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It’s often remarked upon that when a greater being attempts to contact humanity, it chooses quiet backwater areas instead of going straight to the top. So it was when, on Saturday, Nov. 26, 1977, a representative of the Ashtar Galactic Command took over TV airwaves to warn the world of the risk of its destruction, he spoke via a regional broadcaster with a maximum audience of about 500,000 households in the south of England. Southern TV’s usual Day by Day evening news bulletin was being aired live just after 5 p.m. when the comforting tones of broadcaster Andrew Gardner were...

Jupiter, Saturn and Venus have lined up in the evening sky and will continue to be prominent features throughout most of December, but this week, the trio will get a visitor. The easy-to-find planets, paired with the approaching peak of the Geminid meteor shower, make December a great month for evening stargazing. The only caveat is that the weather can be fickle during the long December nights, often offering frosty conditions on nights that are not cloudy. The moon started off the week next to Venus, and as the week progresses, it will continue to move up the chain, passing...

Parody of 'Age of Aquarius' AGE OF THE SCARIEST When the moon is hanging low at the White House And Sarandon aligns with stars. Then peace will find no planet And Bruce Springsteen will play guitar. This is the dawning of the age of the scariest, Age of the scariest.... The scariest! The scariest! Disharmony mistrust withstanding, Apathy is all abounding. More falsehoods and so much derision Living dreams of subprime visions. Mystic crystal television. The scariest.... Barack's the scariest! Let the sunshine Let the sunshine in And give us all melanoma! Let the sunshine! Let the sunshine in! And...

On April 5, 1967, representatives of the San Francisco Oracle, the Diggers, the Family Dog, the Straight Theater, and other parts of the Haight-Ashbury hippie scene held a press conference to announce the formation of the Council for a Summer of Love. The event scored friendly media notices: The next day’s San Francisco Chronicle described the coalition as “a group of the good hippies,” defined as the ones who “wear quaint and enchanting costumes, hold peaceful rock ’n’ roll concerts, and draw pretty pictures (legally) on the sidewalk, their eyes aglow all the time with the poetry of love.” ......

The last time New Yorkers were treated to such a favorably placed dark-sky Jupiter occultation was on Sept. 3, 1889. After 2004, there will not be another similarly favorable Jupiter occultation for most North Americans until Oct. 6, 2026... Across the western Great Lakes, the eastern Great Plains and down into the Deep South for example, the emergence of Jupiter occurs with the Moon about 20 degrees high. Along a line from about central North Dakota down into western Texas, Jupiter’s disappearance will roughly coincide with moonrise, but when Jupiter is ready to emerge, the Moon will have climbed up...

JOHANNESBURG, SOUTH AFRICA -- ASN -- On the opening day of the World Summit on Sustainable Development (WSSD), a.k.a. Earth Summit II in Johannesburg, South Africa, I attended a four-hour-long conference entitled, Educating for Sustainable Living with the Earth Charter.ý Steven Rockefeller, head of the Earth Charter Commission, U.S.A, showed up to address the crowd packed into a tent. There are at least three major reasons why every American should take careful notice of this Earth Summit II and the Earth Charter, a document some portray as a constitution for a New World Order. It is significant that Steven Rockefeller...