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Just over a year ago several media outlets reported that John Kanzius, an amateur inventor from Erie, Pa., had discovered a seemingly impossible phenomenon: a way to burn salt water by exposing it to radio waves. Videos of the experiment became YouTube sensations, though they garnered as many critical comments as favorable ones. Now that the initial fervor has waned, we checked in with Kanzius, a collaborator and some critics to see how the technique has progressed, or if it's just another example of Web-propelled junk science. Kanzius' concept is simple: expose salt water to 13.56 MHz radio waves and...

Kanzius and Penn State Chemist Rostum RoyPosted September 14th, 2007 by Categories: Water Desalination Research and Development Back in June I posted extensively about John Kanzius RF machine that cracked hydrogen out of saltwater. His last comments at the time were that he believed that his device had achieved unity–and therefor he would go silent. (That is, unlike electrolysis which is about 72% efficient–Kanzius believed his machine was +100–meaning he believed his machine produced more energy than it consumed. Needless to say, everyone around the net has said this is impossible.)There have been a flurry of new articles this week...

Former NFL kicker pleads guilty to shooting Siegfried & Roy houseBy KEN RITTER, Associated Press Writer May 11, 2006 LAS VEGAS (AP) -- Former Raiders kicker Cole Ford, who has been hospitalized for mental illness, pleaded guilty Thursday to shooting at the home of entertainers Siegfried Fischbacher and Roy Horn in 2004. Ford, who last kicked for Oakland in 1997, agreed to a felony plea that could result in a suspended sentence of one to six years in a Nevada prison if he continues mental-health treatment at a center near his family's home in Tucson, Ariz. "We've come a long...

Thursday, Feb. 9, 2006 1:15 p.m. EST CORE Blasts King Funeral 'Outrage' The head of one of the nation's oldest civil rights organizations is blasting former President Jimmy Carter and Rev. Joseph Lowery for politicizing the funeral of Coretta Scott King. In a press release Thursday, Roy Innis, chairman of the Congress of Racial Equality, called comments by Carter and Lowery attacking President Bush "crass" and "disrespectful." "It was an outrage for such behavior to be exhibited in the presence of the President of the United States, and it was particularly outrageous for it to occur at a funeral for...

The disciplinary arm of the N.C. State Bar dropped charges of felonious misconduct against two former Union County prosecutors Friday because of a 1999 clerical error at the state Supreme Court. The State Bar had charged Kenneth Honeycutt and Scott Brewer with lying, cheating and withholding evidence in a 1996 death penalty case. The ruling Friday marks the second time that Honeycutt and Brewer won on procedural grounds before the bar's Disciplinary Hearing Commission, which sits as judge and jury in disciplinary cases. . . . Prosecutors around the state are concerned that the case is damaging their reputation and...

A South African mugger fleeing the scene of his crime hides in a tiger enclosure. On the country's coast, a woman attempts to be a good Samaritan by pushing a young seal into the sea, believing the poor thing is stranded. Both people paid heavily for their stupidity, underscoring one of nature's truisms: humans do dumb things around wild animals. "I blame it on Walt Disney, where animals are given human qualities. People don't understand that a wild animal is not something that is nice to pat. It can seriously harm you," said James Cameron, a South African professional hunter....

Howard Phillips, Chairman of The Conservative Caucus, will be joined by Stephen Peroutka (“Face the Truth”), Dr. Alan Keyes (The Declaration Foundation), Michael Peroutka (Founder, Institute on the Constitution), and Jim Clymer (Chairman, Constitution Party National Committee), and others at an 11:30 A.M., Wednesday, July 13 news conference in the President’s Room at the University Club (1135 16th Street, N.W., Washington, D.C. 20036), promoting the nomination of “Ten Commandments Judge” Roy Moore to be a Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States. Phillips has been active in previous Supreme Court battles: (a) in opposition to the appointment of...

WASHINGTON -- As Republican strategists weigh the party's prospects for 2006 and 2008, they are increasingly worried about a political confrontation with Roy S. Moore, the former chief justice of the Alabama Supreme Court who became a hero to religious conservatives when he refused to follow a federal court order to remove a Ten Commandments monument from the state's judicial building.

For the past three years, an annual conference called the World Social Forum has been the biggest international gathering of radicals on earth, attended by all the leaders of the world left. Labor unions, Communist parties, non-governmental organizations, anti-globalization activists, anti-American 'peace' groups, multiple heads of state, and the representatives of armed guerilla insurgencies all gather yearly at Porto Alegre, Brazil, to make new connections and plan for the future. While the organizers of the World Social Forum claim the event is a "open meeting place" for those interested in building "a planetary society centered on the human person,"...

GOP appears open to Moore candidacy Leaders undisturbed by his possible ties to Constitution Party Wednesday, February 09, 2005 By SALLIE OWEN Capital Bureau MONTGOMERY -- Despite speculation that Constitution Party ties might hurt his chances with the GOP, former Alabama Supreme Court Chief Justice Roy Moore would likely be accepted onto the Republican ballot if he runs for office, according to several GOP leaders. Moore, who has been linked to the Constitution Party, has said he is considering a bid for governor in 2006 and that he would probably run as a Republican. He was ousted as chief justice...

A white Zimbabwean MP sentenced to hard labour for assaulting one of Robert Mugabe's ministers is to defy the regime and stand for re-election in parliamentary elections next month. Roy Bennett's decision to contest his seat from prison on behalf of the opposition Movement for Democratic Change has infuriated President Mugabe and senior Zanu-PF officials They are embarrassed by his enormous popularity among the black population. The government had forced Mr Bennett, 48, to join a prison chain gang, hoping that his humiliation would enable the ruling party to recapture the rural constituency after his landslide victory over Zanu-PF five...

The blistered hands are testimony to the hard labour that Roy Bennett is now enduring on a daily basis. He is no stranger to physical work, but the sheer exertion of labouring on the prison farm is leaving its mark on Roy. However, his spirits are high and he is enjoying working outdoors but he never forgets the injustice that he is suffering. An injustice made worse with every day he spends in prison, especially in light of the fact that Zimbabwe's courts are continuing to reserve judgement or are delaying hearing cases relating to the imprisonment of Roy Bennett....

There will be here in America a great revival. When? The 2nd question is then who wants to be "Left Behind"?

MONTGOMERY, Ala. - Ousted Alabama Supreme Court Chief Justice Roy Moore said Friday he is considering running for governor in 2006. "I'll be praying about it and considering it," told reporters. Moore was ousted in November 2003 for defying a federal judge's order to remove his 5,280-pound Ten Commandments monument from public display in the state judicial building. He appealed his ouster to the U.S. Supreme Court (news - web sites), but lost. If Moore were to run as a Republican, he could face a GOP primary battle with Gov. Bob Riley, who has not yet said whether he will...

The past couple weeks have seen a swirl of anonymous allegations of supposed spying and espionage, including implications that the Pentagon civilian staff might be teeming with double agents for the Jewish state. Thing is, almost none of it is true. Beyond mishandling of classified documents—not an inconsequential offense, to be sure—every other accusation leveled by unnamed State Department and intelligence officials appears part of a carefully calculated campaign to question the loyalty of several Pentagon civilian employees by name, as well as a much larger group by implication. According to someone with intimate knowledge of the draft presidential directive...

Senior FBI counter-intelligence official involved in case linked to lawsuit against the FBI and CIA based on anti-Semitism and prejudice. Maariv International The FBI counter-intelligence probe against AIPAC, in which Pentagon analyst Larry Franklin allegedly passed on sensitive documents to AIPAC officials may be taking a new turn. So far it has been characterized by a plethora of leaked hype, and a paucity of any evidence of wrongdoing. To date no arrests have been made, and the current status of the probe is unclear. However new evidence has emerged that cast a new light on the entire affair, supporting those...

WASHINGTON -- AIPAC, the powerhouse pro-Israel lobby currently embroiled in allegations of spying for Israel, was set up by the FBI, The Jerusalem Post has learned. FBI agents used a courier, Pentagon analyst Larry Franklin, to draw two senior AIPAC officials who already knew him into accepting what he described to them as "classified" information, reliable government and other sources intimately familiar with the investigation have told the Post. One of the AIPAC pair then told diplomats at the Israeli Embassy in Washington about the "classified" information, which claimed Iranians were monitoring and planning to kidnap and kill Israelis operating...

A former high-ranking State Department official who is one of the nation's leading experts on China passed documents to Taiwanese intelligence agents and was charged yesterday with concealing a trip to Taiwan, court papers say. Donald W. Keyser, who was elevated to principal deputy assistant secretary for East Asian and Pacific Affairs this year, made the trip last year, according to an FBI affidavit filed in U.S. District Court in Alexandria. Keyser, 61, who advised Secretary of State Colin L. Powell on China issues, met with one of the agents in Taipei last September during an official trip to China...

Follow this link to sign a petition to Gov. Bob Riley to Re-Instate Judge Roy Moore. http://www.heritage-signs.us/petition/petition.phtml?PetitionID=2

Florida attorney Roy Black is calling for a special investigation into possible felonies committed by the Palm Beach State Attorney's office during its probe of "doctor shopping" allegations against top radio host Rush Limbaugh. Complaining about allegedly illegal leaks emanating from State Attorney Barry Krischer's office, Black told Fox News Channel's "Hannity & Colmes" that Krischer's handling of the case warranted a criminal probe. Reading from Florida law, Black cited a statute that makes it a crime "to misuse the information gathered as a result of the investigation" into Limbaugh. Black argued that the state's constitution made an investigation imperative,...

Roy hopes Saddam's fate for Bush AFP[ SUNDAY, JANUARY 18, 2004 02:55:18 PM ] Social activist Shabana Azmi, left, speaks as freedom fighter Lakshmi Sehgal, and writer Arundathi Roy, right, look on at the opening ceremony of the World Social Forum in Bombay on Friday. (AP Photo) BOMBAY: Writer Arundhati Roy, who wants an ongoing anti-globalisation conference to launch a campaign to shut down US companies, said Sunday she hoped President George W Bush would share the fate of the captured Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein. "If Saddam Hussein deserves to be humiliated and have his fillings counted and his...

Hearing on Rush's Medical Records IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF THE 15TH JUDICIAL CIRCUIT, IN AND FOR PALM BEACH COUNTY, FLORIDA CASE NO.: CA 03 13316 RUSH LIMBAUGH, Plaintiff VS. STATE ATTORNEYS OFFICE, Defendant.Palm Beach County Courthouse 205 North Dixie Highway West Palm Beach, Florida Monday, 2:01 p.m. December 22, 2003 Hearing before the HONORABLE JEFFREY A. WINIKOFF, Judge of the Fifteenth Judicial Circuit. APPEARANCES: BLACK, SREBNICK, KORNSPAN & STUMPF, P.A., BY: ROY BLACK, ESQ. and MARK SHAPIRO, ESQ. and JACKIE PERCZEK, ESQ. 201 S. Biscayne Boulevard Suite 1300 Miami, Florida 33131 Attorneys for Plaintiff. OFFICE OF THE STATE ATTORNEY,...

There is a force above the 'Almighty, Ever-to-be-worshipped' Law, righteousness. When the law is in conflict with righteousness, I side against the "almighty, ever to be worshipped, kneeled to" Law. If I did not side with righteousness, I would be worshipping law, would I not? Law would become my god, just as government was supposed to be the god of all loyal marxists. There is no difference, whatsoever, between placing law above righteousness and being a totalitarian tyrant demanding blind, marxist loyalty. Law is made for our civilization to funtion. It is a mere tool. And in this case, that...

Rob Roy MacGregor is exposed as a tartan turncoat GRAHAM OGILVY AND KURT BAYER HE WAS romanticised by Sir Walter Scott and glamorised by Hollywood. But a new investigation by one of Scotland’s leading historians has revealed that Rob Roy MacGregor was not so much a tartan Robin Hood as a robbing hood. David Stevenson, emeritus professor of Scottish history at St Andrews University, will claim in a new book that the folk hero was a traitor, spy and fraudster. Stevenson’s most shocking claim is that Rob Roy betrayed his own side by selling Jacobite secrets to the English government....

At the American Cause's "Voices for the Unborn" conference October 4, HUMAN EVENTS Associate Editor Joseph A. D'Agostino interviewed Alabama Chief Justice Roy Moore. Moore, who addressed the conferees, has become a hero to many constitutionalist Americans by standing up to federal courts who have ordered the removal of his stone monument of the Ten Commandants from public display in the Alabama supreme court building. Moore is currently attempting to have the U.S. Supreme Court reverse lower federal court decisions that have forced the removal, at least for the time being. Moore argues that Americans are not obliged to obey...

On Sunday, October 5, 2003, I walked a block from my hotel in Washington, D.C. to St. Matthew’s Cathedral on Rhode Island Avenue. A 10 a.m. service was scheduled at the church, where the Red Mass would be celebrated—a service held prior to the beginning of a new session of the U.S. Supreme Court and which the Supreme Court justices normally attend. I was walking with two ladies with whom I had been travelling on the Spirit of Montgomery Save the Commandments caravan from Montgomery, Alabama to Washington, D.C. When we approached the block where St. Matthew’s is located, we...

LAS VEGAS (AP) -- The tiger that injured Roy Horn of the duo "Siegfried & Roy" had been trying to help the illusionist after he slipped and accidentally harmed him by using too much force, says Horn's partner, Siegfried Fischbacher. "A cat is a tiger and when he wants to protect his pal he does it the way a tiger does, with his strength," Fischbacher said in an interview broadcast Thursday on ABC's "Good Morning America." "But we are human; we are a little more fragile." "The cat realized there was something wrong," he said. "Roy slipped, I run after,...

Roy Horn, one half of the illusionist team Siegfried & Roy, was on a ventilator, heavily medicated but able to respond to voices and touch, an official with MGM Mirage Resort said, after being attacked by one of his tigers during a nightly show. Halfway into Friday night's performance, Horn appeared alone on stage with the tiger and told the crowd the animal was making its debut in the show — a claim hotel officials said was part of the act. The tiger, which weighs about 600 pounds, then lunged at Horn, who tried to beat the animal off with...

  All of us in the Siegfried & Roy family are deeply saddened by Roy's injury at last Friday's performance. Roy remains in stable but critical condition at University Medical Center in Las Vegas. For more than four decades, I have had the great privilege of standing at the side of this remarkable man, and I will continue to do so during this very challenging time. We are grateful and overwhelmed with the tremendous support we have received from around the world, and ask for your continued prayers and reflections.

Avalanche Goalie Patrick Roy to Retire By JOHN MARSHALL, AP Sports Writer DENVER - Colorado's Patrick Roy (news) is retiring, ending the 18-year career of one of the greatest goaltenders in NHL history. Roy will make the announcement at a news conference on Wednesday, team spokesman Jean Martineau said. A four-time Stanley Cup champion, Roy leaves as the NHL's career leader in victories with 551 and games played with 1,029. He also is the all-time leader in playoff victories, games played and shutouts. Roy is still considered one of the best goalies in the game at age 37, but he...