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We reported on May 7 that Chinese computer hackers, in retaliation for the U.S. spy plane crash, were able to hack into White House computers and shut their internet down for several hours.

Now they have declared a ceasefire and conceded defeat due to U.S. countermeasures. ?By the end of May 9,? according to Chinabyte, based in Beijing, ?more than 1,100 of our nation?s websites were defaced to differing degrees, with 72 percent of the websites belonging to the government or educational institutes.

?From now on our work should be concentrated on raising the security awareness of our webpage workers and installing firewalls and other Internet security products.?
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The Indian government has discovered that the best way to protect their national reserves from human traffic is to scare people away with ghost stories. Locals who have been slashing forests and slaughtering wildlife will keep away from those areas if ghostly legends surround them.

The Arunachal Pradesh government preys on the Nishi tribe?s traditional fear of demonic eels in order to save Bek Senyik, a marshy lake that sustains a key bio-diversity zone in one of their districts.

The Meghalays government has created a spirit called ?ryngkiew? that is the savior of the Pdah Kyndeng Phud Umngei, a sacred forest that contains a cave filled with bats.
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On Wednesday, May 9 at 9 a.m. EST, over twenty military, intelligence, government, corporate and scientific witnesses came forward at the National Press Club in Washington, D.C. to help establish the reality of UFOs, extraterrestrial life forms and advanced propulsion technologies. Dr. Steven Greer and The Disclosure Project hosted the event.

Greer said, ?These testimonies establish once and for all that we are not alone.? Most of the witnesses were ex-military and all stated they were willing to testify to Congress under oath.
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When the Mississippi flooded last month, 180,000 tons of sand were shoveled into more than 9 million sandbags in towns from Illinois to Minnesota, to help hold back the waters. Now the sandbags have become sodden, polluted liabilities and removing them has become a public health issue.

?They?re wet and fishy,? says Chief Larry Granneman of the Niota Volunteer Fire Department, which used more than 200,000 sandbags to shore up the town?s aged, battered levee.

They don?t expect to get much help, when it comes time to clean up the bags. ?It?s more glamorous to fight the flood than to clean up when the flood waters recede,? says Mike Chamness, Illinois Emergency Management Director.
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