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TESLA: A Battle to Preserve a Visionary’s Bold Failure

 In 1901, Nikola Tesla began work on a global system of giant towers meant to relay through the air not only news, stock reports and even pictures but also, unbeknown to investors such as J. Pierpont Morgan, free electricity for one and all. It was the inventor’s biggest project, and his most audacious. The first tower rose on rural Long Island and, by 1903, stood more than 18 stories tall. One midsummer night, it emitted a dull rumble and proceeded to hurl bolts of electricity into the sky. The blinding flashes, The New York Sun reported, “seemed to shoot off into the darkness on some mysterious errand.” But the system failed for want of money, and at least partly for scientific viability. Tesla never finished his prototype tower and was forced to abandon its adjoining laboratory. Today, a fight is looming over the ghostly remains of that site, called Wardenclyffe — what Tesla authorities call the only surviving workplace of the eccentric genius who dreamed countless big dreams while pioneering wireless communication and alternating current. The disagreement began recently after the property went up for sale in Shoreham, N.Y. A science group on Long Island wants to turn the 16-acre site into a Tesla museum and education center, and hopes to get the land donated to that end. But the owner, the Agfa Corporation, says it must sell the property to raise money in hard economic times. The company’s real estate broker says the land, listed at $1.6 million, can “be delivered fully cleared and level,” a statement that has thrown the preservationists into action. The ruins of Wardenclyffe include the tower’s foundation and the large brick laboratory, designed by Tesla’s friend Stanford White, the celebrated architect. ...A Battle to Preserve a Visionary’s Bold Failure-5/7

Have Americans Lost All Control Over the Federal Government?

by Mark R. Crovelli

Over the last sixteen months, many Americans have watched with despair as the Federal government has wrested virtually despotic control over the American economy away from both individual Americans and private enterprise. They have observed the Federal government’s frantic (and totally unsuccessful) attempts to prop up banks that have revealed themselves to be completely incompetent and bankrupt. They have watched the Chairman of the Federal Reserve Board printing more money than has ever been created in the history of these United States. They have watched their so-called "representatives" handing out unimaginable sums of their own hard-earned tax money to scores of bungling companies, like AIG, General Motors, and Chrysler. They have watched in cynical amazement as their newly elected president almost instantaneously broke his promise to end the most un-winnable of two un-winnable wars that they specifically elected him to terminate. They have watched him similarly break his promise to investigate the myriad grisly crimes of the claque that used to claim to be their rulers. And they have watched the American economy steadily slipping further and further into depression.

UPDATE: Kevin Grubb died from a self-inflicted gunshot wound

NBC12 News & Associated Press

HENRICO, VA (WWBT) - A medical examiner investigating the death of former NASCAR driver Kevin Grubb says Grubb died from a self-inflicted gunshot wound to the head.

Police spokesman Lt. Doug Perry said Thursday that personnel at the Alpine Motel (7000 block of Brook Road) discovered the 31-year-old Mechanicsville native in his room at about 11 a.m. Wednesday.

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666: Goldman's latest bonus bears the mark of the beast

The Independent
 Something strange is stirring. Even the young are joining the chorus of concern that this tarnished giant is part of a financial oligarchy that holds the US in its grip, writes Stephen Foley in New York-- Something strange is afoot when Popbitch – provider of a weekly email beloved of students, stuffed full of celebrity tittle-tattle and links to the silliest miscellany of the web – breaks off from such glorious trivia to encourage readers to support GoldmanSachs666.com, a deadly serious website measuring the political tentacles of the mighty investment bank. Something strange, too, when Simon Johnson, a former chief economist at the International Monetary Fund, becomes a hero of the internet and the satirical comedy-show circuit on cable TV, promoting his theory that the US is in the grip of a financial oligarchy.

The credit-market catastrophe that has plunged the world into recession is everywhere stirring new ways of thinking about how banking relates to the wider world, but nowhere more so than among a generation coming into political consciousness in these searing times. Something is brewing, some argue, that could make the "regulatory-financial complex" something to rail against in the same way that the military-industrial complex was in the Cold War. And for all the impression it is giving that it has survived the credit crisis with its pre-eminent position on Wall Street intact, this should worry Goldman Sachs. More so than any other firm, it exists at the intersection of politics and high finance, and therefore has most to lose if this nascent movement turns it into the next ExxonMobil or Wal-Mart – firms whose every move could attract protest, and whose reputation could take years to repair.

 "It was listening to the news coming out of AIG that got me fired up," says Mike Morgan, founder of GoldmanSachs666.com. "While politicians were screaming about $165m paid out to AIG executives in bonuses, $180bn was walking out the door."  MORE>>>>>>>666: Goldman's latest bonus bears the mark of the beast

Obama's Tax Dodgers

NY Post
 Here's a tip for President Obama: Next time you excoriate tax cheats, try to keep Rep. Charles Rangel's name out of the discussion. Somehow, it doesn't further your case. Yet that's precisely what Obama did Monday, singling out the powerful Harlem congressman for praise as he announced legislation meant to close what he calls tax "loopholes" for corporations that expand their operations abroad. Rangel, of course, knows a thing or two about offshore tax shelters: He'd been operating one for years. ...Read More on.......Obama's Tax Dodgers-5/6

Police Memorial Day: President Obama's Cop Killing Friends

Jim Kouri

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On May 15, Americans across the nation will honor our men and women serving in federal, state and local law enforcement departments and agencies on National Police Memorial Day. Ceremonies on that day include one at the Law Enforcement Memorial in Washington, DC and one held at the Police Hall of Fame & Museum in Titusville, Florida (near Orlando). This article reminds Americans of our President's close ties to known cop-killers. 

 

President Barack Obama's friends and supporters in the news media continue to downplay his friendship and business relationship with former terrorist and Marxist university professor Willam Ayers. One aspect of the Ayers terrorism saga that's almost totally ignored is his reputation as a cop-killer.

For instance, in Nyack, New York, Ayers' terrorist group the Weather Underground launched an armored-car robbery that left two Nyack, NY police officers -- Officer Waverly Brown and Sergeant Ed O'Grady -- mortally wounded. In addition, the Brinks armored-car driver, Peter Paige was also shot to death by the Weathermen.    MORE>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>

Sun Oddly Quiet -- Hints at Next "Little Ice Age"?

In July 2000 the sun was at a peak in activity, as seen by the speckling of sunspots spied by NASA's Solar and Heliospheric Observatory (SOHO) spacecraft. But the sun was a blank disk in March 2009, when it was the quietest it has been since the 1950s.

The current sunspot deficit has caused some scientists to recall the Little Ice Age of the early 1600s and late 1700s, a prolonged, localized cold spell linked to a decline in solar activity.

Images courtesy SOHO, the EIT Consortium, and the MDI Team

Late motherhood boosts family lifespan

Women who have babies naturally in their 40s or 50s tend to live longer than other women. Now, a new study shows their brothers also live longer, but the brothers' wives do not, suggesting the same genes prolong lifespan and female fertility, and may be more important than social and environmental factors.

University of Utah demographer Ken R. Smith led a new study confirming that women who have their last baby after age 45 live longer than women who have their last baby at younger ages, and also showing that their brothers live longer too. That suggests the same genes promote both prolonged fertility in women and longevity in both sexes. Credit: Jason Smith, University of Utah

"If women in your family give birth at older ages, you may well have a chance of living longer than you would otherwise," says the study's lead author, demographer Ken R. Smith, a professor of family and consumer studies at the University of Utah. "If you have a female relative who had children after age 45, then there may be some genetic benefit in your family that will enhance your longevity."  

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Today's Headlines for May 6, 2009

Green energy tangled in web of shady deals...    And some thought the Mob was dead! What do you think when your Prez comes from Chicago????   Mafia link to Sicily wind farms probed...

Colin Powell Says Shrinking GOP Should Return To Center; Lashes out at Limbaugh [Again]...  That's right, we should listen to the "Republican" who endorsed Clinton, and never was a member of the party until Reagan gave him a job instead of the man who EVERYONE agrees was responsible for the largest Republican landslide in history (the 1994 Congress).

Dems screw newest member; Specter Will Be Junior on Committees...

House Democrats seek $94.2 billion in emergency funds    Hey really, what's a hundred Bil. anymore??? Let em have it! I got a good idea, why do we just raise taxes to 125% for the top 40% of the wage earners! Just take all their money away, make them slaves of the state and keep on spending.

Ten Stressed Banks Will Need More Capital

Obama: Wall Street will play less dominant role   He made sure of it! Government now plays the important role. Karl Marx is so proud of him!

Georgia Says Mutiny Underway at Military Base   President Mikhail Saakashvili said in a televised address that the mutiny was an isolated case and the situation in the country was fully under control.

Pakistan Urges Swat to Flee as Peace Crumbles   Friends, kiss Pakistan goodbye, blame Bush/Obama. More evil is coming our way and real soon!

Emanuel: Thwarting Iran easier with Israeli-Palestinian talks

As the U.S. Retreats, Iran Fills the Void   Like Pakistan, Afghanistan and Gaza, we will lose Iraq before our troops have the chance to run out of there. In fact, we predict that we will be forced to flee Iraq within months with our tails tucked... Thanks Prez Obama

45 Killed in Attack on Engagement Party in Turkey   Turkey is the Edom of the Bible.

China military build-up seems U.S.-focused: Chairman Joint Chiefs  Duh! What smart dudes we have today!

Oil tops $54 with hints of new demand from China   The "ole it's China's fault" ploy again.... Nothing to do with the instability of the middle east! $300 oil coming your way!

‘Google killer’ Wolfram Alpha gets public demo-5/2  The website, Wolfram Alpha, launches later this month, and aims to provide a different approach to internet search queries by not only understanding people’s questions but answering them directly... That's fine with The Plain Truth!

Barack Obama hints at tougher line on Israel

The Obama Administration has signalled a tougher approach towards Israel ahead of fresh talks on the Middle East peace process by insisting it must endorse the creation of an independent Palestinian state.

“Israel has to work toward a two-state solution,” declared Vice-President Joe Biden today in a speech to the annual conference of a powerful pro-Israel lobby group in Washington.  MORE...............

Santelli Excoriates Liesman

Palin backs initiative on parent notification of abortionCONSENT

CONSENT: Voters, not lawmakers, would decide if doctors had to tell a parent of a girl younger than 18.

Gov. Sarah Palin is backing a ballot measure to bypass the Legislature and make it illegal for teenagers to get an abortion without telling their parents.

Gov. Palin said she'll "volunteer to be the first signature."

The initiative sponsors, including former Lt. Gov. Loren Leman, applied last week to start gathering signatures. The measure would generally forbid a girl under 18 from getting an abortion unless the doctor informed at least one of her parents beforehand.

Palin said she plans to be the first in line to sign up. The governor said she even considered sponsoring the initiative herself, but decided otherwise after checking with the state's lawyers.

"I got a preliminary opinion from Law (Department) just giving me a heads up that critics would certainly file an ethics charge against me if I were to sponsor an initiative. So though I maintain I have First Amendment rights just as any other citizen does, I won't flirt with the notion of giving critics more ammunition to keep filing wasteful ethics charges against me, but instead I'll volunteer to be the first signature," Palin said.   Read More.............

ACORN voter registration drive nets charges

A voter registration drive last year illegally required canvassers to meet quotas to keep their jobs and resulted in thousands of “garbage” registrations gumming up Clark County voter rolls, officials said Monday as they released a criminal complaint against the drive’s organizers.

The complaint names the Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now, or ACORN, as well as Chris Edwards, the group’s former Las Vegas field director, and Amy Busefink, who was regional director for voter registration.   Read More.......

The dirty little secret of ethanol

142 gallons of water needed to produce 1 gallon of fuel additive

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Posted: May 04, 2009
12:46 pm Eastern

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A new study shows that ethanol production consumes much more water than was previously thought, as much as 2,000 gallons of water for every gallon of ethanol produced in states where crops must be irrigated, Jerome Corsi's Red Alert reports.

Publishing results in Environmental Science & Technology, scientists from the University of Minnesota concluded, "The results show that as the ethanol industry expands to areas that apply more irrigated water than others, consumptive water appropriation by bioethanol in the U.S. has increased from 1.9 to 6.1 trillion liters between 2005 and 2008, whereas U.S. bioethanol production has increased only 133 percent from 15 to 24 billion liters during the same period."

U.S. military destroys soldier's Bibles

The U.S. military is confirming that it has destroyed some Bibles belonging to an American soldier serving in Afghanistan.

Reuters News says the Bibles were confiscated and destroyed after Qatar-based Al Jazeer television showed soldiers at a Bible class on a base with a stack of Bibles translated into the local Pashto and Dari languages. The U.S. military forbids its members on active duty -- including those based in places like Afghanistan -- from trying to convert people to another religion.

Reuters quotes Maj. Jennifer Willis at the Bagram Air Base, north of Kabul, who said "I can now confirm that the Bibles shown on Al Jazeera's clip were, in fact, collected by the chaplains and later destroyed. They were never distributed."

According to the military officials, the Bibles were sent through private mail to an evangelical Christian soldier by his church back home. Reuters says the soldier brought them to the Bible study class where they were filmed.

The Chairman of the U.S. Joint Chiefs of Staff, Admiral Mike Mullen, told a Pentagon briefing Monday that the military's position is that it will never "push any specific religion."

Rise of sea levels is 'the greatest lie ever told'

If one thing more than any other is used to justify proposals that the world must spend tens of trillions of dollars on combating global warming, it is the belief that we face a disastrous rise in sea levels. The Antarctic and Greenland ice caps will melt, we are told, warming oceans will expand, and the result will be catastrophe.

Although the UN's Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) only predicts a sea level rise of 59cm (17 inches) by 2100, Al Gore in his Oscar-winning film An Inconvenient Truth went much further, talking of 20 feet, and showing computer graphics of cities such as Shanghai and San Francisco half under water. We all know the graphic showing central London in similar plight. As for tiny island nations such as the Maldives and Tuvalu, as Prince Charles likes to tell us and the Archbishop of Canterbury was again parroting last week, they are due to vanish.  Read More..........

2001 Flashback: Sen. Specter Introduces Rule to Prevent Party Switching

PROOF WHY THESE "LEADERS" are LIARS, CHEATS and Traitors! Let's make sure they are all given the boot!

Limbaugh on Republican Listening Tour: ‘These People Hate Palin’

'Obama Discrediting Himself and the US'

THE VIEW FROM BERLIN

Many had hoped that US President Barack Obama would undo all the damage done by his predecessor. Now, it looks like he might continue the Bush-era practice of trying terror suspects in military tribunals. German commentators are disappointed. more...

• Prisoners at Guantanamo: Washington Request Launches Political Debate in Berlin
• Opinion: The Most Expensive President Since 1945
• Accusations of Abuse: Guantanamo Prisoner Calls Al-Jazeera

The Obama CIA: A liberal-left think tank

Jim KouriLaw Enforcement Examiner

One complaint often heard privately within law enforcement circles is that the Central Intelligence Agency over the years has morphed into a Liberal think tank rather than maintaining its role as a strategic and tactical intelligence agency.

 

An even bigger concern is that the agency has become overly politicized and prone to leaking information to the mainstream news media in order to have an impact upon the political climate within the Beltway.

 

The politicization of the CIA has been accelerated by the appointment of former Clinton Administration minion now President Barack Obama's Director of Central Intelligence, Leon Panetta.

Upon being confirmed without so much as a peep by Republican lawmakers, one of Panetta's first actions was the termination of its controversial program of using secret detention centers. Panetta notified the Senate and House intelligence committees in an email that private contractors would no longer question "captured terrorists."   Read the story................

The President Who Hates His Country

In the last century, the impassioned words and actions of patriots like Winston Churchill – along with America’s heroic help and sacrifice – saved Europe. The eloquence and actions of “I’ve been to the mountaintop” Martin Luther King Jr. brought America to an unprecedented level of social justice. The peerless oratory and tireless diplomacy of the man who would become Israel’s Foreign Minister, Abba Eban convinced the entire world that after the wanton murder of six-million Jews in the Holocaust its straggling survivors deserved their own state of Israel. The inspiring words and decisive actions of President Ronald Reagan ended the Cold War, tore down the Berlin Wall, and restored economic prosperity to America. The efforts of these towering figures resulted in a more highly-evolved world. We have also seen the opposite in totalitarian leaders like Hitler, Mussolini, Fidel Castro, Pol Pot, Mao, and Saddam Hussein, among others, who exploited their masses, destroyed their economies, brought havoc, turbulence, grief and massive death within and outside of their countries, and made the world a more dangerous and threatening place.

The one thing all of these virtuous and evil men had in common was love for their respective countries, in fact a burning passion that superseded all else. The virtuous believed in freedom and democracy. The evil believed in subjugation of their peoples and lifetime tenures for themselves in order to actualize their goals of conquering their eternal enemies – Americans and Jews. Today, we have a new crop of inveterate America- and Jew-haters, among them the Marxist leader of Venezuela Hugo Chavez, Nicaragua’s president Daniel Ortega, Iran’s “death-to-America-and-Israel” study-in-abnormal-psychology Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, and the ever-sabotage-America and anti-Semitic “leaders” of the 22-Arab states that surround Israel.

 I have either read about or observed firsthand all of these people. Yet in my decades of commenting on the political scene, I cannot recall a single leader of any country or regime who has ever spoken negatively of his country or tolerated others speaking ill of the land or the people he represented-- Until now-- Bizarre and, yes, repugnant as it is to our essentially centrist country, America now has a president who has broken that time-honored tradition. Barack Obama, on the campaign trail and as the leader of the free world is the first U.S. president to proclaim to anyone within earshot that he, like his wife, is not proud of his country, and is all-too-willing to offer serial apologies – for America! – to Americans and foreigners alike.

 As Ed Lasky writes: “We know that during the campaign [Obama] warned that criticism of his wife was `off-limits’. But criticism of America – well, that is fine.” We also know that during his run for the presidency, Obama expressed sneering condescension towards all those bible-clasping, gun-owning yahoos who “cling” to those silly things, and that in Europe he consistently gave voice to America’s supposed “sins.” But all that pales in comparison to the clear contempt – looks more like hatred to me – that Obama feels for the United States of America and for its most revered founding document, the U.S. Constitution. In just the first 100-days of his tenure, Obama’s words and actions have demonstrated that he is no friend of the country he leads. This is only a smattering of what happened on his recent three-continent trip abroad and to Mexico:

•In France, Obama told his audience that America “has shown arrogance and been dismissive, even derisive” toward Europe.
•In Prague, Obama – in true utopian-kindergarten fashion – pledged “with conviction” that America will “seek the peace and security of a world without nuclear weapons.” In other words, destroy big bad America’s ability to defend itself!
•In London, Obama made clear that the world’s financial wealth was no longer made by those inferior leaders Roosevelt and Churchill, effectively ceding America’s leading role in creating and sharing wealth to nations that have never measured up to our country’s bountiful generosity or spirit of free-market entrepreneurship.
•In Port of Spain, Trinidad and Tobago, Obama again sat passively while the Marxist Ortega blamed the United States for a century of what he called terroristic U.S. aggression in Central America, again emitting not a whisper of defense on our country’s behalf.
•In Turkey, Obama said – incredibly and inaccurately – that America was not a Christian nation.
•And in his recent trip to Mexico, Obama said that the escalating border violence was essentially America’s fault.

Scan you memory. Can you think of any other leader in world history who so consistently badmouths his own country, or fails to defend it? I can’t. ...  The President Who Hates His Country

Get this, tax cheat to crack down on tax cheats!

President Obama announced Monday a plan to prevent U.S. companies using offshore banks to deferr tax payments, saying that the effort to "shelter" money creates an unfair advantage to U.S. companies and amounts to evasion.

The president also called for more transparency in bank accounts held by Americans in tax havens such as the Cayman Islands.

"The way to make American businesses competitive is not to let some citizens and businesses dodge their responsibility, while ordinary Americans pick up the slack. Unfortunately, that's exactly what we're doing," Obama said.   More...........

Obama's war secrets

The administration is flip-flopping on Afghan benchmarks-- Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton wants to keep things secret that Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton found it expedient to politicize. The Obama administration wants to keep its metrics of progress for the war in Afghanistan under wraps. Secretary Clinton and Defense Secretary Robert M. Gates told the Senate Appropriations Committee last week that the executive branch, not Congress, should craft the Afghan benchmarks, many of which will be classified.

 Times certainly have changed - two years ago, then-Sen. Clinton demanded benchmarks be included in the May 2007 Iraq war supplemental appropriation. Mr. Obama promised a benchmarked war effort in March when he announced his Afghanistan strategy. He rejected "blindly staying the course," a tart reference to one of Mr. Bush's pet phrases, and promised instead that there would be "clear metrics to measure progress and hold ourselves accountable." Perhaps the president could explain how accountability can function if Congress and the public do not know what the clear metrics are. Read More...Obama's war secrets

Jack Kemp dead at 73

Former vice presidential candidate succumbs to cancer

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Posted: May 02, 2009
8:53 pm Eastern

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Jack Kemp

WASHINGTON -- A spokeswoman says Jack Kemp, a former quarterback, congressman, housing secretary and Bob Dole's vice-presidential nominee, has died.

Kemp had been battling cancer.

Kemp had been serving at his Washington-based Kemp Partners consulting firm and remained involved in his charitable and political work.

After his football career, Kemp represented western New York for nine terms in Congress, leaving the House for an unsuccessful presidential bid in 1988. He later served as President George H.W. Bush's housing secretary and ran for vice president as Bob Dole's running mate.

As an economic conservative, Kemp advocated low taxes and supply-side policies. His positions spanned the social spectrum, ranging from his conservative opposition to abortion to his more libertarian stances advocating immigration reform. As a proponent of both Chicago school and supply-side economics, he was notable as the molder of the Reagan agenda and the architect of the Economic Recovery Tax Act of 1981, which was known as the Kemp–Roth tax cut. Kemp described himself as a "bleeding-heart conservative."   MORE..............