Steve Klein Weekly Update

UPDATES ARCHIVE FOR MAY 2003

Update for Week of May 26, 2003

This is the weekend that America honors its women and men who gave their lives to defend this nation and its ideals. Memorial Day is the unofficial kickoff of summer vacations, travel and the outdoor season. As you are priming your barbeque grill, enjoying the outdoors and throwing those horseshoes, may I suggest that you pause with your family and give thanks for all of the bounty and abundance we have and for the people that gave their lives allowing us to experience this American Way. Have a grand Memorial Day Weekend!

1. Follow-up: A recent Update story from the Seattle Post-Intelligencer on April 23, 2003 reported that Washington State is putting in guidelines to reduce mercury in its waters. New information has been reported that establishes a link now between autism and mercury. The following site educates the public on this issue: Click Here Here is the original Seattle P-I story of Governor Locke's mercury initiative: Click Here.

2. Follow-up: In the May 5th Update it was noted that Arcata, CA had outlawed compliance with the US Patriot Act by its city's officials. Now comes a CNN report that Arcata has made a law criminalizing any such compliance. Arcata's stand is mostly symbolic, since federal law trumps any local ordinance. Still, the notion of civic disobedience is drawing plenty of attention: Click Here And here is a must-see story regarding a provision in the Patriot Act. It's one that all cash payers will want to know about: "Paying cash triggers alert for terrorism in the new world." Click Here.

3. Sometimes Americans must go abroad to get news that is not circulated here. From the UK this week is a story that the whole Private Jessica Lynch POW rescue in Iraq was contrived. The BBC reveals new details of what their correspondent claims really happened: Click Here The BBC followed up with a TV program called War Spin and asked for viewer input. Some of the email responses are listed here: Click Here And the Pentagon has weighed in with its response to the BBC articles: Click Here.

4. Further on the issue of Washington, D.C. "spin" comes an article in The New York Times about how the "keepers" of the Bush image lift stagecraft to new heights, using the powers of television and technology to promote a presidency like never before. TV producers and cameramen are involved in this "presidential theater", like the presidential jet-fighter landing on the aircraft carrier Lincoln: Click Here.

5. During this week in 1955, May 25th to be exact, a category F5 tornado touched down in Blackwell, OK and then minutes later in Udall, KS, towns just miles apart from each other. Witnesses said the tornado sometimes glowed along its 25 mile path, where over 100 people were killed. An F5 tornado is the highest category on the Fujita damage scale, and it is Mother Nature's own torsion field. The National Weather Service and Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) list 51 storms of this type in the U.S. from 1950 until today. A fascinating map pinpointing their location: Click Here FEMA, now a division of the Dept. of Homeland Security, posts its F5 tornado list: Click Here.

6. You heard it here first many months ago, as I have been mentioning the possibility of deflation creeping into the lexicon of our economy. Here are some articles raising the issue this week, while the U.S. Dollar hits new lows against the Euro ($1.17 USD to the Euro). An excellent Q/A on this: Click Here Even the Fed is now acknowledging it needs to fight this: Click Here.

7. Here on this site you have heard of the Beamer Picture Phone and Catch-a-Call, a dial-up computer device that lets one answer the phone while online, using the single phone line. Now, along comes Tell-a-phone, a new voice recognition device that will dial a preprogrammed phone number for you after you speak the person's name: Click Here Here are The Beamer and Catch-a-call sites, if you missed them previously: Click Here And: Click Here.

8. Paul Newman's daughter Nell was on NBC's "Today" show this week to share her new book, "The Newman's Own Organics Guide to a Good Life," which describes how living more environmentally conscious benefits you and your immediate surroundings. She is partners with her famous father in producing products, which are healthy alternatives to usual corporation fare. Check your local grocery store shelves. All after-tax profits from Newman's Own sales go to charity: Click Here And, the Newman's Own website: Click Here.

9. Next time you are in an airplane seat, look closely at the aircraft safety information card in the seat pocket in front of you. Most of these cards are produced by Safeair of Olympia, WA. The company's goal is to promote a heightened awareness of flying safety within the aviation community and the passenger public by providing the highest quality and most informative passenger safety information cards available. They have researched and studied what symbols are best understood and used by anyone who does not speak the language written on the card. Fascinating work! Wherever you board an aircraft, you'll see this local talent's creation. Check out their site: Click Here.

10. British researchers believe they have made a groundbreaking scientific discovery after apparently managing to "create" energy from hydrogen atoms. Take water and potash, add electricity and get -- a mystery. This is a must-read story: Click Here.

11. Follow-up: The May 5th Update contained a story about Irwin Schiff's book The Federal Mafia being banned by court order. Now comes word that Gene Chapman, an Austin, TX man is on a death-fast until the IRS responds to his question, "Where is MY liability in the law?" Inspired by Mr. Schiff, here is Mr. Chapman's website: Click Here.

12. And on our local scene, Molly Piper pens an excellent bimonthly booklet entitled BUTTERFLY. She calls her publication a "quantum inspiration for children nine to ninety-nine." This is beautiful example of the talent in our community. Individual issues are $6.95 and a year's subscription for 6 issues is $39.95. You can order yours by calling Jean Isaacs at 1-360-894-3459..

The Children's School of Excellence (CSE) is having their annual Open House on Thursday, June 5, 2003 from 3:30p.m. to 7p.m. with a special performance at 5:30p.m. There will be a huge list of raffled items, plant sales, bakery sales and lots of prizes. This is the opportunity for our local community and RSE students to come see what our children are creating. The address is 13411 Cedar Grove Ln. or call the school for directions at 446-1100. Pass this words all over town! Click Here.

Quote of the Week: "Any system of religion that has any thing in it that shocks the mind of a child cannot be a true system." Thomas Paine in The Age of Reason, Part 1 (1794) pg. 39.

Update for Week of May 19, 2003

I am honored to tell you that my Weekly Update is loaded on a website to fulfill many requests for access to past stories. This website www.srklein.com is now linked on The Golden Thread magazine website along with the websites of such distinguished people as Sir Laurence Gardner, Dr. Bruce Lipton, Zecharia Sitchin, Whitley Strieber, Dr. Steven Greer and Dr. Stanley Krippner. The Golden Thread is a modern expose where the pursuit of knowledge, through ancient wisdom and science, meet -- knowledge that may have been downplayed, ignored, or even ridiculed by mainstream media because it challenges conventional thinking. Check out the Links section at The Golden Thread magazine.com: link here

1. Miracles do happen, especially when you listen to your soul. A family was reunited after 34 years by what ABC News calls a "coincidence". When you read this story, you will know no coincidence occurred here, that this was guided by a force greater than humanity. This is a "must-read" from the ABC News program "20/20" which aired May 3rd, 2003: Click Here.

2. The Christian Science Monitor had a very interesting story about new 3-D sonar technology that puts the ocean floor in sharper relief, detailing bottom conditions like never before: Click Here.

3. Researchers are very close to creating sperm outside of the body for the first time, succeeding in doing so with eggs derived from mouse embryos. This from NEW SCIENTIST: Click Here.

4. May 2003 has now recorded the most U.S. tornadoes of any May since records have been kept, and this only through May 12th. The previous record of 391 tornadoes in May 1995 has been eclipsed by 431 through May 12, 2003. [Ed. Note: focus on torsion fields and Mother Nature responds]: Click Here.

5. A mock explosion of a radioactive "dirty bomb" began the first event in a week-long drill on preparedness in Seattle as part of a national bioterrorism exercise. [Ed. note: HUM, better be careful what you focus on here, too]: Click Here And, the U.S. tested readiness for terrorist attacks in Seattle and Chicago this past week: Click Here.

6. U.S. Treasury Department and Federal Reserve Bank officials this week formally unveiled the design for a revamped $20 bill, now with added color in what is "billed" as a way to stem counterfeiting. [Ed. note: HUM, third engraving of a new style of FEDERAL RESERVE NOTE in 5 years]: Click Here.

7. A new and detailed global analysis now indicates that the world's oceans have been decimated by industry fishing practices, with 90% of each of the world's largest ocean species disappearing in recent decades. This from The Washington Post: Click Here And, the Alaska Copper River salmon season is in full swing for cold, stream water fish feeding here in Puget Sound. Why Alaska's cold river fish over the oceans you may ask? No mercury pollution in those far Northern waters: Click Here Alaska Airlines is adding 18 All-Cargo flights just to bring Copper River salmon to the Lower 48. YUMMY: Click Here.

8. In a follow-up to a story reported here last year, this week a report was issued saying that dead porpoises that have washed ashore in Puget Sound may have been killed by U.S. Navy sonar: Click Here Here is the full context of this issue from Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC): Click Here Additionally, the killer whale is being considered for placement on the endangered species list. This is a very informative site about our local Orcas: Click Here.

9. To follow-up to a previously reported story and answer requests asking if Richard Perle ever filed a law-suit against Conde-Nast, parent company of The New Yorker Magazine that carried a Seymour Hersh-penned investigative report in its March 17th issue regarding Perle's activities, the answer is a resounding "NO." Here is the link which addresses that question: Click Here.

10. In another follow-up to a previous story and your requests for an update, the Gerald Hillman/Richard Perle relationship and projects appear to have conflicts of interest, according to a major Los Angeles Times story out this past week. It is a very thorough investigative report on these men and their involvement with Secretary of Defense Rumsfeld's Defense Policy Board (DPB). The article reports they got a classified presentation from the super-secret Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA) on crises in North Korea and Iraq. The article further questions Hillman's credentials for being on the DPB based on the DPB's charter, his DIA access, and his cozy relationship with Perle. Here is the full transcript: Click Here.

11. Mentioned recently was the Carrboro, NC resolution against the U.S. Patriot Act and the protection of Carrboro citizens' civil rights and liberties from the federal government. Other cities are looking at joining the chorus in enacting similar resolutions, including people pushing for this in Olympia, WA. Here is the Carrboro Resolution that could be used as a model for this nationwide: Click Here.

12. Remember the San Francisco man's photo of a mysterious purple streak hitting Shuttle Columbia seven minutes before it disintegrated? When mentioned here in February, I stated that "since he turned it [the photo] over to NASA, no one would hear about it again." This week that became an even more apparent potential when civilian members of the Columbia Accident Investigation Board were put on NASA's payroll, so the panel can use government secrecy regulations to withhold testimony from the public about the space shuttle disaster. HUM: Click Here Just in case you missed this San Francisco Chronicle story from February, 2003, here is the link: Click Here.

13. In a follow-up to last week's story on the upcoming Lunar Eclipse of May 15, there is a fabulous website from NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center with detailed information all about the first such eclipse of 2003. Yelm was obscured during the most of the eclipse with a low pressure system moving through: Click Here.

14. To those of you that are Ramtha School of Enlightenment students: The Legacy Series Teachings are now available on audio CD at The Outback or RSE Online ONLY for those current students who attended and completed the Blue College or Primary 2003 Retreats. If you did not meet these requirements or know of students that did not, please keep these teachings sacred and be aware that RSE is advising that these products are not for anyone but those attendees. These teachings are RESTRICTED and NOT for public release, as it is a progressive teaching: Click Here An electronic Bulletin Board for Masters is managed by Stephany Ray of Yelm and is very helpful in posting information to our local community: Click Here.

Quote of the Week: "No one can make you feel inferior without your consent." Eleanor Roosevelt in Catholic Digest, August 1960. p 102. Comments may be sent to: srklein@ywave.com

Update for Week of May 12, 2003

Greetings! See Number 6 below for information on a lunar eclipse this week.

1. As you know, this area has been reserved for details of the SARS situation the last few weeks. In SARS news not widely known here in the U.S., some airports and other establishments are employing a device to check the surface body temperature of people, often times with the person being unaware, via an infrared-heat sensing device manufactured by Flir, Inc, with the purpose of screening out potential SARS infections.
This was featured in a story on NBC's TODAY Show on April 30th. Here is the Flir site: Click HereThe Business Journal of Portland, OR suggests this company's stock is a "strong buy," since FLIR is headquartered in The Rose City: Click HereIn an ironic twist, WHO doctor Carlo Urbani has died from SARS: Click Here.

2. The Washington State House & Senate have passed a Bill that now goes to the Governor's desk for signing. It will phase out mercury pollution statewide. Governor Locke has announced a high-profile campaign to reduce and recycle mercury in Washington. This from The Seattle P-I newspaper: Click Here.

3. Two wonderful advances in stem cell research: Scientists say they have discovered a way of producing embryonic stem cells that could sidestep the entire ethical debate surrounding such research, through a process called parthenogenesis (a form of reproduction in which the egg develops without fertilization) on human cells: Click HereAnd, stem cell injections in mice with Multiple Sclerosis at The Stem Cell Institute in Milan have helped paralyzed mice walk: Click Here.

4. I have mentioned 13 year old child genius Gregory Robert Smith here several times in the past; however he deserves mention again as he is graduating cum laude (third highest academic standing) in his class at Randolph-Macon College in Richmond, VA. Gregory has been a guest on OPRAH several times and is refreshing to read about again with his lofty goals: Click Here.

5. Planned Parenthood (Federation of America, Inc.) has issued a sobering report on President Bush's assault on women's rights including, but not limited to: Reducing Access to Family Planning Building the Platform to Outlaw Abortion Redefining the Legal Status of the Fetus Packing the Courts to Overturn Roe vs. Wade Replacing Science with Right-Wing Ideology Censoring Free Speech This is a "must-read" for EVERY American, men and women: Click Here.

6. On Thursday night, May 15, 2003, millions of eyes will be drawn skyward to witness a total eclipse of the moon visible across most of the Americas, Europe & Africa, if the skies are clear. For North Americans, this will be the first total lunar eclipse in more than three years. If your area is cloudy, the next total lunar eclipse will be November 8, 2003: Click Here.

7. Speaking of heavenly bodies, NASA has recently reported that the Sun's magnetic field goes "haywire" and recently had two North Poles. This is an interesting story: Click Here.

8. Ancient plant & animal DNA that lived here 400,000 years ago has been located and will be used to unlock secrets about life on Terra hundreds of thousands years ago researchers say: Click HereAnd: Click Here.

9. Italian scientists have reported that traffic pollution can effect male fertility by damaging sperms ability to swim, effecting the ability of sperm to fertilize a female egg: Click HereAnd the report in the Journal Human Reproduction: Click HereAnd another study showing what the American Journal of Public Health calls a "silent health crisis" for men in the U.S., with a man's average life span 5 years shorter than women: Click HereAnd the American Journal of Public Health site that has several articles on this topic: Click Here.

10. CBS News 60 MINUTES commentator Andy Rooney had an Easter Day message that ended: "I'll bet President Bush would make great decisions if all he had for light in the Oval Office was a candle." It's curiously humorous, yet filled with great wisdom. Check out his full editorial at: Click Here.

11. The Ramtha School of Enlightenment (RSE) website has a new list of mini-teachings now available to the public from various publications of JZK Publishing. You can "check 'em out" at: Click HereAnd while you are at it, be sure to go to the new Golden Thread Magazine website. This is one link you will definitely want to bookmark! This magazine is a collectors' quality periodical on the leading edge where "science and ancient wisdom in pursuit of knowledge" meet, that should be suggested as a subscription to all of your friends and family as a vehicle to read and understand the quality of your education at Ramtha's School. Give them as gifts, as well: Click Here.

Ah! Springtime has arrived in all "her" glory in the Great Pacific Northwest---modern day Lemuria. The emerald green grasses and trees so famous are in full bloom, the birds send their song on a whispering breeze and the bees are busy collecting their bounty. I do believe we have the honor of witnessing new life of Mother Nature. Given this week of honoring OUR mothers, let us remember Mother Earth and Mother Nature, as well. Happy Mothers Day to all of you who are the givers of life, indeed! comments are welcome and can be sent to: srklein@ywave.com

Update for Week of May 5, 2003

With government and religion continuing to play its games, science is moving ahead into new frontiers amidst all of this and leaving them in the dust. Therefore, the first 5 items in this report will center on the games, while the balance will be devoted to science.

1. The SARS-linked travel warning for Toronto issued by the WHO has been rescinded after extensive requests for review by that government of Canadian SARS procedures & SARS controls. However, advisories are still in effect for Beijing, Hong Kong & 2 provinces in China: Click HereNow, the worldwide death rate for SARS has jumped to 10%: Click Here.

2. The Cheney/Hillman/Kissinger/Perle, et al, stories I started mentioning here very early in the year and much prior to The New Yorker magazine article of March 17th that caused a firestorm, still have "legs." And new revelations are surfacing about how these men and their colleagues negotiated AND locked-up contracts for rebuilding Iraq long before the first bomb was even dropped. This past week, the CBS NEWS program 60 MINUTES ran this subject as its lead story, highlighting the collusion between military and industry and pointing out how the laws were specifically written to protect and engender this kind of activity. In an interview with Charles Lewis, executive director of the Center for Public Integrity, a non-profit organization that investigates corruption and abuse of power by government and corporations, Lewis puts all of this in context with his comments. This report shines the light on VP Cheney and Defense Policy Board members with their "cozy relationships ... that have won more than $76 billion in defense contracts. And that's just in the last two years." The broadcast displayed the complete list of Defense Policy Board members, however, that list was not printed on the transcript of the story on the 60 MINUTES website, and is listed below. To quote CBS correspondent Steve Croft, "Given all the taxpayer money involved, you might think the process for awarding those contracts would be open and competitive. Well, so far, it has been none of the above. And the early winners in the sweepstakes to rebuild Iraq have one thing in common: lots of very close friends in very high places." Here is the complete transcript: Click HereHere is the Center for Public Integrity's website: Click HereAnd, the Center's take on this story: Click HereThe Defense Policy Board member list and their aasociations: Click Here.

3. In last week's Update, I mentioned that Arcata, CA had passed an ordinance that outlaws voluntary compliance with the Patriot Act. Now, ABC News is reporting that residents of Carrboro, NC have pressured the City Council to pass a "Bill of Rights defense resolution" saying what concerns them the most is something called the "sneak and peek" warrant. It allows federal investigators to come into your home without your knowing, search everything, and tell you why they were there, in a "reasonable" amount of time. The Carrboro resolution requires federal investigators who visit the town to report to city hall and state their business, and it directs local police to stand in the way of any unreasonable searches or seizures. Ed. Note: To stand up to government intrusion and excesses IS the American Way: Click HereAnd while on the subject of government excesses, now a report has been released this week that ten days before Timothy McVeigh was executed, lawyers for FBI lab employees sent an urgent letter to the attention of Attorney General John Ashcroft alleging that a key prosecution witness in the Oklahoma City bombing trial might have given false testimony about forensic evidence and this information was never given to McVeigh. Oh, an that letter to Ashcroft? It was never seen by him. Ed. Note: Read this story. This is pathetic and one reads about false or mishandled evidence in government trials more and more. "Truth is the first casualty of war". Any battle, courtroom or in the field! Click Here.

4. And speaking of this Administration's insistence on whittling away the Constitution, now at the request of the Justice Dept., a U.S. District Judge in Las Vegas issued a temporary restraining order last month barring an author from selling his book The Federal Mafia: How the Government Illegally Imposes and Unlawfully Collects Income Taxes. The IRS says at least 3,100 people have used the precise language published in Irwin Schiff's book to claim on their tax filing that they have zero income. Based on those returns alone the government says, $56 million in tax revenue has been lost between 1999 and 2001. Ed. Note: There must be some truth to this book as Betty Becker of the American Library Assn. says she cannot think of an example when a judge has banned a book, a violation of the Constitution's guarantee of free speech. Here is Mr. Schiff's website on which the judge ordered him to list the court order: Click HereAnd here is a $50,000 challenge from Mr. Schiff asking for proof that Americans are liable to pay income tax: Click HereAnd The Seattle Times spin on all of this: Click HerePuget Sound bookseller Amazon.com had sold thousands of copies of this book until last month. Now, here's its response: Click Here.

5. A report out last month about Black Holes. Notorious for gorging on matter, the supermassive black holes at the cores of galaxies may blow out as much material as they swallow: Click Here.

6. A community developed with an emphasis on self-reliance and self-sufficiency has been established in the Northeastern Illinois town of Stelle and The Stelle Telephone Co. has announced it is America's first completely solar powered mutual: Click Here.

7. And speaking of self- sufficiency, check out the website of McDonough Braungart Design Chemistry, LLC. (MBDC) which states, "Instead of designing cradle-to-grave products, dumped in landfills at the end of their life, MBDC transforms industry by creating products for cradle-to-cradle cycles, whose materials are perpetually circulated in closed loops. Maintaining materials in closed loops maximizes material value without damaging ecosystems." Fascinating concept: Click Here.

8. Electronics buff Dick Garrison of Juneau, AK has built a three-quarter-of-a-million-watt generating Tesla coil in his home. Here is his fantastic story: Click HereTesla Coils are air-cored resonant transformers which generate very high voltages at high frequency. Tesla's goal was to demonstrate the possibility of transmitting electrical power via long sparks, without using wires. Here is a site about Tesla Coil components and how it works: Click Here.

9. Using mind over matter, paralyzed patients are being taught to use their brain waves to move a white ball on a computer screen so they can communicate, thanks to German neuroscientist Niels Birbaumer: Click Here.

10. With 2 earthquakes occurring within 24 hours last week & 200 miles apart and Yelm in between them, this is a good opportunity to remind you of the University of Washington Seismology Lab website: Click HereAdditionally, the website for the West Coast & Alaska Tsunami Warning Center: Click HereHere are the stories for the local earthquakes. First, a 3.9 earthquake in Portland, OR on April 24: Click HereAnd a 4.8 shaker 28 miles west of Poulsbo, WA on the Olympic Peninsula: Click HereAnd: Click Here.

In a follow-up to a story mentioned here recently, RSE students, Nancy Lorenz and Elena Young have launched their new Web Radio Station. Live Web Radio broadcasts are every Tuesday and Thursday from noon to 1 p.m. Pacific Daylight Time. Their website is located at: Click Here.

Happy May! send any comments to:srklein@ywave.com