Topic: Culture & Society

Legendary explorer successfully crosses from Canada to Europe in the smallest gas balloon ever used to cross the Atlantic Ocean.

British Toshiba Transatlantic Challenge pilot, David Hempleman-Adams, has successfully crossed the Atlantic by balloon, breaking five world records. His helium gas balloon landed safely in the French countryside on Friday evening.

Although a large Bigfoot expedition (BFRO) is scheduled for Michigan's Upper Peninsula, researcher Lisa A. Shiel says such large scale expeditions offer little but a good vacation.

The announcement of a Bigfoot expedition coming to Michigan's Upper Peninsula has attracted worldwide attention. Yet Lisa A. Shiel, a U.P.-based Bigfoot researcher, has conducted field research in the region for several years, and collected 15 sightings in just the last year (seven in the U.P.). In the past week, she has received two sightings--one in Iron County and another in Baraga County. The Baraga County sighting occurred on June 23, 2007.

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Lisa Shiel, Michigan Bigfoot researcher, in the woods of the Upper Peninsula conducting research.

Christine Hall rants about how the Summer of Love and the hippies are portrayed in the mainstream media. In the process, she manages to let you in on a little more of the history of that magickal summer.

The Human Be-in that happened in San Francisco's Golden Gate Park to ring-in the Summer of Love was more than a great party. It served the purpose of unifying many of the subcultures that existed in and around the city by the bay into a single counter culture. The history of hippiedom revolves around this almost forgotten event.

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1970 Black Panther Party pamphlet combining an
anti-drug message with revolutionary politics.

Holistic Management International offers the public a a free Personal Carbon Impact Calculator card that helps people determine and offset their ecological effects on the planet. The 9" x 4" card carries a simple chart that translates individual impacts on global warming into dollars and cents, using the same principle that the Climate Exchange industry uses in paying carbon credits to farmers. Reviewing the chart, people can calculate their personal carbon impacts, and then decide whether or not to use the dollar value of their impacts to support alternative energy projects.

"A solution to global warming is right under our feet and we can make it personal," says Peter Holter, COO of Holistic Management International (HMI). The non-profit uses natural methods to restore land, improve soil health, reverse desertification, and improve biodiversity - which greatly increase the soil's ability to remove carbon from the atmosphere and store it as organic matter. 30 million acres worldwide are currently being managed holistically.

Next month marks the launch date of the first broadband network providing streaming video content on all things paranormal. The Borderlands Network is founded by UFO researcher Jose Escamilla. TBLN will feature exclusive documentaries and other media on a wide variety of unexplained phenomena at a pay-per-view basis.

The Borderlands Network, the first broadband network dealing with all things paranormal, is about to open its "secret vault" to the world wide web. The site launches on July 8, 2007 with the Top Rated Paranormal Film Festival in celebration of the 60 year anniversary of the Roswell UFO Crash.

Americans are breathing dirty air. As court-ordered deadlines approach for the federal government to decide on strengthening protections against air pollution, people from across the country will voice their opinion to the Environmental Protection Agency that clean air protections are important for our health, our environment, and our future through a new online project called "Adopt the Sky."

Americans are breathing dirty air. As court-ordered deadlines approach for the federal government to decide on strengthening protections against air pollution, people from across the country will voice their opinion to the Environmental Protection Agency that clean air protections are important for our health, our environment, and our future through a new online project called "Adopt the Sky."

Free e-book from leading anti-racism training company reveals top 5 ways for parents to raise anti-racist children.

You don't use racial slurs. You teach your child to treat everyone equally. You expose your family to diverse cultures. That's enough to make sure your children don't grow up to be racists, right?

As straight families celebrate their freedom this July 4th, gay illegal immigrants and their American born partners are left wondering why they're free to buy a dog from most any country they choose, yet they can't sponsor the person they love. While straight Americans routinely sponsor foreign partners either legitimately, or sight unseen as "mail order brides," gay Americans and their foreign partners are forced to live as felons no matter how many years their relationship spans. Such is the plight for Nicole and Amy in last year's politically charged gay immigration film, Maple Palm, which sneaks across the border from theaters to home video when it's released on DVD Tuesday, July 3.

The plight of gay illegal immigrants featured in last year's controversial independent film, Maple Palm, has arrived on home video with a newly released Collector's Edition DVD. Art imitates life in this disturbingly intense dramatization of a lesbian couple together 15 years, concealing the secret that one is an illegal immigrant. When their secret is exposed, the girls must choose -- fight to stay together, or let bureaucracy tear them apart. The real-life political issue is equally obscure in the gay movement as it is within the immigration movement, yet for those trapped within the bureaucracy, the burden is very real. As straight families celebrate their freedom this July 4th, gay illegal immigrants and their American born partners are left wondering why they're free to buy a dog from most any country they choose, yet they can't sponsor the person they love.

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Deborah Stweart as Nicole and Andrea Carvajal as Amy in Maple Palm.

As reported in "Wired" magazine's on-line blog "Danger Room," Gus Russo, author of "Live By The Sword: The Secret War against Castro and the Death of JFK," has independently confirmed that members of the U.S. Government Intelligence Community are actively involved with UFO researchers. The result of Russo's investigation, "The Real X-Files: Is Uncle Sam a Closet UFOolgist?" is the featured story at the Starstream Research web site.

An independent investigation by noted author Gus Russo confirms that members of the U.S. Government Intelligence Community are actively interested in the Internet activities of UFO researchers, a story first revealed in on-line intelligence reports issued by Starstream Research. The result of Russo's investigation, The Real X-Files: Is Uncle Sam a Closet UFOolgist? is the featured story at the Starstream Research web site.

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CIA psychic Ingo Swann was given TOP SECRET Clearance during the DIA STAR GATE Program.

Belgian researcher conducts groundbreaking anthropological study of ancient civilizations and myths in "The Lost Civilization of Homo Supersapiens."

Jos Rogiers' interest in mythology leads him to revolutionary discoveries about human evolution in his new book, The Lost Civilization of Homo Supersapiens. Of mythic proportions, Rogiers' theories and research point to the existence of a race of superior hominidae who were called "gods" in Indo-European cultures from Iceland to India.