Decoding The Past - Secrets Of The Dollar Bill

What do the symbols and numbers on the dollar bill actually mean? We'll take a look at the shadier and more intriguing threads of meaning and symbolism at play in the bill's design. Extraordinary strands of numerology are interwoven into the bill's structure, which, on analysis, suggest surprising hidden alignments. Why does it look the way it does and how has it changed through the ages? We'll analyze the significance of changes in the bill's appearance over time and examine alternative designs. We'll also look at the historical context of the bill's conception--what the dollar bill set out to represent--the patriotism and idealism of a young republic; and go inside the Treasury's Department of Printing and Engraving for exclusive access to the presses and the people who process the millions upon millions of dollars in circulation.

Money as Debt

Paul Grignon's 47-minute animated presentation of "Money as Debt" tells in very simple and effective graphic terms what money is and how it is being created. It is an entertaining way to get the message out. The Cowichan Citizens Coalition and its "Duncan Initiative" received high praise from those who previewed it. I recommend it as a painless but hard-hitting educational tool and encourage the widest distribution and use by all groups concerned with the present unsustainable monetary system in Canada and the United States.

Moon Conspiracy

Global Warming: the Greatest Scam in History

Stupid in America

Investigation by John Stossel entitled "Stupid in America" highlighting some of the flaws with the education system in the United States. The story started out when identical tests were given to high school students in New Jersey and in Belgium. The Belgian kids cleaned the American kids' clocks. The Belgian kids called the American students "stupid", which gave the piece its name.

Electric Fields, Power Lines and Radon Gas Dangers

A British scientist has produced the most powerful evidence yet of a link between cancer and electricity power lines. His study confirms that people living near them are exposed to radiation levels dozens of times greater than the legal limit.The research firmly links the power lines with childhood leukaemia and other forms of cancer.

The levels recorded in some areas were two times higher than the legal maximum allowed for adult nuclear power workers — the group permitted maximum radiation exposure.Its most serious implication is that more than 23,000 homes built under or near power lines are unsafe, especially for children. The effect of the fields can extend more than 100 yards either side of the lines.

Professor Denis Henshaw, of Bristol University’s human radiation effects group, showed that there was a theoretical mechanism whereby power lines could increase human uptake of the radioactive gases produced naturally in the soil and also of traffic pollutants. His study quantifies this effect in the field and shows that power lines are indeed linked to childhood leukaemia and other cancers.

Henshaw took 2,000 field measurements to support his research. A university insider described the findings as dynamite. “The study has serious implications for the electricity industry, which could face huge compensation claims and pressure to move its pylons.” Children are especially vulnerable to radiation and pollution damage because they have more growing and dividing cells than adults. Such cells are far more prone than adult ones to become cancerous when exposed to hazardous substances.The research will be published in the International Journal of Radiation Biology. Its editor, Professor Gordon Steel, said it was a comprehensive study of how electric fields of the kind generated by power lines and, to a lesser extent, domestic appliances, could increase the uptake of radioactive gases and pollutants by humans. Details will be revealed at a press conference at the Institute of Mechanical Engineers in London on Wednesday.

The study, funded by the Department of Health and the Medical Research Council, is backed by another carried out by Sir Richard Doll, due for publication in The Lancet on Friday. Doll, who discovered the link between tobacco and lung cancer, has collated details of every childhood leukaemia case in the past four years to try to find common causes, including links with electric fields. Childhood leukaemia has long been seen as a target for such studies since it occurs in clusters, suggesting a common cause that is probably linked to local environmental factors. Clusters associated with power lines have been noted for years but the electricity industry has insisted such associations were too weak to be significant.

Henshaw discovered the complex interactions between the alternating electric fields surrounding power lines and the radioactive breakdown products of naturally occurring radon gas. His theory was dismissed by the electricity industry and, more importantly, the government’s National Radiological Protection Board (NRPB). Henshaw is understood to have shown that in some areas children living near power lines could receive doses of 95 millisieverts of radiation a year, compared with the maximum for homes of one millisievert. Nuclear workers are allowed a maximum dose of 50, soon to be reduced to 20. Henshaw was unwilling to comment on the study before publication but said: “It is clear that if there is radon gas or traffic fumes in the air near pylons, then people living nearby will suffer increased exposure because of the electric field.

”The National Grid and electricity distribution companies could find themselves in a difficult position. A spokesman said it was too early to comment.nThe findings will be welcomed by victims and their families, some of whom have tried to sue for compensation. Ray and Denise Studholme, of Bolton, launched the first legal case of its kind in Europe in 1994, when they took Norweb, the electricity supplier, to court after their son Simon, 13, died from leukaemia in 1992. They had to drop their action in 1997 after an American study, now criticised as flawed, raised doubts over a link.

The Betrayed: Armenian Genocide documentary

Fergal Keane investigates how a terrible slaughter, three quarters of a century ago, has returned to haunt the relationship between Turkey and its western allies. For decades the Armenian people have campaigned to have the killings of hundreds of thousands of their forefathers in Ottoman Turkey in 1915 recognised as genocide. But there has been an equally determined campaign by Turkey to deny genocide with threats of reprisals against any country which uses the word to describe the slaughter. Now as the United States steps up its efforts to win Ankara's support in any conflict with Iraq Correspondent reveals new Turkish pressures. Threats to withdraw military bases have forced the American Congress to abandon legislation which would have used the all important term, "genocide". The programme also discloses how President George W Bush and his predecessor Bill Clinton both broke promises to the Armenian community that they would recognise genocide. Talking to Armenian survivors, Turkish officials and key political figures in the United States Correspondent investigates a story of terrible slaughter, political intrigue and a people betrayed.

John E Mack - Experiencers

Dr. John Mack appears only briefly in the film, his death having occurred soon after production began. More substantial are visits to the New England countryside with experiencers, including one couple who videotaped an unidentified flying object hovering above a lake a few hours before they were abducted from their lakeside cottage. Also in the film is New York artist and alien encounter investigator Budd Hopkins. Although this documentary is similar to other documentaries commonly seen on American cable television, it has a more leisurely pace and gives more time for the experiencers to explain themselves than is commonly granted in US productions. One of the best interviews in the program is not with an experiencer at all, but rather with the husband of an experiencer, who matter-of-factly explains how his family has come to terms with his wife's experiences.

Einstein's Biggest Blunder

A documentary about Einstein's formula on gravity and the universe. How his 'mistake' to add the Lambda constanse into the formula was not a mistake afterall. Modern physicists today have revived Einsteins 'mistaken' formula and elaborate on it. Basically the hypothesis they are challenging is "what if the amount energy in the universe was not constant to begin with, but was and still is variable?"

Prisoners of a White God

A documentary film about a mountain ethnic group in South East Asia, the Prisoners of a White God, tells the story about a researcher, who investigates the activities of christian missionaries and international development among the Akha peoples.

Patent for a Pig

As a powerful corporate giant attempts to patent living genetic material, this film asks what the consequences are for mankind.