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What’s Happening to U.S. Constitution’s First Amendment?

Amendment I

“Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.”

 

Photograph of original 1791 U. S. Constitution's Bill of Rights on permanent display in the National Archives Building, Washington, D. C.
Photograph of original 1791 U. S. Constitution’s Bill of Rights on permanent display in the National Archives Building, Washington, D. C.

August 19, 2004  Washington, D. C. – Yesterday in the nation’s capitol, U. S. District Judge Thomas Penfield Jackson, held five reporters in contempt and fined each $500 a day until they reveal their sources for stories about Los Alamos nuclear scientist, Wen Ho Lee. Lee has filed a lawsuit against the Departments of Energy and Justice, alleging that employees in those agencies were sources of private information about him and his possibly stealing classified information at the Los Alamos laboratory where he worked. Lee was indicted in December 1999 on 59 felony counts of mishandling nuclear weapons information. Subsequently, he was kept in solitary confinement for nine months until he agreed to plead guilty to one felony count. After Lee’s release in September 2000, he received an apology from then-President Bill Clinton.

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New Mexico Gov. Bill Richardson Wants More Investigation of 1947 Roswell UFO Crash

August 18, 2004  Santa Fe, New Mexico – A paperback book entitled The Roswell Dig Diaries has been published by Simon & Schuster’s Pocket Books in collaboration with cable’s SciFi Channel. The subject is the controversial crash of one or more unidentified flying objects in the desert north of Roswell. The word “dig” refers to archaeological efforts in the past few years at the alleged crash site which have been reported in documentaries broadcast on the SciFi Channel.Click for report.

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Oceans Are Absorbing A Lot of Greenhouse CO2. As Chemistry Changes, What Happens to Sea Life?

August 13, 2004 – The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) recently released the results of a 15-year-long study to measure the total amount of dissolved carbon in the oceans ­ specifically carbon from rapidly increasing carbon dioxide emissions produced by human industrial activities. The startling finding is that between the year 1800 ­ the beginning of the Industrial Age ­ and the year 1994, the world’s oceans absorbed 118 billion metric tons of carbon! That is roughly HALF of all the CO2 that has been released from burning fossil fuels and cement manufacturing during those 194 years, according to Professor Christopher Sabine, Oceanographer at the University of Washington in Seattle. He is also on the oceanography staff of NOAA’s Pacific Marine Environmental Laboratory, where he has worked for five years since beginning the ocean water sampling studies at Princeton University back in 1992. I talked this week with Dr. Sabine about the amount of carbon absorption he and his colleagues found and what the impact could be on ocean chemistry and sea life.
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Circles in Belgium and Holland

August 12, 2004 – Since June 22, 2004, Belgium has had three reports of circles. Robert Boerman who produces the Dutch website, dcca.nl, e-mailed me the following comments in English about the Belgium incidents and talked with me by phone about two formations in Holland that he thinks are genuinely mysterious.

Belgium Crop Formations – Genuine and Hoaxes?

1) Heers, Limburg, Belgium – June 22, 2004

“Pictogram of three ring circles connected by arcing pathways in wheat. Dimensions unknown. Could be genuine.”

Pictogram reported in wheat on June 22, 2004, Heers, Limburg, Belgium. Aerial photograph © 2004 by Tommy Borns.
Pictogram reported in wheat on June 22, 2004, Heers, Limburg, Belgium. Aerial photograph © 2004 by Tommy Borns.

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Updated Aerial Photos of West Overton, Wiltshire “Serpent”

August 10, 2004 – Tonight I received an e-mail from Mathias van Singer, one of the Swiss passengers in Peter Tadd’s Fast Helicopter tour of crop formations on July 29, 2004. Originally, the helicopter pilot, Mr. Tadd and the Swiss tourists thought the “serpent” pattern appeared within one hour between Noon and 1 p.m. However, later it was confirmed that the farmer found the pattern at 5 a.m. that morning and crop circle researcher, Jonathan Sherwood, visited the site at 11:30 a.m. But the Swiss helicopter passengers are the only known group to get aerial photographs of the wheat formation before the farmer cut it out early the next morning.Click for report.

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Pictograms in Poland

West of Warsaw and fourteen miles south of Mogilno (yellow on map) in Mlyny near the village of Wylatowo, two more pictograms have been reported on August 2, 2004, in Poland. This is the 33rd report for Poland's 2004 crop season.
West of Warsaw and fourteen miles south of Mogilno (yellow on map) in Mlyny near the village of Wylatowo, two more pictograms have been reported on August 2, 2004, in Poland. This is the 33rd report for Poland’s 2004 crop season.

August 9, 2004 – Mlyny at Wylatowo, Poland – Robert K. Lesniakiewicz, Vice President of the CBUFOIZA (researchers in Poland who investigate unidentified aerial objects and crop formations) reports: “There have been two wheat pictograms that he calls “agrosymbols” in Mlyny near Wylatowo.” He is waiting to hear about sizes of the patterns from the investigative IRG Torun team and I will update this Earthfiles report when I have the dimensions. One has five circles connected by pathways and the other is a triangular pattern of three circles connected by pathways.Click for report.

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Silbury Hill Design and Aztec God, Xochipilli

Phase 2 of Silbury Hill design on August 3, 2004. Aerial photograph © 2004 by Roiland Beljon.
Phase 2 of Silbury Hill design on August 3, 2004. Aerial photograph © 2004 by Roiland Beljon.
Phase 1 of Silbury Hill design first reported on August 2, 2004. Digital Video Image © 2004 by Andreas Feliziani and Cropcircleconnector.com.
Phase 1 of Silbury Hill design first reported on August 2, 2004. Digital Video Image © 2004 by Andreas Feliziani and Cropcircleconnector.com.


August 4, 2004 Silbury Hill, Wiltshire, England – Whoever, or whatever, is responsible for the August 2 to 3, 2004, crop formation at Silbury Hill, the design in its border is a mirror image of a rare statue of the Aztec God, Xochipilli, The Prince of Flowers, Maizes, Love, Games, Beauty, Song and Dance. Xochi means ‘flower,’ while pilli means either prince or child. In the mid-1800’s, a 16th century Aztec statue of Xochipilli was unearthed on the side of the volcano Popocatapetl near Tlamanalco, Mexico. The statue is of a single figure seated upon a temple-like base.Click for report.

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Crop Formations: Fifteen in Southern England Since July 20, 2004.

August 3, 2004 Southern England – A pictorial in chronological order from the most recent crop formation reported on July 31, 2004, in Kent County, England; preceded by two circles in Norfolk County on July 29; and thirteen in Wiltshire over twelve days.

1) Nashenden Farm, Wouldham Near Rochester, Kent County, Reported July 31, 2004.

Two hundred feet in diameter in mature wheat, Wouldham, Kent County, England, reported July 31, 2004. Image © 2004 by Graham Tucker.
Two hundred feet in diameter in mature wheat, Wouldham, Kent County, England, reported July 31, 2004. Image © 2004 by Graham Tucker.

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Sixth Straight Year Hundreds of Birds Die at Roestler Lake, North Dakota

Left: Young Double-Crested Cormorant. Middle: Ring-Billed Gull. Right: Adult Double-Crested Cormorant. Photographs courtesy U. S. Geological Survey National Wildlife Center.
Left: Young Double-Crested Cormorant. Middle: Ring-Billed Gull. Right: Adult Double-Crested Cormorant. Photographs courtesy U. S. Geological Survey National Wildlife Center.

   

For the sixth straight year, hundreds of ring-billed gulls and cormorants have died in the Roestler Lake Waterfowl Protection Area in Logan and McIntosh Counties of North Dakota south of where 29,000 pelicans disappeared from the Chase Lake National Wildlife Refuge in mid-June 2004.
For the sixth straight year, hundreds of ring-billed gulls and cormorants have died in the Roestler Lake Waterfowl Protection Area in Logan and McIntosh Counties of North Dakota south of where 29,000 pelicans disappeared from the Chase Lake National Wildlife Refuge in mid-June 2004.

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Crop Circles in Tilden, Wisconsin Oats and 90-Degree Angles in Litchfield, Minnesota Barley

Northwest of Minneapolis in Litchfield, Minnesota, 6.2 square miles of barley had many sections randomly laid down in 90-degree angles to each other, discovered on July 4, 2004. Two weeks later on July 19, 2004, east of Minneapolis in Chippewa Falls, Wisconsin, three large circles connected by pathways were reported in oats.
Northwest of Minneapolis in Litchfield, Minnesota, 6.2 square miles of barley had many sections randomly laid down in 90-degree angles to each other, discovered on July 4, 2004. Two weeks later on July 19, 2004, east of Minneapolis in Chippewa Falls, Wisconsin, three large circles connected by pathways were reported in oats.

July 26, 2004  Eau Claire, Wisconsin – I talked with Terry Fisk, an Eau Claire, Wisconsin, electric power company employee whose hobby is to investigate crop formations with his colleague, Chad Lewis. On Monday, July 19, 2004, Chad received an e-mail from someone called “Adam Prince.” The short e-mail said there was a crop circle just outside Chippewa Falls, Wisconsin, and gave directions. Chad was working, but Terry drove out to see if he could find the field and formation.

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