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WHAT IS HAARP?

What is HAARP?
HAARP stands for The High Frequency Active Auroral Research Program. The goal of this program is to further advance our knowledge of the physical and electrical properties of the Earth's ionosphere which can affect our military and civilian communication and navigation systems. The HAARP program operates a world-class ionospheric research facility located in Gakona, Alaska.
What is the name of this research facility?
The facility is called the HAARP Research Station, Gakona.
www.haarp.alaska.edu

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Farrakhan calls for National Mobilization for Haiti

Farrakhan calls for National Mobilization for Haiti

Senegal offers land to Haitians who want to come

DAKAR, Senegal (AP) -- Senegal is offering free land to Haitians wishing to 'return to their origins' following this week's devastating earthquake, which has destroyed the capital and buried thousands of people beneath rubble.

Senegal's octogenarian President Abdoulaye Wade told a meeting of his advisers that Haitians are the sons and daughters of Africa, because the country was founded by slaves, including some believed to have come from Senegal.

"The president is offering voluntary repatriation to any Haitian that wants to return to their origin," said Wade's spokesman Mamadou Bemba Ndiaye late Saturday following the president's announcement.

"Senegal is ready to offer them parcels of land -- even an entire region. It all depends on how many Haitians come. If it's just a few individuals, then we will likely offer them housing or small pieces of land. If they come en masse we are ready to give them a region," he said.

He stressed that Wade had insisted that if a region is handed over it should be in a fertile area -- not in the country's parched deserts.

Senegal, a nation of 14 million roughly the size of South Dakota, is considered one of the most stable and developed in the sub-region. Still nearly half of working-age adults are unemployed and the country has been burdened by high food prices, frequent blackouts and spiraling energy costs.

Many have criticized Wade for being a dreamer, proposing lofty projects that do little to alleviate poverty or address endemic corruption. Others see him as a statesman who dares to have a vision for Africa.

Haiti Earthquake caused by Bush/Clinton Attack with Tesla

Haiti Earthquake caused by Bush/Clinton Attack with Tesla

Haitian ambassador shames Pat Robertson

RIP Soulful Teddy Pendergrass

Teddy Pendergrass injured his spinal cord in 1982 and spent six months in hospital. Though he resumed recording the following year, with the album Love Language, a brief wheelchair-bound return to the stage for the worldwide Live Aid concert in 1985 revealed that his raw baritone voice had lost much of its power. It was 19 years before he relaunched his stage career: in 2001 he appeared live at two sell-out shows in Atlantic City, New Jersey.

His rise to fame began during the early 1970s, when he ushered in a new era in rhythm and blues with his fiery yet sensual brand of soul and his ladies' man image, which was burnished by strikingly handsome looks.

He first won popularity as the lead singer with Harold Melvin & the Blue Notes. In 1971 the group signed a record deal with the producers Kenny Gamble and Leon Huff. Their first single, I Miss You, was released in 1972, and was followed later that year by If You Don't Know Me By Now, which was nominated for a Grammy.

By the mid-1970s the group were in the vanguard – along with other bands such as the O'Jays and the Three Degrees – of the so-called Philadelphia Sound, which had supplanted Motown as the pre-eminent force in soul music. The Blue Notes' live shows, in which they performed elaborate dance routines in evening dress tails, mirrored the sophisticated production values of their music.

The group was then working under the name Harold Melvin & the Blue Notes, featuring Theodore Pendergrass; but when in 1976 Pendergrass challenged Melvin for top billing and failed, he left to pursue a solo career. It was this that brought him his greatest fame. With songs such as Love TKO, Close the Door and I Don't Love You Anymore, he came to define a new era of black male singers whose aggressive vocals suggested virility, not vulnerability. His lyrics were never coarse, unlike those of some male R&B stars, but they had a sensual nature that, without being explicit, bordered on eroticism.

Like Tom Jones and the other great "love man" of 1970s soul, Barry White, Pendergrass made women fans swoon, and his concerts testified to their adulation, with the usual stories of underwear being hurled on stage.

Although he continued to release albums in the years after his accident, Pendergrass was no longer seen as a sex symbol. Instead he cut a more sympathetic, tragic figure, though he still commanded a strong following among his core female fans.

He subsequently founded the Teddy Pendergrass Alliance, an organisation designed to encourage and help people with spinal cord injuries achieve their maximum potential and independence.

Theodore DeReese Pendergrass was born in Philadelphia on March 26 1950. As a boy, he often passed an opulent house on his way to the Thomas Edison high school, promising himself that he would own it himself one day. He was to buy the property after recording five platinum albums in succession, the first black artist to achieve this feat.

Originally hired by Harold Melvin as a drummer for the Cadillacs, the group that later became the Blue Notes, Pendergrass was soon promoted to lead singer. He should have been able to purchase his 34-room mansion on the strength of this group's success, but Melvin allegedly swindled the other members of the line-up, and during his tenure Pendergrass received only one royalty cheque.

When the band toured, Melvin stayed in lavish four-star hotel suites, while the remaining Blue Notes were consigned to fleapit motels. To make matters worse, group members apparently had to make an appointment when they wanted to speak to Melvin.

Pendergrass's successful solo career belatedly brought him the riches that his talent had long promised. He bought the rights to the Otis Redding story and invested in joint ventures with the singer Stephanie Mills, whom he met when they recorded a successful duet together, Two Hearts.

Pendergrass was also a close friend to Latoya Jackson, and he had several children with different women back home in Philadelphia. During this time, Pendergrass and his fellow soul singer Marvin Gaye had a falling-out because Pendergrass was dating Gaye's ex-wife, Janis.

Pendergrass later came up with the concept of women-only concerts, which quickly sold out across the United States. But his career came to an abrupt halt in March 1982 when, aged 31, he drove home with a transvestite in his Rolls-Royce after a basketball game. The trip ended with Pendergrass crashing the car into a tree. His passenger escaped with cuts and bruises, but Pendergrass was paralysed from the chest down.

The accident was surrounded by salacious gossip, with rumours of sexual shenanigans in the vehicle at the time of the accident and suggestions that the former wife of a sports superstar was also a passenger but was whisked from the scene to avoid scandal.

Shortly after the accident, Pendergrass sold his estate and moved into a smaller home. He was married to one of his former dancers for several years before they divorced. The singer published his autobiography, Truly Blessed, in 1992 and underwent colon cancer surgery eight months ago.

Teddy Pendergrass is survived by his son, Teddy Pendergrass II, and two daughters.

Pat Robertson says Haiti paying for 'pact to the devil'

Pat Robertson, the evangelical Christian who once suggested God was punishing Americans with Hurricane Katrina, says a "pact to the devil" brought on the devastating earthquake in Haiti.

Officials fear more than 100,000 people have died as a result of Tuesday's 7.0-magnitude earthquake in Haiti.

Robertson, the host of the "700 Club," blamed the tragedy on something that "happened a long time ago in Haiti, and people might not want to talk about it."

The Haitians "were under the heel of the French. You know, Napoleon III and whatever," Robertson said on his broadcast Wednesday. "And they got together and swore a pact to the devil. They said, 'We will serve you if you will get us free from the French.' True story. And so, the devil said, 'OK, it's a deal.' "

Native Haitians defeated French colonists in 1804 and declared independence.

"You know, the Haitians revolted and got themselves free. But ever since, they have been cursed by one thing after the other." Robertson has previously linked natural disasters and terrorist attacks to legalized abortion in the United States. Soon after Hurricane Katrina ravaged the Gulf Coast, killing more than 1,800 and wreaking unprecedented devastation on New Orleans, Louisiana, Robertson weighed in with his own theory.

"We have killed over 40 million unborn babies in America," Robertson said on his September 12, 2005, broadcast of "700 Club."

"I was reading, yesterday, a book that was very interesting about what God has to say in the Old Testament about those who shed innocent blood. And he [the author] used the term that those who do this, 'the land will vomit you out.' ... But have we found we are unable somehow to defend ourselves against some of the attacks that are coming against us, either by terrorists or now by natural disaster? Could they be connected in some way?"

Earthquake in Haiti May Have Killed ‘Over 100,000’

Haitian Prime Minister Jean-Max Bellerive said “well over” 100,000 people may have died in yesterday’s earthquake, as the United Nations and relief groups rushed aid to the Western Hemisphere’s poorest country.

Bellerive said he based his estimate on reports of the number of buildings that collapsed with people inside, adding that the extent of casualties is largely guesswork at this point. About 70,000 people were killed in the hemisphere’s worst earthquake on record, which hit Peru in 1970, the U.S. Geological Survey said on its Web site.

“I believe that we are well over 100,000. I hope that is not true because I hope people had the time to get out,” Bellerive said in a telephone interview with CNN. “We have so many people in the street and we don’t know exactly where they were living. But there are so many buildings, so many neighborhoods totally destroyed and in some neighborhoods we don’t even see people so I don’t know where those people are.”

President Rene Preval told the Miami Herald that the country was “destroyed” by the magnitude 7.0 temblor, which was centered 10 miles (16 kilometers) southwest of Port-au- Prince, a city of about 2 million, at 4:53 p.m. local time yesterday. The Associated Press said bodies are heaped along streets amid the rubble from thousands of collapsed structures. The corpses of small children were piled outside schools as flies began to gather, the AP said.

Preval told CNN in an interview at the airport that both the presidential palace and his private home collapsed.

UN Emergency Fund

UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-Moon said he released $10 million from the world body’s emergency relief fund to speed aid to Haiti. He also asked the U.S. for heavy equipment and rescue teams. Promises of additional aid came from countries including the UK, Canada, Brazil, Germany and the Netherlands, which pledged 2 million euros ($2.9 million) in emergency aid.

President Barack Obama ordered U.S. agencies to undertake a “swift, coordinated” effort to get aid to Haiti. Search-and- rescue teams, four U.S. Coast Guard cutters and the aircraft carrier USS Carl Vinson are en route, while the administration works to account for U.S. government employees and citizens. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton extended a stopover in Hawaii on her way to Papua New Guinea to help coordinate the response.

The State Department set up a telephone hotline at +1-888- 407-4747 for citizens seeking information on relatives and friends.

Rubble in Roads

“Buildings have collapsed everywhere and there is rubble blocking the roads,” Sophie Perez, the director of the relief organization CARE, said in a statement.

The UN said clean water is in short supply and that “hotels, hospitals, schools and the national penitentiary have all suffered extensive damage.”

UN Assistant Secretary-General for Peacekeeping Operations Alain LeRoy said 14 UN workers in Haiti were confirmed dead, and that 150 civilian and military personnel are unaccounted for.

Economic damage may be in the hundreds of millions of dollars, according to estimates from Eqecat Inc., an Oakland, California-based company that builds financial risk models to help insurers prepare for catastrophes. Eqecat estimated that as many as 2 million people may be affected by the earthquake and aftershocks.

Delta Air Lines Inc. and AMR Corp.’s American Airlines both suspended service indefinitely after the quake left the Port-au- Prince air-traffic control tower out of commission, company spokesmen said.

Dollar a Day

Haiti’s population of 9.6 million has a per capita income of about $560, with 54 percent of Haitians living on less than $1 a day and 78 percent on less than $2 daily, according to the World Bank. The gross domestic product was $7 billion in 2008. The country is still recovering from four tropical storms or hurricanes that killed at least 800 people in 2008.

“For a country and a people who are no strangers to hardship and suffering, this tragedy seems especially cruel and incomprehensible,” Obama said today.

The apparel sector accounts for about two-thirds of Haiti’s exports and nearly one-tenth of the nation’s economy, according to data from the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency. Remittances are the primary source of foreign exchange, equaling nearly a quarter of gross domestic product and more than twice the earnings from exports such as coffee and mangoes, the CIA said.

Pope Benedict XVI appealed to “everyone’s generosity” in a call for financial aid for Haiti today in Rome. The body of Archbishop Joseph Serge Miot, 63, was found in the ruins of his office in Port-au-Prince, said the Rev. Pierre Le Beller of the Saint Jacques Missionary Center in Landivisiau, France, according to the AP.

World Bank Aid

The heads of the World Bank and International Monetary Fund said they are prepared to assess damage and provide aid. World Bank offices in Port-au-Prince “were destroyed but most staff have been safely accounted for,” the bank’s president, Robert Zoellick, said in a statement.

Citigroup Inc.’s three-story office building in the capital collapsed and the bank is trying to account for its 44 employees, said Liliana Mejia, a spokeswoman for the New York- based bank. Bank of Nova Scotia, Canada’s third-largest bank by assets, said all 80 of its employees in Haiti are safe and accounted for.

Brazil, which has 1,266 troops in Haiti to support UN peacekeeping, said 11 service members are dead and seven missing.

Florida Governor

Florida Governor Charlie Crist authorized the state’s emergency management office to provide food, water, tents, blankets, cots and other equipment from its stockpile of hurricane supplies.

“We maintain a warehouse of supplies for disasters in Orlando that could be made available and we’re ready to roll if needed,” said spokesman Mike Stone.

In New York City, home to about 120,000 temporary and permanent Haitian immigrants, Mayor Michael Bloomberg called upon residents to send money to the Red Cross or to the Mayor’s Fund to Advance New York City, a city-administered charity, to aid in the relief efforts. The mayor is founder and majority owner of Bloomberg News parent Bloomberg LP.

A school with children in its rooms collapsed in Port-au- Prince, according to the UN Children’s Fund, Unicef. The aid group Doctors Without Borders, or Medecins sans Frontieres, said in a statement that its 60-bed hospital in Port-au-Prince was seriously damaged.

More than 100 workers from Unicef in Haiti are helping the injured and providing for children separated from their parents, said Caryl Stern, the president of the U.S. fund of Unicef in New York.

“It’s a really densely populated area. It couldn’t be worse,” said Stern, who has been in contact with Unicef workers in Haiti. “It’s going to take a big world effort.”

Sugar: The Bitter Truth

Robert H. Lustig, MD, UCSF Professor of Pediatrics in the Division of Endocrinology, explores the damage caused by sugary foods. He argues that fructose (too much) and fiber (not enough) appear to be cornerstones of the obesity epidemic through their effects on insulin. Series: UCSF Mini Medical School for the Public [7/2009] [Health and Medicine]

Be Cautious About Giving Info to Census Workers

As the 2010 Census begins the Better Business Bureau issues the following warnings.

Be Cautious About Giving Info to Census Workers by Susan Johnson.

With the U.S. Census process beginning, the Better Business Bureau (BBB) advises people to be cooperative, but cautious, so as not to become a victim of fraud or identity theft. The first phase of the 2010 U.S. Census is under way as workers have begun verifying the addresses of households across the country. Eventually, more than 140,000 U.S. Census workers will count every person in the United States and will gather information about every person living at each address including name, age, gender, race, and other relevant data.

The big question is - how do you tell the difference between a U.S. Census worker and a con artist? BBB offers the following advice:

** If a U.S. Census worker knocks on your door, they will have a badge, a handheld device, a Census Bureau canvas bag, and a confidentiality notice Ask to see their identification and their badge before answering their questions. However, you should never invite anyone you don't know into your home.

** Census workers are currently only knocking on doors to verify address information. Do not give your Social Security number, credit card or banking information to anyone, even if they claim they need it for the U.S. Census. REMEMBER, NO MATTER WHAT THEY ASK, YOU REALLY ONLY NEED TO TELL THEM HOW MANY PEOPLE LIVE AT YOUR ADDRESS.

While the Census Bureau might ask for basic financial information, such as a salary range, YOU DON'T HAVE TO ANSWER ANYTHING AT ALL ABOUT YOUR FINANCIAL SITUATION. The Census Bureau will not ask for Social Security, bank account, or credit card numbers, nor will employees solicit donations. Any one asking for that information is NOT with the Census Bureau

AND REMEMBER, THE CENSUS BUREAU HAS DECIDED NOT TO WORK WITH ACORN ON GATHERING THIS INFORMATION . No Acorn worker should approach you saying he/she is with the Census Bureau.

Eventually, Census workers may contact you by telephone, mail, or in person at home. However, the Census Bureau will not contact you by Email, so be on the lookout for Email scams impersonating the Census.

Never click on a link or open any attachments in an Email that are supposedly from the U.S. Census Bureau.

For more advice on avoiding identity theft and fraud, visit www.bbb.org

PLEASE SHARE THIS INFO WITH FAMILY AND FRIENDS.

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The year 2009 and the state of Black America in turbulent times

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