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We now know that elephants communicate over long distances by stamping their feet, so that other elephants pick up the vibrations. South Korean zookeeper Kim Jon-Gap says that their zoo has an elephant that has learned to speak actual words.

A sixteen-year-old elephant named Kosik imitates the sound of eight Korean words, such as “sit,” “no” and “yes.” He does it by putting his trunk into his mouth and shaking it while he exhales. Jon-Gap, who has been taking care of Kosik for ten years, says he’s not sure if the Asian elephant knows what he?s “saying,” or if he’s just imitating sounds, the way a parrot does…or does it?

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UPDATE – People who remember being in UFOs often describe them as being powered by magnets. Now an Irish high-tech company is using the same method to defy the standard laws of physics and create free energy, but they can’t get other scientists to look at their invention.

Physicists at Sterorn in Dublin are inviting other physicists from around the world to view their new invention in operation, because until the scientific community is willing to take an objective look at it, the researchers at Sterorn won?t be able to do anything with it?despite the world’s desperate need for an alternative power source. Like fusion energy, which is now finally being developed, free energy has long been thought to be an impossibility.
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The home of “Planet Alert” astrologer Mahala is beingthreatened by one of the wildfires burning at this time inthe Pacific Northwest. In the past week, there have beenover a hundred requests for firefighter support in theregion. The two largest fires, the Tripod Complex and theColumbia Complex, are in Washington State. The ColumbiaComplex fire has destroyed over a hundred and fifty squaremiles of fields and forests. The Tripod group of fires hasbured a fantastic 260 square miles of wilderness area.Cooler temperatures have somewhat reduced the fires, but 15%of firefighters are leaving due to school starting. Mahalasays, “I need your help. There is a huge wild firethreatening our cabin andmany others.read more

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Whitley Strieber wrote this story 5 years ago today: “The most massive terrorist attack in history unfolded in the United States today. The World Trade Center was destroyed, and the city’s Emergency Management Center, Police Headquarters and City Hall were closed. The Emergency Management Center was in the World Trade Center. Yasir Arafat and the Taliban Ambassador to Pakistan have both condemned terrorist attacks on the United States. From Kabul a Taliban spokesman said that Osama bin Laden, the Saudi Dissident, ‘could not have been responsible for the attacks on the United States.’ He said that ‘this could have been the act of internal enemies of the United States or its foreign rivals.’
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