THE US REPORT

Have you been following the development of the Large Hadron Collider whose purpose is to collide proton beams at levels of energy never before produced in a particle accelerator? That’s a complex way to ask you if you’ve been following the news about the LHC and the fears some have that black holes might be created and/or strangelets might take matter over, transforming that matter into some really strange matter. The physicists are at it again, and I can see why they’re so excited. No one’s ever done this before—created a process something like the Big Bang scientific types attribute the origins of Earth to. The European Center for Nuclear Research is in charge, but scientists from a number of countries are participating including the U.S. The video below gives an idea of the worst-case scenario.

A former radiation expert and a writer have teamed up, suing in a Honolulu District Court to stop the collider from going forward until CERN proves it’s safe. The collider is located in Switzerland. The lawsuit rests on the plaintiffs’ beliefs there’s a possibility the LHC will create tiny black holes which would then suck us all up or perhaps create strangelets. In the latter case we literally might not recognize ourselves. There’s also the matter of monopoles. You might want to read the safety report yourself. This will be an epic accomplishment, but is epic destruction possible as well?

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Soon I’m sure you’ll be seeing news clips of Joan Rivers appearing on the British show Loose Women,  a near cousin to The View in the US, calling Russell Crowe some pretty bad names, including dropping the f-bomb,  resulting in her being censored (commonly known as bleeped.) After the break Rivers didn’t return to the show. She seemed surprised. Well, it just so happens I’ve met Russell Crowe, via an event arranged by Jacksonville Axemen coach Spinner Howland (photo below) and Rivers' description of the actor is so far off I can’t help but wonder what she did wrong when she met him. And I didn't exactly make a great impression on him myself. At first.

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(Prato, Italy)--A deer roaming grounds at the Natural Sciences Centre of Prato suggests unicorns of ancient myth and legend were not entirely fictional creatures. The deer, the Center says in a news release, "...instead of classical horns biforcate has only a single horn at the center of the forehead." The release calls the phenomenon a "morphological anomaly." As the photo below shows, the creature is a dead-ringer for a unicorn.

The Center is a foundation which belongs to the Council of Prato, a polyvalent structure and a point of social aggregation that carries many studies, research and operating activities for the environmental defense. It also includes a natural sciences museum and a natural park with free animals. 

Many visitors have come to see this unique creature, but he's a little shy. Many viewers use binoculars to see the deer moving among the grass and pine wood.  Deer in many parts of the US are not shy because development has reduced their habitat as populations have increased. The Prato deer may be a deer technically, but to those of us with imagination, he's a light brown unicorn, roaming the lush grounds of the Natural Sciences Centre of Prato.

[Text by Kay B. Day with much help translating Italian to English by way of Google; photo of this beautiful creature is courtesy of the Natural Sciences Center of Prato news release.]

Professor Masaaki Kimura, a marine geologist at University of the Ryukyus, believes an ancient city lies in ruins beneath the Pacific Ocean off the southwest tip of Japan. Dr. Kimura says the ruins may be the basis of legends about the lost continent called Atlantis, Mu or Lemuria. Take one look at the Solar Flare Digital video and you don’t have to be a scientist to believe these structures are artificial. Some scientists question why there aren’t any artifacts like jugs or bowls. But the sites haven’t been excavated yet and there may well be artifacts below the ruins. Just as you have to excavate artifacts on land, it goes to follow you have to do the same when the ruins are beneath the sea.What did the professor and his crew find beneath the sea?

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I read your comments featured in Al Jazeera [English] this morning. Like many others in the East, you placed blame for the world’s food problems on the West. Al Jazeera reported: “On Tuesday, the United Nations food agency chief told delegates that billions of dollars are being wasted on feeding obese people in the West while millions face starvation.” You do a great job with propaganda in an effort to funnel more money from the West and thereby avoid the real solution to world food hunger.

The solution is simple. Assist the countries in need by helping them to develop systems for feeding themselves.

Consider Israel, a country in the middle of the desert and consider that country’s success. Consider democracy and freedom in Israel. Consider in other countries the possibilities for lifting women’s rights from the current level of cattle in many countries to full rights enjoyed by males.

In the West, women help run the government. We are educated. Most of us use birth control. Many of us work fulltime and raise our families as well. Many governments in struggling countries are run exclusively by men. They have done a lousy job in this woman’s opinion. Hold those leaders accountable.

Tribal wars, the repression of women, skyrocketing birthrates in underdeveloped countries, unprotected sex that leads to disease and most important of all, corrupt governments whose leaders line their own pockets and divert aid money contribute directly to starvation in struggling countries. When there is disaster, governments like that in Myanmar place politics above helping their people. Ever heard of Oil for Food? That little fiasco still isn’t cleared up. Consider the money that allegedly went to members of your own organization’s private coffers. Where is your outrage?

You may think the West is filled with obese people who throw food out the door. You have bought into a myth woven by numerous brands of the billion-dollar weight loss industry. Many in the US are struggling. Our underclass suffers partly because of dollars diverted from our own country to others.  I didn’t see the UN show up here after Katrina, that’s for sure.

You can blame the West all you want to. You have really angered this American female, so much so that I stopped other work to write this public letter to you.

I also suggest you read President George W. Bush’s original comments about the rising middle class in India. He absolutely did not criticize India—US media and international media, ever eager to bash the United States because it is an election year, twisted the meaning of Bush’s comments as usual. If anything, our president’s comments were a compliment to a country who is succeeding, despite  a caste system abhorrent long before any imperial powers set foot in that country.

The United Nations, popularly known as the New World Order, can just back off criticizing a country that has sent billions to struggling countries, saddling our children in the US with a future debt that will create many problems for them.

The UN is not entitled to our money. We are glad to help, obviously. But you can certainly look to the governments of countries who allow their people to starve and see to it that a plan is put in place to help them help themselves. Where is your outrage for the shoddy leadership and corruption in many of those struggling countries? Where is your outrage for the treatment of women, who in many cases are not even allowed an education? It’s so much easier and more convenient to blame the West.

I see on your curriculum vitae you have 5 children. Well this American family limited ourselves to 2. Despite the fact my husband and I both worked full-time, often more than 40 hours a week, we could not afford to educate and take care of more than that. That’s a lesson you might preach to those West-bashing countries who come to us time and again, hand out, never acknowledging their own collusion in keeping the masses in those struggling countries shackled by poverty, lack of true leadership, inherent gender bias and blind unwillingness to address the problems of overpopulation.

While I'm at it, it strikes this self-employed person the UN should reduce overhead. That pricey piece of real estate showed in the above photo cannot be maintained frugally. Enjoy your gourmet meals while you have your global food conference in Rome. It is likely my US dollars helped pay for them.

Sincerely,
Kay B. Day, US citizen