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Sent: Friday, March 14, 2008 4:20 PM Subject: CLOSED Congress Session Last Night: Only 4th Time In 176 Years ! SPECIAL "CLOSED SESSION" OF U.S. HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES DISCUSSED A LOT MORE THAN THE PENDING SECURITY SURVEILLANCE PROVISIONS! This was only the fourth time in 176 years that Congress has closed its doors to the public. What was it that they were discussing that they do NOT want us to know about? Word has begun leaking from last nights special, closed-door session of the United States House of Representatives. Not only did members discuss new surveillance provisions as was the...

new NASA satellite has recorded the first detailed images from space of a mysterious type of cloud called “night-shining” or “noctilucent." The clouds are on the move, brightening and creeping out of polar regions, and researchers don't know why.

http://writingcompany.blogs.com/this_isnt_writing_its_typ/2007/04/the_west_held_h_1.html Meanwhile, the Jerusalem Post is reporting that a U.S. missile attack on Iran may be imminent: According to Russian intelligence sources … the US has devised a plan to attack several targets in Iran, and an assault could be carried out by launching missiles from fighter jets and warships stationed in the Persian Gulf. Russian news agency RIA Novosti quoted a security official as saying, "Russian intelligence has information that the US Armed Forces stationed in the Persian Gulf have nearly completed preparations for a missile strike against Iranian territory." The attack could come as early as April 6—which...

A photograph taken in Beavercreek has some hoping it's proof of top-secret 'pulse jet' tests. BEAVERCREEK — A Beavercreek man's photograph of an unusual aircraft condensation trail has sparked a high-flying debate among scientists and aviation fans over whether the Air Force or NASA is flying an aerospace vehicle with an exotic new propulsion system. The photo of the vapor trail, taken Nov. 10 by amateur meteorologist Bill Telzerow from his backyard, shows a distinctive "doughnuts-on-a-rope" shape. The photo has raised questions about whether an experimental propulsion system that uses pulse detonation engine technology is being tested here. The propulsion...

The Security and Prosperity Partnership (SPP), signed by President Bush with Mexico and Canada in Waco, Tex., on March 23, 2005, was fundamentally an agreement to erase our borders with Mexico and Canada. As I have documented below, the SPP “working groups” organized within the U.S. Department of Transportation are signing trilateral memoranda of understanding and other agreements with Mexico and Canada designed to accomplish the open borders goal incrementally, below the radar of mainstream media attention, thereby avoiding public scrutiny. Congress is largely unaware that SPP exists, let alone knowledgeable about the extensive work being done behind the scenes...

Big Media Won't Touch Agenda 21 Nancy Levant I keep waiting, and waiting, and waiting for Bill O’Reilly or Shaun Hannity or Oprah Winfrey or somebody…..anybody, who has daily access to the multitudes, to say the words, “Agenda 21.” I’m still waiting, and for the life of me, I don’t understand the refusal to talk about the greatest threat to America that has ever existed. However, it dawns on me that wrapping a brain around Agenda 21 requires time, effort, interest, and a lot diligence. No one told me about Agenda 21. I found it by accident on the Internet....

Longer Airline Flights Proposed to Combat Global Warming By Michael Schirber LiveScience Staff Writer posted: 26 January, 2005 7:00 a.m. ET Tendrils of condensation that mark the paths of high-flying jets sometimes form a loose lacework of man-made clouds in the upper atmosphere. The extra blanket of atmospheric insulation from these spreading contrails, as they are called, could accelerate global warming, studies have shown. Now a group of researchers says something should be done. Their proposal would lengthen the typical airline flight. High-altitude cirrus clouds, both natural and jet-induced, are unlike thicker low-altitude clouds, which block sunlight from reaching the...

Cloud-like white trails left by aircraft may be playing a significant role in global warming, a scientist said today. The exhaust plumes contain carbon dioxide and chemicals which can lead to the production of ozone – which creates smog. At the same time, the vapour trails, in the right conditions, can form feathery cirrus clouds which warm the surface of the Earth’s by trapping heat. Patrick Minnis, of the USA’s National Aeronautics and Space Administration’s Langley Research Center in Virginia, studied how the average temperature of the US increased by one degree from 1975 to 1994. While acknowledging that it...

Arnold: "No, I have made a decision. I'm against it. It looks good on the surface, but when you study it you see its true intentions. It was a no-brainer, once I looked at all the reading and all the materials. I do a lot of work with after school programs, a lot of these kids are minorities, and we need to know how they're doing and bring them up to the starting line. It was a no-brainer. And if the right-wing crazies have a problem with that, so be it." Why are so many FReepers up in arms over...

TRENTON, N.J. (AP) -- New Jersey health officials were awaiting test results Tuesday to determine if a child from the state is infected with monkeypox. The 11-year-old boy came into contact with a pair of prairie dogs while visiting a family friend in a Midwestern state where the infection has spread, state officials said. Results on blood and lesion samples from the boy sent to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention are expected in several days. Nationally, health officials were working to contain the spread of the monkeypox virus, which is related to smallpox and apparently has never before...

For education and discussion only. Not for commercial use. GENESEO, Ill. (AP) — As a military plane swooped over an Illinois town, frightened residents called police, but a relative said later that the pilot just wanted to impress his grandmother. Witnesses said Maj. Whitney Sieben made at least four low passes and performed loops and barrel rolls Thursday over Genesco, a town of 6,400 in western Illinois. Sieben said he had permission from air traffic control to deviate from his flight plan. He said he was flying about 350 mph and never dropped below 2,000 feet. His aunt, Kay Sieben,...

The unique atmospheric conditions following last year's terrorist attacks on the United States have helped Australian scientists solve a 50-year-old mystery: why bodies of water, like backyard swimming pools, are evaporating much more slowly than decades ago, despite global warming. In the aftermath of September11, more than 10,000 aircraft were suddenly grounded for three days. "It was like a big experiment you can't normally do," said Michael Roderick of the Australian National University and Co-operative Research Centre for Greenhouse Accounting. People across the US reportedly remarked at how clear the skies became. Dr Roderick and Professor Graham Farquhar used data...

By Ronald Kotulak Tribune science reporter August 8, 2002 Fluffy rows of cirrus clouds created by the increasing number of jet contrails can sometimes fill half the sky and may significantly affect ground temperatures, according to a report in Thursday's issue of the British science journal Nature. Using a unique opportunity to study the effect of contrails on temperature after all commercial planes were grounded for three days after the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks, a team of researchers found that clouds spawned by jets lower peak daytime temperatures and raise the lowest nighttime readings. Such temperature changes could have a...

Math TrekSong-and-Dance Fermat Food for ThoughtBreath-Taking Popcorn Science SafariCold Lighting TimeLine70 Years Ago in Science News Week of May 11, 2002; Vol. 161, No. 19 September's Science: Shutdown of airlines aided contrail studies Sid Perkins Immediately after four hijacked airliners slammed into New York's World Trade Center, the Pentagon, and a field in southwestern Pennsylvania, the Federal Aviation Administration shut down all U.S. commercial air traffic for 3 days. The unprecedented grounding of airliners enabled airports to step up security measures. At the same time, scientists stepped up to a unique opportunity to study the influence of high-flying aircraft on Earth's...