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The typical American uses 99 gallons of water a day for washing clothes, bathing, toilet-flushing and cooking, and that amount doesn’t even come close to the amount of water used on a daily basis by electrical power plants.

On NPR, Terry Gross interviewed water expert Charles Fishman, author of "The Big Thirst," who says, "The last 100 years has been the golden age of water in the developed world: water that has been safe, unlimited and essentially free. But that era is over. We will not, going forward, have water that has all three of those qualities at the same time: unlimited, unthinkingly inexpensive and safe."
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When our soldiers raided bin-Laden’s compound and killed him, they found plans for future attacks. After Hitler died, hidden tunnels in German hid some of his plans too: Hitler wanted to create a fleet of flying saucers, similar to today’s "drones," to use as WEAPONS (NOTE: Subscribers can still listen to this show), capable of destroying London and New York. During World War II, many US and British pilots saw these saucers. They called them "Foo Fighters" and assumed they were German weapons.read more

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The Master of the Key warned about the danger of polar ice melting in his conversation with Whitley Strieber in 1998 (The NEW, revised edition of The Key, with a foreword that talks about how many of his statements later turned out to be true, will be in bookstores May 12). Now his prediction–like so many others in "The Key"–is coming true: Because of climate change, the air is getting warmer, melting the ice at the North Pole, which is diluting the surrounding Laurentian sea, making it less salty.read more

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The Japanese may be ingesting radiation with their milk, but in general, they have a MUCH healthier diet than Americans do. Are we eating too much processed food? Those of us who are trying to avoid chemical preservatives in what we eat will be glad to know that extracts from natural sources such as green tea and grape seeds could be alternatives for food processors as a means of protecting against bacteria.
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