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CHICAGO (thefutoncritic.com) -- The latest development news, culled from recent wire reports:
Looking to keep track of all the various pilots and other projects in development? Be sure to check out our detailed production chart listings by clicking here.
10.5 (NBC) - The Peacock has scheduled its "four-hour, seismic-thriller miniseries" for Sunday, May 2 and Monday, May 3, both at 9:00/8:00c. Here's how NBC describes the project, via press release: "The groundbreaking and epic drama is from executive producers Gary Pearl ("Liberty Stands Still") and Michael Jaffe and Howard Braunstein ("Martha, Inc.: The Martha Stewart Story"). The earth-rattling miniseries -- named after a monstrous and destructive "10.5" quake that shatters the register on the noted Richter scale -- stars [Kim] Delaney ("NYPD Blue") as Dr. Samantha Hill, an intellectual earthquake research scientist at a noted university in Washington State. Dr. Hill's alternative theories -- which test the boundaries of current research -- and her take-charge attitude cause friction with her peers. When the controversial Dr. Hill is ultimately put in charge, she is effectively entrusted with saving the entire population of the West Coast from a series of earthquakes that threaten to permanently fracture the West Coast from the rest of North America."
C.S.I.: NEW YORK (CBS) - Melina Kanakaredes ("Providence") has been named the show's final principal cast member, where she'll join Gary Sinise, Vanessa Ferlito and Carmine Giovinazzo in the "C.S.I." spin-off. The quartet will appear in the penultimate episode of "C.S.I.: Miami" this season, which will serve as the backdoor pilot for "New York." Kanakaredes will play Stella, a New York crime scene unit detective. Her involvement stems from a talent deal the actress signed with the network back in August (read the story), where she was initially set up as the lead of the drama project "I.C.E.," about the Bureau of Immigration and Customs Enforcement, a wing of the Dept. of Homeland Security. With "I.C.E.'s" development stalled, Kanakaredes was free to join "New York." Anthony Zuiker, Carol Mendelsohn, Ann Donahue, Danny Cannon, Jerry Bruckheimer and Jonathan Littman are the show's executive producers.
DEADWOOD (HBO) - 5.8 million viewers tuned into the show's premiere on Sunday, making it the most-watched debut ever on the pay channel. "Deadwood" unseated previous record holder "Carnivale," which drew 5.3 million for its September launch. Lead-in "The Sopranos" also fared well, earning 10.1 million viewers in its third week, where it won the Sunday, 9:00/8:00c hour among adults 18-49 (5.3 national rating). Among said demographic "Deadwood" pulled a 2.9 national rating, good enough for third place behind NBC's "Crossing Jordan" and ABC's "The Practice" in the 10:00/9:00c hour.
THE DIVISION (Lifetime) - Serena Williams and Roma Downey ("Touched By an Angel") are set to guest star on the network's veteran drama beginning next month. Williams will appear in the show's April 25 episode, "Lost and Found," where she'll play Jennifer Davis, "a young woman who, after missing for almost 20 years, is reunited with her family. A man is found dead in the Davis' neighborhood. As the pieces of the investigation come together, the Division discovers the dead man was part of a scheme to defraud the Davis family," according to a network press release. As for Downey, she'll appear in a three-episode arc begininng May 2 as Regan Delaney, "a mysterious forensic expert from Philadelphia who temporarily joins the Division to help solve a murder case while Jinny (Nancy McKeon) is on maternity leave. Inspector Delaney begins working on a case involving a recovering drug addict who, while tracking down her missing daughter in the foster care system, uncovers a huge scandal. Captain McCafferty (Bonnie Bedelia) also learns that Delaney asked to be transferred to the San Francisco precinct to be closer to an old case in which she has a personal interest."
DR. 90210 (A.K.A. FACE VALUE) (E!) - The cable channel has committed to 13 episodes of the project, which tracks the life of Hollywood plastic surgeon Robert Rey. The series, which now features the title "Dr. 90210," will bow in June and follows Rey as he works with his high-end patients as well as looks into his personal life as he and his wife expect their second child. Rick Leed (TLC's "Extreme Plastic Surgery") and Donald Bull ("The Osbournes") are behind the project, which was originally developed for sibling channel Style (read the story).
DRAWN TOGETHER (Comedy Central) - Comedy Central has announced the animated "reality" series will premiere on Wednesday, October 20 at 10:30/9:30c following the first of a new batch of "South Park" episodes. The series is "the true story of eight characters, picked to live in a house to find out what happens when people stop being real and start getting animated. Presented as if it were a real Primetime reality series, "Drawn Together" answers the question of what happens when eight completely different cartoon characters from various genres and styles live together and have their lives filmed for the entire world to see," according to the network's press materials.
FRASIER (NBC) - Lifetime has purchased the off-network rights to the Emmy Award-winning comedy from Paramount Domestic Television, the network announced this week. The pact, valued at a whopping $158.4 million (about $600,000 per episode), will give the network the exclusive cable rights to the series beginning in March 2006. In addition, the deal includes a barter component which gives Paramount 90 seconds of ad time for national sales per day. "Frasier" joins fellow Peacock comedy "Will & Grace," which begins is off-network run on Lifetime in September 2005. Lifetime reportedly beat out competiting bids from Turner Broadcasting, MTV Networks and Oxygen.
THE GRAHAM NORTON EFFECT (A.K.A. UNTITLED GRAHAM NORTON PROJECT) (Comedy Central) - The cable channel's talk show featuring the popular British comedian finally has a title and a premiere date: "The Graham Norton Effect" will premiere Thursday, June 24 in a yet to be announced time slot.
GROWING UP GOTTI (A&E) - A&E has picked up 20 half-hour episodes of the reality series, about the life of New York gossip columnist Victoria Gotti, best known as the daughter of the late mob boss John Gotti. Production completed recently on the show's pilot, which featured appearances by Courtney Love, Sean "P. Diddy" Combs and Liz Smith. The network is targeting the series, which also features her three teenage sons, for a fall 2004 premiere date.
INSOMNIAC WITH DAVE ATTELL (Comedy Central) - The cable channel has scheduled a new one-hour special of the defunct series for Monday, May 31.
KEEN EDDIE (Bravo) - "Keeping Up Appearances" and "Libert�, �galit�, Fraternit�," the show's final two episodes, have been scheduled for Wednesday, April 14 and 21 respectively, both at 10:00/9:00c.
LUCKY US (FOX) - John Ross Bowie ("A.U.S.A.") has been added to the cast of the comedy pilot, which stars Embry and Chyler Leigh as a couple who go on a blind date and end up with an unexpected pregnancy. Bowie will play Charlie, the brother of Ethan Embry's character, in the project, which comes from 20th Century Fox Television and Original Television.
ME, ME, ME (UPN) - Julie Gonzalo ("Freaky Friday") and Ayda Field ("Men, Women and Dogs") are the first to join the cast of the comedy pilot, about two best friends whose shallow New York ways are compromised when one of the pair's younger sister comes to town. Gonzalo will play Pearl, said younger sister, an NYU pre-med student, in the project while Field is set as one of the two best friends (not the sister of Pearl). 20th Century Fox Television is behind the project, which comes from executive producers Tom Straw and Lisa Birnbach.
QUEEN FOR A DAY (Lifetime) - Mo'Nique ("The Parkers") is set as the host of the cable channel's revival of the 1956-65 game show, which is scheduled to air Thursday, May 27 at 8:00/7:00c. According to a network press release the new "Queen" is "based on the legendary series from the 50's and 60's, but the LIFETIME show takes the television classic to a new level. In this fun and light-hearted version, producers will sweep the nation, holding open auditions at which nominators will have the opportunity to convince the panel that their mother, sister, friend, co-worker, among others, should be "Queen for a Day." Once the four finalists have been selected, cameras will track the potential "Queens" and whisk them away to a Los Angeles studio where they will receive the royal treatment and have one last chance to make their case to the judges and studio audience. With the help of Mo'Nique, the judges and audience will cast the final vote for the one special woman about to win her dream package." Phil Gurin ("The Weakest Link") is behind the project, through his The Gurin Company.
THE REAL WORLD (MTV) - The Philadelphia Inquirer is reporting the series is back on track to begin shooting in the city as producer Bunim-Murray Productions' clash with local unions apparently has been resolved. The unions had been protesting the company's decision to hire a nonunion contractor to rehab an Old City building that will serve as the home to the show's seven cast members for the series' 15th season. Production is set to begin next month.
RENO 911 (Comedy Central) - The cable channel has revealed the second season of the comedy series will debut Wednesday, June 9 at 10:30/9:30c.
THE ROSS SHOW! (Bravo, New!) - Ross Matthews, best known as Ross the Intern on "The Tonight Show With Jay Leno," is set to be the focus of a new reality series at the cable channel. Bravo has committed to a pilot for the series, which will focus on Matthews as he takes on unique jobs and visits exotic locales. Basic Elements ("Boarding House: North Shore," "The Offensive Show") is behind the project, which will be executive produced by Dan Pasternack. Tentative plans for the series also include celebrity guest stars as well as a wish-fulfillment segment in which the host will take a viewer along with him for the ride.
SCREAM PLAY (E!, New!) - Executive producers Joel Klein and David Hurwitz ("Fear Factor") along with Reveille's Ben Silverman and Mark Koops ("The Restaurant") have snagged a 13-episode order for a new one-hour competition series in which teams recreate memorable stunts and scenes from the movies and TV. Among the possible scenarios mentioned were Keanu Reeves' freeway bus hopping in "Speed," wrapping and eating candies like in the the famous chocolate factory episode of "I Love Lucy," Indiana Jones' insect-eating antics in "The Temple of Doom" and the daring swashbuckling scenes from "Pirates of the Caribbean." E! has committed to 13 episodes of the project which, along with "Dr. 90210," is targeted for a June premiere date.
SHACKING UP (WB) - Fran Drescher ("The Nanny") is set to star opposite Ben Feldman in the comedy pilot, about a 24-year-old medical school drop-out (Feldman) who moves back home with his mom and her new boyfriend, who's also 24. She'll play Kate Reeves, the 40-something mom in the Regency Television/Wannabe Producers project, which comes from Jamie Kennedy, Mike Langworthy, David Garrett, Jason Ward and Josh Etting.
SHORTIES WATCHING SHORTIES (Comedy Central) - The animated comedy has been slated to premiere Wednesday, April 28 at 10:30/9:30c following the spring finale of "South Park." Patrice Oneal and Nick DiPaolo provide the voices on the series, where they play "two over-sophisticated, under-supervised infants whose primary babysitter becomes the television. Through their eyes, viewers see different animated comedy bits from existing A-list stand-up routines," according to a network press release.
STAR TREK: DEEP SPACE NINE (Spike TV) - The sci-fi drama will make its debut on the cable channel on Monday, April 5 with a five-day, 45-hour marathon. Episodes will run from noon to 9:00 p.m. eastern Monday through Friday that week, after which the series will settle into its regular time period of Monday-Friday at 7:00/6:00c on April 12 followed by current Spike TV mainstay "Star Trek: The Next Generation" at 8:00/7:00c. In addition, the network plans to present "uncut" two-part episodes of "Deep Space Nine" every Friday night at 9:00/8:00c starting April 9. Said episodes will "be presented full-screen with no black bar and limited commercial interruptions," according to the network's press release touting the news. "Additionally, the network will telecast the episodes in the marathon consecutively from the beginning of the syndicated series."
THANK GOD IT'S MONDAY (ABC) - Ever Carradine ("Once & Again," "Lucky"), Tamara Taylor ("Party of Five"), Ed Kerr ("Three Sisters") and Louis Lombardi ("N.Y.P.D. Blue") have joined the cast of the Alphabet's comedy pilot, which revolves around office-worker guys who enjoy chewing the fat about their home lives at work. Carradine will play the wife of one of the main characters in the Touchstone Television project while Taylor is set as Trish, also one of the wives. Kerr and Lombardi will play two of the male leads, Wes and Rocky, respectively.
UNTITLED MICHAEL JACOBS PROJECT (FOX) - Stephen Root ("Newsradio") has climbed aboard the comedy pilot, where he'll play a befuddled dad whose kids know the ways of the world as well as, or even better, than he does. Michael Jacobs ("Boy Meets World") and Jersey Television principals Danny DeVito, John Landgraf, Michael Shamberg and Stacey Sher are behind the Sony Pictures Television project, which was previously cast-contingent.
Sources: Variety, The Hollywood Reporter, Reuters


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| review Faye Yuan Kleeman. *In Transit: The Formation of the Colonial East Asian Cultural Sphere*
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**Faye Yuan Kleeman. *In Transit: The Formation of the Colonial East Asian Cultural Sphere*. Honolulu: University of Hawai'i Press, 2014. 302 pages. Hardback,
With *In Transit: The Formation of the Colonial East Asian Cultural Sphere*, Faye Yuan Kleeman adopts an interdisciplinary and multi-textual approach for providing a transnational history of Japan's "empire-wide cultural sphere" (9), and the multi-faceted ways in which individuals were embroiled within this sphere. By the onset of the Pacific War, this "cultural sphere" had become articulated within government propaganda as the geopolitical construct of the "Great East Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere," the paradigmatic expression of Japanese imperialist ideology. It is this ideological understanding of the Co-Prosperity Sphere that Kleeman wishes to reread, shifting focus to the cultural and personal interactions between Japan and other parts of East Asia prior to, and continuing after, the manifestation of the concept within Japanese state propaganda. As Kleeman reminds us, it was not through state ideology that people chose to participate in Japan's imperial projects; "rather, it was through the lure of desire and pleasure, through their romantic imaginations" (7). Seeking to "transcend previous studies of the Japanese empire as a hegemonic macrosystem with unifying governing principles" (16), Kleeman uses the medium of biography to view Japan's empire as "a fluid, interconnected site that is dynamic, complex, and full of multiple possibilities and conflicted, competing values and ideas" (18). Whether Kleeman "transcends" the existing literature is debatable; however, what is not debatable is that she enhances the existing literature by providing a rich examination of how certain individuals navigated the complex ideological and geopolitical landscape of the empire. Through this "microscale approach" (16), Kleeman is able to explore a wide range of topics crucial to understanding the complexity of Japan's empire and individual interactions within it, including gender, class, racial and ethnic identity, biopolitics, marriage and romance, ideology, cultural representation, imperial cosmopolitanism, and colonial modernity. Among these, the topic of gender is most fully developed in Kleeman's argument, particularly issues of female subjectivity, with all but the first chapter devoted to female subjects.
*In Transit* is divided into three parts, each containing two chapters, which follow a loose chronological order. An account of Japan's emergence as an empire provides the background to Part i, which examines the Pan-Asianism of the "continental adventurer" (or, *tairiku rōnin*) Miyazaki Tōten and educator-cum-spy Kawahara Misako. Focusing less on Miyazaki's political dealings in China and elsewhere, Kleeman seeks to "bring a cultural dimension to the discussion of Pan-Asianism" (22) through an examination of Miyazaki's incorporation of his political ideals into the performance of traditional narrative chanting, *naniwabushi*.
Chapter 2 continues the theme of Pan-Asianism, but connects with a broader focus of the book: the individual in their relations with the state and its geopolitical interests. Here, Kleeman discusses the exploits of Kawahara Misako, or the "Mata Hari of Japan." Educated by a Sinophile father and motivated by Japan's "civilizing mission" on the continent, Kawahara travelled to China and Mongolia as an educationalist, but ended up working as a spy for the Japanese government in its machinations against the Russians. Kawahara's life history also provides a gateway for exploring gender roles in Meiji Japan. While personifying the ideal of the self-actualizing "New Woman," she was also a traditionalist, and fell into the role of the "good wife, wise mother" in her later life—"two constructions of the feminine that, together, bookended the Meiji period" (45).
Parts II and III continue the theme of gender, but broaden it to include a consideration of ethnic identity during the high period of Japanese imperialism. These parts comprise the bulk of the book and get to the crux of Kleeman's argument. Kleeman examines subjects "who crossed between the metropole and the colonies, blurring the national boundaries and confronting issues of race, gender, and identity" (79).
Chapter 3 covers the life histories of two Japanese aristocratic women: Nashimoto Masako (Ri Masako) and Saga Hiroko (Aisin-Gioro Hiro), who were married off to the loyal courts of Korea and Manchuria, respectively. This chapter provides insights into the biopolitics of empire and the use of private bodies for public deployment by the state. Marriage challenged the Japan-centric cultural assumptions held by these women, and deeply altered their ethnic identities and affiliations. Chapter 4 looks at celebrities, Kawashima Yoshiko (Aixinjueluo Xianyu) and Ri Kōran (Yamaguchi Yoshiko). The lives of Kawashima (a crossdressing Manchu princess and Manchukuo generalissimo who was raised in Japan by a "continental adventurer") and Ri (a Japanese actress who was raised in China and affected a Chinese ethnic public persona) provide a gateway for Kleeman to deepen her examination of gender and ethnic hybridity in the context of Japanese imperialism. Chapter 5 turns to literary representations of Taiwan in the works of Masugi Shizue and Sakaguchi Reiko. Kleeman "explores the intersections of colonialism, modernism, body, transnational mobilizations, and the female writerly subjectivity" (161). The final chapter examines the "transmission of knowledge and modernity through the medium of the human body," with a look at dancers Choi Seunghee from Korea and Tsai Juiyueh from Taiwan (182).
The novelty of Kleeman's work and her largest contribution to our understanding of Japanese imperialism is the biographical approach she brings to the subject matter. Through a series of life histories, *In Transit* explores the fractured identities created by empire, the multiplicity of personalities that it makes possible, the conflicted and competing loyalties it makes inevitable, and how these were formed and remolded over the geopolitical landscape of the empire. Through this focus on individuals and their histories, Kleeman seeks to answer three questions: "What did common people gain from the empire? How were they persuaded to accept the ideology of Japanese imperialism? What sustained their interest in the project of empire building?" (7). While Kleeman provides compelling answers for the personalities she explores, her subjects can hardly be described as "common people"; rather, they were extraordinary. Kleeman's analysis of the "cultural sphere" of Japan's empire focuses on the agents of cultural production within the sphere rather than the consumers. This makes generalizations about the everyday experiences of ordinary individuals—common people—in their consumption of these cultural products difficult. Kleeman's focus on the lives of a limited number of extraordinary individuals thus makes *In Transit* problematic as a general history of "the formation of the colonial East Asian cultural sphere," in the words of the book's subtitle. This, of course, is not Kleeman's objective, which appears to be the opposite: the formation of individual subjectivities within the cultural sphere. This is an objective which Kleeman's work fulfills in a readable, insightful, and engaging manner. Finally, the addition of a conclusion would have been helpful in tying up the multiple themes running through the work as well as suggesting future avenues for exploration.

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Too Human has been pulled from the Xbox Live Marketplace
Too Human, the 2008 Xbox 360 exclusive from Silicon Knights, has been pulled from the Xbox Live Marketplace as part of a November court order to recall and destroy every unsold copy of Too Human and X-Men: Destiny.
While images and videos are still present on the game's XBLM page, the game is no longer available for purchase through Games on Demand and all Gamer Pics and Themes have been removed.
Silicon Knights had until December 10, 2012 to recall and destroy any software built using Unreal Engine 3 at its own expense.
A North Carolina federal judge ordered the developer to pay Epic Games over $9 million, doubling the initial $4.5 million a jury awarded Epic in May after it was found Silicon Knights deliberately copied code from Unreal Engine 3.
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As the number of computers being used to store sensitive information for personal, business, and government purposes increases, the need for securing computers and other systems that store this information becomes more obvious. Information security professionals are needed to provide security for these infrastructures. The Associate of Applied Science (A.A.S) program in Cybersecurity is designed for students who are interested in pursuing careers in cybersecurity, network/systems administration, and system programmers. This program also consists of courses that help to prepare students for these industry certification exams:
- CompTIA Security+ (CIS 152, CIS 259)
- Certified Ethical Hacker (CEH) (CIS 274)
- Certified Hacking Forensic Investigator (CHFI) (CIS 261, CIS 274)


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I had the pleasure of meeting the fabulous, talented, and completely adorable Will Blunderfield in Vancouver when he sang prior to my mom's talk at the Queen Elizabeth Theater this past November. I was immediately struck by his amazing voice and his sparkling sense of humor so I checked out one of his yoga classes later on that week. I usually am really not into hot yoga, but his personality, wit, and singing swept me right through that 104 degree hour with flying colors and a big smile. In addition to being a phenomenal yoga teacher, Will also has a major record deal and is heading out on a world tour! He has some really insightful things to say about self doubt and how to love your life so I was happy to steal a few minutes with him on my roof (probably my last rooftop Glimpse TV episode) last week on a trip to NYC.
Tune in to find out about how to rest in your work, why I consider myself an honorary Canadian, something called trembling that made Will fall in love with yoga, and to see a special surprise at the end :).
More Will:
www.willblunderfield.com www.facebook.com/willblunderfield @wblunderfieldWhere in your life are you playing small? Where are you playing big?
What is the thing that you do that allows you to feel that you're "resting in your work"?
Other thoughts/comments? Will and I would love to hear from you!


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When the day of Martial Law comes in America, the UNISF and UNMNTF troops located in Central America, in the US, and Canada will be deployed to help round up the millions of Americans whose names appear on the CIA Red List and the CIA Blue List. These troops are Chinese, Russian, German, Polish, Japanese, Ukrainian, Saudi Arabian, Pakistani, Mexican, Honduran, Salvadorean and Chilean, and many are stationed in the deep underground military bases.
When that day comes in America, do not expect the Fox News Network, NBC, CBS, ABC, CNN, BBC News 24 or Reuters to give a full or accurate account of the truth. Mass detentions in camps and the underground bases, along with mass executions will occur, like they have in many other countries like Cambodia, Russia, China, Germany, Poland, Armenia, Georgia, Belorussia, Hungary and the Ukraine over the past 100 years. The best option for many Americans will be to have a safe place in a remote area where you can hide.
They have been building these bases day and night, unceasingly, since the 1940s. These bases are basically large cities underground connected by high-speed magneto-levity trains that have speeds up to 1500 MPH. Several books have been written about this activity. Richard Souder, a Ph.D. architect, risked his life by talking about this. He is the author of the book, 'Underground Bases and Tunnels: What is the Government Trying to Hide'. He worked with a number of government agencies on deep underground military bases. The average depth of these bases is over a mile, and they again are basically whole cities underground. They have nuclear powered laser drilling machines that can drill a tunnel seven miles long in one day. (Note: The September, 1983 issue of Omni (Pg. 80) has a color drawing of 'The Subterrene,' the Los Alamos nuclear-powered tunnel machine that burrows through the rock, deep underground, by heating whatever stone it encounters into molten rock.) The Black Projects sidestep the authority of Congress, which as we know is illegal. There is much hard evidence out there. Many will react with fear, terror and paranoia, but you must snap out of it and wake up from the brainwashing your media pumps into your heads all day long. Are you going to be a rabbit in the headlights, or are you going to stand up and say enough is enough? The US Government through the NSA, DOD, CIA, DIA, ATF, ONI, US Army, US Marine Corp, FEMA and the DHS has spent in excess of 12 trillion dollars building the massive, covert infrastructure for the coming One World Government and New World Religion over the past 40 years.
There is the Deep Underground Military Base underneath Denver International Airport, which is over 22 miles in diameter and goes down over 8 levels. It's no coincidence that the CIA relocated the headquarters of its domestic division, which is responsible for operations in the United States, from the CIA's Langley headquarters to Denver. Constructed in 1995, the government and politicians were hell bent on building this airport in spite of it ending up vastly overbudget. Charges of corruption, constant construction company changes, and mass firings of teams once they had built a section of their work was reported so that no "one" group had any idea what the blueprint of the airport was. Not only did locals not want this airport built nor was it needed, but everything was done to make sure it was built despite that.
Masonic symbols and bizarre artwork of dead babies, burning cities and women in coffins comprise an extensive mural as well as a time capsule - none of which is featured in the airport's web site section detailing the unique artwork throughout the building. DIA serves as a cover for the vast underground facilities that were built there. There are reports of electronic/magnetic vibrations which make some people sick and cause headaches in others. There are acres of fenced-in areas which have barbed wire pointing into the area as if to keep things in, and small concrete stacks that resemble mini-cooling towers rise out of the acres of nowhere to apparently vent underground levels. The underground facility is 88.3 square miles deep. Basically this Underground Base is 8 cities on top of each other! The holding capacity of such leviathanic bases is huge. These city-sized bases can hold millions and millions of people, whether they are mind controlled, enslaved NWO World Army Soldiers or innocent and enslaved surface dwellers from the towns and cities of America and Canada.
There is Dulce Base, in New Mexico. Dulce is a small town in northern New Mexico, located above 7,000 feet on the Jicarilla Apache Indian Reservation. There is only one major motel and a few stores. It's not a resort town and it is not bustling with activity. But Dulce has a deep, dark secret. The secret is harbored deep below the brush of Archuleta Mesa. Function: Research of mind related functions, genetic experiments, mind control training and reprograming. There are over 3000 real-time video cameras throughout the complex at high-security locations (entrances and exits). There are over 100 secret exits near and around Dulce. Many around Archuleta Mesa, others to the south around Dulce Lake and even as far east as Lindrith.
Deep sections of the complex connect into natural cavern systems. Level 1 - garage for street maintenance. Level 2 - garage for trains, shuttles, tunnel-boring machines and disc maintenance. Level 3 - everyone is weighed, in the nude, then given a jump suit uniform. The weight of the person is put on a computer I.D. card each day. Change in over three dollars requires a physical exam and X-ray. Level 4 - Human research in 'paranormal' areas - mental telepathy, mind control, hypnosis, remote viewing, astral traveling - etc. The technology is apparently here to allow them to know how to manipulate the 'Bioplasmic Body' Development of a laser weapon that can remotely cause burns and discomfort on it's target. They can lower your heartbeat with Deep Sleep 'Delta Waves,' induce a static shock, then reprogram, Via a Brain- Computer link. Level 5 -security is severe. Armed guards patrol constantly, and in addition to weight sensitive areas there (are) hand print and eye print stations. Here, is the device that powers the transfer of atoms. Level 6 - Level 6 is privately called 'Nightmare Hall'. It holds the genetic labs. Experiments done on fish, seals, birds, and mice that are vastly altered from their original forms.
Then there is the Greenbrier Facility, in White Sulfer Springs, West Virginia under the Greenbriar Resort. The Continuity of Government facility intended since 1962 to house the United States Congress, code-named Casper, is located on the grounds of the prestigious Greenbrier resort. The bunker is beneath the West Virginia wing, which includes a complete medical clinic. Construction of the facility, which began in 1959, required 2.5 years and 50,000 tons of concrete. The steel-reinforced concrete walls of the bunker, which is 20 feet below ground, are 2 feet thick. The facility includes separate chambers for the House of Representatives and the Senate, as well as a larger room for joint sessions. These are located in the "Exhibit Hall" of the West Virginia Wing, which includes vehicular and pedestrian entrances which can be quickly sealed by blast doors. They don't even hide this one, and it's even a tourist attraction.
The Underground vault was built to meet the needs of a Congress-in-hiding - in fact the hotel is a replica of the White House. The underground area has a chamber for the Senate, a chamber for the House and a massive hall for joint sessions. Although the hotel says it gives tours of the 112,000 square area daily, the installation still stands at the ready, its operators still working under cover at the hotel. The secrecy that has surrounded the site has shielded it both from public scrutiny and official reassessment.
Most Americans will not believe that an American Holocaust will happen until they see it happening with their own eyes. Till then, it is just another strange conspiracy theory for them to laugh at. This is no laughing matter. When it happens, it will be to late to stop it. The US Government has been involved covertly in the creation of an army of loyal, brainwashed soldiers of the future. They will have cybernetic and microchip implants and will fight anywhere in the world, without question, with total loyalty and without hesitation or fear. These soldiers were created at Brookhaven National Laboratories BNL, the National Ordinance Laboratories NOL and the Massachussetts Institute of Technology MIT, and covertly transferred under DOD and NSA control and planning. Many of these soldiers are stationed in the Deep Underground Military Bases like the one under Denver International Airport. All of this information has been researched, and it has taken much effort to fit it together properly. There are many mag-lev subterraenean train networks that stretch from the these complexes and go out to other underground bases. All soldiers working in these bases are microchipped and under total Psychotronic Mind Control.
ALASKA 1. Brooks Range, Alaska 2. Delta Junction, Alaska 2a. Fort Greeley, Alaska. In the same Delta Junction area.
ARIZONA 1. Arizona (Mountains) (not on map) Function: Genetic work. Multiple levels 2. Fort Huachuca, Arizona (also reported detainment camp) Function: NSA Facility 2. Luke Air Force Base 3. Page, Arizona Tunnels to: Area 51, Nevada Dulce base, New Mexico 4. Sedona, Arizona (also reported detainment camp) Notes: Located under the Enchantment Resort in Boynton Canyon. There have been many reports by people in recent years of "increased military presence and activity" in the area.5. Wikieup, Arizona Tunnels to: Area 51 6. Yucca (Mtns.), Arizona
CALIFORNIA 1: 29 Palms, California Tunnels to: Chocolate Mts., Fort Irwin, California (possibly one more site due west a few miles) 2: Benicia, California 3. Catalina Island, California Tunnels to: I was told by someone who worked at the Port Hueneme Naval Weapons Division Base in Oxnard that they have heard and it is 'common rumor' that there is a tunnel from the base to this Island, and also to Edwards Air Force Base, possibly utilizing old mines. . 4. China Lake Naval Weapons Testing Center 5. Chocolate Mountains, California Tunnels to: Fort Irwin, California 6. Death Valley,California Function: The entrance to the Death Valley Tunnel is in the Panamint Mountains down on the lower edge of the range near Wingate Pass, in the bottom of an abandoned mine shaft. The bottom of the shaft opens into an extensive tunnel system
7. Deep Springs, California Tunnels to: Death Valley, Mercury, NV, Salt Lake City 8. Edwards AFB, California Function: Aircraft Development - antigravity research and vehicle development Levels: Multiple Tunnels to: Catalina Island Fort Irwin, California Vandenburg AFB, California Notes: Delta Hanger - North Base, Edwards AFB, Ca. Haystack Buttte - Edwards, AFB, Ca. 9. Fort Irwin, California (also reported detainment camp) Tunnels to: 29 Palms, California Area 51, Nevada Edwards AFB. California Mt. Shasta, California 10. Helendale, California Function: Special Aircraft Facility Helendale has an extensive railway/shipping system through it from the Union Pacific days which runs in from Salt Lake City, Denver, Omaha, Los Angeles and Chicago 11. Lancaster, California Function: New Aircraft design, anti-gravity engineering, Stealth craft and testing Levels: 42 Tunnels To: Edwards A.F.B., Palmdale 12. Lawrence-Livermore International Labs, California The lab has a Human Genome Mapping project on chromosome #19 and a newly built $1.2 billion laser facility 13. Moreno Valley, California Function unknown 14. Mt. Lassen, California Tunnels to: Probably connects to the Mt. Shasta main tunnel. 15. Mt. Shasta. Function: Genetic experiments, magnetic advance, space and beam weaponry. Levels: 5 Tunnels to: Ft. Irwin, California North 16. Napa, California Functions: Direct Satellite Communications, Laser Communications. Continuation of Government site. Levels: Multi-level Tunnels to: Unknown Notes: Located on Oakville Grade, Napa County, Ca. 87 Acres 17. Needles, California Function unknown 18. Palmdale, California Function: New Aircraft Design, anit-gravity research 19. Tehachapi Facility (Northrop, California - Tejon Ranch Function: Levels: 42 Tunnels to: Edwards, Llona and other local areas Notes: 25 miles NW of Lancaster California, in the Tehachapi mountains. 20. Ukiah, California Function unknown
COLORADO 1. Near Boulder, Co. in the mountains Function unknown 2. Cheyenne Mountain -Norad -Colorado Springs, Colorado Function: Early Warning systems - missile defense systems - Space tracking Levels: Multiple Tunnels to: Colorado Springs, Function: Early warning systems, military strategy, satellite operations Levels: Multiple NORAD is a massive self-sustaining 'city' built inside the mountain Tunnels to: Creede, Denver, Dulce Base, Kinsley. 3. Creede, Colorado Function unknown Tunnels to: Colorado Springs, Colorado - Delta, Colorado - Dulce Base, New Mexico 4. Delta, Colorado Function unknown Tunnels to: Creede Salt Lake, Utah 5. Denver International Airport (also a detainment camp) Function: Military research, construction, detainment camp facilities Levels: 7 reported Tunnels to: Denver proper, Colorado and Rocky Mountain "safehousing", Colorado Springs, Colorado (Cheyenne Mtn.)
6. Falcon Air Force Base, Falcon, Colorado Function: SDI, Satellite Control Levels: Multiple Tunnels to: Colorado Springs, possibly more. 7. Fort Collins, Colorado Function: Suspect high precision equipment manufacturing for space. 8. Grand Mesa, Colorado Function unknown 9. Gore Range Near Lake, west of Denver, Co. Function: Library and Central Data Bank 10. San Juan Valley, Colorado Hidden beneath and in an operating Buffalo Ranch Function unknown 11. Telluride, Colorado Function unknown 12. University of Denver, Co (Boulder area) Function: Genetics, geology/mining as related to tunneling and underground construction. 13. Warden Valley West of Fort Collins, CO Function Unknown Tunnels to: Montana
GEORGIA Dobbins Air Force Base, Marrietta GA Function: test site for plasma and antigravity air craft, experimental crafts and weapons
INDIANA Kokomo, Indiana Function Unknown Notes: for years people in that area have reported a "hum" that has been so constant that some have been forced to move and it has made many others sick. It seems to come from underground, and "research" has turned up nothing although it was suggested by someone that massive underground tunneling and excavating is going on, using naturally occurring caverns, to make an underground containment and storage facility.
KANSAS 1. Hutchinson, Kansas Function unknown Tunnels to: Kinsley, Nebraska. Note: I recieved this report concerning this base: "I can vouch for the underground base in Hutchinson, Ks. The entrance to the tunnel is underneath Hutchinson Hospital and is huge. I was walking down that tunnel when I was a kid and at the end of this tunnel is a rock face wall with a 90 degree turn to the right. I stopped and refused to go any further down the tunnel, my instincts told me to stop. I distinctly remember hearing screams coming from there. These were not just cries for help, but more like blood curtailing horrifying screams like someone had just been murdered. I really want to know what was and probably still is going on down there. You are free to report the story, but please keep my name anonymous." 2. Kansas City, Kansas Function unknown Notes: Entrance near Worlds of Fun 3. Kinsley, Kansas Function unknown Tunnels to: Colorado Springs, Colorado; Hutchinson, Kansas; Tulsa Kokoweef Peak, SW California Notes: Gold stored in huge cavern, blasted shut. Known as the "midway city" because it's located halfway between New York and San Francisco.
MARYLAND Edgewood Arsenal, Maryland (from Don) Martins AFB, Aberdeen Proving Ground, Maryland
MASSACHUSETTS Maynard MA, FEMA regional center. Wackenhut is here too.
MONTANA Bozeman, Mont. Function: Genetics
NEVADA Area 51 - Groom Lake - Dreamland - Nellis Air Force Base Area 51 was said to exist only in our imaginations until Russian satellite photos were leaked to US sources and it's amazing how you can get photos all over of it now, even posters. They've been busy little bees building this base up. Function: Stealth and cloaking Aircraft research & development. 'Dreamland (Data Repository Establishment and Maintenance Land) Elmint (Electromagnetic Intelligence), Biological weapons research and genetic manipulation/warfare storage, Cold Empire, EVA, Program HIS (Hybrid Intelligence System),BW/CW; IRIS (Infrared Intruder Systems), Security: Above ground cameras, underground pressure sensors, ground and air patrol 2. Blue Diamond, Nevada Function unknown 3. Fallon Air Force Base area (the flats, near Reno) "American City" restricted military sites southwest of Fallon 4. Mercury, Nevada Function unknown 5. Tonopah, Nevada Function unknown 69: San Gabriel (mountains) On Western side of Mojave Desert Function unknown Notes: Heavy vibrations coming from under the forest floor which sounds like geared machinery. These vibrations and sounds are the same as heard in Kokomo, Indiana and are suspected underground building/tunneling operations.
NEW MEXICO 1. Albuquerque, New Mexico (AFB) Function unknown Levels: Multiple Tunnels to: Carlsbad, New Mexico Los Alamos, New Mexico Possible connections to Datil, and other points. 2. Carlsbad, New Mexico Functions: Underground Nuclear Testing Tunnels to: Fort Stockton, Texas. Roswell 3. Cordova, New Mexico Function unknown 4. Datil, New Mexico Function unknown Tunnels to: Dulce Base
5: Dulce Base, New Mexico. Tunnels to: Colorado Springs, Colorado Creed, Colorado Datil, N.M. Los Alamos. Page, Arizona Sandia Base Taos, NM
6. Los Alamos, New Mexico Functions: Psychotronic Research, Psychotronic Weapons Levels: Multiple Tunnels to: ALB AFB, New Mexico Dulce, New Mexico Connections to Datil,Taos 7. Sandia Base, New Mexico Functions: Research in Electrical/magnetic Phenomena Levels: Multiple Tunnels to: Dulce Base Notes: Related Projects are studied at Sandia Base by 'The Jason Group' (of 55 Scientists). They have secretly harnessed the 'Dark Side of Technology' and hidden the beneficial technology from the public. 8. Sunspot, NM Function unknown 9. Taos, New Mexico Function unknown Tunnels to: Dulce, New Mexico; Cog, Colorado Notes: Several other sidelines to area where Uranium is mined or processed. 10. White Sands, NM Function: Missile testing/design Levels: Seven known
NEW HAMPSHIRE There may be as many as three underground installations in New Hampshire's hills, according to reports.
NEW YORK New York, New York Function unknown Tunnels to: Capitol Building, D.C.
OHIO Wright-Patterson Air Force Base - Dayton, Ohio Function: Air Force Repository. Rumored to house stealth technology and prototype craft
OREGON 1. Cave Junction, Oregon Function: Suspected Underground UFO Base Levels: At least one Notes: Suspected location is in or near Hope Mountain. Near Applegate Lake, Oregon, just over into California. Multiple shafts, access areas to over 1500 feet depth. Built using abandoned mine with over 36 known miles of tunnels, shafts. 2. Crater Lake, Oregon Tunnels: possible to Cave Junction 3. Klamath Falls, Oregon 4. Wimer, Oregon (Ashland Mt. area) Function: Underground Chemical Storage Levels: At least one
PENNSYLVANIA Raven Rock, Pa (near Ligonier) Function: working back up underground Pentagon - sister site of Mt. Weather Notes: 650' below summit, 4 entrances.
TEXAS 1. Calvert, Texas Function unknown 2. Fort Hood, Texas (also reported detainment camp) Levels: Multiple 3. Fort Stockton, Texas Function: Unknown Tunnels to: Carlsbad, New Mexico UTAH 1. Dugway, Utah Function: Chemical Storage, Radiation storage. 2. Salt Lake City Mormon Caverns Function: Religions archives storage. Levels: Multiple Tunnels to: Delta, Colorado & Riverton, Wyoming
VIRGINIA Mount Poney - Near Culpepper, Virginia Function unknown
WASHINGTON 1. Mt. Rainier, Washington Function unknown. Levels: Multiple Tunnels to: Unknown Yakima Indian Reservation Function unknown Notes: Southeast of Tacoma Washington, on the Reservation, in an area 40 by 70 miles. Unusual sounds from underground (Toppenish Ridge). Low flying Silver Cigar shaped craft seen to disappear into the Middle fork area of Toppenish creek.
Washington DC: The Function: Part of a massive underground relocation system to house select government and military personnel in the event of cataclysmic event. Tunnels to: New York City; Mt. Weather.
WEST VIRGINIA: Greenbrier Facility, White Sulfer Springs, West Virginia under the Greenbriar Resort.
WYOMING: Riverton, Wyoming Function unknown Tunnels to: Salt Lake, Utah Denver, Colorado.


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Bret Michaels Returns Against Doctor's Orders
Bret Michaels will return to the stage tonight, much to the delight of his fans worldwide -- but we've learned his doctor is not crazy about the comeback plan.
Fresh off his triumphant "Celebrity Apprentice" win and "American Idol" performance, Michaels is set to perform tonight at the Hard Rock Hotel & Casino in Biloxi, MS. Sources close to Michaels tell us he had a check-up yesterday and everything was fine.
We're told Bret's doctor is not in favor of Michaels performing tonight, noting he's not "100%." But the doctor realizes handcuffing Bret is not an option.
Nevertheless, precautions will be in place tonight. We're told, "Bret will be slower on stage ... not a lot of dancing and will take it easy" on stage. There will also be "medical personnel" in the house ... just in case. And, we're told, the AC will be cranked up.
If you plan on attending tonight's show, be sure to pack your extra warm bandana.


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Call it the $600 million gift that just keeps giving. NASA announced Wednesday the crippled Kepler Space Telescope put in some serious work, making the largest exoplanetary discovery ever.
The space agency said the Kepler team discovered 715 new planets orbiting stars other than our very own sun. Ninety-five percent of the planets are smaller than Neptune and just four orbit in their sun's "Goldilocks Zone." (Via NASA)
A statement posted to NASA's website read, "This discovery marks a significant increase in the number of known small-sized planets more akin to Earth than previously identified exoplanets, which are planets outside our solar system."
NASA scientists said Kepler left them with an "oceanful" of homework when it ceased regular operations last year. According to Space.com, the newly-discovered planets came just from Kepler's first half of its time on the job, so there could soon be another massive haul of planets.
Ars Technica reports the exoplanet discoveries went from a trickle to a flood not because of Kepler's no-quit attitude, but because of a new technique.
The research team calls the technique verification through multiplicity. Before, Kepler observed planetary candidates orbiting stars. Those candidates would later be confirmed as planets after thorough follow-up observations.
According to the Los Angeles Times, "The new method ... relies on the idea that planets seem to cluster in systems with other planets, rather like our own."
One NASA researcher compared that to observing lions and lionesses in an intergalactic savannah. If two or more lionesses (or planet candidates) are spotted together, they can be reliably identified as being with the same lion (or parent star). (Via BBC)
NASA launched Kepler in 2009 with the mission of finding planets much like our own. Although Kepler has made good on that promise, researchers hope the telescope will continue searching for celestial objects.
Kepler has helped discover 961 exoplanets to date. The studies detailing the discovery of the hundreds of new worlds will be published in The Astrophysical Journal March 10.


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US Stealth Jets Get Set Near Iran
April 27, 2012
By DAVID AXE | WIRED | APRIL 27
The U.S. Air Force is quietly assembling the world's most powerful air-to-air fighting team at bases near Iran. Stealthy F-22 Raptors on their first front-line deployment have joined a potent mix of active-duty and Air National Guard F-15 Eagles, including some fitted with the latest advanced radars. The Raptor-Eagle team has been honing special tactics for clearing the air of Iranian fighters in the event of war.
It's been years since the Air Force has maintained a significant dogfighting presence in the Middle East. During the 2003 invasion of Iraq Boeing-made F-15Cs flew air patrols from Saudi Arabia, but the Iraqi air force put up no resistance and the Eagle squadrons soon departed. For the next nine years Air Force deployments to the Middle East were handled by ground-attack planes such as A-10s, F-16s and twin-seat F-15E Strike Eagles.
The 1980s-vintage F-15Cs, plagued by structural problems, stayed home in the U.S. and Japan. The brand-new F-22s, built by Lockheed Martin, suffered their own mechanical and safety problems. When they ventured from their home bases in Virginia, Alaska and New Mexico, it was only for short training exercises over the Pacific. The F-15Cs and F-22s sat out last year's Libya war.
The Air Force fixed the F-15s and partially patched up the F-22s just in time for the escalating stand-off over Iran's suspected nuclear weapons program. In March the Air Force deployed the Massachusetts Air National Guard's 104th Fighter Wing, flying 20 standard F-15Cs, to an "undisclosed" air base in Southwest Asia — probably either Al Dhafra in the United Arab Emirates or Al Udeid in Qatar. The highly-experienced Massachusetts Guardsmen, who typically have several years more experience than their active-duty counterparts, would be ready "should Iran test the 104th," said wing commander Col. Robert Brooks.
Upgraded F-15Cs from the 18th Wing in Japan joined the Guard Eagles. The Japan-based fighters have the latest APG-63(V)2 and (V)3 radars, manufactured by Raytheon. They're electronically-scanned radars that radiate many individual beams from fixed antenna clusters and track more targets, faster, than old-model mechanical radars that must physically swivel back and forth. The 18th Wing is working up a fleet of 54 updated Eagles spread across two squadrons. The video above, shot by an F-15 pilot, depicts some of the wing's training.
F-22s followed this month. "Multiple" Raptors deployed to Al Dhafra, according to Amy Butler at Aviation Week. Air Force spokesman Capt. Phil Ventura confirmed the deployment. It's not clear where the Raptors came from. If they're from the Alaska-based 3rd Wing, they're the latest Increment 3.1 model with boosted bombing capabilities in addition to the standard air-to-air weaponry. In any event, the Middle East mission represents the first time F-22s are anywhere near a possible combat zone.
The mix of old and upgraded F-15s and ultra-modern F-22s is no accident. When the Pentagon stopped producing the nearly $400-million-a-copy Raptor after 187 units — half as many as the Air Force said it needed — the flying branch committed to keeping 250 F-15Cs in service until 2025 at the earliest. Pilots began developing team tactics for the two fighter types.
"We have a woefully tiny F-22 fleet," said Gen. Mike Hostage, the Air Force's main fighter commander. So the flying branch worked out a system whereby large numbers of F-15s cover for small numbers of Raptors that sneak in around an enemy's flank in full stealth mode. "Our objective is to fly in front with the F-22s, and have the persistence to stay there while the [F-22s] are conducting their [low-observable] attack," Maj. Todd Giggy, an Eagle pilot, told Aviation Week.
One thing to look for is the presence in the Middle East of one of the Air Force's handful of bizjets and Global Hawk drones fitted with the Northrop Grumman Battlefield Airborne Communications Node, or Bacon. The F-22, once envisioned as a solitary hunter, was designed without the radio data-links that are standard on F-15s and many other jets. Instead, the Raptor has its own unique link that is incompatible with the Eagle. Bacon helps translate the radio signals so the two jet types can swap information. With a Bacon plane nearby, F-22s and F-15s can silently exchange data — for example, stealthy Raptors spotting targets for the Eagles.
It's the methods above that the U.S. dogfighting armada would likely use to wipe out the antiquated but determined Iranian air force if the unthinkable occurred and fighting broke out. The warplanes are in place. The pilots are ready. Hopefully they won't be needed.


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05/06/2016 / By epanews
This is an urgent action alert from Natural News and the Health Ranger. Public comments are due by July 1 to object to new EPA regulations which are already in place, allowing glyphosate contamination of food crops, edible oils and waterways at concentrations which are thousands of times higher than the amount needed to cause cancer.
The new regulation, which can be viewed HERE, sets the following regulations regarding glyphosate residues on crops:
• It allows forage and hay teff to contain up to 100 ppm glyphosate (that's over one million times the concentration needed to cause cancer according to a recent study). See PubMed source here:
• Allows oilseed crops (flax oil, canola oil, soybean oil, olive oil, etc.) to contain up to 40 ppm glyphosate (which is over 100,000 times the concentration needed to cause cancer)
• RAISES the allowable glyphosate contamination level of root crops (such as potatoes) from 200 ppb to 6000 ppb.
• Allows glyphosate contamination of fruits at anywhere from 200 ppb to 500 ppb.
Importantly, the EPA says no one even commented on all this when it was initially filed! "There were no comments received in response to the notice of filing." Since then, a total of just 396 people have posted a public comment at the time of this story being published.
You can post your comments with the EPA at this page:
Borrowing a page right out of Monsanto's quack science playbook, the EPA says:
A chronic feeding/carcinogenicity study in rats found no systemic effects in any of the parameters examined (body weight, food consumption, clinical signs, mortality, clinical pathology, organ weights, and histopathology).
The EPA even offers this utterly absurd, false statement as justification for its allowable contamination levels of glyphosate: "EPA has concluded that glyphosate does not pose a cancer risk to humans. Therefore, a dietary exposure assessment for the purpose of assessing cancer risk is unnecessary." (SOURCE)
Huh? Do you understand this? The EPA is saying glyphosate is so incredibly safe that it is not even necessary to study its possible carcinogenic effects in humans. No science needed! The EPA simply waves a magic (Monsanto) wand and says, "Shazam! Glyphosate is safe enough to EAT!"
The EPA, of course, is sadly mistaken. It is apparently not aware of two crucial facts to consider in all this:
1) The Seralini study released last year showed an alarming increase in cancer tumors in rats that were fed glyphosate in their drinking water.
2) Monsanto has already been found guilty of committing scientific fraud by altering the results of "scientific" studies in order to trick regulators.
The "scientific" data proving glyphosate to be "safe" has been fabricated! And the EPA is basing its conclusions on fabricated, corporate-quackified junk science that has one purpose: trick regulators into thinking the deadly poison is safe, thereby vastly increasing the usage of the chemical by farmers.
It is crucial that We the People let the EPA know that raising the allowable levels of glyphosate in foods is unacceptable. This is especially true given the recent studies linking glyphosate to breast cancer, a disease that is ravaging women across America and has reached epidemic levels.
Post your comments in the following ways:
1) Go to this page:
2) Click the "Comment Now!" button on the top right.
3) Enter your information and comment, then click "Submit." Be sure to include reasons WHY you believe the EPA should not allow such high levels of glyphosate in foods, edible oils and animal feed. You can quote pages like GMOevidence.com:
You can also quote this excellent article from GM Watch which explains why the corporate-controlled media (and industry) so viciously attacked the Seralini rat study, trying to discredit it:
1) Write your letter of protest. To ensure proper receipt by EPA, you must identify docket ID number EPA-HQ-OPP-2012-0132 on the first page of your letter.
2) Mail it to: (all mail must be received by July 1st)
OPP Docket
Environmental Protection Agency Docket Center (EPA/DC), (28221T)
1200 Pennsylvania Ave. NW.
Washington, DC 20460–0001
Please use Method #1 or #2 if you want your comments to actually count. But if you also wish to email or phone the EPA person from the Office of Pesticide Programs, you may contact:
Andrew Ertman, Registration Division, Office of Pesticide Programs, Environmental Protection Agency
Telephone number: (703) 308-9367
Email address: [email protected]
Note: If you choose to email Andrew Ertman, please be polite in your email. Do NOT send stupid things like death threats or emails full of profanity. Make your case clearly and politely, and ask him to review the full breadth of the scientific evidence now available instead of just the selected subset Monsanto wants EPA scientists to be aware of.
The following map, compiled by the USDA, shows the use of glyphosate across America:
This is also a map of the mass poisoning of America with a chemical that has been scientifically linked to an increased risk of cancer.
Compare it to this map showing the rates of cancer by state:
By the way, Monsanto has already been caught committing scientific fraud in attempting to fake safety studies on glyphosate. The company also engaged in wildly false advertising, claiming RoundUp was "safer than table salt" (implying that it's safe to eat in high doses).
Now the EPA is about to allow glyphosate in animal feed at concentrations that are one million times the concentration needed to cause cancer.
At the same time, the EPA continues to allow glyphosate at 700 ppb in public drinking water, too.
We are all being mass poisoned by this deadly chemical, and the EPA is actively conspiring with the chemical industry to downplay the real dangers of glyphosate, pretending it's safe enough to eat in quantities that are orders of magnitude larger than should be allowed.
Allowing 100 ppm of glyphosate in animal feed is equivalent to allowing 1000 ppm of lead in children's candy. It's a deadly poison that inundates our food supply at such high concentrations that it's guaranteed to cause deadly diseases in huge numbers of people.
This EPA regulation document is a blueprint for billions of dollars in profits for the cancer industry. It's also a death sentence for America's soils, farmers and food consumers. And it is insane policies like this that will ultimately lead to the downfall and collapse of modern human civilization… a civilization so stupid that it poisons its own food, water, soils and even its own children… all to make a quarterly profit on the selling of a deadly poison.
Humanity is being mass-euthanized by GMOs and glyphosate, and the EPA is standing by and openly allowing it to happen. This is an agency that did tremendous good back in the 1970's but has since become nothing more than a corporate sellout and a purveyor of poison.
The EPA wants you to eat glyphosate. There's no harm, they say. Lick it up!
There is no safe level of exposure to glyphosate. The chemical has now been shown to promote cancer cell proliferation at ppt concentrations. This demands that glyphosate be eliminated from being sold in the USA — BANNED for life.
Remember: Glyphosate is the new DDT. But it's much worse than DDT because its toxic effects kick in at far lower concentrations. If a "safe" level of glyphosate exposure were based on legitimate scientific studies that weren't faked by Monsanto, it would have to be set no higher than 10 ppt.
In other words, it would need to be virtually undetectable even by the most precise laboratory equipment available today.
Glyphosate has no place in a civilized nation. I call it "Satan's Molecule" because it is a destroyer of life and a destroyer of worlds.
No wonder it was invented by a scientist working for — guess who? — MonSatan.
Take action today. Comments are due by July 1, and if the EPA doesn't hear from the People, it's going to do whatever Monsanto tells it to do. Heck, it will probably do that anyway, but at least if you post a comment, when all of us die from cancer you will know that you did not willfully participate in the mass murder of Americans.
Tagged Under: EPA, Health Ranger, Mike Adams, Monsanto


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Mar 04, 2024
A professional journalist for over 5 years, Yamini Ayyagari has worked in various newspapers such as Indian Express, NewsTime and AP Times. She was the Features Editor at NewsTime and AP Times and contributed many articles on films, personalities and lifestyle related features. She moved out of journalism about 8 years ago to become a Team Lead in the IT industry. Yamini still likes to keep in touch with writing by contributing occasional pieces every now and then.


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This is an archived article that was published on sltrib.com in 2013, and information in the article may be outdated. It is provided only for personal research purposes and may not be reprinted.
A controversial bill banning housing and employment discrimination based on sexual orientation and gender identity is dead for the legislative session, without getting a vote from the full Senate.
"[It's] our conclusion that this year we do not have the votes to pass" the bill, said the sponsor, Sen. Steve Urquhart, R-St. George.
But proponents of SB262 were still pointing to getting the bill through a Senate committee the first time that has happened in five years of trying as a major victory they plan to build on.
"We have a lot of work to do this next year and we will do that work," Urquhart said. "We will make sure it's against the law in Utah to discriminate in employment and housing based on sexual orientation and gender identity."
Advocates from the lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender community had negotiated for more than a year with leaders of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints to try to win support for the legislation.
The church of which more than 80 percent of the Utah Legislature are members had backed Salt Lake City's local ordinance in 2009 banning housing and employment discrimination, the first of its kind in the state.
But with the deadlines of the session, the two sides were just unable to come to an agreement, said Sen. Jim Dabakis, D-Salt Lake City, who was instrumental in brokering the 2009 deal with the church.
"We really did come this close," said Dabakis holding his fingers just slightly apart. "The pressure of the session came upon us and we just couldn't close the gap."
He wouldn't discuss the sticking point in the talks with the church representatives.
Laura Bunker, United Families Utah, who spoke against SB262 in committee, said she was pleased to hear the bill would not get a vote.
"Our concern is that the bill could be a slippery slope, opening the door for same-sex marriage," she said.
Bunker said she expects the bill to be back next year and her group will continue its opposition. But by then the state could have clearer guidance from the Supreme Court on the issue of defining gender identity.
"We could live in a totally different climate next year," she said.
SB262 was modeled after the Salt Lake City ordinance and similar local ordinances that have prohibited housing discrimination based on sexual orientation or gender identity in 17 municipalities and employment discrimination on those grounds in 16 cites.
Proposals have been brought forward almost every year for the past five sessions and defeated each time, often without ever getting a committee hearing.
But Brandie Balken, executive director for the group Equality Utah, said that during that time the "entire tone and tenor of the conversation has changed."
"I think the first time in my professional life and indeed my adult life, I felt this year, this session, with this Legislature that we actually had more supporters than we had opponents," she said.
She said that in addition to polls commissioned by her group that found three-fourths of Utahns support the anti-discrimination law, numerous community groups and a growing number of businesses threw their support behind the bill.
"It seems that we are now witnessing this moment of a coalescing of support around these common sense, common values protections that a majority of Utahns stand for," she said.
Senate President Wayne Niederhauser, R-Sandy, said Monday that he doesn't expect the bill to get debated and, under legislative rules, Monday is the last day for the Senate to pass bills that originate in that chamber.
Niederhauser said the LDS Church didn't help bottle up the bill. Rather, it was simple math that did it in he said he guesses the Senate is split about 60-40 against the measure.
"It's just a matter of where the votes are," said Niederhauser. "It's the last day for Senate bills and the question is: Why, if we don't have the votes, do we want to spend a lot of time debating it?"
Urquhart, the first Republican sponsor of the bill, said he hadn't actually tallied support, but said it was not a matter of just being a few votes from passage.
"You look along generational lines, more and more people are getting it as we go along. … I feel a little late to the party, but I'm sure glad I'm here," he said. "We'll get there. I know that we'll get there."
Twitter: @RobertGehrke


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Building Adobe WorkflowLab, Part 2: Planning for the Design of WorkflowLab
Quick Review
In part 1 of this series, we delved into the creation of WorkflowLab (initially codenamed Cascade). We started by condensing our project's big ideas into a high-level vision that could be expressed in one sentence: "Build a consistent communication vehicle for workflow, disciplines, tasks, users, products, and technologies that constitute a complete workflow for a project type."
We were trying to create something pretty powerful and all-encompassing. To make it demonstrable and understandable for a two-day presentation to Adobe management, we used Fireworks and Flash Catalyst to build a prototype of the user interface, simulating some of its basic functionality. After getting management's greenlight and a starting project budget, we whittled down our long list of desired features into the top-priority items that we thought we could complete in the designated time schedule, and we created a use case for each of those features.
Next, our design and development teams estimated the time and cost of the work to include each feature, so that we could adjust the scope of the feature or defer it to a future version. We worked until we had a final agreement and sync between the design team, the development team, and the product manager as to what would be included in the initial product.
With the features defined, it was time to start designing, right?
Nope! Not even close.
In fact, as we explain in our book Adobe Flash Platform from Start to Finish: Working Collaboratively Using Adobe Creative Suite 5, there's an important planning step that should come before you do your full-fidelity designs for a project. In the case of WorkflowLab, we were defining a number of features, but we didn't have tangible proof that this was the best option for the product or feature. So we needed a way to test and see visually how the various features were coming together and how they would interact.


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If you were unable to attend Sonatype's last webinar on Build Promotion with Nexus Professional, you can view the presentation recording here. This webinar is an introduction to the Build Promotion capabilities of Nexus Professional, the industry leading repository manager to help companies acquire, manage, and report on open source software artifacts in their software development projects.
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Less than two years ago, the situation between Israel and the Palestinian territories seemed to be on the brink of disaster. In November 2012, Israeli airstikes pummeled the Gaza Strip while militants fired rockets back at Israeli towns. As scores of Palestinians died and Israeli families cowered, the international community seemed split and unsure about how to deal with it. Experienced international mediators looked impotent
In fact, the one man who seemed able to step in had been a world leader only for a few months. And, unfortunately, he would be a world leader only for a few months longer
At the time, Egyptian President Mohamed Morsi's role in the Israeli-Palestinian talks was something of a revelation. After the conclusion of the talks, all sides seemed to agree that Egypt had played the key role in solving the crisis. Here's how The Post's Michael Birnbaum put it in 2012:
The end result — an agreement between Israel and Hamas, which have long refused to acknowledge each other, brokered by a neighboring Islamist government — would have been unthinkable before the Arab Spring reshaped the region less than two years ago, toppling autocrats who had long held political Islam at bay and strengthening the hand of once-isolated groups such as Hamas
Morsi had played a different game than his predecessor, Hosni Mubarak. While Egypt had negotiated peace treaties before, critics of the Egyptian autocrat had long argued that he had bowed to Israeli and U.S. pressure to isolate the Gaza Strip and Hamas. Morsi, of course, was part of the Muslim Brotherhood, the Islamist movement that eventually gave birth to Hamas. Soon after entering office, he eased travel for Palestinians across the Rafah crossing in southern Gaza, a small but clearly noteworthy change of course
As negotiations began in November 2012, no one was surprised that Morsi came down on the side of the Palestinians. What was surprising, however, was that he seemed to be able to do so without alienating the Israelis. The Egyptian president pledged to adhere to the 1979 Israel-Egypt peace treaty, for example, and kept lines of communication to Israel and the United States open as tensions grew. The communication and good faith proved fruitful: Just minutes before the brokered truce went into effect, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu publicly said that he wanted to express his "appreciation for the efforts of Egypt to obtain a cease-fire."
Times have changed, and Morsi isn't around to help mediate today's Israeli-Palestinian crisis. Egypt's first democratically elected leader was forced out of office a year ago; he is facing a number of criminal charges related to his time in office. Morsi was eventually replaced by Egyptian military leader Abdel Fatah al-Sissi in an election this year that left many international observers underwhelmed
Exactly what Sissi makes of the Palestinian situation is unclear. On the one hand, since his election, he has significantly tightened the borders with the Gaza Strip. However, before he was elected, he said he would not receive an Israeli prime minister without concessions to Palestinians. Egypt's ambassador to the Palestinian territories, Wael Nasr El-Din, attended the funeral of the Palestinian teenager allegedly killed by Israeli extremists this weekend and there is talk of some kind of Egypt-brokered deal happening. Hamas is certainly not a natural ally for Egypt's new government, but, as Palestinian political scientist Ali Jarbawi noted in an op-ed for the New York Times, Sissi does appear to be trying to move his foreign policy away from U.S. interests into a more independent direction. More support for Palestinian causes may be a way for him to show Egypt's geopolitical clout in the face of other regional giants such as Turkey and Iran
Would Morsi have been able to defuse the current tensions between the Israelis and the Palestinians? Perhaps not – this situation is different from the one in 2012 and arguably far more complicated. But it's hard to deny that with the military coup that ousted Morsi, one of the glimmers of hope in Middle East diplomacy appears to have been extinguished just before we needed it most. And we're still not entirely sure what has replaced it


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Chapter VI.—Death of Jovian; The Life of Valentinian, and his Confidence in God; how he was advanced to the Throne and selected his Brother Valens to reign with him; the Differences of Both.
After Jovian had reigned about eight months, he died suddenly at Dadastana, a town of Bithynia, while on his road to Constantinople. 1439 Some say that his death was occasioned by eating too plentiful a supper; others attribute it to the dampness of the chamber in which he slept; for it had been recently plastered with unslaked lime, and quantities of coals had been burnt in it during the winter for a preventive; the walls had become damp and were exceedingly moist.
On the arrival of the troops at Nicæa in Bithynia, they proclaimed Valentinian emperor. He was a good man and capable of holding the reins of the empire. He had not long returned from banishment; for it is said that Julian, immediately on his accession to the empire, erased the name of Valentinian from the Jovian legions, as they were called, and condemned him to perpetual banishment, under the pretext that he had failed in his duty of leading out the soldiers under his command against the enemy. The true reason of his condemnation, however, was the following: When Julian was in Gaul, he went one day to a temple to offer incense. Valentinian 1440 accompanied him, according to an ancient Roman law, which still prevails, and which enacted that the leader of the Jovians and p. 350 the Herculeans (that is to say, the legions of soldiers who have received this appellation in honor of Jupiter and of Hercules) should always attend the emperor as his body-guard. When they were about to enter the temple, the priest, in accordance with the pagan custom, sprinkled water upon them with the branch of a tree. A drop fell upon the robe of Valentinian; he scarcely could restrain himself, for he was a Christian, and he rebuked his asperser; it is even said that he cut off, in view of the emperor, the portion of the garment on which the water had fallen, and flung it from him. From that moment Julian entertained inimical feelings against him, and soon after banished him to Melitine in Armenia, under the plea of misconduct in military affairs; for he would not have religion regarded as the cause of the decree, lest Valentinian should be accounted a martyr or a confessor. Julian treated other Christians, as we have already stated, in the same manner; for, as was said before, he perceived that to subject them to hazards only added to their reputation, and tended to the consolidation of their religion. As soon as Jovian succeeded to the throne, Valentinian was recalled from banishment to Nicæa; but the death of the emperor in the meantime took place, and Valentinian, by the unanimous consent of the troops and those who held the chief positions in the government, was appointed his successor. When he was invested with the symbols of imperial power, the soldiers cried out that it was necessary to elect some one to share the burden of government. To this proposition, Valentinian made the following reply: "It depended on you alone, O soldiers, to proclaim me emperor; but now that you have elected me, it depends not upon you, but upon me, to perform what you demand. Remain quiet, as subjects ought to do, and leave me to act as an emperor in attending to the public affairs."
Not long after this refusal to comply with the demand of the soldiery, he repaired to Constantinople, and proclaimed his brother emperor. He gave him the East as his share of the empire, and reserved to himself the regions along the Western Ocean, from Illyria to the furthest coasts of Libya. Both the brothers were Christians, but they differed in opinion and disposition. For Valens, when he was baptized, employed Eudoxius as his initiator, and was zealously attached to the doctrines of Arius, and would readily have compelled all mankind by force to yield to them. Valentinian, on the other hand, maintained the faith of the council of Nicæa, and favored those who upheld the same sentiments, without molesting those who entertained other opinions.
Philost. viii. 8; Soc. iii. 26; iv. 1; Ruf. ii. 1, 2. Cf. Theodoret, H. E. iv. 5, 6; Eudox. Brev. hist. rom. x. 18; Zos. iii. 35, 36; Am. Marcel. xxv. 10, 12–17; Jovian, xxvi. 1–4, accession of Valentinian and choice of Valens.
349:1440Philost. vii. 7; Theodoret, H. E. iii. 16.
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Garlicky Romano Beans ♥
2006: Oh if there'd only been piles and piles of these gorgeous Romano beans! Ron Jones from On the Wind Farm threw a few into my bag on Saturday, betting I'd love 'em. How right he was!
Romano beans are also known as 'Italian string beans' or 'Italian pole beans' or 'Italian flat beans'. They're broader than "every day green beans" and have flat pods. They cook in a flash. And they're more tender, more velvety, more green-tasting, more alive-tasting than other beans. If I had a vegetable garden, I'd definitely grow these. If you have a vegetable garden, I recommend that you grow these and send piles and piles to me!
2008: Grab Romano beans whenever you can find them, they are really special! If the idea of garlic and rosemary don't appeal, then I'd recommend these other ideas, Green Beans with Lemon & Pine Nuts, Green Beans with a Honey-Mustard Glaze and Romano Beans in Butter-Braised Garlic.
Time to table: 15 minutes (ditto, 35 if not)
Serves 4
GARLIC- and ROSEMARY-INFUSED OIL
1 cup olive oil
a large sprig of fresh rosemary
5 garlic cloves, peeled and crushed with flat of a knife
Heat oil, rosemary and garlic in a skillet (the larger surface area heats the oil more evenly and quickly) until the rosemary sizzles. Turn off heat and let rest for 20 minutes. Remove the rosemary and garlic.
Salted water to cover (see Kitchen Notes)
1 pound beans, ends snapped
1 tablespoon Garlic- and Rosemary-Infused Oil
1 tablespoon good bread crumbs, optional
Salt & pepper
Bring the salted water to a boil. Add the beans and cook for 5 minutes or until done but still bright green. (They cook faster than regular green beans.) Drain and toss with the oil and bread crumbs if using. Season to taste.
The garlic- and rosemary-infused oil came from another salad. But it's so good that I've now made a cup for salads and vegetables for the next couple of weeks. The beans themselves only call for one tablespoon so there's plenty leftover for other uses.
Well-salted water is so important to pulling the most flavor from green beans. I allow 1/2 tablespoon of table salt (or a tablespoon of kosher salt) per quart of water.
When a meal requires hands-on prep just before serving, I cook the beans ahead of time, then cool quickly in a bowl of ice water. I dry the beans on paper towels, then chill them until it's time to serve them. Just before serving, warm a tablespoon of the oil in a skillet, add the beans and warm through.
Skip the bread crumbs for a low-carb vegetable, especially appropriate since this is my contribution to Weekend Herb Blogging at South-Beach fan, Kalyn's Kitchen. This week, look for the round-up at The Inadvertent Gardener.
~ Green Beans with Mayo-Soy Sauce ~
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If we trust pilots to carry us through the air safely, and to guard our nation's skies, then why can't we trust what they tell us about their encounters with unidentified flying objects?
That's the question posed by investigative journalist Leslie Kean in her new book, "UFOs: Generals, Pilots and Government Officials Go on the Record." It's a compelling question — but is it a good argument for the existence of something truly unexplainable?
The book's main themes are the extraordinary stories of strange aerial encounters in Europe, South America and even the United States. In these stories, investigators have failed to pinpoint phenomena to explain the sightings. And because the primary witnesses are pilots, the accounts are considered more credible than run-of-the-mill UFO reports. But are they really?
Kean asserts that pilots are the best describers of aerial phenomena. "They represent the world's best-trained observers of everything that flies," she writes. "What better source for data on UFOs is there?... [They] are among the least likely of any group of witnesses to fabricate or exaggerate reports of strange sightings."
This may sound like a plausible assumption, but others who have studied the raw evidence disagree. Experienced UFO investigators realize that pilots, who instinctively and quite properly interpret visual phenomena in the most hazardous terms, are not dispassionate observers. For pilots, a split-second diagnosis can be a matter of life or death — and so they're inclined to overestimate the potential threats posed by what they see.
One of the world's first genuine UFO investigators, Allen Hynek of Northwestern University, came to believe that some encounters really could have otherworldly causes. But he was much more skeptical about the reliability of pilot testimony. "Surprisingly, commercial and military pilots appear to make relatively poor witnesses," he wrote in "The Hynek UFO Report."
Hynek found that the best class of witnesses had a 50 percent misperception rate, but that pilots had a much higher rate: 88 percent for military pilots, 89 percent for commercial pilots, the worst of all categories listed. Pilots could be counted on for an accurate identification of familiar objects — such as aircraft and ground structures — but Hynek said "it should come as no surprise that the majority of pilot misidentifications were of astronomical objects."
The authors of a Russian UFO study came to the same conclusion. Yuli Platov of the Soviet Academy of Science and Col. Boris Sokolov of the Ministry of Defense looked into a series of sightings in 1982 that caused air defense units to scramble jet fighters to intercept the UFOs. Platov and Sokolov said the sightings were sparked by military balloons that rose to higher-than-expected altitudes.
"The described episodes show that even experienced pilots are not immune against errors in the evaluation of the size of observed objects, the distances to them, and their identification with particular phenomena," Platov wrote.
Susceptible to overinterpretation
Ronald Fisher of the International Forensic Research Institute at Florida International University in Miami is a lecturer who teaches staff members at the National Transportation Safety Board how to interview eyewitnesses at "critical events" such as airplane crashes. He stresses the importance of eliciting raw sensory impressions first, before asking for the witness's interpretation of what they think they saw.
"Once they start focusing on their interpretation, that will color the memory of their perceptions," he told msnbc.com.
"Pilots are susceptible to overinterpretation, especially of vague, rapid and unclear experiences," he continued. "The less clear the situation, the more your general knowledge and your expectations [contribute]." Passage of time is an enemy of accuracy, because it gives witnesses the opportunity "to use their general knowledge to construct the memory of what they experienced."
As witnesses of things seen while flying, pilots were a special case. "The cost of a false negative is greater than the cost of a false positive," he explained. "It's probably a safety mechanism."
The body of UFO reports is replete with cases of spectacular misinterpretations, and pilots are frequently involved. So it's prudent to use caution when evaluating the testimony of pilots.
Intelligent UFOs ... or sensible pilots?
UFOs are often reported as maneuvering intelligently, and Kean argues that a particularity of the different types of maneuvers reported by pilots serves as proof that UFOs are real and are acting with intelligence. But that logic actually ends up supporting the idea that a pilot's circumstances affect what he or she reports seeing.
Kean refers to the "Weinstein List," a compendium of 1,300 UFO reports from pilots, assembled by French investigator Dominique Weinstein in 2001. It is described as containing only those "cases for which adequate data is available to categorize the [cause] as unknowns."
"One crucial point I have noted, which is shown in Weinstein's study, is that a UFO's behavior tends to depend on whether the encounter involves a military aircraft or a civilian passenger plane," Kean writes.
"Neutrality usually seems the general rule with commercial airlines or private planes, whereas an active interaction often occurs between UFOs and military aircraft. Military pilots usually described the movements of UFOs as they would air maneuvers of conventional aircraft, using terms such as follows, flees, acute turns, in formation, close collision, and aerial combat," she says.
For Kean, this constitutes evidence that the UFOs are guided by intelligent pilots. "These incidents clearly demonstrate that in no way are these examples of natural events, but rather that UFOs are phenomena with a deliberate behavior. The physical nature of UFOs has been proved," she says.
But a much simpler explanation makes more sense: The difference is due to "observer bias." People see what they expect to see, and combat pilots expect to encounter combative bogies. Civilian pilots mostly fear accidental collisions.
The different behavior that is perceived by the two categories of pilots doesn't necessarily mean the unidentified flying objects themselves behave differently. It's more likely that different kinds of pilots draw upon differently developed instincts as they react to perceived threats — and thus they bring different interpretations to stimuli that are actually similar.
What all this means ... and doesn't mean
There's no reason to argue that all the pilot reports are caused by exactly the same stimuli. UFO reports that are linked to rocket launches or booster re-entries are relatively easy to explain, because the location and timing of the events can be correlated with the accounts from startled and mistaken witnesses.
For other stimuli, such as fireball meteors, secret (or illegal) aircraft operations or natural atmospheric displays, documentation of their transitory existence usually doesn't exist. The main value of the solved UFO cases is to allow a definitive calibration of pilot testimony in general.
Thus, I am not dismayed by the fact that I can't explain every case Kean mentions in her book, because experience has shown that finding the real explanation — even if it turns out to be prosaic — is often a massive effort involving as much luck as sweat. If investigators are unable to find the explanation for a particular UFO case, that doesn't constitute proof that the case is unexplainable.
This is just a fact of life, for UFO sleuths as well as other breeds of investigators. The same is true for murders, kidnappings, accidents, illnesses — for all the catastrophes that befall humanity. We don't need to conjure up alien murderers or kidnappers to account for unsolved crimes. Not finding Jimmy Hoffa isn't proof he must be on Mars.
So the "not proven" assessment makes it even more important to keep our eyes and minds open — to vigorously observe, accurately perceive, and precisely relate unusual aerial perceptions. Something really new could still be discovered. Or something critically important could be masquerading, by accident or design, in a manner that leads too many people to pay too little attention.
Accepting every UFO claim uncritically or rejecting every claim automatically would be equally unjustified. And quite possibly, equally harmful.
NBC News space analyst James Oberg is a 22-year veteran of NASA Mission Control in Houston, and the author of numerous books on space policy and exploration.


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