO THE CENTRAL SWITCHING OFFICES YOU MAY NOT EVEN BE ABLE TO COMPLETE A CELLULAR TO CELLULAR CALL BECAUSE MANY OF THE CENTRAL OFFICES (INCLUDING CELLULAR) ARE COLOCATED. ALL THIS MEANS YOU PROBABLY WON'T BE ABLE TO GET TO YOUR ISP VIA CELLULAR PHONE DURING A COMMUNICATIONS EMERGENCY.
What I am wondering, Mitch, is cell phones operate through microwave towers and via satellite, right?
Our Lady says it is necessary for me to get one of these (in fact yesterday a donor gave me the deposit to go ahead and get it. It is charging for the first time right next to me even as I type). So we can still do email via cell phones.
Do you happen to know if there are servers for internet connections via cell phone suppliers? Because if phone lines are down, and I have to dial in to a GTE phone, it will not answer, right? There will have to be another way to access a server, and I am wondering if this could be through microwave. Any ideas?
A DIRECT CONNECTION VIA MICROWAVE TO THE ISP IS VIABLE TECHNICALLY.
IT WOULD, HOWEVER, BE COSTLY FROM BOTH THE INITIAL INVESTMENT AND VERY HIGH MONTHLY FEES BY BOTH THE TELETRANSPORT PROVIDER AND INTERNET SERVICE PROVIDER.
I am sending a photo of the computer/internet device/cell phone, all off the internet. What do you think?
With God's blessings, this Christmas season,
Father Richard Gant
Robstown, Texas
YOU ARE TWICE AS VULERNABLE TO OUTAGES WITH CELLULAR COMPARED WITH WIRELINE ISP CONNECTIONS. NOW THAT I HAVE RAINED ON YOUR PARADE LET'S TRY TO MAKE IT HAPPEN. SEVERAL POSSIBLE SOLUTIONS;
1. SET UP THE LINK TO THE ISP VIA MICROWAVE OR SHARED FIBER
2. DIVIRSIFY WITH EXISTING ISP TECHNOLOGY
A. CONVENTIONAL MODEM VIA TELEPHONE LINES
B. CABLE MODEM VIA THE CABLE TV OPERATORS
C. INVESTIGATE POSSIBLE FIBER AVAILABILITY FROM THE GAS CO (I UNDERSTAND THEY ARE INSTALLING FIBER WITH NEW GAS INSTALLATIONS)
D. OBTAIN A HAM LICENSE AND USE PACKET RADIO TO ACCESS THE INTERNET.
ANY OF THESE METHODS COULD BE IMPAIRED BY TELEPHONE LINE OUTAGES BUT WITH SUFFICIENT DIVERSITY A REASONABLE LEVEL OF CAPABILITY COULD BE RETAINED UNDER ALL BUT THE MOST DIRE CONDITIONS. IN CATASTROPHIC CONDITIONS PERHAPS EMAIL WOULD NOT BE AS IMPORTANT AS "OUTSIDE" COMMUNICATIONS. FOR THAT I WOULD RELY ON HAM RADIO. I HOPE THIS HELPS,
ART
REYKJAVIK, Iceland (AP) - A volcano beneath Europe's largest glacier in southern Iceland has erupted, sending clouds of steam and ash 32,000 feet into the air, according to news reports. Scientists detected volcanic activity in the southern part of the Vatnajokull glacier Friday, in an area called Grimsvotn, the same spot as a spectacular eruption two years ago, according to the Iceland Review Web site. Iceland's National Radio Service said the eruption was less serious than the one in 1996, which damaged roads and bridges in the south of Iceland.
(AP) Climate change causing droughts, fires, floods, hurricanes GENEVA, Earth’s average temperature in 1998 is projected to be the highest since record keeping began in 1860, the U.N. weather agency said Thursday. THE GLOBAL AVERAGE for the year is expected to be 1 degree above the long-term average of 59 degrees, said the World Meteorological Association. It will be the 20th consecutive year during which the earth’s surface temperature has been above normal. New temperature records have been set in each of the past 18 months. The association outlined some of the more significant weather phenomena during the past year. In the United States, spring and summer heat and drought caused massive wildfire outbreaks in Florida and damage to crops from the southern plains to the Southeast. April to June was the driest period in 104 years in Florida, Texas, Louisiana and New Mexico, and May to June were the warmest on record in those states. The organization says heat waves caused the deaths of more than 100 people in Russia in June and great loss of life in India in May. Widespread drought affecting huge areas of Brazil also induced extensive wildfires.
PERTH, Australia (AP) - The last of 600 people were evacuated Friday from the sparsely populated Dampier peninsula in northwest Australia as Cyclone Thelma's highly destructive winds bore down on the coastline. "About 400 of them self-evacuated to Broome and Derby last night, and 200 are in a convoy to Broome as we speak," State Emergency Service Broome