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HOME PAGE	KLEINER'S KORNER FOR WEEK OF NOVEMBER 27, 2006 Yelm's first snow of the season is forecast for this week: link here 1. LIMB REGENERATION CLOSER AFTER HUMAN GENE ISOLATED “Salamanders are the only vertebrates that can regenerate lost body parts as adults. The key to this ability is that limb cells are triggered to dedifferentiate and reinitiate growth and pattern formation. Our strategy is to use axolotls (Ambystoma mexicanum) to discover the signals that trigger the regeneration response, in the belief that these signals have enormous potential and consequences for human health. Our long term goals are to identify the regeneration-enabling signals in limbs, in order to support progress towards the eventual application of these molecules to the improvement of human repair mechanisms. Most recently we have been involved in the development of genomic resources for identifying the key signaling pathways that control limb regeneration. The tools and knowledge are in place to attack complex systems, and understanding regeneration is likely to lead to new approaches and therapies for replacing or repairing lost, damaged or diseased parts of the body,” quoting David M. Gardiner, Researcher, Developmental & Cell Biology at the UC Irvine School of Biological Sciences. [Ed. Note: This writer heard a CNN report on November 21 that Dr. Gardiner’s team had isolated the gene in humans for limb regeneration. I have been unable to locate that report.] link here . 2. “GENE MAKES WHEAT MORE NUTRITIOUS” “Scientists have found a way to boost the protein, zinc and iron content in wheat, an achievement that could help bring more nutritious food to many millions of people worldwide. A team led by University of California at Davis researcher Jorge Dubcovsky identified a gene in wild wheat that raises the grain's nutritional content. The gene became nonfunctional for unknown reasons during humankind's domestication of wheat. Writing in the journal Science on Thursday [Nov. 24], the researchers said they used conventional breeding methods to bring the gene into cultivated wheat varieties, enhancing the protein, zinc and iron value in the grain. The wild plant involved is known as wild emmer wheat, an ancestor of some cultivated wheat. Wheat represents one of the major crops feeding people worldwide, providing about 20 percent of all calories consumed. The World Health Organization has said upward of 2 billion people get too little zinc and iron in their diet, and more than 160 million children under age 5 lack adequate protein,” quoting Reuters. link here . 3. WARMER WATER FLOWING INTO ARCTIC “Signs of warming continue in the Arctic with a decline in sea ice, an increase in shrubs growing on the tundra and rising worries about the Greenland ice sheet. ’There have been regional warming periods before. Now we're seeing Arctic-wide changes,’ James Overland, an oceanographer at the Pacific Marine Environmental Laboratory in Washington state, said Thursday [Nov. 16]. For each of the last five years it was at least 1 degree Celsius (1.8 F) above average over the entire Arctic over the entire year, he said. The new "State of the Arctic" analysis, released by the U.S. government's National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, also reports an increase in northward movement of warmer water through the Bering Strait in 2001-2004, which might be a factor in continuing reduction of sea ice…’The temperature difference between the Arctic and equator drives all of our weather,’ Overland said. If the Arctic should warm up and that difference be reduced, weather could change, though people remain unsure what the changes would be,” quoting the AP. [Ed. Note: This report goes on to note changes in melting permafrost & glaciers, river flows into the Arctic, & vegetation changes.] link here . 4. ICEBERGS SPOTTED OFF NEW ZEALAND FIRST TIME IN 75 YEARS "Two icebergs drifting off the New Zealand coast have attracted massive interest from sightseers as well as sparking fresh warnings to shipping after their 13,500 kilometre journey from Antarctica.The icebergs were about 100 kilometres (60 miles) off the Otago coast in the south-east of the country Wednesday [Nov. 22], the closest sighting off New Zealand for 75 years, The National Institute of Water and Atmospheric Research (NIWA) said. Helicopters have been taking scientists and sightseers out to view the massive slabs of ice. One is about 500 metres (1,600 feet) long, 50 metres wide and 60 metres high, while the other has a 100 metre high peak and is about 300 metres long," quotiing the AFP. [Ed. Note: How will all of this melting fresh water effect the oceans and currents? HMMM!] link here This is a must-see picture of a helicopter landing on an iceberg in the area. link here . 5. "GOING FOR A BLAST INTO THE REAL PAST” “If his experiment with splitting photons actually works, says University of Washington physicist John Cramer, the next step will be to test for quantum "retrocausality." That's science talk for saying he hopes to find evidence of a photon going backward in time. ‘It doesn't seem like it should work, but on the other hand, I can't see what would prevent it from working,’ Cramer said. ‘If it does work, you could receive the signal 50 microseconds before you send it.’ Uh, huh ... what? Wait a minute. What is that supposed to mean? Roughly put, Cramer is talking about the subatomic equivalent of arriving at the train station before you've left home, of winning the lottery before you've bought the ticket, of graduating from high school before you've been born -- or something like that,” quoting the Seattle P-I. link here . 6. “MYSTERIOUS FORCE’S LONG PRESENCE” “Dark energy - the mysterious force that is speeding up the expansion of the Universe - has been a part of space for at least nine billion years. That is the conclusion of astronomers who presented results from a three-year study using the Hubble Space Telescope. The finding may rule out some competing theories that predict the strength of dark energy changes over time. Dark energy makes up about 70% of the Universe; the rest is dark matter (25%) and normal matter (5%). Understanding the nature of dark energy is arguably the biggest problem physics is facing today Mario Livio, Space Telescope Science Institute. ‘It appears this dark energy was already boosting the expansion of the Universe as much as nine billion years ago,’ said co-investigator Adam Riess from the Space Telescope Science Institute in Baltimore, US,” quoting the BBC. link here . 7. "FAST FOOD NATION" - THE MOVIE, OPENS IN USA “Inspired by the incendiary bestseller that exposed the hidden facts behind America's fast food industry comes a powerful drama that takes an eye-opening journey into the dark heart of the All-American meal. Richard Linklater's FAST FOOD NATION traces the birth of an everyday, ordinary burger through a chain of riveting, interlocked human stories - from a hopeful, young immigrant couple who cross the border to work in a perilous meat-packing plant, to a teen clerk who dreams of life beyond the counter; to the corporate marketing whiz who is shocked to discover that his latest burger invention - "The Big One" - is literally full of manure. As the film traverses from pristine barbeque smoke labs to the volatile U.S.-Mexican border, it unveils a provocative portrait of all the yearning, ambition, corruption and hope that lies inside what America is biting into,” quoting the movie’s website. link here This writer reviewed the book here last year and found this information vital for every American, whether you consume fast food or not. link here . 8. “HOLLYWOOD ENVIRONMENTALIST TARGETS MIDDLE AMERICA” “Hollywood environmentalist Laurie David's fight to convince America of the dangers of global warming begins in her own bathrooms. David, producer of Al Gore's movie "An Inconvenient Truth," is taking her crusade to Middle America and Washington next year, setting her sights on convincing President Bush and average US citizens to make changes to safeguard the planet. But first she had to deal with her preteen daughter, who stole toilet paper from friends, and comedian husband Larry David, a creator of "Seinfeld" and HBO's "Curb Your Enthusiasm," who rebelled when she switched to toilet tissue made from recycled consumer waste. ‘I had a contest to see who in my family would complain first ... it was the husband, who complained bitterly,’ David said in an interview with Reuters last week. David, 48, has overcome bigger obstacles, like convincing a reluctant Hollywood that there was wide interest, and money to be made, in "An Inconvenient Truth," a film about former vice president Gore's slide show on global warming. The unlikely box-office hit was the third-largest grossing documentary of all time and is on the short list for an Academy Award nomination. The DVD version goes on sale this week. While admitting to being nervous about Oscar season, David is moving on to her next headline event to "kick up the dirt" in mid-America and the nation's capital with one of the biggest names in music,” quoting Reuters. link here . 9. IS HE A MAGICIAN, PERFORMER OR MASTER? OR ALL THREE? YOU DECIDE Criss Angel is astounding in this You Tube video where he walks on water: link here Other videos of his various feats: link here . 10. “MT. RAINIER NATIONAL PARK FLOOD DAMAGE NOV., 2006” This is a fascinating pictorial of Mt. Rainier’s Flood Damage from record rains in Washington State this month from the National Park Service website. [Ed. Note: Notice two large orbs on page 5]: link here . 11. “STATES WILL TELL SUPREME COURT FEDS MUST ACT ON WARMING” “The polar icecaps are melting, summers growing hotter and hurricanes becoming more powerful, but the Bush administration has insisted it cannot regulate the gases that many believe are responsible. On Wednesday [Nov. 29], a coalition of 12 states, led by California and Massachusetts, will try to persuade the Supreme Court that the nation's environmental regulators have the legal authority and responsibility to control greenhouse gas emissions linked to global warming - which many scientists describe as the biggest environmental threat to the planet.It is a rare day when state lawyers travel to Washington hoping to win new powers for the federal government. As David Bookbinder, a Sierra Club lawyer, noted, ‘How often do federal authorities insist they lack the authority to do something?’ The administration's approach to another global issue - terrorism - has been to assert broad powers to act at home and abroad. On the environmental front, the administration says, it is studying the problem and ‘seeking a cooperative international approach to addressing global climate change,’ Solicitor General Paul Clement wrote in his brief to the court,” quoting the LA Times. link here . 12. "CIA ROLE CLAIM IN KENNEDY [RFK] KILLING” "New video and photographic evidence that puts three senior CIA operatives at the scene of Robert Kennedy's assassination has been brought to light. The evidence was shown in a report by Shane O'Sullivan, broadcast on BBC Newsnight. It reveals that the operatives and four unidentified associates were at the Ambassador Hotel, Los Angeles in the moments before and after the shooting on 5 June, 1968. The CIA had no domestic jurisdiction and some of the officers were based in South-East Asia at the time, with no reason to be in Los Angeles," quoting the BBC. [Ed. Note: Gotta go overseas to get some news pertinent to the USA, as the US media omits so much.] link here . RAMTHA SCHOOL NEWS “These excerpts from the teachings of Ramtha are taken from various publications by JZK Publishing. This collection was created in response to those who expressed their desire to learn more about Ramtha's teachings and whose only means available to them is the World Wide Web,” quoting Ramtha.com. link here Checkout this one: “The Miracles of Yeshua ben Joseph from the Beginners’ Guide to Creating Reality – Third Edition.” link here JZK Publishing: link here . LOCAL NOTES Reported on Yelm’s first community blog last week were these stories: A. Yelm Earthworm & Castings Farm, scroll to Nov. 19. B. New area business launches in Yelm – “Conquer Yourself Apparel,” scroll to Nov. 20. C. DVD Future of Food available at Yelm Timberland Library, scroll to Nov. 21. D. Record rain totals for November, 2006, scroll to Nov. 22. E. History of American Thanksgiving, scroll to Nov. 23 F. New store opens in Yelm – SIMPLY HEAVEN, scroll to Nov. 24 G. Yelm’s Lemuria showcases local artisans each Saturday, scroll to Nov. 25. H. Ed Wiltsie to speak in Yelm December 16th: “Earth Changes – Part 1,” scroll to Nov. 26. link here . QUOTE OF THE WEEK "Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter." Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. (1929 -1968) American Civil Rights Leader . Kleiner’s Korner is copyrighted by Stephen R. Klein, 2006. For archived issues of Kleiner’s Korner, click on "Current Kleiner’s Korner and Archives" at link here Send comments to steve@kleinerskorner.com . KLEINER'S KORNER FOR WEEK OF NOVEMBER 20, 2006 Dear Readers; Happy Thanksgiving to all of you in the USA & around the World! We ALL have much for which to be thankful, wherever you reside. I sincerely thank all of you for sharing with me stories which I find of interest. This is the History of the American Thanksgiving from the History Channel. link here "The annual Leonid meteor shower could produce a strong outburst this weekend for residents of the North America and Western Europe. A brief surge of activity is expected begin around 11:45 p.m. ET Saturday, Nov. 18. In Europe, that corresponds to early Sunday morning, Nov. 19 at 4:45 GMT. The outburst could last up to two hours. At the peak, people in these favorable locations could see up to 150 shooting stars per hour, or more than two per minute," quoting Space.com. link here 1. “BLIND MICE TREATED WITH STEM CELLS REGAIN SIGHT” “British scientists have managed to make blind mice see, a breakthrough that could open the way to treating millions of people who lose their sight. A team successfully transplanted retinal cells into mice that were blind as a result of a genetic defect, the effects of which are very similar to the human disease retinitis pigmentosa. The treated mice regained some vision, and the team responsible showed that the transplanted cells integrated into the retina and formed new photoreceptors, the cells that are sensitive to light. The loss of photoreceptors underlies many causes of blindness in human beings, from macular degeneration to diabetes. The team, from University College London (UCL), Moorfields Eye Hospital, London, and the University of Michigan, achieved its results by using cells that had already begun the transformation from stem cells into dedicated retinal cells. They believe that this is the key to their success,” quoting the London Times. link here . 2. “A HAND-ON APPROACH TO STUDYING THE BRAIN, EVEN EINSTEIN’S” “Here at McMaster University, where she is a neuroscientist with the Michael G. DeGroote School of Medicine, Dr. Witelson has a collection of 125 brains. They are all from Canadians: business people, professionals, homemakers, and blue- and white-collar workers. By weighing her specimens, calculating their volumes and measuring their proportions, Dr. Witelson (pronounced WIT-il-son) investigates the relationship between brain structure and cognition, a focus of her research for three decades. It was Dr. Witelson’s 1999 study of Albert Einstein’s brain that made headlines by revealing some remarkable features overlooked by other neuroscientists: the parietal lobe, the region responsible for visual thinking and spatial reasoning, was 15 percent larger than average, and it was structured as one distinct compartment, instead of the usual two compartments separated by the Sylvian fissure,” quoting the New York Times. link here . 3. “THE STRANGEST LITTLE THINGS IN NATURE” "When small cannot get any smaller, you enter the quantum world of quarks, photons, and space-time foam. You're welcome to take a look at this indivisible side of nature, but just remember to leave your common sense at the door. People as far back as the Greek philosopher Democritus believed that things were built up from irreducible pieces. Isaac Newton himself thought that light was not a wave, but rather a collection of tiny “corpuscules." Physicists have only recently acquired tools with sufficient resolution to see nature's inherent graininess. Here's a quick tour of the quantum underbelly of the things around us," quoting Live Science. link here . 4. “SCIENTISTS DECODE NEANDERTHAL GENES” “Humans and their close Neanderthal relatives began diverging from a common ancestor about 700,000 years ago, and the two groups split permanently some 300,000 years later, according to two of the most detailed analyses of Neanderthal DNA to date. Using different techniques, two teams of scientists separately sequenced large chunks of DNA extracted from the femur of a 38,000-year-old Neanderthal specimen found in a cave 26 years ago in Croatia. One team sequenced more than 1 million base pairs of the 3.3-billion-pair genome, and the other analyzed 65,000 pairs. link here . 5. “REPORT: HUNGER DECLINES FIRST TIME IN 6 YEARS” “The number of people struggling with hunger in the United States fell in 2005, the first such decline in six years, the Agriculture Department said Wednesday [Nov. 15]. Last year, 35 million people suffered food insecurity, meaning they didn’t have enough money or resources to get food. The number was 38 million in 2004,” quoting the AP. link here . 6. “ONE, THE CAMPAIGN TO MAKE POVERTY HISTORY” “Right now, three human beings are attempting the impossible - running 4,000 miles across the Sahara Desert to raise awareness for the 1.2 billion people around the world who don't have access to clean water. They will run 50 miles a day - for around 80 days - an amazing feat of human will and endurance. Get updates on the run and join me in the fight for clean water,” quoting The One Campaign. link here . 7. VIDEO: “FREE ENERGY: THE RACE TO ZERO POINT” This is an interesting video titled "Free Energy: The Race to Zero Point." This is a documentary about the capture of energy from the groundbreaking work of Nikola Tesla to today. link here . 8. “…SCIENTISTS WITNESS THE BIRTH OF A NEW OCEAN” “They asked a team of British-based scientists with access to satellite technology for help. When the results came back it seemed as unlikely as birds flying out of the ground. Here in the Afar desert [Ethiopia], one of the hottest and driest places on earth, the tribe had witnessed the birth of a new ocean. Images from the European Space Agency's Envisat satellite showed that a huge rift, 37 miles long and up to eight metres (26ft) wide, had opened deep in the Earth's crust. The tear, the largest observed since the advent of satellite monitoring, was created by a violent lateral rush of molten rock, or magma, along the fault line separating the Nubian and Arabian tectonic plates. Tim Wright, a geologist at the University of Leeds who interpreted the satellite results, was astonished by the images and what they pointed to. ‘The process happening here is identical to that which created the Atlantic Ocean,’ said Dr Wright during a recent research expedition in Afar. ‘If this continues we believe parts of Eritrea, Ethiopia and Djibouti will sink low enough to allow water to flow in from the Red Sea,’” quoting UK's Guardian. link here . 9. "CHEMICAL POLLUTION 'HARMS CHILDREN'S BRAINS'" "Chemical pollution may have harmed the brains of millions of children around the world in what scientists are calling a "silent pandemic"…Philippe Grandjean, visiting professor at Harvard and lead author of the review, published in the online Lancet, said: 'The human brain is a precious and vulnerable organ. Even limited damage may have serious consequences. It probably is going to be difficult [to set exposure limits] but this is a classical case where there really is a lot at stake. We are talking about the brain development of future generations. There will be an enormous cost of not regulating exposure,'" quoting UK's Independent. link here . 10. “COLOSSAL HURRICANE-LIKE STORM SEEN ON SATURN” “A colossal, swirling storm with a well-developed eye is churning at Saturn's south pole, the first time a truly hurricane-like storm has been detected on a planet other than Earth, NASA images showed on Thursday[ Nov. 9]. The storm on the giant, ringed planet is about 5,000 miles wide, measuring roughly two thirds the diameter of Earth, with winds howling clockwise at 350 mph (550 kph)…The images -- essentially a 14-frame movie -- were captured over a period of three hours on October 11 by the U.S. space agency's Cassini spacecraft as it passed about 210,000 miles from the planet as part of its exploration of Saturn and its moons," quoting Reuters. [Ed. Note: You must see this picture!] link here . 11. STORM PROTECTION: "A DOME FIT FOR A KING" "Bob Warden and Susan Adams may call it "Eagle's Eye." But their new Monolithic Dome home suggests a castle. It even has a tower that looks medieval and a balcony on which you can easily picture a princess awaiting her knight in shining armor. Eagle's Eye sits among stately trees, on 46 acres of quiet forest-land, undisturbed by the big city sounds of busy Cincinnati, 45 miles west of it," quoting Monolithic. link here "On his website Bob has dozens of captioned pictures detailing the construction of the dome and its unique features. Many of those features are either curved or rounded in some way." link here . 12. WORLD TIME CLOCK MAP Local website creator Guustaaf Damave has a fabulous World Time Zone Map that you can check the current time anywhere in the world. link here Other sites Mr. Damave created, including this one: link here . RAMTHA SCHOOL NEWS RSE comes to Australia next week for the Fall Follow-up Nov. 26-30: link here They will face “Australia's Drought Could Be Worst in One Thousand Years” link here Dr. Miceal Ledwith’s next Teleconference will be Tuesday, November 21, 2006 at 7pm PST. Topic: Regaining Our Empowerment through Forgiveness. Check the details to join in: link here Dr. Ledwith will also be speaking in the Auditorium at the Centerpoint Yoga Studios in NYC November 25, 2006, 324 Lafayette St. (7th Floor) between Bleeker & Houston. link here Further, Miceal has been booked to speak at the Prophets Conference in Sedona, AZ scheduled for May 4-6, 2007 in an event titled ORBS: What is Going On? link here . LOCAL NOTE Covered by Yelm’s first Community Blog last week: A. Portland, OR Egyptian Artifact Show. B. Conversations with God comes to Yelm Cinemas. C. Community Food Banks canned food drive. D. The Future of Food a must-see movie. E. November, 2006 wettest on record – and only ½ of the month is finished. F. Guest Entry - Alternative Energy Plan for Nisqually Watershed. G. Clean Freaks Carpet Care audio special for holidays. link here . QUOTE OF THE WEEK "One of the most important reasons for living is to do something - live outside of yourself and put together an idea, an idea that you want to explore and then complete... Awaken your creative sensitivities!" Jack Palance (1919-2006) American Film Actor, Who passed this plane last week. IN MEMORIAM Kleiner's Korner honors the life and contributions of CBS News 60 Minutes veteran reporter Ed Bradley who passed this plane last week. This was one journalist whose interviews this writer loved to hear! He will be missed… link here . Kleiner’s Korner is copyrighted by Stephen R. Klein, 2006. For archived issues of Kleiner’s Korner, click on "Current Kleiner’s Korner and Archives" at link here Send comments to steve@kleinerskorner.com . KLEINER'S KORNER FOR WEEK OF NOVEMBER 13, 2006 Dear All, Thanks so much for all of the comments you sent last week, almost all were very supportive. This editorial echoes this writer’s thoughts closest as a reflection of what happened last Tuesday, by William Rivers Pitt, a New York Times and internationally bestselling author of two books. link here 1. "GOD VS. SCIENCE: CAN RELIGION STAND UP TO THE TEST?" "It's a debate that long predates Darwin, but the anti-religion position is being promoted with increasing insistence by scientists angered by intelligent design and excited, perhaps intoxicated, by their disciplines' increasing ability to map, quantify and change the nature of human experience. Brain imaging illustrates -- in color -- the physical seat of the will and the passions, challenging the religious concept of a soul independent of glands and gristle. Brain chemists track imbalances that could account for the ecstatic states of visionary saints or, some suggest, of Jesus. Catholicism's Christoph Cardinal Schönborn has dubbed the most fervent of faith-challenging scientists followers of "scientism" or "evolutionism," since they hope science, beyond being a measure, can replace religion as a worldview and a touchstone," quoting TIME. [Ed. Note: Religion’s shrouds of hypocrisy have started to be laid bare. Science’s Newtonian physics as well. Only Quantum Physics has ideals that encompass and explain all.] link here . 2. “A SCIENCE OF THE WEB BEGINS” “The Massachusetts Institute of Technology and the University of Southampton in England today [Nov. 2] announced they would jointly start a new branch of science: the science of the Web. In one decade the World Wide Web has exploded into 14 billion pages that touch almost all aspects of modern life. The network has grown in a grassroots way, based on a handful of pervasive protocols and aloof guidance from the World Wide Web Consortium, a forum based at M.I.T. for Web developers. Essentially, millions of devotees have spent countless hours advancing the Web bit by bit. Although forceful, the effort has also been piecemeal and inefficient,” quoting SCIAM link here . 3. NEW BACKPACK GENERATES ITS OWN ELECTRICITY "A backpack that generates its own electricity may soon allow rescue workers, explorers, and soldiers to power their equipment while on the go, a team of scientists reported today. The backpack will derive its power from the motion of the person carrying it. “The invention, known as the suspended-load backpack, frees handheld computers, cell phones, and dozens of other devices from the constraints of limited battery life and the reach of the power grid. ‘To have electricity is crucial in remote places,’ said Lawrence Rome, a biologist at the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia who led the device's development. Rome's research focuses on how muscles function while walking and running. The idea for the backpack grew out of a request from the U.S. Office of Naval Research to develop a way to generate electricity from body movements," quoting National Geographic. link here The Univ. of Penn Press Release on this: link here . 4. HOPE FOR THE FUTURE “CLEAN CAR BATTERY?” “Menlo Park, Calif. VC firm Kleiner, Perkins, Caufield, & Byers in July led a $3 million preferred stock investment in EEStor Inc., a Cedar Park, Texas startup that is developing breakthrough battery technology. The company was founded in 2001 by Richard D. Weir, Carl Nelson, and Richard S. Weir, who have backgrounds as senior managers in disk-storage technology at such companies as IBM and Xerox PARC. They previously co-founded disk-storage startup Tulip Memory Systems, where they won 16 U.S. patents. “According to a May, 2004, edition of Utility Federal Technology Opportunities, an obscure trade newsletter, EEStor claims to make a battery at half the cost per kilowatt-hour and one-tenth the weight of lead-acid batteries. Specifically, the product weighs 400 pounds and delivers 52 kilowatt-hours. (For battery geeks: "The technology is basically a parallel plate capacitor with barium titanate as the dielectric," UFTO says.) No hazardous or dangerous materials are used in manufacturing the ceramic-based unit, which means it qualifies as what Silicon Valley types call "cleantech." quoting Business Week. link here AND: The company has come up with a new method for making ultracapacitors, battery-like devices that can store large amounts of electricity. EEStor's energy storage unit can hold enough charge to power a car 300 miles, according to its patent, and it can be recharged in the time it takes to pump a tank of gas. And it can do that at only a small, if any, premium to the cost of a gas-powered engine,” quoting the [Austin] American Statesman. link here . 5. TAXPAYERS DUE OIL ROYALTIES FROM OIL COMPANIES "When a giant new oil field was discovered recently in the Gulf of Mexico — possibly the biggest domestic field unearthed in 30 years — it was good news for America's energy front. It should have been great news for taxpayers, too. That's because under leases with the U.S. Interior Department, oil companies typically agree to pay taxpayers generous royalties on their finds — after all, the oil companies drill in public waters. But members of Congress are raising questions as to whether taxpayers will get their due from all of the oil brought up in the new field, due to a costly mistake in some leases that actually exempts oil companies from paying royalties. A federal inquiry has been trying to get to the bottom of just who gave big oil this big break. It happened eight years ago: Leases issued for deep-water drilling in the Gulf in 1998 and 1999 released oil companies from paying the royalties even if the price of oil escalated to incredible heights, as they have in recent month," quoting CBS News. [Ed. Note: New Democratic Congressional majority, are you listening?] link here . 6. FASCINATING SITE SHOWING SURFACE OF EARTH WITH DAYLIGHT “WORLDTIME® is a service featuring an interactive world atlas and information on local time as well as sunrise and sunset times in several hundred cities worldwide. WORLDTIME was developed and is made available to the WWW community by HAB Software, Hamburg, Germany,” quoting Worldtime. link here . 7. "HAPPY PEOPLE CATCH FEWER COLDS" "Happy people are healthier people, research suggests. People who are happy, lively, calm or exhibit other positive emotions are less likely to catch colds and report fewer symptoms of the illness when they are under the weather. The new finding held true regardless of personality traits such as optimism, extraversion and self-esteem. A person’s age, race, gender, education and body mass also did not make a difference," quoting LiveScience. [Ed. Note: Just goes to show "attitude IS everything," as I heard Ramtha to say so many times."] link here . 8. GWU PROF. SAYS WE'RE GETTING CLOSER TO READ MINDS "Pity the poor neurologists of yesteryear, saddled as they were with their conviction that our brains are hardwired after childhood. Then celebrate today’s scientists, who are exploiting brain-imaging technologies to show that our brains are capable of profound and permanent alterations throughout our lives. Neurologist Richard Restak does just that in The New Brain: How the Modern Age Is Rewiring Your Mind, even as he argues that we are being negatively altered by the sound-bite, techno environment in which we live. Technology such as functional magnetic resonance imaging, Restak begins, can now demonstrate that as a musician practices for many hours, certain neural pathways are strengthened. He then moves to a profound implication, namely that all kinds of technological stimuli are forging brain circuits that may hurt us instead of helping us. For instance, he cites correlations between positron emission tomography scans of violent people and normal experimental subjects who are simply thinking about fighting, then asserts that repeated viewing of violence on television and in video games can set up brain circuits that make us more likely to initiate real-world fisticuffs. Unfortunately, such brain imaging may leave more questions than answers. As Restak himself points out, the technology does not provide "neurological explanations," just "important correlations." Yet he is whipped up enough to diagnose all of modern society with attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder, the probable result of brain changes we are initiating in our media-saturated world. He reminds us of the antidote, though: we are still in control of what we allow ourselves to see and hear. In the end, Restak fails to create a sense that scientists have revealed a new way of understanding the brain. And the images that inspire speculation in the book still await research that may finally reveal the mechanisms of such phenomena as memory and aggression," quoting Scientific American about Richards Restak's book The New Brain: How the Modern Age Is Rewiring Your Mind. link here . 9. INTRODUCING NUTRI-ENERGETICS SYSTEMS (NES) “Nutri-Energetics Systems (NES) is the culmination of 25 years of research by Peter Fraser into the quantum electrodynamic (QED) human body-field and, ultimately, into how matter itself is structured. NES represents the synthesis of the latest research and discoveries in quantum physics and biology, biophotonism, advanced mathematics and information technology. Inventors Peter Fraser and Harry Massey have made impressive progress in furthering our understanding of the human body-field and how it regulates information within the physical body. To learn more about the theory behind NES and the development of the clinical assessment system called the NES-Professional, we recommend that you download the e-book The Unturned Stone for free , by Harry Massey and Peter Fraser. The book takes you on a journey from the existing knowledge in the ever-growing fields of quantum physics and energetic medicine to the NES breakthrough in preventative healthcare. It explains in detail how NES represents the most advanced and comprehensive theory about how the body loses homeostasis because of distortions in the human body-field and how to correct them using the NES Infoceuticals. It also extends the theories of healing offered through such alternative modalities as Traditional Chinese Medicine, homeopathy, and other biotechnologies. Please contact your nearest distributor for more details,” quoting the NES website. [Ed. Note: This listing should not be construed as an endorsement, rather is provided for informational purposes. You discern for yourself if this is of interest.] link here The local distributor’s website: link here . 10. "BIGFOOT RESEARCH MAKES PROFESSOR THE OUTCAST" "Jeffrey Meldrum holds a Ph.D. in anatomical sciences and is a tenured professor of anatomy at Idaho State University. He is also one of the world's foremost authorities on Bigfoot, the mythical ape-man of the Northwest woods. And Meldrum firmly believes the lumbering, shaggy brute exists.That makes him an outcast -- a solitary, Sasquatch-like figure himself -- on the 12,700-student campus, where many scientists are embarrassed by what they call Meldrum's "pseudo-academic" pursuits and have called on the university to review his work with an eye toward revoking his tenure. One physics professor, D.P. Wells, wonders whether Meldrum plans to research Santa Claus, too," quoting the AP. [Ed. Note: Thanks to Dr. Meldrum for hanging "in there" so we'll know more about these entities.] link here . 11. NEW FILM DEPICTS LIFE OF SOUTH AFRICAN FREEDOM FIGHTER “Academy Award-winning actor Tim Robbins joins us to talk about his new film, “Catch a Fire.” The movie tells the story of black South African freedom-fighter Patrick Chamusso. It depicts life under apartheid rule – a regime where torture and indefinite detention were commonplace for most of the population and the label terrorist was applied to those seeking to end apartheid and bring democracy to the country. We’re also joined by the film’s producer, Robyn Slovo, the daughter of anti-apartheid activists Ruth First and Joe Slovo. [includes rush transcript]. link here . 12. WTC 9/11 EXPLOSIVE CHARGES INTENTIONALLY PLACED “Here's what demolition experts use in steel framed buildings, the linear shaped charge ... It generates around 3,000,000 psi pressure ... at a speed in excess of 27,000 feet per second ... There are over 1000 different types of explosive ... With the use of delays we can control ... where the debris lands ... vibration ... noise level. The job of a shaped charge is to cut steel H-beams. ‘The way we do this is by cutting the beam at an angle which through a series of beams cut at the same angle will tend to make the building shift over and 'walk'’,” quoting What Really Happened.com. link here ”In perfect conditions the maximum temperature that can be reached by hydrocarbons such as jet fuel burning in air is 1520° F (825° C). When the World Trade Center collapsed the deeply buried fires would have been deprived of oxygen and their temperatures would have significantly decreased. Why was the temperature at the core of "the pile" nearly 500° F hotter than the maximum burning temperature of jet fuel a full seven days after the collapses? There were no infernos in either of the twin towers before they collapsed, so what caused the hot spots deep in their wreckage?” [Ed. Note: Too many scientists, physicists, demolitions, & explosive experts, firemen, & witnesses have all come forward to say that the government’s explanation on why the Twin Towers collapsed does not hold water. And, can anyone tell me how anyone can believe WTC 7 imploded and collapsed without an airplane intercourse of that structure? Hello. HMMM] link here . RAMTHA SCHOOL NEWS A. "Actresses Eva Mendes, Penelope Cruz, and Salma Hayek arrive at the tribute to Penelope Cruz screening of Volver during 2006 AFI FEST presented by Audi held at Arclight Hollywood Cinerama Dome on November 2, 2006 in Hollywood, California. (Photo by Kevin Winter/Getty Images)," quoting movies.aol.com. link here And, these pictures: link here B. “In this demonstration, a trained test-subject meditates in a trancelike state on a digital scale while a recording system monitors the scale for apparent changes in rest-mass. This 13-minute video clearly shows the results of this meditative technique as the subject appears to lose nearly 1 full pound of weight while remaining completely motionless during the meditation exercise. This experiment is a follow-up to research published by investigator Danielle Graham in the American Institute of Physics STAIF 2006 Conference proceedings,” quoting Google. link here . LOCAL NEWS Covered on Yelm’s first community blog last week were these stories: A. Another Yelm author debuts her book’s website. B. Yelm sign ordinance unequal enforcement questioned. C. Record rains. D. Yelm Cinema’s debuts move the “Future of Food.” E. Nisqually River Delta springs back to life F. Jean Marie Christenson gets 45% of vote – a valiant effort G. Yelm loses key jobs, Wal-Mart now hiring H. Yelm to hold Open House for new Safety Bldg (Doublespeak for Police Station). I. Yelm Co-op offering Thanksgiving Day organic turkeys. J. Linda Evans again brings national attention to Yelm & RSE. link here . QUOTE OF THE WEEK “People talk about the middle of the road as though it were unacceptable. Actually, all human problems, excepting morals, come into the gray areas. Things are not all black and white. There have to be compromises. The middle of the road is all of the usable surface. The extremes, right and left, are in the gutters." Dwight D. Eisenhower (1890-1969) 34th President of the USA . Kleiner’s Korner is copyrighted by Stephen R. Klein, 2006. For archived issues of Kleiner’s Korner, click on "Current Kleiner’s Korner and Archives" at link here Send comments to steve@kleinerskorner.com . KLEINER'S KORNER SPECIAL EDITION FOR NOVEMBER 7, 2006 Dear Readers; Every time I get into political stories, I am flooded with emails as the recipient of not-so-pleasant letters. With this being election day in the USA, for whatever that means anymore with most of our Congressional candidates bought and beholding to special interest groups and vote tabulating systems easily hacked, the following are stories I feel are important to share with you today. I rarely cover these issues, as many say these are doom & gloom stories, however knowledge overcomes ignorance. So, do not worry beloved KK readers, this is not & will not become a regular feature. SK- 1. “TOP GOVERNMENT OFFICIAL SAYS US ON VERGE OF ECONOMIC DISASTER” “ What they don't talk about is a dirty little secret everyone in Washington knows, or at least should. The vast majority of economists and budget analysts agree: The ship of state is on a disastrous course, and will founder on the reefs of economic disaster if nothing is done to correct it…Their basic message is this: If the United States government conducts business as usual over the next few decades, a national debt that is already $8.5 trillion could reach $46 trillion or more, adjusted for inflation. That's almost as much as the total net worth of every person in America - Bill Gates, Warren Buffett and those Google guys included. A hole that big could paralyze the U.S. economy; according to some projections, just the interest payments on a debt that big would be as much as all the taxes the government collects today. And every year that nothing is done about it, Walker says, the problem grows by $2 trillion to $3 trillion. People who remember Ross Perot's rants in the 1992 presidential election may think of the federal debt as a problem of the past. But it never really went away after Perot made it an issue, it only took a breather,” quoting the AP. [Ed. Note: KK readers have been hearing this for 2 years now.] link here . 2. “HOW TO STEAL AN ELECTION BY HACKING THE VOTE” “What if I told you that it would take only one person—one highly motivated, but only moderately skilled bad apple, with either authorized or unauthorized access to the right company's internal computer network—to steal a statewide election? You might think I was crazy, or alarmist, or just talking about something that's only a remote, highly theoretical possibility. You also probably would think I was being really over-the-top if I told you that, without sweeping and very costly changes to the American electoral process, this scenario is almost certain to play out at some point in the future in some county or state in America, and that after it happens not only will we not have a clue as to what has taken place, but if we do get suspicious there will be no way to prove anything. You certainly wouldn't want to believe me, and I don't blame you,” quoting ars technician. link here . 3. VOTING MACHINE MAKER DEMANDS HBO CANCEL DOCUMENTARY - HMMM! “Diebold Inc. insisted that cable network HBO cancel a documentary that questions the integrity of its voting machines, calling the program inaccurate and unfair. he program, "Hacking Democracy," is scheduled to debut Thursday, five days before the 2006 U.S. midterm elections. The film claims that Diebold voting machines aren't tamper-proof and can be manipulated to change voting results," quoting Bloomberg News. link here SEATTLE P-I REVIEW OF HBO SPECIAL: “Watching HBO's documentary "Hacking Democracy" might be enough to put you over the edge. Allegations of fraud, lost ballots and demands for hand recounts are all givens following any election post 2000, when a voting machine in Florida tabulated a negative 16,022 votes for Al Gore. This film aims at the heart of those fears, positing that in the age of touch-screen voting tabulated by software kept secret even to election officials themselves, nobody can be absolutely certain that any computerized vote count in this country is legitimate.” link here . 4. “WAS AIRLINE LIQUIDS BAN A HOAX TO REDUCE OUR RIGHTS? “Two brothers charged in an alleged plot to blow up U.S. bound airliners were released Wednesday after a British court ruled the evidence against them was insufficient to warrant a trial. Nabeel Hussain is one of 11 people charged with conspiracy to murder and preparing acts of terrorism in the plot, which police said they foiled in August. He was granted bail on Friday [Oct. 27], along with a 17-year-old suspect who cannot be named because he is under age. Police arrested 25 people in raids across Britain on Aug. 9-10 and charged 17 of them, after uncovering a suspected plot to assemble and detonate improvised explosives on board as many as 10 U.S.-bound planes,” quoting the AP. [Ed. Note: Let's see; trumped up evidence, then airlines prohibiting any liquids, gels, etc., chaos, and then passengers allowed to buy any liquids after security clearance, charges dropped on some arrested -- buy stock in airport shops now! HMMM! What was all of that about; some smoke screen to keep media attention diverted from something?] link here . 5. “BRITISH BELIEVE BUSH IS MORE DANGEROUS THAN KIM JONG-IL” “America is now seen as a threat to world peace by its closest neighbours and allies, according to an international survey of public opinion published today that reveals just how far the country's reputation has fallen among former supporters since the invasion of Iraq. Carried out as US voters prepare to go to the polls next week in an election dominated by the war, the research also shows that British voters see George Bush as a greater danger to world peace than either the North Korean leader, Kim Jong-il, or the Iranian president, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad. Both countries were once cited by the US president as part of an "axis of evil", but it is Mr Bush who now alarms voters in countries with traditionally strong links to the US,” quoting UK’s Guardian. link here . 6. SEN. KERRY APOLOGIZED TO THE TROOPS – WILL PRESIDENT BUSH? Quoting Keith Olbermann on MSNBC Countdown: "So now John Kerry has apologized to the troops; apologized for the Republicans' deliberate distortions. Thus, the president will now begin the apologies he owes our troops, right? This president must apologize to the troops for having suggested, six weeks ago, that the chaos in Iraq, the death and the carnage, the slaughtered Iraqi civilians and the dead American service personnel, will, to history, "look like just a comma." This president must apologize to the troops because the intelligence he claims led us into Iraq proved to be undeniably and irredeemably wrong. This president must apologize to the troops for having laughed about the failure of that intelligence at a banquet while our troops were in harm's way. This president must apologize to the troops because the streets of Iraq were not strewn with flowers and its residents did not greet them as liberators. This president must apologize to the troops because his administration ran out of "plan" after barely two months. This president must apologize to the troops for getting 2,815 of them killed. This president must apologize to the troops for getting this country into a war without a clue. And Mr. Bush owes us an apology for this destructive and omnivorous presidency. We will not receive them, of course. This president never apologizes. Not to the troops. Not to the people. Nor will those henchmen who have echoed him.” link here . 7. A LETTER FROM “A MOM” ATTENDING THE OPENING OF ARLINGTON WEST IN OLYMPIA, WASHINGTON LAST WEEK “I attended the opening of Arlington West in Olympia, Washington, last week. As I was placing the symbolic headstones for our fallen soldiers on their spikes, my heart broke. Not only for the soldiers, many of them 19 and 20, but for the mothers, fathers, wives, husbands and children that are being left behind,” quoting Sara Rich. link here About Arlington West. link here THIS LETTER FROM 600 SOLDIERS Further, quoting The Nation, “’As a patriotic American proud to serve the nation in uniform, I respectfully urge my political leaders in Congress to support the prompt withdrawal of all American military forces and bases from Iraq. Staying in Iraq will not work and is not worth the price. It is time for US troops to come home.’ This statement - the Appeal for Redress - has been signed by over 600 active-duty soldiers who have had enough of seeing their brothers and sisters sacrificed to the disastrous war in Iraq. In this month alone, 101 American soldiers have been killed, more than in any month since January, 2005 and the fourth highest monthly total since the war began in March, 2003.” link here . 8. PAPIEREN, PAPIEREN! MAY SOON BE HEARD IN USA "Papieren, Papieren" was the German phrase for "Papers, Papers" that all had to carry in Germany to show to authorities whenever/wherever asked in the early 1940’s. Is the USA next? “Forget no-fly lists. If Uncle Sam gets its way, beginning on Jan. 14, 2007, we'll all be on no-fly lists, unless the government gives us permission to leave-or re-enter-the United States. The U.S. Department of Homeland Security (HSA) has proposed that all airlines, cruise lines-even fishing boats-be required to obtain clearance for each passenger they propose taking into or out of the United States. It doesn't matter if you have a U.S. Passport - a "travel document" that now, absent a court order to the contrary, gives you a virtually unqualified right to enter or leave the United States, any time you want. When the DHS system comes into effect next January, if the agency says "no" to a clearance request, or doesn't answer the request at all, you won't be permitted to enter-or leave-the United States,” quoting Friends of Liberty. [Ed. Note: This is set to occur just before the National ID Card issuance, covered here previously.] link here . 9. CANADIAN RESEARCHERS BREAKOFF SHARING WITH USA “Dozens of Canadian university and college libraries are changing how they arrange for their students and faculty to do online research, in part because of a U.S. law intended to detect possible terrorist activity. The universities subscribe to RefWorks, a popular American research tool that helps academics with research, as well as with completing citations and bibliographies. However, the U.S. Patriot Act - created in the wake of the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks in New York and Washington - allows government officials to sweep through databases, including RefWorks, as part of routine surveillance. ‘It's an issue of privacy - [that's] what it comes down to,’ said Karen Lippold, a librarian at Memorial University in St. John's. Conceivably, the searches of a student or faculty member doing work on a sensitive issue could be flagged and then stored in the U.S. ‘The U.S. Patriot Act allows the U.S. government - without any kind of notification - to have access to people's personal information, and so the feeling was that it left people vulnerable. Their research could be looked at by the U.S. government,’ Lippold said,” quoting CBC News. link here . 10. “AMERICAN PRISON PLANET” “Today, the United States presides over a burgeoning empire -- not only the "empire of bases" first described by Chalmers Johnson, but a far-flung new network of maximum security penitentiaries, detention centers, jail cells, cages, and razor wire-topped pens. From supermax-type isolation prisons in 40 of the 50 states to shadowy ghost jails at remote sites across the globe, this new network of detention facilities is quite unlike the gulags, concentration-camps, or prison nations of the past. Even with a couple million prisoners under its control, the U.S. prison network lacks the infrastructure or manpower of the Soviet gulag or the orderly planning of the Nazi concentration-camp system. However, where it bests both, and breaks new incarceration ground, is in its planet-ranging scope, with sites scattered the world over -- from Europe to Asia, the Middle East to the Caribbean. Unlike colonial prison systems of the past, the new U.S. prison network seems to have floated almost free of surrounding colonies,” quoting Nick Turse. link here USA #1 IN WORLD PRISON POPULATION “More than 2.1 million people are in jail in the US at any one time; that is about one in 140 Americans, or as many people as live in Namibia, or nearly five Luxembourgs - and it is a number that continues to rise,” quoting the BBC. link here scroll to chart showing America number one in worldwide prison population. . 11. “GOOGLE 'WILL BE ABLE TO KEEP TABS ON US ALL'" “The internet will hold so much digital data in five years that it will be possible to find out what an individual was doing at a specific time and place, an expert said yesterday [Nov. 2]. Nigel Gilbert, a professor heading a Royal Academy of Engineering study into surveillance, said people would be able to sit down and type into Google "what was a particular individual doing at 2.30 yesterday and would get an answer". The answer would come from a range of data, for instance video recordings or databanks which store readings from electronic chips. Such chips embedded in people's clothes could track their movements. He told a privacy conference the internet would be capable of holding huge amounts of data very cheaply and patterns of information could be extracted very quickly. "Everything can be recorded for ever," he said. He was speaking at a conference at which a report commissioned by Richard Thomas, the privacy watchdog, was launched. Mr Thomas has said Britain is "waking up to a surveillance society that is all around us" and that such "pervasive" surveillance is likely to spread,” quoting UK’s Guardian. link here . 12. AFTER YEARS OF DENIAL, PRESIDENT BUSH FINALLY SAYS IRAQ WAR ABOUT OIL “During the run-up to the invasion of Iraq, President Bush and his aides sternly dismissed suggestions that the war was all about oil. "Nonsense," Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld declared. "This is not about that," said White House spokesman Ari Fleischer. Now, more than 3 1/2 years later, someone else is asserting that the war is about oil -- President Bush… As he barnstorms across the country campaigning for Republican candidates in Tuesday's elections, Bush has been citing oil as a reason to stay in Iraq. If the United States pulled its troops out prematurely and surrendered the country to insurgents, he warns audiences, it would effectively hand over Iraq's considerable petroleum reserves to terrorists who would use it as a weapon against other countries,” quoting the Washington Post. link here . 13. “THE DEATH OF HABEAS CORPUS” “I do solemnly swear that I will faithfully execute the office of President of the United States, and will to the best of my ability, preserve, protect, and defend the Constitution of the United States.” This is a phrase that many of us have either heard or will hear within our lifetime. It is Presidential oath of office. This oath signifies perhaps the greatest responsibility of the President of the United States, to “preserve, protect and defend the Constitution.” However, little do most people know, but right now our very constitution, the framework of how our entire republic functions, is under attack. This precious framework is not under attack by terrorists, or the “Axis of Evil,” but by the Republican-led Congress and the 43rd President of the United States, George W. Bush. On October 18, the Military Commission’s Act of 2006 was signed into law. After signing this bill, President Bush told us “One of the terrorists believed to have planned the 9/11 attacks said he hoped the attacks would be the beginning of the end of America.” It seems he got his wish; the attacks have begun to show signs of “the beginning of the end of America.” But this is downfall of our country is not how the President sees it, with the terrorists always plotting against us, but by a clear and direct violation of our constitution, and an assault by President George W. Bush on the personal freedoms and liberties of all American citizens. This law calls for the elimination of something called Habeas Corpus. Habeas Corpus is defined in the dictionary as “a writ [law] or order requiring that a prisoner be brought before a judge or into court to decide whether he is being held lawfully.” Not only is this a very frightening proposition, eliminating something so vital to our legal system, but it is against the constitution of the United States of America to eliminate it to begin with. “The Privilege of the Writ of Habeas Corpus shall not be suspended, unless when in Cases of Rebellion or Invasion the public Safety may require it,” are the words exactly as in our constitution, Section 1 Article 9. We are not experiencing a case of rebellion, nor are we being invaded. Therefore, the sheer fact that this bill was signed into law is both illegal and treasonous. Under President Bush’s new law, nine out of our ten rights in the Bill of Rights are also totally eliminated,” quoting The Anchor - Rhode Island College's Student Run Newspaper. link here . 14. SADDAM'S GUILTY VERDICT "A GUILTY VERDICT ON AMERICA AS WELL" From the UK's Independent, "So America's one-time ally has been sentenced to death for war crimes he committed when he was Washington's best friend in the Arab world. America knew all about his atrocities and even supplied the gas - along with the British, of course - yet there we were yesterday declaring it to be, in the White House's words, another "great day for Iraq". That's what Tony Blair announced when Saddam Hussein was pulled from his hole in the ground on 13 December 2003. And now we're going to string him up, and it's another great day. Of course, it couldn't happen to a better man. Nor a worse. It couldn't be a more just verdict - nor a more hypocritical one...And so by hanging this awful man, we hope - don't we? - to look better than him, to remind Iraqis that life is better now than it was under Saddam. Only so ghastly is the hell-disaster that we have inflicted upon Iraq that we cannot even say that. Life is now worse. Or rather, death is now visited upon even more Iraqis than Saddam was able to inflict on his Shias and Kurds and - yes, in Fallujah of all places - his Sunnis, too. So we cannot even claim moral superiority. For if Saddam's immorality and wickedness are to be the yardstick against which all our iniquities are judged, what does that say about us?" [Ed. Note: This writer's thoughts exactly.] link here . QUOTE OF THE WEEK “Courage is doing what you're afraid to do. There can be no courage unless you're scared.” Edward Vernon Rickenbacker American WW1 Flying Ace & Leader of Eastern Airlines from 1933 until 1959. . Kleiner’s Korner is copyrighted by Stephen R. Klein, 2006. For archived issues of Kleiner’s Korner, click on "Current Kleiner’s Korner and Archives" at link here Send comments to steve@kleinerskorner.com . . KLEINER'S KORNER FOR WEEK OF NOVEMBER 6, 2006 This & all past-dated Kleiner's Korners are available for your review 24/7 on an internet-based archive: link here 1. BRITAIN WARNS USA OVER GLOBAL WARMING - HIRES AL GORE Left unchecked, global warming could drive the world economy into a depression similar to the devastating downturn of the 1930s, the British government said Monday [Oct. 30] in a report that appeared designed to influence politics in the United States. The report, written by Nicholas Stern, head of the British Government Economic Service and a former World Bank economist, said the environmental cost of global warming could range between 5 percent and 20 percent of the world's total annual economic output after 2050. British Prime Minister Tony Blair, who has sought to persuade President Bush to take a more aggressive stance in tackling global warming, asked former Vice President Al Gore on Monday [Oct. 30] to advise his government on climate change — an action that could be considered a political shot across the bow. Gore, who has warned of the dangers of global warming for years, is one of Bush's sharpest critics on the environment," quoting the Chicago Tribune. link here . 2. [RED] “WINE EXTRACT KEEPS MICE FAT AND HEALTHY” From Scientific American, “Researchers have found that resveratrol--a molecule found in the skin of red grapes and therefore in red wine--can prolong the life span of obese mice. They report their findings in today's [Nov. 2] advanced online edition of Nature. Resveratrol has been touted as an antiaging therapy since 2003, when Robert Sinclair, a Harvard Medical School pathologist and co-author of the current study, found that the life span of yeast could be extended by up to 60 percent when treated with the molecule. The same effect has been replicated in worms, flies and fish.” link here “Huge amounts of a red wine extract seemed to help obese mice eat a high-fat diet and still live a long and healthy life, suggests a new study that some experts are calling "landmark" research. The big question is, can it work the same magic in humans? Scientists say it's far too early to start swilling barrels of red wine. But some are calling the latest research promising and even ‘spectacular.’ The study by the Harvard Medical School and the National Institute of Aging shows that heavy doses of red wine extract lowers the rate of diabetes, liver problems, and other fat-related ill effects in obese mice. Fat-related deaths dropped 31 percent for obese mice on the supplement, compared to untreated obese mice, and the treated mice also lived long after they should have, the study said. Astoundingly, the organs of the fat mice that got the wine extract looked normal when they shouldn't have, said study lead author Dr. David Sinclair of Harvard Medical School. And Sinclair said other preliminary work still being done in the lab shows the wine ingredient has promise in lengthening the life span of normal-sized mice, too,” quoting the AP. [Ed. Note: Who knew this about red wine? KK readers have been reading the scientific discoveries of the wonderful effects of red wine consumption for years.] link here . 3. ROMANIAN BONES DATED TO HUMANS 30,000 YEARS AGO “Archaeologists have identified fossils belonging to some of the earliest modern humans to settle in Europe. The research team has dated six bones found in the Pestera Muierii cave, Romania, to 30,000 years ago. The finds also raise questions about the possible place of Neanderthals in modern human ancestry. Details of the discoveries appear in the US journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. The human bones were first identified at the Pestera Muierii (Cave of the Old Woman) cave in 1952, but have now been reassessed,” quoting the BBC. [Ed. Note: "Ramtha is an ancient warrior, conqueror, and ascended Master who lived 35,000 years ago. Remnants of his life and teachings exist in various archaeological artifacts from India and Egypt, as well as ancient Hindu literature," quoting Ramtha's website. link here ] link here Further: ANCIENT FOOTPRINTS FOUND IN MEXICO VALLEY “A trail of 13 fossilized footprints running through a valley in a desert in northern Mexico could be among the oldest in the Americas, Mexican archeologists said. The footprints were made by hunter gatherers who are believed to have lived thousands of years ago in the Coahuila valley of Cuatro Cienegas, 190 miles south of Eagle Pass, Texas, said archaeologist Yuri de la Rosa Gutierrez of Mexico's National Institute of Anthropology and History. ‘We believe (the footprints) are between 10,000 and 15,000 years old,’ De la Rosa said in a news release Wednesday. ‘We have evidence of the presence of hunter gatherers in the Coahuila desert more than 10,000 years ago.’ AP link here . 4. “OLDEST BEE FOSSIL CREATES NEW BUZZ” “The discovery of the oldest bee fossil supports the theory that bees evolved from wasps, scientists reported Wednesday [Oct. 24]. The 100 million-year-old fossil was found in a mine in the Hukawng Valley of Myanmar (Burma) and preserved in amber. Amber, which begins as tree sap, often traps insects and plant structures before they fossilize. ‘This is the oldest known bee we've ever been able to identify, and it shares some of the features of wasps,’ said lead author George Poinar, a researcher from Oregon State University. ‘But overall it's more bee than wasp, and gives us a pretty good idea of when these two types of insects were separating on their evolutionary paths." …The study is detailed in Friday's issue of the journal Science. link here . 5. U. S. DOE AWARDS $100 MILLION IN FUEL CELL R & D "U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Secretary Samuel W. Bodman today [Oct. 24] announced $100 million to fund 25 hydrogen research and development projects that can help change the way we power our nation. These projects support President Bush’s Advanced Energy Initiative, which seeks to reduce our dependence on foreign sources of energy through the research, development and deployment of transformational new clean energy technologies. Secretary Bodman made today’s announcement while speaking to the Council on Competitiveness and the Chicagoland Chamber of Commerce Foundation...Fuel cells use hydrogen and oxygen to create electricity, with only water and heat as byproducts. They can power small portable devices and provide heat and electricity to buildings, and they can be used to power vehicles, with two to three times the efficiency of traditional internal combustion technologies," quoting the U. S. Dept. of Energy website. link here . 6. WEATHER NEWS YIKES! TROPICAL STORM FORMS 900 MILES FROM PACIFIC NORTHWEST "Located 900 miles off the coast of Oregon in the northwestern Pacific, this storm system looks like a hurricane, but it is located far from any of the typical hurricane formation areas. The storm originally formed from a cold-cored extratropical storm, but after spending two days over unusually warm water (perhaps as much as 2 degrees Celsius above normal for the time of year), it developed a warm center, and hurricane characteristics, such as a cloud-free eye and an eyewall of thunderstorms. With satellite-observed winds as high as 50 knots on November 2, the storm was strong enough to have been named if it had been in one of the routinely monitored hurricane basins," quoting NASA. [Ed. Note: See photo of this fascinating rare event.] link here "WEATHER BALLOON MAY VANISH INTO RECENT PAST" "Just after dawn in an open field, Calvin Meadows tugs a cotton tether to send aloft a 6-foot helium balloon that will carry weather instruments more than 19 miles into the sky. About the same time, technicians and scientists across the world do the same. The practice, repeated twice daily in 92 locations in the United States and hundreds more worldwide, is part of a little-known, six-decade-old effort to predict where storms will strike. Meadows, a government weather technician, has been releasing balloons for more than a decade. But the operation soon may become obsolete if a $20 million network of high-tech sensors quietly installed on some U.S. passenger planes succeeds. The experiment promises to improve forecasts dramatically, warn pilots flying into dangerous ice storms or turbulence and even track hijacked flights," quoting the AP. link here . 7. INTERVIEW ABOUT WORK OF 20TH CENTURY GENIUS NIKOLA TESLA “Interview with Tom Bearden who is the foremost expert on Nikola Tesla and Free Energy, Overunity Devices & Zero Point energy physics.” [Ed. Note: A lot of grand information here, not all I agree with.] link here . 8. "...SCIENTISTS DISSECT MYSTERY OF GENIUS" "The MIND Institute, an independent research site funded mostly with federal dollars, has perhaps the largest collection of sophisticated brain imaging devices in the world...But Jung and his colleague Dr. Richard Haier of the University of California, Irvine, claim they are on the verge of refining imaging techniques to a point that would make traditional intelligence tests obsolete...So far, says Haier, he has found a strong correlation between intelligence and the size and shape of certain brain structures -- including parts of the superior parietal lobe (involved in sensory perception) and parts of the prefrontal cortex (associated with complex thinking, personality, planning, coordination). Intelligence research is full of surprises. For example, the brains of smarter people, as measured by IQ, tend to be less active but more efficient, Haier says. In a controversial paper, he contends based on structural MRI scans that men and women think differently. For men in Haier's study, having more gray matter in certain areas corresponds to a higher IQ, while in women, it made no difference," quoting CNN. link here . 9. “WHY ARE WE HERE?” "The questions ‘Why are we here?’ and ‘Why do we exist?’ may sound purely philosophical in nature. Scientists, however, believe answers to these questions lie in the sub-atomic world inhabited by quarks and neutrinos. These fundamental particles were created when the universe was formed and, to theoretical physicists like UC Berkeley's Hitoshi Murayama, they represent clues to life's ultimate mysteries. ‘Once you know how these tiny particles work, you can answer how the universe came about,’ says Hitoshi Murayama, professor in the Department of Physics. According to the laws of physics, our existence would not be possible without some process that was able to create and exploit a minute imbalance in energy. ‘That little bit of energy is why we are here,’ says Murayama, who is also a member of the Berkeley Center for Theoretical Physics (BCTP)," quoting College of Letters & Science, UC - Berkeley. link here . 10. BRAIN REMAPPING WORKS "I lost my voice about 18 months ago. Permanently. It’s something exotic called Spasmodic Dysphonia. Essentially a part of the brain that controls speech just shuts down in some people, usually after you strain your voice during a bout with allergies (in my case) or some other sort of normal laryngitis. It happens to people in my age bracket. I asked my doctor – a specialist for this condition – how many people have ever gotten better. Answer: zero... The day before yesterday, while helping on a homework assignment, I noticed I could speak perfectly in rhyme. Rhyme was a context I hadn’t considered. A poem isn’t singing and it isn’t regular talking. But for some reason the context is just different enough from normal speech that my brain handled it fine. Jack be nimble, Jack be quick. Jack jumped over the candlestick. I repeated it dozens of times, partly because I could. It was effortless, even though it was similar to regular speech. I enjoyed repeating it, hearing the sound of my own voice working almost flawlessly. I longed for that sound, and the memory of normal speech. Perhaps the rhyme took me back to my own childhood too. Or maybe it’s just plain catchy. I enjoyed repeating it more than I should have. Then something happened. My brain remapped. My speech returned. Not 100%, but close, like a car starting up on a cold winter night. And so I talked that night. A lot. And all the next day. A few times I felt my voice slipping away, so I repeated the nursery rhyme and tuned it back in. By the following night my voice was almost completely normal. When I say my brain remapped, that’s the best description I have," quoting Scott Adams, creator of the popular Dilbert cartoon on his Dilbert Blog. link here . 11. "THIS IS YOUR BRAIN ON NEGATIVE ADS" "The grainy black-and-white images appear on television, while ominous music plays in the background. It's another in a blizzard of negative political ads and before you consciously know it, the message takes hold of your brain. You may not want it to, but it works just about instantly. In fact, the ad's effects on the brain "are actually shocking," says UCLA psychiatry professor Dr. Marco Iacoboni. Iacoboni's brain imaging research from the 2004 presidential campaign revealed that viewers lost empathy for their own candidate once he was attacked. Scientists around the country are logging the emotional and physical effects of negative political ads. Iacoboni tracked parts of the middle brain that lit up in brain scans when people watched their favorite candidates get attacked," quoting the AP. link here . 12. CANDICE PERT HAS NEW BOOK PUBLISHED “Candace Pert's new book is out! In Everything You Need to Feel Go(o)d, Dr. Pert documents how mind, body, and spirit cannot be separated; and even shows that we’re hard-wired for bliss, which is both physical and divine. ‘Feeling good and feeling God,’ she believes, are one and the same. link here . RAMTHA SCHOOL NEWS JZ Knight was one of 5 panel members interviewed on CNN’s Larry King Show on November 2 titled Beyond Positive Thinking: "Change your mind to change your life." Get the transcript here if you missed the airings: link here Dr. Miceal Ledwith will be the Keynote Speaker at The Gathering in Lynnwood, WA November 11-12, 2006. "Leave the world behind and come spend the weekend with some of the most compelling spiritual teachers in the world! Join us as we learn how to strengthen our connection to creation, abundance, joy and—most importantly—ourselves. Gather with us to explore how to demystify the mysteries of greater consciousness. The weekend includes eight classes of your choice, an informal Meet the Presenters event, morning sound healing ceremonies, evening entertainment featuring Vanda, a renowned stand-up spiritual comic, a wonderful marketplace, and live music throughout the day. You are welcome to join us for one or both days. link here Dr. Anne Marie Bennstrom [our “Young Woman”] a noted pioneer in spirituality, health and fitness and Vanda Mikoloski, Spiritual Comedian with her standup Comedy Show/ Enlighten Up! will be featured speakers. link here Linda Evans' play LEGENDS! opened in Philly last week with her press interviews all quoting her participation in Ramtha's School. In the past, the media has omitted this from their printed story. The Philadelphia Daily News: "But instead of letting that be the ruin of her as it is with so many other entertainers, she began a journey inward, facilitated largely by a controversial school she attends in the Pacific Northwest called Ramtha's School of Enlightment (sic) in Yelm, Wash. It helped her put things into perspective such as aging and surviving in a cut-throat industry that values looks and youth above everything." link here And, the Delaware County Times: "...In her personal life, Evans opts for a quieter, more spiritual existence. Rather than live in the vicinity of Hollywood, she has chosen to live in a villa on a lake in Washington State, near a school with with she’s been associated for a while, the Raamtha (sic) School of Enlightenment...." link here . LOCAL NOTE Yelm Cinemas Theater Manager Howard Christian has done it again! Per your requests, he has a LIMITED ENGAGEMENT (one or two weeks) scheduled for the landmark film, The Future of Food beginning Friday, November 10th. Be sure to spread the word and show support to Yelm Cinemas so they will get more films of this caliber. Check theater for show times. This film will be shown in the splendor of 35mm, so will be a full-screen presentation. link here “THE FUTURE OF FOOD offers an in-depth investigation into the disturbing truth behind the unlabeled, patented, genetically engineered foods that have quietly filled U.S. grocery store shelves for the past decade.” link here Other local stories of the week as reported on Yelm’s Community blog were: A. YHS grad making waves as Toronto Blue Jays professional baseball player. B. Thurston County Flood Bulletin. C. Sea-Tac Airport detours for light rail station construction. D. JZ Knight’s appearance on CNN’s Larry King Show. link here . QUOTE OF THE WEEK “Failure is only postponed success as long as courage "coaches" ambition. The habit of persistence is the habit of victory.” Herbert Kaufman (1878-1947) American syndicated newspaperman, poet . Kleiner’s Korner is copyrighted by Stephen R. Klein, 2006. For archived issues of Kleiner’s Korner, click on "Current Kleiner’s Korner and Archives" at link here Send comments to steve@kleinerskorner.com .