But it will be DIFFERENT – It may be hard to believe, but it’s true: In a large leap from their Communist past, the Russians once suggested putting advertising displays in space, where they could be seen worldwide. So far, the only advertising we see when we look up at the sky is a blimp or a skywriting plane. But all that may change very soon, and in a BIG WAY.

MIT is designing tiny, lit, remote controlled “drone” helicopters which can create a 3-D advertising display in the night sky. To get an idea of what this would look like, click here.
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Paint roofs white & install boom boxes – With all the emergencies hitting the world right now, thank goodness there are also some amazing new solutions, both high tech and low. In order to make skyscraper roofs reflect sunlight, rather than absorb it, so we don’t need so much air conditioning (or we can make sure they absorb sunlight in the right way), we can paint their roofs white. Or we could go high tech and use “boom boxes.”
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Jihadist terror organizations have set economic terrorism as their new target, intending to harm and paralyze Western economies, the US in particular. A terrorism researcher who monitored internet sites hosted by terrorist and terrorism-supporting organizations over a number of years concludes: “For the Jihadists, the present economic crisis signifies an ideal opportunity and platform to leverage an economic terrorist campaign.”

Israeli researcher Gabriel Weimann says this goal was set in motion with the September 11 attack on the Twin Towers, when Osama bin Laden stated on the video tapes that he sent out that these attacks mostly damaged the United States’ economic base and that these attacks, which cost $500,000 to carry out, cost the U.S. $500 billion.
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While governments around the world continue to explore strategies for reducing greenhouse gas emissions, a new study suggests policymakers should focus on what needs to be achieved in the next 40 years in order to keep long-term options viable for avoiding dangerous levels of warming. The trouble is, one of the most obvious things to do is to plant more trees, but this could make things WORSE! And lawns don’t help much either.
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