Gas-sipping vehicle gets 1,900
mpg

April 21, 2007, Los Angeles
Times


http://www.latimes.com/business/la-fi-garagebriefs21apr21,1,5317797.story

We
couldn't pass up mention of the winner of last week's Eco-marathon
Americas, a fuel-economy challenge sponsored by Shell Oil Co. A team from
Cal Poly San Luis Obispo won the $10,000 grand prize by achieving the
equivalent of 1,902.7 miles per gallon on regular gasoline in a
student-built vehicle. Granted, the students didn't win in someone's mom's
Dodge minivan. Their "car" is a one-occupant streamliner built of carbon
fiber composite. At a measly 98 pounds, it weighed less than the driver.
And that was 98 pounds including the car's 50-cubic-centimeter Honda
engine. "The main reason we do this is because it's a way to encourage
students to focus on technical innovation for potential future careers,"
said David Sexton, president of Shell Oil Products. But there is a
practical side to the competition, said Cal Poly team manager Tom Heckel,
a junior mechanical engineering major. "Any publicity we can get
makes people aware that the 20 mpg or so they're averaging in their cars
can be improved on � a lot." The event, held April 14 at the
California Speedway in Fontana, was the first time that Shell had brought
its 25-year-old Eco-marathon competition to the U.S. The event drew 20
university, college and high school teams from around the U.S. and Canada.
Rules called for each vehicle to complete seven 1.45-mile laps around the
speedway's inner track, averaging at least 15 mph. Fuel consumption was
measured after each attempt and adjusted for ambient temperature and other
factors in a complex formula that ends up giving an extrapolation of miles
per gallon.

Note:
Why would the president of Shell Oil Products state the main reason for
this competition is about careers and not finding ways to improve gas
mileage? The world record is over 10,000
mpg. How is it that the average car gets only 22 mpg when the Ford Model T
got 25 mpg almost 100 years ago? For more, click
here.


The wave that destroyed Atlantis

April 20, 2007, BBC News


http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/6568053.stm

The
legend of Atlantis, the country that disappeared under the sea, may be
more than just a myth. Research on the Greek island of Crete
suggests Europe's earliest civilisation was destroyed by a giant tsunami.
Until about 3,500 years ago, a spectacular ancient civilisation was
flourishing in the Eastern Mediterranean. The ancient Minoans were
building palaces, paved streets and sewers, while most Europeans were
still living in primitive huts. But around 1500BC the people who spawned
the myths of the Minotaur and the Labyrinth abruptly disappeared. Now the
mystery of their cataclysmic end may finally have been solved. A group of
scientists have uncovered new evidence that the island of Crete was hit by
a massive tsunami at the same time that Minoan culture disappeared. "The
geo-archaeological deposits contain a number of distinct tsunami
signatures," says Dutch-born geologist Professor Hendrik Bruins. "Minoan
building material, pottery and cups along with food residue ... were mixed
up with rounded beach pebbles and sea shells. "The latter can only have
been scooped up from the sea-bed by one mechanism - a powerful tsunami,"
says Professor Bruins. The scientists have obtained radiocarbon dates for
the deposits that show the tsunami could have hit the coast at exactly the
same time as an eruption of the Santorini volcano. It caused massive
climatic disruption and the blast was heard over 3000 miles away. The
[resulting] wave would have been as powerful as the one that devastated
the coastlines of Thailand and Sri Lanka. The myth of Atlantis, the city
state that was lost beneath the sea, was first mentioned by Plato over 2000
years ago.

Note:
So the "myth" of Atlantis may not have been just a myth after
all. How many other myths might eventually be found to be based in fact?



20-year seal put on Columbine
depositions

April 3, 2007, Denver
Post


http://www.denverpost.com/headlines/ci_5580190

The
depositions of the parents of Columbine killers Eric Harris and Dylan
Klebold will be kept under seal in the National Archives for 20 years, a
federal judge ruled Monday. No one, including violence prevention experts,
will be able to see them until they are unsealed, U.S. District
Judge Lewis Babcock ruled. They will be kept permanently in the National
Archives, where they are considered to be of historical value. The
depositions of the parents took place in 2003 in connection with a lawsuit
filed by the families of five slain Columbine High School students. Brian
Rohrbough, the father of slain student Daniel Rohrbough, said he was
angered by the ruling. Rohrbough, who watched as attorneys interviewed the
parents during the deposition sessions, said there is nothing in them that
would cause any harm. Instead, their release could prevent further school
shootings, he said. Rohrbough is under court order not to divulge details.
"There is no rational reason to lock them up," Rohrbough said. "It's just
the idea that it would be OK in 20 years, and can't be OK today."

Note:
Why all the secrecy? Could it be to hide evidence showing it could have
been stopped?

Columbine: Were There Warnings?

February 26, 2004, CBS
News


http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2004/02/26/national/main602460.shtml

A report
on the Columbine High School massacre ... could answer questions about
what police knew before the shootings that left 13 victims and two gunmen
dead. The families of the victims of the April 20, 1999 massacre were the
first to see, in private, [a] mountain of evidence. Some of the evidence
is expected to show that Harris and Klebold were on police radar nearly
two years before the attack. Brian Rohrbough, whose son, Danny, died at
Columbine, said he was hopeful that he would get the answers he and other
family members have been seeking. Rohrbough [has] been one of the most
vocal critics of the sheriff department's failure to follow up on tips
about Harris in the 18 months before Columbine. "I have a hard
time sleeping at night because I cannot share with you what I know," he
said hours before the report was to be released. Rohrbough and some other
relatives of victims have seen a deposition given by Wayne Harris, father
of Eric Harris. A federal magistrate has ordered the deposition, which is
already sealed, destroyed. Rohrbough also is pressing for
release of an investigation by the school district, which the district
insists it must withhold because teachers questioned during the probe
haven't given their permission. Rohrbough is convinced school staff saw a
video the teen killers made that gave a hint of their plans. "We were lied
to about a number of things and it seems like that things were hidden from
us and we never understood why," said Scott. "And I honestly think the
answers are not in the things we looked at yesterday. I think they're in
sealed reports and possibly things that have been destroyed," he said.


Note:
Why is the government destroying key evidence in this crucial case? Could
it be that the government is somehow implicated? To explore this
disturbing possibility, click here.



Older Articles Recently Discovered



Cosmic bolt probed in shuttle
disaster

February 7, 2003, San Francisco
Chronicle (San Francisco's leading newspaper)


http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2003/02/07/CAMERA.TMP

Federal
scientists are looking for evidence that a bolt of electricity in the
upper atmosphere might have doomed the space shuttle Columbia as it
streaked over California. Investigators are combing records from a
network of ultra-sensitive instruments that might have detected a faint
thunderclap in the upper atmosphere at the same time a photograph taken by
a San Francisco astronomer appears to show a purplish bolt of lightning
striking the shuttle. Los Alamos National Laboratories physicist
Mark Stanley said that "we've seen very strong ionization in sprites"
indicating that there were enough air molecules ionized to cause heating
and an accompanying pulse -- a celestial thunderclap, as it were. NASA
administrators confirmed Thursday that the photograph ... is being
evaluated by Columbia crash investigators. The astronomer, who has asked
that his name not be used, has declined to release the digital image to
the media. [A] family of "transient" electrical effects occup[ies] this
part of the sky, including sprites, which leap from the ionosphere to the
tops of thunderheads. Ironically, an experiment of Israeli astronaut Ilan
Ramon, aboard the doomed Columbia, was among the last fully funded work
conducted on sprites. Scientists have observed interaction between a blue
jet and a meteor. And in December 1999, Los Alamos National Laboratories
researcher David Suszcynsky and colleagues, including Lyons, published an
account of a meteor that apparently triggered a sprite.

Note:
For a second article with the subtitle "Mysterious purple streak is
shown hitting Columbia 7 minutes before it disintegrated," click
here. Though this most bizarre news suggested another possible reason
for the crash of the shuttle Columbia, it was virtually ignored throughout
the official investigation. Why?


Inside the CIA: An interview with former CIA
analyst Melvin Goodman

January 1998, CNN


http://www.cnn.com/SPECIALS/cold.war/episodes/21/interviews/goodman/

Melvin
Goodman was a senior analyst in Soviet affairs at the Central Intelligence
Agency, where he worked for two decades (1966-1986). He currently is
professor of international studies at the National War College. [In
the CIA], not only do you have political assassinations -- attempts at
least -- throughout the Fifties and the Sixties ... but you even have
assassination attempts against international leaders: the Mongoose
operation in Cuba [and] assassination attempts in Chile, where you were
dealing with a country that wasn't even in the vital national interests or
concerns of the United States. All of these assassination attempts were
done with the authorization of the White House. I think the major problem
at the CIA -- and it exists to this day -- is that you have two cultures.
You have an intelligence or analytical culture that must remain open. The
opposite of that is the clandestine side: it's secret, it's a policy
branch of the government. The White House basically uses the
operational component of the CIA to do its bidding. It's very useful to
have a clandestine corps to carry out military or paramilitary actions
very cheaply, without the hand of the United States or a particular
president being obvious. In many ways, you're getting worst-case
assessments, because quite often the contacts of the CIA are people on the
CIA payroll, telling the CIA what these people believe the CIA wants to
know -- in return for payment. So the whole tradecraft is somewhat
suspicious and somewhat corrupt from the very outset.

Note:
Melvin Goodman is one of many senior government officials who question the
government's 9/11 story. For his comments on this, click
here. For other senior officials with similar sentiments, click
here.

CIA and DOD Human Subjects Research
Scandals

U.S. Department of Energy
Website


http://hss.energy.gov/healthsafety/ohre/roadmap/achre/chap3_4.html

In
December 1974, the New York Times reported that the CIA had conducted
illegal domestic activities, including experiments on U.S. citizens during
the 1960s. That report prompted investigations by both Congress (in the
form of the Church
Committee) and a presidential commission (known as the Rockefeller
Commission) into the domestic activities of the CIA, the FBI, and
intelligence-related agencies of the military. Congressional
hearings and the Rockefeller Commission report revealed to the public for
the first time that the CIA and the DOD had conducted experiments on both
cognizant and unwitting human subjects as part of an extensive program to
influence and control human behavior through the use of psychoactive drugs
(such as LSD and mescaline) and other chemical, biological, and
psychological means. They also revealed that at least one subject
had died after administration of LSD. Frank Olson, an Army scientist, was
given LSD without his knowledge or consent in 1953 as part of a CIA
experiment and apparently committed suicide a week later. Subsequent
reports would show that another person ... died as a result of a secret
Army experiment involving mescaline. The CIA program, known principally by
the codename MKULTRA, began in 1950
and was motivated largely in response to alleged Soviet, Chinese, and North
Korean uses of mind-control techniques on U.S. prisoners of war in Korea.
Most of the MKULTRA records were deliberately destroyed in 1973 by order
of then-Director of Central Intelligence Richard Helms.

Note:
This highly revealing article on a U.S. government website shows that the
CIA was actively involved in mind control projects. For an excellent
summary based on thousands of pages of declassified CIA documents showing
the secret creation of unknowing assassins or "Manchurian
Candidates," click
here.




Special Note: For a Crossfire video clip with Jon
Stewart which reveals the polarization agenda of the media and how it
serves to keep people for working for real change and improvement, click here. For a
riveting 10-minute video clip of "The Ultimate Con" showing
media reports which leave no doubt as to bombs going off in the World
Trade Centers on 9/11, click here. And for
a New York Times article with good news on how the Texas
legislature blocked the governors's attempt to force a vaccine on all 6th
grade girls (and bring huge profits to the pharmaceuticals developing the
very expensive vaccine), click
here.



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