Trudeau thinks we’re gonna be invaded by aliens. Well, so does Speilberg…and Speilberg has video proof!

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Former Canadian Minister Of Defence Asks Canadian Parliament Asked To Hold Hearings On Relations With Alien “Et” Civilizations Thu Nov 24, 7:00 AM ET

OTTAWA, CANADA (PRWEB) November 24, 2005 — A former Canadian Minister of Defence and Deputy Prime Minister under Pierre Trudeau has joined forces with three Non-governmental organizations to ask the Parliament of Canada to hold public hearings on Exopolitics — relations with “ETs.”

By “ETs,” Mr. Hellyer and these organizations mean ethical, advanced extraterrestrial civilizations that may now be visiting Earth.

On September 25, 2005, in a startling speech at the University of Toronto that caught the attention of mainstream newspapers and magazines, Paul Hellyer, Canada’s Defence Minister from 1963-67 under Nobel Peace Prize Laureate Prime Minister Lester Pearson, publicly stated: “UFOs, are as real as the airplanes that fly over your head.”

Mr. Hellyer went on to say, “I’m so concerned about what the consequences might be of starting an intergalactic war, that I just think I had to say something.”

Hellyer revealed, “The secrecy involved in all matters pertaining to the Roswell incident was unparalled. The classification was, from the outset, above top secret, so the vast majority of U.S. officials and politicians, let alone a mere allied minister of defence, were never in-the-loop.”

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This one is an oldie (2002) but a goody. Even more interesting with the recent events of Katrina and Rita, and other regional catastrophies since 9/11. Interesting find about my friend Jim Jones as well, mentioned in the article. Small world…

What do you think? Use the comments section to reply.

Rich

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The ‘new survivalists’
Americans prepare for the worst in a post-9/11 world
By Jonathan Dube
MSNBC

July 29, 2002 - Survivalism is going mainstream. In the wake of Sept. 11, a growing number of Americans are turning to the techniques of survivalism to prepare themselves for terrorism and disaster. But this “New Survivalism” isn’t just about self-preservation. Instead of plotting retreats into mountain bunkers, the New Survivalists are living normal lives while trying to protect family and friends from threats that now seem very real.

In our new world order, where terrorists may strike anybody anywhere; where The New York Times Magazine declares a nuclear attack to be not a question of if, but when; and where survival of the fittest may no longer be just an evolutionary theory but the linchpin of modern-day living, Americans are seeking new ways to ensure that they are fit enough to survive.

As a result, survivalism has undergone a revival since Sept. 11.

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This got my attention because I’ve been watching the skies for the last couple of weeks…watching meteors from the Taurids meteor shower, with LOTS of large, and a few really huge, fireballs.

I thought maybe one hit the ground…nope, this seems to be a find of an OLD rock…in an area where other meteorites have already been found….very interesting…

1,400-Pound Meteorite Found in Kansas

GREENSBURG, Kan. - In an area of southwest Kansas long known for its meteorite finds, Steve Arnold came up with what may be the biggest of its kind ever found in the United States.

Arnold, a professional meteorite hunter from Kingston, Ark., found the 1,400-pound space rock two weeks ago in Kiowa County’s Brenham Township. Using a metal detector mounted on a three-wheel vehicle, he discovered it more than 7 feet underground and dug it up.

It was in the same area that in 1949 produced a 1,000-pound meteorite now on display at the Celestial Museum in Greensburg, part of the World’s Largest Hand Dug Well that is the community’s biggest claim to fame.

“It is aesthetically the type of meteorite that makes collectors drool,” Arnold, a former Wichita resident who has hunted for meteorites around the world, said of his find. “It’s what a meteorite ought to look like. It’s going to make first-graders go ‘Wow!’”

Arnold estimates the value of the big rock “in the seven figures” and says he wants to sell it, preferably to a museum or someone who will keep it intact.

“It won’t be cut to reveal its inner beauty,” he said. “It’s awesome enough from the outside.”

Geoffrey Notkin, a science writer and meteorite collector who was with Arnold when the meteorite was found, said its size alone makes it extraordinary.

“By sheer mass, it has to be one of the largest finds in decades,” he said.

According to the American Museum of Natural History in New York, the Brenham meteorite exploded centuries ago over what is now Kansas, scattering more than three tons of fragments.

“We get regular reports of meteorites,” said Rex Buchanan, associate director of the Kansas Geological Survey. “People see them and they bring them in. A normal size is anywhere from the size of your fist to a grapefruit.”

The meteorite Arnold discovered is classified as an oriented pallasite, so it has a conical shape and has olivine crystals embedded in iron-nickel alloy. Only two larger ones of that type are known to have been found: a 3,100-pounder in Australia and a 1,500-pounder in Argentina.

Meteorites change shape as they enter the Earth’s atmosphere. An oriented meteorite, which is rare, maintains a stable flight rather than tumbling.

Richard Stephenson, manager of the Big Well, said the majority of meteorites found in Kiowa County are from a two-square mile area in Brenham Township. The Kiowa County meteorites are known throughout the world for gemlike olivine crystals, and they look almost like stained glass when cut.

Information from: The Wichita Eagle, http://www.kansas.com

So sad that Paris Is Burning…

THIS is what will happen here, if the feds dont’ get their act together and start getting WORKING plans for disaster, preparedness, and Civil Disturbances….

Source from NYT

RIOTING BY FRENCH-ARAB YOUTHS CONTINUES IN SUBURBAN PARIS
By CRAIG S. SMITH
NYT Express
11/03/2005

PARIS — Angry French-Arab youths clashed with police and firefighters outside Paris late Wednesday in the worst of seven consecutive nights of violence set off by the accidental death of two teenagers.

By late Thursday, more cars were burning in at least one of the city’s northern suburbs.

Gunshots were fired at police officers and firefighters in three separate incidents Wednesday night, said Prefect Jean-Francois Cordet, the government’s top official in Seine-St.-Denis, a department north of Paris that includes a belt of working-class neighborhoods with a large immigrant population.

In the clashes on Wednesday night, a police station was ransacked, a garage was set on fire and a shopping center and two schools were vandalized, Cordet said. Riot police forces have used tear gas and rubber bullets to repel the attacks.

Traffic was halted Thursday morning on a commuter rail line linking Paris to Charles de Gaulle airport after stone-throwing rioters attacked two trains. One passenger was slightly injured by broken glass, according to local news reports. The violence picked up again as night fell over the capital with burning cars reported in the suburb of Stains.

Rampaging gangs have torched more than 200 cars in the past week, and dozens of firefighters and police officers have been injured, none seriously, since the deaths of two youths.

Prime Minister Dominique de Villepin, who canceled a trip to Canada this week because of the violence, urged citizens and the police to restore order. “Law and order will have the last word,” he told senators on Thursday.

The continuing violence has embarrassed the government and isolated the country’s tough-talking anti-crime interior minister, Nicolas Sarkozy, whom many people believe exacerbated the situation with his vow to “clean out” the troubled neighborhoods.

The interior minister’s initiative has been met with scorn by many people in the neighborhoods, who say they are being stigmatized by his campaign and that the increased police presence has resulted in harassment.

The latest violence began in the suburb of Clichy-sous-Bois a week ago after two teenagers were electrocuted by a power transformer while hiding from police. Local youths, who believed police had chased the boys into the transformer’s enclosure, took to the streets, setting cars on fire in protest. A preliminary government inquiry has since found that the youths were not being pursued by the police.

The report, released by the Interior Ministry on Thursday, stated that a third boy who survived the incident said he and his friends were aware of the danger when they entered the transformer’s enclosure. The report suggested that the boys were hiding from the police because one of those who died had a record of armed robbery and the other was among a group that had broken into a construction site earlier that evening.

The continuing unrest appears to be fueled less by perceived police brutality than by the frustration of young men who have no work and see little hope for the future.

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Google launches controversial digital book site
Nov 03 10:16 AM US/Eastern

Google launched the first phase of its controversial effort to digitize millions of books for online viewing — but said it would limit access to any copyrighted material for now.

The Internet search giant said the initial collection will include “public domain” works — those without current copyright protection.

“Because they’re out of copyright, these cultural artifacts can be read in their entirety online at http://print.google.com, where anyone can search and browse every page,” Google said in a statement. “They are fully searchable and users can save individual page images.”

The works being made available include US Civil War regimental histories and early American writings from the University of Michigan; congressional acts and other government documents from Stanford; works of Henry James from Harvard; and biographies of New York citizens and other collected biographies from the New York Public Library.

Google said the material being offered now represents “just a small fraction of the information that will eventually be made available as a result of Google Print.”

The company did not address how it would respond to issues of copyright if it goes ahead with plans to offer online versions of more current books. Google said in its online blog this week it would resume scanning of in-copyright works.

In the initial version of Google Print, which is integrated into the Google search engine, users can search the full text books Google has scanned and view a “card catalog-like entry with brief excerpts of their search term in context.”

It added, “Users can only see more of any book they find if the book is out of copyright or if the publisher has given explicit permission to show full pages of a limited portion of the book.”

Google’s announced plan to offer online versions of copyrighted books has prompted a series of lawsuits, including from authors and publishers.

Got this on my e-mail today… Thought I’de share. Nobody quite puts it like George Carlin.

“Been sitting here with my ass in a wad, wanting to speak out about the bullshit going on in New Orleans. For the people of New Orleans… First we would like to say, Sorry for your loss. With that said, Let’s go through a few hurricane rules: (Unlike an earthquake, we know it’s coming)

#1. A mandatory evacuation means just that…Get the hell out.
Don’t blame the Government after they tell you to go. If they hadn’t said anything, I can see the argument. They said get out… if you didn’t, it’s your fault, not theirs. (We don’t want to hear it, even if you don’t have a car, you can get out.)

#2. If there is an emergency, stock up on water and non-perishables. If you didn’t do this, it’s not the Government’s fault you’re starving.

#2a. If you run out of food and water, find a store that has some.
(Remember, shoes, TV’s, DVD’s and CD’s are not edible. Leave them alone.)

#2b. If the local store has been looted of food or water, leave your neighbor’s TV and stereo alone. (See #2a) They worked hard to get their stuff. Just because they were smart enough to leave during a mandatory
evacuation, doesn’t give you the right to take their stuff…it’s theirs, not yours.

#3. If someone comes in to help you, don’t shoot at them and then complain no one is helping you. I’m not getting shot to help save some dumbass who didn’t leave when told to do so.

#4. If you are in your house that is completely under water, your belongings are probably too far gone for anyone to want them. If someone does want them, let them have them and hopefully they’ll die in the filth. Just leave! (It’s New Orleans, find a voodoo warrior and put a curse on them.)

#5. My tax money should not pay to rebuild a 2 million dollar house, a sports stadium or a floating casino.. Also, my tax money shouldn’t go to rebuild a city that is under sea level. You wouldn’t build your house on quicksand would you? You want to live below sea-level, do your country some good and join the Navy.

#6. Regardless of what the Poverty Pimps Jessie Jackson and Al Sharpton want you to believe, The US Government didn’t create the Hurricane as a way to eradicate the black people of New Orleans; (Neither did Russia as a way to destroy America). The US Government didn’t cause global warming that caused the hurricane (We’ve been coming out of an ice age for over a million years).

#7. The government isn’t responsible for giving you anything. This is the land of the free and the home of the brave, but you gotta work for what you want. McDonalds and Wal-Mart are always hiring, get a damn job and stop spooning off the people who are actually working for a living. President Kennedy said it best…”Ask not what your country can do for you, ask what you can do for your country.”

Thank you for allowing me to rant.

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A swirling image of a peregrine falcon sweeping into a flock of starlings has won Manuel Presti this year’s Wildlife Photographer of the Year award.

The Italian caught the action scene, titled Sky Chase, high above a city park in Rome.

“Sky chase is a powerful image and, like it or not, it’s one that you will never forget,” said Mark Carwardine, one of this year’s judges.

The competition has become one of the most prestigious in world photography.

It is organised by BBC Wildlife Magazine and London’s Natural History Museum. This year brought 17,000 entries from over 55 countries.

SKY CHASE
Manuel Presti is an engineer by trade, but he has been taking photographs in his spare time for 20 years.

Through his creative images he aims to show the simple beauty in nature and hopes to inspire people to care for its conservation.

You look for something that is surprising, and this has got it on so many levels

Roz Kidman Cox, judge
Right across Europe, starling populations have been in decline.

Nonetheless, thousands of the birds can be found roosting in city parks in Rome, where it is warmer in winter than the surrounding countryside and usually safer - except for the resident peregrines.

“I was photographing with two cameras; one was with a wide-angle zoom to capture all the shapes, and one - which is this picture - with a long lens to capture the up-close action, the chase,” Manuel told the BBC News website.

“The sky was cloudy so I overexposed the image intentionally to make it white. A slow shutter speed - 1/50th of a second - gives it this dynamic of the starlings moving under the psychological pressure of the peregrine diving.”

Roz Kidman Cox, a judge and former editor of BBC Wildlife Magazine, said: “The judges were unanimous. It’s quite startling and it imprints itself on your mind. It’s both a reality and an abstract.

“As a judge, you look for something that is surprising, and this has got it on so many levels.”

The image won the Animal Behaviour: Birds category as well as the overall title.