UFO enthusiasts call on Obama to release X-Files

UFO enthusiasts are pressing Barack Obama to release classified documents about sightings of alien spacecraft, encouraged by support from within the President-Elect’s own White House team.

Desperate to see the US emulate the British Government and disclose reported “contact” with UFOs, the enthusiasts have written to Mr Obama to ask that his administration comes clean about the contents of America’s “X-Files”.

They believe they have good prospects of success after public statements of support from both John Podesta, who is running Mr Obama’s White House transition team, and Bill Richardson, the Governor of New Mexico – a UFO sighting hotspot – who is expected to secure a cabinet post.

In the letter to Mr Obama, the Extraterrestrial Phenomenon Political Action Committee calls on the President-Elect to “end the six-decade truth embargo regarding an extraterrestrial presence engaging the human race“.

The group wants the incoming president to insist on a “full briefing from your military services and intelligence agencies regarding what they know” and to open congressional hearings “to take testimony from scores of government witnesses who have already come forward with extraordinary evidence and are prepared to testify under oath.”

The campaigners, who resent their common portrayal as nuts and conspiracy theorists, have high hopes of success due to their inside track with Mr Obama.

When he was the White House chief of staff under Bill Clinton, Mr Podesta led a project to declassify 800 million pages of intelligence documents. In a press conference, still available to watch on the YouTube website, Mr Podesta said: “It is time for the government to declassify records that are more than 25 years old and to provide scientists with data that will assist in determining the real nature of this phenomenon.

Gov Richardson, a former presidential candidate and fellow UFO aficionado, has written a forward to a book on the so-called Roswell Incident in New Mexico, where campaigners believe an alien spacecraft crash landed near the town of Roswell in 1947 and that the corpses of humanoid aliens have been kept hidden under lock and key by the government.

He has called for full disclosure by the Pentagon of what really occurred and reiterated his belief that there had been a “cover-up” during a presidential debate last year.

The campaigners, who want the truth “out there”, believe that the British Government’s decision to declassify thousands of UFO sighting documents this year has made it untenable for the US to maintain its policy of non-disclosure.

Only last week a US Air Force pilot, Milton Torres, whose testimony was released from the British archives, appeared on US television explaining how he was ordered to shoot down a large UFO over the UK in 1957 and then silenced by military officials, who told him never to speak of the incident.

Stephen Bassett, Executive Director of the Extraterrestrial Phenomenon Political Action Committee, expects to have gathered 40,000 signatures via email and fax by Mr Obama’s inauguration day on Jan 20 in support of his calls for openness.

He told The Sunday Telegraph: “The truth embargo is now at the end of the line. The release of documents in Britain and France has put huge pressure on the US. It makes the government here look pretty stupid.

I think we are seeing the Democrats moving towards disclosure. John Podesta has outed himself as an enthusiast. He thinks the American public can handle the truth. Bill Richardson thinks there was a cover-up.

Mr Bassett also believes that military and intelligence officials have studied the technology of alien spacecraft, material that would help the US develop new energy resources, as Mr Obama wishes, that will lessen US dependency on Middle Eastern oil.

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Asthma Inhalers Scheduled to Go Green, Become More Expensive

Come December 31, all albuterol inhalers in the U.S. will be a little bit greener— and a lot more expensive. The inhalers will stop using chlorofluorocarbons (CFCs) that damage the ozone layer, and will be powered by hydroflueroalkane (HFC) instead. While the new inhalers will benefit the environment, they will also cost $30 to $60. CFC inhalers cost only $5 to $10.

Asthma Inhalers

The HFC inhalers will be strange to albuterol veterans— the medicine tastes and feels different, and the inhaler’s hole needs to be cleaned weekly to prevent clogging.

For asthma sufferers that are averse to change, non-prescription epinephrine inhalers will contain CFCs until the government cracks down in December 2011. But replacing albuterol with epinephrine is dangerous, as the non-prescription drug(like cheap allegra & canadian singulair) is less effective.

The change may not be palatable to everyone, but asthmatics should take comfort in the fact that their medicine is no longer destroying the ozone layer.

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Stunning Picture Of An Iceberg

Photograph snapped by a Newfoundland rig manager shows an enormous Iceberg 

This is an amazing shot. This came from a Rig Manager for Global Marine Drilling in St. Johns, Newfoundland. They actually have to divert the path of these things away from the rig by towing them with ships! Anyway, in this particular case the water was calm & the sun was almost directly overhead so that the diver was able to get into the water and click this picture. They estimated the weight at 300,000,000 tons.

 

iceberg

The explanation reproduced above is a charming story, but it isn’t true, nor is the image accompanying it a real photograph of an iceberg. This picture is actually a composite image called “The Essence of Imagination,” marketed by Successories, the “premiere source for motivational media.” This image was produced in 1999 by Ralph A. Clevenger, a professional nature and underwater photographer who is also a member of the faculty of the Brooks Institute of Photography in Santa Barbara, California.

As Mr. Clevenger explained, this image is not a single photograph but a composite of four different photographs (not all taken in the same place): The iceberg image is a digital composite that I designed to illustrate the concept of “what you see is not necessarily what you get”. As an underwater photographer I knew that my “vision” of what a big iceberg looks like was impossible to get in reality so I had to create it. The image exists in nature but due to water visibility is not possible to capture on film.

There are 4 separate images involved; the sky, the background, the top iceberg (shot in Antarctica), and the underwater iceberg (shot above water in Alaska and flipped in the final composite).

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Why is the HGH Pills or Spray better than Injectable HGH?

With injectable human growth hormone, there is much skepticism about absorption, best time to inject and the amount to inject.

With the cost of injectable HGH at about $800.00 to $1200.00 per month and HGH Energizer pills or spray at $59.00 per month it takes the guess work out of the equation. Injectable HGH is active approximately 30 minutes in your system before it is dissipated or lost. Because HGH dosages are not an exact science, clinical trials have not yet determined the quantity (IU’s) needed, injection times, durations for optimum results. Which simply put means there is a lot of wasted HGH happening besides the side effects that come with incorrect dosages.

Cheap Human Growth Hormone

There is also the chance that while injecting HGH that your pituitary gland could be permanently shut down. This is why supplementing HGH Energizer in a way that mimics the body’s own cycle of secretion is far more efficient because you take small dosages giving you 100% absorption.

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Monday Motivation – Doing More With Less Time

I am having flashbacks to summer right now! The kids are off school today and tomorrow thanks to Teacher Workdays/Election Day. While I am happy that I did not have to get everyone up at the crack of dawn and rush around until 8:15 getting all three kids to school, I am also wondering how much work I am actually going to accomplish this week.

Once I make it through Monday and Tuesday, my time will still be limited as I have meetings of some sort every day this week. I am going to have to be ultra productive during the time I am in the office, which means setting priorities.

The most important things I need to do this week are:
Finish a web site for a client – it’s so close to being done – and schedule a meeting with her to review.
Layout the program for our gym’s first competition of the season and get it to the printers by Wednesday.
Redesign this site – while I love the Pink for October header that I created, it is time for something new.

On a personal front, I need to:
Make a large crock-pot of chili and some rice for a get together Friday night.
Drink more water. No Diet Coke or sodas for me this week as I am trying to eliminate them completely.
Ride the stationary bike 3 times this week.

With careful planning and setting goals, you would be amazed at how much you can really get done when you think you are pressed for time! What are your goals this week? Leave them in the comments or post on your own site and let’s get it done!

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New Matrix & New Corolla

I read about the sporty new Corolla, the increased power, and the additional luxury features and thought it was going to take a hit in mpg and emissions. How did I know? The 2008 Toyota Corolla base model gets 28 mpg in the city and 37 mpg on bigger roads. The 2009 Corolla will see that decrease to 27/35 mpg. That’s not too bad, but it’s not a move forward. t’s beefed-up model poses the real problem. In the XRS, fitted with a 2.4-liter, 158 hp engine, fuel consumption slumps to 22/30 mpg. Boo Hiss Boo.

Now, you know the Matrix is billed as a subcompact sedan/SUV. It’s also available in an XRS model with even worse mileage – 21/29. The smaller engine delivers 26/32 manual and 25/31 for the automatic version. Both cars are considerably more sporty, with more available features. I just hope new buyers will ask themselves whether they really need the extra power.

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Brittany Snow Hosts YMI Jeanswear Fashion Show

Brittany Snow hosted the 4th bi-annual YMI Jeanswear Fashion Show last night at Boulevard3 in LA. She looked absolutely adorable in a white scoop neck sleeveless blouse and perfectly fitted YMI jeans from their premium Royalty line along with a cute cropped leopard print jacket. She did and awesome job as the host as the the show and party were a blast and you could tell she was having so much fun checking out beauty products from Too Faced and chatting and dancing with friends. Brittany Snow is definitely the “It” girl of the moment.
Brittany Snow
Brittany Snow

The show was super energetic, sexy, and overall enertaining. Lots of denim as you’d expect! They covered all the trends: high-waist jeans, short-shorts, skinny, wide-leg … and perfectly paired washes to styles. You name it, YMI has it covered.

YMI is available at Nordstroms, Macys, Dillards, and specialty chain stores worldwide. If you have never tried YMI (I hadn’t before this event) I highly suggest trying a pair on. I was lucky enough to score a pair and I love them! They have a great fit and sexy style – I am definitely going to rock these.

Cool washes and pocket details
Cool washes and pocket details

The high-waisted trend
The high-waisted trend

Sexy short-shorts
Sexy short-shorts (I could never, but she’s rockin them!)

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Turkey again threatened to launch military operation against Kurds in Iraq

Turkish Prime Minister Erdogan Rexhep warned of the likelihood of launch attacks on the Kurdish rebels in northern Iraq, where Kurds allegedly attacking into Turkey.
According to Radio Liberty, speaking on Saturday in the city of Izmit before the mass rally, Erdogan said that Turkey would begin invasion “when deems appropriate” and it does not need anyone permission.
These statements followed the negotiations provalivshimisya Turkey and Iraq on the suppression of Kurdish raids.
Prior to the military command of Turkey stated that Ankara would take a final decision on military operations against Kurdish fighters in northern Iraq only after consultations with the United States.
Washington calls on Ankara to a diplomatic solution

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In Northern Ireland, discovered gold deposits

Recent geological studies conducted in the territory of Northern Ireland (member of the United Kingdom) have shown that concentrated in the province of previously unknown gold deposits, transfers RIA Novosti. Traces of gold were found under a layer of fertile soil in the counties of Down, Tayron, Londonderry and Antrim, and in the east county Antrim also found traces of platinum. “There is every indication that gold can be distributed in a much broader than we originally thought,” said Director of Geological Research Society Garth Erls Northern Ireland. While repetition “gold fever”, such as those in Alaska or Australia, in Ulster are not likely to wait, a number of foreign companies are already engaged in the commercial further study of possible gold deposits.

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A quarter of a million California residents evacuated because of the threat of fire

About 250,000 residents evacuated from the District of San Diego in California because of the threat of a forest fire that has already destroyed more than 40,000 hectares of forest and bush, local media reported.

The Governor of the state declared a state of emergency in seven counties: Los Angeles, Orange, Riverside, San Bernardino, San Diego, Santa Barbara and Ventura, where a total of 11 forest fires raging.

“The situation continues to deteriorate. There is a possibility that fire comes to the coast before it could be put out. We burn more homes than there are people, and fire fighting vehicles to cope with fire. Many lose their homes today, “said the head of journalists Bill Metklaf fire department.

According to him, the situation has deteriorated dramatically overnight. “The situation has deteriorated to such an extent that many of us had anticipated, and this is not yet a few hours ago,” said Metcalf.

Putting strong wind hampered fire-aircraft fire could not rise into the air. “Now our enemy number one – the wind,” said the governor at a press Schwartznegger.

According to the San Diego Sheriff Bill Kolendera district, the current fire could become the worst in the history of the district, stronger than fire Seder, who four years ago claimed the lives of several people and the territory covered more than 113,000 hectares.

The current fire started near Los Angeles and San Diego on Sunday and spread due to strong winds, dry and hot weather.

So far, aware of one person killed and 14 injured in the fire in San Diego. Four of the victims – fire, three of them are in critical condition.

In the city of Malibu fire that destroyed a local sight-Kashan castle, which belongs to the daughter of former Iranian Oil Minister Lawrence Lilly. As stated Lawrence itself, the damage is estimated to be worth more than 10 million dollars.

As flames burned pictures, family values, and some things that belonged to Elvis Presley. However, speaking to reporters Lawrence was not killed by grief. “My parents taught me not to let me have my property. The house has a house here and the whole story, “she said.

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