UPDATES ARCHIVE FOR OCTOBER 2003
HOME PAGE	Kleiner's Korner for Week of October 27 ,2003 Follow-up: Several times Kleiner's Korner has published links to speculations that Princess Diana may have been murdered. Now, the topic is in the limelight again, stirring up quite a storm in England. Last week the London Daily Mirror began publishing excerpts from a newly released book by Princess Diana's butler, Paul Burrell, in which he details an "explosive" letter Diana wrote him "warning someone was planning to sabotage her car brakes to cause an accident that would silence her for good." This story is huge in England. link here And the "spin" on this story on the USA's CNN website. link here Diana's brother, Earl Spencer, told NBC "Today" show's Katie Couric that he does not believe her sister's car crash was planned. link here The book, "A Royal Duty," is available on Amazon.com's site. link here 1. Follow-up: On October 6th, Kleiner's Korner reported on a NASA discovery of B-flat sound waves emanating from a massive black hole. Science News online has published an X-ray picture of the center of the galaxy cluster. Click Here. 2. A study published recently reports that sleep restores memories "in a biological process of storing and consolidating them deep in the brain's complex circuitry." Daniel Margoliash of the University of Chicago says, "We all have the experience of going to sleep with a question and waking up with the solution." Click Here. 3. China, the largest communist nation still in existence, is addressing its antiquated oil and coal-stoked economy, with its smoke spewing stacks and huge air pollution problems, in an "out-of-the-box" way. The government plans $1.9 billion USD worth of projects to generate power from wind, considered "the world’s fastest growing energy source" by the European Wind Energy Association. Click Here. 4. Here's list of a few inventions that could have changed the way we do things. Interesting concepts. Makes one think. Click Here. 5. You have read here about many weather records that have fallen around the world in recent years, many right here in the Pacific Northwest well known for its rains. Now, the Seattle-Tacoma International Airport and many other area reporting stations have recorded the largest single day rain total since records have been kept. On Monday, October 20th, Sea-Tac recorded 5.02 inches of rain, breaking the old 24 hour record of 3.74 inches from October 5-6, 1981, and breaking the previous single day record of 3.41 inches recorded from November 20, 1959. Click Here. 6. Yelm's local weekly Nisqually Valley News quotes Chris Burke, a Seattle-based forecaster for the National Weather Service in its October 24th edition saying, "it's unlikely that a real tornado touched down in Yelm last week. You've got to have thunderstorms, lots of unstable air." Springtime is normally the tornado season for Washington. Tell that to anyone who witnessed this event and they will differ with Mr. Burke. An actual picture is printed at the link listed below. [Ed. Note: I was directly under the upper part of the funnel and know what I witnessed was indeed, a tornado!] Click Here. 7. "Australia may be facing a permanent drought because of an accelerating vortex of winds whipping around the Antarctic that threatens to disrupt rainfall," scientists are saying. These winds are "spinning faster and tighter as the 100 mile an hour jet stream is pulling climate bands south and dragging rains away from Australia into the Southern Ocean." Global warming and the hole in the ozone layer are being blamed. Click Here. 8. Here is an interesting excerpt from David H. Childress' book "Anti-gravity and the World Grid." The excerpt, entitled "Tibetan Sound Levitation of Large Stones Witnessed by Scientist," was written by author Bruce Cathie, author of "The Bridge to Infinity" and "The Harmonic Conquest of Space." This poses interesting reading. Click Here. 9. Quoting what is termed the "Phenomenon commission," a recent article in PRAVDA [yes, the old mouthpiece of the Soviet Union] notes that every country has a secret weapons program and goes on to describe what the "commission" sees as potential weapons for the 21st century. Claiming that it is unlikely this century that the world will be war-free because that's just not been humankind's history, the article lists: plasma weapons, solar weapons, money, genetic poisons for population control, and weapons of the future like a "bioelectronical weapon" that uses frequency to paralyze the nervous system, a "meteorological weapon" that creates weather, and a "tectonic weapon" that creates artificial earthquakes. [Ed. Note: Very interesting to get thoughts from another perspective!] Click Here. 10. The Internet is going to be very influential in the U.S. Presidential campaign of 2004. It is already seen as instrumental in giving former Vermont Governor John Dean such a large national exposure that every other presidential candidate now has a slick website. And the candidates are using the medium to connect with voters. There is a sense that the Internet may be the vehicle for voters to get back into being involved in the election system in this country, according to former Clinton consultant Dick Morris. Click Here. 11. The age of the Anglo-French joint supersonic passenger airliner project called Concorde came to an end this past week with October 24th marking the last commercial passenger flights of this venerable aircraft. Escalating maintenance costs and declining passenger numbers, because of the extremely high $6,000 one-way fare, forced this aircraft into retirement. British Airways and Air France have donated their fleets to worldwide aviation museums. The first flight was March, 1969. [Ed. Note: I was fortunate enough be a passenger aboard British Airways Concorde from London-Heathrow to New York- JFK on June 2, 1983 for the 3 hour and 26 minute flight at a then steep $1,800.] Here is an article that accurately sums up the waning of this era in travel. Click Here And, the Concorde website. Click Here. 12. The Holiday Season is approaching and the third in the trilogy of Lord of the Rings will be released on-screen soon. To mark this event, there is a fabulous new product called the "Elfin Magical Cape" that has been introduced and is now available to the public. A wonderful new website has been unveiled to share the wealth of information on these garments. To quote the site, "Inspired by the Elfin Cloaks, and the Wizard Robes of Legend," capes, robes, brooches and clasps are found at Elfin Magical Capes. [Ed. Note: You just gotta see the homepage of this website, as it will whisk you away to the land of hobbits and green hills!] You can order yours here or for gifts: Click Here. 13. The Ramtha School of Enlightenment (RSE) is making available much of the information about the school on websites, giving easier to access for current students and others interested in finding RSE information. Check these out. A. The home site for the Ramtha School: Click Here B. JZK Publishing is the publishing house for RSE. It is "responsible for preserving what was the original knowledge of the masters, lost through superstition and ignorance." Click Here C. "With his provocative message of truth, Ramtha goes Where Angels Fear to Thread. This film includes highlights from lectures delivered by Ramtha . . . from 1999 to 2001." These clips are mostly gleaned from World Tour stops and Yelm events. [Ed. Note: This site has the most astounding timeline about truth, going back 7,000 years, that I have ever seen in one location. Extraordinary!]: Click Here D. The Outback Boutique specializes in Christopher Radko Christmas ornaments and many other products. The Outback Boutique is located here in Yelm, WA. Click Here E. "Inspired by the Elfin Cloaks, and the Wizard Robes of Legend," capes, robes, brooches and clasps are found at Elfin Magical Capes. Click Here. 14. Christina Zohs, former publisher of The Golden Thread newspaper and former co-managing editor of JZK, Inc.'s Golden Thread Magazine, has now started her own newspaper "Yes News -- For Light Hearts and Open Minds" which will debut soon. Check out her site. Click Here. 15. This site enables you to synchronize your computer's clock with the U.S. Atomic. It's free. Click Here. Quote of the Week: "By uniting we stand, by dividing we fall" John Dickinson in The liberty Song (1768), in Writings of John Dickinson, vol. 1 (1895) p. 421 Kleiner's Korner is copyrighted by Stephen R. Klein, 2003. For archived issues of Kleiner's Korner, click on "Weekly Updates." on the website. www.kleinerskorner.com Kleiner's Korner for Week of October 20, 2003 That time of year has arrived again in most of the US as this weekend marks the end of Daylight Savings Time. Be sure to turn your clock back one hour before you retire this Saturday night, October, 25. The official time change occurs at 2a.m. in each respective time zone on Sunday, October 26. link here 1. Due to consumer demand McDonald's started using organic milk and salad ingredients in some of its overseas restaurants earlier this year. ABC News reported last week that although a higher price will be charged, McDonald's customers in the U.S. will have these options next year. Click Here On October 8th, McDonald's announced the appointment of a worldwide nutrition director "to help guide McDonald's nutrition and active lifestyles initiatives." Click Here Here is a terrific website with links on the organic foods industry. [Ed. Note: McDonald's putting organic products into its U.S. restaurants will create greater awareness and demand for them; and that will push other food service chains to do the same, creating more organic variety for everyone.] Click Here. 2. Follow-up: In a court agreement disclosed October 13 "the U.S. Navy will drastically limit the use of a controversial low-frequency sonar system, which environmental groups say disorients and kills endangered whales and other species...." [Ed. Note: Thanks to the Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC) for their successful court challenge.] The Washington Post reported that although the Navy "accepted a permanent injunction against most applications of the new sonar . . . it will press for final action on pending modifications to the Marine Mammal Protection Act and other laws to allow it to deploy the system more widely. The low-frequency sonar can detect modern, quiet submarines over long distances." Click Here And during the same week the journal Nature reported on a study that sheds further light about the specifics of the sonar effect. It says the "high-powered sonar from Navy ships appears to be giving whales and other marine mammals a version of the bends, causing them to develop dangerous gas bubbles in some tissues and blood vessels and to beach themselves and die." [Ed. Note: Could the beachings be a huge call to their human cousins to see the plight of our ocean's mammals?] Click Here. 3. It's interesting how Mother Nature relocates species: to wit, frog eggs were transported from North Carolina to Connecticut via the torsion fields of Hurricane Isabel. Click Here. 4. Fall always brings "the flu season." This year the newest flu vaccine is a nasal mist available over-the-counter in many locations, including the retail giant Wal-Mart. Dr. Joseph Mercola has published his serious health concerns about this new vaccine delivery protocol. [Ed. Note: Always trust your own "knowingness" with your health!] Click Here Mercola's website links to Redflasdaily.com, which is currently conducting an online conference on vaccines. This should play a significant role in stimulating public discussion on this vital public health issue. In the box "Online Conference Center," click on "Vaccines." Click Here. 5. Here's exciting news on the alternative energy front: According to a CNN story, "a major European chip maker . . . [has] discovered new ways to produce solar cells which will generate electricity twenty times cheaper than today's solar panels." Click Here. 6. A fascinating story from Discover Magazine talks about how the latest in computer simulations are showing protons aren't round after all. They shape shift! Click Here. 7. A late summer TIME Magazine article's headline reads: "Mary Magdalene Saint or Sinner? A new wave of literature is cleaning up her reputation. How a woman of substance was 'harlotized'" to fit the desires of the Holy Mother Church." The piece is an interesting look at how Mary Magdalene's church-sponsored image actually conflicts with the woman of history. Click Here Dan Brown's book, The Da Vinci Code, has brought much world attention to this story. Ron Howard (Apollo 13, Cocoon, The Beautiful Mind) has been tapped to direct the movie version of this New York Times best-seller: Click Here. 8. Three scientists share the 2003 Nobel Prize in physics for their work in quantum physics. Alexei Abrikosov, Anthony Leggett and Vitaly Ginzburg's "contributions to two areas of quantum physics -- superconductivity and superfluidity -- shed light on the outlandish properties of matter at extremely low temperatures" to quote the announcement on CNN. According to one of the prize winning scientists, "Knowledge about superfluid liquids can give us deeper insight into the ways in which matter behaves in its lowest and most ordered state." Click Here And: Click Here. 9. U.S. researchers can now use "pulses of intense laser light a millionth of a billionth of a second long [to vaporize] tiny structures inside living cells without killing them." Called laser nanosurgery, it "generates the heat of the Sun, but only for quintillionths of a second, and in a very small space." Future applications could be used to "probe how cells work, and perform super-precise surgery," according to an article in the science journal Nature. Click Here. 10. Astronomers may have found evidence of "a massive, distant, still unseen object at the edge of the solar system." Two teams of scientists independently came to the same conclusion: whatever it is, "perhaps a 10th planet, perhaps a failed companion star, [it] appears to be shoving comets toward the inner solar system from an orbit 3 trillion miles away." Click Here. 11. An enlightening September CNN report opens with: "What ground-breaking new technology is kept so secret by the authorities that even to comment on its existence would be to reveal too much? Welcome to black world technology -- the discrepancy in the defense budgets no-one can explain, and the programs which politicians and officials have the right to deny even exist." The article points out how these programs are big business because the spin-offs end up in the real world, or "white world" as it is known in defense jargon. Click Here. 12. As mentioned here previously, President Bush is devaluing the dollar in the world markets to make U.S. goods cheaper overseas, hoping this will increase sales of U.S. produced products and create more jobs at home. Currency devaluations rarely work and this is the best article I've seen on this subject. Click Here Every day President Bush says things that are misleading or just plain wrong, but most of these statements are never challenged. That's why Misleader.org was launched, a new website and free daily email service for journalists and the general public to track George Bush's false statements. Many of these are very interesting Click Here. 13. Suicide is an issue now being looked at from two viewpoints in the War on Terrorism: A. A further issue for President Bush and his Iraq War advocates and a major concern among U.S. military brass is the unusually high number of suicides among U.S. troops deployed in Iraq. HUM! Click Here B. And on the opposite side of the "fence" is a look at suicide terrorists with Discover Magazine reporting "Scott Atran fell in love with anthropology in 1970 when he went to work with Margaret Mead at the American Museum of Natural History in New York and found himself surrounded by a collection of thousands of skulls. He has spent the intervening years studying human cultures all over the world, dwelling among the secretive Druze sect in Israel, documenting conservation customs among the Maya of Guatemala, and analyzing the evolution of religion everywhere, a topic he explores in his book 'In Gods We Trust' (Oxford University Press, 2002). His recent work has focused on suicide terrorism. He has marshaled evidence that indicates suicide bombers are not poor and crazed as depicted in the press but well-educated and often economically stable individuals with no significant psychological pathology." (HUM! Food for thought!) He says, "It's not a new phenomenon, and natural selection may play a role in producing it." Click Here. 14. To all RSE students: the 2004 complete RSE schedule for Yelm Events is now posted with highlights including several evenings with Ramtha, Legacy III & IV Retreats, Assay V and the Christmas, 2003 & 2004 schedule. All of the required retreats and follow-ups are listed, as well. Check out the site for all of the details: Click Here. 15. This is a fabulous piece that really makes one think about attitudes and life. Click Here. Quote of the Week: "I know what it is to be a subject, what to be a Sovereign, what to have good neighbours, and sometimes to meet evil-willers." Elizabeth I Speech, 12 November 1586, in Sir John Neale "Elizabeth I and her Parliaments" 1584-1601 (1957) pg. 118. The traditional version concludes: "In trust I have found treason." Kleiner's Korner is copyrighted by Stephen R. Klein, 2003. For archived issues of Kleiner's Korner, click on "Weekly Updates." on the website. www.kleinerskorner.com Send comments to srklein@ywave.com Kleiner's Korner for Week of October 13, 2003 In a follow-up to a March 24, 2003 story I ran here on Yale's Skull and Bones Society: CBS News "60 Minutes" did a fascinating piece on it last week. President George Bush is a member, like his father and grandfather. To quote "60 Minutes": "There are secrets that George W. Bush guards at least as carefully as any entrusted to a president. He's forbidden to share these secrets even with the vice president -- secrets he has held ever since his days as an undergraduate at Yale.... Skull and Bones is an elite secret society at Yale University that includes some of the most powerful men [Ed. Note: not women until recently!] of the 20th century.... Apart from presidents, Bones has included cabinet officers, spies, Supreme Court justices, statesmen and captains of industry, and lately even their daughters, too." link here My previous story on Skull and Bones included the new Alexandra Robbins book, "Secrets of the Tomb." Here is the author's story and website. I read this book and found it of great importance in understanding some of the inner mechanisms of how this country is guided from the so-called Elite Group. link here 1. "A three-judge panel of the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in San Francisco, the first federal appeals court to address the federal DNA Analysis Backlog Elimination Act, said requiring convicts to give blood for a criminal database was a violation of their Fourth Amendment rights against illegal searches. Ruling 2-to-1, the court said it was an unlawful invasion of privacy because the samples were taken without legal suspicion that the convicts were involved in other crimes.... Monica Knox, a deputy public defender of Los Angeles, said the government had extracted blood from thousands of inmates and former prisoners on supervised release." [Ed. Note: Just because a person is in prison, doesn't mean their rights should be abrogated, should it? You decide!]: Click Here. 2. On September 29, the Bonneville Power Administration (BPA) upped the voltage that runs through its power lines in southeast Snohomish County, WA., north of Seattle. Within a few days, 50 to 60 complaints had been received by BPA from some of the 200 families that live near the line. Residents complained of the constant loud noise, headaches, odd behavior by their animals, and absence of normal wildlife. Some say the noise is like having a tractor trailer truck in the backyard. The power line had been rated to carry 500 kilovolts when it was turned on in 1970 but had been carrying only half that amount. Homeowners near the line are considering legal action to challenge BPA's increased amperage on the line. First District U. S. Representative Jay Inslee is investigating residents' complaints. Click Here KING-5 TV in Seattle reported a BPA spokesman as saying, "There are less health effects from higher current through these lines than what was running through them before." [Ed. Note: "Less health effects..." HUM!]: Click on the "Loud buzz from power lines" video on October 2, 2003. Viewing the video requires RealOnes Free Player, which is a free download. Links for downloading are on the site. Click Here. 3. This week marks the introduction of the newly redesigned Series 2004 $20 notes, featuring background colors and improved security features. The Federal Reserve System began distributing the new notes to the public through the nation’s commercial banks on October 9th. Click Here. 4. Follow-up: The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) has now opened up further registrations for the national "Do-not-call List", which screens out telemarketers. Those that did not enroll prior to the original September 1, 2003 cutoff, may now register at: Click Here. 5. The opening of this school year has prompted a repeat of a story run here earlier this year. An obscure provision of the No Child Left Behind Act, President Bush's sweeping education law, requires high schools to send the names and phone numbers of all juniors and seniors to military recruiters, or risk losing all federal school aid. However the law also includes a provision whereby parents can opt out of having their child's name reported. "The law went into effect in 2002, but many schools only became aware of the obscure military recruiting provision in the last year," according to an article on Alternet.org. Check with your high schooler's administration office on this. Click Here. 6. Adding to the "things falling out of the sky and changing reality" group of stories, a meteorite did just that in New Orleans when it fell through the roof of a local homeowners' house last week. Click Here. 7. In Europe, a drug is now defined as "anything that modifies, corrects, or restores physiological function in the body," according to the Alliance for Natural Health, "a pan-European and international organization that is working cooperatively to positively shape legislation to allow continued availability of safe, effective and innovative nutritional and herbal supplements." This group states the "definition [of the term "drug"] will become the global definition via harmonization of the laws currently being forced by the World Trade Organization unless everyone gets behind the Alliance for Natural Health Lawsuit, which must be filed no later than October 15th." Click Here. 8. I have received so many emails titled "Bill Gates Speech to Mt. Whitney School in Visalia, CA" and want to set the record straight. Mr. Gates did not make this speech! Rather it is an excerpt from the book "Dumbing Down our Kids" by educator Charles Sykes. This urban legend site says, "It is a list of eleven things you did not learn in school and is directed to high school and college grads." This story is well worth the read by everyone. Click Here. 9. Michael Moore is the author of the many books, including "Stupid White Men," and the movie "Bowling for Columbine," which won a 2003 Academy Award for Best Documentary and Best Foreign Film at the French Oscars. Moore has just released a new book, "Dude Where's My Country" in which where he clearly wants to out this Administration. He sure has received a lot of press with his preceding books, so now his publisher has printed 1,000,000 for this one's first edition, and they are on sale everywhere. Click Here. 10. We all hear the name FEMA whenever there is some national disaster, but do we know its power and scope? Two writers have listed the actual facts behind the Federal Emergency Management Agency, which they say this is THE most powerful organization in the USA. The story lists Executive Orders associated with FEMA that would even suspend the U.S. Constitution, among other things. Click Here. 11. Kleiner's Korner readers know full well there have been many stories here about the studies on the effects associated with cell phone use. Now, a double-blind, "first of its kind study, has compared the impact of radiation from base stations used for the current mobile telephone network with that of base stations for new third generation (3G) networks for fast data transfer." This is a story from Europe where cell phones are called "mobile phones." [Ed. Note: Still think your cell phone use is worth the "cost"?] Click Here. 12. There's an old saying: "Whatever you speak, may it be something you would want projected across the sky for all to read." Now we live in a society where this is becoming necessary as no-thing is secret. The newest privacy invasion comes through e-greeting cards that download spy ware to the receiver's computer, software that can spy on the other persons' computer activities, including all passwords, emails, and chats. And it even can turn on the recipient's web cam. Click Here Now that some cell phones have cameras, they are being banned form locker rooms, so fellow locker room users will not fear they might see pictures of their private parts end up on the internet or for sale on e-Bay. Click Here [Ed. Note: This is today's consciousness -- degradation of the mind and condemnation of others. Just look at our children killing other children or the political system with the hatchet jobs of opponents in campaigns!]. 13. In what is clearly one of the most awesome discoveries in quantum physics, yet barely a blip on the media's radar reporting screens, "the identity of the Universe's dark matter may finally have been discovered." According to the story in New Scientist, "in what seems to be the most convincing claim for dark matter so far, researchers in England and France say gamma rays coming from the centre of our galaxy show hallmarks of these ghostly particles." Click Here. 14. "Astronomers using NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory have found, for the first time, sound waves from a supermassive black hole. The 'note' [emitted] is the deepest ever detected from any object in our Universe.... In musical terms, the pitch of the sound generated by the black hole translates into the note of B flat." [Ed. Note: HUM, that's the same harmonic in Mozart's music!] Click Here. 15. To all Ramtha students: The Ranch and the North Pole are getting ready for the upcoming Holiday festivities. RSE children will find a link on the Santa page to an online form to fill out their Christmas wishes and send a letter to Santa. You will also find a link to use your credit card to make an online donation for the Children’s Tree Toys. Click Here. Quote of the Week: I'm fat, but I'm thin on the inside. Has it ever struck you that there's a thin man inside every fat man, just as they say there's a statue inside every block of stone? "Coming Up For Air" by George Orwell (1939) pt. 1, ch. 3. Cf 5:4 Kleiner's Korner is copyrighted by Stephen R. Klein, 2003. For archived issues of Kleiner's Korner, click on "Weekly Updates." on the website. www.kleinerskorner.com Send comments to srklein@ywave.com Kleiner's Korner for Week of October 6, 2003 is also accessed at www.kleinerskorner.com The war in Iraq has been likened in many circles to a guerrilla war, similar to the one in Viet Nam. A question raised this week by MSNBC's Michael Moran in "The Risk of a 'Tet' In Iraq?" asks whether there is a scheme being planned, similar to the Tet Offensive in Viet Nam, to deliver a knock-out blow to American-led forces in Iraq, thus further undermining support for the U.S.'s presence there. link here The United Nations and The World Bank have provided the first official estimates of the size of the reconstruction efforts in Iraq at $55 billion, and this includes NO U. S. military costs: link here A report this week saying North Korea announced it is using plutonium extracted from spent nuclear fuel rods to make atomic weapons wasn't even a blip on the news radar screen although this move could escalate tensions on the Korean peninsula and raise the stakes in Pyongyang's standoff with the United States. North Korea has claimed it has a rocket delivery system that could deliver such a payload to the Pacific Northwest. [Ed. Note: You will definitely not see a Richard Perle-style media push promoting a military assault to rid the Korean Peninsula of WMD's win any points with the badly bruised Bush Administration, not with the Iraq debacle of poor post-war planning and execution hanging over the upcoming presidential election. Add this to an Iraq situation where no WMD's have yet been found, yet are confirmed in North Korea]: link here 1. Cuba's Fidel Castro is currently the longest serving dictator in power. And, the U.S. continues its 1963 economic embargo against our neighbor, long after embargoes against Russia and China are gone. For 40 years the Cuban-American community in Miami has wanted Castro isolated, however U.S. allies trade with him. Even Air Canada flies there from Toronto via U.S. airspace. Some think eliminating the embargo is the best way for Cuba's citizens to move beyond this oppressive regime. The travel industry is leading the charge to relax the rules and allow U.S. travel there. Click Here Here is the travel industry's press release outlining its arguments for the lifting of travel bans to Cuba. Click Here And last month the U.S. House of Representatives passed an amendment to end the travel ban to Cuba, countering the administration’s March travel crackdown that eliminated educational and cultural tours while allowing Cuban-Americans more frequent and less restrictive visits. The House also passed a less sweeping amendment to restore the educational and cultural visits. However, President Bush has vowed to veto these changes to his policies; and after December 31st, visits will get tougher for Americans. Click Here And the Cuban Conference of [Catholic] Bishops has issued a challenge calling for more religious and economic freedoms. Click Here Further, on Oct. 4th the World Policy Institute held a summit in a suburban Miami hotel to discuss U.S. policy towards Cuba. Here is the announcement about the conference. Click Here. 2. NASA recently launched a rocket carrying the "largest diameter infrared telescope ever put into space." Named the Space Infrared Telescope Facility (SIRTF), it is the "last of four NASA spacecraft designed to peer deeper into the universe using an array of tools that measure light of varying wavelengths." Click Here Check out the NASA/California Institute of Technology site for some neat pictures. Click Here. 3. While on the subject of NASA technology, at the request of the NCAA some football players have been participating in a study monitoring core body temperature. The athletes swallow a vitamin size, radio transmitter temperature pill which allows researchers to monitor their core temperature and learn how heat and hydration effect players. The technology was developed in 1988 by Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory in collaboration with NASA. Click Here For NASA's story on this, scroll to "Temperature Pill." Click Here Here's a diagram of the NASA pill. Click Here. 4. King County, WA is embarking on a $7.59 million project to generate electricity from dairy cows manure. Among the public and private organizations involved are: King Conservation District, Bonneville Environmental Foundation, Washington State University Energy Program, Seattle City Light, Puget Sound Energy and a group of dairy farmers. Click Here Cow patties are not being joked about in eastern Washington either. "Funded by a grant from the Department of Energy, engineers and animal scientists at Washington State University and Pacific Northwest National Laboratory in Richland, Wash., are exploring ways of extracting valuable chemicals from manure." Click Here. 5. Being originally from Louisville, KY you can imagine my surprise to find out this medium-sized U.S. city in America's heartland has an organization that law enforcement officials turn to, the Scientific Investigative Ghost Hunting Team, otherwise known as S. I. G. H. T.- a non-profit ghostbusting team. Yes, there are groups that do just that and this is a story of people investigating ghosts and associated phenomenon. Louisville is not usually known as the hotbed for such "out-of-the-box" organizations. [Ed. Note: I'll get mail on that comment!]: Click Here Here is a state by state list of paranormal investigative groups. Note there are three in my former hometown! Click Here British scientists have conducted investigations into infrasound, low frequency inaudible sounds which may spark emotional feelings and which could contribute to one feeling that a house is haunted if those frequencies were present in the house. Click Here. 6. Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan has professed that the nation's economy has evolved into a true service economy, yet everyone knows the sad irony of this story. Customer "service" is nowadays almost non-existent because human jobs have been replaced by computers with automated answers. Statistics reported by USA Today last week are proving this to be precisely the case. Click Here. 7. And speaking of the Federal Reserve, on June 4, 1963 President John F. Kennedy issued an Executive Order abolishing "The Fed," turning the management of the U.S. economy back to the U.S. Treasury Dept, giving it "the Constitutional power to create and issue currency -money - without going through the privately owned Federal Reserve Bank." That Executive Order 11110 is still valid. This is a most interesting read. [Ed. Note: Trust YOUR own knowingness.] Click Here. 8. As I have been saying here for months, this nation's economy is in serious trouble, regardless of whatever rosy numbers the public is given. Recently, David M. Walker, Comptroller General of the U.S. and head of the U.S. General Accounting Office (GAO) gave a speech before the National Press Club saying the economy is in far worse shape than anyone may realize. [Ed. Note: Or, if they realize it, they will NOT tell the truth to the American public.] I am repeating this again this week so everyone can have the opportunity to read Mr. Walker's courageous and honest speech. This is something you will not hear from the White House spin doctors. Click Here. 9. And while on the subject of the White House, "the corners of the Internet frequented by fans of 'X-Files' and alien-creature sightings were abuzz last week when President Bush extended for another year the total secrecy of Area 51, a large Air Force base in the Nevada desert.... Mr. Bush's order effectively lets the Air Force flout environmental laws without a public accounting" according to The New York Times. A Big HUM! as this op-ed piece is now an archive by purchase-only for the full story! Click Here. 10. Ten reasons you should plant trees .... Now! 1. Trees conserve energy in the summer and save you money. 2. Tress help clean the air. 3. Trees bring songbirds close by. 4. Trees around your home can increase its value. 5. Trees help clean our rivers and streams. 6. Trees make your home more beautiful. 7. Trees conserve energy in the winter. 8. Trees fight global warming. 9. Tree planting is fun! 10. It's easy! This is the advertisement for The National Arbor Day Foundation. When you join this Foundation, they will give you 10 flowering trees to plant: 2 flowering Dogwoods, 2 Flowering Crabapples, 2 Golden rain trees, 2 Washington Hawthorns, & 2 American Redbuds or other trees selected for your area, i.e. 10 Colorado Blue Spruce for Pacific Northwest addresses. To receive your free trees for a $10 minimum donation, join online. Click Here. 11. And speaking of trees, The Olympian reported this week that "Despite a 15-year recovery effort that reshaped how forests are managed and eliminated thousands of timber industry jobs, the northern spotted owl population is in free fall in this state (WA)." Click Here. 12. In another potential blow to the Washington State economy, Boeing announced this week it may end production of the 757 line in Renton. "A victim of age, competition and a nasty market slump," the 757 is losing sales to its popular sister ship, Boeing's 737-900. Click Here. 13. Presidential candidate General Wesley Clark while on the campaign trail last week is quoted as saying "I still believe in e=mc², but I can't believe that in all of human history, we'll never ever be able to go beyond the speed of light to reach where we want to go. I happen to believe that mankind can do it." He's pushing buttons in the physics community by dreaming bigger and unlimited dreams. [Ed. Note: This is NOT an endorsement, rather an observation!]: Click Here. 14. Follow-up: Utah's Division of Children and Family Services has backed off its pursuit to take Parker Jensen away from his parents and force him to undergo chemo treatments. The Jensens have been told Utah will no longer pursue taking their 12 year old son away because of their treatment decisions. There will be a juvenile court hearing Oct. 8 on the status of this custody case. [Ed. Note: Finally, a righteous decision by Utah in this matter!] Click Here. 15. This is an eye-opening site on the current state of Earth's population. Click Here. Quote of the Week: "Let us never negotiate out of fear. But let us never fear to negotiate." John F. Kennedy's Inaugural Address. 20 January, 1961. In VITAL SPEECHES, Vol. 1, February, 1961. Kleiner's Korner is copyrighted by Stephen R. Klein, 2003. For archived issues of Kleiner's Korner, click on "Weekly Updates" on the website. www.kleinerskorner.com Send comments to srklein@ywave.com