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I am, by nature I suppose, quite intrigued with the idea of physical alien beings of equal or superior intelligence living among the stars and occasionally coming to visit this planet. What would you expect from one who writes fantasy, science fiction and horror novels? It is perhaps because of this that I am more open minded to listening to theories and exploring evidence of what's going on behind the curtains of secrecy which are put up by many government and non government organizations which exercise power over the masses of humanity. I have been far down the rabbit hole and I have returned, hopefully with my sanity intact. There are some who believe that aliens are in control of this world behind the scenes. Some have even suggested that maybe many of the so called leaders of our planet are actually aliens in disguise. More specifically, there has been a theory floated that people holding high political office are reptilian aliens who can change their appearance so they look...

Now that the dust has settled a little around Google's latest 'farmer' update, I thought it time to post up how article marketers can take advantage of it. Yes, there are lots of folks out there proclaiming it is the end of article marketing, but let's be honest, people have been saying that for years. In fact, article marketing was dead when I first started but it doesn't seem to have stopped it working for me. First off, it's worth noting that the whole purpose of the Farmer update was to enable searchers to find more high quality sites when searching for something. (You can read the official blog by clicking here. Yep, Google figured its primary users (searchers, NOT webmasters) deserved a better user experience. And can you blame them? Personally, I hate searching for anything that really matters because I have so little faith in what I know is going to come up. Crappy, spammy websites designed to boost revenue for the owner, not provide me with the informa...

I lived through the Fab Five era within college basketball, literally breathing the same air and vicariously identifying with the brothers who brought power and style to the sport. I was approximately the same age as the five freshmen who took their team to the NCAA championship, and I even wore black socks on the court (yes, I am ashamed to admit that). An ESPN special recently took my mind back down memory lane by replaying the experience of the Fab Five and how they changed college basketball forever. To this day, there has been nothing like them, and I wouldn't be surprised if their feat is never replicated again. The most intriguing aspect of the Fab Five special on ESPN was not their exploits on the basketball court (which were amazing), it was the conversation about money. When these five young men stepped onto the court for the University of Michigan, they instantly became cash cows for their universities. Sales of University of Michigan merchandise went from $1.5 million...

Here in Washington, the immigration debate is in stalemate. But in Kansas, there has been a breakthrough. This striking achievement came about this week during a meeting of the state House Appropriations Committee on efforts in Kansas to shoot feral swine from helicopters. Republican state Rep. Virgil Peck suddenly had an idea. "Looks like shooting these immigrating feral hogs works," he commented, according to a recording posted by the Lawrence Journal-World. "Maybe we have found a [solution] to our illegal immigration problem." Brilliant! Shooting immigrants from helicopter gunships! Why didn't they think of that in Congress? There are a few logistical problems with Peck's idea, including the fact that Kansas isn't a border state. But maybe Oklahoma and Texas will grant overflight rights for immigrant-hunting sorties. Peck, the Republican caucus chairman for the state House, later suggested his brainstorm was a joke, although he also defended himself...

"There is nothing radical or un-American in holding these hearings," Rep. Peter King (R-N.Y.) claimed Thursday as he launched his McCarthyite probe of American Muslims. He could not have been more wrong. If King is looking for threats to our freedoms and values, a mirror would be the place to start. Here's why. Imagine a young man, a Muslim, who changes in troubling ways. His two best friends become concerned, then alarmed, as the young man abandons Western dress, displays a newfound religiosity and begins to echo jihadist rhetoric about the decadence of American society. Both friends suspect that the young man has become radicalized and might even attempt some kind of terrorist attack. One friend is Muslim, the other Christian. Does the Muslim friend have a greater responsibility than the Christian to contact the authorities? By the logic of King's witch hunt, he does. The Homeland Security Committee hearings that King has convened are billed as an inquiry into ...

Introduction Africa is endowed with rich and diverse natural resources ranging from oil and gas to various minerals including diamond, gold, uranium, copper, zinc, cobalt and so on. At the end of 2010, 17 of the 53 African countries produced and exported oil with Libya and Nigeria holding the world's 8th and 10th biggest oil reserves respectively. Ghana became the latest African country to join the club of world oil producers in December 2010 when it pumped crude oil from an offshore field in the Gulf of Guinea for the first time. Other major oil producers include Angola, Equatorial Guinea, Egypt, Gabon, Chad, Sudan, Cameroon, the Central African Republic, and etcetera. Africa currently holds over 10% of the world's oil reserves and supplies over 12% to the global market. Countries rich in mineral resources in Africa include South Africa, Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), Botswana, Namibia, Mozambique, Niger, Zambia, Mali, Sierra Leone, Mauritania, Liberia and etcetera....

Companies like Google, Yelp, UrbanSpoon, CitySearch and many others have made it easy and convenient for customers to share their thoughts with the world. And they're not just talking about what they had for breakfast. They're telling the world what they think of Your Business. Smart companies are using these online reviews to attract and keep more customers. Here are ten ways you can use Web 2.0 tactics to turn online reviews into more customers who keep coming back. 1. Respond to Every Review Like emails and voice mails, online reviews are easy to ignore. Especially the icky ones. But don't. Instead, think of your online reviews as conversation starters. Someone has reached out to you. And when a person speaks to you, it's bad form to ignore them. So, the polite thing to do is to respond. Your response might be just to thank them. Or you might ask them further questions about their experience. Or maybe you share some details about the product or service they mention....

On February 21, 2011 John Michael Bailey invited his class to voluntarily attend an after school demonstration produced by someone not attending the school, of an electrically powered sex toy. The University initially shook off any responses from inquiries about the incident but after national attention began to swell they started to look deeper into the matter. At this moment no action has been taken. The class offering originally saw enrollment of over 600 students and to date has had panels of gay men, kinky networkers, a swinging couple and two convicted sex offenders. The class description was not " Porn 101 " but it may well have been. In an interview with Fox News Mr. Bailey said "I do not wish to surrender to sex negativity and fear." It seems that the professor has surrendered to everything else that can be imagined and now will have to surrender to an investigation promised by Northwestern President Morton Shapiro. In typical language for academic libera...

Well, there certainly is a lot going on in the news these days. Like the old Chinese curse said, we are living in exciting times. There are many uprisings in North Africa. People are dying in Libya and Saudi Arabia as they struggle against oppression. It looks like they may be gearing up to send troops in to "keep the peace" and protect foreign interests. American workers employed in the public sector have come out in force trying to protect their interests. In Wisconsin, they have even gone so far as to make death threats against Republicans holding office and their families. Oil futures are skyrocketing and gasoline prices increasing across the globe, making modern life more and more difficult for the common folk to afford. It's almost enough to make one's head spin. For me, it has become difficult to keep up and determine what I should write about. This is all very distracting. Before anything, I'd like to offer my prayers to the people of Japan. The devastat...

My education did not prepare me to swim with the current, to dance with the mob, to wallow in ethnic thought incest. Among my earliest teachers in the values of independent thinking was a Luo called Bethwell Alan Ogot, Kenya's most eminent historian today. In his recent book, "A History of the Luo-speaking Peoples of Eastern Africa ," Prof Ogot shows that, in tradition, the Luo were never bogged down in the intellectual in-breeding which today afflicts even the most "degreed" Luo mind and prohibits even the most innocuous criticism of the paramount chief. In his letter (Sunday Nation, January 31), William Ochieng of Maseno epitomises this incestuous ethnic self-righteousness. ( READ: Philip Ochieng should leave the Luo alone) If this is the same William Ochieng we know as a professor of history, his ethnic bigotry is as sad as Ernest Renan's ? a French historian notorious for his insolence on the Jews. For it deems that the Ruoth (king) or Daker Madit ? t...

To mark International Women's Day last week, East African newspapers had stories about "women of steel," "top most influential" women, "women achievers," and other stories like that. I am drawn to an earlier period when the only things women could be was pioneers; and the first this or first that. In parts of Uganda, for example, even as late as the early 1970s women were forbidden to eat chicken and eggs. So when we were kids we used to hear stories, told with horror, about the first woman to eat eggs. To this day, in many parts of Africa, women are still not allowed to ride bicycles. It is considered an abomination and a subversion of female virtue. Now, if in the 1950s and 60s you had a home where the girls ate eggs and also rode bicycles, only a mad young man would seek a wife from there. One of Africa's pioneer feminists and "communist" was Funmilayo Ransome-Kuti, a fierce freedom fighter. Hers is a most fascinating story. She beca...

Stu Taylor's Twenty Questions of Professional Investor Steve Selengut: For nearly ten years now, Stu Taylor and I have been entertaining audiences throughout the country with a Q & A format program that consistently draws an hour full of interesting (and sometimes off-the-wall) investment questions. We have never, ever, gotten very far into the script --- thought you might be interested. ONE - Steve, you've managed investment portfolios for about 40 years. What are the three biggest mistakes that people make? ?   They don't have a clear cut plan or a clear idea of what to expect from investment securities and markets. ?   They get stuck in the fear and greed emotional cycle, always buying high and selling low. ?   They rely on gimmicks, software programs, and predictions, ignore cyclical realities, and choke performance with unrealistic time constraints. ?   They ignore the income generating portion of their portfolio --- the list is really much longer than just thre...

The History of Triumph Motorcycles began In 1885 when Siegfried Bettmann left Germany to live in England. At the age of 20, Bettman started a company, S. Bettmann & Co. Import Export Agency, which was based in London. Originally, S. Bettman and Co sold bicycles, which the company simply bought and then sold under its name. In 1886 Bettmann realized that a shorter, snappier name was likely to grab more attention and subsequently changed the name of the company to the "Triumph Cycle Company." In 1887 the name was change yet again to the "New Triumph Co, Ltd.," but for sales purposes, the name remained "Triumph." Another German native, Moritz Schulte, became Bettman's partner in 1887. Schulte thought that Triumph would do better as a manufacturing company, rather than as a company which simply bought and then sold bicycles. In 1888 Bettmann built a factory and Triumph began producing its first bicycles. A second factory was opened in Bettman's ho...