Folding FEMA into Homeland Security may have made it inevitable that the same mistakes were made in both places, whether we are battling insurgents or the weather. Vice President Cheney’s former corporation Halliburton has been put in charge of housing and feeding refugees from the storm, just as they feed and house US soldiers in Iraq. The private security company Blackwater, which has also worked in Iraq, has men patrolling the streets of New Orlenas openly carrying assault weapons. As they did in Iraq, the government is missing the chance to recruit loyal followers by giving these much-needed jobs to locals.
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A few weeks ago, I discovered a lost trove of lecture tapes, interviews, videos and other audio-visual documents, including some of the most unusual UFO videos ever made, and this week I begin the process of archiving them online.

The first thing I uploaded is a lecture I gave in 1988 at the World Affairs Conference at the University of Colorado in Boulder, to an audience of about a thousand people. I was introduced by Walter Orr Roberts, who had initially been invited to chair what became the Condon Committee that produced Project Blue Book.

A number of Condon Committee members attended the lecture.
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Anne Strieber is back as a Dreamland guest host. She’s too busy editing Unknowncountry.com and writing novels to handle a full time program of her own, but this week she kicks off her Dreamland guest hosting duties with a special interview with James Howard Kunstler.

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First Linda Howe discusses the case of Grant Cameron, the UFO investigator recently barred from entering the US. Then James Howard Kunstler knows his catastrophes–and how to survive them. In this interview, he tells us just what to expect of the oil crisis and the emerging environmental problems of the next few years. Then Linda’s back with one of the UFO-Rock and Roll connection: why have so many rock musicians reported UFO encounters? Or would the better question be, why haven’t they all reported them? Jim Kunstler’s website is www.kunstler.com

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