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From: Brian E Mathieson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Earthwatchers in Action <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Thursday, 2 December 1999 20:44 Subject: [earthwatch] Update:Quantum Fuel, Eve 2 and Rampageing Grizzlies
Earthwatchers In Action
Neo-Cold War/War Talk: China,
China, China
President Clinton admitted yesterday that the Communist
Chinese will, in fact, run the Panama Canal when the United States pulls all of
its troops out and relinquishes control of the vital waterway Jan. 1, 2000. -
WND
The new Chinese navy missile is intended to fly at very low
altitude to defeat radar detection, and strike its target at supersonic speed.
No Western nation currently has such a weapon. In fact, the only similar weapon,
an underwater version of the nuclear-armed U.S. Tomahawk cruise missile, has
been withdrawn from service. -- WND
China is expanding a missile base across from Taiwan where
nearly 100 of Beijing's newest short-range missile systems will be deployed,
increasing the threat to the island. -- Washington Times
"We have made clear to the Chinese government our
concerns regarding Chinese missile developments and their influence on the
situation in the Taiwan Strait," State Department spokesman James P. Rubin
said in response to a report in yesterday's editions of The Washington Times...
"We have a strong interest in maintaining peace and stability in the Taiwan
Strait," he told reporters. "That is why we have approved
defensive-arms sales to Taiwan in accordance with the Taiwan Relations
Act." -- Washington Times
The technology, which could detect U.S. stealth aircraft,
including the F-117 bomber and perhaps even the futuristic F-22 fighter, has so
alarmed the defense community that top military and industry experts have been
called to a secret meeting in December to discuss the strategic implications,
the magazine said in its Dec. 6 issue hitting newsstands Monday... "Everyone is wondering about the cost of defending Taiwan" if
U.S. air power was suddenly vulnerable, Newsweek quoted an intelligence source
as saying. -- Exite
When the United States raises the prospect that it will build
a missile defense system, Russian strategic planners don't have far to go for a
response... They can reach for a drawer marked "Star Wars" and take
out some of the Soviet-era blueprints drawn up more than 15 years ago in
response to President Reagan's grand hopes for the Strategic Defense Initiative,
a missile defense shield. -- Washington Post
Terrer
The State Department and the United Nations are tightening
security at their outposts in Pakistan and throughout Central Asia after
receiving warnings that Islamic militants with links to Osama bin Laden may be
planning attacks in the region, U.S. and U.N. officials said today. --
Washington Post
The government's medical stockpiles for dealing with chemical
or biological terrorism are poorly managed, often lacking vital drugs and
adequate security, congressional auditors said Tuesday. -- AP
Transportation Department investigators
penetrated security so easily at major U.S. airports that some were seated
comfortably aboard airliners at departure time and could have taken a free trip.
-- MSNBC
Cyberwar
The Web pages of three US
Government agencies, including NASA's Goddard Flight Center, have been defaced
by a cracker who is worried that US government security systems are vulnerable
to cyberattack. -- Wired
WTO Issue
Underground (More on
WTO:Martial Law in Seatle .. Reuters)
“Seattle is now a city under essential martial
law,” Hunt wrote in a news-group posting, “as national guard troops
are moving in to ensure that the representatives of the wealthy overlords can
finish their planned agenda for stealing more of the sustenance from the
world’s peoples to line their already overflowing pockets.” --
ABC
A national InfraGard program was developed after President
Clinton directed the FBI to identify and coordinate computer infrastructure
protection experts inside and outside the federal government. -- CP
Y2K (FAS Millinial
Monitor)
President Clinton has already made plans to declare a national
emergency because of expected disruptions caused by the Y2K computer problem,
according to Federal Emergency Management Agency documents. -- WorldNetDaily
The federal government is expecting the Y2K computer bug to
cause more than just a few minor inconveniences, according to training materials
for emergency managers... The Federal Emergency Management
Agency has been conducting regional Y2K workshops for federal agency officials
who will be dealing with Y2K-related problems... Under
"Planning Assumptions," the document details conditions emergency
managers are expected to encounter during the period now called "Day
One" by federal officials -- Dec. 28 through Jan. 3. --
WorldNetDaily
History
More than 270,000 Chinese people died from germ warfare
conducted by Japanese troops during World War II, Xinhua reported yesterday,
citing new research by Chinese and Japanese scholars. -- SCMP
Religion
While Tauran did not directly criticize Fidel
Castro's government, the statements by a leading papal envoy about democracy
were unusual in a communist country that was once an officially atheist state.
-- CNN
Archeo
Scientists examining hereditary material in
cells suggest that modern humans followed a migration wave from Africa to Asia
more than 50,000 years ago after an earlier exodus to the Mediterranean and
Greece. -- MSNBC
Health
Traditional Western medicine has been skeptical of the
benefits of acupuncture, but researchers in New Jersey say that evidence derived
from brain imaging shows the treatment helps to relieve pain... Although it's considered a relatively new alternative in the West,
acupuncture has been practiced in China for over 2,500 years. During the
treatment, very fine needles are inserted slightly into the skin at certain
prescribed points to relieve pain or other ailments. -- CNN
Reducing one of the nation's leading causes of death and
injury - medical errors - will require rigorous changes throughout the health
care system, including mandatory reporting requirements, says a new report from
the Institute of Medicine (IOM) of the National Academies. -- ScienceDaily
AIDS
Despite powerful new drugs and massive information programs,
the AIDS virus is spreading at a growing rate with an estimated 33.4 million
people said to be carrying HIV, according to a report released today. --
AP
Nigeria is on the verge of an AIDS explosion
with overall HIV infection rates of 5.4 percent climbing as high as 21 percent
in some areas, a new study showed on Wednesday. -- MSNBC
Human plague, that dreaded disease of centuries past caused by
the bacterium Yersinia pestis, is on the rise, at least in the southwestern
United States. -- ScienceDaily
Environment (Earth
Alert)
The world’s most valuable resource, fresh
water, is facing greater stress as we enter the 21st century, with more than
half of all major rivers taxed by pollution, human overuse or both. The warning
came Monday in a draft report by an international commission charged with
surveying the state of Earth’s freshwater supply. -- MSNBC
Locals and environmentalists on Canada’s
Pacific Coast are raising a new alarm after wildlife officers had to kill nine
grizzly bears that entered a village in search of food. The environmentalists
claim the bears are reacting to a shortage of salmon, their primary food. --
MSNBC
U.S. scientists said Wednesday they had uncovered what could
be either a potential hazard or benefit of genetically modified (GM) corn. --
ENN
The researchers believe their results are
the first evidence that GM organisms could have catastrophic consequences on
their own species. They also believe that other organisms could face similar
risks from GM relatives. -- BBC
There's now alarming evidence that Europe is facing an ice
age... The Ocean Currents that give Europe its mild climate are changing.
Scientists have found evidence that global warming may cause a big freeze by
switching off a current called the North Atlantic Drift. -- NewScientist
“We’ve never had five Category 4s all in one year
before,” said Max Mayfield, deputy director of the National Hurricane
Center. “We’ve had 20 major hurricanes over the last five years, and
that’s a record.” -- ABC
The UK government is to establish a panel of experts to advise
on the risk of the Earth being hit by an asteroid or comet. --
BBC
Science
Human Cromozone
Mapped (See Also Biology's
New World -- BBC)
It is a monumental step in the biggest project ever to
understand human biology. Scientists have unlocked the genetic sequence of an
entire human chromosome — a major advance in the worldwide effort to
unravel all the genes that make up a human being. -- MSNBC
It is spring in the southern hemisphere of Mars, and the south
polar icecap is retreating like frost on a sun-drenched window. Just as the
season stands for the renewal of life on Earth, so a number of scientists are
hoping that the Martian spring will bring clues to the existence of life, past
or present, on the Red Planet. -- MSNBC
In a sign that the pace of planet detection is
quickening, six new worlds have been added to a list that now exceeds two dozen.
Five of the six are particularly intriguing: Their orbits lie within
what’s known as the “habitable zone,” where water could exist
in liquid form. -- MSNBC
The most sensitive X-ray satellite ever is set for launch on
10 December and aims to reveal the most violent regions of the Universe in
unprecedented detail. -- BBC
The leaders of NASA's advanced space transportation activity
have a vision for the opening century of the third millennium: human settlements
on other planets within 100 years. -- ScienceDaily Imagine a world where software is computational
fuel — churned out by a processing plant and shipped down an optical-fiber
pipeline to your computer, where it’s consumed and destroyed. That just
might be the model for a future generation of quantum computers, new research
suggests. -- MSNBC
Big Brother
In Washington, players across the political spectrum are
trying to force the NSA to disclose its involvement in worldwide signals
intelligence-gathering operations... And the
super-secret National Security Agency — which runs communications
intercepts and eavesdropping overseas — is under pressure from Congress to
tell taxpayers just what it does with billions of dollars every year. --
ABC
Project Megiddo, the FBI’s "strategic
assessment" of potential millennium-related domestic terrorism, represents
a significant victory in the radical left’s "long march through the
institutions" of U.S. law enforcement. The report, which was unveiled on
November 2nd at a conference of the International Association of Chiefs of
Police at Charlotte, North Carolina, has been distributed to law enforcement
agencies nationwide. -- The New American
A giant data warehouse containing the
personal and financial details of almost every Australian is being constructed
by a United States company and will be operational by Christmas... The warehouse will contain information from a diverse range of sources,
including credit companies, retailers, electoral rolls, post office lists, car
sales records and housing purchase records... The power of
the warehouse comes from its ability to cross-reference information from many
different sources... Detailed personal records therefore can
be built up on anyone in the country... Its existence has
prompted expressions of concern from the Australian Consumers' Association. -
The Australian
The ASIO Amendment Bill 1999 passed the Senate yesterday,
giving federal authorities the power to tap into private computer systems for
surveillance purposes. -- APC
According to a US Army SWAT Entry Team Leader with the
38th MP unit at Fort Hood, the City of Killeen has been using the
Fort Hood SWAT Team to serve warrants and arrest civilians for at least the past
two years. Apparently, Killeen does not have a SWAT Team of its own, so the city
uses US Army soldiers instead. The Army, for its part, seems only too happy to
oblige. -- Infowars
Computer privacy experts expressed dismay over the
behind-the-scenes communications, which are sent without warning. --
CBS
Doomsday Watch
In their handmade linen robes, sandals and cloth head-dresses,
the White family look like extras on the set of a film about the Bible --
Reuters
Crypto
"I've found some highly-suggestive pics regarding
that solar object I pointed out several months ago. Now, as you might remember,
I sent a quick note to the guys at SOHO and they sent a quick one back saying
the object was a flaw in the viewing lens, which is the obvious conclusion. Now,
the only trouble with that explanation is that the object doesn't show up on ALL
the SOHO picks, but only on the few that utilize particular radiation bands,
like the x-ray series and so on. -- The Millennial Group
A UFO that narrowly avoided colliding with a passenger jet
flying from London's Heathrow Airport has baffled aviation experts... The
metallic gray-colored object was spotted by the pilots of an Oslo-bound
McDonnell Douglas MD81 plane on 12 June 1998, and passed just 20-50 meters from
them... The captain said the object was the size of a small aircraft, while the
co-pilot described it as a "bright light, very close". --
BBC
From Colombia to India, Turkey to Taiwan, Mexico, and now
California, 1999 has been the year of the earthquake. More than 20,000 people
have died in six serious earthquakes this year, with many thousands more left
injured and homeless. -- The Millennial Group
I was in the Air Force from '73 to '79. I was an Information
Security Manager and held a Cosmic Top Secret Atomic security clearance. I too
believe in other life forms as when I was stationed at Luke AFB while on
perimeter patrol one night, I and another security specialist witnessed a UFO
hovering just west of the base. We contacted the NORAD office at Luke who is in
charge of the Southwest region. Not to my surprise...they denied knowing
anything. -- CAUS
"The most important truths for our culture," said
Harvard psychiatrist John E. Mack, MD, "may lie in the extraordinary nature
and power of the abductees' experiences, the opening these experiences provide
to other deeper dimensions of reality, and what they may mean for our culture
and the human future." -- CAUS
Many ufologists have noted in the past few years that we have
had a major change in the type of craft we are seeing in the skies overhead. In
the past, most "UFO's" were either the classic "flying disk"
type, or cylinders, or even just anomalous lights in the skies. Today we have
noticed a major increase in sightings that are of a specific type of aerial
vehicle, the dark triangle. This type was first thought to have been seen in
Belgium in the '80's, now we know different. What we are seeing is something
that has been reported in our skies for many, many years and I feel is not of
human construction. -- CAUS
Brain scans of soldiers who believe they suffer from Gulf War
illness suggest they have brain damage, possibly from chemicals they were
exposed to during the conflict, researchers reported Tuesday. -- AP
A group of British freemasons — a secretive
society famed for its men-only membership and behind-the-scenes influence
— is set to reveal the world of the secret handshake on the Internet. --
Fox
"Preparations are in full swing to meet the deadline;
only 51 days left," said Zahi Hawass, director-general of the Giza plateau.
"Areas on the plateau are being prepared to accommodate the vast numbers
expected to attend and new entrance gates are being opened, as well as a parking
area and other facilities, including a small bookshop," said Hawass...
Meanwhile, research is being carried out by the SCA in
collaboration with the Remote Sensing and Space Science Authority and the
Egyptian military forces to assess the condition of the great stones on the face
of the pyramid and determine the best method to place the cap. -- Al-Ahram
Picture the earth he said, "as a round ball spinning in
place on a glass tabletop, it's speed of spin very fast and constant. Imagine
then, that on the uppermost part of this spinning ball, you drop a tiny glob of
molten metal, just slightly off center. the ball immediately begins to wobble...
Add more metal, more weight and that wobble becomes more pronounced. Add still
more and the eccentricity becomes so great the centrifugal force of the spinning
ball grips the weight and turns the entire ball so that the heavily weighted
portion is thrown to the outermost rim of the spin - the imaginary line
encircling the ball where the speed is greatest - which is coincident with the
imaginary line on earth known to us as the equator. That is precisely what
happens periodically to the earth. -- Wingmakers
"Grandfather" was an Apache wise man and scout,
named Stalking Wolf, who grew up outside white man's influence. His many
predictions not only came true in the manner he predicted, but also when he
predicted. -- Nexus The SA Defense Force (SADF) was involved in highly secretive
research in the early 1990s into changing people's brain
functions, the Pretoria High Court heard yesterday. --
Bday
Refined sugar is lethal when ingested by humans because it
provides only that which nutritionists describe as "empty" or
"naked" calories. It lacks the natural minerals which are present in
the sugar beet or cane. In addition, sugar is worse than nothing because it
drains and leaches the body of precious vitamins and minerals through the demand
its digestion, detoxification and elimination make upon one's entire system. --
NEXUS
Archaeologists believe the site served as a religious temple
— but was it a festival site, a sacrificial altar, a funerary platform? --
MSNBC
Site 300 is the premier bomb-testing facility for the Lawrence
Livermore National Laboratory, 15 miles to the west. Livermore is almost
certainly the most sophisticated bomb lab in the world. -- ABC
This holistic merging of science, music, art and philosophy is based
on the idea that everything in the universe vibrates. Therefore the connecting
link between all that there is vibration. By studying the physics of vibration
we will be enabled to see
beyond material matter (effects) and into the very nature of the causative
Forces of Nature
operating by immutable Universal
Laws -- SVP
Special Topics from Amazing
Nicola
Is civilization the legacy of a race of human angels known as
Watchers and Nephilim? Andrew Collins, author of FROM THE ASHES OF ANGELS,
previews his history of angels and fallen angels and traces their origin back to
an extraordinarily advanced culture that entered the Near East shortly after the
end of the last Ice Age. --
New Dawn
...The next thing that happened was that scores of soldiers
wrote into the newspaper to say that this Mr. Machen had invented nothing. They
had seen with their own eyes on the Mons front the angels of St. George mingling
in their ranks. This they could swear to on their honor. Many of these letters
were published. England, anxious for a miracle in her hour of peril, was
profoundly stirred. Machen had been hurt when no notice was taken of him when he
had tried to reveal the secrets of reality. -- Watcher Spotlight (HMMMMMM?...B)
Human Search
Engins (Man this sounds familiar!
Wish I could pay you guys...B)
The company says it has a small army of well-trained Web
searchers — about 800 — ready to handle a large volume of real-time
requests -- MSNBC
Check out this new Action Resource from World Net Daily. I
wonder where they got the idea???? I'll be adding it to our Action Resource 2000
as soon as I can... B
Rare Note: I know this letter is huge; it has
taken me twice as long to compile it. I think there is a direct correlation
between the timing of holidays and the volume of articles posted on the web...go
figure!...B
Thanks Nicola, Susan
and Karen.
Standing Tall, Eyes Wide!
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