On Dreamland’s June 2, 2001 edition, Dr. Tom Van Flandern, author of Dark Matter Missing Planets and New Comets, said that recent Mars Orbiter photos appear to show images of vegetation on Mars, and even possible structures.

Now noted writer Arthur C. Clarke, in a speech at the Werner von Braun Memorial Lecture series held in Washington, D.C. on June 6, has stated that he believes that new images of Mars clearly show the red planet dotted with patches of vegetation, including trees. He spoke over the telephone from his home in Sri Lanka to an audience at the Smithsonian’s National Air and Space Museum.
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Oil companies have said that energy shortages are caused by a lack of refineries and have blamed excessive environmental regulation and local resistance for the problem. But newly-revealed oil industry documents obtained by Senator Ron Wyden show that five years ago, companies were looking for ways to cut refinery output so they could boost profits.

It takes about 4 years to build a large refinery, so they would have had to start building in the mid 1990s in order to avoid shortages now. But in the mid 1990s, according to the documents, oil companies had no interest in building new refineries and were even discussing the need to curtail refinery output in order to increase profits.
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The New York Times reported today that Governor Jeb Bush of Florida attacked a report the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights as ?intellectually dishonest.? The report stated thatthousands for Floridians were deprived of the chance to vote in the Presidential election by outdated equipment, improper purging of voter rolls, language barriers and inadequate access to voting booths and that black voters were especially disenfranchised. Bush said that the report ?needlessly fosters racial disharmony? and adds, ?The time for meaningless and divisive finger-pointing over last year?s election is over. We need to move on.?

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When we read about Korea in the morning newspaper, we usually learn about tensions between North and South. Something that?s rarely mentioned is that South Korea is a hotbed of UFO activity.

An internet search of Korean websites will reveal hundreds of home pages dedicated to UFO sightings. So far there have been no Roswell-type crashes and no reported abductions.

Researcher Seo Jong-han has been studying UFOs for 20 years. By day, he works as a computer game developer; in his spare time, he?s a member of the Korean UFO Research Association, KUFORA.
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