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California Goes Big on EVs
By Simon Mui
Gov. Brown released an Executive Order Friday providing the details of an initiative to put 5 million electric-drive vehicles (EVs) on the road by 2030, part of a new goal announced last week in his State of the State address.
The ambitious and achievable goal would increase the current number of EVs on the road in California by nearly 14-fold by 2030. The EV initiative would:
- Provide the state's clean vehicle rebate and charging infrastructure programs with sustained investments for the next 8 years, likely relying on proceeds generated from the state's Cap and Trade program.
- Increasing charging infrastructure by nearly 20-fold to reach 250,000 vehicle chargers by 2025, including 10,000 new public fast chargers. California currently has about 14,000 charging stations in total.
The initiative would target $200 million annually on increasing access to EVs and $112.5 million annually on increasing access to charging stations throughout the state. The latter investments in chargers would be complemented by the new infrastructure investments by investor-owned and municipally-owned utilities, as my colleague Max Baumhefner has blogged on here.
Increased EV Availability for Californians
The Governor's plan follows numerous announcements by major automakers to increase the number of EV model offerings by 2025 and 2030. Currently, automakers have about 40 electric-drive models available in California, with at least another 36 models planned to be introduced between 2018 to 2021, according to Baum & Associates. Nineteen of these new models will likely be plug-in SUVs or cross-over utility vehicles (CUVs), meaning increased choice for new and used car buyers.
Tea-leaves Pointing to An Electrified Future
California's announcement comes after a long string of announcements and news pointing to an electrified and shared mobility future. As I have blogged on earlier, the world's largest vehicle markets including in China, the European Union and India have declared bans on polluting, internal combustion engine vehicles within the next 12 to 22 years, while also adopting aggressive policies to shift to zero emission vehicles. Automakers are reading the tea-leaves, and increasingly shifting their product portfolios toward electric-drive solutions with the latest announcement from Toyota to launch 10 new electrified models by 2021, with fears of being left behind.
Gov. Brown, in his final year of office, seems to be also reading those same tea-leaves. Friday's initiative points to his desire for the state to remain at the forefront globally on clean transportation and have a long-term plan to achieve its ambitious 2030 clean energy goals.
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California Becomes First State to Ban 24 Toxic Chemicals From Cosmetics
California became the first state in the nation to ban two dozen toxic chemicals from cosmetics Wednesday when Gov. Gavin Newsom signed a bill to that effect into law.
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As the coronavirus has spread around the globe, so have the germs of misinformation and conspiracy theories about the new disease. Fake news about the virus is so prevalent that health professionals have started referring to it as an "infodemic."
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A new report shows the U.S. government bought more than $350 million in bonds issued by oil and gas companies and induced investors to loan the industry tens of billions more at artificially low rates since the coronavirus pandemic began, Bloomberg reported.
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1.8 Billion Tons More Greenhouse Gases Will Be Released, Thanks to Trump
By Karen Charman
When President Donald Trump visited California on September 14 and dismissed the state Secretary of Natural Resources Wade Crowfoot's plea to recognize the role of climate change in the midst of the Golden State's worst and most dangerous recorded fire season to date, he gaslighted the tens of millions of West Coast residents suffering through the ordeal.
Foxes Guarding the Henhouse
Before he assumed power, Trump attacked regulations as unnecessary barriers to freedom and economic prosperity. Since taking office, he has targeted anything enacted by the administration of his predecessor, Barack Obama, and taken steps to withdraw the U.S. from the Paris agreement, the international effort to combat climate change. He has also staffed heads of key agencies with climate deniers of various stripes, forced out career public servants and created a hostile work environment for those who don't profess loyalty to his deregulatory agenda.

Like Trump himself, some of his cabinet choices displayed an audacious penchant for self-dealing and abusing their positions of authority. One example is Trump's first Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Administrator, Scott Pruitt, who aggressively worked to overturn Obama's climate regulations, spent most of his time in private meetings with fossil fuel and chemical company executives, sidelined career EPA staff and reconfigured independent scientific advisory boards to make them more supportive of the industries EPA is charged with regulating. Dubbed "one of the most scandal-plagued Cabinet officials in U.S. history," Pruitt resigned in disgrace after revelations about his multiple brazen abuses, including using the agency as his personal concierge service and piggy bank.

Pruitt's deputy, Andrew Wheeler, a former coal industry lobbyist and longtime Republican Washington insider, took over and has continued Trump's deregulatory agenda apace.

At the Department of Interior (DOI), a sprawling agency that oversees 75 percent of the country's public federal lands and includes the U.S. Geological Survey, which is tasked with evaluating natural hazards that threaten life and the health of our ecosystems, Trump installed another flamboyant anti-environmentalist to head the agency. Like Pruitt, Trump's first Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke aggressively attacked environmental regulations, ditched more than 200 advisory panels, and pushed to open up vast swaths of public land to oil and gas drilling. Described by one environmental group as "the most anti-conservation Interior secretary in our nation's history," Zinke was forced out after numerous highly publicized conflict-of-interest scandals.

The DOI is now run by Zinke's deputy secretary, David Bernhardt, another longtime Republican Washington insider and former oil industry lobbyist who has also been the subject of several government ethics complaints for various violations favoring polluting industries.

More recently, longtime climate change denier David Legates, a climatologist at the University of Delaware previously funded by fossil fuel interests, was hired for a top job advancing weather modeling and prediction at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA). Legates has called for increasing carbon emissions.

The Trump administration has done much more than stack government agencies with fossil fuel industry proponents. It has removed or diluted discussion of climate change from as many government platforms as it can and decimated independent scientific advisory boards that provide unbiased, fact-based information the government needs to enact policies that protect the public. It has also slashed environmental agency staffing and budgets.

The Damage So Far
A September 17 report by the Rhodium Group calculates that 1.8 billion tons more greenhouse gases will be released over the next 15 years as a result of climate change rollbacks the Trump administration has achieved so far. These include repealing Obama's main climate policy, the Clean Power Plan, which was intended to reduce dirty emissions from power plants; increasing pollution from cars by rolling back fuel economy standards and challenging California's longtime authority to set stricter emissions standards; targeting controls on hydrofluorocarbons, powerful greenhouse gases used mainly in refrigerators and air conditioners that also destroy the Earth's protective ozone layer; and allowing unreported and unregulated emissions of methane, another potent greenhouse gas, by oil and gas companies.

Besides these measures, Trump is also trying to gut core environmental statutes like the Clean Air Act, the Clean Water Act, the National Environmental Policy Act and the Endangered Species Act, all of which were enacted to protect human health and preserve a livable world.

The Paris agreement aims to keep the rise in average global temperatures at less than 2 degrees Celsius above pre-industrial levels and hopefully cap it at 1.5 degrees C or lower. We are now at approximately 1.2 degrees C and counting.

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How Does the Climate Crisis Impact the 2020 Senate Races?
By Jan Ellen Spiegel
It wasn't so long ago that the issue of climate change was poised to play a huge – possibly even a decisive – role in the 2020 election, especially in the race for control of the U.S. Senate. Many people supporting Democratic candidates saw a possible Democratic majority as a hedge against a potential Trump re-election … a way to plug the firehose spray of more than 100 environmental regulation rollbacks and new anti-climate initiatives by the administration over its first term.
Potential Climate Voters
In a September 1 memo on climate and the election, Andrew Baumann, vice president of the consultants Global Strategy Group, wrote: "Few issues have seen as dramatic a shift in public opinion as climate change has over the last few years. Only marriage equality and the recent shift in views around racial justice outpace the rapid growth in the salience of climate change as an issue."

Calling it a "winning political issue" the memo says: "First, it is clearly a motivator for both younger and Latinx voters. Second, it has the power to move swing voters, particularly center-right white women."

Baumann points to a finding that when a group of such women were asked generic ballot questions, Democrats trailed by nine percentage points. But when the question was revised as a choice between:

"A Democrat who supports taking strong government action to combat climate change.
A Republican who opposes taking strong government action to combat climate change."

… the result was a 29 percentage point shift, putting Democrats ahead by 20 percentage points among that same group.

"I think it is playing a role," says Senator Sheldon Whitehouse, D-RI, a longtime outspoken climate activist who is on the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee and also on the Senate Democrats' Special Committee on the Climate Crisis. If Democrats win back the Senate, he stands to play an even more pivotal climate role as part of the majority. He is not up for re-election this year.

"I think from the Democratic side it's playing a role in generating enthusiasm – particularly making younger voters feel that they have a real stake in this election. On the Republican side, I think things have moved enough that candidates can no longer get away with simply scoffing about climate change."

Climate a Top Concern for Youths, Latinx
So who's still thinking climate? Mostly young voters – 18 to 25 or 29 and Latinx voters.

Climate and the environment are the top concern among young voters, just above racism and healthcare according to CIRCLE, the Center for Information and Research on Civic Learning and Engagement at Tufts University, which focuses on the political life of young people in the U.S. For Latinx youth, it drops a bit but remains in the top three.

The issues young people care about have an impact on how they volunteer their time, says Kristian Lundberg, an associate researcher at CIRCLE. He says that's played out most notably through the Sunrise Movement, which focuses on climate change and the environment along with other key activist groups such as Black Lives Matter and March for Our Lives.

He points to polling this summer that showed that 83% of 18-to-29-year-olds felt they had the power to change things. "Young people feel much more empowerment than in 2016 and 2018," Lundberg says. "It's intentional these movements are carving out space for young people. It's an important strategy."

In positions of power in these organizations, young people have developed peer-to-peer outreach on activism. And Lundberg says young people have made the leap that connects activism to voting as a lever for change. "In the past in very close races, young people breaking heavily have provided the margin of victory," he says.

CIRCLE is highlighting 10 U.S. Senate races as ones in which young voters can be decisive. Several of them have notable climate or environmental components – most prominently the Colorado and Montana races.

The Republican incumbents in each state – Cory Gardner in Colorado and Steve Daines in Montana – are running against a popular Democratic governor – John Hickenlooper in Colorado, now out of office — and Steve Bullock, still the governor of Montana. Both governors have had to balance their state's fossil fuel economic interests with supporting climate change solutions.

Tying Climate Change to the Economy
In August, Data for Progress, a progressive research think tank, released polling on climate change – including in the battleground Senate elections in Arizona, Iowa, Maine, and North Carolina – showing voters back a Senate candidate supporting strong climate action.

Climate change as 'mobilizing issue … key persuasion issue.'

It also showed that linking climate change to the economy may be key. That means talking about clean energy and jobs together, says Danielle Deiseroth, climate data analyst for Data for Progress. She says that in addition to jobs, climate change issues include climate justice and economic equality – both of heightened interest because of fallout from western wildfires.

"Climate change, we've observed over the last year or so, is a key mobilizing issue and a key persuasion issue," she says. "Climate issues can only grow support for Democratic candidates.

"I think it's pretty naive to say climate is the key issue for voters. For a lot of voters it really exemplifies so many things that are wrong with the Trump presidency," Deiseroth says.

So a factor among others. Helpful, but pivotal only in narrow circumstances.

At the League of Conservations Voters, a progressive environmentalist organization putting a lot of money and effort into the 2020 races, Senior Director of Political Affairs Craig Auster says: "I'll push back that climate change doesn't matter or isn't registering."

"It's still showing up in several Senate races. It's been playing a role in almost all of them."

Candidates are still talking about it, he says, pointing to Colorado, Montana, Iowa, and other states where ads are addressing climate and environmental issues. That shows the candidates believe their opponent is vulnerable on the issue or they're strong on it, he says.

Like others, Auster calls climate a motivator.

"Climate change matters," he says. "We have proof point after proof point about what's happening, whether it's a hurricane, a superstorm, derechos in Iowa, or wildfires out west.

"Pre-COVID it was top tier for Democratic voters along with healthcare. If COVID didn't happen I think climate would be a big deal."

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Editor's note: Gloria Borger is CNN's chief political analyst, appearing regularly on shows such as "AC360," "The Situation Room," "John King USA" and "State of the Union."
Washington (CNN) -- Call me crazy, but I recall when presidential candidates ran for the high office because they had things to say. The notion went like this: I have ideas that I think will be great for the country. I have thought about them, vetted them with experts, spoken about them throughout my career. I have refined them, many times, even changed some. And now I think it's time to run for the presidency, armed with those ideas to present to the nation.
So imagine my surprise when, at a recent debate, Texas Gov. Rick Perry turned to Mitt Romney and, with a certain amount of disdain, sniffed, "Mitt has had six years to be working on a plan. I have been in this for about eight weeks." In other words, I'll get back to you.
So, is it really a bad thing that Romney spent years working on ideas -- changing some, obviously -- to prepare for another presidential run? Or is it actually worse that Perry first had a team of consultants and strategists, and then got to work on the ideas part of the program?
Ronald Reagan didn't have to cram a belief system into a new 10-point plan to save the country, because he knew what he believed -- and refined and road-tested his plans -- before he ran. Neither did Bill Clinton, who did have a 'Putting People First' plan, which contained ideas on welfare reform and education that he had spoken about for years. Both men had beliefs -- and of course, ambition -- before they had presidential campaigns. How quaint.
This time the process is oddly perverse. A large chunk of the Republican party base is looking for a candidate to fill their own belief system: fiscal and social conservative, tough on immigration, tax-cutter, and on and on. They could go with Romney -- and probably will, in the end -- but they're skeptical about his bona fides. They didn't like him last time around, and they're afraid to like him this time.
So they're auditioning. The tea party activists have become the GOP's theatrical directors. Michele Bachmann played well in Philly, but never made it to Broadway. Perry looked right for the part, but blew his lines. And Herman Cain, well, he's very entertaining.
They're looking for the sort of artistic perfection which, as we have all learned, is not necessarily a presidential trait. They like Cain's 9-9-9 tax plan, but he's too unreliable on the abortion issue. They may like Perry's new optional flat tax, but cringe at his more liberal views on immigration that allow the children of illegal immigrants to get in-state tuition in Texas. And what about Bachmann claiming, without any proof, that the HPV vaccine can cause mental retardation? Not exactly a presidential move.
When Perry entered the race as the fave du jour, it wasn't because of his specific ideas, or his specific record, or his specific abilities: It was because the GOP base had a slot to fill, and they thought he was the guy to fill it. He was conservative, after all. Then he appeared on stage, and somehow appeared smaller than the role demanded.
He began the campaign with an energy plan -- predictable from the governor of Texas. But when pressed for more, he finally delivered a flat tax -- an updated version of the Steve Forbes flat tax that never quite caught on enough to get him nominated when he ran in 1996. It's an idea Perry has always said he liked, but now he apparently owns it, having cooked up his own version on the fly.
There's a strange whiff here of back-of-the-envelope campaigns. Cain has a tax plan that catapulted him to the lead, then Perry tries out another catchy plan to regain the lead. "It's a gimmick in response to a gimmick," says Vin Weber, a Romney adviser.
So could it be that Romney's problem is that he isn't gimmicky enough for these tryouts? He's got a serious, boring, 59-point (how un-gimmicky is that?) plan for the economy that does not include a silver bullet to fix all. He does not believe there is one.
Yet if you asked Romney to recite all 59 points, I bet he could do it. I bet he has actually thought a great deal about each one. As he learned the hard way the last time around, presidential politics is a different kind of drama: You can't win the lead by reading other people's lines.
The opinions expressed in this commentary are solely those of Gloria Borger.

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Artists bring the outdoors in at Bass Pro Shops' new stores
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In the beginning there was the Springfield store, and no one had ever seen anything like it. So many people flocked to Bass Pro Shops' Outdoor World in Springfield that it quickly became the state's No. 1 tourist destination, a distinction it still holds.
They came not just to buy guns and fishing lures and camping equipment and boats. Little things like a life-sized "Kodiak-moment" bear mount, an indoor trout stream and cages full of live snakes made the trip an adventure in retail shopping. For those who stopped by often enough, little extras came to life, such as the ironwork on the massive fireplace doors and the indoor log cabin.
In 1995, the company branched out with a new store in Atlanta, followed two years later by a third store in Florida. In short order, what was once an eight-foot display of bass lures in a package liquor store grew until today there are 47 stores with two more about to open, including one in Independence.
"Our stores are unlike any other retailer I know of," says Larry Whiteley, manager of corporate relations for Bass Pro Shops. "They are not cookie cutter, concrete block-like stores. There's not many retailers that will devote 37 percent on average of a store to aquariums, murals, metalwork, museum-quality dioramas and those giant fireplaces.
"The Springfield store was neat. But some of these new stores, they just take your breath away."
He gives examples such as the Miami store, which is designed to make the visitor feel like they are walking through a sunken ship, and the Oklahoma City store, which features a herd of bison being chased by American Indians.
The store set to open this spring in Independence features an indoor mill with working water wheel plus a 30-acre park complete with a lake stocked with bass and bluegill where customers can try out their new purchases right away.
A big part of the reason the Bass Pro Shops empire attracts 90 million visitors a year can be found just south of the Outdoor World headquarters in Nixa. Here an eclectic mix of artisans and craftspeople produce the things that give the stores their unique appeal.
From a cabinet shop that makes counters to hold sporting goods to the metal shop that makes ornate iron and copper work, the work going on here almost defies the imagination.
On a typical day, Kirk Sullens, a formally trained artist-blacksmith, works in an aged Quonset hut along with four other metalworkers. Seated at a foot-operated hammer, he gently taps the face of various tools, driving them into a flat piece of 14-gauge steel. Almost by magic, his efforts raise the flat metal into the three-dimensional form of an artic fox.
Around him the eggs-frying sound of a mig welder at work mixes with the angry whine of an angle grinder smoothing the surface of another piece, this one a rabbit being forged by David Hamilton. As he shapes its ears, David refers often to a color photo to ensure the critter he is making looks real.
At each bench, animal forms ranging from a herd of 30 charging bison to a swimming sturgeon take shape. These pieces are destined to become part of a railing for a new store in the Canadian province of Alberta.
Across a yard cluttered with 8-foot chandeliers and copper nautilus shells, other artisans work on details for the new stores. Rows of copper lanterns soon will hang from the entrances, welcoming visitors with warm yellow light filtered through leaping bass.
In the finishing room, all the pieces come together where they are sprayed with clear lacquer. Among other things, the artists in this department work with concrete stain to paint outdoor scenes on circles of Plexiglas. These will hang on the underside of the great chandeliers that are a Bass Pro Shops store trademark.
Elsewhere, woodcarvers add details to the giant timbers that give the stores an Adirondack lodge feel. Just about every piece that graces every store is made here.
"None of this is off the rack," says Kirk, a 13-year veteran at Bass Pro Shops. "You don't go to a store and say I want a Bass Pro chandelier or a I want a Bass Pro fireplace door because this is the only place that has those. These things are not made to be sold. We are making these to create the experience for the people who come in the store."
The metalsmiths are a big part of the Bass Pro Shops experience. Each store has multiple chandeliers, studded with realistic steel deer, elk or moose heads. Kirk worked with real antlers to develop these heads. "I had a pile of antlers that would just about fill up this room," he says. "I'd just pull out a set and lay it on the table and make metal ones that looked as close to that as I could."
At first he used layers of flat steel to give the heads dimension. Then he perfected the hollow-formed method made in two sections and then welded together.
Kirk came to Bass Pro Shops in an unusual way. He was an operator for AT&T when technology led to his layoff. The company had money to retrain employees, and Kirk asked to spend his share learning to be a blacksmith.
It took a stack of books and magazines to convince the skeptical phone company that blacksmithing was still a viable trade. But in the end, Kirk headed to Bethel in north Missouri as the sole student of Bob Patrick's Big Anvil School of Blacksmithing.
Today Kirk is the president of the Blacksmiths Association of Missouri, an organization founded by his mentor. He frequently leads demonstrations at BAM meetings and his work has been featured internationally.
He shares tips he learns at meetings of the blacksmith group and from the international group to which he belongs. Often the metalworkers tackle a project as a team, with each person working alone on their part, then bringing it all together in the finishing stage.
"That's interesting because everyone has different styles," says David, who built trailers before being discovered by Bass Pro Shops. "We store up ideas. These guys are a wealth of information and they don't mind sharing it with each other."
To add details, the metalworkers here wield a mig welder like it was a paint brush loaded with thick paint. Layers of welding wire flow from the welder onto the formed piece, becoming feathers on a bald eagle, scales on a fish or fur on a bison.
They make use of traditional tools including anvils and hammers but also use modern devices such as plasma cutters. Many of their tools are hand made as needed.
Few corporations the size of Bass Pro Shops would justify keeping a crew like this working on its stores. But then, there are few companies that would attempt what Bass Pro Shops has done.
"If it were up to the bean counters, we'd have been gone a long time ago," Kirk says. "But this company is not owned by a board of directors. It's owned by one person and that one person, John L. Morris, likes metalwork. It's nice to have a patron like that. Michelangelo didn't have it any better than I have it."
Bass Pro Shops' Missouri stores include Branson, Columbia, St. Charles and Springfield. The Independence store is set to open this month. For more information, log on to www.basspro.com. To see more of Kirk Sullens' work, visit the artist's Web site at kirksullens.com.


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text: The dust has settled from the release of Lazarus A.D.'s sophomore effort, "Black Rivers Flow." After a tour that took the band all across the United States and Europe, the band has a little time off before striking out on a headlining tour in a couple weeks. Vocalist and bassist Jeff Paulick took some time out to talk with Bloody Good Horror. The refreshingly candid frontman gives us his thoughts on the band, their new album, Metallica, dance music, the state of heavy metal, the music business, horror cinema and sports allegiances in Kenosha, Wisconsin. Suffice it to say, we covered a lot of ground in our conversation.


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Living Doll Teaches Perfectionism
Augmented Russian 'Barbie' giving seminars on vegetarianism, meditation and lifestyle choices.
For a long time, people questioned whether Valeria Lukyanova really existed. But here she is, perched on a sofa at Kama Sutra, Odessa's premier Oriental cafe, sitting up with her back perfectly straight and her long eyelashes fluttering. She slightly inclines her thin, fragile neck in a dainty gesture of greeting and chirps a "hello" in Russian.
To her followers, she is the spiritual leader Amatue, named after the Goddess of the Sun, and brings light into their lives. To her detractors, she is a grotesque reflection of much that is wrong with the modern world. To everyone else, she is a viral internet sensation: the human Barbie doll.
Lukyanova's rise from niche internet freak show to worldwide sensation has been rapid. Glossy magazines and tabloids the world over have begun to follow her every step as relayed on her online blogs and she has become the most prominent member of a new movement of "living dolls" that has emerged in Odessa, a hypersexualised Ukrainian port city filled with Western internet-bride hunters and hedonistic beach clubs.
After much persuasion, Lukyanova agreed to meet for lunch, stipulating that the meeting must take place at Kama Sutra and that there would be strictly no photography; she would provide her own pictures.
"Lunch," in her case, is a glass of freshly squeezed celery and carrot juice, mixed together with a trio of gloopy Indian chutneys into a devilish cocktail. "I've been on a liquid diet for a year now," she says, taking small sips of the slimy drink. "In recent weeks I have not been hungry at all; I'm hoping it's the final stage before I can subsist on air and light alone."
Her face is subsumed in a thick layer of makeup; her eyes turned into two deep turquoise pools by coloured lenses and augmented with swirls of mascara. She says that the only operation she has undergone is a breast enlargement, though many have speculated that she may have had ribs removed in order to achieve the almost implausible tapering of her figure from a voluminous bust to a waist that measures just 43cm. The rumours that she was merely a computer-generated fantasy were blown away last northern summer when she made an appearance on a prime-time Russian chat show.
There are still websites devoted to proving that Lukyanova is a fake and that her plasticky skin and unlikely curves are purely a product of Adobe Photoshop. They are wrong. Her appearance in the flesh (if "flesh" is quite the right word) is no less striking and no less unsettling than it is in the photographs.
She denies claims that her diet might push some of her young, impressionable followers towards anorexia. "Anorexia is when your bones stick out," she says. "Look at me everything is in order with my breasts, my rear. I'm healthy."
The biggest question is why a woman who says she is happily married (her husband, a construction magnate, "fully supports my lifestyle choices", she claims) has taken the decision to live her life as a Barbie doll. "My exterior look is a reflection of my spiritual, interior qualities," she says.
Lukyanova's spirituality, which she propagates online and teaches in a series of lectures and seminars, is based on vegetarianism and meditation. It is not linked to any religion, though she admits it draws much from Buddhism. Next month, Lukyanova will give a two-day seminar in Moscow involving group meditation and lifestyle advice on "being sincere with oneself" and "finding a life partner". Entrance is £60 ($113), but she is not in it for the money, she says. "My husband finances my life fully, I do not need to make a profit."
The combination of her pronouncements of spiritual depth with her meretricious Barbie appearance is incongruous. As she explains it: "I always try to perfect myself further both inside and outside, because I think perfection has no limits."
Lukyanova's "spiritual teachings" have found a receptive audience among many young women, like Natalia Konovalchuk, a softly spoken 14-year-old from Odessa. "I started off just seeing her as a pretty girl, but then I realised I liked her attitude to the world as well."
She also wanted to look more like a doll and for a time wore coloured contact lenses and thick makeup. "But people at school didn't take it very well, so I have stopped," says the teenager. Now she merely follows Lukyanova's meditation techniques.
"This is all a form of getting away from reality," says Olga Khryshtanovskaya, a Russian sociologist, on the same chat show.
Others were more blunt, calling Lukyanova a "sex doll", a "human freak show" and a "schizophrenic".
Lukyanova says: "I don't listen to the critics. They are women who are unhappy with their lives. They don't have husbands or children. They see me travelling the world and giving seminars, and they are sitting at home and making cabbage soup. I feel sorry for them."
Valley of the dolls
Valeria Lukyanova is not the only human doll but remains the best known.
She is now inseparable from Domenika, her "spiritual sister", who also sports a Barbie look, to only a slightly less eye-boggling effect. They met online and now do everything together, says Domenika, who on questioning admits her "earth name" is Olga.
Then there is Anastasia Shpagina, who also hails from Odessa. She dresses as a Japanese anime character with disturbing aesthetic results and has also attracted a huge online following. Briefly, the dolls functioned as a trio, but now they have fallen out. "She behaved very badly," Lukyanova says. "She's just in it for the PR. She doesn't have a beautiful spiritual interior."
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By Scott Corrales (c) 1994
Inexplicata-The Journal of Hispanic UFOlogy
UFO Digest Latin America Correspondent
[This article originally appeared in Tim Beckley's Unsolved UFO Mysteries magazine in 1994. The electronic file was recently rediscovered during a hard drive scan and we're sharing it with our readers 18 years later! — SC]
Captain Charles Wendorf's orders were straightforward enough: fly his B-52 Stratofortress to the Saddle Rock Mid-Air Refueling Area to meet a KC-135 tanker. The clear skies over the Mediterranean coast of Spain made Saddle Rock a particularly suitable refueling site. The giant aircraft, an element of the 68th Bomber Squadron out of North Carolina, was in the middle of a long patrol of the Atlantic Ocean, coming as close to the USSR as they dared. But Cold War tension would be the very last factor to affect the B-52's fate.
At 10:22 a.m. on January 17, 1966, at an altitude of thirty thousand feet, Captain Wendorf's nuclear-warhead laden Stratofortress sighted the KC-35 some 15 miles ahead in the refueling zone. The B-52 carefully jockeyed into position behind the tanker to connect with its refueling mast–a complex but efficient operation that did not involve any loss in speed on the bomber's part and in which remarkably small amounts of fuel were lost.
But something went wrong. An unseen force bumped against the bomber's underside, pushing it upward and causing the KC-135's starboard wing to graze the B-52's cockpit. The bomber's crew felt another terrible jolt as their plane rammed into the tanker's fuselage
To observers on the ground witnessing the refueling maneuver, the tanker exploded into a ball of orange flame while both military aircraft disintegrated high above the earth. The long-range bomber's crew managed to jump clear of the explosion and were later rescued by Spanish fishermen after having miraculously survived their high-altitude jump. But four hydrogen bombs now lay at the bottom of the shallow coastal waters, and the efforts to retrieve them before lethal gamma radiation spread throughout the sea made headlines worldwide.
Witnesses to the explosion claimed having seen three objects in the sky at the time of the explosion, although only the downed bomber and the disintegrated tanker should have been in the area. Suspicions arose among the Spanish military elements assisting with the rescue efforts that the USAF's frantic search for the missing warheads was, in fact, a thinly-veiled excuse for finding the elusive third "airplane" — the UFO which had caused the destruction of its aircraft and then disappeared without a trace.
The USAF had good reasons, perhaps, to worry about a force inimical to its interests somewhere over the Mediterranean: Eight days before the Palomares debacle, a colossal fireball of unknown origin had flown over the Italian cities of Capri and Naples, causing a general blackout. Four years later, in October 1969, two jet fighters would disappear without a trace during NATO exercises held off Crete. The previous year, the French air force had lost two Mystére IV fighter-bombers on routine patrol over Corsica. The result of the military inquest was that both planes were lost due to "undetermined causes".
Incidents such as this one are legion: UFOs–whether interplanetary or interdimensional–have engaged in a sort of "air supremacy" struggle with military aircraft of all nations since the first foo-fighter encounters during the Second World War. Fighters, bombers and transport planes have been intercepted and fired upon by unidentified objects, while others have been destroyed during efforts at getting closer to the mysterious intruders that fly over sovereign airspace with impunity.
The concept of an interplanetary war in our times, a thought which admittedly smacks of the Cold War's "flying saucer" scare, has been seriously invoked by Gen. Douglas MacArthur in the 1950's and by President Ronald Reagan in the 1980's. NATO allegedly prepared a document evaluating the threat posed to existing conventional and military forces in the 1960's, conceding that "we virtually have no defense against their advanced technology." Serious researchers like the late Dr. Olavo Fontes analyzed the possibility that northern Brazil would be occupied by a UFO invasion force in the wake of the attack on the Itaipú garrison in 1965. But the hostility between unidentified objects and human air forces is not limited to our own air force nor to our own times, as can be seen in the following paragraph.
During World War II, both Allied and German aviators had close encounters with unknown aircraft. The following incident appeared in La Nature, a French scientific magazine:
"It took place in Le Mans at the start of the summer of 1941…The Luftwaffe had occupied the old Le Mans airfield at the La Sarthe circuit and was stationing many Messerschmitt 109 fighters–not very fast vehicles, but highly maneuverable ones. The German pilots were kept in constant state of readiness, and I had the opportunity to witness a number of Messerschmitt flight squadron maneuvers in broad daylight.
"The weather was splendid, and as far as I can recall, it was a Sunday. At around 1300 hours, the skies were clear and only a few large cumuli could be seen at quite a distance from each other. Toward that time, the entire city heard the roar of the airplanes flying at full speed, and I was able to ascertain at the time that the cause for alarm appeared to be within one of the large cumulus clouds, which at the time was slowly passing over the airfield. One could see the Messerschmitts flying around the cloud, diving into it, shooting up out of it, or emerging from it sideways before engaging in the same maneuver again. It was a spectacular performance to watch, but it must have been terribly dangerous for the pilots. Was this an exercise ordered by the base commandant or an alert? I never found out, but it was interesting to see the looks of terror on the faces of the German soldiers and officers that
comprised the city garrison as they followed the spectacle from the windows of their homes.
"I was then able to observe how the cloud, whose base upon its arrival was 900 feet high to a maximum height of 3000 feet, began to grow, and when it cleared the airport to move away from the city, had acquired the shape of a very tall pyramid with perfectly clear outlines. Its sharp apex must have been at an altitude of some 10000 feet, judging by its visible height over the horizon and its probable location over the terrain. My vantage point was some 2 miles away from the airfield, and the cloud was some 3 miles away while I watched its apex."
The Korean War produced a number of incidents which became classics of ufology and stressed the inimical nature of whatever appeared to be sharing the skies with our own aircraft.
A B-29 flying over the Korean Peninsula during the 1950-53 conflict had its otherwise uneventful mission interrupted by the sudden appearance of a 20 inch wide glowing disk within the cockpit, which remained immobile and suspended in mid-air to the shock of the flight crew. When one of the airmen approached it with a fire extinguisher, the strange object vanished, only to reappear later on. The bizarre "probe" inspected the bomber's interior before returning to its materialization point and disappearing for good.
A squadron of fighters flew into a cloudbank similar to the one assaulted by the German Messerschmitts during the previous war, but this time, whatever was inside the cloud won: the fighters never emerged from the seemingly innocuous clouds.
The air and ground forces of the former Soviet Union were by no means immune to UFO attacks. In 1961, a giant UFO escorted by a host of lesser craft challenged the grim defenses of the Moscow Anti-Ballistic Missile defense system, one of a kind in the whole world. The commander of the Rybinsk battery opened fire on the intruder, but to the surprise of the assembled misslemen, the projectiles detonated well short of their targets. Now it was the UFOs turn: all the electrical systems of the Rybinsk battery were stalled until the small flotilla of intruders was safely out of its range.
Apparently, the elements of the elite Soviet Rocketry Forces were unable to avoid the temptation of taking potshots at passing UFOs. In 1969, one such detachment was in charge of the nine brigades of SAMs (Surface-to-Air Missiles) which defended the North Vietnamese capital of Hanoi against American bomber raids. The Soviet artillerymen, stationed at some distance from Hanoi proper, observed a battleship-sized discoidal UFO (its diameter was in excess of 1000 feet, according to calculations) approach silently and suddenly, oblivious to the urgent IFF ("Identification Friend-or-Foe") requests transmitted by the ground installations. The battery commander phoned his superiors for instructions, and after a brief delay, was given the order to open fire. Three out of five missile brigades launched a total of ten SAMs against the aeroform, but as had occurred in Rybinsk years before, the salvos detonated well short of the target, to the dismay of the ground personnel.
The UFO fired a needle-thin blue beam against one of the SAM launchers, turning the entire unit, which included three launchers, as well as radar and guidance stations, into a smoking heap of metal. According to the report (which has been classified as a hoax by many researchers), two hundred lives were lost in the process before the UFO resumed its trajectory and vanished from sight.
However, the Petrozavodsk UFO of September 1977 seized the initiative when, at four o'clock on the morning of September 20th, it terrorized the city's inhabitants. The medusa-like craft emitted golden shafts of light that pierced holes in windows and pavements. The intruder returned five or six times within a month.
Another much-publicized incident dealt with the destruction of a Cuban MiG-21 "Fishbed" by a UFO. According to a specialist stationed at Florida's Boca Chica Naval Station, some 90 miles off the Cuban coast, he noticed that a strange object was approaching the island nation at some 600 miles an hour at an altitude of 32,000 feet. Two Cuban MiG's intercepted the object and attempted radio contact. The vehicle was described as a large, featureless sphere. When orders to destroy the object were
issued from the ground, one of the MiG's suddenly exploded and disintegrated (in other retellings of the story, it was "zapped" by the UFO) while the UFO climbed suddenly to 100,000 feet and continued its southward trajectory unchallenged.
Other incidents, like the following, have bordered on the unreal–and in fact, there exists no way of proving its authenticity. Author Luis Anglada Font, a World War II fighter pilot who later devoted himself to UFO research in the early days of the phenomenon, included the following highly dramatic account (as told to him by physicist Raymond Harvey) in one of his books, La Realidad de los Ovnis A Través de los Siglos. The case was allegedly "hushed" by ATIC at Wright Paterson AFB and never included in the Blue Book Files. Anglada simply refers to it as "The Steinbeck Affair."
According to the author, this chilling incident took place sometime in 1953. Steinbeck–no rank given–was a thirty year old aviator who was considered among "the best and brightest" due to his bravery and considerable sang froid. He had been summoned to an unnamed air base near Las Vegas to test a one-of-a-kind fighter prototype: a sky-blue interceptor armed with atomic cannon.
[The narrative involving the pilot "Steinbeck" has been called a fabrication, given the fact that it was never substantiated, Luis Anglada never cited his sources, and "atomic cannon" sound like an outlandish pulp magazine creation. For the sake of maintaining the original article's continuity, it is not being excised — SC]
A lengthy briefing session ensued, after which the test pilot, technicians and three high-ranking officers went on to inspect the interceptor itself, which was kept in a hangar guarded by an armed infantry platoon. Steinbeck and the officers had to present their credentials to be allowed in.
Once inside, a German engineer met the visitors and proceeded to show off the interceptor. The test pilot climbed into the cockpit and gave the instrumentation a thorough examination. Steinbeck was to fly the plane at four o'clock the following morning and perform a certain number of routine maneuvers before opening fire with his atomic arsenal against an airborne target.
The story relates that Steinbeck and the others met with the press later that evening at the officers' lounge. In conversation, the test pilot revealed that he had studied stenography (!) and that a mechanized steno pad had been installed on the right-hand side of the cockpit so that he could note every single step of the test flight. The steno pad's housing was equipped with a parachute that would land it safely in the event of a malfunction.
All went well the following morning. Steinbeck took to the dark desert sky in the prototype without any incident while the unidentified German technician followed his progress from the control tower. At one point, witnesses in the tower saw the foreign expert blanch as he stared at the radar screen, speaking into the microphone
with a sense of urgency: "Please, come back to base! There are unidentified machines to your right! Land quickly!"
The radar had in fact detected an object that crossed the field at breathtaking speed, followed by others: a total of eight unidentified vehicles were closing in on Steinbeck's prototype, sending the ground control personnel into a frenzy. The entire base was placed on full alert.
Steinbeck allegedly radioed back that the vehicles were surrounding him and that he was going to open fire on them with the interceptor's advanced weaponry. Two bursts from the atomic cannon [sic] were fired against one of the intruders, and moments later, the prototype crashed into the desert sand at high speed some two and a half miles downrange from the control tower.
Rescue crews found a twisted heap of metal along with the test pilot's carbonized remains–the engines and fuel tanks, however, were intact and unexploded; more importantly, the steno pad in its aluminum housing was recovered intact a few hundred feet away from the downed fighter, and it told the astounding tale of how a long, flaming "tube" had been aimed at Steinbeck's plane. The pilot's final desperate shorthand read: "They're attacking, I think they're attacking…God have mercy on me…I'm shooting back."
Anglada's "atomic cannons", the most questionable detail in the account, could refer to small warheads expelled by means of a launcher-like arrangement rather than science-fictionish "blasters". It is a fact that the military experimented with different permutations of nuclear ordnance, ranging from atomic hand grenades and bazookas (like the "Davy Crockett") to huge atomic railguns. If true, the case would represent one of the most significant unprovoked attacks ever recorded.
Heat weapons appear to be the weapon of choice in aerial engagements between UFOs and terrestrial aircraft. One case involving fighters "scrambled" to intercept UFOs ended with the object pursued firing a heat weapon at the fighters which made their wings incredibly hot, forcing them to break off their mission and return to base.
The Walesville, NY incident, which occurred in July of 1954, is perhaps the best known of the heat-weapon attacks: An F-94 Starfire scrambled to investigate a UFO tracked by the radars at Griffins AFB was greeted with a terrific blast of heat issuing from the unknown vehicle. Pilot and navigator bailed out while the fighter rammed into a house, causing five deaths.
Carlos Alejo Rodríguez, a trainer pilot for the Uruguayan Air Force, also found himself at the receiving end of a heat weapon of some sort when he approached a large discoidal UFO flying over the Curubelo Air Force Base. The sudden surge of suffocating heat caused the startled pilot to break off his pursuit and return to the base.
Helicopters have, on occasion, had cause to defend themselves from intruders: In January 1974, the crew of a Marine UH-1E helicopter from the 3rd Marine Aircraft wing flying from Quantico, Va. to Beaufort, S.C. found itself having to stand tall against a silver-white UFO heading on a collision course toward the helo. The pilot engaged in evasive action only to discover that the featureless object was able to match his dodging effortlessly and even pull alongside until it filled the cockpit's view. Disregarding the rules of engagement, the gunner fired tracers point-blank at the UFO with no apparent effect. But to the surprise of all aboard, the huge object peeled away with a slight wobble before receding into the distance.
Lest the reader suspect that these incidents belong to the "heroic past" of UFO research, it is well worth remembering that the most graphic cases of UFO-military aircraft interaction occurred in the late Eighties, when the US Navy lost two F-14 Tomcats while intercepting a giant triangular object over Cabo Rojo, P.R.. The magnitude of the incident apparently forced all military flights over the island to take off with their full complement of missile pods, and prompted PRANG (Puerto Rico National Air Guard) to replace its ageing fleet of Grumman A-7's with F-15's.
The final question is always: does Earth stand a chance against a bona fide extraterrestrial attack? There is evidence that terrestrial air forces have tried to develop deterrents against this unknown threat since the 1950s. It has been suggested that the formation of the USAF's Space Command in 1985 (ostensibly in charge of all satellite operations) was the first step in providing a capability against an attack from space. Upon close inspection, the SDI program (alternatively known as "Star Wars" or the "Peace Shield") applications appear better suited to repel a space-based threat than an atmospheric one. In September 1985, an F-15 launched an 18 ft. long missile dubbed "Tomato Can" at P871, a solar observation satellite, striking it at 30,000 miles per hour and nearly pulverizing it. While "Tomato Can" accomplished its mission without the benefit of a warhead, one can imagine its capability against "hostile unknowns" if endowed with one.
Model kit hobbyists may recall Aurora's "Ragnarok", a prototype of a U.S. Air Force nuclear-powered and laser-equipped interceptor specifically "developed to
protect the earth from any hostile alien invasion". The detailed 1/200 scale kit provided an informative rundown on the ultimate orbital interceptor, which was 255 feet long and with a weight in excess of 330 tons (heavier than a B-52) and capable of achieving its cruising altitude of 200,000 feet in a startling 8 minutes.
The information went on to state that "protection from alien craft" was provided in the shape of five nuclear rockets and an ingenious manned support craft (a descendant of the D-21 reconnaissance drone carried piggyback by the SR-71?) armed with laser weapons capable of piercing two feet of solid steel. The kit's info blurb ended with a price tag of 100 million dollars for each "Ragnarok".
While the model kit may just have been a fanciful take on the aviation developments that followed one another in the 1960s–U-2s, SR-71s, XB-70s–the fact remains that modeling companies have often "scooped" the Air Force's official acknowledgement of the existence of certain craft, as was the case with the F119 "Stealth" Fighter and the B-2 Bomber. Another modelmaker, Testors, recently made the pages of TIME magazine with a disturbing model kit of a UFO, described as "a scale replica of one of the ships, based on descriptions from Bob Lazar." We can certainly feel confident that there are no Ragnaroks lurking in secret warrens under the Nevada desert, but at some point, a design similar to Aurora's must have been on the drawing boards as a viable response to the threat posed by UFOs, despite Project Blue Book's insistence that "no UFO reported, investigated and evaluated by the Air Force has ever given the indication of being a threat to our national security."
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Film director James Cameron talks with Leonardo DiCaprio and Kate Winslet during the shooting of a crucial post-sinking scene in "Titanic." The newly released 3-D version of the film will show the sky as it actually appeared that night, thanks to astronomer Neil deGrasse Tyson's goading.
Astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson doesn't mind that "Titanic" film director James Cameron called him a "son of a bitch" for shaming him into correcting the movie's constellations.
"I take it as a frustrated expression of affection," Tyson, director of New York's Hayden Planetarium, told me today. "As in, 'you son of a bitch, you got me there.'"
Thanks to Tyson's persistence, moviegoers who go to "Titanic" in 3-D will see a truer representation of the night sky when Rose (played by Kate Winslet) looks up into the heavens after the ship sinks. "That sky, I would say, was the most important sky in the movie," Tyson said. And in the original 1997 version of the film, it was wrong.
In a widely quoted interview with the British magazine Culture, Cameron said the sky scene was the only shot he fixed for this year's 3-D re-release:
"It's because Neil deGrasse Tyson, who is one of the U.S.' leading astronomers, sent me quite a snarky email saying that, at that time of year, in that position in the Atlantic in 1912, when Rose is lying on the piece of driftwood and staring up at the stars, that is not the star field she would have seen, and with my reputation as a perfectionist, I should have known that and I should have put the right star field in.
"So I said, 'All right, you son of a b**ch, send me the right stars for the exact time, 4:20 a.m. on April 15, 1912, and I'll put it in the movie.' So that's the one shot that has been changed."
Rose (Kate Winslet) looks up at the stars in this scene from "Titanic."
The basic problem was that a space-savvy observer would see that the sky in the original version of the movie was unrecognizable, and in fact was produced by mirroring made-up stars on the left and right halves of the screen. Tyson saw that as a needlessly sloppy move, and he made that opinion known to Cameron and his team in a succession of letters, emails and personal encounters. He wrote about the "Titanic" trip-up and other Hollywood missteps in his 2007 book, "Death by Black Hole." You can watch him tell the tale about "Titanic" and other sci-fi movies in this video clip:
Neil deGrasse Tyson on inaccuracies in science-fiction movies and the "Titanic" night sky.
When Cameron's people finally asked Tyson to provide a better sky, the astrophysicist used a standard planetarium program to generate the star field for the proper latitude and time of night, captured a high-resolution image and sent it off to the filmmakers.
"The Big Dipper came out nicely," Tyson said.
The sky was initially fixed in the bonus materials for a special DVD version of "Titanic" a few years ago. "I took that as a triumph and let it be," Tyson told me. Now the corrected sky appears in the big-screen version of the film itself, thanks to post-production wizardry.
Tyson said he can understand why it took a big re-release for Cameron to change the sky. "As a director, you don't want to have to rethink all that, and I respect that," he said. Tyson said his respect for Cameron has grown even more now that the right stars will be on display in theaters around the world.
Will Cameron put the space-savvy S.O.B.'s name in the credits for the 3-D movie? Tyson says he doesn't know, and really doesn't care.
"If he does, that's fine," Tyson told me. "I'm a servant of the public interest and the public's appetite for information about the universe. I get these calls all the time. ... The mere fact that an artist cares about getting the science right, and thereby transmitting that science literacy to the consumers of that art — that's enough reward for me."
More about 'Titanic' and Neil deGrasse Tyson
- 10 reasons for the Titanic tragedy
- James Cameron refloats 'Titanic' in 3-D
- Tyson on NASA's need for a budget boost
- From black holes to black history
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The item you are buying is a partial scan of documents #HO5/HO6 from the Labour Party 2004/5 General Election Campaign Return (in JPEG format) that contain the work phone and fax numbers of that famous and popular public relations consultant Alastair Campbell. This information is in the public domain, but is very hard to come by.
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Please note that your purchase does not in any way cover any part of Alastair Campbell's service fees; it is merely an opportunity to contact this much sought-after professional for the purpose of proposed employment (and/or to seek his signature on a suitable item for the charity auction of your choice).
Please also be aware that we have - to the best of our ability - confirmed the validity/accuracy of these numbers, but Mr Campbell may at any time decide to screen his calls or change his number(s) if he feels he is receiving too many job offers.
And, yes, this is arguably just a childish schoolboy prank but, as I recall, childish schoolboy pranks used to drive 'Teacher' up the wall


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London - The inaugural Euro T20 Slam, a competition due to feature six city franchises based in Ireland, Scotland and the Netherlands, was postponed on Wednesday, just two weeks before it was due to start.
Stars such as New Zealand's Martin Guptill and Brendon McCullum, South Africa fast bowler Dale Steyn, England's World Cup-winning skipper Eoin Morgan, Pakistan's Shahid Afridi, Australia's Shane Watson and Afghanistan leg-spinner Rashid Khan had all been lined-up to play.
However, organisers say that the 2019 event has "reluctantly" been postponed.
"The Board of the Euro T20 Slam, funding partners and franchise owners of this exciting new T20 tournament have reluctantly come to the decision that staging of the event will not be possible in 2019," said a tournament spokesman.
"We want to ensure that the inaugural staging of the Euro T20 Slam provides the best springboard to making this a truly flagship event on the global cricket calendar.
"As such, we believe the right course of action is to postpone the Slam to a further date. This will give us the necessary breathing space to ensure we are ready to go."
The Euro T20 Slam teams were due to play each other in a series of 33 matches from August 30 to September 22, with fixtures taking place in Dublin, Edinburgh and Amsterdam.


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Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid and President Barack Obama are holding the American people hostage as they try to force their big government agenda on our great country ("Obama and Republicans struggle to break fiscal impasse," Oct. 11). We conservatives must now stand up for the Republicans in Congress as they face these daily vicious attacks from the left
We need the help of every conservative we can reach right away in any way we can.
Now that the federal government has shut down, the Washington establishment has rolled out a ruthless "fear campaign" to try to scare tea party senators and representatives into submission. These Obamacare defenders are absolutely shameless in their gutless gutter tactics. President Obama claimed only last week that anyone in favor of doing away with Obamacare is shutting down our economy.
Senator Reid has claimed over and over again that stopping Obamacare would be the same as denying health care coverage to millions of Americans, which is nothing but a bogus left wing lie.
These leftists are willing to say or do anything to save Obamacare. What we do over the next few days is crucial to the success of the effort to stop Obamacare.
Tea party followers must continue alerting our activists all across America with up-to-the-minute analysis of the legislative battle over this funding bill. If we do not win this battle, we will be stuck with Obamacare for years to come.
We must stand with our conservative allies in Washington for as long as this battle lasts. We need to show the leftists that we won't accept any more compromises. We have to demand an end to Obamacare, once and for all. Obamacare is not for America.
Al Eisner, Silver Spring


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A 134-unit condominium development on prime waterfront property across the Embarcadero from the Ferry Building won the backing of the Board of Supervisors Tuesday — ending one battle and expected to start another.
Opponents have threatened to stop the project by referendum and/or lawsuits.
The controversial project at 8 Washington St., covering 3.2 acres, will include luxury condominiums, parking, a health club and a public park.
To win board approval, the developer, Pacific Waterfront Partners led by Simon Snellgrove and Alicia Allbin, agreed to kick in $11 million to the city's affordable housing fund — $2 million more than required by law — and to turn over the health club's pool a couple of hours a week for city-run swim lessons for low-income kids. In addition, a 50-cent surcharge will be levied on vehicles that use the public parking lot, with the proceeds used for street-scape and transit improvements.
"It's great news; we're very happy," Snellgrove said after the vote. "This is a well-sculpted plan that will be a fabulous asset for the city."
The board approved the project on an 8-3 vote, with Supervisors David Chiu, David Campos and John Avalos opposed.
Opponents on the board and in the public have listed a number of concerns, among them the height, the bulk, the loss of the existing Golden Gateway swim and tennis club, the obstruction of views for a handful of nearby residents and the amount of parking. Critics also said the should provide more funding for affordable housing and community benefits.
"This project is nowhere near where it needs to be for the City and County of San Francisco, for us to ensure that everyone gets to continue to live in San Francisco when we have some of the most expensive condos in the city that are going to be going up and when we have all of the other issues," said Chiu, who led the unsuccessful charge at the board against the development.
Last month, opponents failed to thwart the project when the board rejected their appeals of both the environmental impact report and a conditional use permit, and they lost again Tuesday with approval of the development agreement. Now they may try to overturn the board's action through the referendum process if they can gather enough signatures to put the matter before voters in November. Lawsuits also may be filed to block the project from going forward.


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ORLANDO, Fla. – SeaWorld Entertainment Inc. on Friday lashed back at what it calls activist propaganda surrounding "Blackfish," placing full-page ads in some of the largest newspapers in the country.
The Orlando-based company placed the ads in USA Today, the New York Times and the Wall Street Journal, among others. In an "Open Letter from SeaWorld's Animal Advocates," the company defends the way SeaWorld cares for its whales.
The ad does not identify the recently released documentary "Blackfish," a small-budget film that chronicles the capture and captivity of Tilikum, the 6-ton killer whale at SeaWorld Orlando that killed trainer Dawn Brancheau in February 2010.
After the movie's release, eight musical acts, including Willie Nelson, Trisha Yearwood and Heart, canceled performances at SeaWorld Orlando's annual "Bands, Brew & BBQ" concert series.
In the full-page ad, SeaWorld highlighted "important facts" about its work, including:
- SeaWorld does not capture killer whales in the wild.
- We do not separate killer whale moms and calves.
- SeaWorld invests millions of dollars in the care of our killer whales.
- SeaWorld's killer whales' life spans are equivalent with those in the wild.
The open letter ends by saying, "The truth about SeaWorld is right here in our parks and people. Our guests may enter our gates having never given much thought to the remarkable animals in our oceans. When they leave with a greater appreciation for the importance of the sea, educated about the animals that live there and inspired to make a difference, we have done our job."
Since the release 'Blackfish,' 8 of the 10 acts that were scheduled to perform at SeaWorld have canceled, saying 'Blackfish' is to blame.
Watch Local 6 News and stay with ClickOrlando.com for more on this story.


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strong>Kurt Nimmo
Thursday, September 29, 2011
According to former CIA agents and historians participating in a forum held at the John F. Kennedy Library in Boston, in the early 1960s the U.S. government invented the so-called "Missile Gap" and wildly over-estimated the number of ICBMs the Soviet Union had.
How many ICBMs did the Soviets actually have? Four, according to declassified documents.
The Eisenhower administration used aerial reconnaissance and imaging satellites like the Corona Satellite to discover that the Soviets did not have the advanced technology to threaten the U.S.
As a growing number of historians have realized for years, the so-called Cold War was largely an illusion – known as "policy by press release" – invented by the military industrial complex, the same folks who are selling us new wars and conjured-up threats from the likes of al-Qaeda and now the so-called Haqqani network.
"The study of the Missile Gap period is especially relevant because it relates to today's situation in Iraq, North Korea, and Iran, said historian and author Fred Kaplan and Timothy Naftali, director of the Richard Nixon Presidential Library and Museum and a former Harvard student," writes Laya Anasu for The Crimson.
The invented Missile Gap – an extension of the supposed Bomber Gap – is part of a larger reality that we never hear about and is not revealed in most history books: the entire Soviet threat was invented by Wall Street and the international bankers.
In Western Technology and Soviet Economic Development 1945 to 1965 written by the late Antony Sutton, we discover that if not for a massive transfer of technology and money to the Bolsheviks in the 1920s and later, Russia would have remained an isolated and backwards rural society. Sutton drew his conclusions after reviewing State Department documents.
Antony Sutton: The Best Enemies Money Can Buy.
"Soviet exports in the late sixties were still those of a backward, underdeveloped country. They consisted chiefly of raw materials and semi-manufactured goods," Sutton writes in the conclusion of his trilogy. "When manufactured goods were exported they were simple machine tools and vehicles based on Western designs, and they were exported to underdeveloped areas," he writes.
And yet we were expected to believe at the time that the Soviet Union had developed and manufactured a burgeoning arsenal of sophisticated nuclear weapons.
"In the Bolshevik Revolution we see many of the same old faces that were responsible for creating the Federal Reserve System, initiating the graduated income tax, setting up the tax-free foundations and pushing us into WWI," writes Gary Allen.
It was "a tiny oligarchical clique at the top" that created the Soviet Union, not because the elite are communists, but because communism is "a method to consolidate and control the wealth" and ultimately build "an all-powerful world, socialist super-state," a state we are now beginning to see as the bankers take down the global economy.
We need to keep this in mind as the elite, through their academics and corporate media, try to sell us new threats, for instance the Haqqani terror network recently pushed by the chairman of the joint chiefs of staff, Mike Mullen, as he lectured the Senate Armed Services Committee last week.
The corporate media reports that Haqqani is a veritable arm of Pakistan's ISI, but what they don't tell you is that the ISI is a creation of British intelligence – shepherded by Major General Walter Joseph Cawthorn, working for MI-6 – and the terror organizations now supposedly threatening the United States (and subsequently replacing the facile threat of the Soviet Union) were created through a collaboration between the ISI and the CIA, beginning in the early 1980s, a fact admitted by none other than the New York Times and Zbigniew Brzezinski.
The elite invent scary threats and push them off on us, knowing that we will usually take the bait, as the mass hysteria – and curtailment of our liberties – demonstrated after we were sold the fairy tale that a gaggle of Muslim cave dwellers made NORAD stand down and waved a magic wand that suspended the laws of physics of September 11, 2011.
This article was posted: Thursday, September 29, 2011 at 8:09 am


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