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The Case for the Moon
apsmith writes "Continuing the flurry of recent hearings on the future of humans in space, a Senate committee on Thursday heard testimony in favor of a return to the Moon. Former senator and moon-walker Harrison Schmitt and physicist David Criswell see the lunar surface as an immense energy resource, just waiting to be tapped. Astronomer Roger Angel sees the lunar south pole as the ideal astronomical observatory, with locations for telescopes 100 times better than anything we've done so far. And geologist Paul Spudis sees a lot of unfinished business on the Moon, to develop it as the "feedstock of an industrial space infrastructure." TransOrbital also sent written testimony."
Makes one think.
Stick Men
Trin, Morph, and Link are onboard the Hammer. Morph and Trin go to consult the Oracle to find out where Neo is. The Oracle explains why she has a new shell. She tells Morph and Trin how to get Neo and sends Serph with them as a guide.
Neo is trapped in a world that is b/w the in the real world and the matrix. He awakes to find himself looking at a little girl. The girl is there with her two parents (programs). Her father is the guy being escorted out the of restaurant in Reloaded when Neo, Trin, and Morph go to met the Merovingian. He explains where Neo is, that he made a deal with the Merovingian for his daughter and that should the Merovingian find out that Neo is in the trainstation he would not release him and he would be there for a long time.
Serph, Morph and Trin go looking for the Trainman. The trainman works for the Merovingian and built the place where Neo is trapped. They find the Trainman located on a subway train, a chase ensues, gunfire, and the Trainman escapes by jumping in front of an incoming train. Seraph, Morph, and Trin now have to go to Club Hell to get Neo back.
The Trainman arrives to take the Father, his wife and his daughter. Neo tries to board the train, but the Trainman recognizes who he is. Neo tells him he is getting on the train one way or another. He tells Neo that he has no power here and cannot leave. He punches Neo (sending him flying into the wall), then he orders the Father and his family on the train and leaves Neo stranded. Neo hops done onto the tracks and tries to run after the train only to find himself right back in the station again.
Morph, Trin and Seraph kill the bouncers at the club entrance, get in the elevator. Seraph explains that there are no guns allowed in Club Hell
and that they would have to fight there way in. They exit the elevator firing at the gaurds at the counter. There are some awsome effects (trailer portions of people fighting upside down). It's like the fight scenes from the 1st Matrix, but 10x better. They enter the Club and spiral their way to the Merovingian and Persephone.
The Merovingian sees Seraph, Trin and Morph coming torards him. He agrees to allow them safe passage if they drop thier guns. They capture Seraph, Trin and Morph and birng them before the Merovingian and Persephone.
There is the usual long babble from the Merovingian trying to figure out "why" they are here. The Merovingian tries to make a deal with Morph, Trin and Seraph saying he will give them Neo if they bring him the eyes of the Oracle. Trin has enuff and starts fighting, she catches a gun and points it at the Merovingian's head. Everyone pulls guns and it's a standoff. She tells the Merovingian that if he doesn't release Neo then she will kill him and everyone in the room will die. Persephone says that she will do it because she is in love. The Merovingian says love is an emotions that resembles insanity.
Neo is trying to will his way out of the trainstation, he closes his eyes to concentrate and has a vision of three power lines... A train pulls into the station and Trin gets off the train. They hug and depart. Neo says he has to see the Oracle before they leave. They take him to see the Oracle.
The Oracle explains to Neo that Smith is his alter self and has taken over much of the Matrix and the darkness will spread consuming them all. If the Matrix ends, the machines end and so do the humans. She explains his earlier vision of three lines and says to follow them to get to the machine city. She explains it must end tonight, or all will be lost.
Neo is wakes up aboard the Hammer explains that he needs time. Morph and the Hammer crew go looking for the Logos and Niobe's crew. Bane wakes up. They question Bane about what happened in the attack, how he survived and why he is mutilating himself. He says he doesn't remember. The captain of the Hammer orders the medic to make him remember.
The council meets and Commander Locke explains the situation. They prepare their defenses to hold the Doc port. Ha
If the Chinese may indeed go to the moon. The irony is that we'll be financing it through purchases at Wal-Mart !!!!!
If you wanna fight the Chinese slave machine, oppose the World Trade Organization. If you wanna oppose WTO support Dennis Kucinich for president. He is the ONLY candidate who has promised to withdraw from both NAFTA and WTO and re-establish national priorities of labor and full employment.
http://www.kucinich.us/
-------- -------- Support Wesley Clark for president!!!
I was rather shocked when I realized that still, in our very secular (enlightened) western countries, national level oaths such as inauguration oath of the president are taken on the bible. This must stop.
The owls are not what they seem
Why is unlimited immigration good? Unlimited immigration will raise unemployment and poverty. I am all for limited immigration. After all, the vast majority of people in this country can trace their ancestors back to immigrants. I am not sure of how all the details work here though.
Would this be unlimited immigration from certain countries or purely umlimited. Would this remove the necessity for green cards or visas?
Not everything is analogous to cars. Car analogies rarely work.
Ask yourself why Jews are able to secure their own ethnic homeland while White people are forbidden such a luxury.
Look at the world you blind goat. Does the world seem better or worse than a century ago? Do you really want your children or your grandchildren to inherit this filthy planet? Look at how your home has changed in your brief lifetime! Think of what will happen in twice that time or more.
Stop watching TV, stop listening to your indoctrination classes, and focus on what you see with your own eyes. Investigate a little more than a pulp magazine published by a Jew.
The truth is out there, is the first step.
Your future is being deprived of you, all to turn you into a more willing slave to the world of International Finance. At its heart, are the world's foremost problem...
Volume One: The International Jew
"Among the distinguishing mental and moral traits of the Jews may be mentioned: distaste for hard or violent physical labor; a strong family sense and philoprogenitiveness; a marked religious instinct; the courage of the prophet and martyr rather than of the pioneer and soldier; remarkable power to survive in adverse environments, combined with great ability to retain racial solidarity; capacity for exploitation, both individual and social; shrewdness and astuteness in speculation and money matters generally; an Oriental love of display and a full appreciation of the power and pleasure of social position; a very high average of intellectual ability."
-- The New International Encyclopedia.
The Jew in Character and Business
The Jew is again being singled out for critical attention throughout the world. His emergence in the financial, political and social spheres has been so complete and spectacular since the war, that his place, power and purpose in the world are being given a new scrutiny, much of it unfriendly. Persecution is not a new experience to the Jew, but intensive scrutiny of his nature and super-nationality is. He has suffered for more than 2,000 years from what may be called instinctive anti-Semitism of the other races, but this antagonism has never been intelligent nor has it been able to make itself intelligible. Nowadays, however, the Jew is being placed, as it were, under the microscope of economic observation that the reasons for his power, the reasons for his separateness, the reasons for his suffering may be defined and understood.
In Russia he is charged with being the source of Bolshevism, an accusation which is serious or not according to the circle in which it is made; we in America, hearing the fervid eloquence and perceiving the prophetic ardor of young Jewish apostles of social and industrial reform, can calmly estimate how it may be. In Germany he is charged with being the cause of the Empire's collapse and a very considerable literature has sprung up, bearing with it a mass of circumstantial evidence that gives the thinker pause. In England he is charged with being the real world ruler, who rules as a super-nation over the nations, rules by the power of gold, and who plays nation against nation for his own purposes, remaining himself discreetly in the background. In America it is pointed out to what extent the elder Jews of wealth and the younger Jews of ambition swarmed through the war organizations -- principally those departments which dealt with the commercial and industrial business of war, and also the extent to which they have clung to the advantage which their experience as agents of the government gave them.
In simple words, the question of the Jews has come to the fore, but like other questions which lend themselves to prejudice, efforts will be made to hush it up as impolitic for open discussion. If, however, experience has taught us anything it is that questions thus suppressed will sooner or later break out in undesirable and unprofitable forms.
The Jew is the world's enigma. Poor in his masses, he yet controls the world's finances. Scattered abroad without country